I write this quickly for my time is quickly running away from me. There is something to be said about value, about worth, about being thrown away.  For may causes we find ourselves abandoned and for the life of us and even for the life of Christ Jesus HImself we can not figure why we are just sitting almost stagnant almost stale in this place.

 

Occasions ahave arisen in which the ill odor of where we sit has reached us. Right now we sit and smell ourselves and wonder how long have we smelled this way and why has no one told us before now. Then we quickly say thank God they didn't.

 

We don't notice our value, our worth, our importance, when we are toiling and striving and reaching and being shattered in the various jobs that we do.

 

We have learned to keep quiet and to hold on secretly for the hope that we know awaits us in glory and on that great getting up morning which is named among us as Christ Jesus our Lord and our Savior.

 

But what shall we do, what shall our response be, when out seat is found to be not in the richest section of the great hall or in the finest leathers that the poor cannot even hope to touch, but we find that we are actually laboring and sitting right in the middle of a dumpster.

 

Ever smelled like a dumpster? Ever wondered when your change was gone come? Ever thought about why the folks around you are not smiling in the place where the toil is so fast paced?

 

If God Himself shared with us the boundaries and the foundations and the wallings and the furnishings of our ministries of reconciliation then we would steadily and constantly want to offer our suggestions for how even our ministries might be more suitable and more comfortable for us.

 

We always think of oursleves first in all things which is a direct act of insubordination against God who has called us out of the darkness and into the light and into the kingdom of His dear Son Jesus Christ. Yet we look around and we find that we are smack dab in the center of the biggest garbage heap ever known.

 

Someone knows exactly what I am talking about and we are asking God why in the world would you need me here?

 

God why can't I live in the White House?

 

God, why can't I have an executive job?

 

God, what's wrong with me being CEO?

 

Where are my on time benefits, God? I ain't even trying to hear that I am not getting paid on pay day bit, God?

 

We ask God if He knows what we are going through, if He cares so much about us, if He honors our sacrifices, if He is ready to pour out His blessings on us until we are drowning in Christ's Ocean, then why are we lifting boxes and punching numbers into databases and cooking for inconsiderate ones and sweating to give a successful and complete presentation and trying to make our marriage work and trying to be honest when the selling of a car requires great dishonesty?

 

Why God, why do You have me here?

 

And God has replied to us that His power is made perfect in our weakness.

 

And God has answered us that our tears shall bring joys unknown outside of this shattering place.

 

And God responds that we have had to be crippled to know what a person with legs lacks.

 

And God shouts that we must still seek Him while He may be found, that we must look to Him earnestly that we might not grow weary and faint, that we might hold it down in the middle of those lions who are not teethless, that we might ache for a while and know the sufferings of this present world that we might comfort another with the comfort that we have been comforted with.

 

God loves a cheerful giver and despite the criticism of this saying it is not all about the money. God doesn't need money even to spread the gospel.

 

How many poor, unpaid ministries are alive because of the faith they have placed only in the living God and always keeping hIm before them?

 

How many limbs have been reattached by no other means of human touch?

 

How many eyes have been opened without Lasik eye surgery?

 

How many galaxies has God seen that NASA cannot even imagine exists?

 

Nothing is being taken from God at any time. Nothing. God knows all things, and God knows right now that we so desparately need to see Him, that we need to have a conference with Him.

 

Oh, that Your Presence O God come to where we are. We are in the dungeon, in the garbage disposal, in the closet, in the sewer, in the landfill, and we need just a portion of Your anointing to empower our crippled limbs. Revive us again O Lord. We pray right now in this place called the dumpster of the soul and spirit and body and heart and mind. Renew us and take not Your joy nor Your presence from us that we might live on to know more of You.

 

In Jesus Christ's  transforming name.

 

Amen.

 

It cannot be said that we didn't have no where else to go when that turmoil came running towards us to break us in half. No, it can't possibly be justified if we say that we just determined to make the best of a bad situation because help was no where around. Don't want to hear that there is not any more blessings with your name on them because you have been roughed up too much.

 

There are folks right now who believe that God has turned off the faucet of His love because they are not worthy of His running water. God ain't PSNC or Duke Power or OWASA (or whatever utilities you have where you are) because he doesn't withhold His goodness from us when we are undecided by His faithfulness.

