In The Beginning… God!

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” Gen 1:1

In the past year it has become abundantly clear to me that the remedy for all that ails humanity starts with Genesis 1 verse 1. On my Rumble channel I have taken on the challenge of breaking down Genesis chapter 1 through Genesis 2:9. A very daunting task indeed.

Rumble Overview of Genesis Study

Why? Besides saying that this venture into Genesis was Spirit led I see with my own eyes, after walking on H...

This is the year to fight in the spirit realm. We have always known that a war wages in the heavens, right above our collective heads. This year a door has been opened to help us wrestle with principalities and powers and to win those battles, to take territory back that has been lost, and to recover stolen goods. 

Yes, Satan has stolen much from the people of God, those who walk with Him, those who seek His face. There are items that have our name emblazoned on them that si...

What is wrong with the local church?

Jesus choose four businessmen to be His frontline disciples and future leaders of the Church, the Bride of Christ. These men were the brothers Peter and Andrew and brothers James and John. He choose them immediately following the torments of a very challenging forty days in the wilderness, and post a full onslaught from the Son of Perdition, the most devious sinister instrument of evil the world has ever known.

Our Lord responded to this satanic onslaugh...

Over the last few years I have come to realize a measure of decline in my determination and drive to take the message of the cross to our lost and dying world. At the outset of my call to preach I had so much fire in my belly I could not but preach, sadly, as the Word predicts, decline comes and the passion fades.

Back in 2012 I asked the Lord to reveal to me the state of my heart. We had moved back to NJ, I was tired physically and emotionally, and I knew I was spiritually sleepy to the n...

Origin of Jesus – Part 3

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As sons of the Living God, we are summoned by heaven to boldly witness to all the things that we have seen or heard.  Any man or woman of God, prophet, and apostle, upon their occasion of witnessing something of the glories of heaven, will agree that heaven's glory eclipses any glory we see on the earth.

All attest to the same reality of the sheer magnitude of the glory of God, those who have wrestled with rea...

Adversity – Are we ready? 2014

Repost from 2008

If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small. Prov. 24:10

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In Psalm 91:14-16 we have a beautiful account of God's faithfulness to protect a saint, one who has sanctified the Lord always in his heart. A man, woman, or child that has made the Lord of Heaven his love and his refuge.  The Lord is able even at the latest hour to save those who have put their trust in Him.  Let's read the words of Ps. 91 with great care, 

“Because ...

Dealing with opposition in the way of walking by faith!

Any human who spends any amount of time on this planet will experience suffering of some type or sort. Such is the result of the mother of all living making that fateful decision to take of the visibly beautiful fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good AND evil.

When any man puts his mind and in turn his fingers to writing on the topic of suffering, he must first have experienced something of the uniqueness of the kind of suffering that ...

Can you and I ever get to the place of living in a way where we are constantly winning against the evil on the inside of us and in the world around us?   

Is it possible to begin a new life where we are consistently overcoming the seductive temptations that confront us every day in our very fast paced, tempestuous and very pagan society?

The kind of temptations that capture control of our redeemed mind and put us in a mind-numbed temporally based state of being. 

What and where do these sinful t...

What if church goers could actually see and feel the glory and presence of God in the sanctuary?  

Historical encounters of men meeting God, whether angelic, or booming voices, or direct theosophic encounters on the order of Abram's tent meeting announcing the birth of Isaac, and especially of Moses...

Loving friction makes for true unity

The spoken word of G-d uttered at the dawn of creation did not create man a boring kind of bland, and so simplistic a substance without each man or woman owning the glorious addition of individualized uniqueness, what we commonly see in the face of human beings everyday. This reality clearly reveals in the heart of Our Creator in making diversity of people and of gifts in people.

The more we study the micro-substance of human cell structure and the DNA o...

Extravagant Worship is a byproduct of Loving G-d

In the last five years I have attempted to write many words of instruction and exhortation to hopefully influence my generation for the glory of G-d and hopefully in turn positively impact the generation following mine. When I look back over the topics I have written about I find most of my frustration lies in the division I see in the so-called Christian church in the US.

If you were ever inclined to take the time to read every word I ever w...

