VOICE OF GOD

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,   John 3:16,  John 12:24-25,   John 17:20-26

VOICE OF GOD      “WORTH CONSIDERING”    11/1/19,   (Across my desk this morning,  exceptional.)

Today’s Scripture
“If only you carefully listen to the voice of the Lord your God…”    (Deut. 15:5, AMPC)
Choose The Voice Of Faith

All through the day, there are always two voices competing for our attention—the voice of faith and the voice of defeat. You’ll hear a voice saying, “You’ll never rise any higher. You don’t have what it takes. You’ve reached your limit.” But if you listen carefully, you’ll hear another voice saying, “You are well able. You can do all things through Christ. Your best days are still up ahead.” You are the one who gets to choose which voice comes to life. The way you do it is by speaking it out of your own mouth. The moment you verbalize that thought, you give it the right to come to pass. When you speak faith, you’re in agreement with God. When you speak defeat, you’re in agreement with the enemy. God-talk brings God on the scene. Enemy-talk brings the enemy on the scene. Why don’t you get in agreement with God today? That negative voice may be louder, but you can override it. You can take away all of its power by simply choosing the voice of faith. Choose to declare favor, blessing and increase over your life so that you can walk in the victory the Lord has in store for you.
A Prayer for Today
“Heavenly Father, today and everyday, I choose the voice of faith and victory. I declare that today I am rising up higher in You, that I can do all things because You give me strength. I bless and honor You in everything I do. In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Great topic today and much needed.  When we moved out into the country to Kealia which is about 20 miles from Kailua Kona our only option for cable and internet was spectrum.  So I set is up as I use the Internet all the time.   But when I got the cable box from Spectrum the stations went into the thousands.  I don’t watch much TV so a total waste on me but it was amazing as to how many voices I could select to choose from.  And most were lying as we all know that buying this or that will not make us better or happier but the hype and sales pitch goes on and on. 

Jesus taught: “Believe Me when I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the time is coming and is here now when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and those who hear it shall live,  John 5:25 and  “ So everyone who hears these words of Mine and acts upon them [obeying them] will be like a sensible (prudent, practical, wise) man who built his house upon the rock.  25 And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. Matt. 7:24-25″  and  “I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that I Myself am the Door [a]for the sheep.8 All others who came [as such] before Me are thieves and robbers, but the [true] sheep did not listen to and obey them.9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture”, John 10:7-9.  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me,”  John 10:27.

So a lot depends upon our channel selection as to what voice we hear.  As I put these thought together for you during the week, I do try to tune in very carefully to HIS voice and I enjoy HIS fellowship so very much.  But I have to be quiet in my own mind and shut down all of the other voices that I tend to pick up.  My voice, other peoples voices, demonic voices, dumb voices and the vain imaginations at times which at my age are no longer even realistic.  But when I do tune into the voice of my Creator, often it is so emotional that tears come to my eyes that so much joy and peace is experienced.  The Holy Spirit always speaks with faith and in agreement with the Word of God.  He is never manipulative with fear, pride, lust, greed, hate, lies and such things of the flesh and enemy.  But the enemy seeks to get our attention all the time with that trash.  This world is so full of lies and it is so easy to get tangled up in them.  We really do need to take the time to learn to hear the Voice of GOD.  The personal and national debts of this nation is so huge now from have it now and pay later that a train load of serious pain is on the tracks and headed our way.  So we should all make it a high priority to learn to hear HIS voice of truth, faith, love, unity and power from our Heavenly Father for our good and eternal life.  Your soul and mine has been created eternal.  Our life time in this temporary dimension of time is for our decision of placement for eternal light or for eternal darkness.

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 and OBEY HIM are members.

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DESTINY

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,  John 3:16-18,  Rom.10:9-10,   John 17:20-26.

DESTINY     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/31/19,   (Across my desk, rather quiet tonight.)

