HEALING, THE REAL FAITH

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HEALING, THE REAL FAITH,   3/11/20,    From Ken Smith
   
Today’s Scripture    (In my e-mails this morning.)
“…Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus along the road…”  (Mark 10:52, NIV)

You Have to Want It
A blind beggar named Bartimaeus heard all the commotion of a great crowd following Jesus and began shouting, “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” The people around him told him to be quiet, but the more they rebuked him and told him to be quiet, the louder he shouted. All of a sudden, Jesus stopped, commanded him to be called, and healed him.

How badly do you want the dreams God put in your heart and the promises He’s spoken to you? Badly enough to outlast people who are trying to talk you out of it, badly enough to overlook some insults, badly enough to do the right thing when the wrong thing is happening? Do you want it badly enough to keep pursuing it when all the circumstances say it’s not going to happen? There should be something you are believing for about which you are relentless. You aren’t moved by how impossible it looks.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for the dreams You put in my heart and for the promises You’ve spoken. If I have to believe my whole life for their fulfillment, I’m going keep believing. I’m not going to settle for less than. I’m going to keep pursuing what You put in my heart. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Notes…
The subject of healing and deliverance is very important to us as many of us are sick and many in the Church today are in much need of deliverance.   Much by accident and by learning what not to do I am now at a place where the following is true for me. 

So for me a spiritual base of heart faith, unity and worship is the primary road and the supernatural.  So a small group of dedicated saints who are of one mind and one spirit in the heart faith of the Word of God can begin to walk in the supernatural.   That means a basket has also been built in which to catch the ripe fruit that is sure to come.  It was the supernatural that brought the multitudes to Christ Jesus and to the Early Church.  God’s power was a profound experience in the Early Church.  And the experience of HIS loving power brought many to true repentance and the born from above, new life, experience.  But today, due to the lack of unity in God’s Holy Truth we see very little of the supernatural.   And when the Holy Spirit does heal someone we tend to absorb that bit of supernatural into our traditions so that those events become very unique and rare.  So let’s spend some time with the Bible on this subject.  Some healings are difficult due to un-broken soul ties from the past.  A good note on this from Derek Prince to  read: As as his efforts are very clean. https://healingdeliverance.net/biblicalhealinganddeliveranceministry/healing-and-deliverance-ministry/   

So #1 on the list is that Word of God is True and that Faith comes by hearing the Word of God as in Rom.10:17.   So as doctors instruct their patience so does God’s Word instruct us concerning our healing.  In Ps. 107:20.  The Bible tells us that HE sent HIS Word and healed them. Ps.107:20 and the gift of healing is also noted in 1 Cor.12:28.  So with the exhortation from Ex. 15:16 we start:   “If you will diligently listen and pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God, and do what is right in His sight, and listen to His commandments, and keep [foremost in your thoughts and actively obey] all His precepts and statutes, then I will not put on you any of the diseases which I have put on the Egyptians; for I am the [a] Lord who heals you.”  So we find that disobedience can bring sickness and obedience can help the cure.  So there is a need to take inventory concerning our life style in comparison to the moral and ethical system as supported by the New Testament.  If we study the New Testament, in context we will come to a fuller diagnosis and often sickness may be intertwined with demons (Duet 28:1-14 & Matt. 4:24) But all healing is a matter of our heart faith which is very different then just knowing or head faith.  Heart Faith is to know that what you do/pray will be heard and acted on by God.  It is like the heart beat or breathing it is not something that you think about to do.  It is acting in the Holy Spirit like speaking in tongues as part of the empowering or baptism of the Holy Spirit. It is our voice but HIS Grace/Power.   There can be no doubt and still be heart faith.  Our salvation come to us that way, The baptism of the Holy Spirit comes that way and so Healing comes the same way as per Heb. 11…  Jesus quoted Isa.61 when HE began HIS Ministry:  The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, “Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;  He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,  To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives  And freedom to prisoners,  2   To proclaim [a] the favorable year of the Lord, [b] And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God, To comfort all who mourn,…”  And that is exactly what HE did and what we are supposed to learn how to do as well as found in John 14:12.   “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, anyone who believes in Me [as LORD & SAVIOR] will also do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these [in extent and outreach], because I am going to the Father.”

So in seeking to know about sickness and deliverance there is a need to really know the Word of God and to apply it as Jesus did and as we come together in worship,  humility, truth, love, holiness and obedience we will again see HIS Church filled with power as in Acts 5:12-17.  “At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders (attesting miracles) were continually taking place among the people. And by common consent they all met together [at the temple] in [the covered porch called] Solomon’s portico. 13 But none of the rest [of the people, the non-believers] dared to associate with them; however, the people were holding them in high esteem and were speaking highly of them. 14 More and more believers in the Lord, crowds of men and women, were constantly being added to their number, 15 to such an extent that they even carried their sick out into the streets and put them on cots and sleeping pads, so that when Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on one of them [with healing power]. 16 And the people from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing the sick and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all being healed.” 

