{"id":108,"date":"2017-02-07T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.hoseascry.com\/?page_id=108"},"modified":"2017-02-07T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T21:01:25","slug":"for-whom-are-you-living","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hoseascry.com\/index.php\/for-whom-are-you-living\/","title":{"rendered":"For Whom Are You Living?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoseascry.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/108?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hoseascry.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p align=\"center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: x-large;\">For Whom Are You\u00a0Living?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Jesus said, &#8220;Whoever desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his\u00a0cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and for the gospel&#8217;s will\u00a0save it.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: xx-small;\"><u>Mark 8:34-35<\/u>\u00a0NKJ<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Jesus\u00a0is\u00a0looking for a\u00a0people who love God\u00a0more than\u00a0themselves. A people who want to spend quality\u00a0time\u00a0getting to know Him personally, and His resurrectin power. A people who\u00a0are seriously looking for the <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Truth<\/strong><\/span> on any given matter, and are not satisfied with just following the crowd. A people who are very careful of whom they get\u00a0their counsel from. A people\u00a0willing\u00a0to lay down their lives\u00a0for something\u00a0worth\u00a0dying for.\u00a0Jesus\u00a0not only has a cause, but He is\u00a0worth dying for.\u00a0He\u00a0looks through out the earth looking to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him. They\u00a0are a people who will honour His holy name, and\u00a0will honour what He honours.\u00a0Marriage is one of those things God has established that He wants us to honour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>The bible says, &#8220;M<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>arriage is to be honoured by all (not just a few) and the bed udefiled&#8221; <span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: small;\">Hebrews 13:4<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>It was God who established\u00a0Marriage and made it a\u00a0Covenant until death for a reason<\/strong>! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">Yeshua\u00a0willingly layed down His life for us, and\u00a0expects\u00a0His disciples\u00a0to do the same through, and in Him. The Holy Spirit\u00a0will empower us with that same\u00a0resurrection power that empowered Jesus\u00a0so that we can\u00a0do greater things than Jesus did when He walked on the earth. We too will\u00a0 demonstrate\u00a0the love of the Father by\u00a0loving like He does and watching to see what the Father is doing, and\u00a0do that, like Jesus did.\u00a0 That&#8217;s the\u00a0whole gospel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you are divorced you can<\/span> still lay down your life until death do you part, like you promises God in the first place when you made your vows to Him and each other. Divorce does not have the power to break a\u00a0covenant, it only\u00a0has the power to break\u00a0intimacy\u00a0with the one you loved.\u00a0 Divorce\u00a0only has\u00a0the power\u00a0that\u00a0you give it. You can still be faithful to your covenant spouse\u00a0once you repent of your sins that helped cause this break up, especially if you didn&#8217;t want the divorce\u00a0in the first place. You are now free to be a <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>&#8216;eunuch&#8217;<\/strong> <\/span>for the sake of the Kingdom of God if you so choose, not everyone can\u00a0or will\u00a0understand or accept this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0Nobody will make you do this not even God.\u00a0It will be\u00a0your choice. But God can use you mightily like He used Hosea if you choose that Ancient path of faithfulness in the sight if unfaithfulness. It will cost you everything but it will bring God glory in the end, but only\u00a0if your heart is pure towards the Lord, and your hands are clean of your fleshly desires.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>He who is able to \u00a0accept it , let him accept it. \u00a0<u><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: xx-small;\">Matthew 19:12<\/span>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">If you are not there yet, don&#8217;t despair because God is in the busness of changing hearts and minds. He promised to take out our\u00a0hardened stony rebellious hearts and give us\u00a0hearts of flesh\u00a0so we can do the\u00a0things He is calling us to do.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">The Holy Spirit\u00a0will finish the work\u00a0He has begun in us never fear!\u00a0His divine power has given to us all things\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">that pertain to life and godliness. <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: xx-small;\"><strong><u>2 Peter 1: 1-3<\/u><\/strong><\/span> \u00a0His job is to bring\u00a0us to\u00a0Jesus, as a\u00a0Bride without spot or wrinkle. He goes before us like an all consumming fire\u00a0to burn off the dross, and get us ready for our true Bridegroom, Yeshua!