A highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean shall not pass over it, But it shall be for others. Whoever walks the road, although a fool, Shall not go astray. (Isaiah 35:8)
Is this the narrow road, Jesus spoke of?
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I believe so. And be on the watch, for this road does have warning signs, such as we find in 2 Cor chapter 6:
For this reason,
“Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord.
“Touch nothing that is unclean, and I will embrace you. (2 Cor 6:17. TPT)
What was the reason?
Don’t continue to team up with unbelievers in mismatched alliances, for what partnership is there between righteousness and rebellion?
Who could mingle light with darkness?
What harmony can there be between Christ and Satan?
Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?
What friendship does God’s temple have with demons?
For indeed, we are the temple of the living God, just as God has said:
I will make my home in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (2 Cor 6:14-16, TPT)
This means to walk in purity, do not associate with those who teach contrary to that which the Word teaches. Jesus and Paul both warn us of of false teachers and flase doctrines that run contrary to that which is truth.
The dangerous delusion of these perverse doctrines is seen in how they appear to be holy & righteous, yet they contain just enough of a twist that is so subtle,  many will be they who are fooled and led astray.
Again, Jesus gave us this warning:
For there will be imposters falsely claiming to be God’s ‘Anointed One,’ and false prophets will arise to perform miracle signs to lead astray, if possible, those God has chosen to be his. (Matt 24:24, TPT)
There are times it may be very difficult in having discerned such false teachings and warning others, yet they chose not to listen.
Because of our love for them, do we throw caution to the wind and stay under such teachings or ministries?
NO.
We can clearly see here in 2 Cor chapter 6, how Paul is laying the foundation as to a Kingdom standard that we must not dismiss! The Word is clear:  “Come-out from amongst them”. In in other words let your separation be so evident, that there will be absolutely no room to suggest your still connected to such.
DO NOT let your ternary of effection cause you to stay…for you and your whole family will be subject to paying a great price in all areas of your life.
Now, look at how the reward of being obediant to this warning blesses us:
FOR THIS REASON…….
“Come out from among them and be separate,” says the Lord. “Touch nothing that is unclean,
AND I will embrace you. I will be a true Father to you, and you will be my beloved sons and daughters,” says the Lord Yahweh Almighty. (2 Cor 6:17-18, TPT)
Boom, YAY GOD!!!
Holy Spirit, I ask that You keep me on Yahweh’s Highway of Holiness regardless of the cost.

 

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I long to be more fully connected into the flow of the glory of life eternal and abundant. Father God, Lord Jesus, Holy Spirit of life, consume me now that nothing of me remains and only You fully and securely abide.

Human reason was good enough for a religious season, but now has spent its strength. Immortality must now replace mortality. Mortal life wanes away making place for God’s immortal life to stay: no longer a passing visitor, but now a wellspring of Your life forevermore. (John 7:38).

Hallelujah! The time has come for the sons of glory to come forth. Now is the day for Spirit-natural to replace supernatural.

Now, while yet on earth, living in immortality from the fountain of life flowing living water of eternal life within us and out to a world that has been captured by spirits of death. Setting captives free to walk out of death’s prisons to live life abundantly now and forever.

Truly mortality has put on immortality.

Death must always precede resurrection life. The death experience of our past life is the end of our reasoning season. We are crucified with Christ that we may be recipients of His resurrected life now in these mortal bodies that are the temple of His immortality. (1 Corinthians 6:19).

Even as our natural flesh wanes away, eternal life abides as one with Spirit Christ within us. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Galatians 2:20.

The mystery of the ages now revealed is the immortal glorified Christ in you, the hope of glory. The glory of God fills the earth through the resurrected Christ abiding in multitudes of Sons of God, joint heirs with Christ Jesus, ruling and reigning on Planet Earth.

THE BIG QUESTION

The big question is not, “Is there life after death?”. The great question for you and me today is this: Is there life now, real life, eternal life, abundant life? Yes! The true life of Christ, the resurrected life of Jesus alive within our mortal bodies by the Holy Spirit is the immortal, eternal, and abundant life now and forever.

Our time to bring the glory of God on earth is NOW. Only our short time on earth is our given opportunity to bring the ways and glory of heaven to earth. Our time on earth is NOT just preparation for life in heaven someday. This life now is the one that counts in the job assignment that we all have in Christ to bring forth our part of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven.

