Greetings from True Grace Tabernacle Video

UPDATE!!

My apologies, I provided the church address but forgot to put the service times. So the updated information is True Grace Tabernacle located 301 Humble Avenue Suite 147 in Hattiesburg, MS 39401 and our services are on Sunday at 3:00 p.m and Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Thursday is choir rehearsal and praise team rehearsal night at 6:00 p.m. , one of my favorites ;) Okay, hope to see you soon. BLESSINGS IN ABUNDANCE!!!

Greetings From True Grace Tabernacle

Well, we have expanded our social networking from just Facebook and Youtube, although those sites are very productive and influential. Our welcome video is now on Vimeo and MySpace. Flickr is another site that we will catch up to later. Anyway, I haven't uploaded anymore info about the Gifts of the Holy Spirit because we've been busy getting things together at the church, setting up equipment, moving furniture, cleaning, and all that type of good stuff. So in the meantime and in between time, I'd like to invite you all to Friend and Follow us on these networking engines, Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo, and MySpace. My husband is Frank Ford and I am Tamika Ford on Facebook, Youtube, and MySpace. The name of the church is True Grace Tabernacle on Facebook. If you will be in the Hattiesburg, MS area, the church address is 301 Humble Avenue, Suite 147 Hattiesburg, MS 39401. My email address is tamikadford14@gmail.com. Thank you in advance, God Bless!!!!

Gift of Word of Knowledge

The next revelation gift is Word of Knowledge, and I won't spend as much time on this one as I did with the gift of Word of Wisdom. These two revelation gifts are often used simultaneously though. Word of knowledge always reveals something to the believer through the Holy Ghost about something in the present tense (happening now) or in the past tense (has already happened). This gift focuses on people's needs at the moment. For example, a minister (or just a lay person) may receive a word from the Lord that a certain individual is without food, but the person has not told them (or anybody per se) that they need food. The Spirit provides that Word of Knowledge and the believer goes ahead and go to the grocery store and stock up on items to take to the person's home without any previous communication for confirmation that what they are believing is actually true. When they arrive at the home with the bags of groceries, the individual who opens the door might not even acknowledge that they are hungry. They might just take the bags and say thank you and God bless you and send them on their way. The way the gift of Word of Knowledge works is that the person who the gift is working through might not ever get a confirmation in the natural realm that what they heard the voice of the Lord say in the Spirit realm was actually true, but they go in faith anyway knowing, trusting, and believing that the word will not return void. Sometimes this gift can cause people to become arrogant and suffer spiritual wounds when they are not verbally told by somebody else that they are right. On the other hand, this is not to say that everybody who feels led to bless somebody else with food or money or just to do something nice is operating in the gift of word of knowledge. But this gift goes deeper than just the casual golden rule of sharing, giving, and treating others as you want to be treated. Word of Knowledge reveals things to the Spirit-filled believer that helps them to understand situations and circumstances. It helps them detect who their enemies are and where danger is lurking. It reveals Satan's strategies and plans as they relate to the kingdom of darkness, such as witchcraft and spells, eminent danger such as plots to kill, steal, destroy. Word of knowledge also allows the believer to hear in the Spirit when others are gossiping about them and planning to do evil against them. This gift provides weapons for the believer to use to strip the devil and his cohorts of their armor and beat them down to defeated foes. It reveals answers to individuals such as right answers on tests/exams or driving directions in lost areas where no human intervention is available. NOTE: Some people may possess a gift of knowledge such as just mentioned and may get answers right on tests or find places where they've never driven before but this does not mean that they are always being led by the Spirit of Christ. Remember Satan has knowledge and power too, but his gifts are not Christ-centered and does not glorify God but rather promotes the selfishness of the flesh, pride, and lust. Word of Knowledge reveals something to an individual about someone else that they already know. The one who receives the word of knowledge might not know, but the person they're talking to does know and by that word they receive confirmation that God is going to heal, bless, promote, etc. Again, as I stated that there are some very gifted people in the world but that does not automatically mean they are filled with the Holy Ghost. When someone who has the Gifts of the Holy Ghost after being filled with the Gift of the Holy Ghost, then their lives will bear fruit that will be in agreement with God's word and holiness, and they will focus more on pleasing God rather than wanting themselves or their gift to be the center of attention.

Gift of Word of Wisdom

The first spiritual gift that 1 Corinthians 12:8 talks about is the word of wisdom, one of the revelation gifts. First of all I want to clarify that there is a difference between the Gift of the Holy Spirit that was given on the day of Pentecost evidenced by speaking in tongues and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit that God chooses to impart to believers according to his will for the edifying of the body of Christ (the Church). The gift of the Holy Ghost (or Holy Spirit) builds up the individual when they pray in tongues but the gifts of the Holy Ghost build up the body of believers. Both are essential and the church's function would be impaired and ineffective having one without the other. I would like to pause for a minute here and say that I ran a reference earlier on religious organizations and one thing they have at the top of the list are "by-laws". I understand that everything has to have rules and  be done decently and in order but sometimes our churches limit the power of God because of the by-laws, rules, and regulations. What I mean by that is some organizations only allow for certain parts of the New Testament scriptures to be part of their assembly and eliminate others. Yes, it is true that not everything is written for today when it comes to the law of Moses in the Old Testament. The law was fulfilled in Jesus Christ and he ushered in grace. However, there are some parts of the Old Testament that we are supposed to keep and obey such as the Ten Commandments, for example. That still applies for today. But anyway, to move further in talking about the gifts, the Word of Wisdom is one of those things that are usually not on the program for the order of service in church. One reason being is because the gift of the word of wisdom always deals with future tense situations that have not happened yet but God reveals it to the believer and allows them to see or hear glimpses of what is to come. The reason this gift is so powerful but is often overlooked and pushed out of the church among religious folks is because majority of them are caught up in tradition and are comfortable with the same old same old. Word of wisdom provides something fresh and new to look forward to and it's hard to break the shell of hard-core Christians who think they already know. The believer who has the gift of the word of wisdom might be shunned or put out of certain clicks/groups in the church when the message they share has something to do with the impending judgment or wrath of God coming upon a person or territory because of sin. Many people mistake the word of wisdom as prophecy, but prophecy is nothing more than to provide exhortation, edification, and comfort (1 Corinthians 14:4). Prophecy is not all about telling future events, but when people don't study the word, they will believe what has been passed down for years and accept it as right. Anyway, moving on. It is important that the believer who has the gift of the word of wisdom stay close to the Lord so they will not lose their sharpness or keeness in the Spirit when it comes to hearing the voice of the Lord. Notice I didn't say that they will lose the gift but I said they can lose the sharpness and that sharpness is what makes the operation of the gift accurate. Romans 11:29 says For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance, meaning God gives the gifts according to his will without any invoking of the individual to get them on their own. But even though God does not take away the gift once he has granted it, the gift can become contaminated resulting in clairvoyance, which is a power to see things by the power of evil spirits rather than the Holy Spirit. People who fall into that category may have had the genuine gift of the word of wisdom that comes through the Holy Ghost but if they continue to backslide and fall away from truth then they will still be able to use the gift but it will most likely glorify fleshly things that please the carnal mind rather than spiritual things that bring peace, joy, love, and faith which glorifies God. Someone may have the question, "how to get the gift of the word of wisdom"? Well, first of all, the word of wisdom comes from God that he gives to the believer as he sees fit for them to use it in the body of Christ to provide a warning or just to give encouragement that helps the people be able to see beyond their present state and situation. Everything that God reveals through the word of wisdom might not be for the whole entire church body, but it might just be for one individual or a small group of people such as the pastor and deacons and board members of the church, or it could just be something that God wants to reveal to the individual about their own personal lives. Prayer in the known native language and praying in the Spirit (speaking in tongues) are two ways to get connected to the mind of God so he can reveal his will. Fasting is another way, because fasting allows you to set aside time just to meditate on God and spiritual things without being distracted from television, food/drink, sex (with a heterosexual spouse), games, social media, and any other things that soak up your attention and keeps you from focusing on God. Reading the bible daily and studying the scriptures prepares you to receive spirit gifts from God. And living a clean, holy life in the sight of man and God. In order for God to use a person effectively, the vessel that he is working through needs to be clean. One reason for this is because whenever God uses a person to share something they received through divine revelation of the gifts of word of wisdom and word of knowledge (these two gifts usually go together), then Satan will come to try to make them believe that what they just spoke was not from God at all, or he may tempt them to become proud and lifted up thinking they are worthy to have the gift. If a person is not living holy and seeking to please God in their daily lives, then they could easily fall prey to Satan's attacks and lose the effectiveness of the gift. Some of the signs of them losing the effectiveness are getting things wrong that never come to pass, having confused messages that glorify the flesh and the Spirit, speaking things that do not line up with the holy scriptures or the holy nature of God, and deception where they are deceived into believing they are right even when everybody else that hear the message know that it is wrong but they fail to acknowledge they're wrong. As I said earlier, first a person must be filled with the gift of the Holy Spirit and then these other gifts can operate more effective in their lives as they progress in prayer and seeking the will and mind of God. One thing about the Holy Spirit is that the signs will follow the believer (Mark 16:16-18), and the church has the right to measure any message that is given by word of wisdom by the written word of God because God is not going to contradict his word that is already written in order to give a word that is revealed. The two will always line up. That is not to say that everything given in a word of wisdom will be understood by the natural mind instantly, but over time if it is truly a word from God then out of the mouth of two or three witnesses, that word will be established and come to pass at the appointed time of God whether it be judgment or a promise of a blessing. Many times people discredit words uttered when it comes to future events because it has not happened even after so many years have gone by, but we must understand that God is not on our timetable and even if the full manifestation of a thing has not come to pass, when the message is really from the Lord, he will leave signals that point to the coming of the main event. It's just like when God told Abram that he and Sarai would have a son. Well, it didn't come to pass until 25 years later. They became discouraged over the long wait for the manifestation and took matters into their own hands but the promise still came to pass anyway and
God never forsook them but he kept blessing them until he fulfilled what he said. Another thing is that when a Spirit-filled believer gives a message through the word of wisdom and God is orchestrating it, it will produce a certain fear in the hearts of those who hear it. In other words, they will have a totally different feeling come over them than they would if just the Average Joe was talking. The real message will capture the minds of the people that causes them to continue to look forward to the happening of the thing. Only those who remain in tune to the Spirit of Christ will be able to endure until what was revealed in the Spirit by the gift of the word of wisdom is produced in the earth as it was foretold.

