What Are You Filled With?

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I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be move. Psalm 16:8

A great verse and one we take for granted because we are to be moved in many things in the life we each have to live. The main thing is WE ARE to set the Lord always before us as when we don't .  We allow outside influences to invite us to be a part of them and interfere in the lives of our loved ones and us. We need to be  moved on many things.  But when it comes to our great, big, giant God who can do whatsoever He wants, we need to humble ourselves in His sight.  When we do, He can move us to do some things for Him without wavering and giving up.  We can be moved in making life-changing decisions that will affect us, our families and those around us; whether at work, home, on the road, wherever we may be and for the better. When the Lord is ALWAYS before us, He is beside us helping us make the right decisions in everything we do each day. IF we have dependance on Him, He should be the major influence in all our lives so we can be encouraged to do better for HIM each day without losing face and doubting. When we doubt we call Him a liar.  Yet, He never lies. When He is not beside us, then we have left our first love.  We have put Him on the back-burner to tend to our own personal needs without any thought of God wanting a closeness with everyone of us. If He is not before us, He is not.  Chances are, we are horribly backslidden or just plainly lost and on your way to hell.  This is not His will we go there. We are not predestined to go to hell. When we set the Lord before us, He can be at our right hand.  

Me? He is on my left hand as l am left handed, hahaha. Did you smile on that one? l believe some of you have to lighten up and be moved by that.  If you don't accept Him as your personal Lord and Saviour, He will move you to a place of torment and utter blackness.  Such horrific darkness with much great grief and pain. When you see the Lord move in your life you need to be moved to Him to make more of a commitment to Him to live for Him. When you do not move to Jesus Christ, He is still there waiting for you to come unto Him.  He will give you rest from all your weariness. Move to God and He will make His move towards you. Move away from Him and He will be waiting for you, but at a distance so He will always hear you when you call to Him, if you decide to.

               

When you become saved or born again, His Holy Spirit comes immediately in you.  Remember Ephesians 5:18, "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;"  Do not be drunk with the world, the lusts of the flesh and eyes, and the pride of life.  But, be filled with the Holy Spirit. When you are, the Lord Christ will move in you and show you where you need to be:  to serve and fulfill His will for your life. You will not need to move according to what the world and Godless man tells you. Do not be overcome with them and their ways, but overcome them with what the Lord can lead you to witness to them with love, mercy and grace.  Humbly look on yourself as worst than they because you are not better than them.

             

I think of a sweet tender biography l read on Helen Ewan. She was saved as a teenager and she died at 22. She was so overjoyed in her salvation that she had a prayer life that the old time preachers would have coveted after. She was filled with the Holy Spirit  and had a love for others.  She devoted her life to Jesus Christ and prayer so much, l really believe she was like Enoch in Genesis, when the Lord looked at her.  l truly believe He allowed her to die before her time at the young age of 22 so that He could have her in heaven. The Lord saw her as one who had such a love relationship and deep love for Him, and for others.  He was taken with this young lady and just had to have her in heaven with Him. She could have died of something else, but l believe the Lord took her because He was touched in a way none of us could ever touch Him.  He just took her home so she could praise, glorify and shout the victory forever.  She would be forever with our Lord and to be constant in honouring such a holy God.  It is sad that many of us don't serve Him. Yet, this young special lady did it all and gave her all to our Jesus who died on Calvary. She served the Lord faithfully and without any adulation or kudos from others.  She gave her ALL to the one who saved her.  Now, she lives forever in heaven. 

When alive she rose every 5 in the morning to study the Word of God, to commune with the Lord and to pray.  She prayed for 300 missionaries, and the Lord gave her a burden for this. Do you have burden to pray for many people?  Do you pray for the lost, even call them all by name? Are you too wrapped up in yourself? 

When she went to Glasgow University in Scotland, all who told filthy jokes when they saw her coming, they stopped immediately and the heavy presence of the Lord was felt as she walked by them. She led many students to the Lord. She was not only filled with the might of the Holy Spirit, but she had the awesome power of God's touch on her and in her life. How we need to pray to be more like her as she led a Christ-filled and Christ-centered life. She was holy in her walk with him. She was a true exception. How we all need to be like our Lord Jesus Christ who is perfect. She was not, but she lived the life only all of us could ever dream of. She set the Lord before her always. He was always first priority in all things every day. Because God was at this young girl's right hand, she was not moved by unholiness. 