 

No, God doesn't select us based on our standards for living or inclination to pursue higher education or our prestige in the corporate workplace; those are not qualifying identifiers for whom God blesses or uses or instructs. If God's ability to l;ove us was based on us who among us would qualify?

 

This is a take a look at what you are not in light of what you don't know how you became message. We did not just work hard for 40 years to have no life insurance policy for our families to fall back on, though it looks like it by all accounts. Those 40 years of dragging that body of your s to work that you might not have felt too keen about doing was not only a source of household provision, but it was also planting seeds of diligence into your children, into your community, into your own life, into your husband or wife. Those 40 minutes that you spent preparing for the interview process that everyone felt like you would never be qualified enough to get anyway was far more powerful in the spirit realm because that strengthened diligence by those Christ Ever Present Help batteries propelled you right into that interview and they saw your willingness to fail.

 

Some of us are afraid of failure and that fear keeps us locked up right where we are. Fear immobilizes us all and pertrifies (stiffens) us all and in times of fear's shadow we need the actual presence of an object or the reality of an object able to cast a bigger shadow on the shadow that fear is casting on us.

 

Don't you know that God has been ordering your steps and mine to arrive us not at this place where we presently are, but at the wamrth of that embrace and acceptance of a loving and caring father.

 

Some of us have never had that ever, some only mildly and some so much it has become scary and produced more fear. Maybe it can be said by someone that fear is the gasoline on our drawers when we know hell is our destination. Fear is deadly. The Word of God says that in the last days men's (andwomen's) hearts shall fail them. Why?

 

What is so drastic and so tragic that my heart would just attack me and I find my heart failed? Some have been told cholesterol is the silent killer of hearts. Others have heard that anger will burst a heart wide open. For still others a bullet may be the culprit. However, it may arrive, the bottom line is that heart's around us right now are failing (even yours and my own) for the greatness of the perceived substance that fear calls out loudly proclaiming itself to be. Ever heard fear calling out to you so loudly that all other voices of stabilization were drowned out? I have.

 

Fear is loud, can be obnoxious. Sure, fear may not look or act like fear in the beginning because it can appear demure, soft, tame, pleasurable, content, but eventually the projection that increases fear must be revealed and declare itself present in your life and in my own life.

 

We live with fears and believe that we have learned some durable, time tested methods of containing our fear(s) that we may be harmed minimally, if at all. We deceive ourselves for containing a foreign citizen in a domestic prison is never considered good over the long haul.

 

A detained prisoner from foreign lands held in a domestic prison,which is your body and my own, can not be relied on to behave itself. The customs surrounding that detainees upbringing have warranted its disposition and fully knowing every iota of how he/she thinks, functions, reacts, acknowledges truth, is impossible.

 

Some things are better left untouched because the reactions are not calculated. Children with addictions are an example. Grown ups with fixations are another example. I speak here not of merely physical instances of detainment of foreign citizens, but yet of the Luke 11:25 detainment.

 

I speak of the detainees of Fear, and Lust and Hatred and Deceit and Pride and Poverty and Lack imprisoned in these domestic bodies we tote around every hour.

 

We are carriers-whether solicited or unsolicited- of germ warfare (if we can view foreign emissaries as Lust, Deceit, Pride, Lack, Predjudice, etc.) as germs which cause deterioration of the structures of our bodies.

 

Satan is an instrument who continually places himself at great risk to place you and I at great risk. He cannot act without rampage, satan cannot dwell without uncleanness visibly present, satan cannot speak without revealing himsefl before the Key Master named Jesus Christ. Oh, the day that shall come when we shall be like Him, as He is, where He is, eternally interested in the things He holds.

 

We await along with you the day when terrorism will no longer be prevalent or practiced, but praise and worship to the Awaker of Slumbering Souls will prevail. We await the day as we are sure you are when comfort shall flow from our breasts into the mouths of babes and sucklings. We await the day when Wisdom will wrap us in that embrace that we don't know now how to chase and we await the day when saying or singing or crying "Thank You Jesus" won't get us looked at or threaten our jobs.