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><  
www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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TIME & PREDESTINATION

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TIME DIMENSION OF GOD, “WORTH CONSIDERING” 3/10/20, by Ken Smith
    
Today’s Scripture (In my email this morning.)
“…He will take you upstairs to a large room that is already set up. That is where you should prepare our meal…”  (Luke 22:12, NLT)

You’re All Set Up
In Luke 22, Jesus told Peter and John to go into Jerusalem and make arrangements for what is now known as the Last Supper. He gave them the exact details—the right person to meet, the right time, the right house—and everything fell precisely into place. They didn’t have to persuade the owner of the house to help. No, he was expecting them. The room was “already set up.”

When God laid out the plan for your life, He set up everything you need to fulfill your destiny—every good break, every person, every solution. Before you had that problem you think will never turn around, He had already set up the answer. You don’t have to try to manipulate people or convince someone to be good to you. The desires that God put in your heart may seem far out, but if you’ll stay in faith and keep honoring God, you’re going to come into what God has already set up
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A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for the blessings You’ve already set up. Thank You for the favor, the promotion, the healing, and the good breaks that You’ve already ordained to come across my path. I believe that You are directing my steps and orchestrating everything around me. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s notes,
It is not like you are predestined and are nothing but a robot.   But the Absolute Foreknowledge in God’s Eternal timeless dimension is difficult for us to grasp.  In eternity before the first bit of God’s power/energy became matter/atoms HE was able to see whatever HE did then as a final result in our time and HIS.  He could count the number of hairs on our head then as today.  He could see me typing this note to you.  He could see and know your reaction to HIS truth.  Also he could set in motion what would be needed to support you in answer to your prayers prior to you even sending them up to HIM.  God never needs to change HIS mind as HE knows exactly what you will do with your free will.  That is why in HIS dimension HE could love HIS elect prior to them even being born.  And HE could tell HIS prophets what the future would look like.  There is over 2,000 prophesies  in the Old Testament,  I am told.  Of which 80% of them have already been fulfilled.

So from God’s point of view the plans are secure to the smallest detain and now the building is being built over a period of it seems of 7,000 years of our time of which 6,000 years has already been accomplished including the 1st Advent of Christ Jesus, Son of God, Son of Man, the 2nd Adam to make possible the restoration from Adam’s pride, rebellion and the contamination in our world.  Of course for us to experience that restoration we must set our free will to agree to it.  Otherwise we will not be included in the future Kingdom of God in Righteousness.  Our needed decision to experience the restoration is clearly set out to us in the writings of the Prophets and Apostles of God and of course, Christ Jesus, in the Holy Scriptures.

In the words of Christ Jesus we find that our Spiritual potential died in Adam’s rebellion and we were born Spiritually dead.  (John 3).    And that there is a need for us to be born of the Spirit of God a to become eternal with God.  In the resurrection of Christ Jesus the first thing that HE did was to see to it that HIS disciples received that gift of the Holy Spirit to be born from above.  “ And when He said this, He breathed on them and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.  John 20:22.    Remember in in the createion of Adam that God, (The Word) did the same thing with Adam.  “then the Lord God [a]formed [that is, created the body of ] man from the [b] dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit]. Gen.2:7.   So Christ Jesus, now as the Word of God, restored the potential of the Spiritual LIFE of man that had been lost to the human race in the disobedience of Adam.    So now we have the possibility of being restored in having an Eternal Spiritual Life restored through our obedience in making Christ Jesus LORD as found in Romans 10:9-10    “…because if you acknowledge and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord [recognizing His power, authority, and majesty as God], and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart a person believes [in Christ as Savior] resulting in his justification [that is, being made righteous—being freed of the guilt of sin and made acceptable to God]; and with the mouth he acknowledges and confesses [his faith openly], resulting in and confirming [his] salvation.”   

Our Creator’s ultimate goal as found in the beginning:   “  Gen. 1:26,   Then God said, “Let Us (Father, Word, Holy Spirit ) make man in Our image, according to Our likeness [not physical, but a spiritual personality and moral likeness]; and let them have complete authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, and over the entire earth, and over everything that creeps and crawls on the earth.”   God’s original  vision in our creation has not changed and for those who will find the humility & obedience to agree to make Christ Jesus LORD there is an open door to the restoration of the opportunity to be conformed to the image and likeness of God as did Jesus.  Jesus  was the first man to make it through into God’s Eternal Dimension to become GOD/Man and HE now also makes the way open for us through HIM to be born from above and become sanctified in HIM to find also our place in that same  Eternal Kingdom of God as HIS eternal family.  This is why we are going though this very short time of testing in this unique dimension of time.  It is so we can choose to stay with Adam as lord or decide to be joined to Christ Jesus as LORD.  Presently,  in your own hands alone is your personal destiny of living for eternity in light or darkness before your death in this temporary dimension of time.  After death your decision is eternal.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful Grace and Mercy,
Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org


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MEDIOCRITY

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MEDIOCRITY     “WORTH CONSIDERING” 3/9/20,   by Ken Smith
     
Today’s Scripture
“…Become wise by walking with the wise; hang out with fools and watch your life fall to pieces…”  (Proverbs 13:20, MSG)

Who Are You Walking With?
It’s not only important how we spend our time, but with whom we spend it. The only thing that’s keeping some people from a new level of their destiny is wrong friendships. You may have to prune off some relationships that are not adding value to your life. Don’t hang around people who are not going anywhere, who have no goals or dreams, who compromise and take the easy way out. If you tolerate mediocrity, it will rub off on you. If you hang out with jealous, critical, unhappy people, you will end up jealous, critical, and unhappy. You cannot become who God created you to be hanging out with them.

