There is nothing we can do when someone refuses to listen, refuses to honestly discuss a matter, and begins gossiping about you instead of speaking with you. If the first thing out of someone's mouth is to defend themselves when you bring a concern, you know you are not dealing with someone who wants to reconcile. Those who do this want only to be seen as right and do not care how they may have harmed you, and they care even less what you think.
When we see this happening, there is no longer anything we can do to resolve the relationship. It is entirely in God's hands when we have been blocked, ignored, and resisted at every turn.
People who love you want to find out what they did to hurt you. They want to resolve any conflict, even if they have to admit they were mean or rude.
God told His disciples to walk away when they brought the gospel, and someone refused to hear it. The same is true of any other problem to be resolved; if someone will not listen, further pressure to listen will not help them understand. They will share what you said to others, only a twisted version that makes them appear to be the victim.
Matthew 10:14 "And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town."
2 Timothy 4:3 "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions."
Mark 6:11 "And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”
John 15:20 "Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours."
We are not responsible for making someone work to resolve a problem. We are only responsible to tell the truth and leave everything else to God.
It is comforting to know that when someone is not open to truth and does not care about us, we have God's permission to move on with our lives with those who are loving and reasonable.
It may seem uncomfortable to lose someone we love, but it is far more uncomfortable to have people in our lives who care nothing about us and hate that we care about them.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Wednesday, September 23, 2026
The Word of God is True and God Expects Obedience
We are living in times when "Christians" are taking lightly all the instructions and commands of God and think those who expect obedience to the word are the crazy ones.
It is very difficult in our time to find those who believe God's Word is Jesus Christ, the Author of the Bible Who expects obedience.
John 14:15 "Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
So what must we surmise then? Those who do not care about God's commands and principles do not love Him.
Deuteronomy 30:16 "For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess."
Matthew 22:37: "Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’"
How can someone claim to love God with all their heart and still think God's Word is a book of suggestions they can ignore?
Jesus Christ is the very essence of the Word of God, He is not only the Author but He is the Word.
1 John 5:3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?"
Romans 13:8-10 "Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law."
Those who revile us for telling them the truth of God's Word do not love Him or us. When we are immersed in the Word of God and Christ dwells in us, we can recognize those who do not love Christ; their claim that they do is dissolved by their resistance to His Word.
May the eyes of many be opened to their duplicity, convicted by their life so they will repent.
It is very difficult in our time to find those who believe God's Word is Jesus Christ, the Author of the Bible Who expects obedience.
John 14:15 "Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments."
So what must we surmise then? Those who do not care about God's commands and principles do not love Him.
Deuteronomy 30:16 "For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess."
Matthew 22:37: "Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’"
How can someone claim to love God with all their heart and still think God's Word is a book of suggestions they can ignore?
Jesus Christ is the very essence of the Word of God, He is not only the Author but He is the Word.
1 John 5:3 "For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments. And His commandments are not burdensome."
Luke 6:46 "Why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ but do not do what I say?"
Romans 13:8-10 "Be indebted to no one, except to one another in love. For he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. The commandments “Do not commit adultery,” “Do not murder,” “Do not steal,” “Do not covet,” and any other commandments are summed up in this one decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to its neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law."
Those who revile us for telling them the truth of God's Word do not love Him or us. When we are immersed in the Word of God and Christ dwells in us, we can recognize those who do not love Christ; their claim that they do is dissolved by their resistance to His Word.
May the eyes of many be opened to their duplicity, convicted by their life so they will repent.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
The Problem of Mental Illness is not Recognized for what it really is in Our World Today
I find it interesting that "mental illness" is always negative and destructive. Why do we not see people who are mentally ill acting more kindly and lovingly than before? I think it's a good question.
The reason medication often does not help, or only helps for a short time, in cases of mental illness is because the problem is not physical.
The medications don't help because it is not physical or "mental"; it is demonic.
