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In my life there has been much joy, pain, defeats, victories,
and sin. Through all of this I have spent many years trying to
be successful in my profession as well as a good father,
husband, and member of a local congregation. I have been an
officer in the church for many years and have tried to be
effective in that capacity as well.

A few years ago I came to the realization that no matter how
successful I am at any of those things which I have mentioned
above, it is all for naught if I do not have a genuine
relationship with God. So I began to pray and search God’s word
for the answer. Jesus gave us the answer, “But seek first the
kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall
be added to you.” (Matthew 6:33)

The conclusion which I arrived at, as a Christian trying to
serve God and to do His will, is that we should seek God. This
is the single most important thing which we, as children of God,
must do to show ourselves approved of God. Paul, in his epistle
to the Romans says, “I Beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.”
(Romans 12:1)

Paul’s admonition to the Christians in Rome has a lot to do with
yielding to the Holy Spirit and being an instrument for God’s
service. But it also has a lot to do with seeking God, for he
continues in verse two, “And do not be conformed to this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may
prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
How can we truly be transformed unless we seek God?

What does it mean to seek God, or how does one go about seeking
God? To seek, as it is used in this capacity, means to beat a
common path to something. Or, in other words, to constantly
seek. It doesn’t mean to seek, find, and have something. It does
mean to do the same thing over and over again, to constantly be
seeking.

A few years ago my wife decided that she wanted a new lamp for
the living room. She knew just exactly where she was going to
put it, but she didn’t know exactly what kind of lamp she
wanted. She spent many hours over a period of several months
looking for (seeking) that perfect lamp for that one spot in the
living room. I heard her fretting over the fact that she could
not find a lamp she liked for those several months. Then one day
she came home with a lamp. She announced that she had found the
lamp she wanted, she placed it on the table, and I never heard
another word about that lamp. She sought the lamp, found it, and
then had it. She probably didn’t think much about it after that.

This is not what seeking God is all about. We cannot simply seek
God, find Him, and then have Him. We can’t put Him on a shelf
somewhere and forget about Him. Paul, in his epistle to the
Colossians gives us some insight into what it means to seek God.
He tells the Colossians, “If then you were raised with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at
the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on
things on the earth.” (Colossians 3:1,2) We need to set our
minds on things above. In other words, we need to have God in
the forefront of our consciousness. As we meet problems in life,
or as we make decisions, we need to be asking ourselves, “What
would God have me do in this situation?” We need to throw off
the phoniness of “playing Christian,” and be known as a person
who seeks God.

There are many ways in which we seek God: through prayer,
memorization of scripture, fasting, Bible study, attending
worship services, communion service, listening to gospel music
or taped sermons, meditating on God and His word, and sharing
Christ with one another.

The book of Isaiah tells us that we should seek God while He is
near, “Seek the LORD while He may be found, call upon Him while
He is near.” (Isaiah 55:6) Seeking God is also exercising our
faith in Him. It is impossible to please God without faith. (See
Hebrews 11:6) However, for many Christians, the only time they
make a conscience effort to seek God is when there is trouble,
when they want something, or when they expect a blessing. This
is not wholeheartedly seeking God.

So why don’t people seek God? The answer is spelled out for us
in the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy in verses 25-28. Many of us
have fallen into the same trap as the Israelites, we have set up
for ourselves false gods. Some of our false gods are: money,
job, family, things (cars, houses, etc.), sports, and pleasure.
Do you serve any of these false gods, or perhaps others?

There are other hindrances to seeking God. Unfortunately, the
society in which we live corrupts us. These corruptions keep us
from seeking God. Some of the more obvious corruptions are:
television (violent or sexually oriented movies, soap operas,
etc.), magazines, pleasure seeking, and materialism. Some less
obvious may be work schedules, family duties, leadership
(community, business, church) duties, etc. There are other
things as well, it is not always the same for each person. The
point is the things we have to contend with in life corrupts our
seeking God.

When I was growing up in the 50’s and early 60’s, you never
heard profanity on television. Now we see homosexuality,
abortion, and extra-material affairs all promoted on television
every week, not to mention a host of vulgar and profane language
and violence beyond compare. These things are wrong and they
corrupt our seeking God.

