Intercession for Israel…

Last night I woke up in the middle of the night with this grown of intercession. It was interesting, I have not felt intercession like that in a while. It was a doubled over grown and it must have lasted 20-30 seconds, and then I felt a release. I thought about praying more and did but I knew that for some reason it was done. So I went back to sleep. And I don’t remember what time it was or anything else really, just that it happened.

Pictures of Kelli Dog…

Here are pictures of Kelli dog. Our wonderful Terrorist… oops I meant Terrier 

 

I would be lying if I said no live animals were hurt in the process of taking these pictures ;-P

No how could ya hurt something with a face like that?

Pray for your Leaders!

According to all of the major news networks, Barack Hussain Obama is our next president.

I must say I am saddened by this news. Partly because I believe the economy will not fair well under Obama, though the economy has very little to do with my disappointment. I am saddened due to the fact that we only need one new Supreme Court Justice for abortion to have a chance to be overthrown. I tell you 50,000,000 babies is not ok with me, The killing needs to stop. No war in history comes close to the amount of babies killed in the past 30 years. And secondly I fear for the nation of Israel as Obama is opposed to the Nation of Israel.

 

“(IsraelNN.com) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama privately expressed his support for a new Arab state within Israel’s current borders, including eastern Jerusalem, during his meeting with Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah this summer.

According to a report published Tuesday in the Lebanese newspaper al-Ahbar, Obama told Abbas that he supports a PA state, and Arab “rights to east Jerusalem” as well. The sources said Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad “heard the best things they ever heard from an American president” during the meeting. However, said sources quoted in the report, the candidate asked them to keep his declaration a secret.“

You see, read history, when nations come against Israel as a nation, whether they are being used by God as judgement or not, they are judged. I tell you when America goes against Israel it will not be good for her.

So these are my disappointments, but in the last local election here in Portland, OR every issue which I voted on, when the opposite direction. I felt a feeling of hopelessness, but at that time I realized that I had not put my trust in God. I was not leaning upon him fully. So this time I am disappointed as expressed above but I feel a twinge of adventure rise in me, as I let myself fall into the loving mercies of God. For he is good God, and he is the one who raises up kings and brings them down! So being the thrill junkie that I am I have jumped, I have let go, and I put my trust fully in Christ!

Actually the reason why I started this post was to write out a prayer. Because I was heard the news, went to my computer to work on my homework, and I could not, I needed to pray, so I went to my bed to pray, and I was contemplating the coming years, and I realized that the church needs to cultivate a life of prayer, or WE WILL NOT MAKE IT!!! So I thought I am going to go and write a blog post because half the nation is writing theirs saying yeah! he won!, or oh crap, he won! And I want to write well he won, darn, but 

Father God right now I pray for the spirit of wisdom and revelation of Jesus Christ to be poured out upon our next leader Barack Obama. I pray that you will come to him and teach him your ways. That he will abide by your laws. That you will give him wisdom as he rules your people. Right now I bless that man! Rain down on Obama as he makes/prepares to make his speech. I pray that you will visit him in the night. That you will give him restful sleep. For you are God, and you have chosen our next president so I say let your will be done. Move upon this man. For You are God and you know what you want, and you know how you will get it the fastest way, with the least amount of pain, though there will be pain, it’s guaranteed. (Did you see that J Rizz line?) So God I though my self and my nation fully upon your mercies. Come and revive our nation for yourself, no mater who is our president.

God I petition you now! I plead blood of Jesus of MY sins and the sins of MY nation, end abortion, and send revival.

God visit your bride in this nation, that she will not keeps silent! Oh let us petition before your throne day and night! Let this be a turning point in our nation that the church in our nation might be called a house of prayer. For God you are God, and when we pray to you we change thing in ETERNITY. When we have voice in the heavens. We SHAKE THINGS! WE CHANGE THINGS FOREVER! God Let this realization come upon us.  Let your church continue to pray even though the election is over! Oh God Come!

The loss of the sense of majesty

A.W. Tozar writes in his book entitled ‘The Knowlege of the Holy’ saying,

“I refer to the loss of the concept of majesty from the popular religious mind. The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God for one so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men.”