Ok world trust me I have been doing my study on the 9 spiritual gifts and putting together a Power Point Presentation because at some point I intend to teach this lesson in a church setting and during online ministry via video recording or live streaming. I'm  very excited about that!!!! However, I just want to give the update on the transition that God has made in mine and my family's life at this point. God has blessed me and my husband to start our own ministry and as of last night in the Men and Women Conference 2014, we are no longer members of Greater Deliverance Worship Center. The move is bitter sweet because we love the Magee Family and the members there, but God has just said that it's time to move on. My husband has always known that he has had the calling of pastor on his life and he is walking in that calling starting today. We will have our first service in the new church called True Grace Tabernacle. So that is the newest change that has occurred in our lives and we are looking forward to God perfecting us and this ministry as we wait patiently and continue to walk in obedience to his Word, will, and way. I know the devil is mad and will shoot all his arrows to try to stop us but as long as we stay prayed up, living holy, teaching and preaching truth, and staying on the battlefield for the Lord and not giving up, then the devil or the world won't be able to do us any harm. Jesus is our pilot and he's in control going before us making the crooked places straight and keeping us during this adventure. God bless you and I pray that maybe someday you can be a part of True Grace Tabernacle Ministries under the leadership of Pastor F. L. Ford, which is my husband. I will update the spiritual gifts lesson some time next week.

Okay, I've started my research on the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit and I have a separate study on the gift of the Holy Spirit. Notice one is GIFT without an s. And the other one is GIFTS with an s. Well the GIFTS are manifestations of the GIFT and God is the giver. So I will discuss all that later but just wanted to update my blog page to let you know that I am doing my homework and not snoozing on the job LOL!!!! Furthermore, I will also incorporate some of my very own experience with operating in the spiritual gifts. God has blessed me over the years to do some great things in the kingdom of God and the best is yet to come. Have a blessed night!!!!

There's More To Come

Well I just want to say that I will be posting some further information besides what I have already because it's time to take this thing to a deeper level. The reason I've stayed so long in the area of salvation is because that is where the most deception and confusion is amongst believers and different denominations. It's crazy how we all have the King James version of the bible but so many different teachings and interpretations. One thing is for sure is that the Apostles were not divided, with the exception of Judas Iscariot, but all heard the same thing from Jesus, all believed the same thing, and all obeyed and taught the same thing. But anyway I'm doing more research and study of the scriptures on things like healing and miracles and having faith to do the impossible with God. This is an area that also needs much attention because not everybody embraces healing and miracles but God is the same God today as he was back then. And I don't mean to bore you, but it's my mission to teach people by however means necessary. I just choose to make online blogging my platform not because I'm weak in the flesh but because I'm less distracted by men who come to church for the wrong reason. Better yet, I think I write better than I speak and can get the point across even if I have to write it several times. But for the next few days I will gather some more information on how the Lord still wants to show himself mighty and strong in our minds, bodies, and souls.

Cry Loud and Spare Not

As I said in my previous post that the Lord showed me about 14 years ago that he would use me to keep lifting up the standard of truth, holiness, and righteousness during a time where so many people are letting it down. What has happened is many of the original Apostolics have backsliden by mixing and mingling with people of the world and denominational congregations who preach and teach a watered down message concerning God's plan of salvation. Over time what you hear and believe repeatedly eventually becomes true to you even if it's not true. So many have settled for souls being baptized in the the titles of the Father and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost rather than the correct way in Jesus name. Acts 2:38 fulfills Matthew 28:19 and the scriptures are not contradicting themselves. In Jesus is the fullness of the godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9) and when we are baptized in Jesus name then we are buried with him to rise and walk in the newness of life. We receive that newness of life at the baptism of the Holy Spirit and the way we know that God has filled us with himself is that he will speak through us in other languages that empower us to be a witness (Acts 1:8), to live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world  (Titus 2:12), to overcome the flesh, the devil, and the world and to ultimately be caught up to meet the Lord in the air because the Holy Spirit is the quickening power that will change our mortal bodies from mortality to immortality.The spirit of the world is an enemy to God or another term the spirit of antichrist. The Holy Ghost is a Comforter and Helper to help us in our infirmities and weaknesses. YES!!! Holy Ghost filled people still get weak and sometimes fall but that SPIRIT is perfect in an imperfect person and that is the reason we must continue to strive to do right and consistently lean on the Cross of Jesus Christ for forgiveness of our sins whenever we do fall short. I will have to continue this later. God bless!!!!

Tearing Down Falsehood

I've been doing some in-depth study on other online sites and the majority of ministers are steadily attempting to water down the gospel and using scriptures to validate their theories. What's even worse and sad is that some Apostolics have reneged on what they originally believed as truth concerning salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues, having sins washed away in water baptism in Jesus name, and living holy before God. False teachers ALWAYS take 1 Corinthians 13:1 as a lead way against speaking in tongues for being essential. However, I stand boldly with the truth in confidence in my Lord and savior Jesus Christ that Paul was not saying that speaking in tongues is not necessary but he was mainly saying that speaking in tongues must be mixed with the fruit of the Spirit by showing love or charity. He said If I speak in tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am a tinkling cymbal or sounding brass. That is not saying that speaking in tongues should be done away with altogether because he further wrote I n 1 Corinthians 14:39 for us to prophecy and to forbid not (meaning to do) to speak with tongues. The secular church world loves the kind of teaching that gives them an easy access to establish their own righteousness and their opinions but the Church didn't start in Romans, 1 or 2 Corinthians, or the other following books but the Church started in the book of Acts and what it took for them to be saved then is the same thing that it takes for us. We must hear and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ that he was God incarnate and that he died and rose again for our sins at the cross of Calvary and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name (Luke 24:47). I was reading some material in a book where a guy was writing about another guy's testimony and his description of the guy being baptized in the Spirit was one of weeping and feeling on fire. But he never said that the man spoke in tongues. In other words he is painting a picture that one can be filled without speaking in tongues. However, we must hear, believe, receive, and obey the message of the Cross AND Pentecost. Multimillions of people just stop at the Cross and leave Pentecost out of the equation. It's only the faithful few who will grab the altar by the horns and believe and receive all that God has for them leaving no stone left unturned. This is a crucial hour for the body of believers and I must say(I was going to keep it to myself) that the Lord showed me this in the Spirit some 14 years ago that he was going to use me to keep the standard of holiness, righteousness, and truth lifted up during a time where so many will let it down.

WHY ONLINE MINISTRY?

This is a very unique question and I think I'm well qualified to answer it. First of all, I will start out by saying that online ministry comes with its limitations but it also comes with its benefits and I will list both. An online minister is limited to just preaching or teaching the Word without making a physical connection with his or her audience. This prevents him or her from laying on of hands and praying for people in public. They are limited from baptizing converts in Jesus name. They are limited from witnessing the actual baptism in the Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues that people may receive as a result of responding in faith and repentance after hearing the preached message. An online minister might feel awkward from looking into a camera without knowing who is looking back at him or her.Some online ministers might feel embarrassed to ask for financial donations or tithes and offerings from media watchers but know that it's needed in order to help them get a church building if that's their desire. On the other hand, an online minister might benefit greatly from preaching and teaching from a website or social networking especially if they are an introvert such as myself. Furthermore, one of the greatest benefits, in my opinion, to ministering online is that if you are in a church where the sermon or service is recorded, you pretty much know your audience and will not typically get any disruptions. However, when ministering in person there is ALWAYS somebody who comes to church for the wrong reason and some of those reasons include temptation. Satan loves to tempt both male and female preachers and he doesn't wait until they get in Wal-Mart but he sends his workers to the church to cause confusion and distractions. Online ministers must KEEP A STEADY PRAYER LIFE because nine times out of ten, their audience will not respond with an Amen or Hallelujah for various reasons and the minister must be well equipped to handle that and keep right on preaching or teaching without feeling like a failure and wanting to give up. Some online ministers benefit from love offerings given by media watchers but in this case I believe they have to report such earnings for tax purposes. Some online ministers are only in it because they feel a burning passion and desire in their hearts from the Lord to speak to his people either through words of prophecy, encouragement, or instructions to establish or maintain a right relationship with God. However, in my case, I benefit from online ministry because I don't have to deal with lustful men who come to the church and are only attracted to my flesh but have absolutely no interest in the Word or their souls being saved. There may come a time when I'm traveling from place to place preaching, teaching, baptizing folks, and healing the sick, but as of right now I feel like God has me on a mission to establish a foundation online where people will see that I'm ALL ABOUT CHRIST!!!!! I'm not about using the gospel trying to get rich and I certainly don't want to try to lure men to my body. On another note, I choose to do ministry online because there are sooooooo many women with husbands who are jealous of me so by me not being in a great big diverse area of people, I can better focus on the Word than worrying about some prick' s wife sizing me up with an evil eye because she thinks her man wants me. Forget that!!!! If I got to go through that kind of drama, then just give me a bible and a camera and I can teach you from Genesis to Revelation right from the privacy of my own home. However, at this point in my ministry, if someone wanted to be baptized in Jesus name, I would recommend them to an Apostolic Church  where I know they would be baptized the correct way and the people will pray with them until they received the baptism in the Holy Ghost. As Apostle Paul said in 1Corinthians 3:6 that he planted but Apollos watered and God gave the increase, so I see myself in that vicinity where I work the kingdom of God on this end and some of my other sisters and brothers in Christ can work it on the other end.

