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“Have you received the Holy Spirit since you’ve believed?”
*”If I didn’t have the Spirit I couldn’t have believed. ”
“How about the 120 believers on the day of Pentecost or the others Paul met and asked?
*”Well I don’t know but I know without the Spirit, I couldn’t have gotten  saved”

All of that is true we receive a measure of faith and the Spirit, when we are saved but there is the Baptism of the Holy Spirit available to whosoever will.

Are you a whosoever will? Do you want all the the Lord has for you? Do you long to see signs and wonders following?  Do you think Jesus wants to heal the affected, comfort the brokenhearted, give sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, make the lame walk?

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(Without the Spirit we are like these boats in dry dock…not providing the. Service we were meant to).
I  believe Jesus is disappointed in His Church,  His representatives on earth.  His words once again in:

John 14:12-18
” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.  If ye love me, keep my commandments.   And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

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(He wants us prepared and ready to launch out into the deep, to collect His harvest ).

He promised those who believe. …(is that you?), that they would do greater works, then He,  whatsoever we ask He will do.  If we love Him… (do you? ),  we need to keep His Commands.   (Love God, Love each other).  Jesus will pray the Father to give us the Comforter, the Spirit of Truth.  We should know Him for He dwells within us.

So what happened?  Why is today’s Church so weak?  We have misunderstood Matthew 25.

The Master in the story left money (Talents ) according to their abilities. They were to invest  (or use) these Talents to increase their Masters wealth.  They received praise or scorn.

Jesus went to a far Country,  and left us something,  The Holy Spirit.   He expects us to invest or use it to increase His wealth.
(Save Souls).

He gave us the tools to use.  The Gifts…the 9 in 1 Corinthians 12 and others.  What have we done with them?

Excess and abuse mostly,  just like the Corinthians.  What should we do now?

Ask forgiveness, for our lack of Faith. Ask to be filled  with the Holy Spirit.   Ask for the gift of the the Word of Wisdom and Word of Knowledge.

He gave out the gift of Tongues first because that is the easiest to use….it is the one that scares people the most. (” I don’t think we should have to speak gibberish.”)  When the Lord tells us it is our spirit talking directly to Him.  (1 Corinthians 14 :4,28).

That’s filling your lamp with oil, finding the Faith to do His will.

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That is where I’m restarting.  I  expect The Lord to bless any that come to Him in obedience and Faithfulness.

Thank You Jesus for filling us with Your Spirit of Love.
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Is the Holy Spirit? – The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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Is the Holy Spirit
     *  Alive in your heart?
     *  Alive in your Church?
     *  Healing the Sick?
     *  Making the blind to see, the lame to walk, the deaf to hear?

I believe if we do not see theses signs wonders and miracles, the Lord is disappointed.  

He said in John 14:12-18
” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.  If ye love me, keep my commandments.   And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

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Was Jesus telling tales?

No, we are a people who have failed to recognize and employ the Talents our Master left for us.  Some of us have even buried the Talents and claim they are not for today.  It’s like the experation date has passed.

Matthew 25 is a chapter about the Holy Spirit:
Wise and foolish virgins:  Oil for there lamps.
Those who had no oil are like the Church today…No Spiritual power,  because we don’t  really believe.   We want to, even pray to, but don’t  know how to fill our lamps.

The Master and the talents :
Jesus told the story using money  for the simplicity of understanding.

Everone knows some who invest, and others, that hoard.  The ones who invested were blesed the ones that hid the talent were sent to outer darkness.

The sheep and goats.
The sheep understood the Commandment to Love one another…they fed the hungry,  gave clothes to the needy, water to the thirsty.

So how do we fill our lamps, invest out Talents, Love one another?

It is all as plain on the nose on our face.  It is Revelation Knowledge. ..will you see and believe  or hide in your bed?

Watch this space….The Holy Spirit is alive and begging to to allowed to proclaim the good news.

Lord, open our hearts and minds to see, to act, to glorify  Jesus.

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What God wants final -The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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All through the Bible the Lord has been trying to make us realize one simple thing.  HE WANTS A PERSONAL, RELATIONSHIP with Each One Of Us.

Religion, is sometimes a problem,  look at  Paul:
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” Galatians 1:13-14
King James Version (KJV)
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.”

Paul was Zealously serving God as a Pharisee, exterminating Deciples of our Lord.  Until the Lord struck him down, blinded to get his attention.