Today’s Scripture
“So I have come down to rescue them…and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land…”(Exodus 3:8)
A Good and Spacious Land

Notice in today’s verse that God did not say He would bring His people into a small land; a little place, tight or crowded. No, receive this into your spirit: Just as God brought the children of Israel into a good and spacious land, so He will do the same for you! He wants to take you to the land of “more than enough,” a land of plenty of room flowing with increase, good breaks and opportunity. He wants you to live in a land where you not only have enough for yourself, but you’re so blessed that you can be a blessing to other people. If you’re not in a good and spacious place today, the challenge is: don’t settle where you are. This is not your permanent address! It’s only temporary. Keep standing, keep believing, keep pressing forward and walk into the good and spacious land God has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for Your goodness and faithfulness in my life. I trust that You are leading me into a new land, a spacious land filled with blessing and opportunity. I choose to stand and keep my eyes on You as You lead me forward in Your purposes in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
My Thoughts:
Many eyes today are focused on the gifts rather than the giver.   They have been taught to give to get.  I came across an old teaching in going through my boxes from our move this week where:
” God said NO !”
I asked God to take away my habit,  HE said, it is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to grant me patience,  He said, Patience is a byproduct of tribulations that is learned.
I asked God to give me happiness,  HE said, I give blessings for obedience, happiness is up to you.
I asked God to spare me pain,  HE said suffering draws you from the world and closer to ME.
I asked God to enjoy life with things,  HE said,  I have given you life that you might enjoy things.
I asked God to help me learn to love as HE loves,  HE said, finally, now you are getting the idea.

This day is the only today that you will ever have,  don’t waste it.  We only get to keep what we send ahead.

Our Creator, carefully considered your creation before our world was made.  He designed and fashioned and gifted you for a certain purpose in your very short life time of growth and testing.  But it is up to you to knock, seek and ask to find it as only in faith with a loving freewill may it be accomplished.  And when you find your calling, niche, trade,  job it will make you very joyful in this transitory life time and in the eternal world to come.   You are an eternal soul created to be made HOLY and Sanctified to become like Jesus.  You can either go with this vision or you can fight against it.  But if you fight against it you will not like the end results.   Read the little book of Jude next to the Book of The Revelation.  God’s big picture in only one very short chapter.  You are the only one like you there has never been nor will ever be another like you.  You are not a mistake,  you have a calling to fulfill.   God does not make mistakes.  HE is infinite in Love, Power, Knowledge and lives outside of our time dimension.  But has given us an open invitation for us to join HIM in light through Christ Jesus as LORD in HIS dimension.   So what does your destiny look like?

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><     www.Trinity-Aloha-org
(Our Home Page is full of links to help you find your way into HIS Kingdom.    Link to “Worth Considering” or “Keys to the Kingdom”)  Like to be added to the mailing list, or removed,  let us know?

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who truly love and obey HIM are members.

Jude Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and brother of James, [writes this letter] to those who are called (chosen), dearly loved by God the Father and separated (set apart) and kept for Jesus Christ:

2 May mercy, [soul] peace, and love be multiplied to you.

3 Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you in regard to our common salvation. [But] I found it necessary and was impelled to write you and urgently appeal to and exhort [you] to contend for the faith which was once for all [a]handed down to the saints [the faith which is that sum of Christian belief which was delivered [b]verbally to the holy people of God].    ….   Look it up,  keep on reading.

Next to the last book of the New Testament,  The Book of The Revelation.

Jude was a son of Mary and Joseph and grew up with Jesus…..

DESTINY

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,  John 3:16-18,  Rom.10:9-10,   John 17:20-26.

DESTINY     “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/31/19,   (Across my desk, rather quiet tonight.)

Today’s Scripture
“So I have come down to rescue them…and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land…”(Exodus 3:8)
A Good and Spacious Land

Notice in today’s verse that God did not say He would bring His people into a small land; a little place, tight or crowded. No, receive this into your spirit: Just as God brought the children of Israel into a good and spacious land, so He will do the same for you! He wants to take you to the land of “more than enough,” a land of plenty of room flowing with increase, good breaks and opportunity. He wants you to live in a land where you not only have enough for yourself, but you’re so blessed that you can be a blessing to other people. If you’re not in a good and spacious place today, the challenge is: don’t settle where you are. This is not your permanent address! It’s only temporary. Keep standing, keep believing, keep pressing forward and walk into the good and spacious land God has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for Your goodness and faithfulness in my life. I trust that You are leading me into a new land, a spacious land filled with blessing and opportunity. I choose to stand and keep my eyes on You as You lead me forward in Your purposes in Jesus’ name. Amen.”
My Thoughts:
Many eyes today are focused on the gifts rather than the giver.   They have been taught to give to get.  I came across an old teaching in going through my boxes from our move this week where:
” God said NO !”
I asked God to take away my habit,  HE said, it is not for me to take away, but for you to give it up.
I asked God to grant me patience,  He said, Patience is a byproduct of tribulations that is learned.
I asked God to give me happiness,  HE said, I give blessings for obedience, happiness is up to you.
I asked God to spare me pain,  HE said suffering draws you from the world and closer to ME.
I asked God to enjoy life with things,  HE said,  I have given you life that you might enjoy things.
I asked God to help me learn to love as HE loves,  HE said, finally, now you are getting the idea.