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Sadly,\u00a0the practice of divorce and remarriage\u00a0especialy among those in leadership\u00a0have left many of us confused and seeking\u00a0answers. Which is a good thing if we turn to the Lord\u00a0for your answers instead of\u00a0to man. The Holy Spirit\u00a0is here to\u00a0teach us all\u00a0truth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">God\u00a0is cleansing His church, so get ready to see\u00a0a whole lot more life styles\u00a0exposed and lies uncovered\u00a0as He continues to work\u00a0in\u00a0all of us. If we don&#8217;t humble ourselves\u00a0He\u00a0will do it for us. . .\u00a0He does it because of His\u00a0deep love for\u00a0His\u00a0rebellious bride. His Church\u00a0<u>will bow her knee<\/u> to her Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, or She will continue to\u00a0be chastened until She does. But once She does She will be glorious!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">One of the lies being exposed\u00a0these days\u00a0is. . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\">&#8220;The Exception Clause&#8221; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The reason so many have\u00a0bought\u00a0into this lie is because\u00a0it is being\u00a0taught\u00a0in\u00a0Bible Seminaries\u00a0all over the country. Many Pastors\u00a0come out of these bible schools believing\u00a0this lie to be\u00a0true, so continue to teach it out of ignorance.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">This lie has\u00a0been around since King Henry the Eighth when Erasmus came up with his own theology\u00a0that\u00a0diametrically opposed the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and\u00a0the early\u00a0apostles teachings. Erasmus did it\u00a0so he could find favour with\u00a0King Henry VIII.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Many\u00a0have went\u00a0looking for this lie\u00a0because they want this lie, and Satan obliged them by raising up\u00a0false teachers\u00a0in the body of Christ who\u00a0gladdly accommodated them. This lie\u00a0has\u00a0 kept\u00a0moving\u00a0along generationally until\u00a0now many think\u00a0it&#8217;s\u00a0true.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>*<\/strong> <\/span>Here is the scripture that people\u00a0use and go\u00a0looking for when they want to get out\u00a0of a\u00a0troubled marriage.\u00a0I&#8217;ll use the original Greek words, then give you their true meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\">Matthew 19: 9-10.<\/span> .\u00a0<\/span><\/b>&#8220;and I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, <span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">except for<\/span><\/strong><strong> <span style=\"color: #400000;\"><u>Porneia<\/u><\/span> sexual immorality\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">and marries another commits <span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><u><b><span style=\"color: #400000;\">Moicheia<\/span><\/b><\/u><\/span> adultery\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong><u>Porneia<\/u><\/strong><\/span> is any sexual immoral activity\u00a0entered into before a marriage covenant has taken place, this is\u00a0called\u00a0Porneia, or\u00a0 fornication,\u00a0it is incest, harlotry,\u00a0 homosexuallity, lesbianism, or even a common law relationship. These\u00a0illegal type\u00a0 relationships were going on\u00a0in Jesus day, and are still going on today.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">That&#8217;s why Joseph was called a <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\"><u>just<\/u><\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"> man, because\u00a0he planned on divorcing\u00a0his <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\"><strong>&#8220;betrothed&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> wife\u00a0because\u00a0he believed\u00a0she had \u00a0committed\u00a0<span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>fornication,<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0when\u00a0Joseph found\u00a0out Mary\u00a0was \u00a0pregnant. Joseph\u00a0 planned on putting her away\u00a0quietly because he believed she was\u00a0defiled. (God showed him the truth this baby was begotten by Him not man)<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">J<span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">esus\u00a0was talking to the Pharisees who knew all about Moses law of defilement regarding\u00a0betrothals, so Jesus\u00a0gave them\u00a0back their Law instead of His heart because they were proud of Moses Law,\u00a0but\u00a0to His disciples who were humble and contrite seeking\u00a0God&#8217;s truth, He shared His heart with them about repentence,\u00a0and the power of forgiveness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Joseph was\u00a0called a just man because he was prepared to stand for righteousness\u00a0sake rather\u00a0than defile himself by making a covenant\u00a0for life with someone he believed was not\u00a0pure before God.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Porneia<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0type\u00a0relationships\u00a0are not holy, or of God,\u00a0 Jesus was agreeing\u00a0with the Pharisees\u00a0that they need\u00a0to be\u00a0divorced from these destructive legal relationships before they became a covenant not after.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The apostles\u00a0knew what Jesus was talking about, because their betrothal contracts\u00a0were considered legally binding\u00a0and the only way you could get out of these was through a legal divorce, that&#8217;s why they said, &#8220;If that&#8217;s the case it is better not to marry&#8221; (better not to make a covenant for life\u00a0 with that\u00a0kind of \u00a0person who would engage in that kind of sinful life style, after a covenant was made\u00a0they would have to be stoned to death).