PUTIN’S WAR

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PUTIN’S WAR.           “WORTH CONSIDERING”    4/13/22    From Ken Smith<><  

In Ezek. 38 the Prophet tells about a time that looks much like what is beginning to happen at this point in time.
Of course,  the prophesy might also fit at the end of the 1,000 year earthly Kingdom Reign of Christ Jesus.   And as with some other prophesies it could be about both.   But it does seem to tell us that things are coming to a close as per Bible prophesy according to Matt. 24,  Mark 13 & Luke 21.    These are one Jesus prophesy,  about the same event,  from 3 different perspectives so that we get this important information in 3D.  Best to use the Amplified Bible for this as it gives a little more insight into what the original Greek contains.

It would seem like that Putin may press on with his war in Eastern Europe and it will not stop with Ukraine.   And as Israel has the largest natural gas deposit in the world off of their shore; it is only logical that Russia would want to either absorb or destroy the competition.   There is already the preliminary study in Israel of becoming the gas supply for Europe.   So the possibility of Russia and a few other states as mentioned in the Prophesy might just take the war in that direction.  Mesheck was the ancient word for Moscow and of course Russia is north of Israel.   So what does that mean for us?   Well I ordered more gardening books and good seeds today.  Still need to get the water and power systems on line.  Seems we may be headed into a 2nd Great Depression and you might want to study about the one in 1929.   And all that was happening then before it happened, is happening even worse today.    So you might want to reach out to:   Store.MotherEarthNews.com and take a look at what they have available for off grid, powerless, empty stores, no gas kind of living.   In Hawaii it may be even worse in the beginning as most of our power and food is shipped in.

As for us here in Kealia, we are about 50% into becoming self sufficient except for water and power.  So along with our gardens we are focused on water and power at this time.   With the acre we have we might be able to support about 12 people if all was well oiled and running well.

And the LORD Jesus told us, as did HIS Disciples to make HIM the example and the only door for eternal life.   That through HIM was the only way to make the jump to light speed into eternity with our Creator God.  So at the same time we are also digging into HIS teachings like in Matt.6:32-34:  “For the [pagan] Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; [but do not worry,] for your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.  34   So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”  And add,   1 John 2:24-16, “Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world. 17 The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.”

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace & Mercy,    Ken<><     www.OhanaChurch.Life

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All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are Eternal Members.

GRACE

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GRACE:    “WORTH CONSIDERING”     3/23/22      From Ken Smith<><

There is generally a sort of a fluffy, Santa Clause,  feeling with most Christians concerning the word Grace, or Grace of God..   Like something that we say over our food before we eat.   Or when something special happens to a person that is unexpected that is really good,  Like from God.

In the Webster Dictionary,   Grace means:  a: unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.   b: a virtue coming from God.  c: a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine assistance.    But,  Most folks think it means”   1 attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, winsomeness; refinement, class. 3 kindness, kindliness, love, benignity; benevolence. 4 forgiveness, charity.  But to truly understand a word used in the Bible we need to allow the Bible to be the Context.

So in the Bible we find the following: Eph. 2:7-12:   “[and He did this] so that in the ages to come He might [clearly] show the immeasurable and unsurpassed riches of His grace in [His] kindness toward us in Christ Jesus [by providing for our redemption]. 8 For it is by grace [God’s remarkable compassion and favor drawing you to Christ] that you have been saved [actually delivered from judgment and given eternal life] through faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [not through your own effort], but it is the [undeserved, gracious] gift of God; 9 not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation]. 10 For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].’

So does this mean we are simple a bunch of robots?   That the Saved and the Lost are both just a matter of God’s choice?  There is a little word in our Bible  that is often overlooked, the word is foreknowledge:  
1 Peter 1:2   according to the foreknowledge of God the Father by the sanctifying work of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace [that special sense of spiritual well-being] be yours in increasing abundance [as you walk closely with God].
Romans 8:29   For those whom He foreknew [and loved and chose beforehand], He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son [and ultimately share in His complete sanctification], so that He would be the firstborn [the most beloved and honored] among many believers.

So in 1 Cor. 13, please notice that there are two different time dimensions.   One is the one we live in and the other dimension is where GOD lives.   So it would appear that before we were born God saw the desires of our heart even before any physical creation of the universe and set in motion the Grace or Power to help us to make the transition from our time zone into His time zone if we wanted to?
1 Cor. 13:9    For we know in part, and we prophesy in part [for our knowledge is fragmentary and incomplete]. 10 But when that which is complete and perfect comes, that which is incomplete and partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now [in this time of imperfection] we see in a mirror dimly [a blurred reflection, a riddle, an enigma], but then [when the time of perfection comes we will see reality] face to face. Now I know in part [just in fragments], but then I will know fully, just as I have been fully known [by God]. 13 And now there remain: faith [abiding trust in God and His promises], hope [confident expectation of eternal salvation], love [unselfish love for others growing out of God’s love for me], these three [the choicest graces]; but the greatest of these is love.

So our Creator God, ponders our hearts, even before we exist and make decisions and HE extends HIS Grace (Power) to help us make the transition from our temporary dimension in time to HIS Eternal dimension.  He knows of our weaknesses and gives us HIS power or grace to overcome if we will ask for it and seek HIM for it.  He wants us to learn to choose HIM in loving faith in all things so we can become HIS eternal family and be made in HIS image and likeness in righteousness just as Jesus did.  The word Grace is used 155 time in our Bible, 130 times in our New Testament in the AMP translation.