In all of this, however, there is good news. Jesus tells us in
the sixth chapter of Matthew to “seek first the kingdom of God.”
Then in chapter seven he says, “Ask, and it will be given to
you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to
you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and
to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7,8)

You may feel that you are so far away from a true relationship
with God that it is impossible to seek and to find Him. But that
just isn’t true! If you are not a Christian, then you must seek
God through giving your life to Jesus Christ. You must believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. You must
repent of your sins, confess to your fellow man that you
believe, and be baptized in the watery grave of baptism. Then
you are ready for a life-long journey of seeking God.

If you are now a Christian, and haven’t been living as close to
God as you should, now is the time to start that journey. The
Apostle John tells us in his first epistle, “If we confess our
sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9) Confess your
unfaithfulness now, and start that life-long journey of
constantly seeking and finding God.

Seeking and finding God is a wonderful experience. I’ve noticed
in my life that when I truly seek God and His righteousness, I
find Him. I am so excited and joyous that I seek Him more, then
I find Him. That, in turn, makes me happy and I want to seek Him
more, and then I find Him. The more I seek Him, the more I find
Him. Jesus told us in His word, “Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled.”
(Matthew 5:6) What a wonderful promise, to know that if we
hunger and thirst for righteous-ness, that if we seek God, we
will find Him.

Don’t let the things of this world keep you from seeking and
finding God. Jesus tells us in His word, “For what will it
profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own
soul?” (Mark 8:36) Don’t let the world corrupt you and keep you
from seeking God. Don’t let the world cause you to lose you own
soul.

I know that some teach the doctrine of “Once saved, always
saved.” But this is not what the Bible teaches. We are all in
danger of losing our soul if we do not seek God.

So remember brothers and sisters, “Seek first the kingdom of God
and His righteousness…” (Matthew 6:33)

Favorite Scriptures

I have many favorite scriptures that help me make it through
this world and live each day in Christ Jesus. Here are just a
few.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

“And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for
yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which
your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or
the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me
and my house, we will serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)

All scriptures quoted are from the New King James Version,
unless otherwise noted.

I think most people who will read this will not accept what I am saying here without doing a lot of checking into the facts.

‘I tried sending through an attachment from a fellow researcher who is working on the Kaballah as derivative from Qaballa which is an ancient Verbal Tradition such as kept by the Bairds or bards and the Bardic Tradition for over 25,000 years. He finds my history is supportive and I see his sets of codes in English and other things of great value. The particular piece is 19 pages on just the letter ‘E’ without getting too verbose or using illustrations, which he has lots of. The Gematria is not a specialty of mine although I am pretty good at pre-history languages and not bad at Green Languages and alchemical allegories in the Jung from Silberer subset derived from alchemy or Hermetics. That has usages in psychotherapy and mind control which they call Neuro Psycho Linguistics and other words and systems they often do not understand; it once was called Dream Analysis but they have gone far along the path of programming the mind. Kind of funny how psychiatrists say they do not believe in a soul and yet they use these archetypes from our collective soul.

So as Dion Fortune did say - Kaballah is ‘twisted’. They have built these constructs or dimensional energy designs so that Masons and other ‘traveling men’ as you call them will think they have stumbled upon a great truth through their ‘visions’. After all who can imagine that elementals and dimensional energies are subject to such design engineering - eh? As Jung says in his forward to The Tibetan Book of the Dead - the Hindu will see Shiva and that hierarchy whereas the Christian will go through the Bardol stages of Afterlife and see the likes of Gabriel then Jesus.’

Here is a correspondence from the fellow researcher mentioned above. His name is Dennis Fetcho or The Fetch.

“No I haven’t seen any of your recent stuff. Been travelling a lot these past few months. Spent a month in the hospital in Montreal from an attack in December that left me unable to move for a few weeks due to the multiple fractures suffered. Some of my advisors called the attack a military style hit with the intent to kill. Missed hitting my head on the streets, but the rest of the body took a licking!

Yeah. Had drinks with one of Jordan’s top masons while in Amman and he was so impressed that he wanted to confer an honorary degree on me… as he said, “If only it were in my power”. I have many ideas in mind and one is to infiltrate Masonry and fuse it with “right thinking” based on my Isisian Code System which I know would be very accepted in such an environment.