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8220;Yes!&#8221;\u00a0They now understood that marriage\u00a0was\u00a0a life time, indissoluble commitment with\u00a0no way out except through the death of a spouse. If you couldn&#8217;t trust\u00a0your betrothed wife\u00a0(your legally engaged wife) before\u00a0you\u00a0were married to her\u00a0it would be foolish to\u00a0enter into a blood covenant\u00a0ceremony\u00a0with someone\u00a0who\u00a0would\u00a0only bring\u00a0you shame and trouble later. (Like Gomer did to Hosea) You would be stuck with her\u00a0for the rest of your life. You might\u00a0end up\u00a0wanting to\u00a0stone her just to get rid of her, but that is not what Hosea did. God showed Hosea &#8216;the way, the truth and the life&#8217; which many are not able to\u00a0accept.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Hosea was faithful to the unfaithful like Jesus is to us!!!\u00a0<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you were to ask\u00a0Hosea he surly could tell you a thing or too about commitment. God used Hosea&#8217;s\u00a0and Gomer&#8217;s relationship to expose the heart of Israel towards God; and God&#8217;s heart towards Israel. Israel and\u00a0Gomer were both playing the harlot, like\u00a0the Church is doing today, and still God is faithful to us, who are unfaithful to Him. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><u><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Note:<\/strong><\/span><\/u> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Even though\u00a0God\u00a0divorced Israel He\u00a0never broke His covenant vows to\u00a0His wife Israel. God\u00a0says He is\u00a0still married to Her! His plan is to\u00a0restore her back to Himself through His Son Yesuah whom she rejected! Hosea\u00a0was demonstrating\u00a0the heart of\u00a0a faithful God to Israel when he stood in\u00a0the gap for his Gomer, who\u00a0was\u00a0later brought\u00a0to\u00a0her senses by God&#8217;s power\u00a0alone. For God is mighty to save!\u00a0God\u00a0is still standing in the gap for His wife Israel waiting for her to return to Him, and She will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\"><strong>Yeshua<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">didn&#8217;t advocate the stoning of the woman\u00a0caught in adultery either, as the Pharisees were prepared to do for selfish reasons and political gain\u00a0as they tried to manipulate Yeshua into action\u00a0against Moses law so they could accuse Him. But Yeshua\u00a0out witted them, He stooped down\u00a0and wrote in the dust with His finger, what they saw caused them to drop their stones and leave one by one.\u00a0He answered them,&#8221; He who is without sin amoung you, let him throw a stone at her first.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0After they were all gone Yeshua said to her, &#8220;Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Has no one condemned you? &#8220;No one Lord&#8221;, she said. &#8220;Neither do I condemn you, go and sin no more. Yeshua\u00a0advocated forgiveness,\u00a0genuine repentance as the answer to her sin. Jesus\u00a0said to\u00a0her\u00a0to. . .<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>&#8220;Go and sin no more,&#8221; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Yeshua also said to her<\/span> ,<\/span><\/span> <strong>&#8221; I am the light of the world.\u00a0He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\"><strong><u><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: medium;\">Note<\/span><\/u> <\/strong>Jesus\u00a0left her free to make up her own mind. God will not force anyone to repent, but we are wise when we do so!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jesus<\/span> desire is for both\u00a0husbands and wives\u00a0to humble themselves before\u00a0God\u00a0and work diligently towards reconciliation, so their covenant relationship can be restored no mater how long it takes. Both need\u00a0to repent\u00a0so He can heal their broken and wounded hearts,\u00a0and soften their hearts\u00a0toward\u00a0one another\u00a0again so they\u00a0both can be made right with God and each other again.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Jesus\u00a0blood is powerful enough to\u00a0wash away any and all\u00a0defilment, we are bondservants by choice to love our mates like Jesus does, and like Hosea demonstrated God&#8217;s\u00a0love to Gomer.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: x-large;\"><strong>This kind of Love is powerful and effective!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">God is able to turn a prodigal heart around and send him or her back home to\u00a0their\u00a0covenant spouse if they are\u00a0still available, but if that person has gone and married someone else\u00a0they too\u00a0are in\u00a0rebellion to God&#8217;s way of doing things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">But a spouse\u00a0willing to stand in the gap for their covenant partner who is caught in adulltery must have the right motive like Hosea did. Hosea&#8217;s\u00a0stand wasn&#8217;t about\u00a0trying to get Gomer back so he could be\u00a0happy (<span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">for that would have been idolatry<\/span>) his\u00a0stand was\u00a0about being obedient\u00a0to God for the sake of God&#8217;s Kingdom glory to be known to others, otherwise\u00a0his stand would have been in the flesh, and we all know there is no\u00a0strength in our flesh.\u00a0The power to do this is supernatural and can only\u00a0come from knowing and being intimate with God.