This day is the only today that you will ever have,  don’t waste it.  We only get to keep what we send ahead.

Our Creator, carefully considered your creation before our world was made.  He designed and fashioned and gifted you for a certain purpose in your very short life time of growth and testing.  But it is up to you to knock, seek and ask to find it as only in faith with a loving freewill may it be accomplished.  And when you find your calling, niche, trade,  job it will make you very joyful in this transitory life time and in the eternal world to come.   You are an eternal soul created to be made HOLY and Sanctified to become like Jesus.  You can either go with this vision or you can fight against it.  But if you fight against it you will not like the end results.   Read the little book of Jude next to the Book of The Revelation.  God’s big picture in only one very short chapter.  You are the only one like you there has never been nor will ever be another like you.  You are not a mistake,  you have a calling to fulfill.   God does not make mistakes.  HE is infinite in Love, Power, Knowledge and lives outside of our time dimension.  But has given us an open invitation for us to join HIM in light through Christ Jesus as LORD in HIS dimension.   So what does your destiny look like?

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><     www.Trinity-Aloha-org
(Our Home Page is full of links to help you find your way into HIS Kingdom.    Link to “Worth Considering” or “Keys to the Kingdom”)  Like to be added to the mailing list, or removed,  let us know?

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who truly love and obey HIM are members.

Jude Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ (the Messiah), and brother of James, [writes this letter] to those who are called (chosen), dearly loved by God the Father and separated (set apart) and kept for Jesus Christ:

2 May mercy, [soul] peace, and love be multiplied to you.

3 Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you in regard to our common salvation. [But] I found it necessary and was impelled to write you and urgently appeal to and exhort [you] to contend for the faith which was once for all [a]handed down to the saints [the faith which is that sum of Christian belief which was delivered [b]verbally to the holy people of God].    ….   Look it up,  keep on reading.

Next to the last book of the New Testament,  The Book of The Revelation.

Jude was a son of Mary and Joseph and grew up with Jesus…..

BREATH OF LIFE

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,   John 3:16-18

BREATH OF LIFE            “WORTH CONSIDERING”     10/30/19   (Across my desk this morning and very good.)

Today’s Scripture
“Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord Almighty.”   (Zechariah 4:6, NIV)
By the Breath of God

In the original Hebrew, the word “spirit” in today’s verse literally means “breath.” This Scripture is saying that the breakthroughs that are coming in our lives are not going to happen just by our talent, our connections or who we know. It’s going to happen because God breathes in our direction. God will shift the winds that blow healing, promotion and restoration our way. How are you going to get well? The medical report may say it’s impossible, but when God breathes on you, health, wholeness and restoration are headed toward you. How are you going to accomplish your dreams? You may not know the right people or have enough money or feel as though you have the talent. No, God is breathing and sending ideas, resources and the right connections your direction. If you will stay faithful and keep honoring and obeying God, suddenly, things will change. Suddenly, you will come into abundance. Suddenly, your child will turn around. Suddenly, you will get well. Suddenly, the breath of God will shift things in every area of your life!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for breathing in my direction. Thank You for restoring life, peace, health and wholeness to my body and mind. I bless You today and receive the supernatural shifts You have prepared for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.”


My Thoughts:
In Hawaii the term Aloha is used very often as both a greeting and in saying goodbye.  The term Alo means to give and the term ha means breath.  And to give this word to another means:  in whatever you need, I will help you.”  “I give you the breath of my life.”  When I learned this long ago I was amazed at how accurate it was in the creation and redemption of man.   in Genesis it is recorded and lost, “7 Then the Lord God formed man from the [a]dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath or spirit of life, and man became a living being, Gen 2:7.” in the creation.  (adam then lost it.)  And then in Jesus life is restored, “… He (Jesus) showed them His hands and His side. And when the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with joy (delight, exultation, ecstasy, rapture).21 Then Jesus said to them again, Peace to you! [Just] as the Father has sent Me forth, so I am sending you.22 And having said this, He breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy Spirit!    Souls begin to be saved at the upper room at this time and the Church was started at Pentecost.