It is easy to destroy a paradigm through decay within. I think it is a favored “Jehovian strategy!”… lol”

“The members of the secret F.O.G.C. {from the words of a top Rosicrucian friend this means the Freemasonic Order of the Golden Centurion.} Lodge, greatly feared in occult circles, had gathered for a general meeting in Dresden. The Meeting hall was in a large villa, hidden in the midst of a private park behind a tall hedge and large trees. The Grand Master of the lodge had invited ninety-eight of the ninety-nine members to attend. Long before the meeting commenced, the members had taken their places at two long tables.

All conversation in the hall became muted when the Grand Master entered accompanied by his second-in-command, who acted as Secretary. There was a platform opposite the hall’s entrance where the Grand Master sat down behind a desk. He rang a bell and at once there was complete silence. He addressed the brethren of the lodge in an intense penetrating voice:

‘My dear brothers, I hereby open today’s meeting and I am pleased that you have accepted my invitation. As you know, according to the laws of the lodge a general meeting such as this is only declared in very special cases. You may have already noticed that Brother Silesius is not present. Unfortunately, he has been found guilty of betraying lodge secrets and, as Point Number One of the agenda, we will discuss his sentence. Point Number Two concerns Frabato the Magician, who is becoming so well-known here in Dresden.

‘My dear brothers, you all know that Brother Silesius has reached the twenty-fifth degree of initiation in our lodge, and therefore must have been fully aware of his offences. His excessive zeal seduced him to reveal to one of his friends the rituals we use to invoke the elemental beings. According to the laws of our lodge, the breaking of an oath and the disclosure of secrets are punishable by death…

Although the verdict had deeply shaken the Grand Master, he quickly regained his composure and continued in a calmer voice.

‘Since Point Number One of the agenda has been settled, let us now deal with the case of Frabato. Some of the brethren present attended his performances and were able to convince themselves of his abilities at close range. It has been proven that he works without the aid of conventional tricks. His experiments succeeded beyond all expectation; yes, they were even better than what many of our own brethren would be able to accomplish. Hermes, one of our more versatile brothers, paid a visit to Frabato in order to test him. He will now tell you of his experience.

The distinguished gentleman who had visited Frabato late at night now rose from amongst the brethren.

‘I chose the best astrological hour for my visit to Frabato. I also took into account the correspondences of the elements in order to place myself in a strong initial position. Besides this, I hoped he would be exhausted after the performance he had just given; that would have been to my advantage. I explained the unusual time of my visit by telling him I had a journey to make which could not be postponed. Upon hearing this, Frabato looked at me sharply and then smiled faintly without uttering a word.

‘I then painted a very colorful picture of our lodge membership; pointed out its many advantages, and promised him a large sum of money from our funds should he decide to join. But Frabato completely ignored my proposals and started to talk about his journeys, his performances and successes in many cities and towns. He was able to arouse my curiosity so strongly that I almost forgot the reason for my visit.

In time I interrupted him and tried to direct his attention to my offer, He rose and pulled a suitcase out from under his bed saying, ‘Now let us have a look at what the Akashic records have to say about your lodge.’

‘As you know, my dear brothers, I am well acquainted with occult methods and practices; therefore I was determined to use all my powers to prevent Frabato’s experiment. But as soon as the notion entered my mind, he said to me, as if by chance, ‘Dear Mr. Hermes, my experiments depend purely upon my will power and cannot be influenced or prevented by you. They will succeed whether you actively appose them or not.’

‘I felt that Frabato could see right through me, and surmised that I would have no chance against him, so I watched his preparations intently {Intent is a key attribute to be developed.}. First he cleaned his hands carefully, took a small bottle out of his suitcase, and applied a few drops to his hands. No doubt it was prepared from the essences of certain plants, {Perhaps Belladonna and digitalis which have long been part of the shamanic medicine bag, mixed with a little blood of the practitioner in order to aid genetic attunement at a solar or molecular and animal state consciousness.} for a pleasant fragrance permeated the room. He then took a small lamp out of a little box and put it on the table. Then, from a second box, he brought forth a glass ball about twenty centimeters in diameter and placed it on a stand on the table. When I asked him what purpose this glass ball served, Frabato laughed and replied, ‘If there were any clairvoyants in your lodge, and if they really possessed the knowledge which you attempt or pretend to have, then they would know that this is a magic mirror. This sphere contains a liquid, the particular composition of which requires not only patient work but excellent magical abilities as well.’