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Another scripture that some\u00a0take out of contex in order\u00a0to justify what they do is<span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: large;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><strong><u>1 Corintians 7:25-4<\/u><\/strong>. .<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Now concerning \u00a0<span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Virgins <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\"><strong>verses 25-40<\/strong><\/span> Paul was talking in Hebrew to some Jewish <span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Papyrus;\">(male &amp; female)<\/span> virgins when he says, <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>&#8220;I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give judgement as one in His mercy has made trustworthy. I suppose therefore that this is good because of the present distress <\/strong><\/span>(they were being\u00a0persecuted\u00a0)<\/span> <strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\">that it is good if a man remaine as he is: <\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\">are\u00a0you bound to a <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong><u>Parthenoi<\/u>\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\">betrothed, virgin wife then\u00a0. .\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Do not seek to be loosed<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\">. (in other words don&#8217;t break your betrothal)<\/span><strong>\u00a0 Are you <u>Leluseai<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\"><strong>from a<\/strong> <\/span><u><strong>Parthenoi<\/strong><\/u> <\/span><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>? <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Papyrus;\">are you divorced from your betrothed wife then. . .<\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Do not seek (<\/strong>a new betrothal)<span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><u><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Parthenoui,<\/strong><\/span><\/u>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"> <strong>but even if you do marry you have not sinned. <\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Papyrus;\">(their\u00a0legal\u00a0union\u00a0was\u00a0not\u00a0consumated,\u00a0therefore they are free to marry again after their divorce from their betrothed wife)<\/span> <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>and\u00a0if a<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong><u>Bethuwlah<\/u><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\">if a virgin who was never\u00a0 been betrothed<span style=\"color: #400000;\"> <strong>marries she has not sinned. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Paul\u00a0aware of\u00a0human nature\u00a0knew\u00a0that young people\u00a0have trouble\u00a0with their new found fleshly desires, he was only trying to spare them\u00a0future pain because of their present stuggles and he didn&#8217;t want them\u00a0focusing on their love relationships\u00a0during these difficult times. He wanted them to set their hearts and minds totally on what the Lord was doing!<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">It is sad to say, but\u00a0many translations of the bible\u00a0have lost their true meaning because they have been\u00a0given a watered down version\u00a0of both the\u00a0Hebrew and Greek\u00a0words that are now under discussion here.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Word of God<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0has being tampered with through ignorance of Jewish customs causing\u00a0false teachers, who give their own interpritations to arise!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit, On the contrary, in Chist we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">There are three places in the bible that warns against tampering with scripture! \u00a0Trouble has come upon us because there are some who have done that very thing!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0\u00a0We must be very discerning in these dark days that we are in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewed as snakes and as innocent as doves. <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: xx-small;\"><u>Matthew 10:16<\/u> NIV<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">When the apostles taught\u00a0that marriage was a covenant\u00a0for\u00a0life\u00a0there was no confusion everyone understood that marriage was a life time commitment\u00a0with no way out until the death of one of their partners; so how come we don&#8217;t understand this today?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">When\u00a0I was a little girl about 60 years ago, every one\u00a0including\u00a0heathens believed that marriage was for life. So what has\u00a0changed?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve Got To Be Me&#8221;<\/strong><\/span> generation has come along. . it&#8217;s all about\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Papyrus;\">&#8220;ME&#8221;, and my kingdom happiness<\/span>.<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>&#8220;Self&#8221;\u00a0has become\u00a0our new\u00a0god<\/strong><\/span>!!!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">The\u00a0watchmen\u00a0on the wall have fallen asleep on the job,\u00a0they left the gate wide open for Satan to come in and\u00a0stand in our podiums with\u00a0his false teaching &#8216;that remarriage is ok&#8217;, when it is not. Satan\u00a0has\u00a0come in to kill, steal and destroy our families with our permission. What Satan is really after is\u00a0our image of a powerful and faithful God. He wants\u00a0that image\u00a0totally destroyed beyond recognition, so our children\u00a0will not know\u00a0a God of power, or a God of unconditional love.