I the other day I was in church thinking about this and that, and subconsiously thinking I was thinking about God. Though after a little while I stopped my thought processes I was going through to consider what I has actually been musing over in my mind. I realized that I really had not been thinking about God but about things at church and probably my own ambitions for my life. Which are kind of close to thinking about God because it is his church and I am his beloved but at the same time, I was not thinking about God at all.

It actually made me think about how much time I spend thinking about and basically worshiping the things of God instead of God himself.

I am not a really good judge concerning how much I think about God but I know it is not near enough and that I trick myself to often into thinking that I am thinking about God.

So I am praying that the Holy spirit will reveal God to me so that I might be facinated, so facinated that all else not eternal is rubish in my eyes.

Kill That Pride!

Recently I had a ridiculously childish experience. Every time I think back to it my my pride is stabbed once again, yet I am pained to tell anyone because it is really not that big of a deal.

What happened is my dad owns his own company, a fairly well to do company, and I stand to inherit it along with my brothers. And I have worked for him for basically as long as I can remember during the summers and full time since I graduated except for 3 months when I did track 1 of FITN. But I really enjoy coffee. If someone is interested I could probably talk to them about coffee for 30 minutes at least.

(No need to read this parenthetical section if you get board skip on  I am concerned with everything to where the beans are grown, how good they are, the roasting process, the roaster to be used, the decafinating process if they are decaf, the way the beans look, the way they are stored, how long they are stored, how they are ground, how long it has been ground, the type of machine, espresso, drip, french press, cold press, and espresso what type of machine, automatic, electric pump/boiler, steaming functions for the milk, how long it takes to pull a shot, and the diameter of the shot size. LOL Just an outline…

To preface, I do not drink more than 3 cups of coffee a day! People think I drink a more cups then I do but I don’t I just really enjoy the cups I do have.)

Though what happened is we where not using enough coffee (and are still not) in our drip machine to brew the coffee, so it was very weak. To fix this I turned up how much coffee gets ground on our “sophisticated” grinder, and then a lady in the office who is practically like a mom in that she has known me since I was born, complained about how strong I made the coffee and so my dad turned it down, and told me to leave it alone. This set me off, that this lady could go over me! I am the one who was responsible for ordering the coffee, acquiring the grinder and keeping things going in all things concerning coffee at our shop. This is my dad and he chose what she wants over what I want. I mean she can just add a bit of hot water to her cup of coffee and there would be nooooo difference in taste. THE COFFEE WOULD ACTUALLY most likely BE SWEETER! Anyways I was angry to the point I was considering how long I could survive on how much money I had saved and moving to IHOP from Oregon. It was pitiful. I actually believe the God had my dad do the whole thing, whether my dad knows it or not. Because my dad and I when it happened had a big argument outside (kinda like Paul and his dad OC Choppers, no swearing though) My Dad was telling me that I need to kill my pride, because someday I will run into these situations in marriage, and owning a business, and I knew I needed to but I was sooo saying, “screw this I know I need to BUT I WILL NOT!”

I spent the rest of that day organizing our where house and after work mad and considering vengeful thoughts. It was pitiful. I am still not over the irritation of it though my pride has finally been killed.

How long that pride took to kill was unbelievable to me, I was praying prayers like, “I don’t want you to take this pride because I want it, but take it.” I texted people asking them to pray for me. I did not specify what for though…lol I knew it was stupid. I was just praying for the spirit of wisdom and revelation Eph 1:17-19. Truthfully I can say it was not me that was able to overcome that pride, it was Christ in me! I saw one of our employees go though a spiff (with the same lady), though he is not a believer, and he never got over it. He and our office lady still are not on good terms though he ended up moving to Colorado.

Though as a testimony the next day when I got into work I saw the lady who works in our office outside on the way in and I asked her forgiveness because I blew up a little in front of her and she knew I was angry. So things are good, because GOD is good.

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That right there is why I feel that I am not quite ready to get married. I need to fix the last few posts. Make them easier to understand. AKA fixing grammar and spelling.

Thats all for now!

