A Friend In Jesus

Proverbs 18: 16 – 24

 A man’s gift makes room for him,

And brings him before great men.

¹⁷ The first one to plead his cause seems right,
Until his neighbor comes and examines him.

¹⁸ Casting lots causes contentions to cease,
And keeps the mighty apart.

¹⁹ A brother offended is harder to win than a strong city,
And contentions are like the bars of a castle.

²⁰ A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;
From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.

²¹ Death and life are in the power of the tongue,
And those who love it will eat its fruit.

²² He who finds a wife finds a good thing,
And obtains favor from the Lord.

²³ The poor man uses entreaties,
But the rich answers roughly.

²⁴ A man who has friends must himself be friendly,
But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

 What are your gifts?  And how are you using them to bring glory to God?  Are you training and growing your gift in God’s word?  We have been ordained to be on God’s earth and He says He has given us gifts to use to edify and give glory to Him and His Son.  However, the only way to train our gifts, to give glory is to study to show ourselves approved.  We may even have to separate ourselves from family and friends just to give that honor to our creator.  Believe me He is worthy and is now sitting upon His throne until all His enemies have become His footstool.  Wickedness must cease, and thoughts that don’t line up biblical must be put away for us to be free and enjoy our gift.  As long as we walk around wearing our feelings and emotions on our shoulders, we will stay defeated.  God says, we are warriors and conquerors of evil and only constructive criticism, love, patience for the next man and ourselves will grow us into leaders and ambassadors for Christ.  Our words are to satisfy us and build our dreams for God, man, and ourselves.  We can’t keep on killing relationships and our dreams with our words, nor build paradise around us with them, if there not edifying.  Verse 21 says the poor man uses entreaties, meaning he thinks before he speaks to take ground, to grow whatever he has to satisfy himself and his family.  However, the wealthy let their money speak for them, turning them into prideful, arrogant beast, no matter how attractive or unattractive they may be.  Keep it real, and find a true friend in Jesus.

Blessings to all as you search for our friend Jesus,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

Seek God's Knowledge

Proverbs 18: 1 - 15

A man who isolates himself seeks his own desire;
He rages against all wise judgment.

² A fool has no delight in understanding,
But in expressing his own heart.

³ When the wicked comes, contempt comes also;
And with dishonor comes reproach.

⁴ The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;
The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

⁵ It is not good to show partiality to the wicked,
Or to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

⁶ A fool’s lips enter into contention,
And his mouth calls for blows.
⁷ A fool’s mouth is his destruction,
And his lips are the snare of his soul.
⁸ The words of a talebearer are like tasty trifles,
And they go down into the inmost body.

⁹ He who is slothful in his work
Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.

¹⁰ The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
The righteous run to it and are safe.
¹¹ The rich man’s wealth is his strong city,
And like a high wall in his own esteem.

¹² Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty,
And before honor is humility.

¹³ He who answers a matter before he hears it,
It is folly and shame to him.

¹⁴ The spirit of a man will sustain him in sickness,
But who can bear a broken spirit?

¹⁵ The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge,
And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

We can’t continue to take man’s theory on life and our world, believing it’s the gospel.  Earth has been here since the beginning of time, and we’ve yet to get it right.  We’ve deceived, lied, and taken bargains just to cover up Jesus’ time here on earth and His resurrection into heaven. 

(Acts 4: 10-12 / 23-26) “. . . let it be known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead, by Him this man stands here before you whole. ¹¹ This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone.’ ¹² Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

“And being let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them. ²⁴ So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God with one accord and said: “Lord, You are God, who made heaven and earth and the sea, and all that is in them, ²⁵ who by the mouth of Your servant David have said:

‘Why did the nations rage,
And the people plot vain things?
²⁶ The kings of the earth took their stand,
And the rulers were gathered together
Against the Lord and against His Christ.’”

God tells us in verse 4 that our words are deep waters and can be a wellspring of great wisdom.  But He tells us in 1 Timothy 1: 5-7 ^“Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, ⁶ from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk, ⁷ desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say nor the things which they affirm.”  So in Job 38: 1-3 the Lord asks “Who is this that darkens counsel By words without knowledge?  Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer me.” 

I recommend family that you read that entire chapter.  Our world is in disarray because God is questioning us and we can’t give an answer.  So we’re reaping what we are sowing from our words and actions.  God tells us in Deuteronomy 6: 4-15 “The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. 