So here we see a spiritual connection that is rather amazing,  How did the folks in the Pacific Islands find this rather fantastic truth.  In fact I have found much truth in the seeds of the old Hawaiian Culture that go way back to the first migrations that share some amazing Biblical Truths.   Perhaps the children of Noah brought some truth along with them when the came to these islands.  But it is our awareness of Christ Jesus came as the way, truth and life,  THE LORD,   that opens the door to God’s Grace, Blessings and Mana (from the Melanesian and Polynesian peoples)  The Melanesian People were the fist migrations and also perhaps called the menehune.    https://www.wheretraveler.com/kauai/advice/mythical-little-people-hawaii

So Actually Christianity and Old Hawaiian traditions seem to join in this truth.   Of course Our Creative Almighty Heavenly Father is the true source of life, power, grace and mana.   And our Holy Bible is the story of how that power is now available to us in John 17:22, “ I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one.”  And in John 2:11 we see that Glory and Power and Mana, if you will. are all the same.  Therefore if we want to see the Glory and Power of GOD we are going to need to saturate ourselves with the contents of the prayer thoughts of Christ Jesus in John 17 and come into UNITY in GOD’s Loving Truth for the power and breath of GOD to flow through us today.  It only in collective unity that the world will really see Christ Jesus,  Eph. 4:11-16.  Jesus taught that a divided house can not stand.  Today HIS house is basically very divided.

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,  Ken <><  www.Trinity-Aloha.org
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There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who truly love and obey HIM are members

Christian News
American Pastor Arrested and Detained in India
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Baghdadi Operation Named After Christian Woman Who Refused to Give Up Faith Before ISIS Killed Her
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FAITH

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,   John 3:16-18

FAITH,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”      10/29/19    (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“…God…calls those things which do not exist as though they did.”  (Romans 4:17, NKJV)
Call Out Seeds of Greatness

Very often, we see potential in other people that they haven’t see in themselves. When you speak vision into them, when you tell them what they can become, you can help set the direction for their life. Your words have the power to push people into their divine destiny. I believe that the reason some people are not living at their full potential is because no one has ever spoken faith into them. No one has taken the time to say, “Hey, you’re great at this. You have a gift here. You’re going to do something amazing!” I believe that one of our assignments in life is to call out the seeds of greatness in other people. Look around at who God has placed in your life. They’re not there by accident. Take time to study them. See what they’re good at. What are their gifts? What do they excel at? Don’t just think about it, speak vision into them. Tell them what they can become. Let your encouragement ignite the greatness on the inside. Help them rise up in confidence so they can be all God has called them to be!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for the people You’ve placed in my life. I choose to be faithful, to speak life and call forth the greatness in them. Thank You for bringing me to new levels as I help others rise higher, too, in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Actually, it is also very important to know GOD’S will in sharing with souls about their potential future.  Many times I have had to help salvage someone from the effects of being damaged by finding themselves trapped in a job or effort that was totally not their cup of tea in the LORD.  When in ministry with someone concerning speaking into their future the ‘Word of Knowledge”  it must also be verified by more than just a feeling.  The Word of Wisdom needs also be available to validate the faith of the new direction.   Usually, before I say anything about a new direction for a person I ask what do they like to do?   Where in doing things do you find the most pleasure or fulfillment?  Because what God has designed you to do will also be something that give you pleasure and great joy in doing. 

I once had a well known prophet of God pronounce in a large gathering, way back 40 years ago that I was to write a book.  And he publically said that I would not like the title to the book,  “My Apostle To The Islands.”  I did not get any other witnesses and according to Scripture,  “Out of the mouth of 2 or 3 witnesses is a thing confirmed.”  I did not write that book.  It would have been deadly for me had I done so at the time.  It is the fruit that determines the tree.  Jesus taught, “By their fruit, ye shall know them.” and not by their publicity.  In Proverbs there is a verse that gives a balance to all this.  “Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. Proverbs 18:21″  James also teaches us to be very careful as to what we say as our words can be life or death to some one else: 

5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!  6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.  So in giving a personal prophesy be sure to be in the Spirit, use wisdom, be quick to listen and slow to speak. And have a witness.  You don’t want to hurt someone in trying to look spiritual.    James 2:4-6  Of course no teaching on faith is complete without reading the 11th chapter of Hebrews.  Faith is the #1 thing that we are on earth to learn.  We are here to learn how to exercise faith in walking out GOD’s TRUTH in LOVE.  We are here to learn to control our tongue in humility and obedience.  We are here to embrace being found in Christ Jesus as Savior and LORD and becoming like HIM.  “For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Cor. 15:22″   “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world. 1 John 4:17″  We are here to learn to love God more than this world.