Should you even touch a woman if you are not married? :-O

Since my last two posts have gotten so many hits and actually my first comments other I think I will continue on the subject a bit.

As the question in the title of the post says, should you even touch a woman if you are not married? From my observation I believe to many this question seems silly and would only be asked or thought of by some ultra-conservative nut like me! And I do ask the question, and I have considered it in my own life and I will spend the rest of my post on my conclusion.

I will start off with this, it is my belief that a man should not touch a woman, and a woman should not touch a man unless they are married, and upon ones conviction dating or engaged. Now I will clarify what I mean by touch. What I mean by touch is knowingly touching as a form of gratification. Such as when handing an object to or accepting an object from purposely making one’s hand touch the other persons. And to clarify that more, I know that it is nearly impossible to hand something with out a slight touch, what I am talking about is the thought processes when touching.

Probably a better example is one which my youth pastor gave concerning himself when he was fairly young at church camp and he happened to sit next to a girl at the camp during one of the meeting which he had a crush on, and he remembers in his seat spreading his legs apart so that his knee touched her knee. Which is really harmless one’s knee touching someone else’s. But it was the motive behind the touch which made it immoral.

I believe that if you are honest with yourself, you will be able to recall times such as my youth pastor spoke of.

And to show that I am not just pulling this belief out of thin air, Paul says this:

1 Cor 7:1-2 “Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 2 Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.” NKJV

I have heard people say that this is taken out of context, and that Paul is talking to married people. NO! put aside your bias, read it for what it says.

And if this is not enough Jesus says in the sermon on the mount:

Matt 5:27-30 ”You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’   28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.  29 If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.  30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and cast it from you; for it is more profitable for you that one of your members perish, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.” NKJV

So if just looking with lust puts one on the road to hell, then what does touching do? Does this offend your heart? It did and does mine. Realize this, the truth is not always comfortable or easy but it is still the truth.

What Jesus is talking about in the sermon on the mount can be put into an analogy (which Mike Bickle uses) sin/lust is like toxin or poison and we much of the time are like patients asking a doctor, “how much poison can I inject into my body before I die?”. Jesus in the sermon on the mount pointed out the things which cause us to stumble and are like poison in our lives, and he points them out not because he wants to discipline us but because He loves us and desires that we live lives which we can love him in return.

Also I would point this out, if you are married are you going to be fine with someone touching your spouse? Touching them in the same way you touch people of the opposite sex now? I know I would not be fine with it.

And lastly, God knows what is best for us, and what is wrong with waiting until you are married to hold and touch your spouse? Do you think you will get to heaven and regret that you waited so long? Or even do you think once you are married you will regret you waited so long? I believe that waiting will only produce a greater passion in marriage.

For me I am selfish, I desire firstly as much heavenly reward as I can possibly get, and so I do not want anything to hinder me, and secondly I desire to have an amazing passionate marriage, so I set in my heart to do everything possible to obtain that.

Is this too legalistic? Do you agree?

Let me know,

Joe

Doe’s God Have A Plan For Whom You Shall Merry?

I received a comment on my last post and it gave me idea’s to clarify and add some more.

First of all I guess I kinda of dated a girl that I met in Kansas City durning an internship but over the phone and instant messenger… Not the best idea. But it hurt when we decided to end the whole thing. So I do have had a “relationship” if that counts, at least I know what it is like to love a girl and then break up.

But this is where the title of this post comes from. Having been 19-20 at the time of that relationship and it being really my first serious interest in a girl I will give my beliefs for really why I chose to wait that long.

I personally have the conviction that if you and the person you are interested in are not able to get married without legal parental consent you should not be seriously perusing a relationship with one another, focus one God. (Granted that this is my personal conviction) Also to me I don’t think one should be dating if they cannot even financially provide for themselves.

To me I feel if one will follow those convictions they will save themselves a lot of trouble, and I believe make one’s marriage stronger and more enjoyable. Because you have not been practicing searching for a person and then breaking up and then searching and breaking up.

So far I only really mentioned why I believe it is good to wait for a relationship.