God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son to redeem the world. The work of His Son, Christ Jesus, continues today by the Holy Spirit forming Christ in us becoming many sons in the ONE SON, Christ Jesus, as the body of Christ on earth.

MANY TODAY CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST AND ALIVE IN HIM

Probably all religions contain some truth at some level. However, they are all cunningly devised with divergences of man’s reasoning influenced by demon spirits. Satan and powers of darkness cannot continue their false rule on earth when the whole truth of Christ now on earth arising in His people is realized. The realization of Christ in us is the manifestation of Christ to His rightful place of King of His kingdom on earth. (1: Timothy 4:1) (Matthew 15:9) (Ephesians 4:14) (Revelation 1:6, 5:10).

The enemies of God are powerless against the Son of God in His Body on earth. The devil and all works of darkness were and are defeated at the cross. The victory of the cross is brought forth on earth by the resurrected life of Christ Jesus now abiding in His people alive on earth by the Holy Spirit.

THE GREATEST OUTPOURING OF GOD ON EARTH

The greatest revival ever is the imminent massive surge of awakening to the reality of Christ in His people by the Holy Spirit, establishing the fullness of the kingdom of God in and through His people.

It is the voice of God in Christ in His people that will end the false reign of Satan and the powers of darkness on earth. The powerful WORD of God spoken forth through the demonstration of the LOVE works of Christ in His Body on earth recreates the earth to the Garden of Eden type design of God.

This is not a someday by and by reality. This is now available within the hearts and lives of all who will fully seek first, above all else, the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and love not their lives to the death. Thereby making room for the resurrected life of Christ to fully abide where we once lived. To save our lives now is to lose the life of Christ and His kingdom reality now in this life on earth. To lose our lives now for His sake and His gospel of the kingdom is to find His resurrected life now and forever. (Matthew 6:33) (Revelation 12:11) (Matthew 10:39) (Galatians 2:20).

 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Matthew 6:33.

The mystery which has been hidden from ages and from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. 27 To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:26-27.

In this manner, therefore, pray:
Our Father in heaven,
Hallowed be Your name.
10 Your kingdom come.
Your will be done
On earth as it is in heaven.
Matthew 6:9-10.

Arise, my beloved, your time has come; all is prepared and made ready. That which was is no more, and that which is to come is within you. Awaken to the light of glory in the power of love and peace everlasting.

 

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Ron McGatlin
openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net


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Dr Russ Welch, co-founder of Mighty Arm Ministries, has had a passion for ministering to the elderly since he was a young child. Growing up in his early years in a small town in northern Maine, he would often ride his bike for miles to visit elderly men in the town in rural northern Maine and sit for hours listening to their stories of yesterdays gone by.
That passion has never diminished and now in his 50’s he still loves to sit and listen to what they have to say. He has been an advocate for senior care for a number of years and the concern of abuse of the elderly in nursing home and assisted living center industry has caused him to step up and to be a voice on their behalf.
In 2005, freshly out of ministry school with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious education, Dr Russ and his wife Millette started Mighty Arm Ministries, a nursing home ministry and for 8 years they held services every Sunday morning in nursing homes in the Jacksonville, Florida region. Dr Russ graduated with a doctorate degree in Theology in 2015 and is serving on the leadership team at The RiverHouse in Jacksonville Florida with a renewed passion for the reformation and transformation of individuals to come into the true revelation of who they are in Christ and the authority that they have through Christ to release Heaven here on earth.
The RiverHouse is a reformation ministry reforming the mindset of individuals back to the foundational teachings of Jesus Christ based upon Kingdom principals. Spiritually, this births a spiritual transformation to the individual, who which impacts the individual to transform their families, cities, regions and even nation.
There are several key parts of the ministry which includes healing, deliverance, apostolic teachings, a veterans ministry and ongoing discipleship bringing individuals into the true revelation of who they are as sons & daughters of the Lord. The RiverHouse host a Sunday morning gathering seeking the authentic Book of Act’s meetings called Sunday Morning Grace Gatherings as well a weekly gathering on Friday Nights which focuses on Hosting the Presence of the Lord.
Dr. Russ as well the other leaders in the Apostolic ministry at the RiverHouse believe the Lord has mandated this New Season with this Spiritual Reformation to usher the Bride into the true understanding of not only what it means to be a son and daughter of God, put to live as such.
Also in 2015, Dr. Russ was honored by other ministers in his field, based on the recognized fruit in his life and ministry to be nominated for and received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity degree from the Christian Bible institute & seminary, putting him in the Alumni class of other recipients such as Robert W. Schambach, Dr. Sheryl Brady, Dr. Marvin Sapp, and Dr. Juanita Bynum.
He has struggled with the politics within the religious community which is sadly found within the majority of the “Traditional – Institutional” Church structures which operates on more of a worldly business model rather than that of the Kingdom model and is a firm believer in the simplicity of the Gospel message of the Kingdom of God and how “Church” functioned in the first century. This is one reason he is so passionate about ministry in the nursing homes, as much like the first century Christians, fellowship is happening right in the “home” of these precious people.
Over the past several years the Lord has really been speaking to Russ about a fresh Spiritual move of reformation that will usher in a period of not mere word but the Power of God demonstrated with signs, wonders and miracles. And with this new move of the Spirit we will witness the re-aligning His Body back into her true identity. It will cause a shaken that will be felt across all denomination lines, in the world as the Creator of the Heavens & earth, our Heavenly Father calls forth the son’s and daughters of God.
If you would like to have Dr Russ come share about this ministry’s vision with regard ministering to the elderly,deliverance ministry and true Biblical discipleship along with the revelation of the Spiritual reformation that this new season is bringing, you can contact him via email at dr.russwelch1964@gmail.com