What Does The Master Say About Masturbation?

I know this topic is going to attract much attention. If folks who have never read any of my blogs before I know they will read this one LOL!!!! Well, the answer to the question is..... NOTHING!!!! There is no biblical suggestion or prohibition to masturbation. There have been many teachings and practices against masturbation in religious groups that have created a world of guilt and shame in those who find themselves in situations where they have no married partner. Now first of all, I'm only talking to the saved people because unsaved people are not concerned about pleasing God in their bodies but they will masturbate and fornicate and not worry about how God sees it. So to Christians who may be worried that they have committed the unpardonable sin by relieving themselves, I believe God has sent me in this field to further clarify the subject. We as servants of the Lord want to first and foremost please God in our minds, souls, and bodies. So talking about the subject of sex itself, God makes it plain was is permitted and what is prohibited in scripture. However, three things that the bible is silent on are masturbation, oral sex, and sex toys. These three things have really bound many Christians up to the point that they feel guilty by just thinking about engaging in are oral sex,  masturbation alone or with their married partner and if using sex toys are forbidden. Now let's go to the Word about the natural order of sex. In both the Old  and New Testament, God laid out the laws against sexual immortality and they include....  sex with animals (bestiality), incest (sex with a family member), watching pornography (looking upon someone's nakedness or looking and lusting after them), homosexuality and lesbianism (Read the entire chapter of Romans 1), sex with in-laws, sex before marriage (fornication), extramarital affairs (adultery), rape (forced sex against someone's will), prostitution (sex for money), sex during menstruation, and last but not least, anal sex is in alignment with the sin of lasciviousness and even medical doctors will tell you that anal sex is the most dangerous kind of sex because it can easily spread diseases such as E. Coli, HIV/AIDS and over time anal sex damages the anal cavity and rectum making it difficult to control bowel. Many people who have engaged in anal sex (especially women) reach a point to where vaginal sex is no longer pleasurable and they prefer sex from the behind. Now if that's not unnatural, I don't know what is, because she has totally lost her natural sensation that God originally gave her and rather be treated rough like a dog and can't be satisfied unless it's that way. How sad!!!! Lascivious means an offensive sexual desire and anal sex is at the peak of offenses toward the human body and toward the Creator. Furthermore, anal sex is a homosexual act  called sodomy and degrades the body and the mind because of its uncleanness. For God has not called us unto uncleanness but unto holiness (1 Thessalonians 4:7) So with all these examples of what God does not allow clearly in scripture, the big questions are about those things that are not mentioned in scripture. I will first deal with single Christians and remain in line with what Paul said to singles. First of all, I will say that masturbation is like anything else that is not mentioned in the bible but God leaves it up to the individual to use common sense and follow the conviction that is in their own heart not to be persuaded to do or not to do anything that will bring condemnation to them for conscience sake. For example, I personally do not wear red lipstick even though the bible speaks nothing against red lipstick or lipstick at all but it is my own personal conviction that I do not try to impose on other Christian women because this is MY standard not necessarily something that is exclusively right and should be adopted by other women. No, I'm not crazy neither do I try to make other sisters a clone after myself just to establish a "personal" conviction. Another thing is cigarettes are not mentioned in the bible but the package itself explains the harm that it does to the human body. So back to the subject of masturbation......Paul says in 1 Corinthians 7:7 that he wished that all men were as he were, referring to being single because Paul was not married, then he goes on to say that every man has his proper gift from God, meaning some can remain single with no problem but others had to marry. He said in verse 9 that if they cannot contain, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn. The word contain means to control, to hold back or hold within. In this instance, Paul was referring to releasing oneself to orgasm. Paul did not have a wife by his own personal choosing, kind of like me abstaining from red lipstick. He never mentions that he did or did not masturbate himself to get a release even once. It is only our perception based on what he did write about other saved men serving the Lord without marrying a wife and he also said that it would be a good thing if unmarried women and widows could remain unmarried BUT he also said that if they marry, they have not sinned. So the main thing that Paul pointed out was that an unmarried person is better able to serve the Lord because they are not tied down with having to please a spouse sexually. He was not talking against marriage in itself because he is the same man who wrote Colossians 3:18-19 which says Wives submit yourselves to your own husbands and husbands love your wives. There are other scriptures in relation to the love and affection shared between husband and wife. Hebrews 4:13 says marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled meaning that whatever the husband and wife choose to do to please each other, as long as they don't defile their bed by making it unclean with the above mentioned sexual sins, then it is acceptable in the eyes of God. Oral sex, masturbation, and sex toys are not mentioned in any of the verses so that is where common sense should come into play. God wants married Christians to enjoy their marriage bed because it is the playground for couples. Good personal hygiene and having sex without pain are two thumbs up for this to happen. Some might believe that anything outside of the missionary style or with only the purpose to conceive a child is sin. Not so!!!! The world is already over populated with women who only have two or three children. If  every childbearing woman was to have up to 15, 20, and 25 kids, then I imagine there wouldn't be any time for good sex but just cut straight to the chase, and we're not talking about a minute man, but in this case, we're down to seconds. Anyway, there are several reasons why I would not consider masturbation a sin because it cannot lead to unwanted pregnancies, STD' s, or ruin a person's reputation like sleeping around can. If a person is single and want to save themselves for marriage, then I would not be so hard up to tell them that they never need to touch themselves, but would at the same time let them know that ANYTHING done in excess is a sin called greed. In other words, the Holy  Spirit is the ONLY thing that should be in control of a Christian's life, not their sexual appetite. Some single Christians really find themselves in a pickle because they either can't find a partner who is as serious about the Lord as they are or the other person want to date without marriage commitment. However, the Apostle Paul was not waiting on God to send him the right woman to marry because his decision was already made not to get married or to have sex. For an individual to be that kind of overcomer they would have to renounce any type of sexual desires whatsoever and not masturbating would comply with all else. There are medical facts that masturbation is healthy and it is certainly not a degrading sexual act that makes God want to kill people like he did Sodom and Gomorrah or punish the sin of adultery like he did David and Bathsheba. So in this case, again, common sense should apply. Sex toys is a topic that is taboo for some Christians and they stand with a wand of judgment to condemn any aspects of it in singleness or marriage. However, sex toys can really spice up the Christian marriage especially when endurance is the case or if the husband is impotent altogether. These are things that will never be discussed in Sunday School and so many marriages fail because people are either too embarrassed or shunned by their religious group to bring the subject up. Well that's what I'm here for and my blog page because one thing I hate is ignorance. I mean I know of a couple who got a divorce because the wife cheated with another man. Why did she cheat? Because she was not free to express her feelings of wanting oral sex with her husband so she snuck and did it with somebody else. Come on now how ignorant can you get? They threw away a 13-year marriage all because of a teaching that is not even biblical just so the wife could get sexual pleasure. Now is God pleased with that? NO, but he is pleased when couples can communicate and come to an agreement for the betterment and longevity of their marriage.

More on False Teachers

Another example of a false teacher trying to eliminate Acts 2:38 as the plan of salvation is by referring to the thief on the Cross not having time or being in the position to be baptized. My friend, the thief on the Cross had JESUS himself to talk to and be forgiven for his sins. But after Jesus ascended into glory, he sent back the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. He told the disciples in John 14:18 that he would not leave them comfortless but he was coming back to them in the form of the Holy Spirit. He told them in Luke 24:46 for them to wait for the promise of the Holy Ghost in Jerusalem and they obeyed his commandments and received the promise just like he said they would and they were baptized in Jesus name. People need to wake up and ask themselves WHY IS ACTS 2:38 TOTALLY OVERLOOKED OR RARELY TALKED ABOUT IN MY CHURCH OR BY MOST RELIGIOUS LEADERS THEY HEAR TEACH AND PREACH!!!!!! The bottom line is deception. The devil wants to deceive people by supplying half truths and falsehood that sounds good but is nowhere in the neighborhood of leading people down the right paths. Any half truth is still a whole lie.