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Satan has done a pretty good job of doing that\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t you say? Our desire for happiness reigns supreme and look where it got us. . . in bed with the devil&#8217;s plans for our families.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\"><strong>Are you awake Yet?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Satan&#8217;s\u00a0plan is for us to think contractually. God didn&#8217;t really say\u00a0&#8216;marriage was for life&#8217;\u00a0did He! Satan\u00a0thinks he has\u00a0succeeded with the flood of divorces and remarriages going on in society today, but God is faithful even to the unfaithful.\u00a0The Spirit of God\u00a0is\u00a0using the most unlikely of us, to raise up His standard again. The very ones Satan\u00a0thought he\u00a0destroyed are now repenting and rising up to fight back. <strong><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\">Glory to God!!!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">God&#8217;s <\/span><b><span style=\"color: #ff0000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\">&#8220;Blood Covenant Promise&#8221;<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\u00a0never to leave us, or forsake us will always win the day.\u00a0 God is not like man. His ways and standards are much higher than ours. He&#8217;s never caught off guard, wondering what the devil is up to. He already knows and just lets things run their course until\u00a0the time is ripe,\u00a0then <span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>the Spirit of the Lord\u00a0raises\u00a0up His standard\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>and\u00a0check mates the devil at his own game; because God is able to do that. He is\u00a0after all . . . <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: large;\">A Covenant Keeping God\u00a0who will never forsake us!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Have you noticed God\u00a0always has a remnant who\u00a0refuse to bow their knee to the gods of this world, men and women\u00a0like Hosea, who are willing to\u00a0stand\u00a0on the wall, and\u00a0cry out night and day for God&#8217;s grace and mercy to manifest\u00a0in His people so we can repent of our wicked ways. God hears their cries and responds to their prayers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">These people called by God have kept their\u00a0campfires burning brightly,\u00a0sparks are beginning to fly. Others are now catching\u00a0fire, and their\u00a0campfires are\u00a0blazeing up\u00a0igniting others, until one day the Holy Spirit\u00a0will cause a\u00a0 sudden <span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: large;\">swhoosh<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span>that will set the world ablaze with the revelation knowledge of this . . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Great Mystery of His,<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: large;\">God&#8217;s one-flesh covenant relationship with man\u00a0\/ woman, in marriage. .\u00a0with Him in the center.\u00a0This is\u00a0His good news for such a time as this!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">What this one-flesh relationship with God really means to the body of Christ today, is being brought forth.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0The\u00a0<span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>Secrets<\/strong><\/span> of His covenant are being\u00a0revealed today.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Satan\u2019s has been working over time trying to suppress this knowledge, trying to keep as many out of the Kingdom of God as possible; because his time is short.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Satan&#8217;s schemes are becoming so obvious now, that even those who had their heads stuck in the sand are beginning\u00a0to stir.\u00a0 Satan\u00a0thinks he&#8217;s won\u00a0our children\u00a0by default, through our buying\u00a0his lies for so long. Is he ever going to be surprised because . . .<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus; font-size: large;\"><strong>God has another sting planned for Satan with our youth!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>God<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Georgia;\"> is going to use our broken and wounded Kids! Yes! The very ones voted most likely not to succeed!\u00a0\u00a0That&#8217;s why Satan hates our children so much, and tries\u00a0to kill\u00a0as many as he can through suicide, or with abortion\u00a0before they&#8217;re\u00a0born!\u00a0 Satan&#8217;s\u00a0politicians\u00a0work hard trying to\u00a0bring things into\u00a0law so Satan will be glorifyied instead of God\u00a0through our ignorance. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000; font-size: large;\"><strong>Who&#8217;s eyes are we seeing\u00a0 through?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><strong>Man&#8217;s\u00a0 or\u00a0 God&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #400000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"font-family: Papyrus;\"><strong>A &#8220;Seer&#8221; anointing<\/strong><strong>\u00a0is coming your way, get ready for it!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Whom Are You\u00a0Living? 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