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 News
China fines church for owning ‘wrong’ version of the Bible
China is cracking down on Christianity and other religions as part of a campaign by the country’s Communist Party to ‘eradicate’ so-called ‘pornography and illegal publications,’ according to a Chinese persecution watchdog.

MIND GAMES

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,   John 3:16-18

MIND GAMES,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    10/28/19   (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds.”  (2 Corinthians 10:4, NKJV)
Breaking Strongholds

Scripture tells us that there is a battle going on in our minds. Our thoughts dictate our actions. That’s why the enemy will do everything he can to get you thinking in the wrong direction. Sometimes it’s not our own thoughts that are holding us back; sometimes it’s that we’ve believed the negative things that other people have spoken over us. Those words are like seeds. If you dwell on them long enough, they’ll take root and become a reality. In life, there will always be people telling you what cannot be done, speaking negative things. Too often we latch on to those negative words and develop what the Scripture calls a “stronghold.” It’s a wrong thinking pattern that keeps us imprisoned in defeat and keeps us from God’s best. The way you break those negative strongholds is by rejecting the lie and embracing the truth of God’s Word. In other words, you have to choose to delete that negative file in your mind. Today, why don’t you take inventory of your thought life? Ask yourself, “Where did these thoughts come from? Do they line up with what God says about me?” Break the negative strongholds and embrace God’s truth so you can be all that God has called you to be!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, today I choose to reject negative thoughts. I choose to reject lies from the past. I break every stronghold through the power of Your Word and embrace Your truth which sets me free in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Wow!!!!  Could not say it better….  This is a big factor in my life and all of our lives.  Being able to weed out the fear, unbelief, hate from the past and the junk pile of negative thoughts that trap us into making further negative decisions.  What God says about us is true and anything contrary is a lie of the enemy.   A formidable question to ask ourselves in making a decision:  Is it for the Kingdom of God or is it to make me look better for other people?   Would Jesus do this or buy this.   Is GOD’s Truth and Love really in this decision?   And we must take care to very gently wrap GOD’s HOLY TRUTH in HIS GREAT LOVE….Otherwise even truth can damage folks very easily.  You don’t use a butcher knife or a meat cleaver in a heart transplant.  God design and plan is to replace our Adamic heart with HIS original pure heart of LOVE and TRUTH.  “If any person be in Christ, they are a new creation,  old things are passed away and all things become new.  2 Cor.5:17.”.  So the Word of God through the Holy Spirit helps us filter out the flesh to make room for the Holy Spirit.  As I am driving along I often listen to the Word of God in my truck on the CD player…  And in that space it is amazing how much loving truth comes to the surface from the Scriptures that is so fresh that is seems like it was written to me only yesterday.   But then with family I tend to get shredded just like Jesus taught us so that I don’t go into orbit.  This teaching is recorded 5 times in the New Testament. 

“But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.  36 And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.   37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” Matt.10.38-37.

So the family usually has the least amount of faith for a prophet or someone anointed of God.   The family often sees what yet needs to be changed and not what has already been changed,  that is just the carnal nature of things.  Even Jesus had difficult with HIS home town of Nazareth.  “5 And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them.6 And he marveled because of their unbelief. Mark 6:5-7.   So even Christ Jesus was limited by the unbelief of those in HIS home town.  Without faith, very little can be accomplished.  That is why John Bunyan had Pilgrim leave home to find the Celestial City.   And to be followers of the way we also may need to make our family the family of faith as Christ Jesus did.  Matt. 12:49  ” 49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!  50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.”  So a constant bombardment of negative thought from inside or outside makes it very difficult to walk in God’s kind of Heb. 11 faith.  And the enemy knows this and his attacks are constant and usually from those who we love the most.  This is due to the fact that we choose to not filter out destructive thoughts when we think them or before we say them.  To really help someone first there needs to be prayer for wisdom and knowledge and then to love the person with God’s love abundantly regardless of the smell or looks or degradation.  You can not help a person that you put under your own frustration and negative judgement to change or else or to destroy.  Loving Unity does not work that way and to bring us into a loving unity is always God’s way,  John 17.

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.