For out of His fullness [the superabundance of His grace and truth] we have all received grace upon grace [spiritual blessing upon spiritual blessing, favor upon favor, and gift heaped upon gift]. 17 For the Law was given through Moses, but grace [the unearned, undeserved favor of God] and truth came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has seen God [His essence, His divine nature] at any time; the [One and] only begotten God [that is, the unique Son] who is in the intimate presence of the Father, He has explained Him [and interpreted and revealed the awesome wonder of the Father].    John 1:16-18 But we must see our need for HIS grace and ask for it.  Our Creator God will never force HIS Grace/Power on us if we don’t want it.

And now I commend you to God [placing you in His protective, loving care] and [I commend you] to the word of His grace [the counsel and promises of His unmerited favor]. His grace is able to build you up and to give you the [rightful] inheritance among all those who are sanctified [that is, among those who are set apart for God’s purpose—all believers].   Acts 20:32.    So our faith and loving obedience is a big factor in securing HIS Grace/Power to enjoy HIS Romans 8 victory.

As you are reading your Bible or listening (perhaps a better way) think of the word Grace also as meaning the Power of God.   By faith, God allows us to live and walk in HIS power or Grace as we lift up Christ Jesus as LORD and in humility submit to HIM in all things in Loving Obedience.  But how can we be obedient if we don’t know what HE wants and how can we know we need HIS Grace or Power until we come to the end of ourselves and our own works?  We will never walk on water until we are OK with getting out of the comfort of our secure little boat,  which is not at all secure.

All around us now are the signs that Jesus told us to watch for and then to be looking up for HIM to appear in the clouds of the air.  So getting ready to make the jump to light speed is imperative if you are interested in living with our Creator God as HIS righteous family for eternity.

Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life
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ELECTION (SAVED)

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ELECTION (SAVED)      “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/9/22    From Ken Smith<><

Today’s Scripture   ( From a large ministry in Texas.)
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you [and approved of you as My chosen instrument], and before you were born I consecrated you…”    Jeremiah 1:5, AMP

Pre-approved
Today’s Scripture doesn’t say, “God approves you as long as you don’t make any mistakes and don’t have any weaknesses.” No, He approved you before you were formed in your mother’s womb. This means He approves you with those weaknesses and despite those shortcomings. You’re not defective; you’re not a mistake. When God created you, He called you a masterpiece. He stepped back and said, “That was very good.”

We all have flaws and weaknesses. A lot of times we think we can’t feel good about ourselves until we do everything right. If we resist the temptation, if we bite our tongue, if we’re more patient, then we believe God will approve us. The truth is, there’s nothing you can do to make God love you more. His approval is not based on your performance; it’s based on your relationship. He handpicked you. He chose you before you could choose Him. Since God approves you, why don’t you start approving yourself? Why don’t you start feeling good about who you are?

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You approved me before I was formed in my mother’s womb, long before I made my first mistake. Thank You that You approve and love me despite my weaknesses and shortcomings. I declare that I am going to approve myself and feel good about who I am. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Notes,
So, this thinking, sells books and makes money for the author but is it totally true?   YES!    But only from God’s eternal absolute foreknowledge dimension, is it True.   As the Elect of God you were known from eternity that you would be found in Jesus,  forgiven, set free,  empowered and become the “Rod of Iron” in Christ Jesus,  no exceptions.

However, we do not now live in God’s dimension of time-less-ness  at this time,  1 Cor. 13.   We have been allowed to have a temporary body in a temporary dimension of time to last about 7,000 years.   Of course each of us has only one life time in which to decide to seek the light or the darkness,  to become one of God’s Elect or not.   God already knows those who will make it and are HIS,  but we do not.  Jesus taught that he that overcomes and endures to the end (death) shall become one of the Elect upon death or translation.

It is like a builder with a set of plans,   prior to building a house the builder know the cost and where he can get each part that is necessary for the construction of the house, even to each nail.  But the plans are not the building.   And when the building is complete the plans are usually worthless and tossed into the trash.

So it boils down as to whether you seek the security and pleasures of this world or you look into the great and precious promises of God to get yourself ready for the jump to light speed and eternal life in living where our Creator God Lives for eternity.   We have all been invited,  but Jesus told us that only a very few of us would latch on to the great and precious promises of God and make it all the way into God’s Kingdom.  Paul summed it up in his last few notes to Timothy in 2 Tim.4:2-8,   Might take the time to consider it to see if you are also going to make it.  To do nothing is to float down stream into the swamp.  To become part of the Elect, means to learn to be comfortable in swimming up stream to clean water.   The fresh clean water is always,  up stream.   And it becomes much easier when all are swimming in the same direction.  So find and join with others that are committed to swimming up stream.  So in all actuality, it is not our Creator God who controls your future like a  pre-programmed robot.  As  you are the only one in control of your eternal destiny at this time while you are still alive.
 
The Bible puts it this way:   1 John 2:14 -17:   “Do not love the world [of sin that opposes God and His precepts], nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.  The world is passing away, and with it its lusts [the shameful pursuits and ungodly longings]; but the one who does the will of God and carries out His purposes lives forever.”   And 1 John 2:19-20:    “They went out from us [seeming at first to be Christians], but they were not really of us [because they were not truly born again and spiritually transformed]; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out [teaching false doctrine], so that it would be clearly shown that none of them are of us. 20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One [you have been set apart, specially gifted and prepared by the Holy Spirit], and all of you know [the truth because He teaches us, illuminates our minds, and guards us from error].”  To make a Biblical choice one must know the Bible.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,       Ken<><     www.OhanaChurch.Life
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HUMILITY & OBEDIENCE:

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HUMILITY & OBEDIENCE   “WORTH CONSIDERING, 2/4/22     From Ken Smith <><

Today’s Scripture:    “Because you got a double dose of trouble and more than your share of contempt, your inheritance in the land will be doubled and your joy go on forever.”  Isaiah 61:7, MSG            ( A blog from a church in Texas.)
    