This is the case with mental illness; many people on meds keep changing meds because they only work for a short time.
When someone is demonically possessed, they listen to the voices instead of their own good sense. I am grieved that our culture does not recognize demonic activity because they don't believe in the Bible or in God.
Demonic influence is clearly stated in the Bible; if we would recognize it, we would be casting out demons instead of putting people on meds that do not work.
Matthew 12:43–45
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
In these last days there is increased demonic influence and less ability of the culture to recognize it for what it is.
Notice recently a jury of 12 people in which only one person had the good sense to make the right decision while the other 11 were demonically inspired to protect the murderer while completely ignoring the victims. This is irrational and unreasonable even for unbelievers in Christ. Human nature recoils at murdering innocent children. Even the animals protect their young.
Human nature without Christ can be more easily influenced by demons to go against their God-given sense of right and wrong. However, there are non-believers who have a good sense of right and wrong even if they do not know Christ.
Matthew 7:21-23 shows us that unsaved human beings can know the right things to do even if they are not yet saved.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
There are things that go beyond human sinfulness into the realm of the demonic, spiritual, deep wickedness. All the wicked rulers of the world who did horrific things to their people were demonically inspired.
Matthew 7:11: "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"
Jesus Christ is the answer to this problem of human sin; He saves us from it and cleanses us when we trust in Him.
The reason medication often does not help, or only helps for a short time, in cases of mental illness is because the problem is not physical.
The medications don't help because it is not physical or "mental"; it is demonic.
This is the case with mental illness; many people on meds keep changing meds because they only work for a short time.
When someone is demonically possessed, they listen to the voices instead of their own good sense. I am grieved that our culture does not recognize demonic activity because they don't believe in the Bible or in God.
Demonic influence is clearly stated in the Bible; if we would recognize it, we would be casting out demons instead of putting people on meds that do not work.
Matthew 12:43–45
“When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came.’ And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation.”
In these last days there is increased demonic influence and less ability of the culture to recognize it for what it is.
Notice recently a jury of 12 people in which only one person had the good sense to make the right decision while the other 11 were demonically inspired to protect the murderer while completely ignoring the victims. This is irrational and unreasonable even for unbelievers in Christ. Human nature recoils at murdering innocent children. Even the animals protect their young.
Human nature without Christ can be more easily influenced by demons to go against their God-given sense of right and wrong. However, there are non-believers who have a good sense of right and wrong even if they do not know Christ.
Matthew 7:21-23 shows us that unsaved human beings can know the right things to do even if they are not yet saved.
Matthew 7:21-23 "21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’"
There are things that go beyond human sinfulness into the realm of the demonic, spiritual, deep wickedness. All the wicked rulers of the world who did horrific things to their people were demonically inspired.
Matthew 7:11: "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"
Jesus Christ is the answer to this problem of human sin; He saves us from it and cleanses us when we trust in Him.
Obedience to the Scriptures is the Clue Someone has been Transformed
Most Christians do not understand the transformation that happens when we trust in Christ because that transformation never happened to them; they chose to pretend to be Christians without ever desiring to be cleansed of their sin and changed by Christ.
God said: "If you love me, you will follow my commands."
So the question is: "Why do so many people who say they are Christians refuse to obey the Scriptures", often picking and choosing only those things they like and ignoring what they don't like. And worse, angry at those who correct them with the Word.
It is a lie to say you are "a Bible believer", if you only choose what you like and disregard what Christ said in His Word- those things you don't like.
You are not trusting in Christ if you negate any of His Word. Also, anyone who hates a believer for using God's Word to bring someone to the truth is negating what God said in the following verses.
John 13:34-35 "…34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
We will bear much fruit if we belong to Christ!
John 15:8 "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples."
Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-26 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, we will also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."
