This was funny…

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Aloha Saints, Sinners, Family and Friends….    This was funny…

So I am going into Home Depot and my daughter Debbie calls……  And we are talking,  good connection.
Now I am headed into the lost and found,  returns area with about 6 “Associates” actively engaged with hardly any customers,  So I am headed into the area with a cart and nothing in it to see about some roofing materials but the call is rather absorbing and so I stop and finally head into a wall and so “picture” here is this 85 yr. old man leaning over an empty cart facing and empty wall talking away to nobody…..  get the picture.  No one sees my cell in my pocket my blue tooth under my shirt or notices my hearing aids which are connected into my blue tooth hearing aids….  So final a soft spoken lady comes out with a lot of empathy in her voice and asks me if I am OK,  do I need any help?   I look up and the whole area has me on their radar.  I point  to my hearing aids and to my blue tooth control….  All breath a sigh of releaf  and go back to the way the world turns in Home Depot.  Just missed an epiphany with the men in the little white coats and the noisy big white box on wheels.  Some how this made my day a little lighter to know that someone cared to ask.  Of course they may also have been concerned that they might have a berserker going off in Home Depot.

Yesterday I was talking to a man about 51 and he was complaining that no one really cared for or about him.  His parents had died without anything and had left him nothing.     I said nothing,  as how do you tell someone of that age that they are only reaping what they have personally sown in life…  As GOD is the only true source and that he has given HIM nothing to work with.   It is what we freely and lovingly give to others that will eventually return to us and also is increased.   We must plant the seeds of the harvest that we desire.   But some souls are like a black hole that sucks up everything around them into their hole and not even the light can escape.   And if they do give anything it is only to manipulate to get more back in return.   With them there is not much that can be done by God to help them unless they make their piece with God in Christ Jesus and submit in love to the eternal commandments of God.

John 12 24-25 is a place in Scripture where our Lord Jesus teaches on this.  It is a paradox.  When I was a very young Christian in 1955 a man by the name of Bob Newkirk challenged me to find a life verse,  this is the one I came up with and have been working on ever since.  Still don’t have it welded into every cell my being as yet but certainly worthy of working on before we meet the KING face to face.

 Might want to  sit down with this and deeply consider how this truth effects your life:

John 12:24-26 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)    “Jesus Speaking…”

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.

We are Pilgrims on earth for a very short time on earth to learn obedience and humility.  Who is #1 in your life?  It is easy to find out,  what does your free time support ?

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

(Remodel about completed in Kealia,  moving into the home.   New carport and ministry center going up today with Todd and team moving lots of wood.  Could be done about the middle of May and ready for use shortly thereafter.  Then the move of my left over stuff to Kealia or to Puna for the ministry over there.)

GREAT QUOTES on TRUE ‘COMMITMENT’

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Aloha Saints, Sinners, Family and Friends,
A little concerned about loading you up but this was too good to pass up, especially the last one. Now don’t cheat, read them all to you get to the last one, OK?

Home in Kealia is coming along nicely. Outside looks like “Dog Patch, USA” but inside is gently becoming a home. And looks like we will be starting work on the the carport and my study and some storage on Sat. Hope to have a nice quite place for writing and for counseling away from the house. Also want to put up some small cabins in the back yard for friends and family to use when coming to Capt. Cooks for a taste of old Hawaii. Also could use some live in help? Now to the good stuff: Love in Jesus, Ken<>< GREAT QUOTES on TRUE 'COMMITMENT' "Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it." - John Stott "Many Christians 'stall out' in the faith when the call to total commitment is received or viewed as something too high or too hard to acquire...or they have never been taught that total commitment is Christ's demand for all His followers." - Chip Ingram "The Christian life is not adding Jesus to one's own way of life but renouncing that personal way of life for His and being willing to pay whatever cost that may require." - John MacArthur "More than once Jesus deliberately addressed certain issues that quickly diminished the number of onlookers. It was commitment that thinned the ranks." - Chuck Swindoll "You never hear Jesus say in Pilate's judgment hall one word that would let you imagine that He was sorry that He had undertaken so costly a sacrifice for us. ... you never hear a groan or a shriek that looks like Jesus is going back on His commitment." - Charles Spurgeon "It costs to be faithful. It cost Abraham the yielding up of his only son. It cost Esther to risk her own life. It cost Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego being put into a fiery furnace. It cost Stephen death by stoning. It cost Paul his life. Does it cost you anything to be faithful to your Lord and King?" - Anonymous "A wife who is 85 percent faithful to her husband is not faithful at all. There is no such thing as part-time loyalty to Jesus Christ." -Vance Havner

He Makes Crooked Places Straight

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Aloha Saints, Family, Friends and Sinners,
This was rather good for me today, been feeling a little wimpy and unloved. House remodel taking it’s toll, being a much bigger project and more expensive than expected. Friends and Family seeming a bit distant and non-supporting. Of course all of this is subjective and up for the enemy’s manipulations and cloud of smoke. Can not go by feelings and emotions as they are not trustworthy, got to go by what GOD’s says in HIS WORD. HIS WORD is the only source of pure truth that I have found. But this came in today and was very helpful for me and I hope for you as well.