Restoration
You may be in a challenging time that has left you feeling beat up, worn and tired. It feels as though something’s been taken out of you that can’t be replaced. You’ve lost the spring in your step. Get ready, for God is about to breathe new life into your spirit. He’s going to renew your strength and renew your youth like an eagle’s. What that challenge took out, God is about to put back in—health, vitality, freshness, passion. He’s going to bring new opportunities, good breaks, the right people, and favor that catapults you ahead. He’s not going to just bring you out. He’s going to bring you out with double. When you come into double, nobody will know that business partner cheated you, nobody will know you had an unfair childhood, nobody will know you went through that illness. You’re going to be so blessed, so healthy, so strong, so favored that nobody will know what you’ve been through. That’s the way God restores. He’s going to bring you out better.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You never leave me stuck in my troubles, and You always work to bring about my restoration. Thank You for Your promise that You are going to make up for it in such an above-and-beyond way. I receive Your double blessing and the joy that goes on forever. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts:
Several times in my life experience, I have lost most everything that I had of value like in 1968 and 1979 and 1991.   But you know what, with each loss, the Holy Spirit has more than restored what was lost in time.  Even in this moment I am confronted with either agreeing with my adversary or to go to court and walk on water in Rom.13.  I must make a decision soon to give up and walk away or hunker down in battle in a worldly court.  So be in prayer for me that I make the right decision.  I am looking at the scriptures in 1 Cor. 6:7, “Why, the very fact that you have lawsuits with one another is already a defeat. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?”  And   “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.” Matthew 5:25….    So my wife has legally filed for divorce but  the concept of 2 Christians fighting in public before the world in the world court can hurt the cause of Christ in HIS quest to save the lost.  But it is difficult to give away $300,000.00 that I had saved for my 7 children as an inheritance for over the last 30 years to keep that from happening.  So seems I am forced to go to divorce court in order to try to preserve their inheritance for  them but then to also keep my loving faith with my God and be a Christian about it.   

Also some good help who was living here,  for some time now just up and said Good Bye as he was leaving in the morning for Kauai.  So, with that and the above,  feeling a little beat up tonight.   As I should not be driving due to military feet issues,  this is adding to the stress.

Divorce is sin, but like all but one sin, can be forgiven.  It is not unpardonable.  1 John 1:9…  But if there are children it is certainly a difficult time for children,  when two who were thought to be Christian grow so apart that the Word of God becomes in-effective.  But how can two walk together unless they be agreed and a house divided can not stand.   There are 3 factors that can Biblically break the marriage vows,   Death,   Adultery and Abandonment (1 Cor.7:15.)   The Bible is full of scripture concerning the Husband’s Responsibilities and the Wife’s Responsibilities.   And it is not a matter of choice but of obedience.   We are here on earth to learn God’s Truth in Humility and Obedience.   If we make friends with the world, we are lost.   If we make friends with the Holy Spirit in Light we will eventually wind up in God’s Light as HIS eternal family in light.  We are all in a earthly time school in this temporary dimension of time for a short season to learn to have Loving Faith in Humility and Obedience with Christ Jesus and our Heavenly Father regardless of the circumstances that our Creator allows for our spiritual growth.

From a Biblical point of view,  what we are experiencing in the world today is all in Jesus prophesies,   Matt. 24, Mark 13,  Luke 21.   And we are now into the birth pains for the completion of the building of the Church of Christ Jesus in righteousness.   But most of the so called “church” is confused as to what to do with their “frozen energy” of cash & savings which is now slowly dying through inflation like in the Great Depression of 1929. Only this time the potential could be far worse do to the crumbling urban food chain.  I lived on a 100 ac. farm away from town during the Great Depression,  I am now 89.   And we were good as we grew most of our food, had low taxes and could always sell butter, milk and eggs to buy sugar, flour and coffee.  But that is far from the reality of today.

So the big question today is where is the safest place to keep saving, if you have any,  so that you can get to them if needed.  My great grandfather had all of his savings in gold and silver coins (real money) in a cigar box in a safe on his farm.  And it was easy to spend as it was real money.   He did not trust paper money nor banks at all.    But today,  I don’t think that would work very well.  But then paper may soon be devalued and/or replaced?  So seems to me that the real issues of how to beat hyperinflation and having no debts or cash and grow your own food?   But getting into fear is an even greater problem.   “Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.  And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these,  Mark 12:29-32.“   And so to keep these commandments we must be fearless: “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”  1 Tim.1:7…  Personally, at this time in my life with what I am now going through, this is for me, rock bottom important,  for me to keep the faith..  It would be so easy to get into fear and revert to the flesh to try to destroy the issues that I am now faced with in this Divorce using the tools of the enemy.  The money that my wife is seeking  I see as an attack against my children’s future due to the amount.  I have already offered a life lease on the property.    And the Enemy will always try to get us into fear, one way or another.  But our trust must remain with our Heavenly Father in humility and obedience to do HIS will with love and without fear.  Please pray that I can walk my talk.  It is one thing to know the TRUTH, and another to WALK it out.