Zeal is what we need but it must be Godly Zeal, Phinious killed sinners, his zeal rewarded, Paul killing Saints, he needed direction.
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For today we need Relationship,  James explains Religion :
James 1:25-27
King James Version (KJV)
:But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

Please quit talking about your “Religion ”  I ‘m a Baptist, I ‘m a Methodist,  Catholic, Presbyterian. …No you are not.   If you are a true follower of Christ, you must put the Word of God above your Church Doctrine.

You need to be a Desiple. Stufy to
show yourself aproved.  Present yout bodies a living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God.  This is our reasonable service.

John 3:16-17
King James Version (KJV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

We don’t need programs to teach us how to share the Word.  We need the Holy Spirit to be allowed to work through us.  We cannot change people, make people love and serve the Lord.  Let the Spirit lead us to share the love of the Lord.

Father God, please help us to let Your Spirit flow.
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every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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In the book of Judges we read our story.   ” Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”

Everyone does what thay want, it is all good, all normal, all excepted in the eyes of man.  Men with men, women with women,  Man is women. …

We have even gone so far as to find a man of God to Bless our folly:

” Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.”

We can always find someone to validate our behavior.   They can even claim to have the mind of God in the matter.   Watch out, that boat won’t float.

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” Go in peace: before the Lord is your way wherein ye go.”

When the man you are following, is not a man of God, do not expect the Lord to give you the victory in whatever you plan or attempt.  

Many will die thinking they have won doing as they please.  More toys, money, fame.  Image the disappointment,  when they hear:

” depart from me, ye that work iniquity.”

When we should have been ourselves saying :

“Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.”

” How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him:”

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God is looking for Love.

There are 3 kinds of Love:  Agape :  This is Gods love for us. A love like I have for my child and you for your children. You would jump in front of a train to save their life. “No greater love is there, than a man giving his life for another.”

Then there is Phillio love : or brotherly love, a love we have for those we care for, brotherly love.

Eros love:  Lust, our favorite, which eventually wares off and we end up with devorce.

Gods love is such that He kept trying to find a people who would love and obey Him.

Many years later, we find Abram,  who becomes Abraham because he believed the promise of God,  At 100 years old he would Father many nations.

He did and the Old Testament is full of the stories of the Hebrews  or Jews, The Lords chosen people.   They loved the Lord, fell into sin, began to be enslaved by this sin. Cried out to the Lord.

The Lord forgives them and sends Moses, Joshua then Judges to save them: Best known are Gideon,  Samson  and 10 others, this goes on for hundreds of years.  Love God, fall away, troubles, cry out to God, God saves, Love God….repeat …….again and again.

Then the people want to be like all the other Nations and have a king.  Saul, David (a man after Gods own heart), a sinner who knew how to repent.  Solomon  and many more, love God, fall away, (repeat over and over) untill He sent His Son.

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John 3:16-17
King James Version (KJV)
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

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God had created man to walk with,  have fellowship with.  They had only one rule.  Don’t eat the fruit of a certain tree.  They broke the rule.

Adam had disappointed God because of His disobedience.  Many years pass, people are multiplying on earth and God finally finds what He is looking for.

And Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch:

Genesis 5:21-24
King James Version (KJV)
“And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:” (who lived 900+ years)
“And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:  And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years.  And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.”

All we know of Enoch we find in Hebrews 11 and Jude.

Hebrews 11:4-5
“By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.  But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

Jude 1:23-24
“And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints,  To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

Enoch  pleased God, walked  with God, believed that God is and  that God rewards those who are diligent in seeking Him.

In Jude we learn of the Lords second comming and judgment.

To me Enoch is one of the most interesting Bible figures….to please God and to walk right up to heaven.  He is alive in heaven with God today.

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Here we have one who walked with God.  Many years pass, man becomes vial, sexual sin, greed, murder, the Lord desides to destroy the earth.  Yet again,  one man stands out:

“And Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son:  And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.  And Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”

Genesis 6:7-9
“And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.  But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.  These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.”

Noah built the Ark and his family  repopulated the earth.  God was still seeking a people who would walk with Him.  To  truly,  love trust and depend on Him.

This new group of folks were not any better then the last group.

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The early followers  of Jesus were only called Christians, in derision by the heathens.

They were called by Jesus, Desiples.

