CAPTOR

You've captivated my heart, 

In your presence I am free.

You've loved me from the start, 

How could a love like this be? 

Oh my Lord, my God, 

You are all I want, all I need. 

I seek to love endlessly 

The one who loved unconditionally.

Lord, you have my life and my heart,

They've been yours from the start. 

You're the lover of my soul, and 

I know that we'll never part! 

I offer my life as a sacrifice,

To the Captor of my heart!

JRT

Great Men of Faith!

I was searching for something and stumbled across the following quotes, what great men of faith these individuals were, but you know what? They weren't any different than you or I! We can walk in the same way these men walked, we can accomplish the same things... IF we allow the WORD to shape our mindset and IF we commit our lives to Him and seek His face. When we make the concious decision to LIVE, ACT, and WALK IN the WORD then, and only then, will we see great and mighty works by the Holy Ghost through us! 

Smith Wigglesworth Laying Hands on a Sick Child

Who I See in You

I accidentally stumbled across this on a random blog on the internet and it just blessed me and spoke to me and my current state! I just love how God uses these "accidents" to speak to us! I think this is so beautiful and inspiring! So, I thought I would share it with all my young single girls! Please pass this along! :)

God has designed you to be a Queen, not a pauper! So wait for your King, don't settle for anything less! God has destined you to be so much more than you give yourself credit for! Be shaped and molded by HIS image of you! 

Who I See in You

(I have no idea who this is by, if anyone knows please let me know!)

She is elegant and graceful and her beauty is like the rarest of pearls. Her beauty is rare only because the deepest part of it lies in the depth of her character. It is rare because it is not flaunted for the attraction of men, for that beauty is shallow and self serving, and for that reason it is not beauty at all. Her beauty is so awesome that she doesn’t even have to be physcially endowed to be wonderfully attractive. She does not try to seduce or beguile because true beauty needs no help in honest attraction.

Gordon's Love Letters to Freda

A friend of mine posted this and it blessed me so much that I wanted to share it with you guys! Enjoy!

Gordon's Love Letters to Freda

by Mica Charity Kilstrom on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 6:30pm

Ladies,

I had posted these on my fb status, but it was requested of me by my dear sweet cousin to combine these in a note for all of you. Recently, I've been doing some research on the lives of Gordon and Freda Lindsay, who have always been some of the classic ministers I've admired most. Their ministry encompassed many different arenas, including pastoring, pioneering, evangelism, revivalism, writing, editing, publishing, and missions. The Lindsays were such a unique blend of gifts and anointings, and together, were a dynamic team powerfully used by God. As a writer, I've always been encouraged in how their writing and editorial gifts greatly blessed the body of Christ - especially at a time when that area of ministry was in need of pioneering spirits.

Renegade Church

We don't want to be a renegade church. Look at what Paul describes as the renegade church:

"I am surprised and astonished that you are so quickly turning renegade and deserting Him Who invited and called you by the grace (unmerited favor) of Christ (the Messiah) [and that you are transferring your allegiance] to a different [even an opposition] gospel.

Not that there is [or could be] any other [genuine Gospel], but there are [obviously] some who are troubling and disturbing and bewildering you [with a different kind of teaching which they offer as a gospel] and want to pervert and distort the Gospel of Christ (the Messiah) [into something which it absolutely is not].

But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to and different from that which we preached to you, let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!

As we said before, so I now say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel different from or contrary to that which you received [from us], let him be accursed (anathema, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment)!

Now am I trying to win the favor of men, or of God? Do I seek to please men? If I were still seeking popularity with men, I should not be a bond servant of Christ (the Messiah).

For I want you to know, brethren, that the Gospel which was proclaimed and made known by me is not man's gospel [a human invention, according to or patterned after any human standard].

For indeed I did not receive it from man, nor was I taught it, but [it came to me] through a [direct] revelation [given] by Jesus Christ (the Messiah)."

 - Galatians 1:6-12

This verse is so clear and it is so very similar to the events occurring in the church today! We need to have a firm foundation in the WORD, not church doctrine! Time is getting short, the church needs to rise up proclaiming the truth of God's TRUE Gospel! We need to make a decision to not be the renegade church full of deserters, but to be the uncompromised church full of victors!

Blessings,

JRT

Adding to and Taking Away from the Bible!