False Teachers Use Certain Scriptures to Nullify Other Scriptures

EPHESIANS 2:8 is usually the scripture that false teachers run to as a defense against accepting what happened in Acts chapter 2 and chapter 10 and chapter 19. However, speaking in tongues is not a work of the human being, but is a work of the Holy Spirit being in control and saying what he wants to say through an individual for the individual. Romans 8:26 tells us that we don't always know what to pray for as we ought in our native language, but the Spirit prays for us and that happens when we pray in the Spirit. No we might not know what we are saying, and neither does the devil, and that's the good part about it. But God knows what we are saying In the language that he gave us. The only time an interpretation should be given is if GOD is using a person to speak in tongues to convey a message to a congregation or another individual and this is usually interpreted in some form of prophecy. I will deal with prophecy later. The only reason I keep staying right here with the tongues and baptism is because so many people are still confused and getting wrong information from false teachers and it's hard for them to accept what I'm teaching. But I got bible to back me up and my very own testimony. I believe and confess that God raised Jesus from the dead on the third day, one day I repented of my sins and got baptized in Jesus name and God himself filled me with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gave me the utterance. I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ and I will share it from now henceforth and forever more without compromise, without fear, and without reneging my faith in Jesus. What I have is real. What I teach is real and anybody who comes up against me won't be coming against my flesh but they will be coming up against the anointing but God will handle my lightweight. There were false teachers in the apostles' day and there are false teachers today but GREATER is HE that is in me than he that is in the world. I will teach this gospel until I die and if God just so happen decides to choose me to be a martyr for the gospel of Jesus Christ, then let his will be done but I refuse to quit until somebody believe and receive the truth and get it like the bible says.

False Teachers (continued)

So I look up an article to help guide me in my blog about false teachers in the church and I find this one article in particular that the author strategically makes a list of different denominational groups who he claims is a part of the apostate church. Mind you, he has Pentecostals mentioned in there and flagrantly blasphemes against the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues and says that Pentecostals are part of a cult. This has been the strategy of Satan since the day of Pentecost when the people said that those who were speaking in tongues were drunk. My question is why is it that people can pretty much accept everything else written in the New Testament but don't want to accept that speaking in tongues is the evidence that one has been filled with the Holy Spirit and that water baptism in Jesus name(NOT THE TITLES FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST) is the ONLY correct way to be baptized and to baptize others? The answer to that question is what Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4:3 that if the gospel be hid it is hid to them which are lost. My husband and I visited a church a few weeks ago and the bishop made the offer for sinners to come and be saved. Well he called my husband up to the altar along with some other gentlemen to pray for the young man who wanted to be saved. After the fellows finished praying for the young man, the bishop told the young man, "Welcome to the kingdom". ARE YOU SERIOUS?????? Anyway, me and my husband haven't been back every since. The scriptures clearly tell us in John 3:5 that a man must be born again of the WATER and of the SPIRIT. The water is for baptism to wash away the sins in the blood of Jesus and then God fills the individual with the Holy Ghost and they will speak in tongues, which is a language they can use in private prayerand worship to God or in a public worship service in church, but decently and in order. These two things have been totally alleviated from the teachings and practices in many of the mainstream churches. My heart went out to that young man because he can easily be deceived thinking he is saved and on his way to heaven just like many other believing Christians who fight against tongues and water baptism in Jesus name. This is not just something that Pentecostals believe but this is bible truth. We have the Word to back up what we teach and practice. Furthermore, there is a group of Pentecostals who tempt God by literally handling snakes as part of the general worship service. Yes, they be speaking in tongues but the difference between some speaking in tongues who have the Holy Ghost is that they will speak as the Spirit gives the utterance. Of course, I do not believe that EVERYBODY who speaks in tongues are filled with God's Spirit because there are counterfeit tongues and tongues that people make up and practice on their own. That's where the real saints of God need the gift of interpretation operating in the Church. However, the genuine filling of the Holy Ghost comes with the anointing that changes a person's life and helps them to bear the fruit of the Spirit according to Galatians 5:22-23. A truly HOLY GHOST filled person will be loving, have peace and make peace, show kindness, forgive others, and demonstrate faithfulness and patience AND they will speak in tongues too. Speaking in tongues is NOT separated from all the other attributes of the other manifestations of a Spirit-filled person, no matter how false teachers try to annihilate it out of a person's intellect when tthey come to know Christ as Lord and Savior. We must believe in the Cross and in Pentecost in order to fully obey the gospel. Much of this stuff that people are teaching and preaching now are just all-inclusive messages that sound good and give people an easy way to heaven. But that's not Jesus way of doing it. Acts 14:22 says that through much tribulation will we enter into the kingdom of God. It's easy just to pray a prayer over somebody or have them to repeat a prayer but it takes some work to gather up the proper garments and fill up a baptism pool, and get in that cold liquid grave and spiritually bury someone in Jesus name. For ROMANS 6:4 says we are buried with him in baptism. That takes some effort. It also takes patience and diligence to work with new converts in receiving the Holy Ghost. Sometimes people come up out of the water already speaking in tongues, but for others it takes longer because sometimes there are demonic spirits that need to be cast out of them and they need deliverance. YES, deliverance can take place BEFORE a person gets the Holy Spirit but this is not to be confused with having the Holy Spirit. Jesus explains this in Luke 11:24-26 about an unclean spirit going out of a person and if the house is left empty (without the Holy Spirit), then the unclean spirit can come back and take possession of the person with seven other demons more wicked than himself. So many times when people come up to the altar and they are crying and shouting, sometimes they be repenting from sins or they have just a good feeling because they can feel God cleaning them and delivering them from some things, but after that deliverance takes place, then there is room for only one of two things, either the individual presses on and allow God to fill them with the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues or they leave thinking they actually have it and never seek the baptism in the Spirit. If they never seek to have this experience, then they will find themselves like many others in such cases, knowing that they received a touch from God but still wrestling with things of the sinful nature that they cannot seem to break free of. These kinds of people really love the Lord and want to do right, but they are powerless trying to do it on their own. My friend, you need the gift of the Holy Ghost working actively in your life and all the fruits that come with it in order to live a victorious life.

False vs. True

First of all, I want to say that my next to last posts were in regards to false prophets being on the rampage and deceiving people. But more importantly is that I want to talk about the difference between the false and the true in the church. This is an easy topic yet it is difficult at the same time because most people who go to church look like the real church. Most preachers sound very real and make you think they got what it takes to lead your soul to heaven. However, I've done quite a bit of studying in the books and studying of people in real life to be able to detect when something is in error. Now the things we must understand is that there are some people who are deceived and walking in error but are unaware of it, that's what deception is. Yet, when the truth is made known to them and their error is shown to them, that is the point where they have to make a decision about whether to repent and turn from their old ways of doing things to the true way which is God's way. God teaches us how to live godly and soberly in this present world through his word and he also provides us with ministers who bear several different kinds of titles such as bishop, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher, missionary, etc. God in his wisdom knows how to use an individual to help them teach and reach those who are lost and even the saved ones who need encouraging and uplifting. The twist of this thing is that not everybody who converts people to Jesus are really in the will of God themselves, but because they possess the gifts of teaching, preaching, and winning souls, God can and does still use them in the ministry. This is the part that really baffles my mind and probably yours too. Well, to provide scripture on a person being used by God during a time he was out of the will of God is in 1 Samuel 10:11-13 and 1 Samuel 19:23-24 where the Spirit of God came upon Saul and he prophesied right along with the other prophets. The people in the land knew about Saul's ruthless reputation and they asked the question: "Is Saul also among the prophets"? And this is just the kind of reaction that many people today have towards others who they see preaching or singing in the choir or leading praise and worship service who they KNOW is living a raggedy life and not representing God in their daily walk. It really comes off as a shock. And it makes you wonder about the people who prime and pump them up and make you ask yourself, "do they really know this person"? In other words, if they knew what we knew they would not be calling this person a true man of God or true woman of God. Now I realize that everybody has a past and that we've come short of God's glory even after being saved but that's where repentance comes into play. What I'm talking about in this particular case is an individual who knowingly and willfully sins against God in the public and private and then get up in church and try to lead God's people and have not repented but plan on doing what they do again when the opportunity presents itself. For some reason that only God knows (we don't know) God will still use this type of person to accomplish his will and purposes for others who are truly seeking after Christ with all their heart, mind, and soul. This is what Paul was saying when he mentioned in 1 Corinthians 9:27-But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. Paul understood the fact that with all the knowledge and experience that he had in God, that he could very well be used by God to save sinners and he himself be one who has gone back into sin and be lost himself. He mentioned keeping his body under subjection, because this is the only thing that Satan can have legal rights to gain access to a person's mind and actions. And in this day and time we see that people are allowing the devil to use their body (mouth, mind, sexual organs, hands for violence, etc.) to do his dirty work, but they still go to church and many are in leadership positions. This is one type of deception that makes these types of people extremely dangerous to both the saved and unsaved world. Their actions send a double standard and message that you can be saved and still live a sinful life. Their messages do not reflect or inject the holiness of God which tell us to be ye holy for I am holy (1 Peter 1:16). Many people are confused when they look at the church world today because they don't see much of a difference between folks who say they are Christians and those who they know don't even go to church. There is worldly music in the church, preachers drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes and joints, sexual immorality, homosexuality and lesbianism, profanity, lying, and just all kinds of wickedness is going on amongst those who proclaim they know Jesus. Some say that the above mentioned sins are not all the sins that people do. No they are not and truly all sin is sin but all sins do not have the same consequences. Running a red light and getting a traffic ticket that will disappear off one's driving record within 3 years is sin according to disobeying the laws of the land but this type of sin does not have the same consequences as contracting HIV during an adulterous affair because this kind of repercussion is generally for life (unless God heals and delivers). Furthermore, the thing that really sets me off in this day and time is all the "good talk" about Bishop so-and-so and Prophet so-and-so. This is such a red flag to me and it should be to the rest of those who are not asleep in the body of Christ. We know those who are REALLY REAL in Christ Jesus DO NOT receive props all the time from both the Christian and unsaved world but the REAL SAINTS go through persecution, suffering, rejection, and even death for their faith in Jesus Christ. This is another thing that many Christians are blind to the fact that we will suffer tremendously just before the second coming of Jesus Christ. The apostles and the early Christians of the first century church suffered greatly, many ran for their lives and hid in caves and fled to the wilderness, and many others were martyrs for the name of Jesus Christ. In comparison to the saints back then and the "so-called" saints nowadays, people consider persecution is not being approved for a car loan. Give me a break!!!!! This generation is so material minded and they run after preachers and teachers who a like-minded. They eagerly promote and support those who tell them things that sound good but are not necessarily sound doctrine. For example if someone posts something on facebook that says: "Within 3 days, you will receive a check in the mail", that poster will get about 500 Likes, 236 comments worth of thank you man/woman of God, and about 50 friend requests sent to them. On the other hand, if someone posts something that reads: "Set your spiritual house in order because Jesus is coming soon". If they get 12 Likes and 2 Comments, they're doing good. We're living in a time where the REAL Christians are being revealed by the less popularity they receive and I love it. I love the fact that people do not flock in behind me in droves or always saying nice things about me because if that were to happen, then that means that people have made it about me and not about Jesus. This is the danger zone that many have fallen into. The thing about the true anointing of God upon a person's life is that it will attract the attention of others, but not everybody is going to like what they see and hear. Some will be attracted because they know you have what they need and they want to be delivered from demons and come out of a world of sin. Basically, when a person is really wanting to change, they will be more attracted to a man or a woman for spiritual purposes and not fleshly purposes. Jesus also had a following of thousands upon thousands but he knew that not all of them were following him because of the Spirit, but they were following him for the fish and loaves (something to feed their flesh), and whenever the food ran out, they ran out. Whenever he gave them sound teaching regarding the kingdom of God, many walked away and left him and no longer walked with him. When he got ready to go die on the cross, he was alone. And I think this will be the breaking point of many who are in ministry for the wrong purposes, just for the masses of crowds and money and glamour and good sayings about them. If all of that was to come to a screeching halt, many would draw back in their faith and compromise trying to gain it all back. But Jesus said if you try to find your own life, you will lose it but if you lose your life for His sake, then you will find it (Matthew 10:39). The real saints will go through the purging and refining processes that God will continue to send us through until the rapture or until we die. Those who are not real will be a part of the great falling away and not make it through the fires of persecution, unjust ridicule, torture, and many kinds of suffering that is coming upon the Church. Only God knows what will cause their ultimate falling away but the word is clear that many are preaching just for filthy lucre (money), and are adulterous, and some intentionally deceive others. That's another danger that we have to face is that some false prophets and teachers were originally ordained by Satan to be his worker and advocate to deceive those who love believing lies and other falsies were true at one time but have erred and drawn away from the true faith to believing lies and myths. Their fates are still the same.......the lake of fire. Well, it's past 9:00 and I will continue this later. Goodnight!!!!