The reason why I believe that God has a plan for whom you should merry, is because he is incredibly focused on your life and everything about you so why would He not have in mind a person for you to merry?

Also In Song of Solomon 8:4 it says “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not stir nor awaken love Until it pleases.”

To me this says, don’t push and pursue love until the right time, till one is mature. And spiritually the verse is speaking to those in the church saying don’t push don’t stir up love in your on strength. Let God lead, for He is a good leader.

Now, to add one last thing, I believe that there are many the “right one”, that there is not just one match.

So on that note I still do ask for prayer for grace in my life, I do not oppose a relationship, I just know that unless God brings it that it is not wise. There are blessing when you do things Gods way. I guarantee it!!!

I want Jesus to be my all!

I am 20 nearly 21 and do not have a girlfriend and have not really had any to speak of in the past really. Well there have been interests, and interests enough to feel that it would fill a void.

Though I am thankful to God that I do not have a girlfriend yet, because he keeps bringing up these ugly things that I want him to change as well as I know that I am not at the place where he is my everything and where I could rely in appropriately on a girlfriend or wife. I want to get to the place where I would be satisfied with not getting married because Jesus is my everything and I do not “need” someone. But yet I do desire to be married because it is the lords will and I would love to have kids and be married.

But how can I be prepared for the end when I could loose everything and at this time not be able to not have those things or be willing to give them up. Because He gives and takes away, am I ready for that.

Also I want this to come from my heart when I ask a girl to merry me, that I do not promise anything, not a house not money, an not health, but I do promise to love God with all my heart and by His grace do everything unto him including Love her. Though you see here in the way I write this it is my desire for this yet this is not yet my heart. But it will be by the grace of God.

So pray for me. But truly this is the desire of my heart and so I know that God will be faithful to bring it to pass.

Oh and if anyone of you reading know me hold me accountable and slap me if this is not my heart when I find a Girl!

Camping in the rain…The Great Sanctifier

Well a while back Zack Hensley was blogging about golfing one Sunday afternoon and he refered to it as a santifier after relaying his story of his great fit of anger at not being able to his a ball at the driving range and ending up being totally defeated and not relaxed at all, and could you imagine he did not have any fun.

Anyways that is where I get the idea for this post and is probably what help me keep my cool. Because we decided to go camping with our boy scout troop the first weekend in October and we knew and know it is going to rain the entire time. I am actually writing this in the car after having set up camp and eaten. I was not very gracious when we arrived, well actually I was very gracious thanks to God as I did not blow up at anyones nor say anything nasty, by God I was able to hold my cool. But I has just gotten off a 10 hour day at work lifting very heavy wood, my back is tight and I was hungry and I was getting wet. And I will be honest four leatter words where going though my head. Though at the same time so was Zack’s story as well as prayer.

I learned to keep a hold of my anger when sore, hungry, tired, and wet, I call that a great sanctifier!!!

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Mac’s suck!!!

I have something to interject into my usual subject. I own a mac book, a white one, and I really do like it. I run windows vista in a program called parallels, and then if I could figure out the activation stuff, I could run windows straight up in boot camp.

But anyways, Apple claims to have ooooh so many drivers… Well guess what!!! They have like half the drivers windows XP does, and a quarter of what vista does. Well those are not exact. But I must say it seems to me half the devices I try and use with my mac, do not have drivers readily available, and they are really hard to figure out. Like I have a wonderful HP printer. It works great with all my PCs XP and Vista with noooo problem over the network. But my mac… it does not work and still does not work, and the drivers do not work.

Also I have had camera not have drivers on the mac either. So if anyone is a lawyer and can hold apple accountable for their claims to having the most drivers… please do!

Also here is another idea for a class action lawsuit for apple. They changed the way the iPhone 3G charges, so any chargers that you had for iPods and iPhones… well they don’t work. I mean the cable is the same the dock port is the same but the dc brick, they don’t work… unless they where the apple ones. But still, we have a several thousand dollar stereo system in one of our vehicles that works with ipods and iphones, well it does not charge the iphone 3G…grrrr

Ok I have vented this about apple. I have to say other than these issues they make a great product and I really do like them. so yeah