Deuteronomy 10:12 states 'What doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul. 

Helen Ewan lived the life that so many of us never could do, won't do, and never will do. What about you? Man? Lady? Boy? Girl? The power of God is in you if saved. You just need to be filled with the Holy Spirit and serve God with all your heart, soul, mind, might and power. She had the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-26). What do you have in you? 

© Mike Carey; August 13, 2011

Our Problem... God's Solution

We have a serious problem and one that is a reality whether people know it or not. Most are ignoring it and putting it aside as if it is nothing to really consider. It is sin and rebellion against the Holy and Just God who hates sin, religion, a rebellious  and hard heart, and pride. Too many people are caught up being religious.  This is a deadly, dangerous, and detrimental. We have masses of youth commiting suicide and thinking it is the way out and if done, it will bring them much peace and they will be better off.

We have whores on the streets selling themselves and young girls mesmerized by the Hollywood crowd thinking that glamour and the very alluring trends of clothes they wear are proper.  In reality, all they bring is death, rape, murder and incest where parents engage sexual practices with their siblings. We have gang-fights and drive-by shootings, rapes, mini-skirted and bikini-ed wenches, and shirtless-muscled (show-ff) men thinking themselves to be somebody. This is not wholesome, but pitiful and shameful in the eyes of the most righteous, holy Lord God.

We have pedophiles and deranged sex addicts who prey on young boys and girls, even infants.  These vile and leud  perverted heathens are brainwashed believing in what they do is right.  They sell children to unmentionable people involved in this mental sickness.  The NAMBLA is a secret organization in the United States promoting this very cruel, contemptible and very very wicked practice - sex between men and boys, and even youth! l don't even dare to say what is involved in this very evil sect. People involved have VERY vile, wicked, and downright derogatory live. 

By the way, NAMBLA stands for NORTH AMERICAN MAN BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION.  Please never allow your children to view or read what they do.  Explain to them subtly the evils of it is and to avoid it at all costs, or lose your child to it if you don't. This wickedness will continue and carry on till our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ comes back. Read Romans 1 verses 18 to the end.  Apostle Paul warned us even then. Please, please be on your guard and protect your children (youth,too) at all costs.  Stand against the things that are depraved, wicked and evil.

                 

We have wicked doctors aborting precious INNOCENT little babies who never asked to be born. They did not ask to be born, nor should anyone 'shed innocent blood', blood of the innocents l call it. Damnable practices these days as many are aborted legally.  These fetuses are real humans.  How wrong and uncalled for the death of precious little ones. GOD hates this, as He does all rotten sins.

We have many most sincere people who seem so nice and understanding, yet getting secretly involved in sodomy.  GOD hates and abhors this pagan idolatrous sin.  It is the most degrading, demeaning, self-destructive sin to me.  l hate even thinking of it.  All these and other rebellion against the Lord is sin.  Even the smallest, littlest lie, if never confessed and repented, and turn to Christ for salvation, will send them all, and maybe most of you who reads this, to Hell.

We have sin city in Las Vegas, Nevada, and the New Orleans Mardigras.   They may be the most sin infested and perverted places on earth (Africa is a "silent" place, but AIDS runs rampant). Such things as beastiality is so called normal among so many peoples now a days.  This is downright rotten and not to be mocked or laughed at. You laugh, but GOD will have the last laugh very, very soon.

All these and still people harden their hearts to.  As the day of the Lord draws closer, He will come and reign supremely.   He will get rid of the filth, vulgarity, whores, stinking sodomites, and all the sin-soaked perverted people who reject, deny, blaspheme, curse Him.  All the self-professed Christians who are actually non-christians, men behind the pulpit who are not saved, and all who shake their stinking puny little fists in the face of GOD will get their share. Bunch of Christ rejectors who think they are sin-free and have no need of the LORD will suffer, too.  But, before that final day will arrive, if they don't admit themselves as sinners,  be convicted, confess their sins, repent, ask heartfelt forgiveness from the Lord, get right with Him, believe and receive Jesus Christ in their hearts as their personal Lord and Saviour, they will go to Hell.  It is a place dark, dank, deep, and defiled, littered with howls, screams, agony and piercing-shrilling shrieks and yelling.  The reeking, stinking, pungent smell of vile odour in utter darkness with NO light, and the heat of fire that will absorb their souls is now a reality to those who reject our Saviour.  Without the shedding of blood is no remission (Hebrew 9:22).