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Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.Life
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CRACKS

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CRACKS:     WORTH CONSIDERING,    2/9/22    From Ken Smith<><   
Today’s Scripture   (From a ministry in Texas that is worth considering.)
“Seven priests will walk ahead of the Ark, each carrying a ram’s horn. On the seventh day you are to march around the town seven times, with the priests blowing the horns.”  Joshua 6:4, NLT
    
Just a Crack
The city of Jericho, which was surrounded by a huge stone wall so thick that chariots could ride on top, was the last city that stood between the people of Israel and the Promised Land. God told Joshua to have the people march around the walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day. It would not have been so difficult if, while they were walking, they saw a little crack in the wall or a shift in the foundation, but nothing day after day. They didn’t understand it but just kept doing the right thing, and the final time around, the walls came tumbling down.    Too often we’ll stay in faith if we see the wall cracking. We’ll keep believing if our boss starts treating us better, if the promotion goes through, if things start to improve. You may not get a sign. You have to keep thanking God even though nothing is improving, keep walking by faith and not sight, and suddenly the walls will come down.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that no obstacle is so high and wide that it can withstand Your touch. Thank You that to bring about Your promises in my life You have called me to walk by faith and not by sight. I will live with a sense of expectancy that You are about to do great things. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Peter Harnish    Does God play dice with the world?   (Another word worth considering.)
Einstein said no. But it has come to be accepted that, before being observed, a subatomic particle exists in an indeterminate state. Only by observing the particle does its “wave function collapse” and the probability become the definite.  God created the physical universe as a vehicle for souls to grow spiritually by exercising their free will. If the universe were deterministic, that is, if every cause had one and only one possible effect, then, logically, free will could not exist. It is only by building randomness into the system that God permitted non-determinism and hence free will.  The physicist asks how; the theologian asks why. I think it is good to study both.

Ken’s thoughts on the subject.    “Exceptional perception, Peter.  Only the Holy Spirit could have shown you this as it is spot on.  As only with freewill is love really valid.  And as GOD is LOVE and wants to help us through freewill to become like HIM and make a family.  HE had to include freewill that is not at all manipulated.  So that only by and through faith by using our freewill can we find HIS grace to find the straight and narrow path that leads us to HIS eternal dimension.   This temporary time dimension that we live in is only a small capsule in the overall picture of creation.  But also seems the only nursery for creating the children and family of GOD.     After the purposes of our Creator are complete,  it will be no more.”  Yours, in HIS great love, Ken<>< 
 
So at 89 went in for a medical check up.   Several years ago I was told that I had kidney stones and one kidney was ½ the size of the other.   Today, both the kidneys are same size and no kidney stones.  But they then found I have cirrhosis of the liver and can not figure out why?  So back to getting the Lord to fix this old bucket of bones once again, We are granted to live 120 yrs. as per Gen.6:3…  Abraham and Moses did and God is no respecter of persons, HE loves all of us the same.  But a little help in prayer could be good at this time.  Also could use some prayer that my wife’s divorce does not cause any damage to the Kingdom of our LORD.   But as to her wanting to leave: 1 Cor.7:12-16 & 40. seems to apply.  Jesus came to set us all free as we are in HIM and HE is in us.  So… this too shall pass.  I am pretty much disabled at 89 and she at 70 and is in really good health.  So I don’t blame her for not wanting to take care of me for the rest of my time on earth.  But none of this is  up to me, “and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to them who are called according to HIS purpose. “ Rom.8:28

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Most INSPIRING QUOTES
“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.” – Jim Elliot    “God is looking for those with whom He can do the impossible – what a pity that we plan only the things that we can do by ourselves.” – AW Tozer   “God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer  “Christ literally walked in our shoes and entered into our affliction. Those who will not help others until they are destitute reveal that Christ´s love has not yet turned them into the sympathetic persons the Gospel should make them.” – Tim Keller   “Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.” – Billy Graham     “Radical obedience to Christ is not easy… It´s not comfort, not health, not wealth, and not prosperity in this world. Radical obedience to Christ risks losing all these things. But in the end, such risk finds  its reward in Christ. And he is more than enough for us.” – David Platt  “Satan is so much more in earnest than we are – he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost.” – Amy Carmichael  “If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.” – Wanda E. Brunstetter

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FAITH IN GOD

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FAITH IN GOD      WORTH CONSIDERING    2/12/22    From Ken Smith<><

Today’s Scripture,   ( From a ministry in Texas.)
Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.  Psalm 30:5, NKJV
    
Morning Is Coming,   You may have shed some tears of sadness over what has not worked out, over dreams that haven’t come to pass, over disappointments, over the loss of a loved one. The Scripture says that God is going to turn your mourning into dancing and those tears of sorrow into tears of joy. It may not have happened yet, but it’s not over. What God promised you doesn’t have an expiration date. It’s still on the way. Your morning is coming. Your baby is coming, your healing is coming, your restoration is coming, your breakthrough is coming. When it happens, it’s going to be more rewarding, more fulfilling than you ever imagined.   Too often we disqualify ourselves. We think it would have happened if we had more faith, or had not made so many mistakes, or were just good enough to deserve it. But God is full of mercy and doesn’t bless us based on our performance. What He promised is still going to come to pass. What He started, He’s going to finish. Joy is on the way.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that in times of sadness, when I don’t see the way out or a loss seems too great, I can know that it’s only for a night. Thank You that the morning is coming, and the tears of sorrow will be turned to joy. I believe the dancing You promised is on the way. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
    
Ken’s Comments,
What we do speaks louder than what we say.  Our testimony of our Love of Christ Jesus as our Savior in confirmed in our making Christ Jesus our LORD and in humility by coming into obedience to HIS commandments as our LORD.   In the process of my children growing up, once they were mine, I have never given up on them, regardless of the mistakes they have made, if their heart is in trying to learn to become an adult in word and deed.  One of them became a street homeless person.  I still loved her but there was nothing I could do but pray to help her.  But after she came to need help again, the past was forgotten and now even at 60 I am still her father and there for her.  So our heavenly Father is all about saving us and sanctifying us to be like HIM if we will allow that to happen in Christ Jesus as our LORD.   But He will not and can not violate our free will if we will have none of HIS influence in our lives and love this world more than Him..  So if you do not have a solid relationship with Jesus as LORD and are walking with HIM in HIS grace to make the needed changes in your life you will totally miss out on the Blessings that our Creator God has for you.  There are only two rooms in eternity.  One is with God and HIS blessings and Creation.   The other is a void of darkness where HE has not created anything.  If you come to love God in obedience you are home.  If you do not you will live for ever with your own earthly thoughts for eternity without a body with which to touch any one else and utterly alone in absolute darkness according to Holy Scripture.   I would not want this for anyone…