Name Change

Well I just figured out how to change my last name on this blogger thing. I recently started a new blogger under my new married last name, Ford. I don't know maybe I will copy and paste the same material on to both blog pages or cancel the other one. Not sure yet. Anyway, I'm about to blog some things that I believe is very important for the body of Christ at this time and even for those who are not saved. I checked this blog page tonight and see that I'm still getting viewers looking at the page, so I feel this is the best blog page to post the information.

Last Blog Post

This is my last blog post under my old last name Davis. I have a new account open with my new last name Ford. On that blog page I will continue to talk about deep spiritual subjects like the Antichrist, end time prophecy, and whatever else the Lord inspires me to write about. Thanks everyone for reading the previous posts. I pray you were blessed by it There is more to come......stay tuned!!!

God's Not Dead

Ok so we bought the new movie on DVD called God's Not Dead and it was really great. The only part that I seem to split hairs about is the death bed confession of the atheist professor once he realized he was going to die. Many people believe that they can live like hell, curse God to his face, and even severely punish or embarrass his servants like the professor did and then just repeat a few measly words at the end of life and make it into heaven to experience the joy of the Lord throughout all eternity. That's the only part I disagreed with but I understand the minister's position to offer hope in a detrimental situation, but still God is the final judge and humans cannot guarantee other humans a certain trip to heaven but it is left up to God. However, I enjoyed the movie and am glad that Hollywood released something in favor of Christianity. God Bless America!!!!! GOD'S NOT DEAD BUT HE IS SURELY ALIVE. THANK YOU JESUS!!!!!

What Makes A Person Beautiful!!!

Many might believe that cosmetics, fine jewelry, expensive clothing, nice hairstyles, and pedicures and manicures are the things that make people beautiful. Don't get me wrong, I love ALL these things just like any other person but these are the things that make a person add to their beauty that they already have. Adam and Eve were the only naked people who could get away with that legally (LOL) but nowadays, we have to cover up, powder up, and definitely shower up in order to adorn ourselves and look and smell decent. What I have discovered is that the main thing that makes a person beautiful is........PATIENCE!!! Yes, when a person has a patient spirit, they have learned how to exercise gentleness, compassion, and kindness toward others and that makes them beautiful. On the other hand, impatience makes a person ugly because they are always uptight and edgy. An impatient person is never satisfied but they stay frustrated and the simplest little things get under their skin and they wrinkle up their face causing aging and sickness. If you want to be beautiful, then get out of rush mode and get into blush mode while waiting on God to polish you from the inside out. The devil uses a lot of people to lust after beautiful people for fleshly purposes but the ones who know their inner and outer beauty comes from the Lord and he is the one they give the credit to, then those carnal minded folks don't stand a chance. A real beautiful person who is saved sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost do not boast or brag about how good they look because they are not trying to pull any attention from nobody but just enjoying the Lord and how he is blessing them. Holiness, living for God, and being faithful to your own spouse is what really makes a person beautiful and all that comes with being patient and waiting on the Lord to bring you and your spouse, your family, your career, your ministry, and everything else connected to you to perfection.

Signs of a Reprobate Mind

The entire chapter of Romans 1 explains in full detail what the signs of a person who God has turned over to a reprobate mind will display. Number one on the list is sexual immorality. When you see a person changing from their original state whether changing their gender to the opposite gender or maintaining their gender and having sexual relations with someone of the same sex (homosexuality/lesbianism), then those are strong indications that God is done with them and they have no chance for redemption. In order for a person to get to this stage, they must CONTINUALLY push God out of their thoughts and do not have a willing mind to change and correct their behavior. There are instances when a person gets tangled up in Satan's web of deceit but the guilt and shame of their actions causes them to scream and cry out to God in total repentance and desire of wanting to be back in right fellowship with him. I would say that an individual like that has a good chance of being saved and receiving God's Holy Spirit because they want to repent. But it's just good not to get involved in those types of things in the first place because the devil sends other demons to attack the individual and keep them bound for a long time. In other words once a person has bought into that lie of just experimenting with flesh partners or whatever the case may be, they have crossed the line and it is only up to God to redeem them and he is the only one who knows the condition of a person's heart. We cannot assume that everybody who cries in church or even prays to God has found repentance because Esau sought repentance and could not find it even though he sought it with tears (Hebrews 12:17). In the book of Genesis 25:34 Esau sold his birthright to his brother Jacob for a bowl of beans but later cried and wanted it back after their father, Isaac, explained to him that he had already given Jacob the birthright and blessed him. There are just some things that even God will not forgive when a person has taken his grace and opportunities for granted. The birthright was an inheritance that the oldest child would receive from the father at the proper time and season just like salvation and heaven is the inheritance for those who live righteously with God the Father down here on earth. For people to take that lightly and just say "Oh I can do whatever I want to do and still make it in because of grace and mercy", then they are only fooling themselves and are walking a fine line of being turned over to a point where they won't be able to repent anymore. Reprobate people are so obvious and some of the signs (other than sexual immorality; homosexuality) are their constant rejection of wanting to hear the truth and desiring to hear and believe lies and things that inflates their ego and fattens their pride. Reprobates are proud, boastful, and often act like they themselves are a god and want to be worshipped and they worship other things beside the one true God. So the question is "What do you do about a person who you believe is reprobate?" Well, if God himself has given up on them, then what can humans do!! The best thing to do is stay out of their presence especially if you are a saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost filled person who loves the Lord and believe in the name of Jesus. They will either flee from you or deliberately try to make your life a miserable hell because they hate God. Reprobates are under God's curse and a believer in God will be wasting their time trying to pray for them. It would be like doing what the scripture says in Matthew 6:7, Do not give that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine unless they trample them under feet and turn and rend you to pieces. Many people argue the fact that saints should never stop praying for people but there are times when the Holy Spirit will tell you not to pray for a certain individual because they have been cut off from God's grace. I've had this experience about a certain person and when God told me to let go, I wept like a baby because I really wanted them to change and be saved. That is a burden that I no longer carry and I just accept the fact that my time spent in that area is up and I have moved forward. But anyway, 2 Peter chapter 2 speaks of people who are cut off and they are in the church working to deceive others and pull them out of the will and grace of God by their pernicious ways and foolish talk. 2 Peter 2:14 says they have eyes that are full of adultery and they never stop sinning. In other words they look for ways and opportunities to commit sin taking the grace of God as a license to keep practicing sin. If they don't repent, they are headed for destruction but the question is are they already reprobate and cannot repent? The bible says we should not tempt the Lord our God and for a person to continue and  continue and continue to sin in whatever ways no matter if it's sexual or not (sin is sin), and they never come to God with sincerity of heart and repent and seek to live holy for him, then YES they are reprobate.