When God Can Use You

Posted: May 8, 2019 in Uncategorized

 
But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—that, as it is written, “He who glories, let him glory in the Lord.” (1 Cor 1:30–31)
 
 
It is Jesus, His wisdom in your life, His righteousness and His perfect redemptive work on the cross that make you a success. So when you boast of your success, you can boast only in Jesus. Without Jesus, you have nothing to boast about. But with Jesus in your life, you can boast in Him and Him alone for every success and blessing that comes through His unmerited favor. If you are strong, mighty and wise in yourself, then God’s unmerited favor cannot flow. But when you realize your weaknesses and foolishness, and depend on Jesus instead, that is when His unmerited favor can flow unhindered in your life.
 
We see this in the story of Moses. In his first 40 years as an Egyptian prince who was looked up to and admired, he thought that he knew everything. The Bible says that in this first 40 years, Moses was “mighty in words and deeds” (Acts 7:22), but God could not use him. However, in the next 40 years, something happened to Moses. He had fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, and went to dwell in the Midian desert. He became a shepherd and was no longer considered mighty in words nor deeds. Indeed, he had even become a stutterer (Exodus 4:10). And at this point in his life, when he probably thought that he was a has-been, insignificant compared to what he had been, and that his glory-days were behind him, God appeared to him and said, “I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people…out of Egypt” (Exodus 3:10).
 
Forty years earlier, at the zenith of his ability, Moses could not even bury properly one Egyptian whom he had killed—he was found out and forced to flee (Exodus 2:11–15). But now, stripped of his dependence on his human strength and mindful of his weaknesses, he stepped into his call, dependent solely on the unmerited favor of God. And this time, when Moses waved his rod over the sea, the sea covered tens of thousands of Egyptians perfectly (Exodus 14:26–28).
 
The Bible tells us that “God resists the proud, but gives grace [unmerited favor] to the humble” (1 Peter 5:5). Beloved, God will not impose His unmerited favor on us. Whenever we want to depend on ourselves and our wisdom, He will allow us to do so. His unmerited favor is given to those who humbly acknowledge that they cannot succeed in their own strength and ability. When we let go and depend on His unmerited favor, He will take over and do for us what we cannot do for ourselves! ~JPM

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So Jesus went over it again, “I speak to you eternal truth: I am the Gate for the flock. All those who broke in before me are thieves who came to steal, but the sheep never listened to them. I am the Gateway. To enter through me is to experience life, freedom, and satisfaction. A thief has only one thing in mind—he wants to steal, slaughter, and destroy. But I have come to give you everything in abundance, more than you expect—life in its fullness until you overflow! I am the Good Shepherd who lays down my life as a sacrifice for the sheep. But the worker who serves only for wages is not a real shepherd. Because he has no heart for the sheep he will run away and abandon them when he sees the wolf coming. And then the wolf mauls the sheep, drags them off, and scatters them. (John 10:7-13, TPT)

Religion likes to hide the truth..So many have heard that “The enemy cometh but to kill, steal and destroy” referencing the Satan, yet Jesus is clearly refers to “False” shepherds here, not the devil but those who are led of the devil.