I am 89 now and under the best of circumstances have a life expectancy of 4.7 years left.  So what to do with the last of this life time of grace that I have been given.   So I am using some of it to write to you.  And to encourage you to give the needed time to make your peace with your Creator in Christ Jesus.   And to change from rotting out with this worlds comfortable options to leaning how to burn out for your Loving Creator.  Start by reading the Book of John, Acts and Romans.  And if you have questions, send them in and I will try to be of help.   Or go to my web site: www.OhanaChurch.Life and go to the links below: “Worth Considering” and use the search engine to look up any topic word of interest.  It will give you everything that I have written on the subject.  It is only your actions that can confirm to your Creator that you are really HIS and  mean business.  Do you really want to live with HIM in HIS new heavens created for those who love HIM and keep HIS commandments?   Read Chapters 21 & 22 of the Revelation.   As there will be no room for hypocrites and such in HIS coming Kingdom and eternal home in being with  Him in Righteousness.  The way up, is down in the Kingdom of God.  God resists the proud and gives Grace (power) to the humble.   No Power in your church?  2 Tim.3:5,   go find one with power.   It is God’s Power that will confirm God’s Truth.  God will not confirm with power that which is mixed with man’s vain traditions.  Need to know your Bible to be able to sort this all out.   You need to be able to verify all you are being taught in context.

Angel, a Jew, owner of the most famous bakery in Germany, often said: “Do you know why I’m alive today? I was still a teenager when Nazis in Germany killed Jews mercilessly. Nazis took us to Auschwitz by train. Last night in the ward was deadly cold. We were left for many days in cars without food, without beds, which means without the possibility to warm up somehow. It was snowing everywhere. The cold wind frozen our cheeks every second. There were hundreds of us on those cold, horrible nights. No food, no water, no hiding. The blood is frozen in the veins. Next to me was an elderly Jew who was very loved in my city. He was all shaking and looking terrible. I wrapped him with my hands to warm him up. Hugged him tight to give some warmth. Rub his hands, legs, face, neck. I begged him to stay alive. I cheered him up. This is how I kept this man warm all night. I myself was tired and frozen. Fingers crossed, but I kept massaging this man’s body to warm him up.    So many hours have passed. Finally the morning has come, the sun has started to shine. I looked around myself to see other people. To my horror, all I could see was frozen corpses. All I could hear was the silence of death. Frosty night killed everyone. They died of cold. Only two people survived: the old man and me. The old man survived because I didn’t let him freeze, and I survived because I made him warm.     Allow me to tell you the secret of survival in this world? When you warm the heart of others, then you will warm yourself. “When you support, strengthen and encourage others, then you receive support, strengthening and encouragement in your life.”

 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 NIV “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.”   How is your report card doing on this commandment of our LORD through Apostle Paul?

 Yours, in HIS great Love and wonderful Grace & Mercy, Ken<><   www.OhanaChurch.Life

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All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM as LORD are eternal members.

Fear is Faith going Backwards

DAVID PROPHESY:

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David Prophesy,    “WORTH CONSIDERING”      1/28/22      From Ken Smith

From   David  E. D. Sinkler
I Am a new Life in you Living, Loving,  Laughing.   Speak My Words. My Word is truth Alive, Sharper than a 2- edged Sword, piercing the hearts of My People, people called by My Name. Repent from your small thinking, weak doing, timid living. Sing out, loudly! Proclaim  the Day of The Lord! It is nigh, It is Now! Now is the time for strong, clear voices to proclaim my  Power. Heal the sick, speak Life to the faint of heart. Proclaim that I have come. I am with you, always. No shame. No fear. No holding back. Speak to those I send to you. You will know them. Wait on me in your quiet places, in your heart. I give you Joy, power, discernment, wisdom, healing hands, words, life . You are my voice, my ambassadors, my friends. . Pray together without ceasing. Joy is yours.    Love one another with a pure heart. Show mercy. Have patience. Speak Love. You are Mine. I Am Yours. Together we are God’s own, in Love..  
David E. D. Sinkler

Most INSPIRING QUOTES
“When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.” – James Hudson Taylor
“Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“If I walk with the world, I can´t walk with God.”- D.L. Moody
“Trust God for the impossible-miracles are His department. Our job is to do our best, letting the Lord do the rest.”  – David Jeremiah
“Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”   – D.L. Moody
“Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.”  – D.L. Moody
“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”  – Charles H. Spurgeon
“No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God´s will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.”  – Oswald Chambers
“If you´re going to be a Christian, you´re going to change. You´re going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.”  – Johnny Cash
“We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness.” – Francis Chan
“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”
– Billy Graham
“The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.”  – Billy Graham

CONCERNING VACCINES:
    Booooommmmm   The UK government admits that vaccines have damaged the natural immune system of those who have been double-vaccinated. The UK government has admitted that once you have been double-vaccinated, you will never again be able to acquire full natural immunity to Covid variants – or possibly any other virus. So let’s watch the “real” pandemic begin now!

    In its Week 42 “COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance Report”, the UK Department of Health admits on page 23 that “N antibody levels appear to be lower in people who become infected after two doses of vaccination”. It goes on to say that this drop in antibodies is essentially permanent. What does this mean? We know that vaccines do not prevent infection or transmission of the virus (indeed, the report elsewhere shows that vaccinated adults are now much more likely to be infected than unvaccinated ones).