DREAMS.......

So back to the subject of dreams again. Everybody cannot handle it when you tell them your dream, especially when the dream comes from the Lord. People have 1 of 3 responses, fear, jealousy, or disbelief and sometimes all three emotions run through them. Basically, dreams are meant to unfold not to be told. It took me years to learn that. Now I just shut up and let things happen. The reason I stopped explaining to people (especially religious/church folks) about what I saw in a vision or dream is because nearly always their reaction will be doubt and gossiping about that which they do not understand, believe, or accept. But God always proves himself no matter how much they doubt. Some people will really believe that your dream is from God and they will become envious over God choosing YOU to give revelations to instead of them or their favorite person in the ministry. Also they get upset when God reveals something sinful going on in their life or their church. Ooooweee they will shut you down in a heartbeat and call you crazy.You just gotta be careful about what you share with people in general, whether a dream or real life event. If the dream is really of God, it will come to pass and the devil will do all he can to try to hinder it but we don't need to bring any extra opposition upon ourselves by talking to the wrong people about the right thing but not in God's timing or plan. Some people don't need to know jack about what the Lord showed you. Only they need to do is just see you walking in your blessing that they nor the devil couldn't stop or block.

WHY DREAMS ARE IMPORTANT!!!!

If there is anything that I have learned in my walk with Christ is that you cannot share your dreams with people BEFORE they come to pass unless you are willing and ready to go through a Joseph experience. God does not reveal to everybody what he reveals to you, not even to those closest to you or your prayer partners. At this stage in my life right now in 2014, I'm living out the dreams God showed me years ago and haven't told NOBODY. People are trying to figure out where I am and some even think I've lost my mind but what they don't realize is that God only allowed me to share "some" of my dreams but not "all". So it is important not to try and explain detail for detail what you see in your spirit because it might not be totally from the Lord and people will get things twisted and you will end up being disciplined by God for talking too much and to the wrong people. Those things that are not from the Lord will dissipate but the things from the Lord will keep resurfacing and the enemy will fight tooth and toenail trying to stop it from coming to pass. There may be a part 2 to this but I'm sleepy for now.

Hypocrisy in Judging From Outer Appearance

When it comes to outer appearance, there is so much hypocrisy that comes into play. Men who do not allow their wives to wear pants are 10 times out of 10 guilty of having slept with her before they were married or they are living in adultery with their other spouses who they got divorces from are still living. Truly society has a twisted view of doing things and how the mainstream world dresses but to be honest there is a way that a Christian can dress in style and be presentable and still maintain Christian character. It's all about having balance. Balance is something that a lot of Christians lack, so they will abstain from certain things altogether and say that it is of the world. Another example that I hear from people who try to justify their beliefs about a woman shouldn't wear pants, make up, and jewelry is using the example of being in the military or on a secular job that calls for wearing uniforms.  The hypocrisy in that is that a person may very well hold down a job at McDonald's or be in the military but you best believe they do not wear their uniform 24/7. Even when a military person is not in uniform but in casual clothes,  you still know he is military because of the way he talks and the way he carries himself. You see, the hypocrisy is that man created a dress code that signifies who is spiritually clean by how they are dressed outwardly. Man created something that would be a dead giveaway to onlookers and let them know instantly that the person must be of a certain religion because of how they are dressed and it would instantly make people know who they are and what they stand for. Well that is totally opposite of how Jesus did things. Most people who came in contact with Jesus learned and received a deeper revelation of who he was by having communication with him. Jesus was not dressed in a certain fashion to instantaneously prove to people that he was the Christ. That spirit of wanting others to believe you are saved and spiritually clean based on what you wear 24/7 is an establishment of one's own righteousness. But in the same breath I say that a saint of God who is really spiritually clean and walking upright with the Lord is recognized by demons in folks and because the person knows who they are and the authority that they walk in, they are mature enough not to buy into the lie of the world's standards of dress or the hypocritical ways of religious standards of dress. Really the Holy Spirit will teach a person how to dress and cover up and be presentable. Furthermore, Christian women are not forbidden in scripture to wear jewelry and makeup either but Paul and Peter admonishes saved women not to put more attention on adoring the outward appearance but to be humbled, submissive, and having a pure heart. Like I said, everything must be balanced out and not given maximum amount of attention in one area and neglect the other areas. I really think that the Lord is mostly concerned about people not being a hypocrite. If they choose a certain dress code that aligns with their religious affiliation then they should do that and be happy and serve the Lord. We should not worship our clothing, or jewelry, or beauty, or give more allegiance to religion than we do to the Lord Jesus Christ but in many of the teachings about dress, they esteem outer wear as an indication of inner change before they mention that a soul has repented, been water baptized in Jesus name, and received the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. Once a person gets saved the right way, true enough they will need to be taught on how to come out of worldliness and a sinful lifestyle of their past, but we should not put absolute stipulations on people that the word of God does not put on them by teaching them that even when their bodies are covered and there is distinction to know whether they are male or female, that they must wear a specific garment in order to be spiritually clean. Because if the truth be told, those who claim to be spiritually clean by their own merits are really far from it.

Christian Codes of Dress........continued

The first teaching that I heard on why women should not wear pants is because even though they make pants for women, they were"originally"made for men. Ok, if we take that and say pants on women is a sin or immoral because they were"at first" a man's garment, then what about all the other types of apparel that were originally made for men that women also now wear, like tennis shoes and T-shirts. Also the color blue was originally a color for the male. So are females walking in rebellion or an abomination for wearing any item of clothing in the color blue? Condoms were also originally made for men but they make female condoms now for women (and I speak of saved, married women only) who do not wish to become pregnant during te sexual act with her husband and does not take birth control. Although the world suggests that sex outside of marriage is okay, it is totally different for a believer in Christ. We don't accept everything that the world says is okay when it contradicts the Word of God. Another way to look at clothing for Christians is the motives behind the clothing. Women who are taught that a woman who wears pants, make up and jewelry is posing as a Jezebel or is a slut, have no proof or facts that her style of dress is in any wise with intentions to tempt the opposite sex. On the other hand, not wearing pants, make up and jewelry does not indicate that a sister is not cooking in her flesh and daydreaming about riding another pogo stick beside her husband in her mind. I'm not suggesting that a woman should dress according to every lustful thought that runs through her mind but that sanctification and inner cleansing starts on the inside and is radiated outwardly. Neither am I suggesting that every Christian(male or female) has the liberty to set their own standards of dress no matter how immodest and revealing it may be. No, not by a long shot. I think Christians should be covered up whether with a pair of pants and shirts on men or pants or dresses and full-covered blouses on women. There is so much that can go into a dress code when it comes to how saints should look in the world. From spending habits of being too extravagant with unreasonably high priced clothes and jewelry to cheap skimpy little skirts and exclusively tight booty pants that show the panty lines on women or the penile print on men. We should not deliberately try to inflame lustful feelings and thoughts in the minds of those watching us. Even at our best and most honest attempt to appear holy and sanctified whether in jeans or a dress there will still be someone who is not purged in their thinking to try to hit on even a saint of God. That is where REAL HOLINESS takes a stand. It's not so much WHAT the Christian has on but WHO they have on. When the devil sends a person be they male or female to try to play up to a child of God with enticing words, and Yes, this will happen even when you are covered from head to toe, then the Christian better make sure their roots in God is deep because the enemy doesn't care anything about how a person presents themselves as being holy, he will try you anyway. I often think about the people in other countries and cultures who suffer tremendously for their faith in Jesus Christ and they don't have all the luxuries of outer wear like we do in the United States. I think they're only concern would be to be clothed or covered to prevent their nakedness from being exposed, not whether the women should wear skirts and the men wear pants. When God clothed Adam and Eve, the bible doesn't say that he made a distinction between their garments but you best believe their roles of Adam being the man and Eve being the woman were NOT switched because GOD clothed them. They clothed themselves in fig leaves  but God came and clothed them the right way with goats skins and when people clothe themselves and stamp an approval of their outerwear making them holy, they just missed the mark because what is in you will come out and a spirit of self-righteousness and not depending on the Lord is what manifests from such attitudes.

CHRISTIAN WOMEN WEARING PANTS, IS IT A SIN?