⁶ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

¹⁰ “So it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build, ¹¹ houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant—when you have eaten and are full— ¹² then beware, lest you forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. ¹³ You shall fear the Lord your God and serve Him, and shall take oaths in His name. ¹⁴ You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you ¹⁵ (for the Lord your God is a jealous God among you), lest the anger of the Lord your God be aroused against you and destroy you from the face of the earth.”

Our words, wisdom, and knowledge are destroying us and God says in 1 Corinthians 3: 18-21, “Let no one deceive himself.  If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.  For it is written, ‘He catches the wise in their own craftiness’; and again, ‘The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.’  Therefore let no one boast in men for all things are yours.”  Seek God’s knowledge.

 

Blessings to all as we seek knowledge in God’s truth,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

Partakers

Hebrews 3

Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus, 2 who was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was faithful in all His house. 3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as He who built the house has more honor than the house. 4 For every house is built by someone, but He who built all things is God. 5 And Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward, 6 but Christ as a Son over His own house, whose house we are if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm to the end.

7 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,

8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,

In the day of trial in the wilderness,

9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,

And saw My works forty years.

10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,

And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,

And they have not known My ways.’

11 So I swore in My wrath,

‘They shall not enter My rest.’”

12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we have become partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end, 15 while it is said:

“Today, if you will hear His voice,

Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion.”

16 For who, having heard, rebelled? Indeed, was it not all who came out of Egypt, led by Moses? 17 Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness? 18 And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? 19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

We are partakers of a heavenly calling on our lives to manifest heaven here on earth.  Matthew 16: 19  “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”  We are called to be honest, truthful, loving vessels to bring the promises from God into our lives.  Only faith in His word will separate us from the lie we live and produce heaven on earth.  Glory and grace has been given to us that we may seek this wonderful gift and die to all the things we thought would bring us joy, to experience true everlasting joy.  However, we are to start this journey expressing the fruits of the spirit knowing our faith will not fail us.  God has built all things through man, because His breath wakes us and puts us to sleep each evening to continue our visions.  So we are to speak to things here on earth in belief that God will also build our dreams, if it is to further the gospel of His son.  Verse 6 says we are to remain in confidence and joy as we walk our missions out.  Stay firm in our hope, without wavering, because God says let not that man think he will receive anything from Him.  God also asks, that we give up our worldly lives to find the life He has already ordained for us.  (In) Verse 10 God says we go astray because we have not learned His ways and put them into our hearts.  Verse 11 states so He swore we would not enter His rest.  Our world is moving and scrambling to get this or that done and sincerity, love, and caring patience plays no part in their projects.  We interact like aliens with one another though we all bleed red, the blood of Jesus Christ.  We must turn our hearts around in love.  Greet each other daily in smiles and joy talking and conversing with God in our hearts who wants to draw near to us in that same love and honesty to give us rest and peace.  Partake of His goodness.

Partakers, partake of the goodness from God,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst

Strive To Love All

1 Corinthians 9: 19-27

 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; ²⁰ and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; ²¹ to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; ²² to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. ²³ Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.

²⁴ Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. ²⁵ And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown. ²⁶ Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air. ²⁷ But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.

We must let the word of God free us from our world’s thinking and actions to be of service to Him and our King Jesus Christ.  We have to be free in our minds, bodies, and spirits to become holy vessels of sacrifice; in Romans 12: 1-2 God says, it is our reasonable service.  He states in Hebrews 5:14 “We are to exercise our senses to discern both good and evil.”  And Ephesians 4:12 says we do this “For the perfecting of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.”  I thank God from the bottom of my heart that He has taught, loved, and taken me out of our world’s confusion.  I don’t care how much material wealth we try to cover up our shortcomings and flaws with.  Our world is in turmoil because we have yet to put our blood, sweat and tears into the word of God.  In verse 19 Paul says that though he is free from all men, he has made himself a servant to God and them.  That can only be done when one has humbled them self to Christ in the fruits of the spirit, looking through the eyes of Christ and His word, to examine the hurt and pain we subject ourselves to, by not administering the word into our hearts.  Paul ran the race seeking, searching, and finding our bible to be true to obtained his crown.  Then continued in the race to pass it on.  We don’t have to fight ourselves and each other for our crowns.  God owns the world and everything in it and if we’ll take the time to search it in faith and belief we can inherit it too.  But discipline, patience, love and work to deny ourselves worldly gain and to take on the mind of Heavenly gain is how we will see it on earth.  Strive to Love all.