There is a heaven to gain and a hell to turn your back on, friend. You don't need religion nor do you need what the Pope tells you, or anyone on this earth.  All you need is Jesus Christ. Won't you come to Him to allow Him to prepare a place (John 14:1-3) for you in heaven? We all have to stand before the Lord (Hebrew 9:27). For ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God (Rom.3:23).

            

BUT their is hope and ONE solution for you all if one may read this.  If you are involved in a little or a huge sin, no sin goes unnoticed by the Lord.  He will cast those who reject His free gift of eternal salvation into the deepest, darkest, hottest hole after your death----H-E-L-L.

            

THE SOLUTION?   JESUS CHRIST.   WHO ELSE?

          

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. Acts 16:31

                 

For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Rom.10:13

         

He that hath the Son, hath life, and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. 1 John 5:12

                

That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Rom.10:9

Amen and amen.

© Mike Carey, August 12, 2011

The Silent Preacher

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I was thinking about what I could do for a short write-up, I thought, which can be dangerous at times me thinking. What can I do?  Then I read something and I said, "that is it!"  So, I titled this The Silent Preacher.  This is fact, too, as there is such a thing.  Can you guess? It is the simple, small paper called a gospel tract. This wonder is silent as the content words speak for themselves. It is what so many people hate receiving from others, and some are thrilled to get one as certain ones pertain to certain stories that relate to certain people.

I love the chick cartoon tracts as all love reading them.   I also like the Pilgrim Tract Society ones, though not colored or fancy, but most have true to life stories and they convict me much a lot of times . Some people reject them.  But, rejecting them, they are rejecting the free gift of salvation that our Lord Jesus Christ offers to them.  Refusing to accept tracts can put people in hell because they don't want to hear, no matter how much you may witness to one or give tracts to or pray for these people. Some tracts are not good so we need to pray before we buy certain brands, as many use perversions and not the KJB, thinking it is the Word of God when they are not.

Where the perversions may have just enough in them to actually save someone, one will never grow by reading the heathen perversions such as the RSV, ASV, NLB, NIV, NSAB, NASB, NKJV, TLWB, TBFS, WALMART, KMART, CAN.TIRE, GNFMM, LDSB, etc.  God never made more than one Bible but the KJB is the true Word of God.  One will grow spiritually  quick and efficient and make remarkable progress, if he truly loves the Lord, and wants to grow and learn about the Lord and His Holy Word after salvation and the succeeding times, too.

Tracts are a great witnessing tool when you have no words to say,  They will say most times exactly what you want to say, providing you give the right tract to the right person.  Sometimes you can give a wrong tract to someone at the wrong time and they will still be open to hear the gospel.  Others may not be open to it also, so you never know. Never let anyone discourage you from giving them out as many Christians never give any out anyway.  But, a lot just witness by mouth, which is great too. But, it is good to have a pocket full of tracts on hand too.  Me? I like giving out to people (we all need to as true Christians), especially if you are shy and short of words, not knowing exactly what to say. Don't give out if you do not know the gospel, and if you have no verses memorized. Else, though, you can show in the Bible where the verses are to others thereby helping you to be a more effective witness for the Lord. When the Lord fills you with His Holy Spirit, He will teach you what you need to know.  He will give you the words to say when you speak to others. He will give you ability to memorize salvation verses for verses.  Most importantly, He will show you the verses that state you are eternally saved and can never lose your salvation. He will give you the boldness you need to share God's word with a lost and dead world of sinners.