Why we don’t celebrate Christmas

Directly from the section in Ephesians where apostle Paul exhorts us to Walk in Light even as He is Light and in the Light we read:

8 For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light 9 (for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness, and truth), 10 finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 For it is shameful e...

If you born of the Holy Spirit you will take risks

Perhaps the greatest risk a person can take is to jump out of an airplane trusting only in the fact that the parachute case will open when the release button is pressed.  Or perhaps the greatest risk is joining the infantry division of the US Army in a time of war.  

Or perhaps the greatest risk is to put your eternal welfare into the hands of an unseen God, divinely inspired to simply put all your trust in the heavenly words written by the...

The Dividing of Soul and Spirit

A few weeks back I wrote, “without emotion, nothing happens” today I will attempt to bring more clarification to the idea that without an emotional encounter with God Almighty and His Spirit sent from heaven nothing of a long term benefit will happen in our lives and there will not be left behind in you a lasting and positive change.  And we will not insure our eternal destiny unless we have the Living God break down all our emotional fleshy way of thinkin...

Without Emotion…

Are you one of those analytical personalities that will examine a decision from every possible angle? Do you trust your mind to make the best decision?

If you struggle succumbing to a religious mindset, do you know what you are fighting? Do you fight internally with your tendency to be religious?  We assume that if one places a high emphasis on the mind to discern truth than you are prone to side with a church or group of people that defends their view of the faith with s...

The Fire Baptism of Jesus Christ!

I have witnessed over most of my adult life a high level of antagonism, fear, and confusion on what it means to be “baptized” in the Holy Spirit.

What I will refer to as the "fire" baptism of Jesus Christ. The term "fire baptism" flows directly off the lips of no less a prophet than the forerunner -- John the Baptist. At the point when he introduced the Savior of the Jews to the world (John 1).

A term that ultimately signifies the life changing reality ...

Reposted Posted by Jonathan Keener on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 Under: Restoration

Over the last several days I have been led down a track that exposed me to some of the doctrinal conflicts surfacing within the "emergent" movement.  This rather quick glance into the life and struggles of this relatively young movement has left me feeling like there is really nothing new here at all.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with the terminology “emergent church” I simply say, “google it!�...

In recent days the Lord has guided me to promote a source of renewable energy to Northern New Jersey homeowners for absolutely no money out of pocket. The system costs on average about 40K.

I love promoting this opportunity. I have the distinct privilege of sitting down in the homes of many different kinds of people from all over the world who happen to live in Northern NJ.

This source of energy uses the roof of the home to supply electric power to operate all the appliances in the home an...

In any excruciatingly difficult waiting process, we know in our heart of hearts, as His redeemed children, that the intense circumstances we face are designed to engender soul pain. This pain has been, and always been, a carefully calculated stroke of genius by Our Loving Master to arrange in our lives the perfect collision of His grace with our desperately needy and broken situation.  

The truth of God's sovereign control of all things pertains to all men. ...

Part 2

So we see that in all our efforts to please ourselves when we pray, we find out that we never touch His heart. We seem to fall short of the throne of our Father in heaven, don't we? 

The Father's Son knew that a very real death would end His time on earth. His destiny and real human journey led Him toward the stubbornness of a very religious angry mob. He knew He would lose His life and that these Satanically fil...

The title for this article is derived from many years of heart wrenching struggle in a very difficult process to hear and know God's heart for me and His people. To see us all become a beautiful Bride and begin to do those wonderful works foreordained for us by virtue of His power working in us.    Eph. 2:10

To finally begin to live the life required and expected by Our Lord's efficacious work on the cross for us. Yes we are called to go much higher, especially for those of us who have calle...

Life from the Dead – Men of Great Faith – Part 2

Men who changed history

Nine generations from our father Noah, a person arises, something happens in the life of one of Shem's great great great great great grandchildren. 

Just before I, Shem, must be placed in the grave by the bones of my fathers. My great great great great great great great grandson hears once again the prompting of the same Voice my father heard before the Great devastation. The same Voice that guided my dad to build th...

Life From The Dead – Story of True Faith

About 4 years ago I wrote on this blog on the foundation of our faith --- literally viewed as “life from the dead” In this article I chronicled the struggle of Noah and Abraham to do the hard things they were told to do by an invisible God through the medium of His Spirit and through instrumentality of His Holy Angels.