Bless us Lord as we become all things to serve You,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.  

God Promised

Genesis 12

 Now the Lord had said to Abram:

“Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,
To a land that I will show you.
² I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
³ I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

⁴ So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. ⁵ Then Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people whom they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan. ⁶ Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land.

⁷ Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” And there he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.⁸ And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. ⁹ So Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.

¹⁰ Now there was a famine in the land, and Abram went down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was severe in the land. ¹¹ And it came to pass, when he was close to entering Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, “Indeed I know that you are a woman of beautiful countenance. ¹² Therefore it will happen, when the Egyptians see you, that they will say, ‘This is his wife’; and they will kill me, but they will let you live. ¹³ Please say you are my sister, that it may be well with me for your sake, and that I may live because of you.”

¹⁴ So it was, when Abram came into Egypt, that the Egyptians saw the woman, that she was very beautiful. ¹⁵ The princes of Pharaoh also saw her and commended her to Pharaoh. And the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.¹⁶ He treated Abram well for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ But the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. ¹⁸ And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? ¹⁹ Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’? I might have taken her as my wife. Now therefore, here is your wife; take her and go your way.” ²⁰ So Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him; and they sent him away, with his wife and all that he had.

Until we believe the entirety of the bible, and put it into our hearts, nothing can be accomplished in our lives.  God says there is one God who rules heaven and earth, and He is that God.  Running around from religion to religion is a waste of valuable time and energy when you are trying to live life to the fullest without selling your soul.  After seeing my father in a vision of light and that light coming down on me at 16, then witnessing my DVR taping shows on its own in 2011, I realized God was building me to put his word into the hearts of man.  It wasn’t hard to quit my job, take what little money I had while on parole and take a swan dive of faith into this pit of snakes called our world.  God says His word is good today, yesterday, and forever.  So I refused to let the people around me including my family, hold me back from such a luxurious life God was offering me in His word.  And as long as I stayed committed to loving our lost brothers and sisters who were all around me, I knew God would fulfill His promise.  The Holy bible is what it is called, and I understood that to be upright, honest, clean, loving, and whatever else it told me to be.  So I pressed for the upward call of our Lord’s glory and remained fighting for what God said was mine.  Our only reason for living on this earth is to please God and He will in turn please us.  A promise has been made thousands of years ago and God wants to keep it today.  But until we die to our fleshly wants and desires it will be impossible to receive the promise and inheritance God wants to give us.  And as we just read in the scriptures, we have been trying to fulfill our fleshly desires since God made the promise to our father Abraham.  We must lift our spirits up to what the bible commands and seek holiness.  Let’s humble ourselves and help God keep His promise. 

Bless us Lord as we humble ourselves to love you and Your promise,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst

Glory And Majesty

Palms 45: 1-8

My heart is overflowing with a good theme;
I recite my composition concerning the King;
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

² You are fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
³ Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O Mighty One,
With Your glory and Your majesty.
⁴ And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
⁵ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.

⁶ Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has anointed You
With the oil of gladness more than Your companions.
⁸ All Your garments are scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.

Joy, enthusiasm, excitement, and contentment should be flowing from our hearts after we’ve given all of our worries and cares over to God Almighty because we have now stepped into a spiritual dimension where the sky is the limit.  Then our bibles are to shape mold and define us into holy vessels who are to take over the world.  God is on a mission, and He has given us dominion over His earth to carry it out.  When we are striving to meet His every command there’s no amount of love He won’t give to help us on our journey.  Our Lord says He will stick closer than a brother to us.  He goes on to say that Father God will have our backs and He will be in front leading the way.  God also says He will guide us with His eye as long as truth, humility, and righteousness are coming from our very being.  We serve the God who rules the universe and knows all things before they even happen.  Who would not want to align with Him and help change our world?  We have been anointed to do remarkable things for the kingdom of God as we destroy the enemy in our walk.  God has ordained lives for us that we speak to kings and queens who are our brothers and sisters to show them their wrongs and their disconnection from the truth.  However, we must be humble and learn His ways to receive His glory and majesty. 

Bless His glory and majesty all around us,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

Blind Leading The Blind

Matthew 15: 1-20

Then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came to Jesus, saying, 2 “Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” 3 He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— 6 then he need not honor his father or mother.’ Thus you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. 7 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth, And honor Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ” 10 When He had called the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear and understand: 11 Not what goes into the mouth defiles a man; but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.” 12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?” 13 But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” 15 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “Explain this parable to us.”
16 So Jesus said, “Are you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. 20 These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.”