‘I was enraged; but I tried to control myself, for I felt that nothing remained hidden from this man.

‘I am going to show you a film, and then you can judge for yourself whether it is really advantageous to be a member of your lodge,’ he continued.

‘I watched each of his movements attentively, to be sure that he was not employing any tricks. He rolled up the sleeves of his shirt and sat down beside me in front of the sphere. Then he stretched both his hands towards the glass ball, his fingers slightly splayed. A grayish-white light escaped from the tips of his fingers and was absorbed by the sphere which, a few moments later, began to illuminate everything with a fluorescent ball of light the color of a fiery opal…. I was by that time in some suspense as he said:

‘Next we shall look behind the scenes of your esteemed Grand Master’s life…. The color of the Grand Master’s face changed a few times. When Hermes began to describe some of the more startling events of the Grand Master’s life as revealed to him in the magic mirror, the Grand Master discreetly gave him to understand that this was not desirable. Hermes understood and skillfully moved on to more general topics. {The same was done for eight of the top members of the lodge.}

Author of Diverse Druids
Columnist for The ES Press Magazine
Activist for Ecumenicism

DANTE: - Dante Alighieri is the tour guide of Hell. In fact you
could say he is the creator of Hell if you did not understand he
was directed and encouraged as others were being forced to write
and create all manner of graven images and religious icons or
treatises to support Hell, Satan and the whole dogma of ’sins
and demons’. The Church owned all creative work because such
creative things came from God and they were the representatives
of this God. Nice scam if you can make it work - eh? Here is a
little academic insight into how he also was tasked to diminish
the perception of prior seers and wise people.

“Inferno XX falls into four narrative segments. Lines 1-30
present the sin of divination in general terms; lines 31-57
introduce famous diviners of antiquity, each of whom figures in
and represents a major classical text: Amphiaraus from Statius’
Thebaid, Tiresias from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Arruns from Lucan’s
Pharsalia, and Manto from Vergil’s Aeneid; lines 58-99 encompass
the digression on Mantova; lines 100-130 contain Dante’s query
regarding further diviners, and Vergil’s response, in which he
names Eurypylus from the Aeneid and various contemporary
practitioners. We note the canto’s symmetry; the general opening
and closing sections, each of thirty lines, frame the more
particularized interior sequences. The seemingly extraneous
section on Mantova is thus entirely surrounded and informed by
the commanding issue of prophecy, an issue which is directly
related to the canto’s highlighting of poets and poetry, to its
evocation of the classical auctores and to the arresting
behavior of Vergil. For prophecy is in fact a textual issue; a
profeta for Dante is one who foretells, who reads in the magno
volume of God’s mind (Par. XV, 50), and deciphers the book of
the future. Because prophecy is therefore essentially a matter
of correct and incorrect reading, the canto’s emphasis on
textuality is insistent: from the initial terzina, which
proclaims in deliberately technical language the author’s need
to make verse and give form to his twentieth canto, to the
equally technical reference to the Aeneid as an alta trageda
in line 113; if this is the only locus in the poem in which
Dante affixes a numerical tag to a canto, it is also a unique
definition of Vergil’s poem as a text belonging to a specific
genre. Moreover, the textual awareness of the canto’s opening
lines __ Di nova pena mi conven far versi / e dar matera al
ventesimo canto / de la prima canzon __ is shared by its final
verse: S mi parlava, e andavamo introcque. Here the presence
of a word, introcque, whose use by the Florentines is
caricatured in the De Vulgari Eloquentia, raises a host of
questions about writing and genre, and serves to close the canto
on the same textual key with which it began.