Take a look at your friends. If your friends are winners, leaders, givers, and successful, if they have integrity and a spirit of excellence and are positive and motivated, those good qualities are going to rub off on you. Invest your time with them. They’re making you better.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for the friends in my life who sharpen me, inspire me, encourage me, and push me forward. Help me to know if there are relationships that I need to prune and friendships that I need to be careful about. I want to walk with the right people. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts,
There is an old saying, “You become like the people you associate with.”  So even in the wisdom of this world that truth is well known.   One of the best lines in the film “Amadeus” was when Salieri said of himself that he was the Patron Saint of Mediocrity.   I am not suggesting that you need to see the film as it is rather an adult film but Mr. Abrahams portrayal of mediocrity was exceptional.  However our Creator God has destined us to be created in HIS IMAGE & LIKENESS if we will allow it.  And in Christ we are instructed that we are more than conquers if we love and obey HIM. (Rom.8) That if we will “hang out” with HIM we will become like HIM and be exceptional.  And it is much easier swimming up stream with others who are going in the same direction.   To float downstream is to end up in a swamp with a bunch of really mean critters.

So in what way do we know what is mediocrity?  It means to settle some where in between heaven and hell in spiritual terms.   In the Bible in  Rev.3:14  we find the Laodicean Church marked with this judgment by Christ Jesus.  The mark of the 7th and last type of church listed in the prophesy and it is called lukewarm.  Many feel it is the church of our day at the end of the age of the gentiles.

“So because you are lukewarm (spiritually useless), and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of My mouth [rejecting you with disgust].”  Rev. 3:16

But Christ Jesus comes to that church and is still knocking to get in as HE is outside the door and not allowed to come into HIS own church!!!   Rev. 3:20-22

So the challenge is for us to identify with the humanity of Christ Jesus and though in Human Form HE was able to overcome.  And not only that but HE encourages us to be an over comer also by HIS grace so we can sit beside HIM in HIS kingdom and beside our Heavenly Father. “Behold, I stand at the door [of the church] and continually knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him (restore him), and he with Me. 21 He who overcomes [the world through believing that Jesus is the Son of God], I will grant to him [the privilege] to sit beside Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down beside My Father on His throne. 22 He who has an ear, let him hear and heed what the Spirit says to the churches.”  Rev.3:20-22.   “Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us].  Rom.8:37.

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but one church of Christ Jesus and all who truly Love & Obey HIM are members.

Christian Persecution:
The 5 yr. sentences of nine Iranian Christian converts were upheld after a judge who has become notorious for persecuting prisoners of conscience barred them from using their own lawyers.    Thousands of saints suffered intense persecution in ages past, and thousands are still being persecuted today (126,000 martyrs last year alone), they prepare(d) the way for the salvation of millions of others. Since Yeshua said “Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends.”    worthybrief@worthynetwork.com

REALITY CHECK:

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REALITY CHECK:     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/7/20     by Ken Smith<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

Ken’s thoughts on Saturday:

In spending some time with the LORD today and going over some issues.   My wife thinks I am a hoarder…. perhaps she is right?   I saw a couple of end table in the Salvation store yesterday that in the dim light of the store like like they could work for our Wwoofer accommodations… (Trade of board and room for 24 hours help with the place each week.)   But in loading them they looks worse then in the store and by the time I unloaded them at home in the sun light,  I could see I had bought a lot of work for $15.   But my dear wife went ballistic and forgot all about 1 Cor. 13. and claimed up in her room.  By this time my daughter Cindy was saying she would like to have one of them in her room.  So now caught in the cross fire.   So I sneaked out when all were hiding in their rooms and took the end tables to the dump.  So I lost a little time and $15. bucks to have some peace,  I hope.  It is not all over as yet.

But as I was musing over the situation the  Holy Spirit started talking to me about how we see things in the physical world but really don’t see them.  We see a picture in our brain that our brain creates for us out of what information that it collects through our 5  physical senses.  If my brain did not have that input I would have no idea what was out there.