    The British now find that the vaccine interferes with the body’s ability to make antibodies after infection not only against the spike protein but also against other parts of the virus. In particular, vaccinated people do not appear to form antibodies against the nucleocapsid protein, the envelope of the virus, which is a crucial part of the response in unvaccinated people. In the long term, the vaccinated are far more susceptible to any mutations in the spike protein, even if they have already been infected and cured once or more. The unvaccinated, on the other hand, will gain lasting, if not permanent, immunity to all strains of the alleged virus after being naturally infected with it even once.

    Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1027511/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-42.pdf

    The first insurance companies are backing down because a huge wave of claims is coming their way. Anthony Fauci confirms that the PCR test cannot detect live viruses. Anthony Fauci confirms that neither the antigen test nor the PCR test can tell us whether someone is contagious or not!!! This invalidates all the foundations of the so-called pandemic. The PCR test was the only indication of a pandemic. Without PCR-TEST there is NO pandemic.     For all the press workers, doctors, lawyers, prosecutors etc. THIS is the final key, the ultimate proof that the measures must all be lifted immediately!       PLEASE SHARE
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Keep me in your prayers, After 23 years,   my wife filled for divorce as she does not agree with my concern for the lost in bringing stray souls home to try to help them find Jesus.  But also seems a new day of freedom for me in seeking to help the Holy Spirit to touch the souls of the lost for Jesus.       Also pray that we get a new chance in keeping our Constitution in November.  If we don’t vote constitutional law abiding citizens into Congress this November we could easily end in a 2nd Great Depression or worse slide into lies and the the slavery of socialism.       Also having a difficult time getting the mail out as somehow now viewed as spam?

Yours in HIS great LOVE and wonderful Grace and Mercy,   Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.Life
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There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD,
All who Love, Honor and Obey HIM are eternal members.

LAST DAYS

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LAST DAYS:   “WORTH CONSIDERING”    1/18/22     From:   Ken Smith<><
https://trinity-aloha.org/keys-to-the-kingdom/revelation/

My paper on “The Return Of The King” is also available,  as above,  if interested.   It seems we are now in the birthing process for the birth of the Church from the placenta of  earth into the Kingdom of God.   If you are not in Jesus,  if you are not ready, you could miss out on the most wonderful of God’s Blessings, The 1st Resurrection.   Matt. 25:10-13.   So the persecutions that are now being allowed are for the purification of the Church as  the Church as the Church will be translated into Heaven without spot, wrinkle or blemish and has made herself ready for the union with Jesus as LORD for eternity.  It Rev.12:10-12, we find the Glory of the Church of the 1st Resurrection clearly recorded as it is the Church that removes lucifer from his position of god of the Heavens by the middle of the Great Tribulation:   

“Then I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying,  “Now the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom (dominion, reign) of our God, and the authority of His Christ have come; for the [e] accuser of our [believing] brothers and sisters has been thrown down [at last], he who accuses them and keeps bringing charges [of sinful behavior] against them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame and conquered him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the word of their testimony, for they did not love their life and renounce their faith even when faced with death. 12 Therefore rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them [in the presence of God]. Woe to the earth and the sea, because the devil has come down to you in great wrath, knowing that he has only a short time [remaining]!”

It is also interesting for me that the “Rod of Iron” In Rev.12:5 that the man child (Jesus) and the Rod of Iron, (Church) was caught up into the Heavens prior to the 7 years of Jewish persecutions of the Great Tribulation.   Chapters 6 & 12 are time line chapters for the whole of the 7 years of Great Tribulation included the Revelation that Jesus gave to John..

Most of, if not all, of the prophesies in Matt. 24, Mark 13 & Luke 21 are now in process of happening today.   Along with the prophesy of Paul to Timothy in 2 Tim. 3: 1-8

“Difficult Times Will Come”
3:1-8: “But understand this, that in the last days dangerous times [of great stress and trouble] will come [difficult days that will be hard to bear]. 2 For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane, 3 [and they will be] unloving [devoid of natural human affection, calloused and inhumane], irreconcilable, malicious gossips, devoid of self-control [intemperate, immoral], brutal, haters of good, 4 traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of [sensual] pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of [outward] godliness (religion), although they have denied its power [for their conduct nullifies their claim of faith]. Avoid such people and keep far away from them. 6 For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses, 7 always learning and listening to anybody who will teach them, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres [the court magicians of Egypt] opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, unqualified and worthless [as teachers] in regard to the faith.”   And the world is full of false teachers.   We must know the Word of God in order to filter them out of our lives.  Man’s words make God’s words, ineffective if you believe in them rather than what God teaches through HIS prophets.  So in this time of the birth pains the difficulty in knowing how to hear the voice of God in our hearts becomes more important of anything that you can use your time to do.  Also the more we know the “Word of God” the better our spiritual hearing and the better our filter for the junk.  

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You are my God, and that You will help me keep my life on track if I am humble and obedient. Thank You that I can be free from trying to figure everything out on my own. I declare that I am in the palms of Your hands, and I am going to trust You from the bottom of my heart in all things concerning this life and the next. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Isaiah 35:1-2 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.    Our lives are meant to flourish in the Lord! Let’s ask Him to touch us in a special way this season. May we spring to life and blossom abundantly. May that which was once dead spring to life and may everyone around us may see the evidence of the glory of God!  The walk is more important than the talk.
And the way up, is the way down in humility and obedience to the Holy Spirit of God.