Inferno XX deals with the validity and legitimacy of the acts
of writing and reading. As Hollander has shown, Dante evokes his
classical auctores in order to correct them, misreading their
texts in such a way as to damn diviners, like Amphiaraus and
Tiresias, whom the ancients considered noble practitioners of
the art, tellers of truth. By placing these diviners in the
fourth bolgia, Dante establishes their falsity, and his
disagreement on this score with his classical predecessors. One
of the classical predecessors so invoked is Vergil, the Comedy’s
resident poeta, and it is as his new self that Vergil retells
the story of Manto, altering the earlier account found in the
tenth book of the Aeneid. The Latin poem relates that the
prophetess bears a child, Ocnus, who founds the city and gives
it his mother’s name: qui muros matrisque dedit tibi, Mantua,
nomen (who gave you walls and the name of his mother, O
Mantua [Aen. X, 200]). The Comedy, on the other hand, relates
that Manto, la vergine cruda (82), settled and died in a spot
later chosen by men from the surrounding regions as suitable for
a city: Fer la citt sovra quell’ ossa morte (91). Most
interesting about Vergil’s speech is his closing injunction to
the pilgrim to disregard all other accounts of Mantova’s
founding; since the only true story is the one he has just
heard, the pilgrim must let no lie defraud the truth, i.e. he
must reject all other accounts as false (97-99):” (1)

Heaven is a bribe and hell is a punishment. Be good and act a certain way and you will be granted admission to heaven and not be condemned to burn forever. Does it seem fair that entrance to heaven is determined by the location of a baby’s birth? If a baby was born into a God fearing Christian society then he would be rewarded with everlasting bliss. If he was unlucky enough to be born into an African tribe or an Asian village than immediately upon death he would head below to burn for an eternity. Believe like me or go to hell? It is beyond belief that some people actually believe this.

Heaven and hell seem to be based on fear. Fear controls people’s actions and makes them do things they would not normally do. Fear brings cruelty about. Organized religion and cruelty seem to go hand in hand. Although organized religion has many benefits, I feel that the absolute truth thinking that goes along with many forms of religion including Christianity is wrong.

It seems foolish to think that God has a list of ten things he does not want us to do. If we mess up and do not ask for forgiveness after we break some of these rules, we will be sent to hell to be in misery forever and ever. Believing in hell is simply a mild form of insanity.

Do these Catholic priests that molest young boys go to hell? Or does their position within the church automatically eliminate them from the hell registry?

Jackie Wellman, author of Spiritual Clarity, http://www.hoppy.bravehost.com,http://spiritualclarity.blogspot.com

In this second study I would like to start off again with the words of the Apostle Paul, and defining what a conqueror is.

Romans 8:37-39. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We said the Greek Word for conqueror here is hupernikao. Vines New Testament dictionary says that hupernikao is to gain a surpassing victory, lit., “we are hyper-conquerors,” i.e., we are pre-eminently victorious.

In this study I would like to talk about the purpose for our being conquerors. Have you ever stopped to consider the reason for us being called to conquer? Jesus has already defeated Satan, yet he is still in this world and he still has power. However his authority has been taken away. He no longer has the authority to use that power, we are the spiritual police that have been placed here to enforce God’s plan for this Earth.

Jesus said in Luke 10:19. “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

This is the New king James version. The original King James said behold I give you power.
The correct translation here is authority as the New King James says it. Vines says authority means… From the meaning of “leave or permission,” or liberty of doing as one pleases, it passed to that of “the ability or strength with which one is endued,” then to that of the “power of authority,” the right to exercise power, also the power of rule or government,” the power of one whose will and commands must be obeyed by others, that which is subject to authority or rule, one who possesses authority, a ruler, magistrate.

In other words Jesus said we were given the right to command and exercise power over the enemy. He is the One who has given us this authority. We were given very specific authority for a purpose. Without the authority to use God’s power we would fail in our mission here. However God has not called us to fail. We are called to conquer. As we said in the first study, if there was no enemy we would not need to be a conqueror. I realize this sounds like an obvious statement, but it is a truth that much of the body of Christ has not seen. If there was no obstacle to overcome, God would not have needed to give us the ability to overcome would He??? He has given us the authority to overcome and has done so, so that we can fulfill our purpose here on this Earth, to fulfill the great commission.

