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Just What is the Abundant Life?

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

What did JESUS mean when He spoke of the “life more abundantly”? (John 10:10) Read Hebrews 11:37-39 and check out the abundant life of some of God’s most heralded (by Him) heroes of “the faith.” If the abundant life means lavish riches in this fleeting world, why then did Jesus say what He warned us of in Luke 12:15? Why won’t the so-called “prosperity preacher” wolves ever mention this passage or 1 Timothy 6:6-12 which warn us of the soul-damning sins of greed and covetousness and hoarding? What is it that these wolves wish to keep their captive prey ignorant of?

Beware of the abundant life scam (concept) being peddled by word of faith wolves such as Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland and many other wood-be greed-driven glamor mongers. These vile wolves promise a crown without the daily cross and are the very “enemies of the cross of Christ.” (Philippians 3:18-19) Any leader in any capacity, who does not constantly preach the daily cross and holiness of God and all the other hard truths of Scripture, is a covetous beguiler who is leading his gullible prey to the lake of fire (2 Peter 2:1-3).

Just read and study diligently God’s Word daily and the whole of His plan and truth will be revealed to your heart (Acts 20:20-32; 2 Timothy 2:15; 3:16-17). By doing this you will be kept from the falsehoods of the false prophets who are deceiving many in this late hour.

The fate of true, God-fearing saints in this life could look like this below:

“They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute (not having basic necessities), afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. 39 And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise.” Hebrews 11:37-39

Compare these heroes of the faith – divinely heralded – to the scam jokers today whom the wicked, God-less hoards elevate and make rich today:

• Their clothing/wardrobe – “sheepskins and goatskins” (v37)
• The financial statement – “being destitute” (v37)
• Their comfort level/creature comforts – “afflicted, tormented” (v37)
• Their dwelling place/homestead – “they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.” (v38)

And what is it that we have to complain about?

The next time you are tempted to unwisely condemn a believer who is actually obeying God by doing His Gospel work, you may wish to take this passage into accountability first. Otherwise, you may make a fool of yourself just as Job’s friends did by judging him as a sinful man due to his sufferings. To the contrary, the things Job suffered were not because he was sinful but rather the opposite.

Those who suppose that suffering (including lack due to the non-participation others) means that the LORD hasn’t called someone, err in their thinking. The fact that those obedient laborers suffer is only proof and validation of their authenticity before God.

How many times did He promise us that we will suffer and be hated if we truly know Him? How many passages can we recall where our LORD promised us beforehand that if we are obedient to His Great Commission call we will suffer in this fleeting life? Did Jesus not promise that “all manner of evil” would be spoke of us “falsely”? (Matthew 5:10-12) He also commanded us to “Rejoice.”

In light of this, those who aren’t suffering persecution are suspect.

If you haven’t yet been slandered and lies made up about you to this point …. get ready. The day is coming and what shall we do? “Rejoice”! Throw a celebration that He would even count you worthy to suffer for His holy name’s sake as you have communicate His Word to others. Satan is furious with you! You are on his top 10 list in hell! All glory to Jesus Christ! “Rejoice”!

“Itching Ears” or a Noble Truth-Seeker?

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”2 Timothy 4:3-4

Do you have “itching ears” that wish to be told sweet little fairy tales that will lead ultimately you to the eternal prison of fire? Or, have you chosen to be a truth seeker no matter the cost, wholly given over the the One who bled for your sins on the cross and told you He is “the truth”? (John 14:6)

No one is born a truth seeker. It’s a decision of the human will. The disciple is made through an initial and ongoing choice to follow Christ, no matter the cost.

Will you seek His holy face today?

***There’s a command from God to David here and an response/answer from David in this Verse:

“When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.” Psalms 27:8

What is your answer/response when God says to your heart “Seek ye my face”?

Might memorizing this verse be a good thing to do today? Also verse 4 in Psalms 27.

The Abundant Life God Offers includes Tests, Purgings, Strivings, Faith, and Chastening

Are we not going to be “tried with fire” if we have faith?

“That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 1:7

Does God not chasten all those whom He loves in order to keep us in His kingdom so that we do not fall away before we are with Him?