It is rampant all around us, the Gospel is being sold, wolves have taking over many a pulpit in this nation, the rise of propehts for profits, self appointed apostles rising out of the mud.

Titles are being created out of selfish ambiton to lend credibility, yet the Kingdom teaches about the authentic Kingdom by recognizing fruit not titles. #SELAH

“Peter rebuked him and said, “Your money will go with you to destruction! How could you even think that you could purchase God’s supernatural gift with money? You will never have this gift or take part in this ministry, for your heart is not right with God.”(Act’s 8:20-21, TPT)

Is it no less a crime against the King and His Kingdom to sell the anointing?

We shall soon see Holy Spirit removing the sheeps wool off from these imposters who seek to sell the gifts of God.

I recently read of an event where a self appointed prophet, apostle, evangelist right here in the town that I live, hosting a meeting where he is charging over $100 dollors to come and allow him to impart a gift to you.

I see people and ministries charging people for a word, to be discipled and so on. Now I am fully aware and see the need to have one cover the cost of training material such as needed books and other training material and I believe that one should be willing to invest in such. As well I believe in free-will offerings or love offerings to help support those in ministry in truth and trusting in the Lord.

But to charge for the Gospel, too charge to impart or stir up a gift, to charge to disciple one in following the Lord?

I believe I stand with all of Heaven when I say, that is a crime and such as do these things are the very people our Lord and Savior is referring to when He speaks of these false shepherds.

“I know that after I leave, imposters who have no loyalty to the flock will come among you like savage wolves. Even some from among your very own ranks will rise up, twisting the truth to seduce people into following them instead of Jesus. (Act’s 20:29-30, TPT)

There are those who seduce the people with mysticism, calling it a new word, there are those who take advantage of the wounds of rejection, fear and abandonment in others leading them with false doctrines supposedly given to them by angels and dead leaders of yesterday.

There are those who claim to have rolled on the graves of the men and women of the Lord from days passed who walked in the anointing of the Lord and recieved an impartation or transfer of anointing.

Such are they who say you can speak to the dead for guidance and wisdom. Harlots, false prophets, and false messengers are they, wolves clothed in the false coverings who are filled with death and darkness – evil in the highest degree. From such RUN.

Such are nothing less than frauds, imposters, wolves in the ministry who need to be called out even as did Paul call them out in his day.

~Russ Welch


To experience the transforming love of the Father is like stepping into a sea without end and with no bottom. One’s whole life is radically turned inside out, religion cannot survive in His love and a death of self takes place, the length of which depends upon ones embracing the love of the Father as in a total surrendered diving in with or slowing stepping in while hanging on to the part of the old nature that seems to be safe although in truth is filled with dangerous traps. In fact these traps are false images of what appears to be truth yet were never their true identity in the first place…..

As for me, I first waded in, allowing the wounds of the past which empowered fear & insecurities to attempt to speak louder than His Love…. and over the past 36 months His love has been erasing each, dis-empowering them and replacing them with truth as to how He views me, what He says about me and even to the heart of the matter as to what His desire and purpose for my life is. (Even though I had been saved at 15 yrs old…I never knew His true love. Only the false picture of His love religion paints of a judge in a court room).

Over these months, I’ve found His Love to be so overwhelmingly intoxicating that I have reached the point to where I feel as though Holy Spirit has led me up to the highest diving board and the time has arrived to dive off from it, going into such a depth that the old man will be completely drowned. In the Spirit I can see the new man, the true man, the Spirit man, the very son of God I have been purposed to be since the foundation of the world, coming up out of the sea of His love with such resurrection power that the very shadow of the past will be broken into so many tiny pieces and sink back to a such a depth that they shall never be found again, a place where even the enemy will never reach them.

It is almost surreal while at the same time heart breaking as I see friends, family and others merely looking at the sea of His love, some have dipped a toe in other may be ankle deep yet either religion, the voice of the past or lack of faith (in some cases all three are intertwined). And I feel at times if only I could push them in they’d be set free, yet I know that they like myself and many before me, they must make the choice to jump themselves. Many say, I know His love, yet I can discern the longing in the spirit for that to be true. I know that yearning for I was lived in it day and night.