 

We can look up today because the shadows are never more mighty than the Presence of The Living and Loving and Caring and Comforting God who designed us to endure all things for His own glory. I pray your strength in the Lord this hour.

 

May God richly or meagerly bless you all this day. A blessing is an empowerment, an equipping. And it has been a blessing to write these words to your souls and to your spirits.

 

Bless you all, Israel and Dorcas Saunders

 

He who has arisen all us away from the land of slumber and darkness has brought us together on this day wherein He seeks to hear us resound in soul, body, mind, heart and spirit that freedom has rung already. You wouldn't be here without His grace, you couldn't read these words to yourselves without God's compassionate care team of angelic legions ready to do the will of the Life and Light Giver Himself. {Hosea 6:1-5}

 

Praise be to the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit!!

 

Praise be to he who is given the encouraging word as it enlivens their bones from the Mighty One mightier than any ever known or to come. Our God is Almighty in power and in love and in peace. He has made Jesus, His Son princely and has so named Jesus our example His Prince of Peace. You shall live and not die. Your life and light shall spring forth like the morning. {Ephesians 4:3-7} 

 

Weeping may hang around and last for tonight, but hallelujah, joy shall be here in the morning. Our lives absorb the joy and the glory of God 24 hours a day. {Micah 2:12-13}

 

We are saturated, but not drowned by the presence of this Mighty and Merciful King who honours us all when we pursue Him. Yes, all of us have pursued the things that brought us to dead ends spiritually. {Colossians 1:5,15}

 

Yes, there have been times where strength has seemingly come and been filtered or rationed to us through the supposed power and majesty of sexuality or rage and anger or divination/withcraft/roots or drug induced stupors making us feel ourselves and try to gain wealth by swag-ger. God's swagger is ever present. {Ezekiel 37:13}

 

Oh, He has delivered me out of the pit so many times that I wonder if He will ever let me go. The answer is NO!!!God loves us and knows that letting us go, the type of letting go that we may run in our ways that damage and detriment us, that cause us to find pain our bedfellow, God knows that this is not love. {2 Corinthians 13:4}

 

Love is not pick up and go and never return. Popular in my generation is the notion that if you love something or someone then you can let it go and it will come back to you if it is meant to be.

 

But if we are loving everything but God, got passion for Nascar and not the Ultimate Morning Star; if we gloat over Greg Berhrendt but don't have our salvation codes checked in; if we fly high with Mary Jane, but still refuse to see the one who rescues souls when HE is mentioned by name, then we are stony hearted, cold hearted. {Matthew 12:11, 14:7}

 

And someone right now is saying, "Well, I guess that's what I am." Yeah confess it. That is what you are. You are stony hearted. Stony hearts don't get left alone though friend, enemy, stranger.

 

No, sir, no ma'am, stony hearts get trickled on by a constant water drip or get poured on in torrents like Hurricane Free-This-Soul-Here. God used Pharoah's hard heart to set someone free, as a matter of fact, God deliveed a whole nation of folks just because one man was stubborn and said, I ain't letting my slaves go.

 

Slavery is reality without Black History Month being here. Racism is alive when the lights are on it and when the world sleeps it creeps around tipping into minds and sliding into hearts. We have to have the Standard of All Standards.

 

Jesus Christ, that Rock than is grounding my feet in Truth, the Shelter that is protecting me from all Hurt, Harm and Danger wants to bring by, the Hope when all earthly, temporal hope is dried up like tobacco in the fields when rain don't hit it.

 

A man lost His wife and needs every waking and sleeping and breathing moment to know that He is not alone in this place where strangers smile at you and friends bust your head and claim your items of value.

 

God provides Peace still, listeners.

 

A man has just had a near death experience, is shocked out of his mind by the magnitude of what has happened and is praising God ferociously in his heart and vowing His life to serve God till the day He dies.

 

A family's breadwinner is facing immigration laws and deportation has found him lacking the pull to get out of this tight spot. God, bring Your worth into this man's life. He needs to know You are not just playing Him for a fool.

 

We need to see the LORD move for us, but we don't want to move for the LORD.