Noah – a man who stepped up in a difficult time

A dark mist hangs over my head and darkness, judgment looms over all of my fe...

The Fire Baptism of Jesus Christ!

I have witnessed over most of my adult life such an antagonism, fear, and confusion on what it means to be “baptized” in the Holy Spirit. What we today are going to refer to as the "fire" baptism of Jesus Christ. Signifying the life changing reality of what it means to be immersed in the fire of the Spirit's power.

In this writing I hope to reshape in biblical fashion the experience that was intended to be very normative for all those who come to fa...

Why I believe

The word of God reveals many things to us about life, history, and details about the workings of the universe. 

Most importantly though, God's word reveals His power in the life of people who have simply taken His heavenly words revealed to them to heart, and put them into action. 

Humans, just like you and me, made of the dust, were willing to walk toward a humanly invisible reality called heaven. A place which contains the glory of God's eternal presence without the mitigatio...

A Final Appeal

Today those of who are being called to be the “modern day prophets” that will usher in the kingdom of Christ.  You carry that very same mantle that Elijah carried all the way to wicked King Ahab and his pagan wife, Jezebel.  This word was directed to the faltering northern kingdom of Israel.  Who won in that epic conflict?  

You are called in the manner of John the Baptist who “cried out” for the Lord's people to repent and turn back to Jesus that anointed of Yah, our Mes...

The line of Abel – the Seed Progeny

Abel is our archetype, our prophet, a beautiful example to follow to learn “the way” of a true prophet of G-d.  Abel gave G-d his best, Abel was more than a shepherd.  Abel was a worshiper of the one and only true Yahweh.  As a prophet, Abel revealed the heart of a “true” man of G-d, he gave G-d everything he had.  In that work he set the stage for redemptive work of the true “Seed” that would come to establish truth on the earth!

"That upon you...

The Physical Babylonian Empire Lives on!

 Did you know that the Babylonian empire was derived out of the line of Cain?  After the flood judgment of G-d to purify the earth and grant it a new start.  The prophet Noah took his three sons into the protective covering (type of Christ's blood and water washing away of our sins), Shem, Ham, and Japheth were preserved from this judgment but soon they would fall prey to sin of Cain. 

The sin came about when Ham looked upon his father, Noah, when he was...

As a man who has been labeled a prophet by some and a radical preacher by others and delusional false prophet by many, I have been for quite some time desiring to explain what I believe to be the nature and function of “the modern day prophet”.  

Many of those men and women called by G-d to summon G-d's people to repent and turn back to the ancient paths of the revealed word of G-d. Back to the truths found in the holy inspired Word of Yah.  Those called by the edict of heaven bring atten...

In the past few months my mind has been stretched in so many ways.  When the Lord chooses to put us in a place of isolation (dry dock) it forces us to realize how much our salvation is bound to God's power, and not to our plans of executing the call of God on our life through well thought out strategies based in human activity and well executed marketing plans. 

The Great Commission and its results are up to God, but our wiliness to submit God's training regiment plays a key role in fulfillmen...

Your Day of Adversity

I believe that “adversity” and trouble are G-d's remedy for a sin sick soul.  Adversity trains us in righteousness.  Adversity is G-d's weapon to chasten the natural man (the flesh) that is still trying to rest control of our  walk with His Son.  

Adversity makes us look up and moves us to cry out to heaven for guidance.  A cry for His wisdom comes from the heavens – the very heights of glory -- and changes us on the inside and it changes our circumstances.  

Ob...

“I have been crucified with Christ, the life I live I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

Think of it, you and I and all those who have fled to the fountain open for sin and uncleaness have been washed and cleansed from every defilement of the flesh.

You have been saved and brought into fellowship with God In the heavenlies.. forever. Wow!

Where justice can not be warped or manipulated by the craftiness and self-service of men. Tha...

I hope that you can agree with me on this simple topic that, “without faith it is impossible to please God!”   

I believe that in order to “show” God that you are trusting Him exclusively, you must, in the first place, “learn” what you are being called to do for God. 

In part one of this article “Church for babies & goats” we observed how Abraham prepared his son to take the helm of the way of faith he had forged. Abraham walked by faith and set an example of faith.