But one thing He did tell me was to allow my own life to become such a picture of the Father’s Love that like let the Master, others will be drawn to dive in His sea of love, that they too may find the abundant life, surrendered in the sea of His love.

~Russ Welch


If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Spiritual-Warefare

The greatest wall that this nation needs has already been paid for.

If we (God’s people) will humble ourselves, repent for seeking after our own desires.

Repent for hiding under the umbrella of selfishness, reject the spirit of religion.

Welcome the fires of holiness, dedicating every part of our lives unto the consecration of the Lord Jesus Christ.

We would see a spiritual dome over this nation in the form of the Presence of the Lord that would be so powerful it would make Israel’s iron dome look like a toy.

Or we can be like ancient Israel, continue believing our protection is by our might, remaining entrenched in the rhetoric of political discussions that the enemy joyfully has engaged us with and watch this nation fail.

For our wrestling match is with persons without bodies, against rulers with various areas and descending orders of authority against the world dominators of this present darkness Spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenlies  (2 Corinthians 10:4, Derek Prince Translation)

Do not be fooled nor deceived into believing this is a mere political battle.

It is a spiritual battle and we must put on the whole armor of the Lord, and hit the prayer rooms, hold all night prayer services.

We as a Body of believers have surrendered so much of our inheritance to the world.

We’ve entrusted our lives into the hands of wicked councils influenced by the spirit of this age.

Over the centuries since the first Church in the book of Act’s we’ve witnessed the Church ever so slowly lose its vision of the healing power of the Lord.

To today where we have for the most part put our faith in science and men of medical means.

We’ve allowed the Gospel message of Christ’s kingdom turn into a watered down self-indulgent message that bears no heavenly good news at all.

We’ve allowed holiness to be replaced with greediness, allowed the standards of Biblical morality to be replaced with the moral less values of this world.

Much of the Church has become a reflection of the society it is in rather than transforming the society to resemble the Kingdom of God.

We have entrusted our children to the government schools where the anti-Christ spirit is having a hay day.

As it slowly replaces truth with the twisted and distorted lies of the enemy calling right that which the Lord calls unholy and abominations.

We’ve allowed our colleges that were once founded upon the Word of God turn into the vilest institutions of demonic influence to a higher degree of wickedness.

We’ve replaced family time, with “me time”.

We’ve turned Sundays into a fast-food mentality organization where Church goers have been taught to simply want to rush in, get the worship of “How great we are” and “pamper my wounded ego” songs over with.

listen to a quick soothing Dr. Phil make me feel good message to at least get us to the parking lot, and then go out to be influenced by the world’s philosophies.

Or rush to the American dreams replacement of the Colosseum games of Rome style sports rather than devoting the day to our own families and the family of God.

And influencing the world by showing them the awesomeness of what it is to be a family dedicated to the Lord.

Wake up Bride!!!!

The Spirit of the Lord is crying out this very hour “Repent and turn back to your first love”.

Renounce your allegiance to the prince of the spiritual realm over this nation.

And turn back into the safety of the loving arms of your Holy Father in Heaven!!!

Russ Welch

Director at Beaches Rescue & Recovery Mission located in Jacksonville Beach Florida

http://www.beachesmission.org


“The Biblical Church is a Spiritual organization, a Spiritual body to be governed through the Spirit instead of through the senses. When sense knowledge gained the ascendency and fountain of the Church, the theological school, the Church ceased to be a Spiritual body and simply has become a body of men governed by sense knowledge” ~ E.W. Kenyon

This was written in the early 1900’s and we can see the damage that it has continued to bring in our day. The sense knowledge wars against spiritual truth such as gay marriage, healing, miracles, signs and wonders. It begins to dismiss the foundational Kingdom truth’s that the Church was established on.

Even seminaries and ministry schools in our day are spitting out huge numbers of men and women groomed in sense knowledge. Whereas sons fathered by men who live by the Spirit (as Jesus displayed and men such as the Apostle Paul continued) and daughters mothered by women who live their lives led of the Spirit.

This has caused a great erosion of Spiritual power in the Church. People are functioning based on the five senses rather that Spiritual faith.