1 Peter 2:12 "Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us."
1 John 3:14 "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death."
When we are loving with Christlike love, we will be loving and kind all the time to everyone. We will not treat people differently based on our own expectations of them. Love is full of truth and the desire to be an asset and encouragement to others. We tell the truth because of our love to help others grow in wisdom; we never use the truth to pound others over the head to make ourselves look special or superior.
1 John 4:12 "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us."
Harsh rebukes are for those who claim to be Christians but act in rebellion against God's Word.
1 Timothy 5:20-21 "20 But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin. 21 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality."
Never hold a friend more important than Christ, but love the friend so much you are willing to risk his hatred for telling the truth.
1 John 3:6-8 "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil."
May we love Christ more than any person, and may we love a person so much that we tell the truth to restore them to righteousness.
God said: "If you love me, you will follow my commands."
So the question is: "Why do so many people who say they are Christians refuse to obey the Scriptures", often picking and choosing only those things they like and ignoring what they don't like. And worse, angry at those who correct them with the Word.
It is a lie to say you are "a Bible believer", if you only choose what you like and disregard what Christ said in His Word- those things you don't like.
You are not trusting in Christ if you negate any of His Word. Also, anyone who hates a believer for using God's Word to bring someone to the truth is negating what God said in the following verses.
John 13:34-35 "…34 A new commandment I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you also must love one another. 35 By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”
We will bear much fruit if we belong to Christ!
John 15:8 "This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples."
Fruit of the Spirit: Galatians 5:22-26 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, we will also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."
Matthew 5:16 "In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven."
1 Peter 2:12 "Conduct yourselves with such honor among the Gentiles that, though they slander you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day He visits us."
1 John 3:14 "We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death."
When we are loving with Christlike love, we will be loving and kind all the time to everyone. We will not treat people differently based on our own expectations of them. Love is full of truth and the desire to be an asset and encouragement to others. We tell the truth because of our love to help others grow in wisdom; we never use the truth to pound others over the head to make ourselves look special or superior.
1 John 4:12 "No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us."
Harsh rebukes are for those who claim to be Christians but act in rebellion against God's Word.
1 Timothy 5:20-21 "20 But those who persist in sin should be rebuked in front of everyone, so that the others will stand in fear of sin. 21 I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality."
Never hold a friend more important than Christ, but love the friend so much you are willing to risk his hatred for telling the truth.
1 John 3:6-8 "No one who remains in Him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has seen Him or known Him. Little children, let no one deceive you: The one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as Christ is righteous. The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil."
May we love Christ more than any person, and may we love a person so much that we tell the truth to restore them to righteousness.
Sending Hugs to All My Brothers and Sisters in Christ
Sending hugs to each of my Facebook friends here whom I have never met in person and those I have met! I yearn to meet you in person, but I know it is not possible, so I will wait until the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to hug each one of you.
It was a great blessing when I was able to meet a few of you in person. The fellowship was sweet; it was hard when it was time to go back home.
I have been mocked for thinking of my Facebook friends as real people and true friends. I know where this is coming from; those who mock do not understand the moving of the Holy Spirit in every believer and the ability to connect Spiritually because of Christ in each one of us.
Paul the apostle wrote letters to those he never met and felt a sense of missing them. Our connection is not physical proximity; it is Spiritual and transcends miles across the world. We are one in Spirit even while we are many miles away from one another.
Romans 1:8-17 "8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
I am eager to meet you all one day at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, I think about it all the time with great excitement!!!!
It was a great blessing when I was able to meet a few of you in person. The fellowship was sweet; it was hard when it was time to go back home.
I have been mocked for thinking of my Facebook friends as real people and true friends. I know where this is coming from; those who mock do not understand the moving of the Holy Spirit in every believer and the ability to connect Spiritually because of Christ in each one of us.
Paul the apostle wrote letters to those he never met and felt a sense of missing them. Our connection is not physical proximity; it is Spiritual and transcends miles across the world. We are one in Spirit even while we are many miles away from one another.