                     

You can also leave tracts in places of businesses, phone booths, washroom areas, schools, in post offices, bulletin boards, and grocery stores.  But friend, never put them IN people's cars because you will be invading their privacy and you can be charged. On the outside under the windshield wiper blade is good. Remember to pray always.  If you never pray when you pass them out, chances are, no one will be receptive to seeing them and taking in what they read.  Pray much before and during sharing with others.  After that, you can place the tracts in areas where people can see.  Pray also after you done the job, and the Lord will honor what you did for Him as His Word will not come back void. Even if you never win a soul to Christ, yet a tract you leave behind that does win someone to the Lord Jesus Christ.  That one person can share with others and hundreds can be saved by the one tract you left behind that one person picked up and shared with others, amen!  Praise the Lord and glory to our God forever. So, just give some Silent Preachers to those you see and leave where you can and are able to.  AMEN.

(c) Mike Carey, August 8, 2011

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Me At Last... Almost Well!

 

[They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.  Lamentation 3:23

This is the new me now.  Yes, me, ladies and gentlemen!

You see, I am blessed by God because I have gone a long way from the bed-ridden state to the moving-standing-walking-alone lady.  Even my Mike saw me  this morning exercising in front of the webcam,  bending way over without even holding on to something for support!  I was sort of "boasting" to him.  But, I was more surprised, too, that I was able to move the way I did.  It was the first time I showed some on those movements on my feet!  Mike and I were truly amazed by God's miraculous move.

What great joy it is to have this daily experiences of newness.  Great really is the faithfulness of God!

(c)  Luisa Mercado, June 14, 2011

God Exists, Believe It Or Not

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Romans 1:20 

A day ago, I posted a short comment of Facebook about what I felt toward people who, in their greatest misery, still refused to believe there is a Living God.  I really felt pity for them. 

You see, I was a victim of stroke and paralysis.  Three years ago, I was pursuing a life I thought would not only give my family and me financial prosperity, but most of all, I would finally join my great love in a different land. I left a very good college teaching job for a dream go to Canada. It all ended abruptly when I had a stroke in the middle of my preparation to go abroad.  Yet, through it all, I drew nearer to God to find comfort and strength.  I may have questions about what happened to me, but I never blamed God for what happened.  For always, there must be some real reasons why it happened.  God must have allowed it for good at that time.  He will make things perfect in His own time.

As for my fiancee, he is still loving me beyond what happened.  I see him more now as a man more in love with me despite my difficulties.  We continue to plan for our marriage in God's perfect time.  We are six years now.  My wonder turned to awe when God allowed me to see good things happen to me and to our relationship always.  These were in exchange of good things I let go when I had stroke.

Friend, if you are still in misery because you forget that God exists, this is now the chance to think things over.  I may not be very convincing to you.  I am not even important, but He is.  Seek Him now while He can still be found before it will be too late.

(c) Luisa Mercado, May 18, 2011

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Most Significant Will of the Father For Man: What Is It?

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.  Matthew 7:21

We have asked ourselves many times what is really the most significant will of the Father for us?  Most of us have read Matthew 7:21 and then come-up with different "beautiful" answers.  Too few have really searched the Bible and got the correct answer.  They have actually found the highest grade gold at the end of the rainbow!  Them, I am truly grateful especially when they willingly share this very special truth to others.

Yet, many of us have come-up with different ideas from the books other than the Bible.  Even many so-called-christians can site you samples of "persistent works to the very end to be saved" when they already know the basic salvation truth. Many (well, they are identified as "christians" to differ them from the other ethnic group or they are not truly christians but happened to open the bible for occasional research) give dramatic answers on tales of the most heroic deeds of man that even the world's most religious person could not follow. 

I talked with  my former college professor, a former religious woman who is now a lay-woman-of-single-blessedness representing the holy big church of Rome.  It really saddened me to hear her say that the sure way to go to heaven is to do the 7 Corporal Works of Mercy plus another 7  Works of Mercy I forgot to recall already (Hey, I memorized them in college when she taught it to us in her Theology class.  I got perfect in her test).

What really is the most significant will of the Father in order for man to go to heaven?  Simple!  John 6:40 says: And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.   In 1 John 3:23, it is God's important commandment, too - ... That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.

Friend, let me ask you then, who among you find this difficult to do?   

  

(c)  Luisa Mercado, May 10, 2011