Love in Jesus, Ken<>< www-Trinity-Aloha.org Today’s Scripture “Every valley shall be raised, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and let the rough ground become a plain, and the rugged places a broad valley.” (Isaiah 40:4, AMP) He Makes Crooked Places Straight Have you been struggling in an area of your life for quite some time? God has promised He will go before you and prepare a path for you; He’ll make your crooked places straight. He wants to smooth things out for you. I believe that as you continue to commit your ways to Him, He will bring you into a season where things are going to start falling into place. You’re going to get breaks that you didn’t deserve. The promises that you’ve been standing on, you’re going to see them begin to come to pass. It’s time for you to get ready and get your fire back! Start expecting that you are coming into a new season. Maybe it’s in your finances. Maybe you’ve struggled for a long time. Begin to declare that you’re going to see supernatural increase, supernatural opportunities, supernatural promotion. Remember, the economy is not your source—God is. He’s the One who opens doors that no person can shut. Keep standing, keep believing because God is going to make your crooked places straight and lead you down the path of blessing and victory in every area of your life! A Prayer for Today “Heavenly Father, thank You for preparing a path for me. I know You are working behind the scenes to make the crooked places straight and the rough places smooth. Give me Your strength to keep moving forward on the good path that you have for me in Jesus’ name. Amen.”

Billy Graham

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How Billy Graham Avoided Scandal His Entire Life

Before he became famous, the evangelist adopted four guiding principles we need today Evangelist Billy Graham lived 99 years, wrote 30 books, met with 12 sitting American presidents and preached the gospel to millions. But when he is buried this Friday, March 2, in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, he will be remembered not only as a world-changing hero of faith but as a humble preacher whose personal integrity set the gold standard for every minister in this country.

Why was this man so respected? How was he able to keep his ministry free from scandal for more than 75 years?

In 1948, when Graham was just 30 years old, he and his small ministry team met for Bible study and prayer at a tiny motel in Modesto, California. The other men in that meeting including assistant evangelist Grady Wilson, singer George Beverly Shea and song leader Cliff Barrows. Graham challenged them to pray about what codes of behavior they needed to adopt in order to keep the ministry clean.

The results of that meeting were profoundly prophetic. The men outlined what would become “the Modesto Manifesto”—a list of core ministry values that became the guiding principles of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. The BGEA was founded two years later, in 1950, just one year after media coverage of Graham’s eight-week gospel campaign in Los Angeles made him a household word.

Here are the four key components of the Modesto Manifesto, along with notes that Cliff Barrows jotted down in their meeting:

  1. Honesty: “It was resolved that all communications to media and to the church would not be inflated or exaggerated. The size of crowds and the number of inquirers would not be embellished for the sake of making BGEA look better.”
  1. Integrity: “It was resolved that financial matters would be submitted to a board of directors for review and facilitation of expenditures. Every local crusade would maintain a policy of ‘open books’ and publish a record of where and how monies were spent.”
  1. Purity: “It was resolved that members of the team would pay close attention to avoiding temptation—never being alone with another woman, remaining accountable to one another, etc. A practice of keeping wives informed of their activities on the road and helping them feel a part of any and all crusades they undertook would be encouraged.”
  1. Humility: “It was resolved that members of the team were never to speak badly of another Christian minister, regardless of his denominational affiliation or differing theological views and practices. The mission of evangelism includes strengthening the body of Christ as well as building it!”

Graham has always been a spiritual hero to me for this reason. Early in his ministry—in fact, before he ever became famous—he realized that his ministry was a stewardship from God and that he could not run it any way he wanted. He had to manage it according to clear biblical principles.

Graham never forgot his humble roots, and he never let popularity change him into an egotistical monster. Even though he was invited to dine with presidents, queens and celebrities, his passion was taking the message of Christ to the common person. And when an usher tried to segregate black and white sections of an auditorium in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1953, Graham removed the barriers himself.

“I am not a great preacher, and I don’t claim to be a great preacher,” he once said. “I’ve heard great preaching many times and wished I was one of these great preachers. I’m an ordinary preacher, just communicating the gospel in the best way I know how.”

He also carried with him a healthy fear that he might try to touch God’s glory or take credit for evangelistic results.

Graham said: “So many people think that somehow I carry a revival around in a suitcase, and they just announce me and something happens—but that’s not true. This is the work of God, and the Bible warns that God will not share His glory with another. All the publicity that we receive sometimes frightens me because I feel that therein lies a great danger. If God should take His hand off me, I would have no more spiritual power. The whole secret of the success of our meetings is spiritual—it’s God answering prayer. I cannot take credit for any of it.”

So much of what we call ministry today has been compromised by ego, marketing and man-made agendas. Some of our own “Spirit-filled” preachers are happy to sell a healing or a financial miracle for $29.95. Others claim spiritual superiority because they have the largest following on social media or because so many lined up to attend their packed conferences.

We have exchanged honesty, integrity, purity and humility for hype, fake anointing, manipulated photos, inflated attendance reports, sensuality and boastful swagger. God forgive us.

Billy Graham raised the bar for all ministers. I pray we will never forget his legacy.