In Gen. 24:7 we see that Abraham took his most trusted servant aside and put his faith before him in such a way that his servant took on the faith responsibility in the very important task of finding a wife for Isaac.  He entrusted himself to the One who judges righteously walked to an unk...

When the Lord chooses to open our eyes to the spiritual climate in our land, for most of us it will seem like we are opening them for the first time.  The Lord is going to prepare a new generation of people that will “walk” in faith more then in any generation that I have witnessed in my lifetime.  

I believe that the rising generation will be framed in modern history as a generation that operates in a living faith.  They will be a generation known for their ardent love of God and as tho...

Today I am looking at the importance of leadership to inspire the changes that are necessary in any work of restoration.  

As we meditate on portions of 2 Chronicles chapters 25-32.  These chapters chronicle the history of the various kings of Judah and Israel, hence the name, "Chronicles."  Each of them is given a sentence long description of their leadership skills by their God, the God of Israel.

The history of this section focuses on the state of Judah and assesses the nature of each succ...

Over the last few months I have been shedding light on what I believe to be the heart of real revival, or "restoration".  I would like to continue to share about this topic.  We know trouble looms on the horizon, but we also know that we are commanded to pray and believe that the L-rd is going to send His spirit to help us preach the life-changing message of the gospel to our broken world and our downward spiral of a ravaged political / economic system in our USA.

My desire is to share my re...

In the history of man there have been many kinds of leaders who have captured their time with a strong vision and were able to bring about real change.  For good or for bad, men and women can dictate the direction of world affairs as well as in the church of Jesus Christ. Only when we look back on their work can we rightly discern its true merit, then and only then can we truly judge their body of work as we observe its long term impact on succeeding generations.  This will enable us to reall...

Did ever pursue something that you knew was bigger then any of your wildest dreams?  So much more then the typical stuff of worldly fame and fortune?   Common childhood pursuits of being a world class athlete, movie star, or an elite businessman or woman pale in comparison to what is at stake for those of us called to messengers of the kingdom of Christ.  What I am presenting to you today is bigger then any of these kind of pursuits.  Much bigger.  Our calling as ambassadors of Christ is as b...

If you have ever been in a cave, you will quickly realize that cave living in no way resembles living in typical comforts afforded most of modern day americans.  Caves smell bad.  Caves are in distant and remote areas. Caves have scary creatures dwelling next to you.  Caves are designed to hide us in times of distress.

But caves also represent a place of fulfilling the purposes of God in our life.  So then, caves become the womb of "blessed" preparation by becoming the place of birthing men ...

This morning at 5:30 am the L-rd spoke a very clear word to me, so much so, that I had to rise quickly out of bed with urgency to write this word from the L-rd. I could have written more but my hand got tired so here is what I received from the L-rd from about the time of 5:45 am - 7:15 am:

Background to the word I received:

The first thing I do when I believe the L-rd is going to run some new words through my spirit is to clean up the area around where I plan to sit and hear and then to pr...

In a world that is going to get more and more difficult on the true believer, a heartfelt “cry” of faith, is the most powerful weapon to save a desperate man or woman from from the “woes” of emotional, physical, and spiritual anguish.  The man or woman of G-d who cries out the Living G-d, by faith, will find real help but it must contain a full commitment to serve this G-d we are crying out to.  The heartfelt “cry” of one man, from the depths of his heart, can rearrange history an...

Sadly, it seems that we forget so easily what we have and are in Christ.  And when we do, we lose not just a little progress in grace, but it seems, we lost whole bunches of power and spiritual impact that we could have had if we just did what our Spirit-wrought DNA has supplied for us to do.  How quickly we are drawn away from simple obedience to the L-rd and His very simple call to "follow Him" and do what L-rd of heaven says, after all, He is the One who bought us with His blood, not just ...

The apostle Paul made his life and the focal point of his earthly ministry the presentation every true believer as “perfect” in Christ.  How do we take this admonition to heart today?  How do we then release ourselves to accomplish this very flesh withering task?  

We have seen from scripture that the call to be  “perfect” is to be a highly sought after goal and consistently demanded by our forefathers of the faith.  Paul make the clear assertion of this seemly impossible task in his...