We have all these man made thoughts and traditions leading our world that God can’t get a word in edgewise.  These man made ideas, myths, and analogies have turned us into prideful, arrogant people.  God controls our world and if we are walking, conversing, and living our lives for Him, He says He will put no disease or ill on us.  We can even drink poison and it will not harm us if our faith is in God Almighty.  He says it’s not what goes into our mouths that defiles us but what comes out.  However our world has us under the belief that certain foods, cigarettes, liquors etc. will harm us.  But all of our diseases are plagues put on us by not operating in the word of God and adhering to its protocol for living. And Jesus said to them in Mark 16: 15-18, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. 17 And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; 18 they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”  Luke 10:18-21, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 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. 20 Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.” 21 In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes.”   Deuteronomy 28:58-61 However, tells us, "If we do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that we may fear this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, then the Lord will bring upon us and our descendants extraordinary plagues-great and prolonged plagues-and serious and prolonged sicknesses.  More over He will bring back on us all the diseases of Egypt, of which they were afraid, and they shall cling to us.  Also every sickness and plague, which is not written in this Book Of The Law, until we are destroyed.”  God says we honor Him with our lips but our hearts are far away from Him.  We know if we’re submitting to God 100% and if not He states don’t think it’s strange when all these ills and mishaps come upon us.  God says, we are brothers and sisters and if we will begin to act as such and care for one another, all our hurts and pains will begin to slowly subside because we’re grounded on the word of God and not on man’s word given to him by the enemy.  When we begin to look at our world through the eyes and heart of God, all the turmoil and confusion will begin to wither away.  Verse 1 is a complete example of God’s word that says, do not compare ourselves among ourselves.  Christ goes on to say that the children are not honoring father or mother.  Our world is so twisted that parents today believe their children are to take care of them because they brought them into the world.  But most births are by accident and marriages are formed out of lust and not from the ordainment of God.  So we deceive ourselves and everyone around us when blinded from God’s truth.  Parents are to support and guide their children to the laws of God.  Building their lives and careers off it to leave an inheritance for their children.  It is hard on a child’s mind, when parents are indecisive, controlling, manipulative or even to giving for the wrong reasons. God is here to help us. His commands are there to protect us. To lead us into a peace and inheritance that surpasses all understanding.  Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the thoughts I have for you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Don’t be blind, leading the blind.

Blessings to all as we remove the blindness from our eyes and heart to see our God,


Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.    

Look Up God's There

Psalms 112

Praise the Lord!

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who delights greatly in His commandments.

² His descendants will be mighty on earth;
The generation of the upright will be blessed.
³ Wealth and riches will be in his house,
And his righteousness endures forever.
⁴ Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness;
He is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.
⁵ A good man deals graciously and lends;
He will guide his affairs with discretion.
⁶ Surely he will never be shaken;
The righteous will be in everlasting remembrance.
⁷ He will not be afraid of evil tidings;
His heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.
⁸ His heart is established;
He will not be afraid,
Until he sees his desire upon his enemies.

⁹ He has dispersed abroad,
He has given to the poor;
His righteousness endures forever;
His horn will be exalted with honor.
¹⁰ The wicked will see it and be grieved;
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked shall perish.

Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, verse 1 says.  But ask yourself do your thoughts words and actions make you repent before God, each day?  Do you delight yourself each morning that God opens your eyes, feeds, clothes, and gives you a world to prosper in, through His word?  Are you smiling and loving as you walk down the street, because you know God is in your presence and completing His work in you?  We must take on the mind of Christ to receive our blessings.  Mingling with our world on their terms, then praying to God, believing your blessing is on its way is in vain.  God has wealth and riches He wants to give us.  But if we’re working our own missions speaking what we believe will bring it to pass and not the word of God into our situation, we are living a lie.  He says we must be upright to see the light.  We must have love and an honest heart to witness His blessings.  He says His righteousness endures forever.  So, we are to jump in line with right hearts and our mustard seed of faith, then watch the blessings manifest before our eyes.  We are to be gracious spirits always wanting to help the next man in word or deed.  We must guide our affairs in holiness and right thinking, not being fools with the blessings God sends our way.  We’re to build character and integrity in our spirits trusting in the Lord that His blessings will come.  We must search the bible diligently in order to learn and know how to avoid satan’s traps.  No one will really have our backs in this fight for our freedom.  Christ says in John 15: 18-22 “If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.20 Remember the word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.  So if you’re not trying to free your mind, heart and soul to God, look up, He’s there.