PROMISES

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,   Beloved of our Great Creator God,   John 3:16-18,   12:24-26,   17:21-26

PROMISES,      “WORTH CONSIDERING”     10/25/19    (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.” (2 Cor. 1:20, NKJV)
Yes and Amen

Have you thought about the fact that God has already said “yes” to His promises in your life? You don’t have to beg God to be good to you. You don’t have to plead with Him to help you. God wants to help you. He wants to pour out His abundant blessing on your life. The Scripture says His promises are “yes and amen.” “Amen” means “so be it.” In other words, it’s a done deal. All you have to do is make sure you are living up to your end of the bargain. God’s love is unconditional, but we have to obey His commands in order to see His promises come to pass. For example, Malachi 3:10 says that we have to bring our tithe to Him in order to see the windows of heaven open. It says in Deuteronomy 5 that we are to honor our parents in order to live a long life. The good news is that when we surrender our hearts to Him, He empowers us to fulfill every one of His commands. He equips us for every good work because He wants to see us live a blessed life. That’s why His promises are “yes and amen”!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for Your goodness and faithfulness in my life. I believe that You have a good plan to pour out Your blessing and favor on me. Give me strength to obey Your commands and honor You all the days of my life in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
Actually I am in a bit of conflict with this mornings incomming in some places.   As far as Blessings and Obedience to GOD’s commandments that is ABSOLUTELY True.  Blessings come through humility and obedience on our part out of love for Christ Jesus as our Savior.  But many things in the Old Testament under the LAW can not be applied to the New Testament Church.  Tithing of 10% has been replaced with 100% walking in the Holy Spirit. 2 Cor.9:7.    The day of rest (Sabbath) has also been replace by learning to walk in the peace of GOD through the Holy Spirit,  Heb.4.    A sacrifice is no longer required as it has already been made in Christ Jesus once forever. Heb. 9:26. Honor of parents was confirmed by our LORD so is still effective.  So we do need to take care that the traditions of men do not make the Word of God, ineffective.  Christians are now totally subject to the New Will (New Testament) of Christ Jesus as LORD.  His death made HIS Will to be totally effective.

And for sure our believing in the Great and Precious PROMISES of God is where our Victory is found.   Our faith in HIS Promises in spite of what we think, see or feel of this world gives us HIS VICTORY….  Therefore, since these [great] promises are ours, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates and defiles body and spirit, and bring [our] consecration to completeness in the [reverential] fear of God, 2 Cor.7:1    By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature, 1 Pet.1:4.   If we [freely] admit that we have sinned and confess our sins, He is faithful and just (true to His own nature and promises) and will forgive our sins [dismiss our lawlessness] and [continuously] cleanse us from all unrighteousness [everything not in conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action], 1 John 1:9  AMPC

Yours in HIS great love and wonderful mercy,  Ken <><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org   
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Pot Blessing and Fellowship tonight, 6 PM at our local “House Church” in Kealia,  Hawaii.

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BOLD FAITH

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS.   Blessed of the LORD,   John 3:16-18

BOLD FAITH       “WORTH CONSIDERING”    10/24/19   (Across my folder this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.”   (Proverbs 28:1, NKJV)
Bold As A Lion

We are called to live bold, confident and overcoming lives. You don’t have to live under a burden of fear. You don’t have to live with anxiety. Because of Jesus, fear, worry and uncertainty are beneath you. When you rise up in faith, knowing that God is with you and for you, all doubt and fear have to leave your life. Notice that today’s Scripture says that the righteous are as bold as a lion. Righteousness is God’s way of doing things. When you do things according to what He says in His Word, when you are submitted to His plan for your life, He promises success. It may not always be the way you had in mind, but ultimately, His plan is to prosper you, not to harm you, to give you a hope and a future! Today, if you’ve been feeling anxious or fearful, begin to declare God’s truth over your life that will set you free! Declare that you are righteous in Christ Jesus! Declare that you are more than a conqueror! Declare that you are as bold as a lion because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world!

