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    Pride, vanity, selfishness, greed, idolatry, bitterness, hatred, spite, envy, resentment..... All of these bring you away from the Lord and serve only one purpose: to destroy your heart and soul.

    Is there someone in your life that all you can think about is how much they've wronged you? Is there something about yourself that you are quick to boast about to anyone who'll listen? Do you seek and think about the next big thing you can buy, if you can buy the most, just buy, buy, buy? Are you having trouble giving up what you know is wrong? Do you hold grudges easily, or are offended easily? Do you think that you are better, can do better, are the best at anything? Is there an object, person, activity, substance that you literally think about most, if not all of the time? Is forgiveness difficult for you, so you justify your lack of? When things happen, are your first thoughts "What about me!? I, I, I...."

    It is time that each of us sit there and critically examine our hearts and the condition of our faith. Go to the Lord in prayer and ask Him to put a mirror up in front of your heart. I guarantee you that if you go to Him sincerely, He will show you. BE READY!

    Repent and turn from the things that so ensnare you. Allow God to transform your heart and renew you. Jesus is coming soon and you cannot continue living a life contrary to God's Word. Watch out for those unclean spirits brought about by sin. Repent, repent, repent! Our God is a merciful God to those who love Him, seek Him, and obey Him. Go to Jesus every single day in repentance, because His mercies are made new every morning.

    I am by no means perfect, nor does a single day pass by that I don't think, say, or act unrighteously. But, when the Holy Spirit points out to me (sometimes gently, sometimes firmly) my sinful thoughts, words, and/or actions....I come to Him in full repentance. This is something that is done daily, because as long as we are in the flesh, we will struggle daily.

    I cannot urge my brothers and sisters in Christ enough to get into God's Word right now, and to go to Him daily in prayer, and to ask Him to fully uncover and reveal all areas of sin and idolatry in your life. I do this every day and I will continue to do this for as long as I am in the sinful flesh. It doesn't make me holier-than-thou, though I'm sure many of you already think that about me. No, daily repentance draws you closer to Christ and helps you to live obediently.

    Praise the God who Is! Praise Jesus, the King of Kings! For He will forgive those who have contrite hearts and He will bless those who seek Him with all of their heart. The blood of the Lamb covers a multitude of sins and His mercy and love endures forever. How great is our God!

    If I sound like a broken record with calls of repentance, it's because the Holy Spirit lays it upon my heart to do so. He wants His Church (those who call themselves Christian) to come back to Him from the depths of deception. He wants His servants to come out of Babylon, to forsake the kingdom of this world, to give up their many idols. Jesus is coming soon and He is coming with a promise: that the wickedness of the nations will be judged. And only those who belong to Him, whose names are written in the Book of the Lamb, the Book of Life, will be saved.

    We cannot put our hope in man, a government, a system, a vaccine, pharmaceutical medicine, "prepping" or stockpiles, homesteading, churches, ministries/ministers, neighbors, money, whatever! To do so is to build your house on sand. Put your hope in Christ Jesus alone, trust in God alone! To take shelter in the Lord is to build your house upon The Rock. Jesus is The Rock. If you think that this whole CV-19 mess has been bad the past year, wait until even worse things happen. They will! Wait until all you've ever known is destroyed by illness, earthquakes, poverty, fire, storms, floods, or war. Wait until the store shelves are more empty than they have been over the past year. Wait until you are literally faced with the decision of saving your life if you deny Jesus, or ending your life if you stay true to Him.

    If your lamp is not full of oil, if your heart has not sought the Lord with repentance, if your foundation is not the Word of God.......you will suffer and you will fall. Watchmen can only warn so much and prophets can only prophecy so much and preachers can only preach so much and teachers can only teach so much. If you do not listen, if you allow your heart to willingly become hardened and cold.....

    Go to God this very day, this very hour, and surrender yourself and your life fully to Him. Ask Him to reveal all sin and idols in your life and remove them. Ask Jesus to cover you with His blood. Then pick up your cross and follow Him. As for me, I will keep speaking until I no longer draw breath - whether I am allowed to continue on social media or in person. And trust me, those demons are working hard to convince me to stop. But, I will persist and continue for as long as the Holy Spirit gives me the words to say. Perhaps some will have eyes to see and ears to hear. Perhaps some will seek the Lord with all of their hearts. Perhaps some will hear the call to come out of Babylon and will obey.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

- I Corinthians 13:4

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

- James 5:16

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to your neighbor, for we are all members of one body.

26 “In your anger do not sin": Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. 28 Anyone who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with their own hands, that they may have something to share with those in need.29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. 32 Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

- Ephesians 4:17-32

13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh[a]; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”[b] 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever[c] you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

- Galatians 5:13-2

You shall have no other gods before me.

- Exodus 20:3

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you;

- Deuteronomy 6:14

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you.

- Romans 12:3

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.....13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it...... 15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.

16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’ 24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.

26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

- Matthew 7:7-8, 13, 15-27

If you love me, keep my commands.

- John 14:15

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

- Romans 6:1-4