Around the World:    Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;
Union Pacific: Train Robberies Up 356%.  Medical equipment, designer handbags, luggage, throw pillows, airline parts, children’s artwork, even a new wine fridge – all those items and more have been found stolen off Union Pacific trains and discarded alongside the tracks in East LA.    Christian Persecution:   India: Nine Christians imprisoned on false charges of forced conversion Nine Christians in India’s Madhya Pradesh state are in prison awaiting trial on false charges of forcing Hindus to convert to Christianity, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported on January 15. Persecution against Christians in India has steadily increased since the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in 2014.    India: Mob of Hindu extremists attack house church in Chhattisgarh state As the persecution of Christians continues to intensify across India, a house church in Chhattisgarh state was violently attacked by a mob of 200 Hindu nationalists on January 9, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports.  China: Christians sentenced to six months in prison for attending Gospel conference in Malaysia  Five Christians in China’s Shanxi province have been sentenced to at least six months in prison for attending a Gospel event in Malaysia in 2020, International Christian Concern reports. China’s communist regime has been progressing a nationwide program of ‘Sinicization’ which involves cracking down hard on Christians in the country.     South Sudan: Islamic extremists kill 28 in attack on Christian community Islamic extremists killed people in an attack on a Christian community in South Sudan earlier this month, burning down 57 homes in the same attack, Barnabas Fund reports.

Yours, in HIS great Love & wonderful Grace & Mercy,  Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.LifeA

RESTORATION

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RESTORATION    “WORTH CONSIDERING”   1/7/22,  From Ken Smith<><

Today’s Scripture:  “You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.”  Genesis 50:20, NLT
    
Joseph went through thirteen years of betrayal, slavery, false accusations, and imprisonment. He had many reasons to become bitter, but you never read that Joseph had a bad attitude. He understood the principle that everything he was experiencing was serving God’s plan, including the bad breaks and unfair things. After Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dream and was made prime minister of Egypt, he even declared that the very harm his brothers meant for him was instrumental and necessary to getting him to the throne and his destiny of saving their lives.

Are you upset about something that’s actually serving His plan? God will use people who are against you to move you into your purpose. God uses the bad breaks, the delays, the setbacks, and the injustices to move you into your destiny. The things you don’t like, and the things that are taking longer than you thought, are serving His plan. Keep reminding yourself that it’s not working against you, it’s working for you. It will lead you to new levels.
    
A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that what so often looks and feels like trouble is really Your hand moving me toward Your purpose. Thank You that it’s going to lead me into a new level of my destiny that I could never experience without it. I believe it’s working for me, not against me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”  (These notes from a Church in Texas were very anointed this morning so Worth Considering.)

Ken’s Notes:   
The Holy Bible teaches us:   “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. Joel 2:25″   So we have a promise from God that the Truth that we learn from our past sins and errors will even be useful to help us in the ministry that God has appointed for us to complete, if we will allow for it.   That in Christ Jesus there is no condemnation for our past sins and mistakes though painful, as they may be,  for us at the time.   That everything that we have experienced will assist us in our destiny and our walk in the Holy Spirit.  But pulling weeds is never a joyful experience.   I have a ½ acre growing in weeds today and at 89,  (Charley left a few days ago, more $.)  So I need to find some help getting them gone but it feels so good when they are gone it is the beauty that makes it all worth while living out in the country.  And it is even worse on us if we do the weed planting because we don’t know the difference between the seeds.   And of course the Bible is full of instructions on how to tell a weed seed from a good seed when you see it.  Paul put it this way:  “Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.  Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,  I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.”  Philippians 3:12-14   (And remember the Saul/Paul who wrote this was killing and putting Christians in Jail prior to his conversion. So Paul along with Moses and David had  a lot to trust Jesus about concerning their past but God used them anyway due to their heart faith in God’s forgiveness in Christ Jesus as LORD.)  Moses and David both wrote about Jesus before He was born.

So, in Jesus,  we can  forget the past and press on into the high calling of Christ Jesus our LORD.  That eventually the temptations of this world:  The “Lust of the Flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life,”  will easily be spotted and rebuked soundly in the name of Jesus for a Romans 8:31-39 victory.  And we can become sanctified or made in the image of Jesus as in the likeness of God while we are still alive on earth.  This brings joy and glory to our Creator as we choose Him and HIS Kingdom over the things of this world.  We have been called by our Creator through the Holy Spirit to sort out the temporal from the eternal.  The Light from the Darkness and to choose life eternal over the temporary life of this world.  We are on earth for such a short time in comparison to eternity.  And yet what we decide to do with our life on earth determines our eternal destiny.   We have been invited to learn to live with our Creator for eternity if we will choose in Christ Jesus to do so,  but we have a freewill and can say no at anytime even up until death even as Jesus could.  But at death the commitment to the Light or the Darkness becomes fixed for eternity.  Our Adamic nature wants to be self centered, “what about me” “ I, Me, Mine.”   Being truly in Christ Jesus is more about others and concern for their souls.  Jesus in HIS crucifixion gave us a wonderful example.  He prayed for the men driving nails into HIS feet, being deeply concerned for their souls.  He saved the repentant thief next to Him on the Cross and was concerned about HIS mother,  He told John to take care of His mother.   In all of that pain inside and out, HE was still more concerned about others finding God than HE was about himself.  So a true Christian is busy about helping others and learning to forget about themselves.  And how we use our tongue really tells us where we are as per James 3.   So if we are mostly talking the world’s trivia, we might want to check out our foundations in Christ Jesus as LORD.  If we are in HIM we should be changing to be like HIM, as HIS ministry was to love all people and help them find the Kingdom of God.  1 John 4:17: “In this [union and fellowship with Him], love is completed and perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him]; because as He is, so are we in this world.