A Prayer for Today

“Father, thank You for setting me free from a spirit of fear. Thank You for filling me with strength and boldness. I set aside thoughts of worry and dread and thank You for Your peace as I keep my mind fixed on You in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

My Thoughts:
The key issue or problem with most of us in having REAL or BOLD FAITH is that we, in some way or another have been caught up in the lies and the cares of this world and have become double minded or hypocritical.  In some way or another we still have our hands in the cookie jar while the cook is out of the kitchen.  Late the other night I think my wife’s grandson left the ice cream in the microwave and told my wife it was me….. after all, I am 87, what can I remember????  What white lies we are use to telling…..
   It is difficult to push a big heavy door open if you are standing on an ice covered porch.  Of course if there is any fear at all,  fear is faith going backwards.  So the price for faith prayer victories in the LORD is to be standing on Holy Ground with no ice or fear under our feet.   This concept of Truth is  totally supported by Jesus, James and Jude and the New Testament:  

“5 And the prayer [that is] of faith will save him who is sick, and the Lord will restore him; and if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.16 Confess to one another therefore your faults (your slips, your false steps, your offenses, your sins) and pray [also] for one another, that you may be healed and restored [to a spiritual tone of mind and heart]. The earnest (heartfelt, continued) prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available [dynamic in its working].17 Elijah was a human being with a nature such as we have [with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours]; and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on the earth for three years and six months.  James 5:15-17.”  AMPC  also:

James 4:2-4 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)     2 You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.  3 [Or] you do ask [God for them] and yet fail to receive, because you ask with wrong purpose and evil, selfish motives. Your intention is [when you get what you desire] to spend it in sensual pleasures.  4 You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.  Jude also reads about the same way. and guess what:   James and Jude were children of Mary and Joseph and grew up with Jesus.

I was originally taught that we are Sanctified by faith and that our standing is perfect in Christ but our state is in walking through a muddy world.  Actually that is not true.  Holy is Holy as HE is HOLY.  Better re-read your New Testament as God’s plan for us, if we will allow for it, is to make us like Jesus in HIS IMAGE and LIKENESS.  It is faith and HIS grace that makes it possible but we must want it with all of our heart to have it happen.

Yours in HIS great love,   Ken<><   www.Trinity-Aloha.org

(Past blogs may be found by a “Worth Considering” link on our homepage.)

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REJOICE / PROMISES

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved of God,  John 3:16-18,  12:24-26,   17:20-26

REJOICE/PROMISES,    “WORTH CONSIDERING”   10/23/19,   (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“Rejoice with those who rejoice…”   (Romans 12:15, NKJV)
Celebrate Others

When a friend or family member succeeds, gets promoted or experiences an unexpected good break in life, how do you respond? Some people wonder, “What about me?” Others criticize or say, “It won’t last long.” But really, the way you respond to another person’s success will determine the level of your own success. Whether you respond in a negative or positive way, you are sowing seeds for your future. That’s why the Scripture tells us simply to “rejoice with those who rejoice.” God wants you to be successful. His commands are for your good. He doesn’t want jealousy or strife to enter your life and rob you of His blessing. Today, make it a point to find someone who is celebrating and celebrate with them. Congratulate them on their success no matter how small it seems in the natural. Rejoice with those who rejoice, sow seeds of blessing, and open the door for victory in your own life in return!

A Prayer for Today
“Father, thank You for Your hand of blessing not only on my life but on the lives of the people around me. I choose to rejoice in You, and I choose to rejoice over Your victory everywhere I go in Jesus’ name! Amen!”

My Comments:
Today in my mail a really great letter from missionaries on the field also told of an out of the blue shooting where a young Cristian wife/mother was killed as she exited her car in front of her home.  Of course, family and friends went into deep morning and pain over the murder.   But I read it,  I said to myself,  way to go.   She went home to be with the LORD in faith,  Her time of testing is over, she has graduated into the eterma; loving place of GOD’s presence.   Of course I am not going to run out and try to get shot.   And her family will go through the process of grieving.  But as Christians we should all read Fox’s “Book of Martyrs” and get the Long View (Eternal View) of things as they really are and rejoice on the basis of the Promises of God.   The Real Word is what GOD says that it is,  it is not the temporary time world that we now live in for our time of testing.  So her time of testing is over.  But how about ours?   Can we Rejoice only through our own eyes or can we rejoice through faith in the wonderful promises of God?  I often think that I am 87 now just because I needed more time in order to graduate.