A Desiple is someone who studies Gods Word and attempts to follow His precepts, a person who comes to a love relationship with Jesus.

Who have one thing they absolutely   know:  GOD IS LOVE.

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To explain this love it is really best to go back to creation.  To put it simply God made man in His image to have some sort of relationship.   He would walk in the garden in the cool of the day,with Adam and Eve.

I know you have heard this but I feel I must elaborate.  At that time thete was no death, no work, no pain, just fellowship with God.

Man could do anything and eat anything  except the fruit of the tree of knowledge.   They knew no sin, shame or guilt until they ate of tree of knowledge of good and evil.

At that point death came into the world.  For that one little, stupid act.

 Disobedience of God.  Now people lived almost a thousand years before physical death but Spiritual death was immediate.   No more relationship with God.

God didn’t give up.

 

 

 

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Why was man created?  How do we explain Gods love for us?  How do we make people understand Gods plan of Salvation and love?

I  have been asking this question to myself for years.  I have seen many ministries try to teach people how to lead folks to the Lord.  The Roman Road…is one I’ve got on this sight under the “Salvation Way”.

Unless people are halfway to belief, this is really useless.   What’s wrong with my life?  Who are you to say I’m a sinner?  Who made you God?

If they don’t know why man was created, I believe they will have a hard time accepting our “Judgement ” of their lives.

So, why did God create man?

I believe the answer is:  To walk with Him, in the cool of the day.  God simply wanted a people with a Freewill to choose to Love, Honer and Obey Him.  Adam failed.

Enoch chose the way we need to follow.  “Enoch walked with God and was not, because God took him.”

The thing The Lord requires of us is to learn to Love, Honer and Obey, to walk with Him.

A more lengthy explanation to follow.

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Directions for pleasing God: -The Fix-it Shop-Filling Station

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Psalm 37:23-24
King James Version (KJV)
“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.  Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.”

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Psalm 37 tells us how to please God:

   :1. Fret not thyself
Fret not, is mentioned 3 times in this Psalm :  “because of evildoers, fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.”
In short, worry about your own walk with God first.  Get your life straight and leave others alone.  God will take care of the rest.”
   :2.  Trust in the Lord,
Trust in the Lord:  ” and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.  trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
   :3.  Delight thyself also in the Lord:
Delight in the Lord:  ” and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  he (The Lord ) delighteth in his (your) way.”
   :4.  Commit thy way unto the Lord;
Commit thy way unto the Lord:  ” trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.”  Commitment doesn’t mean much if not joined with Trust.
   :5.  Rest in the Lord,
Rest in the Lord:  ” and wait patiently for him: fret not ”  Rest, Wait, Fret not all in one, this comes from commitment and trust.
   :6.  Cease from anger,
Cease from anger: (now He’s meddling )  ” and forsake wrath: fret not ” again building one from another, all  relie on the others.
   :7.  Depart from evil, and do good
Depart from evil: ” and do good; and dwell for evermore. For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.”
   :8.  Wait on the Lord, and keep his way,
Wait on the Lord:  ” Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.”
   :9.  Mark the perfect man,
Mark the perfect man:  ” and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.”

Are you wondering how to improve your walk with the Lord?  The directions are right here:

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way.  Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.”

Now Lord, help us to walk in them.

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3 Lords of the Old Testament

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The English language translation of the Old Testament is troublesome.   We have one English word that we use for 3 different Hebrew/Chaldee words.   The word that is so overused is Lord.

In Genesis 1 we find that God (Elohim in the Hebrew/Chaldee language and means Creator/Ruler), created the heaven and earth.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.  The Ruach or breath or breeze of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters.

We see the Lord mentioned for the first time here:
Genesis 2:4
King James Version (KJV)
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

The Lord mentioned in Genesis 2:4 is from the Hebrew word Yahweh,  which the Hebrew people were not allowed to speak.   So they  added a few vowels to make it Yahovah, which in turn we made Jehovah.   Which means the  Self Existent or  Eternal One.   This is the word used must often for the God of Old Testament,  the law, or as I think of Him, Father God.

We have the word lord translated from the Hebrew word Adoni,  which means a physical man, a ruler, rich man of that time.

Than we have The Lord from the word Adonay,  another name for the Lord,  which means Sovereign Controller.

Psalm 110:1
King James Version (KJV)
110 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.       Jehovah said to Adonay.   So I read it as the Father talking to the Son.