The the Holy Spirit started sharing that learning to walk in the Spirit is like that.   We become born spiritually from above by trusting Jesus to be our LORD.  Then there is a need to train our eyes, ears, touch, taste and feel gates to see things in the Spiritual world.  At first we only know that we are hungry, dirty, tired and need help.   Then we start to hear and to see those who love us.  And as we grow spiritual we start to learn humility and obedience perhaps or perhaps not.   But that this Spiritual world has to become as real to us as our physical world or nothing gets changed.  And by the time we die we need to really be secure in that world or we could miss the boat.  It only took a few minutes for the thief on the cross to see and join God’s Spiritual world.   Others it may take a life time.  The parable of the 4 soils of Jesus gives us a way to understand this.   What kind of soil are you and me?  Only the deep, weed free soil produced fruit.   And what ever did not bear fruit after it’s kind was taken and burned.

So it is by faith that we need to learn to live in God’s Spiritual world and it comes by repeatedly listening to the Word of God.  A great evangelist of the past,  Smith Wigglesworth once said he never read anything but the Holy Bible to be able to keep on track.   Today very few folks stay close to the Bible, especially the New Testament,  and they get lost in the thoughts of those who seem sometimes to be trying to build their own little ivory towers for their own ego.  So if you are not in a disciplined discipleship quest to learn to be like Jesus you are wasting your time and money.  All through the New Testament we are challenged to learn to become like Jesus.  We are challenged to learn what HE taught and to learn how to also make it happen in our lives.  And also we are taught to enjoy teaching when we find others who may become interested as they see we have also become both salt and light in being with Jesus.  And that our real family are only those who are in obedience to Christ Jesus as LORD.   It is a brand new existence that we are invited to experience and to learn how to live in.  James teaches that if we learn to have real faith then we will also have real spiritual results.

Yours, In HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

Some interesting quotes from the past:
 

"Isn't it staggering when you think that one sermon on the day   of Pentecost produced 3000 people? And we had some cities   yesterday where 3000 sermons were preached and nobody was   saved. And it doesn't even faze us."  -Leonard Ravenhill
"If you have no wish to bring others to heaven, you are not going  there yourself."  -C.H. Spurgeon    "Aspire to be something more than the mass of church members.   Lift up your cry to God and beseech him to fire you with a nobler   ambition than that which possesses the common Christian-that   you may be found faithful unto God at the last, and may win many   crowns for your Lord and Master, Christ."  -C.H. Spurgeon    "for all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's."  (Philippians 2:21).    "For what is your life?..." (James 4:14a)    "Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply,  let him ask the lost souls in Hell."  -William Booth    "There is nothing little in God."  -C.H. Spurgeon    "In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed -   And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused."  -Leonard Ravenhill.

HOUSE CHURCH

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HOUSE CHURCH,   “WORTH CONSIDERING” 3/6/20   by Ken Smith<><

Today’s Scripture   ( In my email this morning.)
“…I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you…”  (Psalm 32:8, NIV)

Listen Closely and Follow
Many times we don’t realize that God is speaking to us. We feel an impression on the inside, a prompting to be good to someone. That’s not random. That’s God talking to us. Or, maybe you’re in a situation where you feel an uneasiness. Something says, “It’s not right. Stay away.” That’s not just your nerves. It’s God protecting you. Don’t ignore it, don’t talk yourself out of it; just obey. If you’ll follow that still, small voice, God says He will guide you along the best path for your life. If we’re listening to His still, small voice—the promptings, the suggestions, the alarms—He will save us from heartache and pain. He’ll lead us into promotion and favor. Too often we feel these impressions on the inside, but we dismiss them as not making sense, or override or overanalyze them. Don’t talk yourself out of it. Just obey. Anytime you obey, a blessing will always follow.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for loving me and for speaking to my heart. Thank You for giving me an inner ear to know right from wrong. Help me to be sensitive to Your still, small voice and hear it with clarity, to hear any alarms, promptings, and suggestions, and to be quick to obey. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts,
So much of what is done on Sunday mornings today for church is traditional.  We need to head back into the New Testament to find out what the Holy Spirit wants to teach us.  For example there is not one word in the New Testament supporting tithing or building a church building.  All gifts & offerings were to be from the heart and for evangelism and to help the poor.

In the New Testament we find house churches for ministry to the saved and outdoor evangelism for the lost and personal evangelism in between.  And it appears that the Elders were always mentoring a disciple to help them learn to do what they were doing.  That we should be making disciples that can reproduce disciples that can reproduce disciples and so on.  Jesus noted that in John 17:20  “I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message,…” AMP

We will never see the Glory and Power of God in the New Testament Church until we learn to become 24/7 Christians who have a deep loving concern for the lost and learn how to help them find Jesus in the Holy Spirit.  It is the ministry of the sheep to bear the lambs.  It is the ministry of the shepherd to feed and protect the sheep, especially the lambs.

Most large ministries of the Holy Spirit come to a point in their existence of being too large to gather together and must either find larger facilities or build them or to begin to split up.  This is a critical stage as dividing into house churches and trying out a steward pastor would keep the intimacy of the forum rather than making the transition to a theater with a Sr. Pastor….  The smaller groups would have a lot more flexibility and the energy would go towards evangelism rather than boards and carpets.  The young stewards would gather with the Elders with a deep hunger to learn better how to help their little flocks and be mentored.  The growth would become exponential as was used by our LORD.   With the Elders gathering to keep the unity of the faith in the bond of peace each week we would see only the one Church of Christ Jesus and eliminate the idea that it is OK to agree to disagree.   God does not have two truths on a given subject.  We, in love, need to have the patience on a subject to bring the scriptures together until they all fit together and we see the lovely picture of the  puzzle completed.  There is no room for denominational differences, it only confuses the sheep and GOD is never the author of confusion.