Jesus said we are the salt of the Earth, what good is salt if it has lost its saltiness. It’s no good at all. We are here to preserve this Earth, not just to take up space. We do this by walking in the authority that Jesus has given to us. We are here to enforce what Jesus has already accomplished. We are here to take back by the power of God what Satan is illegally taking from God’s children. That’s the reason for the authority. Not just so there would be no problems. There are always going to be problems. We have been called to enforce God’s rule and overcome every problem so that the Gospel can go forth over the Earth. But first of all we have to understand that there is a process to this. We don’t start out as walking as world conquerors, even though we have been given the authority we have to learn to walk in these things. We start out as babies. We have to learn to walk in this victory so that we can keep and preserve the land that we have overcome, and not loose what we have gained. I have seen people delivered by the power of God and then some months later loose what they had received. The reason for this is that they had no teaching on how to keep the victory. They did not know how to walk in a sustained state of victory and maintain what they had been given. They lost what was legally theirs. They still had the authority to stay delivered, but they didn’t know how to walk in it. God wants us to conquer the land progressively and keep what we have won. It’s hard to take the victory away from someone who has conquered the land and fortified the walls after they inhabited it. On the other hand if they had just walked into the land and pitched a tent, they would be ripe for the enemies picking so to speak.

The Old Testament is full of such examples and they are there for our benefit. We can see how the children of Israel succeeded and also failed if they didn’t follow God’s plan.

1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come.
Let’s take a look at an Old Testament example of this.

Exodus 23:27-30. “I will send My fear before you, I will cause confusion among all the people to whom you come, and will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you. I will not drive them out from before you in one year, lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field become too numerous for you. Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have increased, and you inherit the land.

We can see God’s intent here in this passage of Scripture. His sole purpose all along was for them to occupy the land and not loose it. He didn’t call them into the desert to fail, but because they would not accept that, and were disobedient and not trusting, they had to die off first before a new generation could come in and inherited the promised land.
These people of God were never able to inherit the promised land because they refused to put their trust in Him.

They were called to the land that they were to inherit. They were called to the land that they were to conqueror. God did all the work and they got the promise, yet they had a part to play in this. They had to trust God, and walk in obedience. We also see that it didn’t happen all at once for a very good reason. It happened gradually so that the land would not become desolate, and be taken over by the beasts of the field. You don’t have to strain very hard in order to see the New Testament correlation in this.
God went before them and drove out the enemy, then He walked the children of Israel into their land in such a way that they would be able to keep it, and sustain it. Little by little.

The children of Israel had to inhabit the land as they conquered it. There was a process to fulfilling God’s plan. God ordains growth this way, least we loose the victory. God always has a purpose for us to conquer the land and we must follow His directions in order to succeed. God has ordained us to conquer our enemies. He has also called us to conquer the circumstances that would get in the way of what He has called us to do. We have all had circumstances in life that have seemed to overwhelm us at times yet God has called us to walk through them victoriously, not die in them. The children of Israel were led into the wilderness into very adverse circumstances, an estimated 3 to 4 million people with no food or water. They would not consider that God had not delivered them out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt, to give them a new life. They murmured and complained against Moses all the time. There are 11 different Scriptures making mention of this in the Old Testament. God had a plan and a purpose all along if they would have just trusted Him. Murmuring and complaining will only defeat you in life. As I have already stated, God did not call them into the wilderness to die, yet that is just what happened because of their murmuring and complaining, and their thankless attitude.

1 Corinthians 10:9-10 nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; nor murmur, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

Murmuring and complaining will only open the door to the enemy and gives him an opportunity to thwart the plan and purpose of God in your life, again, this was never God’s will for them. God led them through a series of circumstances to teach them to trust in Him, not to destroy them. They were given the opportunity to learn to trust in Him. This was a time of preparation. Have you ever considered that they would have never conquered the promised land if they had not learned to trust in God first? It was through all the wilderness experiences that they truly got this opportunity. They were constantly surrounded by enemies as well as adverse circumstances that seemed to say you can’t succeed, yet God delivered them out of them all!!!!! There is a lesson here for us all. The Lord is our complete resource, yet we have to come to acknowledge His total provision. Let’s learn from their experiences.

Let’s look at our opening Scripture again, Romans 8:37-39. Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We have to learn as the children of Israel did, to put our trust in Him. As conquerors we have to come to the place where we put our total trust in God, or we will never conquer the land as our Lord intended.