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they became fools,

Is it hate to disagree with and protest the direction and moral decline of our country.  No;  but the left will claim we are hate filled because we agree with the Word of God.

It is foolish to think this country can continue to be blessed by God when we accept sin as normal. 

As a Christian,  I call for all who love God, to stand fast, act like a man and stand against a government that doesn’t act in the best interest of her people.

Pray for Godly leaders, who are not afraid to stand for the truth.  Who will fight for that we hold dear. 

” Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,”

We have fools in places of power. ….God save us.

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How soon they are grown – The Fix-it Shop – Filling Station

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Mothers day:

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Fathers day:

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How soon they grow up, started with 4 only one now.

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what is good;

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Genesis 27:28
King James Version (KJV)
“Therefore God give thee of the dew of heaven,  the fatness of the earth, and plenty of corn and wine:”

” they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.”
“no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
“It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, and to sing praises unto thy name, O Most High:”
“Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.”
“Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, ”
“acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.”
“For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; ”
“Let us choose to us judgment: let us know among ourselves what is good. For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.”

“what doth the Lord require of thee, ”

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“surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.”
“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,”

but to do justly,

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“Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother:”
“Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
” the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.”
” It is joy to the just to do judgment:”

and to love mercy,

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“will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.”

and to walk humbly with thy God?

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” remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.”
” that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;”
” If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
” Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the Lord.”
” he shall save the humble person.”
” he forgetteth not the cry of the humble.”
” Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear:”
” Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.”
” honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”
” I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.”
” Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
” he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.”
” God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
” Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:”

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Micah 6:8
King James Version (KJV)
“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

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Ephesians 4:7
But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

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Ephesians 4:13
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

What is your measure of Grace?  Do you have the Grace to believe Jesus is Lord,  He was God become man who died and was Resurected and now sits at the right hand of God .

The sacrifice of His earthly body, His blood covers  our sins and makes us the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.

If you believe that good.  Now do you truly believe He became man, on this earth….just like you and me?

Tempted as we are,  lazy, slothful, greedy, short tempered, covetous?

Probably not.  I believe Jesus was just like us, except He had an open heart to the Father for directions and the Spirit for Power.

Luke 4:2
King James Version (KJV)
“Being forty days tempted of the devil. And in those days he did eat nothing: and when they were ended, he afterward hungered.”

Hebrews 2:17-18
King James Version (KJV)
“Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.”

The only difference in us and Jesus is that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, and knew how to use the Spiritual Gifts  available to whosoever or as many as touch Him.

Romans 12:3
King James Version (KJV)
“For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.”

What is your measure of faith?

By Grace we are saved by Faith.  We have to believe the impossible story of Jesus to be saved.   We need to believe the impossible fact that Jesus said:

John 14:12
King James Version (KJV)
“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”

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2 Corinthians 12:12
King James Version (KJV)
“Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.”

Hebrews 2:4
King James Version (KJV)
“God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?”

Do you really  believe?  

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Now I know: The Fix-it Shop, Filling Station

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We all know the symbol of the light bulb.  A brilliant idea.  Eureka!!!

Now, I  know!!!

Six times in Scripture we find this phrase.  Sometimes it is just a statement of fact.

Abram tells Sarai, Now, I know you are a beautiful woman, say you are my sister.  (Genesis 12:11)

Moses father in law, after hearing of the plagues in Egypt :
Exodus 18:11
“ Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods: “

Naaman, after being told to go wash in the Jordan 7 times, to be clean of Leprosy.
2 Kings 5:15
” Behold, now I know that there is no God in all the earth, but in Israel: “

Peter, after the angel released him from prison :
Acts 12:11
” Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, “

The one that really opened my eyes was in the story of. Abraham and Isaac, when the Lord said:
Genesis 22:12

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“And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.”

The Lord himself said :  “Now I know ”   is it possible that the Lord who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient  just found out something? Or was it a statement of fact. 

Like with Job, the Lord knew all along the faithfulness of Abraham,  He needed Abraham to do the unthinkable to prove to Abraham, that he, himself, would be faithful to God.

So we come to our own lives.  What do we know.  If we are Christians, we know Jesus is real and a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.  Do we know it all?

1 Corinthians 13:12
” For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”

We don’t understand yet, the importance of learning to take up the Yoke of Christ, of learning to walk with, not before or behind.  Elijah knew what the Lord wanted of him when he first approached Ahab.  He didn’t hear the Lords  voice, till after the message was delivered.