So go start a house church and keep working on it until it comes together through immersion in the New Testament.  You may not end up being the leader selected by the Holy Spirit.  But make your home a house of prayer and a place of God’s Truth.  The Early Church began on Sat. evening as the Jewish 1st day of the week.  But latter you could find a House Church gathering on every night of the week.   And I am sure the Elders found time to come together to help the Stewards learn to become Deacons to also learn to become Elders as per Eph.4:11-16.   “And [His gifts to the church were varied and] He Himself appointed some as apostles [special messengers, representatives], some as prophets [who speak a new message from God to the people], some as evangelists [who spread the good news of salvation], and some as pastors and teachers [to shepherd and guide and instruct], 12 [and He did this] to fully equip and perfect the saints (God’s people) for works of service, to build up the body of Christ [the church]; 13 until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity]. 14 So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit]. 15 But speaking the truth in love [in all things—both our speech and our lives expressing His truth], let us grow up in all things into Him [following His example] who is the Head—Christ. 16 From Him the whole body [the church, in all its various parts], joined and knitted firmly together by what every joint supplies, when each part is working properly, causes the body to grow and mature, building itself up [a]in [unselfish] love”   AMP

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,    Ken   www.Trinity-Aloha.org
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Today!
The novel coronavirus spreading across the world is already at a ‘pandemic’ stage, a top Israeli health official said Thursday, though world health authorities have held off from declaring a global outbreak.  The U.S. Senate voted near unanimously Thursday to approve $8.3 billion in new spending on the U.S. government’s efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

One commentary said the virus does not kill the children or the healthy,  but only the old that cumber the system and take up needed resources.  “Though old, I never felt that way before???”

Evangelical Christians continually stand by Donald Trump despite whatever personal issues he may have because they know that Donald Trump and his administration are the only thing standing between them and the secular left looking to flex all of their political, cultural, legal, and financial muscles to banish Christians from exercising their religious beliefs from all aspects of American life save for one hour on Sunday.

SCARS

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SCARS,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/5/19,   by Ken Smith
    
Today’s Scripture   (In my mailbox this morning.)
“As he spoke, he showed them the wounds in his hands and his side. They were filled with joy when they saw the Lord!” (John 20:20, NLT)

Be at Peace with Your Scars
We all carry invisible scars that come from inner wounds—perhaps from a divorce, from what somebody did, from a mistake we made, from a loss. So often we try to hide our scars. They remind us of the hurt. But you can be at peace with your scars. Those scars are your testimony; they tell your story. Instead of being depressed over what you’ve been through, have a new perspective—the enemy tried to stop you, but God brought you through it, healed you, and you have a scar to prove it. The scars can remind you of His grace and power.

Jesus’ back was lashed with thirty-nine stripes and His hands and feet and side were pierced. When He rose from the dead, you would think He would be perfectly restored, but He still had scars. This was significant. God could have taken them away. Maybe, in part, it was to show us that it’s okay to have scars.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that I worship a Savior who has scars. Since He has scars, I’m okay with my scars. I’m not going to live bitter because of a disappointment, or in regret over past mistakes, or go around sour because somebody did me wrong. I’m at peace with my scars. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken Thoughts:
The key for true sanctification is to see Jesus in His lifetime on earth as one of us except for the Adamic sin nature which we all inherited from Adam but not Jesus.  And He is the key for us in dumping our Adamic sin nature and becoming like HIM.

That our sin nature was not our fault and HE showed us that we, in HIM could be free of it.  That we could decide to change our citizenship from being the children of Adam to being the children of God in Christ Jesus.  That He made the way for us to have total restoration to the original vision of our Creator, scars and all,  to be made in HIS Image and likeness.   That Jesus was the 1st born of many and that we also have been invited to fulfill our original created destiny.   That it is by/through the great and precious promises that we may become partakers of GOD’S divine nature through faith.  That where there is no vision the people perish.  We need to have that Vision of God’s perfection for us restored in real time faith to our hearts.  To be able to have that ultimate victory over sin, we must first deeply believe that it is possible.

Jesus was not deified until after He had overcome the world and even the Cross.   That the Son of Man, Son of God, Second Adam was/is like us during His journey on earth but even brought every thought into the captivity of the Holy Spirit. He was tempted like us in all thing, yet without sin.  Because of His victory He is now in the very likeness and Image of God.    And that God our Heavenly Father wants to give us the same grace, if we want it, to overcome and walk in True Freedom,  Rom.8.