3 For His divine power has bestowed upon us all things that [are requisite and suited] to life and godliness, through the [[a]full, personal] knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His own glory and excellence (virtue).  4 By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature.  5 For this very reason, [b]adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in [c]exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence),  6 And in [exercising] knowledge [develop] self-control, and in [exercising] self-control [develop] steadfastness (patience, endurance), and in [exercising] steadfastness [develop] godliness (piety),  7 And in [exercising] godliness [develop] brotherly affection, and in [exercising] brotherly affection [develop] Christian love.  2 Peter 1: 3-7  AMPC

And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, Luke 1:47,   So for the present you are also in sorrow (in distress and depressed); but I will see you again and [then] your hearts will rejoice, and no one can take from you your joy (gladness, delight). John 16:22,  Rejoice in the Lord always [delight, gladden yourselves in Him]; again I say, Rejoice! Phil.4:4.  But insofar as you are sharing Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, so that when His glory [full of radiance and splendor] is revealed, you may also rejoice with triumph [exultantly].  1 Pet. 4:13.  Let us rejoice and shout for joy [exulting and triumphant]! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honor, for the marriage of the Lamb [at last] has come, and His bride has prepared herself.  Rev.19:7 

Yours, in HIS great love and wonderful grace and mercy,   Ken<><   (For Previous Blogs of “Worth Considering”   www.Trinity-Aloha.org   look for the link.)

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THE REFRESHING

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ALOHA FAMILY & FRIENDS,  Beloved in Christ Jesus,  John 3:16-18

THE REFRESHING,     “WORTH CONSIDERING”    10/22/19   (Across my desk this morning.)

Today’s Scripture
“When they walk through the Valley of Weeping, it will become a place of refreshing springs. The autumn rains will clothe it with blessings…”  (Psalm 84:6, NLT)
Be Transformed

Do you feel like you are walking through a tough place in your life today? The psalmist wrote of “passing through the Valley of Weeping,” but not of “settling in the Valley of Weeping,” or “getting stuck in the Valley,” or “building a house in the Valley.” The Valley is temporary; you’re walking through it, and God is walking with you. He wants to strengthen and empower you to keep moving forward. He is leading you to a place of blessing and refreshing!

Be encouraged today that God always causes us to triumph! The Bible says that weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning! It also says that the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn shining brighter until the full day. No matter how dark your circumstance may seem, you are on a path that is shining brighter and brighter. Know today that there is a place of victory on the other side of your challenge. Keep believing and keep expecting. As you continue to meditate on the goodness of God and declare His favor in your life, you will be strengthened and refreshed in your inner man. You will rise higher and higher, and you will live the life of victory the Lord has in store for you!

A Prayer for Today
“Father in heaven, thank You for leading me to my place of blessing. I trust that You are faithful and believe that You have a good plan for my life. Help me to always hear Your voice so I can follow You all the days of my life.”

My Thoughts:
We have all heard the adage that there is no fool like and old fool.  Well,   I am finding as I am getting rather old now at 87 that I am learning to laugh at many of the temptations that use to dump me.  It seems that the lies of the lust of the flesh, eyes and pride of life are becoming such obvious lies that I nearly say out loud,  “Oh, it you again.  I am 87 now and that thought is dumber than a rock.  It is now a chore to get to the mailbox or drive 20 miles to town, devil, you are nuts.”  As I get older the array of temptations are now more easily seen for what they are,  a waste of time.  Time that could be invested in the soon coming of the Kingdom of Christ Jesus.  Time that I can send ahead even in this blog to family and friends.   I know that many are too polite to tell me to turn it off but then some read it from time to time and at least one brother has made a big book already of this blog.  So I see it as a good investment of my time in seeking to help others to join with me in having victory in this life over the world, flesh and the devil.  A hundred years from now in eternity, what is going to matter?  What will be the best investment of time.  If you really really believe you are headed for living with your Creator God in Heaven your life will totally reflect that direction of faith.  If your time is focused in the worldly creature comforts of this world perhaps you have been deceived.   Perhaps you are a hypocrite,  and actor?  Christ Jesus was very clear,  read this scripture with real determination for truth and light if you want to know where you are.

24 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.  25 Anyone who loves his life loses it, but anyone who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal. [Whoever has no love for, no concern for, no regard for his life here on earth, but despises it, preserves his life forever and ever.]  26 If anyone serves Me, he must continue to follow Me [[a]to cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying] and wherever I am, there will My servant be also. If anyone serves Me, the Father will honor him.  John 12  AMPC

The New Testament if full of this kind of teaching,  do you really believe it???  If so , your life will exhibit that fact as above in the way you are now living your daily life.

Yours,  in HIS great love on the beautiful Tuesday morning from Kealia, Hawaii.  Ken<><    www.Trinity-Aloha.org   (For past blogs: find the link “Worth Considering” on our Homepage.  Also read “Keys To The Kingdom.”  )

There is but one Church of Christ Jesus and all who truly love and obey HIM are members.