“And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. 11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” Hebrews 12:5-11

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Attend to My Words [podcast]


IF THE WORD isn’t flowing into you daily, you are falling away. Flood and fuel your heart and mind and body with the pure, the holy light of God’s Word daily and you will never famish! All darkness will be vanquished (Psalms 119:130). All who have been saved and yet aren’t in God’s Word and prayer daily – have rejected Christ, with no exception. Re-turn to the LORD prodigal. There’s no good outside of Christ the KING.

“The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.” Psalms 119:130

ALL who are not in God’s written Word daily are not hearing from God, do not have God’s wisdom and direction, and are walking in darkness – 100%.

The feeding of Christ’s flock would integrally involve exhorting them to diligently study and walk in God’s Word themselves, daily (John 21:15-17). Isn’t this exactly what the apostle Paul told Timothy to do? Yes. He told his understudy to “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.” (2 Timothy 2:15)

One of the ways we know who the false ministers are, is that they want people dependent on THEM, not God. So, they don’t constantly exhort the people to get into God’s Word, the Holy Scriptures, for themselves. Run.

“This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.” Joshua 1:8 

“He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. … My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. 22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:4, 20-23

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.” Jeremiah 15:16

“Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.” Job 23:12

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.” Colossians 3:16

“Over the last 5-10 years I can see where He has done this for me already, but the problem is …. it’s not enough! I want even more! One hour of study and prayer in the morning is not enough!” Christine

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Gathering Fruit for Christ’s Eternal Glory [podcast]


IF you are truly born again, God has called you personally to participate in, to obey His Great Commission command— NOT to salvage any country in this fleeting world.

It’s amazing how many people claiming to be saved spend more time, energy, and money trying to save America than they do building up the body of Christ and evangelizing the lost. Anyone claiming to be saved and yet is not participating in the Great Commission command of Christ, is out of the will of God. Repentance needed.

Save America or See Jesus Save Eternal Souls?

“America is under God’s judgment for sure. And recently there was a golden statue made of Trump. And Pastors are praying over it. A golden calf. Same thing happened in the book of Exodus and God slew 3,000 men. This angers Him greatly! There will be a severe price to pay for this adultery! America is definitely going down at the divine judgment of God.” Karen Cochran

Forget saving America. Win souls. Preach the original Gospel to see eternal souls saved unto the LORD. See Mark 16:15-20; Matthew 28:18-20.

A good thing to ask proud Americans who claim they are Christians:

1. “When’s the last time you led someone to Jesus?”

2. “How much time and how much energy do you spend trying in vain to “save America” or “Make America Great Again” compared to the time and energy you spend learning, studying, and meditating on God’s Word and doing it – as in the Great Commission?”

“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

Anyone claiming to be Christ’s and yet is not doing, is not obeying His Great Commission mandate, is not in the will of God.

Regrettably, America is going down in judgment.

No efforts can undo the present reality of those claiming to know Christ refusing to truly repent, nor the 60 million innocent babies America has murdered in cold blood and called it “choice.”

Honoring something God calls “an abomination” brings “the curse of the LORD” upon any nation to do such. See Leviticus 18:22 and Proverbs 3:33. Sodomy is sin!

“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

Doing the will of the Father is executing the Great Commission Jesus gave us!

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“Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. 35  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
36  And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37  And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38  I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.” John 4:35-38

Jesus says act now! To put off His work is to put off Christ. Read that again!

“And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.” Luke 9:62

Many aren’t putting off their own sinful, lust-filled agenda in the world, right?

There is nothing new under the sun. See the book of Haggai.

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Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee [podcast]


Here’s why Jesus came:

“And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.” John 17:3

There is nothing – NO-THING – more important in your life than your relationship with Christ.

Job 22

Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart. 23 If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles. 24 Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yea, the Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of silver. 26 For then shalt thou have thy delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows. 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways. 29 When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands.” Job 22:21-30

“lay up his words in thine heart” v22 – WITH the learning of each new verse of Holy Scripture, each new Bible truth, your knowledge and understanding of the LORD and His kingdom is expanded.

“Let thine heart retain my words.” Proverbs 4:4

“I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 97 MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.” Psalms 119:96-100

“God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly.” EM Bounds

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