I want to begin by saying it is not my intention to attack any individual, my intention is to speak the truth in love, and hope that the truth can set people free from the deception they have allowed themselves to be lead into. My heart is for people, and it breaks my heart when I see them following others right off of a cliff. For example, the bridge on a major interstate is out and people are driving off of it right into the Mississippi River and let's say Jane is silently standing there praying for everyone who passes by to see that the bridge is out and John is shooting flares and jumping in front of the cars waving and doing everything he can to get them to see the truth and probably getting persecuted and cursed by angry drivers. Who loves them more? The passive one or the one actively trying to get them to see the truth? Well, I have decided to be like John, even if people hate me because of it! I can't, in good-conscious, keep silent and remain passive! So anyway, now that I've shared my heart it is time for the point I wanted to make...

Lately, I am becoming more and more aware of the fact that we are living in the last days as I see the boldness and audacity of some people to purport the doctrines and beliefs that DO NOT line up with scripture. I could not believe my eyes when I read where someone quoted scripture as follows:

"Who then can be saved? Jesus said, with man (including tithing & sowing seed) it is IMPOSSIBLE, but with God who HAS PROVIDED THE TITHE, Jesus Christ, NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE!"

Placebo Grace

Placebo Grace

Today I have been sitting outside and just thinking about some things that I feel God is stirring up in my heart. Being a pastor's daughter there are so many things you hear about people in your area or even people in churches across the country and world. It really opens your eyes to the bigger picture. The bible says that the devil walks about seeking whom he may devour. The greatest and biggest lies that people who were once viewed as strong Christians are falling for involves tithing and the local church. One of the biggest moves is the idea of "grace" this new move is not based on biblical grace at all, but rather a placebo grace, people think they are living under grace but in fact they are living under something fake packaged as the real deal. This "new" belief isn't new revelation at all it is just old deception with a face lift to make it more appealing.

"Oh, I Tried That Faith Stuff and it Didn't Work!"

I have noticed that too many Christians have things wrong about a successful life of faith. I can't tell you how many times I've heard complaints about living by faith being too hard or "i tried it and it didnt' work" ... and the list goes on! They believe that in order for them to succeed at living by FAITH they have to rely on THEIR ability & THEIR faith, and that is why they fail.  A life of faith is not a result of your perfection and abilities. Living by Faith is not living by muttering. People have misconstrewed living by faith to mean constantly muttering their faith confessions and if I cross this T and dot this I, then maybe, just maybe I will get the breakthrough I am believing God for. These people have spent too much time turning faith into a mathematical theorem of confusion rather than an actual answer producing equation. How does this happen? It is because they don't carefully consider what they hear (Mark 4:24).

Your Ordained Place!

Driving around today, I have been listening to OLD music from early Charismatic/Word of Faith days, stuff I grew up listening to at Winter Bible Seminars, Camp meetings, All Faiths Crusades, Believers Conferences, and so forth. As I was singing along I was amazed at how after so many years the lyrics are still as fresh in my mind as they were they day I sang them all the time. Then I believe that what happened next was more than me just drifting back down "memory lane" I honestly believe God brought things to remembrance, that had almost been forgotten, to show me something.

Listening to the songs God reminded me of my childhood. Being a pastor's daughter I spent MANY hours in the church outside of service times because my parents would have work to do and counseling appointments and at the time we were too young to be left at home, so they brought us with them to the church. (And just a side note: THANK YOU daddy & mommy for having us around church and the things of God as much as possible!) Anyway, being in the church for hours as young children there isn't much to do, so me being the oldest I would organize something imaginative for us to do and my two little guinea pigs--errrr--I--mean--uh--siblings would follow my lead. And what fun event would we choose to do? Well the one thing we were always surrounded by, we would have an imaginative camp meeting service.

"Come on, God, I'll Put You Up in a Great Condo!"

Recently I watched a movie that some of you may be familiar with, in this movie a guy stops to ask for directions and meets a girl, eventually things develop between the two and the guy realizes he has feelings for the girl but he isn't ready to make a serious commitment to her, so he forms a compromise. He offers to put her up in a nice apartment, get her a car and some money, and take care of her so that when he is in town he can stop by and see her. Her response to this offer is what struck me, she says the following statement:

When I was a little girl, my mama used to lock me in the attic when I was bad, which was pretty often. And I would- I would pretend I was a princess... trapped in a tower by a wicked queen. And then suddenly this knight... on a white horse with these colors flying would come charging up and draw his sword. And I would wave. And he would climb up the tower and rescue me. But never in all the time... that I had this dream did the knight say to me, "Come on, baby, I'll put you up in a great condo."