Bless us Lord God as we look up to you for our freedom,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.  

Prosper In The Land

Genesis 26: 1- 14

There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

² Then the Lord appeared to him and said: “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land of which I shall tell you. ³ Dwell in this land, and I will be with you and bless you; for to you and your descendants I give all these lands, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. ⁴ And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;⁵ because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

⁶ So Isaac dwelt in Gerar. ⁷ And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, “She is my sister”; for he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” because he thought, “lest the men of the place kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to behold.” ⁸ Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife. ⁹ Then Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Quite obviously she is your wife; so how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”

Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die on account of her.’”

¹⁰ And Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might soon have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us.”¹¹ So Abimelech charged all his people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

¹² Then Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord blessed him. ¹³ The man began to prosper, and continued prospering until he became very prosperous; ¹⁴ for he had possessions of flocks and possessions of herds and a great number of servants. So the Philistines envied him.

There is a famine in our lands today, and the famine is of God.  We are seeking, searching and finding but in the end we’re still not satisfied. Why? Because God says, He is the vine and we are His branches and without Him we can do nothing. God also says in Deuteronomy 8:18 and we shall remember the Lord, our God, for it is He who gives us the power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to our fathers as it is this day. God doesn’t change His mind like we do sometimes, He will not tell us to let our yes be yes and our no, no, if He didn’t practice what He preached.  However, do we? Especially regarding to scriptures? God says His word is good yesterday, today and forever. He has made an oath with our forefathers and would like very much to keep it. But our inheritance from our ancestors can only be obtained by standing in the truth of the bible. We must come boldly to the throne of God in dire desperation, working His charge, commandment, statues and laws. There is no other way. God also states, if we will do this all the nations of the earth will be blessed.  Someone has to stand upright in our world. Be of righteousness and truth to our Lord and the next man, to bring peace on earth. In Romans 12: 1-2 it says, “I beseech you therefore, Brethren by the mercies of God, that we present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service, And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” We are not to approve ourselves, God is to approve us.  And we cannot obtain His approval until we are working out our salvation with fear and trembling to gain it. Our minds have been taken by the enemy and is not up to God to make us love Him. He has given us free reign and dominion over our earth, to love it and Him. So He commands that we choose whom we are going to serve.  We can either draw near to Him, or stick with satan and continue to walk around in confusion in our minds. God asks us to not fear, lie, cheat, steal, etc.  Though, Isaac told a lie to Abimelech, in fear, disobeying God’s commands.  I can only believe he knew it was to further the gospel and bring peace to the lands for God.  He sowed what God required and reaped the benefits.  Prosper in the lands family, God’s way, and bring true peace.

Blessings as we take on the mind of Christ and prosper,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

Pursue Peace

Hebrews 12: 14-29

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord: ¹⁵ looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled; ¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright. ¹⁷ For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.

¹⁸ For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, ¹⁹ and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it begged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore. ²⁰ (For they could not endure what was commanded: “And if so much as a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned or shot with an arrow.” ²¹ And so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, “I am exceedingly afraid and trembling.”)

²² But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, ²³ to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, ²⁴ to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel.

²⁵ See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke on earth, much more shall we not escape if we turn away from Him who speaks from heaven, ²⁶ whose voice then shook the earth; but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I shake not only the earth, but also heaven.” ²⁷ Now this, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of those things that are being shaken, as of things that are made, that the things which cannot be shaken may remain.

²⁸ Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. ²⁹ For our God is a consuming fire.

The bible is plain and simple, but ask yourself are you?  Do you want things, the way you want?  Do you consider yourself a perfectionist?  Is it your way or the highway?  Just like we set standards and decide what we will and won’t do, the God who runs our universe does as well.  His breath has been blown into us so we are doing what He does we’re just doing it against His will, which is why we are not receiving the promises and blessings we desire.  We’re striving for all things that we believe will bring peace to our lives.  But, God said in Matthew 10: 34-39 do not think I came to bring peace on earth.  I did not come to bring peace but a sword.  He says our enemies will be those of our household.  The sword is our bible and it is to cut and define us into holy vessels.  And if we place anyone above His word we are not worthy to become His disciples.  We are to lose our earthly lives and train in holy ones.  We will not remain on earth forever; we are to live in a new heaven that calls us to be holy to get in.  God says pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see Him.  That is how we’re to train ourselves in this fight with the enemy who has our brothers and sisters consumed with this world.  The bible outlines many traits we are to take on to turn ourselves into holy beings.  And as we do this you will learn more and more how the enemy has blinded us to God’s truth.  There is an inheritance that God wants to give us here on earth and life everlasting in eternity.  But if His standard and protocol for living on earth is not learned and shared we should not think we will receive anything.  The living God is here and watches our every thought and interaction with man, so it is up to us to take on His word and commands, then execute them.  Verses 28-29 says “Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have grace, by which we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear.  For our God is a consuming fire.”  Pursue Peace.