Levi and Simeon were obedient to the Lords will, and they said: “Should he treat our sister as a harlot? ”

Moses was obedient to the Lords will, when he murdered the Egyptian.   Phinious,  in his zeal for the Lord, killed the man and woman and stopped The Lords plague.

These men knew the Lords will and did it, before getting instructions from the Lord.  They all, walked with God, in obedience and faithfulness.

I dought the Lord calls people to murder today but I am sure He wants us to quit mudering defenceless babies, stop wilful and outright disobedience and learn to live within the parameters outlined in His Word.

Simply stated:  “LOVE GOD AND LOVE YOUR NEIGHBORS AS YOURSELF”

A small thing, that is the whole of the Law and Prophets.   Lord, please help us to this place.

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What is the Church? – The Fix-it Shop, Filling Station

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To the unbelieving, The Church is the building the hypocrites go to every week to show the rest of us how holy they are.

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To some believers, The Church is where they go to hear the Preacher tell them what God wants them to know this week.  Or the place you bring people who need salvation, healing or prayer.  Or even the place where you praise or worship God.

The Church can and should be all these things but  are you?

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The Church isn’t the buildings believers meet in.  The Church is the believer.  We are the ones, the seekers should come to, to be led to the Lord. To be healed by, comforted by, discover the Love and Grace of the Lord.

They don’t recognize the Lord in our lives, so why would they expect to find Him.

Some think of The Church as a hospital for the sick and those recovering.   The Lord never told us to nurse the brokenhearted.  To go someplace to heal,

No, He said: “Your Faith has made you whole.”

“ The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.”

The  Lord expects us to believe and to have signs and wonders following.  Amen.

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Long overdue obituary –

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This was my mother,  Dorothy Bell Currier Cote.  We buried her in August of 2013.  At the time, what is left of the family decided that since we had contacted what friends and family were left, we didn’t need an obituary.

I regret that decision now and wish to write a little about her.

She suffered  with Arthritis for close to 60 years, she died at 90.  I remember, in my youth, my father carried her up the stairs so she could come into her own house.

Her feet and hands were so deformed, it was painful to walk and impossible to open jars or click the button on a pen.

I don’t recall her complaining.  She just kept going. 

She ran a kindergarten for some years, worked as a secretary for a few years also.

Both my parents loved my sister,  brother and myself. 

She lived with my sister the last 9 years of her life and I would see her every year for a few weeks, to a month.  She would come and stay with us.

I am disappointed with myself for my lack of compassion,  mercy and failing to show her the love she deserved.

She wasn’t always easy to get along with,  I believe this was probably caused by unremitting pain.

Anyway Mom, I just want to say I’m sorry for so many things.  I wish we could re-live your last years.

I believe  that you did invite Jesus to forgive you on your death bed.  I believe that was the moment you found peace in your soul and walked away with Jesus.

Lord Jesus, please  forgive me my sins.  Mom, rest in peace.

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He said, He said : The Filling Station

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Two boats, both come alive when in the water, they are very much the same, though different.

For years, (over thirty), when I would read the Old Testament,  the Lord God was the Father God, one member of the Trinity.

I have since come to the conclusion that they are separate members of the  Trinity.  I am going to show you some He said, He saids.  Please let me know what you think.

Before flood:

The Lord speaking to Noah:
Genesis 6:3,7
King James Version (KJV)
“And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
“And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.”

God speaking to Noah:
Genesis 6:13,14a
King James Version (KJV)
“And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.
Make thee an ark of gopher wood;”

After flood:

The Lord:
Genesis 8:21
King James Version (KJV)
“And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.”

God:
Genesis 9:16-18
King James Version (KJV)
“And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.  And God said unto Noah, This is the token of the covenant, which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth.”

Before the Exodus:

God:
Exodus 2:23-25
King James Version (KJV)
“And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.  And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.  And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.”

Genesis 3:4-6

“And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.  And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.  Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.”

The Lord :

Genesis 3:7,8

“And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; “

Please let me know what you think.  If you are interested, I will show more examples.