Proverbs 3:5-6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.

God is faithful, we must praise him in every circumstance of life, not for every circumstance but in every circumstance. He is all sufficient to meet our every need regardless of what is thrown our way. The children of Israel would not put away their slave mentality and place their trust in God. He can be trusted. Lift up your eyes, we serve the one true God who is more than sufficient in every circumstance of life.

If you truly want to know for sure that you are a child of God, then I would like to invite you to earnestly pray this prayer.

Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you in the name of Jesus. Your word says, “…and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out.” (Jn.6:37),

So I know You won’t cast me out, but You take me in, And I thank you for it. You said in your Word, “whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Ro. 10:13).

I am calling on Your name, So I know You have saved me now, You also said, “…that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made to salvation.” (Ro.10:9,10).

I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. I believe He was raised from the dead for my justification. And I confess Him now as my Lord, Because Your Word says, “… with the heart one believes to righteousness…” and I do believe with my heart, I have now become the righteousness of God in Christ. (2 Cor. 5:21),

And I am saved! Thank You, Lord!
I can now truthfully say, I see myself as a born again child of God!
Glory to God!!!! Amen.

I was raised Catholic, and was born again at the age of 17. I received God’s call into ministry at the age of 19 and began to prepare for ministry. I graduated from Rhema Bible Training Center in 1979, The Lord has called me to teach. I want to help other come to a knowledge of the truth and have started a web site for the purpose of teaching and discipleship called The Olive Branch; http://www.olivebranchministries.us

Things in the Old Testament were given for us to have examples
of what to do and what not to do. Paul shows us this.

1 Cor 10:6 6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent
we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. (KJV)

1 Cor 10:11 11 Now all these things happened unto them for
ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom
the ends of the world are come. (KJV)

Obviously Paul is reciting some of Israel’s history for us to
profit from their example. Much of the Old Testament is still
for our examples today. For instance, Malachi records that God
commanded for the tithes to be brought into the storehouse.

Mal 3:10 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that
there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith,
saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of
heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be
room enough to receive it. (KJV)

The first question about this for us Christians today is this.
What is this “storehouse?” Again the Old Testament pattern will
answer this for us.

“Storehouse” is not the only word used to describe what this
“storehouse” means. In 1 Chronicles 26:20, the word used is
“treasures.” In Nehemiah 13: 13 the word used is “treasuries.”
In 2 Chronicles 31:11, Nehemiah 12:44 and 13:5 the word
“chambers” is used to describe the concept behind “storehouse.”
Finally, in Nehemiah 10:38, both the words “chambers” and
“treasure house” is used.

>From the above, we can readily see that “storehouse” is a place
for God’s treasures of tithes. But what are these treasures to
be used for. This is the second question for us Christians
concerning bringing our tithes into the storehouse.

Compare all the Scriptures given above. Without exception, the
treasures, meat, prey and/or spoil brought into the store house
were for the support of the ministry.

This includes both buildings and ministers. They were for the
support of the Levites all the way down to the most humble
servant. These ministers and their helpers were the recipients
of the benefits of the storehouse treasures.

None, absolutely none, of the ministers and helpers were to be
left out. All of them were to receive their part.

These two things, then, were to be cared for from the storehouse
treasures: the buildings and equipment and those who ministered
in them and with them.

Today, many wonder why they tithe and the large blessings
promised to them in return, do not seem to come their way. Could
it be the storehouse they use does not support every member of
the ministry like the above Scriptures plainly show?

Many storehouses today simply don’t recognize some God ordained
mimistries. They will recognize workers in their organization,
but not some of those in the Scriptures. These storehouses will
fail to generate the large blessings promised to the tithers.

This is the reason why God instructed us to abound to “every
good work.” “Abound” here translates a word that means “to make
wealthy.” We are to support God’s “every good work” to the point
of “making it wealthy.”

In so doing, the promise of large blessings kicks in again for
us. He said He would “abound” to us. He will also “make us
wealthy.” At the very least, He will meet our needs.

This is the “storehouse.” This “storehouse” takes care of both
buildings, ministers and contains the Malachi romise: “blessings
so large there will not be room enough to receive it!”