Ok I'm taking a little break from talking about the Antichrist for now and deal with another issue that is clearly false doctrine in the church. What issue is that? I'm glad you asked. The issue about Christian women wearing pants. OMG!!!! I have done several studies on this topic from the scripture Deuteronomy 22:5 and they ALL point to the same direction of women and men are forbidden to switch roles from original sexual orientation, meaning women should not deliberately try to look like a man in her apparel, neither should men try to pose in society as a female. The deeper searches also mentioned that in bible times Moses was commanding that women shouldn't go to war and military such as is the role of a man (putting on that which pertains to a man......instruments of war). There are some Christians who have made a gospel out of outer clothing (especially on women). Pants are made for both male and female. Men's clothing are found in the men's department and women's clothing are found in the women's department. Because a woman puts on a modest, casual pair of jeans or slacks, that doesn't make her a lesbian. However, because you typically do not find skirts or dresses in the men's section, society would question his masculinity or sanity or both. On another tip, men do wear skirts or kilts for certain occasions such as acting in a play or a dance. Another thing is that preacher's robes are made alike for male preachers and female preachers (straight, dress-like garment) with maybe a different design to distinguish the two. There is a spirit behind the teaching that it's a sin for a woman to wear pants and I've been praying asking God to reveal it to me. All I know is that since my first hearing of such doctrine several years ago, I can say that the teaching came from people (mostly men) who were sexually immoral, living in adultery on their 2nd and 3rd wives, had babies away from home with other women beside their wives, or was on the downlow, or gay men who hated women anyway. If a Christian woman feels she needs to wear dresses and skirts 24/7 365 days a year in order to please the Lord, fine. That is her conviction, but don't condemn and send other women to hell who feel free in serving the Lord in a modest pair of pants  and must I add, if she desires to wear a little make up and jewelry. Many Christian women have their discernment so twisted that they actually believe that another sister in the Lord who wears pants, makeup, and jewelry has backslidden and on her way to hell. How shameful is that!!!! Another thing is jealousy. Some Christian women don't feel a conviction about it, they are just mad and jealous over another sister being free in her walk with God to adorn and beautify herself because she is not going to settle for a teaching that doesn't line up with the scriptures. Most of these people are bound in their thinking. Outer clothing is what they see first in both sinners and saints and it stunts their witness to sinners and isolates their fellowship with other believers who are not dressed specifically like them. What I wish they could see is that you never ever hear a Christian woman who wears pants (makeup and jewelry) to work or maybe even to her place of worship talking about other Christian women who don't wear it. But it's ALWAYS the Christian women who don't wear it that talk about others who do. Like I said, it's a spirit behind that and I just believe this way, if a person believes dresses on women will cool down lust in her or in other men watching her.........it really stirs it up even more because he has easy access to get what he wants. During my days of wearing strictly dresses (because my pastor at that time taught that pants on women was a sin), I literally had to fight off more demons then than I do now that I wear pants. Nowadays men look at me with more respect because I seem sure of who I am and the God that I serve. I'm not saying that dresses are wrong on women, neither am I saying that pants are wrong on women because there is a female-made pants but what I am saying is that when people turn things into a gospel of what can make a person saved and sanctified and holy other than the blood of Jesus Christ through his death on the cross, then people get steered in a whole different direction. The sad part is those who wear those long dresses with no makeup and no jewelry and the ones who teach and condone it and condemn everybody else to hell, they just might be the very ones who God reserves that spot in hell for because instead of them reaching the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ, they sit in judgment of everyone else who do not agree and abide by their rules and regulations as it pertains to outer dress!!!

System of the Antichrist: CHURCH WITHIN A CHURCH

I preached from the topic "Church within a Church" , I believe back in September or October 2013, can't really remember but the videos of part 1 and 2 is out there on Facebook and Youtube.  I think the reason God inspired me to preach on this is because of the experiences I've had over the years of being born again and Holy Ghost filled and traveled from different churches or should I say denominations. Most of why I been to various churches is to sing and play music. From what I have seen and heard is that there is a system in the church that talks about heaven and they even mention the name of Jesus but the overall message is to offer people a heaven down here on earth with little accountability of what God really requires for mankind to make it to heaven. This system is nothing more than the broadway that Jesus spoke about that many will follow. Broadway doesn't necessarily mean the world and sinners who don't go to church, but there is a broadway in the church for people who are attracted to religion. Their attraction of religion can include prophecies, signs and wonders, miracles of healing, financial support of false teachers and prophets, sexual immortality among so-called sisters and brothers in Christ, wine (any kind of alcoholic beverages), excess, establishment of gay churches, leaders stealing money, married Christian couples agreeing to swapping and swinging, all sorts of debauchery, orgies, and the list could go on and on. Now on the surface it wouldn't seem like anything is wrong with these behaviors coming from people who are"in the church" and saved.....hmmm. Someone may say all they gotta do is repent. Well true repentance means to turn AWAY from the the sinful deeds that you know is forbidden in scripture not constantly doing them. But there is an acceptance of a lifestyle that a person can live out their fantasies and explore and still come to church and be a part of a body or an assembly and be validated by other participants and those who condone their practices, as still being saved. It is a delusion and deception by which the spirit of antichrist is in operation. This system offers salvation to people even using the name of Jesus but does not fully obey the scriptures as they pertain to salvation, sanctification, and holiness both inwardly and outwardly. There are plenty of folks who talk about the Lord, and read the bible, and attend church, and really do strive to live right but there are certain parts of the scriptures that they find hard to accept and obey and the areas that are left dormant and unattended to, those are the weak points in which the spirit of antichrist has access to come in and deceive a person. This thing is so deep that it makes me afraid for people who reject and neglect when God is trying to show them themselves. One revelation that I received is that people will be deceived because of their attractions to the illuminations of a so called man or woman of God. We should be more attracted to Jesus and the Word, not a person who is speaking it. But many of these leaders are whores and whoremongers but can preach great attractive messages and can even prophesy and the prophecies come to pass. That is how many get lured into deception because it be some truth mixed in with a lie. The devil knows how to manipulate people by using the scriptures to get them to give money, to shout and even to fool them into sexual activity while quoting scriptures at the same time. That is why it is so important for people to rightly divide the Word of truth and to love the Lord with all our hearts so we can recognize the enemy. But sadly though, preachers and ministers who are REALLY SAVED like the bible says and strive with all their might to show people a more excellent way in order to make it to the real heaven and ultimately the New Jerusalem with Jesus are rejected, hated, called old fashioned, don't get a whole lot of invitations from the mainstream churches to preach, and Satan is ALWAYS on our trail trying to discourage us from teaching, preaching, and reaching others with the great gospel of Jesus Christ. We are indeed in the last days and the evil and deception in this world is going to get worse. I'm just a voice crying out to the world with the warning signs what should and should not be. As the Lord leads me to talk about this spirit of antichrist, I will continue to update. BE BLESSED!!!!

The System of the Antichrist

I've talked a lot about this subject over the years because people are so naive to the fact that the Beast is a system, a system of the world in rebellion to the system of God. First of all, we  ask ourselves What is the system of God? God's system is comprised of his holiness, his righteousness, his goodness, his grace, and his Word which is the instructions on how to receive salvation and how to live in this world after receiving salvation. The first thing is most people are persuaded that if they just believe and accept Christ as their Lord and Savior then that automatically invites the Holy Spirit into their lives and guarantees their trip to heaven. That couldn't be so much farther from the truth than Satan repenting and getting a second chance with God. James 2:19 says"you believe in God, you do well. The devils also believe and they tremble". So believing alone is not an assurance that one has become saved. Many altar workers and ministers (supposedly ministers of Christ) quote ROMANS 10:9 to parishioners that believing in their heart and confessing with their mouth that God has raised Jesus from the dead on the third day automatically puts them into the family or kingdom of God. These lies sound good and refreshing to people who really want to make a change in their life but they receive half truths and go on thinking that they are saved and rapture ready. The real truth is that in order for a soul to be saved, the individual must believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit and acknowledge that Jesus is God incarnate or manifested in the flesh when he came to earth. They must believe that God created everything and everybody in the universe, not some evolution theory. And they must believe that the Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, same thing, is the direct communication line between God and man. When God speaks to people, he speaks by his Spirit because Jesus is ascended up in heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. Once a person's belief in God is single, and what I mean by single is that their belief in God cancels out all other belief systems that they may have previously adopted, then they are ready for salvation (Believing only is not salvation). According to John 3:3-5, Jesus explains to Nicodemus that a person must be born again of the water and of the Spirit. The water represents baptism and the Spirit represents the Holy Ghost. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus tells the disciples to go and teach all nations baptizing them in the name (singular), of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost is JESUS !! In Matthew 16:18-19, Jesus gives Peter the authority to the Kingdom of God, and in Acts 2:38, Peter clearly sums up the plan of salvation beginning with Repentance, meaning to turn from your wicked ways of sin and turn to God in faith. Then he says, Be baptized everyone of you IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins. Then he says that you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. God sent the Holy Ghost on day of Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4, and it was evidenced or witnessed that they had received the Spirit because they spoke in tongues. After this experience, God used Apostle Paul and the other apostles to instruct us in the Word on how we are to live and conduct ourselves as new creations in Christ. A lifestyle of holiness is what is required after one has received God's plan of salvation.This is where many people fall off the bandwagon and generally become a hindrance and stumbling block to other believers and sinners alike. People have been hurt and wounded by people who they know speak in tongues so they teach a doctrine that is contrary to the scriptures that speaking in tongues is not necessary for salvation. Furthermore, people teach against speaking in tongues because they don't want to lose members of their congregations who are uncomfortable with the subject or they themselves are uncomfortable with it. So you have mega churches who have hundreds even thousands of people who teach a watered down just-believe-in-Christ message as validation for salvation.And as it pertains to water baptism in Jesus name, some baptize in the titles to say they are obeying Jesus in Matthew 28:19. They are actually REPEATING what Jesus said not OBEYING what he said. Baptism in Jesus name ONLY is the correct formula. That is only a portion of the religious part of the system of the Antichrist. Another system of the Antichrist is a doctrine of"once saved always saved". That is a lie folks. If a person has received the TRUE plan of salvation and then backslides away from God and the Church and does not repent and come back to God and to the Church, if they die in that state, they will be lost, point blank. That once saved always saved teaching gives people access to live however they want to live but still proclaim to be saved and heaven-bound. Another Antichrist system is the prosperity messages at the expense of do-what-you-gotta-do-to-make-it belief system. The reason this is an Anti-God thing is because it takes people's focus off trusting in God to provide. Remember the Antichrist is going to make it hard for people to buy or sell except they receive his mark of the name or image or number of his mark. Most people of the world are going to be deceived and take the mark of the Beast because PROSPERITY is the thing to do you know, not paying tithes and offerings and relying on God to supply their needs. Another Antichrist system is homosexuality and lesbianism and abortion.  Daniel 11:37 is a prophecy about the Antichrist that he will have no desire for women, meaning he will be gay. When women are rejected, abandoned, and abused by men, they usually turn to another female for affection. According to ROMANS 1:26, the women changed the natural affection for men into unnatural affection toward each other and God calls that an abomination and worthy of hell fire. When men and women refuse to live love, marry, and procreate according to God's original purpose, they cut off the chances for the normal functions of the family and abortion is included in this Anti-God ordeal. There are so many different things that people are caught up in without realizing that they are are already sealing their mark into the Antichrist system in so many ways that if they think they can live like the devil and receive all the evil things that go against God's holiness and then stand before the Antichrist and reject taking a literal, physical mark just to get to heaven, they are sadly mistaken. Sin has a way of swindling you in to the point that when you want to get out, you can't. Just like during Noah' s day. They had all their fun then wanted to make the decision to get on the boat when the flood came but it was too late. Only the true elect people of God are going to beat the system of the Antichrist by submitting to God and ALL of his truth not just certain parts, and crucifying the flesh and the will of selfish desires and seeking after GOD wholeheartedly. There is much more to be said about the system of the Antichrist but I will pause for now.