Romans 1:8-17 "8 First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you
10 always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you.
11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—
12 that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine.
13 I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles.
14 I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish.
15 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.
The Righteous Shall Live by Faith
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
I am eager to meet you all one day at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb, I think about it all the time with great excitement!!!!
Hallelujah, Maranatha!!!!
Isaiah 5:20-25
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,
23 Who declare the wicked innocent for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their root will become like rot, and their blossom blow away like dust;
For they have rejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 For this reason the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them.
And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
Despite all this, His anger is not spent,
But His hand is still stretched out."
We are living in the days just like those of Noah and Lot. In the days of Lot, God destroyed several cities of the plain, He saved one family of Sodom because of the evil in them. In the days of Noah, God destroyed everyone in the world except one family.
In the end times, before the second coming of Christ to the earth, He will remove one family, His family, the family of Christ, and destroy the wicked upon the earth one more time. Only this time, there will be left only those who have trusted in Christ during the tribulation. These are the saints who will enter the Millennium.
Those who were raptured out in safety from His wrath will come back with Christ at the end of the tribulation while Christ destroys evil.
While the tribulation is occurring, the raptured believers will be celebrating the marriage supper of the Lamb. We will ride with HIm on horses as He destroys evil and sets up His kingdom on earth.
It is aggravating to us to watch all the injustice on the earth occurring with no way to stop it. Our words are nothing to those who live in rebellion against Christ, and many who call themselves Christians enjoy their traditions of men more than they love Christ. We are abandoned by fellow believers, if they are true believers, as well as hated by the world, which hates Christ.
Our great hope is the strength of Christ Who lives in us and the rapture to come, when we will be taken out, spending those seven years celebrating our marriage to Christ, and after seven years we will come back with Christ to destroy wickedness and set up His Kingdom.
Some of you are my brothers and sisters; we are family because of Christ Who lives in each of us. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our inheritance and the promise that we will go to the marriage supper together. We are our family!!!!
Hallelujah, Maranatha!!!!
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight!
22 Woe to those who are heroes in drinking wine,
And valiant men in mixing intoxicating drink,
23 Who declare the wicked innocent for a bribe,
And take away the rights of the ones who are in the right!
24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their root will become like rot, and their blossom blow away like dust;
For they have rejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
25 For this reason the anger of the Lord has burned against His people,
And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them.
And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets.
Despite all this, His anger is not spent,
But His hand is still stretched out."
We are living in the days just like those of Noah and Lot. In the days of Lot, God destroyed several cities of the plain, He saved one family of Sodom because of the evil in them. In the days of Noah, God destroyed everyone in the world except one family.
In the end times, before the second coming of Christ to the earth, He will remove one family, His family, the family of Christ, and destroy the wicked upon the earth one more time. Only this time, there will be left only those who have trusted in Christ during the tribulation. These are the saints who will enter the Millennium.
Those who were raptured out in safety from His wrath will come back with Christ at the end of the tribulation while Christ destroys evil.
While the tribulation is occurring, the raptured believers will be celebrating the marriage supper of the Lamb. We will ride with HIm on horses as He destroys evil and sets up His kingdom on earth.
It is aggravating to us to watch all the injustice on the earth occurring with no way to stop it. Our words are nothing to those who live in rebellion against Christ, and many who call themselves Christians enjoy their traditions of men more than they love Christ. We are abandoned by fellow believers, if they are true believers, as well as hated by the world, which hates Christ.
Our great hope is the strength of Christ Who lives in us and the rapture to come, when we will be taken out, spending those seven years celebrating our marriage to Christ, and after seven years we will come back with Christ to destroy wickedness and set up His Kingdom.
Some of you are my brothers and sisters; we are family because of Christ Who lives in each of us. We are sealed with the Holy Spirit as a guarantee of our inheritance and the promise that we will go to the marriage supper together. We are our family!!!!
Hallelujah, Maranatha!!!!
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