So what we are teaching is pure Bible and has nothing to do with anything but Christ Jesus the anointed one in whose steps we can follow,  if we want to,  and we need to get the vision for it in our heart of hearts.  This is not a mind game.  The Vision must become a core part of us.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God.  It is the battle of John 12:24-26.  It is the unity of John 17: 20-26  It is the insistence of Eph.4:11-16 and ends in 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.”           1 John 4:17.

With the onset of the present pandemic it seems obvious that we are now entering into the pre-curser upheaval heading towards the great tribulation…  The prophesy of Jesus in Matt.24-25,  Mark 13 & Luke 21 lays it out for us.   We are heading into the time of trouble where many fall away,  there is a great harvest,  and in the folowing time of false peace we (The Church) go home, victorious. 1 Cor. 15:12-28,  1 Thess. 4:13-18,  2 Thess.2:3-8

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,  Ken<><
 

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California governor declares state of emergency after coronavirus deaths.  The US death toll from coronavirus infections rose to 11 on Wednesday as new cases emerged around New York City and Los Angeles, while Seattle-area health officials sought to allay anxiety amid the nation’s largest outbreak.

Coronavirus, (Note.)
It seems to me that this pandemic is just getting started and it may be confirmed by what Jesus taught us.
It could be a petulance as outlined in Matt.24-25, Mark 13, Luke 21.  It may be the beginning of sorrows and there will be a great falling away, The Church will become Sanctified, Then there will then be a great harvest of souls into God’s Kingdom, A time of false peace and then the Victorious Church of Christ Jesus will be taken home. 

I would suggest that you become as self contained as possible and stock supplies for about 6 months + plus garden seeds.  It is amazing the amount of food you can grow in a very small area with the right preparations + sun and water.  Wick/Gutter system watering makes watering and plant care a snap.  But from the time you plant to table is around 4 months.  So if the Islands fall under a quarantine, without Costco, things could become very difficult.  And that is sure to happen.

Also seek to have your immune system supported as much as possible.  The death rate of the virus is about 3 % of those who contact it.   But the mess it will cause in our economy with be horrendous.   Our national economy has already seen about a 20% reduction and it is just getting started.

GOD’S FAVOR

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God and me,   John 3:15-18

GOD’S FAVOR,   “WORTH CONSIDERING”   3/4/20   by Ken Smith,   www.Trinity-Aloha.org
    
Today’s Scripture
“…About this time next year,” Elisha said, “you will hold a son in your arms…”3 Kings 4:16

Who Says it’s Permanent?
In 2 Kings 4, there was a wealthy lady who had been extraordinarily kind to the prophet Elisha. The only thing missing in her life was a child. She was barren and her husband was old. One day Elisha said, “By this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” She nearly passed out. She’d tried to have a baby for years. She said, “Please don’t lie to me like that!” She was saying, “How can this happen? It’s impossible.” But God is a supernatural God. He can make things happen out of season. A year later she had her son.

We all have situations that look permanent. All the circumstances say it’s going to take years to get out of debt, years to accomplish that dream, but God is going to surprise you. Don’t believe the lies that say it’s permanent. You may not see anything changing, but stay in faith—you are closer than you think.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You are the God who can do the impossible and who loves to surprise us. Thank You that one touch of Your favor can turn around what looks like it will never change. I believe that You are going to do more than I can imagine. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s thoughts:
In reading about Kathryn Kuhlman last night there and was some simplicity that I felt to share.

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Shortly after I received the baptism in the Holy Spirit IN 1968,  I found myself drawn to her gatherings in Los Angeles and became an usher and also sang in the choir.  I noticed that she, as a prophetess was very sensitive to the Holy Spirit and greatly enjoyed all the folks who came.  And through the worship music and her presence and the worship that the Holy Spirit would also attend and make Isa. 61:1-3 & Lk.4:18-20 come alive at that time.  As an usher one time I had to lift a man from a wheelchair and place him in a seat.  (No wheelchairs allowed due to Fire Marshall.)  He was nothing but a limp bag of bones and obviously dying.  Later on as the meeting was progressing I saw that same man on the stage with his buddy in his wheel chair with him pushing and racing back and forth across the stage, totally healed.  That was over 50 years ago.  I really miss those days and would love to see them again.  Many of the saints and lost alike need Jesus to return, though His Church and to do again what He did.  With Kathryn, there were no healing lines and no band standing.  She was who she was but all 100 pounds of her totally in the Spirit of God.  And the Holy Spirit would move through the crowds of people and heal according to their faith.  Then they would come forward and share their healing, braces in hand, and be blessed of the LORD.

