|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

Trouble produces prayer. Warnings of trouble in the Bible are invitations to prayer. Ignoring the warnings keeps you from the prayer, which then invalidates the promises for you...the ones the trouble was designed to lead the humble to. Ignoring what Jesus warns of is arrogance. Many arrogantly put the warnings on the "unsaved" and falsely claim the promises only obtained by responding to the warnings. This will be corrected in truth. Continual trouble will produce continual prayer as the people of the earth choose humility...choose to see their need for supernatural help, rather than arrogantly believe mankind can fix the problems mankind has created (that was a quote this week at the UN). If you respond to the warning voluntarily, you don't need the trouble to be your school. Luke 21:34“But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35“For it will come as a snare o

You may have survived the day of the Shemitah. You may have survived the moon turning pink...but will you survive the day they are marking? Isaiah 10:5“Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation. 6I will send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7Yet he does not mean so, Nor does his heart think so; But it is in his heart to destroy, And cut off not a few nations. It is important to understand the prophetic nature of the hour we are in. Many, in immaturity, think that God can be defined by their emotions. This is delusion. Many times what children call love is exactly the opposite of love from a Father's perspective. Because there are differences in what the immature see as love, and what the uncreated God sees as love, He has given us a way to understand the signs of love to watch for. What is happeni

To pray in faith is to pray in confidence. Confidence in the unseen God is not a natural substance. It is learned over time. It is oil bought with trust in the unseen truth and stored in the lamp of our heart as the unseen becomes real. This is how heaven will come from the inside out: Luke 17:20Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; 21“nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” 22Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23“And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’ Do not go after them or follow them. Praying in faith is tricky. We need to know what we are having faith in. Often, Satan tries to turn true faith into faith in our faith. Faith in our faith requires a continual "ramping up" of emotion...an

Tonight we are going to start a 24 week intensive studying out the differences between Jesus' Bride, the end time Church that becomes pure and spotless for Jesus alone through the events described in the Book of Revelation, and the false wife, the prostitute, the Mystery Babylon, who, in the name of God, will sell the world a false Gospel of humanity making itself righteous for itself. Right now the humanistic harlot is emerging. She claims to represent God, but she is not loyal to Jesus. She is universal, and tolerant, and "loving"... But she is missing the basic qualification to be a Bride...she is not loyal to One Man. The world is lapping it up, and so are many who don't know any better in the Church. Do you see it? Do you know what to look for? This is the most glorious, and most dangerous, time to be alive. How the next few years unfold for you will entirely depend on what you know of your Groom, His plans, and your response to the emergence of the Bride and the

Deuteronomy 29:14“I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone, 15“but with him who stands here with us today before the LORD our God, as well as with him who is not here with us today 16(for you know that we dwelt in the land of Egypt and that we came through the nations which you passed by, 17and you saw their abominations and their idols which were among them—wood and stone and silver and gold); 18“so that there may not be among you man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, and that there may not be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood; 19“and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, ‘I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates of my heart’—as though the drunkard could be included with the sober. God has given us true freedom...there is great dignity placed on the decision of people. This means great bl

Revelation...not just the book, but the concept of getting true Biblical insight, is not neutral. To see it, receive it, taste it, and then ignore it costs... Everyone gets what they want. If you want to be numb to truth, what you get is more numb: 2 Thessalonians 2:11And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. James 1:22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; 24for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. 25But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If you can't move forward now, when it is easy, you will fall away when trouble comes. Ro

Revelation 3:1“And to the angel of the church in Sardis write, ‘These things says He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. Anything that is alive is either growing or dying. There is no static state of life. The Holy Spirit is the breath of life. Without the Spirit breathed into Adam, he was just dirt. New life came to the believers when Jesus breathed the Spirit back upon them. Jesus paid the price that the dead could live again: John 738“He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” 39But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. If I'm not growing in my experience of the new life, I am actually dying. If I am not fighting against the current of the world, which is flowing to the lake of fire, then I am floating with it

Matthew 5:19“Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20“For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. When you stand before Jesus, He will not ask you what you were taught. He will evaluate you on the basis of what YOU taught and did. Many leave their future to others. This is unacceptable. You will be held accountable for how much you lived your life abiding...drawing on the conversation...in Jesus. John 15:1“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. 2“Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away;fn and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3“You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. 4“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the

Full Definition of SANCTIFY (Merriam Webster) 1: to set apart to a sacred purpose or to religious use : CONSECRATE 2: to free from sin : PURIFY 3a : to impart or impute sacredness, inviolability, or respect to b : to give moral or social sanction to 4: to make productive of holiness or piety <observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it — Deuteronomy 5:12(Douay Version)> Sanctification is a key to understand in the end times. Once you understand what Jesus is doing, then you can watch for it, and grow in confidence that you are in the right place, you can pray for it and do your part in bringing the thing to pass, and you can be ready for it…believe me…it is intense and requires preparation. The hour we live in is ALL about sanctification. Jesus laid this out for His disciples when He gave them the Spiritual chronology of the end time plan as He was praying for them to actually accomplish the plan. John 17 and the Olivet Discourse are describing the same events from two differe

What is the root? What is the foundation of the moves you are seeing? It is easy to see. As the end times unfold, many things that look like Jesus' Bride actually have a foundation in false unity...usually in the form of "social justice" that has nothing to do with Jesus coming to establish His kingdom, but rather Babylonian unity..."let us build a tower who's top is in the heavens"... a social unity move devoid of any true loyalty to Jesus. The foundation...the root is VERY important. Soil determines what fruit will grow. Foundations determine what the house will eventually bear. Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. What is promised to increase in the end times?...deception. Over and over Jesus warns "do not be deceived"...to His friends. Jesus warns believers to guard against deception. One of the MAJOR points of deception will be in the apostate church, called the Harlot Babylon. T

The Bible promises over and over some basic obstacles for believers in the end times. One of those obstacles are false teachers. False teachers are promised to increase as the return of Jesus nears. 2 Peter 2:1But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. 2And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of truth will be blasphemed. 3By covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words; for a long time their judgment has not been idle, and their destruction does not slumber. The Bible is clear about the main motivation of false teachers in the end time: money. Beware of teachers...and there are many...who are trying to sell you readiness for the return of Jesus. If you haven't studied the Biblical promises of the end times, it is easy to over simplify the motivations of peo

Loving Jesus is expressed in obeying His instructions: John 14:13“And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14“If you ask anything in My name, I will do it. 15“If you love Me, keep My commandments. To know Jesus' instructions is to know Him. You must hear Him, and receive His leadership to actually love Him. Many love the idea of Jesus, or love Him in very introductory ways...from afar...but they do not know Him, and have accepted that as the normal Christian experience...they are satisfied in not growing in their experience of hearing Him. Knowing the Bible isn't the same as knowing Jesus: John 5:38“But you do not have His word abiding in you, because whom He sent, Him you do not believe. 39“You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. Hearing Jesus takes time. Learning to know someone's voice requires time spent trying. Talking with Him, not at Him. Obeyi