After watching this movie, this quote just really stuck with me and God began to use it to speak to me about Christians. How many times do so called Christians make similar offers to God?

You ARE Welcome in This Place!

I just wanted to share this AWESOME song with you guys! 

This is what Worship is all about, inviting/welcoming the presence of God and the move of the Holy Spirit into our services and gatherings as believers. THAT is what REALLY changes the hearts and minds and lives of the people. Not a rock climbing wall for the kids, cappuccino and Christ, or all the other man plans, but opening ourselves up to do HIS will and flow with the move of HIS spirit!

I Love God, but Not Enough to Tithe...

Abram tithed before there was a law to tithe, he was not under 'mandate' to tithe. He did it out of love for God. He gave His son to die for us out of love, then out of love we should do the things He has asked us to do. If you claim to love God with all your heart, all your soul, all your spirit, then He should not have to make you tithe, you should tithe because you Love Him. If you say you love God then show Him! Top of Form

Exactly as I Have Been Told!

"Take courage; for I believe God, and am convinced that things will happen exactly as I have been told." - Acts 27:25 (Weymouth)
It has taken me a long time to come to this realization -- God's got the PERFECT timing! Many times in our lives there are words that have been spoken over our lives by divine inspiration, or simply dreams that we've held in our hearts that don't happen when we expect them to. When we initially hear or think about such things we have an excitement because of what God said and we expect those things to happen the next week.

Jude ... Written for TODAY!

JUDE 1:3-25


"...Dear friends, I've dropped everything to write you about this life of salvation that we have in common. I have to write insisting—begging!—that you fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish. What has happened is that some people have infiltrated our ranks (our Scriptures warned us this would happen), who beneath their pious skin are shameless scoundrels. Their design is to replace the sheer grace of our God with sheer license—which means doing away with Jesus Christ, our one and only Master.
I'm laying this out as clearly as I can, even though you once knew all this well enough and shouldn't need reminding. Here it is in brief: The Master saved a people out of the land of Egypt. Later he destroyed those who defected. And you know the story of the angels who didn't stick to their post, abandoning it for other, darker missions. But they are now chained and jailed in a black hole until the great Judgment Day. Sodom and Gomorrah, which went to sexual rack and ruin along with the surrounding cities that acted just like them, are another example. Burning and burning and never burning up, they serve still as a stock warning.
This is exactly the same program of these latest infiltrators: dirty sex, rule and rulers thrown out, glory dragged in the mud.

UNFAZED!

Word for today:

"An empty-head thinks mischief is fun, but a mindful person relishes wisdom. The nightmares of the wicked come true; what the good people desire, they get. When the storm is over, there's nothing left of the wicked; good people, firm on their rock foundation, aren't even FAZED." Proverbs 10:23-25

Know the promises of God's word, stand firm in faith and nothing will FAZE you!!!!
Praise God for His Word! His Word is ALWAYS relevant, no matter what new doctrine or method comes along to undo the validity the Word! God's Word remains the same yesterday, today, and forever -- "For ever, O LORD, your word is settled in heaven." (Ps. 119:89) When the storms of life try to move and shake your foundation, just dig in even deeper into the Word and the promises of God and stand firm! Be strong and courageous because God is with you! He will never leave you and He will never forsake you... don't let the devil's smoke screen attack get you off track -- he is just a bunch of puff and fluff!!!!! Stand firm and remain UNFAZED!

God's Richest Blessings on You,
JRT

What happened to the GOOD NEWS?

Today I was righteously angered when I heard the following song playing on the Christian radio station ... No wonder people aren't eager to be Christians! Will someone please tell me how this is the Gospel/GOOD NEWS?????????

Held
Two months is too little
They let him go
They had no sudden healing
To Think That Providence
Would take a child from his mother
While she prays, is appalling

WOW! Benny Hinn addresses the Seeker-Friendly Churches in America!

Glad that someone with a voice has the boldness to address what is happening in the church today! Thank you Benny Hinn, Kenneth W. Hagin, and others who BOLDLY proclaim the truth in a time of so much deception!


“The seeker-friendly move in America is destroying america… Those seeker friendly churches are not of God! When they are ashamed, when they don’t want to offend people, then they don’t have the Holy Ghost in them! Who cares if you offend people? Jesus offended people!”

“They worry more about crowds than getting in people in heaven. They are clubs.”




“Pentecostals are losing Pentecost. They have full churches of dead people.”