Yours, in HIS great Love and Wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.Life
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Derek Prince – How To Apply The Blood   (This is a great message for deliverance.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwpoQvRUeis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GukIoZ8d3Ew     Pertaining to CCPVirus, interesting satirical humor…

Worthy Brief <worthybrief@worthynetwork.com&gt;  A new study has shown that 103 US Christian colleges and universities in the United States have had connections to Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, the Christian Post (CP) reports. The study was conducted by the Institute for Pro-Life Advancement (IPLA), which asserts that a connection with Planned Parenthood is an “endorsement of abortion violence.”     More than three-quarters of U.S. voters believe their society is in decline, according to a new poll from the Trafalgar Group in conjunction with Convention of States Action.      The U.S. trade deficit surged to a near-record high of $80.2 billion in November as exports slowed at the same time that imports jumped sharply.

There is but ONE Church of Christ Jesus as LORD and
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BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

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Baptism in the Holy Spirit     12/31/21    From Ken Smith<><

When we are born again from above by making Christ Jesus our LORD the Holy Spirit places us into the Body of Christ.  

Then there is a water baptism where we are placed under water to give a public witness of the death of our carnal nature that we received from Adam and that burial and our resurrection in Christ Jesus into our new life to begin the process of sanctification or to grow up into being like Jesus.  Gen. 1:26 is that God eventually wants us to grow up into being HIS family.

Then upon our obedience to the Holy Spirit, Jesus will also place us into the power of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit and they .will begin to be available to us as we grow in faith.  Acts 5:32: “We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”

So let us take a walk through the Holy Scriptures concerning this powerful event that makes a weak Christian into a powerful Christian able to demonstrate the Kingdom of God on earth.

Luke 3:16, “John answered them all, “I baptize you with water. But one who is more powerful than I will come, the straps of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.”  (And John was sharing about Jesus.)  Also Matt. 3:11    (It is the Holy Spirit that places us into the Body of Jesus upon conversion.)

Jesus tell us about this event in Luke 11:9-13,   “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.  11 “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for [a] a fish, will give him a snake instead? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion? 13 If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”   (Notice this is a gift to God’s Children, not the world or lost.  This is not about salvation at all.)

Nine Gifts of the Spirit:   1 Cor.14:7-11,   “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. 8 To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, 10 to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another  distinguishing between spirits, to another different kinds of tongues speaking in,[a] and to still another the interpretation of tongues.[b] 11 All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as HE determines

Jesus the “WAY” “TRUTH” “DOOR”
In the construction of the Tabernacle of Moses in the wilderness there were three doors in the only Eastern Gate so on sunrise the sun would show 3 doors in one.  Jesus came to Save Us, Seal Us, and to Empower Us as the door of God.  But most of the time we get shorted out by most churches as they know very little about the power of the HOLY SPIRIT as in 2 Tim. 5:3.  Personally, I missed out on the power for about 13 years due to the vain traditions of the church I was attending.  They told me that when I made Jesus Savior, I had it all.   And they were totally wrong…….When I was saved in 1955 it only started my walk towards being sanctified and now in 2022 I am still working on it in the Holy Spirit.  The Adamic nature that I inherited is very sneaky.  I sometimes feel that I got to be this old as God knew that I needed more time because I am so hard headed and full of beans.   So lets go on with where in scripture it proves that Salvation and the Empowering of the Holy Spirit are two very different events in Holy Scripture.   So let’s start with the Disciples of Christ Jesus.  In John 20:22 we see the Disciples being saved in the Upper Room long before Pentecost.  This is the first time that there were, what we call, Christians in the New Testament and this was after our LORD’S resurrection.  Over a month later the Disciples then received the power of the Holy Spirit.   The power to collective demonstrate to the World the loving power of God who wants to deliver, heal and set us free.  So with the Disciples being save and being empowered was 2 different events.

Next we find Philip in Samaria, Acts 8:5,  in power evangelizing and bringing many into Jesus as LORD but them not being baptized in the Holy Spirit Act.8:16.  So when this was known in Jerusalem they sent Peter and John that they might also receive the Holy Spirit Acts 8:17.  again,  Two events, very clear.  And very important to the Early Church.  

As with Saul/Paul it was the same experience.  Saul became Paul at his conversion on the road to Damascus when he confessed Jesus as LORD and believed in the resurrection, Rom 10:9-10 as in Acts 9:6. And was then  instructed to find Ananias to be Baptized in the Holy Spirit, Acts 9:17 so again being saved and being Baptized in the Holy Spirit was two different events.

This is why in Acts 19:2 when Paul found certain disciples, assuming they were Christians, he asked the question: “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”  They answered, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.”  This would be a dumb question to ask if not possible.  of course Paul went on to instruct them and in Acts 19:5-6 they were saved and received the gifts of the Holy Spirit in power.  5 On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 When Paul placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke in tongues [b] and prophesied. 7 There were about twelve men in all.”   And this happened 17 years after Pentecost and should still be happening today.  Only our vain traditions have gotten in the way and the Holy Spirit has been excluded by many of our so called church traditions and doctrines.  In the Early Church the power of the Holy Spirit was very obvious and pronounced in healing & deliverance.   Paul prophesied in 2 Tim. 3: 1-5 that we would have a problem just like this in the latter days.  So we need to go back to the New Testament for the Words of Jesus and HIS Apostles for Truth and sound Doctrine that the Holy Spirit will again confirm with Signs Following as we see through the Book of Acts.   I have spent most of my Christian life in churches that did not match up to the Book of Acts.  I even had doctrine given me that those days were over?   I don’t believe that any more.  I believe that if we will do what we are instructed to do by the Holy Spirit that again the Power of God will flow to heal the needs of God’s people and that Christ Jesus will be lifted up instead of the denominations.  Jesus came to give us the Truth and to set us free physically, mentally and spiritually,  Isa. 61:1 and Luke 4:18-21 and HE is the same yesterday, today and forever.

Yours, In HIS great Love and wonderful Grace and Mercy, Ken<>< www.OhanaChurch.Life.
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