 

Present your bodies a living sacrifice, hold, wait, wait, we say, sacrifice, you just don't know my sacrifice. NO, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW THAT YOUR SACRIFICE AIN'T NOTHING COMPARED TO THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST YOUR SAVIOUR, YOUR LORD, YOUR REDEEMER. YOU ARE BLIND BY THE WORLD'S STANDARDS AND THIS BLINDNESS HAS YOU FEELING LIKE JESUS SACRIFICED AND THAT'S FINE, BUT MY (YOUR) SACRIFICE IS MORE IMPORTANT. i HAD THIS THINKING. I CALLED MYSELF SACRIFICE BECAUSE I FELT LIKE NO ONE KNEW WHAT I WENT THROUGH, WHAT I SAW, AND KNEW AND HAD GIVEN UP.

 

Your life is so intermingled with the DNA of God the Creator that you create and place in existence things and forms that will turn on you at the slighest moment and mangle you beyond recognition. Jesu was mangled beyond recognition to show you His great, fault surpassing love for you. HE was mangled by your sins and by mine and by all the world's sins, but through suffering Christ learned obedience, though HE were God's Son. You got some repenting to do!

 

God is graciousfaithfulawsomeaweinspiringdecadentliberal-lygivingand so many other run together words to never describe his greatness with our tongues, but if you just thank God for where you are and for where you have been taken from. If you just give a non-sexual affection out to the husbadn or wife you have.

 

If you just get alone with God and question why He keeps you here and listen for His answer, you will see that God is not a spiritual minded pimp restricting you from a life wirth living, but that God is the one who binds the spiritually minded pimp restricting you that you may be let loose.

 

FREEDOM, in Jesus Name!

 

{The above statement was written for the purpose of acknowledging the pains and trials of the hurting and afflicted among us and also the pressures that target all flesh. We intend to present Jesus Christ as the Solution to the soul's pollution. Sin pollutes the soul, but Jesus Christ in His body broken and blood flowing make us whole.. Praise be to the Author and Finisher of our faith.}

 

 

Vibrant and warring is the cry to become temples available for the Master's touch. We arethose waiting for newness to cover and saturate us right where we stand. We are those who advocate for the ones who need the healing, but won't turn the healing away should it come our way. Keep breaking, keep reaching and keep bearing the cross of your Lord Jesus Christ before them because folks are getting freed like never before.

 

 

I proclaim that there is freedom for the captives today. I don't know what is hoilding you, but I know that you are destined to be free from every oppression, every obsession, every impression and that you are to walk forward knowing that your salvation is nearer than when you first believed.

 

Oh yes, we are those who have been inflicted and afflicted with deep, cutting wounds. We have been those unable to move a muscle due to the restrictions placed on us by the weight ofthis sin that follows our flesh everywhere. We must cry out for Christ's cleansing blood to wash us all over again. Renew me again Father. Pour that sin smiting blood all over every crevice and into every pore that I am. Douse me with the righteousness that your Christ holds high for me to see and give me enough grace to make itthrough this day.

 

We are those who have walked out of the lion's den. The den was dark and it was cold and it was damp and it was musty and it was fear all up in there, but by the power of the hand of God we have walked out of that lion's den of certain death and known destruction.

 

We have sat in the fire at its hottest part and been untouched by the fires. I know that there have been some fires about me; still in some right now, but the promise of my Messiah, my Savior, my Fire Retardant Jesus Christ, is greater and stronger and more resistant thanthe heat of that consuming flame. It kindles around me and settles upon me but my God is going to deliver me away from this situation without me even smelling like I been around the smoke, but I know that it was some heat up in there.

 

How many of you have been in the fiery furnace when it was just a little hot and still in there when it was turned up seven times hotter?

 

How many of you are ready to come out of that furnace of smoldering, decimating heat right now because you know that your testimony will break someone free?

 

Well the fact of the matter is this.

 

Some of us shall remain in that fire heat because we know not yet what shall become of us once we go from that environment of such heat and decay and torture into the new environment where you have to peek behind the screens of the heart to find the sin wrapped up in the people's lives. Many of us are not prepared enough to take that first or second step into the place of the unknown manna. I am not exempt here by any means.

 

We have become so used to our present migration area that we lose sight of the need for us to go any further from the spot we have come to call home.

 

 

 

Thank You for loving us so. In Jesus Name. Amen.