Popularity

Popularity is something that is distant and unfamiliar to me. I have never been popular, not even in high school, and I've always been cool with that. I guess I never wanted to be popular because of what I seen it do to so many other people. I mean popular girls were not virgins. They had a lot of male attention but also bad reputations and babies out of wedlock. Popular guys were disrespectful thinking the world revolved around them and girls actually fell for these types of dudes. Popular crowds have always been a turn off to me. I can remember as far back as kindergarten being self motivated and starting things on my own rather than following someone else's pattern. It seems that most popular people have a crowd following in behind them or supporting them but for the wrong reasons. I hang on to that scripture in Luke 6:26 that says Woe unto you when all men speak well of you. As a minister of the gospel, I have vowed to myself not to be like any of the popular ministers who get thousands even millions of supporters each year because they teach and preach compromising messages or their lifestyles don't match the message they preach. I refuse to preach on prosperity without preaching against sin. Many folks wanna hear about prosperity and getting wealth in abundance but continue to live ungodly. Not on my watch. At the same time I refuse to preach against sin without preaching about prosperity. Really we don't start prospering until we come out of sin. When God changes our minds then we will change our ways about giving and as a result we will reap things like favor with God and man, spiritual and material blessing, and health for the mind, body, and soul. So I may never become popular according to people's standards but as long as I please God in whatever I do, then that puts me in the majority and makes me to prosper above all the rest.

Difference Between Weak Saints and Hypocrites

Lord knows if it's anything that cooks my goose, it is to know that I am among a pretender. Somebody who is one thing in the church and something totally different outside the church. One of God's scriptures that I struggle with is Matthew 13:30 when Jesus mentions let the wheat and the tare grow together and he will do the separating. Excuse me Lord, but I haven't been perfected in that area of holiness yet. When I was first saved and filled with the Holy Ghost, they taught us that you cultivate your relationship with God and maintain salvation by keeping God's commandments and living holy. As I began to nip things out of my life that I took on in the world like cussing and listening to worldly music, I began to enjoy walking with Christ and didn't want to be named among a hypocrite. Matter of fact I was living so righteously until one of my family members stopped inviting me to her house and accused me of being "too holy". Mind you, not long after that, this same individual caught a nasty sexuality transmitted disease becaus she wasn't holy enough. But anyway I just believe in doing everything that you know is right to please the Lord even if you stumble sometimes and make mistakes or fall into sin. Do I believe Christians sin? Of course we do but the key is repentance, asking God's forgiveness and for strength not to do that same thing over and over again. I regard a weak saint as somebody who has gotten caught off guard maybe because they don't have on all of their spiritual armor, but at the same time, they are seeking help to get strong and overcome the temptations that they have been falling into. On a side note, I regard a hypocrite as somebody who wilfully sins and make efforts to cover up and hide their sins from their pastor or other Christians. Hypocrites don't strive against sin, but they enjoy it while at the same time proclaiming to know Jesus and on their way to heaven anyhow. I don't think so. This thing really bothers me because I see so many people being fooled into believing folks who have a form of godliness but deny the power thereof. They deny the power of God to keep them out of a life of sin by continuing to practice sin on purpose. Yet and still they are all up in the church dancing and shouting, some are preaching or teaching the gospel, and others are just laymen who come to church regularly and know what is right but refuse to live by it. It frustrates me so much because I know that I can't do a whole lot about it without making a plumb fool out of myself in front of folks who choose to believe and support such hypocrites. Some things are OBVIOUSLY WRONG according to scripture but you have church folks who go ahead and endorse it anyway because they like the person, or because they been knowing the person for such a long time. The reason the for real saints can't do or say too much is because the bible speaks of these things happening when people will turn their ears away from the truth and be more attracted to people who tickle their ears and tell them what they want to hear. I'm all for good preaching but my most desirous concern is sound doctrine. I believe in a person living the life that they testify about in public and in private. I know that our righteousness is as filthy rags and no person can be justified or saved by good works alone but that is not a license to just live like a backyard dog after one has come into the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.I have more tolerance and patience for somebody who will be honest and admit that they have a weakness and struggling with sin in their life and want to get rid of it, than a person who will look me in the eye and tell a bold faced lie that they been walking with Jesus since day one but got all kind of hell-skeletons in the closet. One of the biggest types of deliberate hypocrisy that is so common among people who say they know the Lord, is fornication and adultery. If people get everything else in their life straightened out such as stop drinking and partying and doing drugs or robbing and stealing, or cussing folks out, it seem like they really can be saved if they just learn how to keep the flesh under subjection until they get married or be faithful to the spouse they already have. Most Christians are miserable whether married or single and they seek after gratifying the flesh through sexual pleasure that is forbidden in scripture but still want to hold on to God too. Well, with God's standards, that's not going to work because he said that fornication and adultery are sins that is committed against your own body so if we destroy our bodies which are the temple of the Holy Ghost, then how can God keep excusing that behavior and blessing it? No, anything that is not ordained and blessed of God has a curse on it and he regards fornication and adultery as a form of idolatry which is spiritual adultery when his people go whoring around after strange flesh. If you take a survey and divide it up into sections that say Christians who believe in the promises of God for healing, prosperity, and bringing you into your season.....the numbers would probably be off the charts. If another part of the survey says how many Christians believe that God wants a daily relationship with you to communicate with you in prayer and his word.....the numbers might edge off a little but they would still be high. But if the last part of the survey included how many Christians would be willing to give up habits such as smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages, chasing men or women for sexual purposes, and leading a lifestyle of holiness.......the numbers are destined to plummet to the bottom of the barrel. The reason for this is because most Christians want to use God for what they can get out of him to make their lives comfortable here on earth, but the mindset of God is to cause us to lose our comfort and friendship with the world so we can be with him in eternity. Before Christ returns, there will be a lot more exposure and judgment for sin amongst those who say they belong to Christ because he said judgment will begin at the house of GOD. I pray for all weak Christians who are struggling with sin and I also pray for hypocrites too that they would turn from their wicked ways and serve God FOR REAL. Being true to God, true to others, and true to oneself is the epitome of joy in the Christian life. Anything outside of that is a fairy tale of lies and cover ups that will eventually be uncovered either on this side or the other side of life. Lord help me to stay right with you always!!!!

HATERS.....Who Are They?

The word haters has become a very popular word over the years and usually is in regard to people who show animosity or jealousy toward somebody else. To be honest, most of the people who I hear complaining about having haters, ARE haters. They are the ones who show jealousy and intimidation toward other people when they get a new house or car or a raise or promotion or get in a new relationship. I've had haters all my life but the reason I don't complain about them is because God showed me how I can use them as a refining tool to make me better, stronger, and wiser. The most kind of haters who I regard toward me are not those who roll their eyes at what I got on or what I'm driving or nothing like that foolishness, but   those who deliberately go against what I believe about the Lord. I feel more hatred from others based on spiritual matters instead of earthly. I guess because that's mainly where I contend for excellence, in ministry and sharing the gospel with others. I bet if my attention and focus was more on materialistic things, then more people would hate on me based on materialistic things. Really, haters are people who cannot understand the individual who they are hating on or they want to be like them or something. I really don't know but it's a shame though. So basically, if I hear a person always talking about having haters, I watch them closely because somewhere deep within themselves they show a little animosity and jealousy toward others too. Best of all, Jesus had haters but he put them all under his feet by walking in his purpose and not even worrying about what they said about him or did to him. I thank God that I'm hated for righteousness sake instead of for evil sake. It's a blessing because the bible says Woe unto you if all men speak well of you. Being a true Christian means you're going to attract opposition from those who don't understand, don't agree, or just don't want to accept everything that comes with living a victorious life in Christ. So thank you Lord for all my haters and them that oppose me because the pressure only pushes me closer and closer to you and you give me peace when I'm in your presence!!!