|City on a Hill - Writings for Refuge

Judge a true man or woman of God by their fruit. False ones see people as their meal ticket. They use terms like "investing in people"... Investing implies an expected return, if you don't give them the return, they will hold you responsible. People who resist them they label as unworthy of their attention, a waste of time, bottom feeders, or sheeple ...Jesus loves people, even those who resisted Him. Be very careful in this hour. The fruit of a persons heart comes out of the mouth/words. What do they say about others? What do they offer you, or want to trade with you ..power for loyalty, it is the mark of the truly false. Many are afraid of the false prophets, but, be very aware, if you "receive them" because of fear...if you don't address the false in love, you will share in their reward. Matthew 10:41“He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shal...

God wouldn't do it this way if it wasn't the best way. I don't know much, but I know one thing for sure: God is love, and mankind mostly does not understand love. For love, God doesn't violate free will...He has a brilliant plan to get as many to choose love as possible before it's too late. The final expression of love...the grand finale... The complete revelation of the Man's heart who is love, who is God... is seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls. This is the very plan that will extract a great harvest from the world even as it produces a great falling away of those already proclaiming love for Jesus...but not growing in a commitment to walk out His return. As in the days of Noah, the same flood that destroyed life on the earth raised up Noah's relatively little boat...because he believed in love. He obeyed the weird command of God to build a boat on dry land. If you love Him, obey Him. Make peace with Him now, while there is time. ...

God wouldn't do it this way if it wasn't the best way. I don't know much, but I know one thing for sure: God is love, and mankind mostly does not understand love. For love, God doesn't violate free will...He has a brilliant plan to get as many to choose love as possible before it's too late. The final expression of love...the grand finale... The complete revelation of the Man's heart who is love, who is God... is seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls. This is the very plan that will extract a great harvest from the world even as it produces a great falling away of those already proclaiming love for Jesus...but not growing in a commitment to walk out His return. As in the days of Noah, the same flood that destroyed life on the earth raised up Noah's relatively little boat...because he believed in love. He obeyed the weird command of God to build a boat on dry land. If you love Him, obey Him. Make peace with Him now, while there is time. Revelation 1:1T...

I'm not telling you what to do. I do feel that many believers who are tracking with the Lord are getting browbeat into feeling like they MUST vote for Trump. That is, IMO, lawless. I'm simply saying it might be wise to consider stopping telling others what to do when it is leading people to compromise on holiness to "serve" the cause of Christ. It would be refreshing if "leaders" in Jesus' body would stop letting their fear of Jesus being powerless drive them to beat others into a very narrow minded idea that Jesus can only save lives if a godless man is elected. This theology makes Jesus distant and powerless. It says "we have to compromise Jesus and all He values or else Jesus will lose"... Jesus won't lose. Jesus is a much better politician than you are giving Him credit for. Did you ever consider that maybe He is testing us? Maybe He is testing what we are willing to compromise to save our own skin? Maybe we should take a lesson from Da...

*It's no coincidence that this election is mostly centering on a religious choice... *It is a testing. You are seriously supposed to realize that there is a moment in time to "come out" Revelation 18:3-5 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury." And I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. *This isn't a warning to unbelievers. It is a warning to those who consider themselves "God's people." *The end time Babylon was once the "Golden City": Isaiah 14:4-5 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased! The LO...

One of the great tragedies in life is wasted time. Time is one of the most undervalued commodities when you are a kid, and the older you get, you feel the weight of the value of time more and more. Time moves faster the older you get. I can remember when 6 months might as well have been 6 years, it seemed to take so long (I'm picturing waiting to turn 16...that 15th year seemed like a decade at the time). Now, at 42 years old, 6 months passes in a scary fast way. Most people, if you are really blessed, are working with about 70 years... Psalms 90:10 The days of our lives are seventy years; And if by reason of strength they are eighty years, Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away. That is...3,640 weeks...25,480 days... 611,520 hours of time the Psalmist calls a time of "labor". It isn't that your existence ends when the last hour flips by...but you only have that much time to labor...to get your heart prepared for eternity. Yo...

Did you know there are different kinds of prayer? Ephesians 6:18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints-- The Tabernacle of David is a very SPECIFIC KIND of prayer. It is ordered based on God's government. The WAY David's Tabernacle was executed is very important. Over the next few months at Midnight Cry and on Sundays, I am going to be talking about why we are trying to agree with Jesus about the rebuilding of David's Tabernacle. The Bible promises over and over that the Tabernacle would be rebuilt prior to Jesus' return. Satan is warring against it: Revelation 13:5-7 And he was given a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and he was given authority to continue for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name, His tabernacle, and those who dwell in heaven. It was granted to him to make war with the saints and...

It's easy to make your own "faith" a false God. If you believe that everything you think you hear from the Lord is right and unable to be wrong, soon you will find yourself a slave to what you hear. We want to go in the opposite spirit...we want to be kids and let God be dad. It is important to hear God...the most important thing...because without hearing Him you really don't have much of a relationship with Him. But then, we need to grow in our understanding of His heart. He isn't a task master, He's a Father. He wants us to grow in our knowledge of Him. This inherently means that we are immature in our knowing and in our hearing: John 16:12“I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13“However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14“He will glorify Me, for He will take of what i...