I believe that “adversity” and trouble are G-d's remedy for a sin sick soul.  Adversity trains us in righteousness.  Adversity is G-d's weapon to chasten the natural man still trying to wrest control of our spiritually fervent walk with His Son.  Adversity makes us look up and moves us to cry out to heaven for guidance.  Obedience to G-d's adversity, illuminates His light within us so we shine brighter and brighter.   Without adversity we will not become the soldiers that we must be in or...

And David said to his son Solomon, "Be strong and of good courage, and do [it]; do not fear nor be dismayed, for the L-RD God--my G-d--[will be] with you. He will not leave you nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the L-RD. 

Do you believe that you are called to reach people for Christ?  Do you hurt inside for people who you know are lost and without hope?  Are you tired of watching your friends fall prey to the lies of the enemy?  Do you want t...

We have come to a time and a place in human history where the word “change” has  been high-jacked by the weakest of men and the most tired of institutions, so much so, that the word “change” means everything and anything but does not inspire true and real change we need at this time.  Offering “change” doesn't always mean a turn toward the improvement of our quality of life, though portrayed as such, and yet, never delivering the promised lasting impact it first offered us.

In a ...

Today I would like to draw a clear distinction between suffering for Christ and suffering as a sinful human.  To suffer as a christian, is to suffer in the way of the cross, as you faithfully follow Christ's leading in your life. 

All true believers who have taken up their cross and followed the Savior of their souls, will be led into the valley of the shadow of death. From the perspective of the Word, the Father desires for all of His children is for them to imitate Our Lord by walking with...

Soul piercing agony.  Flesh withering sorrow of heart.  Gut wrenching desertion of close friends.  Horribly brutal physical torture.  Foes spitting shamelessly in your face.  Mocking and rueing of fellow and natively sinful mortals.  

This scorn was measured by the disrespectful tearing of clumps of hair from your once glorious beard.  Seeking to take your natural and glorious created body and holy head, to then, tear away at the face of love.  Loneliness.  False accusations.   Death sentenc...

The God Who Provides

12 July 2009

1 Samuel 23:1-29; Hebrews 4:14-16; 2 Timothy 4:9-18

David is a wandering outlaw on the run from King Saul, his life always at risk. The second half of verse 14 sums it up well, “Day after day Saul searched for [David]!” David needs assurance that God provides for his servants in ...

Lest we ever forget, the power of any ministry is the glorious touch of Jesus Christ!  His amazing message animates all true gospel work wrought by His grace.  If we try to build our ministries on any other foundation but that which has already been laid by Christ and His apostolic leaders, then our work will not meet with true success and our preaching and our discipling of His sheep will not be touched by His power, to see real positive change in the shipwrecked lives that surround all of u...

Origin of Jesus – Part 2

If Jesus was and is a real person, a “Man” that was eternally made of the eternal invisible awesomeness of the Father, how as a man, was Jesus Christ still God in the spirit?  This thought process represents a very good question and the corresponding answers do promote argument along with an beautiful opening to give magnanimous praise and thanksgiving to the G-d who authored such a salvation as we have received from our apostolic forefathers.

Just as Jesus was ...

Last night at our Starbucks Gathering in Winston Salem, I asked a question of one of the young people who was sitting in our circle of fellowship.  His answer and my response has captivated me.  One of the young men said to me in response to my question, “what is the sin you are struggling the most with at this time in your life?”   

His response was “selfishness”.  He went to explain that when he has enough money to put gas in his car and eat, he forgets to worship and be depend sol...

A typical American will not see the glories of heaven without the illumination of the Holy Spirit.  What will it take for us and them, as American persons, to see our very sick  and vulnerable condition caused by our collective rebellion against God's holy law, that now has us in the very tender and vulnerable position of being under God's perfect judgment?

What if anything are we to do to fix this very precarious and dangerous situation?  What does our God command us to do in similar circum...

The Lord gave me these words share with our small group gathering, “know, be, and do”.  These words are an aid to simplify the process of the development of a leader in the church of Jesus Christ.  So much of what I have done in the past has been based more in “doing” things for God, but honestly, what can we do for a Christ we barely “know”?  We must first take up our cross and follow Him -- not church dogma, doctrinal arguments, or even the “sacred cows” of our passionate mi...