We see pastors responding in the flesh in such ways that the Spirit of the Lord is greatly grieved. They will defend themselves by saying “I am only human”. Then what are you doing in the pulpit? Do you not know that the old man has been crucified with Christ and the New man lives in the manner for which Jesus teaches us? (Rom 6:6)

Maybe it’s time you revisit the Book of Titus and read 1:5-10;

The reason I stationed you in Crete was so that you could set things in order and complete what was left unfinished, and to raise up andappoint church elders in every city, just as I had instructed you. Each of them must be above reproach, devoted solely to his wife, whose children are believers and not rebellious or out of control. The overseer, since he serves God’s household, must be someone of blameless character and not be opinionated or short-tempered. He must not be a drunkard or violent or greedy. Instead he should be one who is known for his hospitality and a lover of goodness. He should be recognized as one who is fair-minded, pure-hearted, and self-controlled. He must have a firm grasp of the trustworthy message that he has been taught. This will enable him to both encourage others with healthy teachings and provide convincing answers to those who oppose his message

and 2:1-9;

Your duty is to teach them to embrace a lifestyle that is consistent with sound doctrine. Lead the male elders into disciplined lives full of dignity and self-control. Urge them to have a solid faith, generous love, and patient endurance. Likewise with the female elders, lead them into lives free from gossip and drunkenness and to be teachers of beautiful things. This will enable them to teach the younger women to love their husbands, to love their children, and to be self-controlled and pure, taking care of their household and being devoted to their husbands. By doing these things the word of God will not be discredited. Likewise, guide the younger men into living disciplined lives for Christ. Above all, set yourself apart as a model of a life nobly lived. With dignity, demonstrate integrity in all that you teach. Bring a clear, wholesome message that cannot be condemned, and then your critics will be embarrassed, with nothing bad to say about us. Servants are to be supportive of their masters and do what is pleasing in every way. They are not to be argumentative nor steal but prove themselves to be completely loyal and trustworthy. By doing this they will advertise through all that they do the beautiful teachings of God our Savior.

Praise God, for Holy Spirit commissioned by the Father, is raising up a Remnant in this day which is recieving the true revelation of the sons of God and they are waking up the Bride.

Let us pray that the Church as a whole is moved by the Spirit, and repents for straying from the truth, for trading in Holy Spirit led lives for those which are governed by carnal flesh senses, so that the Fire of God will rest upon His Bride once more that this land called America can be reclaimed for the purposes of the Father and His Kingdom to the Glory of His Name. ~Dr. Russ Welch, Th.D.


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But if you don’t want to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Even if you choose the gods your ancestors served on the other side of the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live, my family and I will still serve the LORD.” (Joshua 24:15)
Many will pass judgment on another individual or group today based on their looks, their dress and other situations they may be in. Yet Jesus said to show grace, mercy and love, judge not lest ye be judged. Wisdom would testify that in following the teaching of Jesus here can be a tough decision, one that will find you facing much opposition as it will cause one to walk down a narrow path that few choose to take.
 
Sadly the “many” are not even including those outside the Church but rather those who sit in the Church week after week. Religion has done it job, it has separated the believer from truth and interwoven the philosophies of this world and labeled them wisdom, yet true wisdom comes from the Father and it never contradicts the Son. You see, wisdom never says the message of Jesus has changed, it never says that what was once considered sin by the Father has now become acceptable. But it also has never said that we pass judgment first and then if needed show love, it clearly stands on the teachings of Christ not to judge and to show LOVE above all else.
 But you, beloved brothers and sisters, are not living in the dark, allowing that day to creep up on you like a thief coming to steal. For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness. This is why we must not fall asleep, as the rest do, but keep wide awake and clearheaded.  For those who are asleep sleep the night away, and drunkards get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, we must stay alert and clearheaded by placing the breastplate of faith and love over our hearts, and a helmet of the hope of salvation over our thoughts (1 Thes 5:4-8).  
 
The ways of this world, the thinking, the philosophies and such have been bombarding the Church from the beginning and much has over taking the Church in that the Church has succumbed to its teachings over that of the Lords. After all these are different times, times have changed and situations people find themselves in have changed thus the Gospel must bend and adhere to these times that we find ourselves in, right?
 
Wrong, a thousand times wrong. You see in the first Church they held to the teachings of Christ even if it caused them their lives, and for many it did. Yet they turned the world upside down. Whereas today the world has turned the Church inside out so that it looks more like the world than the Body of Christ. It has morphed into an entertainment industry for big money.
 