Bless us Lord as we pursue Your peace not our own,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.

God's Chastisement

Hebrews 12: 1-13

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls. ⁴ You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin. ⁵ And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons:

“My son, do not despise the chastening of the Lord,
Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him;
⁶ For whom the Lord loves He chastens,
And scourges every son whom He receives.”

⁷ If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom a father does not chasten? ⁸ But if you are without chastening, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate and not sons. ⁹ Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? ¹⁰ For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. ¹¹ Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

¹² Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, ¹³ and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

We are surrounded by a cloud of witnesses the word says: God, our Lord, the elders, elects, angels and spirits including thunder, lightning and fire etc.  When you’re living for God and making Him your all in all, He will show you signs, wonders, and visions as we read our bibles and stay connected to Him.  Dying to our flesh and becoming a holy being is what God desires for us.  God tells us this race is not to the quick and fast, but to those who take their time in His word, to take the knowledge and wisdom from it, implementing it into their daily walk.  Remember, God says faith without works is dead.  Sin that so easily ensnares us we are to lay aside.  This can only be done, when we have total belief that the bible is true, and all of its promises can be revealed if we work it by faith.  God asks us not to become weary and discouraged through our fight of faith.  Meaning we are not going to become an overnight success.  Jesus had to walk this walk for 33 years to get the job completely done never once sinning, so how do we suppose we are any better.  God asks our parents to train us up in this right belief and be examples of how it should be walked.  However, since most of us who didn’t have that luxury we must work out our salvation with fear and trembling on our own.  God intends on spending the rest of eternity with us, so we must be well trained and equipped in knowledge and wisdom, able to humble ourselves and bow at His every request.  He says, our chastisement is not going to be spiritually joyful but painful.  He sent His pure and holy child down to earth because our bible ancestors refused to get this right.  We must now endure some of our kings suffering to know the extent He went to for us.  1 Peter 4: 1,2 says “Therefore since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind, for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, that he should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.”   God says in versus 12-13, strengthen our hands which hang down, from this chastisement stand up straight and make for our feet new pathways, stop entertaining sin with sinful people so what is lame might not be dislocated for life, but rather healed by Him.  Our fight is spiritual, so we must choose whom we’re going to serve.  I say God, and embrace His chastisement.

Bless us all God as we embrace your chastisement in love,

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.  

Meditate

Philippians 4: 1-9

Therefore, my beloved and longed-for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.

² I implore Euodia and I implore Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. ³ And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life.

⁴ Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

⁵ Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.

⁶ Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; ⁷ and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

⁸ Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. ⁹ The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.

 

 Verse 1 says, “Therefore, my beloved and longed for brethren, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, beloved.”  This is honest pure love being extended to all.  Hope, joy and happiness in this gift from God.  All of God’s children, who we are, are to delight ourselves in it, and exchange it with one another until Jesus comes.  Our blessings can only fall and manifest when the heart is focused on God and love for the next man.  We must build a pure, loving, sincere heart, ready to go through this spiritual war zone into God’s loving arms.  We must practice using the armor of God in our daily lives.  Because if we're not walking in the same mind, in all accord with one another and in our Lord, we are going to have a fight on our hands to receive God’s gift.  This is why we see so much discord now.  We must rejoice each day; smile each day; and show love in all situations God and satan are sending our way to show ourselves approved.  We do this to receive the blessings and crown.  A gentle heart and loving words are to take us across this battle field in a peace that surpasses all understanding.  Prayers, supplication, and thanksgiving are to pierce the heavens to have all our desires met.  We are in a fight with satan, who is trying to keep us from all blessings and eternity.  So we must gird our minds in loveliness, pure thoughts, and meditate on these things that they begin to flow from our mouths, calling things that aren’t as though they are.  God has a wonderful life already ordained for us.  Meditate children of God.

Bless the meditations of our minds, May they be fixed on our Lord.

Vincent Young, Christian Analyst.