In Jeremiah we read the following. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:11-13   So  God has good plans for you. This includes giving you a future that you enjoy. He is not planning your downfall And that God will guide us when we draw near to Him with all our heart.  Our Great Creator really loves us and wants to help us to become what He originally created us in Adam to become.  Of course we know all about the fallen Adamic nature that we inherited and we deeply need God’s grace to change our citizenship from being the children of Adam to, in Christ Jesus to be restored to becoming  the children of God.   On our part it is a willingness to die to the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life and make Christ Jesus, actually, our LORD.    Christ Jesus said it this way. 
“I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone [just one grain, never more]. But if it dies, it produces much grain and yields a harvest. 25 The one who loves his life [eventually] loses it [through death], but the one who hates his life in this world [and is concerned with pleasing God] will keep it for life eternal. 26 If anyone serves Me, he must [continue to faithfully] follow Me [without hesitation, holding steadfastly to Me, conforming to My example in living and, if need be, suffering or perhaps dying because of faith in Me]; and wherever I am [in heaven’s glory], there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.”  John 12:24-26. (AMP)

It takes a lot of saturation in and with God’s Holy Truth in faith to be able to put our old carnal Adamic nature to death and enjoy God’s Freedom in Christ Jesus.  So don’t give up,   And it does help to make friends with those who are also seeking the same freedoms and headed the same way.

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus
And all who truly Love & Obey Him are members.

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FREEDOM

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FREEDOM:    “WORTH CONSIDERING”    3/3/20   by Ken Smith<><
     
Today’s Scripture
“…The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me…to proclaim liberty to the captives and…to set at liberty those who are oppressed…”  (Luke 4:18, NKJV)

Liberty to the Captives
If we’re not careful to develop a freedom mindset, having a bondage mindset will become normal to us. We’ll accept that it’s normal to be hot-tempered, it’s normal to live depressed and negative, it’s normal to struggle and not get any good breaks, it’s normal to have bad relationships. That’s not normal. That’s a chain that restricts your movement, that limits your ability. You are made in the image of Almighty God. You have seeds of greatness. You were created to be free, to be happy, to accomplish dreams—not to get by in life, but to excel. Don’t let a chain that binds you become normal.

Jesus came announcing freedom, announcing that the chains that are restricting you are being broken. Now it’s up to you to receive it. The chain breaker, the Most High God is working in your life right now. Your day of freedom has come. Get ready for favor in new ways. Start living from a freedom mindset.

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that You are the Most High God, the chain breaker, who is releasing me into increase, into favor, and into new levels. Thank You that what has hindered me in the past is not going to hinder me anymore. I believe my chains have been broken. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”

Ken’s Thoughts:
Great subject today, and we need the whole idea and vision.   Jesus after 30 years of being a home boy and oldest of at least 4 boys and 2 girls.  After His empowering of the Holy Spirit and His time of testing He proclaimed His vision in the Synagogue as also prophesied by Isaiah and recorded by Luke.

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me (the Messiah),  Because He has anointed Me to preach the good news to the poor.  He has sent Me to announce release (pardon, forgiveness) to the captives,
And recovery of sight to the blind,  To set free those who are oppressed (downtrodden, bruised, crushed by tragedy), 19 to proclaim the favorable year of the Lord [the day when salvation and the favor of God abound greatly].”  Luke 4:18-19

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,  Because the Lord has anointed and commissioned me  To bring good news to the humble and afflicted;  He has sent me to bind up [the wounds of] the brokenhearted,  To proclaim release [from confinement and condemnation] to the [physical and spiritual] captives.  And freedom to prisoners,  2  To proclaim [a]the favorable year of the Lord, [b] And the day of vengeance and retribution of our God,  To comfort all who mourn,  3 To grant to those who mourn in Zion the following:  To give them a [c]turban instead of dust [on their heads, a sign of mourning],  The oil of joy instead of mourning,  The garment [expressive] of praise instead of a disheartened spirit.  So they will be called the trees of righteousness [strong and magnificent, distinguished for integrity, justice, and right standing with God],  The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.  Isaiah 61:1-3

And so the thoughts come to my mind that we as Christian have been assigned, in Christ Jesus to learn how to do the same thing in bringing Glory to Christ Jesus as LORD as His disciples.  We find that in the Great Commission in Matt.28:19 and all through the New Testament.  That the disciple is under discipline (obedience) to become like the Master and has the God given grace to help in bringing himself and others into the same discipline or discipleship.  1 John 5:17 teaches us that in maturity we will be like our Master in perfection and be able to boldly stand before our Holy Creator in righteousness in the end time of Judgment. And that in our love of God we will love our brethren to the same degree of selfless love while yet in this world.  This is also spelled out in Eph.4:11-16 & John 17:20-26.

Doesn’t seem like many of the Christian Churches of today are really actively fulfilling this initial vision of our LORD.  Seems like most church members are there, hopeful, for fire insurance without really agreeing to make Jesus,  LORD.  True Discipleship means for us to give Christ Jesus all that we have to HIM as LORD and then HE give us His citizenship and a seat at HIS table in this world and also in His coming New Creation of Righteousness.  The details of the agreement of exchange are clearly spelled out in the New Testament as HIS final and validated WILL.   We are to learn to submit our will (totally) under HIS authority in all things 24/7. The Early Church was secure in this His vision of: Truth, Love, Unity and Holiness and God’s Grace and Power confirmed their“born from above” relationship.  Apostle Paul prophesied about our Later Days Church in 2 Tim.3.   Perhaps we need to go back to the basics and find and restore what obviously has been lost?  Acts 5:16                           

Yours in HIS great Love & Mercy,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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HEALING, DIVINE

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HEALING, DIVINE    “WORTH CONSIDERING”   3/2/20   by Ken Smith<><

Today’s Scripture   (In my mail box this morning.)
“…When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed…”  (Mark 5:27–28, NIV)

Touch Him
He laid His hands on people. But in this case, the woman laid her hands on Jesus. There were other sick people in the crowd that day. Many people with needs bumped up against Jesus and nothing happened, but this lady believed in Him, touched Him, and was healed.