Not the whole Church is this way, for indeed there is a Remnant in our day who still holds the torch of truth and refuses to bend knee to the modern teachings that have striped the power of truth in exchange for feel-good doctrines. That inspires the emotions but does not transform the individual, enlightens ones mind but does not produce Christ-like hearts. This present day message draws in the people and uses them to by the numbers to validate ones ego then spits them out just as fast when they begin to see the cracks in this false Lamb, leaving them often times in more of a state of lost ness than when they first entered, for they were drawn with a hope of a Messiah but were met with a man and his program.
Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit.  And don’t be one who scorns prophecies, but be faithful to examine them by putting them to the test, and afterward hold tightly to what has proven to be right. Avoid every appearance of evil. (1 Thes 5:19-22)
 
Today, more than ever we must hold to the pure teachings of Christ and His Apostles and never trade them in for a lighter message. Paul said of such that ther would come a double curse upon their lives (Gal 3:10). Grace is powerful when taught in Truth and the Gospel Message found in the Word has not lost one once of its power and ability to impact cultures and peoples. It is time to bring the teaching of fasting & prayer back, the truth of the communion table back, the teachings of obedience and the reward of following Jesus. It is time to cut ties with those who seek to change the Gospel message, to seperate ourselves from those who wish to inject the ways of the world as means of reaching the people. It is time once again to turn and follow Jesus with surrendered hearts and lives. The narrow road is bordered by legalism on one side and compromise on the other.
 
The World is in desperate need of the true sons & daughters of the Lord Most High to manifest in this hour. We need men and women who will follow the teachings of Christ regardless of the cost and having counted it they dive into His ways with everything they have. Those that fully trust the Words of the Master, He said lay hands on the sick and they do it, He said to love the unlovable and they do it, He said to lay down our lives and they do it. For indeed He is a worthy King and just the reward of being called His friend, brother and sister is world far more than anything this world has to offer.
~Dr. Russ Welch, Th.D.

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Now Christ lives his life in you! And even though your body may be dead because of the effects of sin, his life-giving Spirit imparts life to you because you are fully accepted by God. Yes, God raised Jesus to life! And since God’s Spirit of Resurrection lives in you, he will also raise your dying body to life by the same Spirit that breathes life into you! So then, beloved ones, the flesh has no claims on us at all, and we have no further obligation to live in obedience to it. For when you live controlled by the flesh, you are about to die. But if the life of the Spirit puts to death the corrupt ways of the flesh, we then taste his abundant life. (Romans 8:10-13, TPT)        

Not to cause a stir…merely my opinion as to the finished work of the cross….          

When I look at the resurrection power of the cross and what it did for me, to say I am a recovering addict is like saying I am a recovering sinner. I can not confess either for the powerful freedom that Jesus accomplished on the cross liberated me from the lifestyles of both..I once was bound yet Praise God, for I am now free..I took one step..one action and laid my burdens down..and He in His Great faithfulness, He took them away.          

I understand the merits of programs and the desire to get people free…Yet to recite time and time again that I am still an addict to whatever is not confessing freedom into the New Creation that Christ won for us on the cross, rather it is programing I am still hostage to the old nature.          

I know people who’ve attended these programs for short periods as well as others who have attended them for many years and some have experiencrd freedom to where they no longer drink, do drugs, watch porn ect. Yet, they are not truly free for they live within the confines of an addiction mentality. I have counseled many of these same people and they are so fearful of slipping up. It is like being free and looking at an open prison door yet never daring to step out of the prison cell to experience the freedom ones been given.

The power of the Blood of the Lamb is fully capable of severing the individual from the nature of addiction.        

I have witnessed the freedom that the true revelation of the cross and what Jesus did there fully set people free including myself. I don’t have to avoid the alcohol aisle in the store because of the fear of being tempted, I can freely stroll down the isle in compete freedom knowing that addiction no longer holds me captive.        

I opened with stating this is my opinion yet the witness of seeing the miracle in others lives as well, transfers it from opinion to truth..For whom the Son sets free is free indeed.            

I welcome any individual who has not found this freedom to come and talk with me and let us together, allow Holy Spirit bring you into the place, through the revelation of the finished work of the cross, where you too can experience the complete freedom that Jesus purchased for you on the cross.          

Dr. Russ Welch, Th.D. Miracle power of Biblical counseling