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Revelation Knowledge? Available today? – The Filling Station

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Revelation

an uncovering, a bringing to light of that which had been previously wholly hidden or only obscurely seen. God has been pleased in various ways and at different times (Heb. 1:1) to make a supernatural revelation of himself and his purposes and plans, which, under the guidance of his Spirit, has been committed to writing.  (Bible – The Word of God )  (Eastons Bible Dictionary)

Word of God

(Heb. 4:12, etc.). The Bible so called because the writers of its several books were God’s organs in communicating his will to men. It is his “word,” because he speaks to us in its sacred pages. Whatever the inspired writers here declare to be true and binding upon us, God declares to be true and binding. This word is infallible, because written under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, and therefore free from all error of fact or doctrine or precept.  (Eastons Bible Dictionary)

Everyone that studies the Word of God is eligible to receive Revelation. The first Revelation the Christian receives is the knowledge of sin, the need for repentance, the joy of discovering forgiveness and love, through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Unfortunately, too many quit searching there.  They don’t recognize the ability to find comfort, peace, the fulfillment of needs and desires, that Christ offers us.

Many search elsewhere,  writings, gurus, false prophets or angels.   Wading through the Bible is too hard, it’s not in order, those Biblical names and places are too difficult  to pronounce, or remember.

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The Lord will fill us with the Spirit of God, a Spirit  of wisdom, understanding, knowledge and skill to build His Church.  The Gifts of the Spirit are available to whosoever will.  Most won’t.  Most seem to hold Church Doctrine or Rituals higher than the Word of God.

It is not.  We must know the Word. We must walk in that knowledge. When we do, we will receive Revelation Knowledge, we will understand how to Walk with God.   Jesus told us:
Matthew 11:28-30
King James Version (KJV)
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.  For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

The way we learn of the Lord is through His Word.  Martin Luther was a good Catholic, the Wesley brothers were good Episcopalians.  Then they studied the Word.

“Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other. My conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.”

–Martin Luther.   Quote Originally posted on The Isaiah 53:5 Project:   thanks.

I   pray I have the faith and strength to stand on the Word also.  Amen.

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now we see through a glass, darkly; – The Fix-it Shop

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Now we see through a glass, darkly;

Revelation came in a flash of light, to Martin Luther,  the Wesley brothers, to the founders of many Denominations.   To the men and women in many successful businesses.

An idea, a way of doing things,  a brand new product, an understanding of the Word of God, that has suddenly jumped off the page, opened your mind and heart.

You are  never able to view it, in the old understanding again.

When someone has a new understanding of a passage or verse from the Bible, we need to study to find out if it is the truth or a lie.

Does it line up with the rest of the Word?    Are there two or more Witnesses in the Word?

First, we must make sure we check it against the Word and not the Doctrine of our Church.   Martin Luther found the Word in disagreement with the Catholic Church Doctrine.    A new movement was born.

The Revelation I wish to share should not cause a problem, but build up the body of the Church.

The source for my study is the Bible,  I start with KJV, and check my understanding with other versions.   First the scriptures:

Matthew 25:14-31
” For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.”

The Parable of the talents, how often have I heard: “you should be playing piano at this  or that church, you have buried  your talents”?

I often wondered why it was only the piano player that did this?  How about the guy who knew how to make money?  The carpenter or plumber, electrician? Artist?

We seem to have a very limited view of this scripture. It’s either about money or physical talent.

A man is going away, he leaves something with his servants.   According to their ability to handle this thing.

” Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.  But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.”

The one that received the most, (the one with the right attitude, and skills),  used these talents to increase.

The one who received two, according to his ability also increased his.

The one who received but one, hid the one, so, no increase at all.

” After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.”

You know the story, the two that increased received praise and more responsibility.  They heard: ” Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.”

Not so for the other:  ” Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.”

I believe the Lord used money and not piano playing for a reason, (pianos weren’t invented yet),  increase in cash is easy to visualize.

The problem with us is we treat this story as a Parable,  when in reality it is a Prophesy.

Jesus is Proclaiming His Death and Resurrection.

He is telling us, He is leaving something in our care that we must increase.   What could it be?

Money, skill with a paint brush or hammer?

NO, HE LEFT US THE SPIRIT.  The Spirit also, gave us gifts, they sit on the shelf, waiting to be acknowledged.  They are available to whosoever will.

To teach, guide, direct and protect us.  To lead us to all truth.   We have hid the Spirit in our Churches. Buried it, are afraid of it.

We must seek God, ask for the Wisdom we need to increase that which He has given us.

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