Are you brushing up against Jesus or are you touching Him, so to speak? Are you waiting for God to lay hands on you? Are you living with expectancy, knowing that He’s bigger than your specific problems, or are you discouraged, thinking it will never change? God is passing by. He has all power. Don’t just brush up against Him. Don’t be passive and think you’ll never accomplish your dreams, never start your business, never meet the right person. Your faith can activate God’s power to do amazing things. Do like this woman—touch Him and believe it will happen!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You that my faith and expectancy can be a catalyst for You to do amazing things. Thank You that I can reach out and touch You by faith today. I believe that You are making a way, that things are changing in my favor, and that victory will be mine. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.”
   
Ken’s Thoughts,
Most of us have gone to “church” where there was prayer for the sick and nothing happened.  It was merely a form or ritual that even sometimes caused a loss of faith.  And at times I have been in a ministry where it seemed that whatever was ask of God was granted.  For many years I have been seeking an answer.  And I believe that I have found it.  The difference is heart faith unity in love of God and HIS TRUTH.  When the power of God was very evident it was with a collection of souls who were in John 17 unity and seeking to love and obey Jesus 24/7.   With the other group there seemed a religious compartmental walk and a world compartment walk with unbelief that we could walk with Christ Jesus in the Holy Spirit 24/7 in this world and sin not.  1 John 1:9….

An exception is with the 5 fold ministry as found in the N.T.  I have even seen the unsaved find healing with an evangelist in the Holy Spirit was gathering souls into the Kingdom.  All those healed by Jesus were yet unsaved as well.   His Church did not start until HIS Resurrection, the upper room and Pentecost and the Holy Spirit was sent to save, seal, guide and in-power. 

One of the scriptures that opened the door for me was found in John 17:20-24   “I do not pray for these alone [it is not for their sake only that I make this request], but also for [all] those who [will ever] believe and trust in Me through their message, 21 that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me.  22 I have given to them the glory (power) and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one, just as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected and completed into one, so that the world may know [without any doubt] that You sent Me, and [that You] have loved them, just as You have loved Me.  AMP

The prayers of Jesus will find total and complete fulfillment.

Now this is not the only verse that make it very clear concerning the GLORY (POWER) of GOD is related to our Loving Unity in GOD’S HOLY TRUTH.   In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians he says it this way: Eph.4:11-16,   And [His gifts to the church were varied and] He Himself appointed some as apostles [special messengers, representatives], some as prophets [who speak a new message from God to the people], some as evangelists [who spread the good news of salvation], and some as pastors and teachers [to shepherd and guide and instruct], 12 [and He did this] to fully equip and perfect the saints (God’s people) for works of service, to build up the body of Christ [the church]; 13 until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity]. 14 So that we are no longer children [spiritually immature], tossed back and forth [like ships on a stormy sea] and carried about by every wind of [shifting] doctrine, by the cunning and trickery of [unscrupulous] men, by the deceitful scheming of people ready to do anything [for personal profit]. 15 But speaking the truth in love [in all things—both our speech and our lives expressing His truth], let us grow up in all things into Him [following His example] who is the Head—Christ. 16 From Him the whole body [the church, in all its various parts], joined and knitted firmly together by what every joint supplies, when each part is working properly, causes the body to grow and mature, building itself up [a]in [unselfish] love.

But now we are confronted with denominations and divisions and an altered gospel which does match up to the Holy Scriptures.  We have become content to agree to disagree.  We don’t see differences as an opportunity in love to find more of God’s Truth to walk in but more as an attack where pride and defensiveness steps in and causes just another division.  Christ Jesus (Matt.10:34) even deeply warned us about this and does Paul in (2 Tim.3. ) READ THIS !!!!

In context, the New Testament in John defines the word GLORY in John 2:11 as POWER which also could have been used instead of Glory in John 17:22 which could also read that the Church would not have HIS Power and Honor until they found GOD’s Loving Unity in HIS Truth.  The Early Church was walking in that power, read what Luke recorded in: Acts 5:16.  But today it appears we are headed into Matt.24-25, Mark 13 & Luke 21 for the cleansing of the Church.  So we now have the choice of obedience through faith or learning obedience by painful experience.  So until the Body of Christ is obedient in unity, love, truth and humility like Christ Jesus we can expect very little  power to happen in our so call normal church ministry.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy, Ken<>< www.Trinity-Aloha.org

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