Repent

Not Everyone…

Posted on August 7, 2011 by mcalmond

Matthew 7:21-23 (ESV) “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Let us have a brief look at this very disturbing text. I do not know about you but whenever I read this text it is convicting and confronting. It convicts me to never, by the grace and mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ, presume upon my relationship in and with the Lord Jesus Christ. It also confronts me in the area of obedience. Am I genuinely doing the will of the Father God Almighty? It is a text that stirs up within, a very real and genuine re-examination of my heart and personal faith, in and with the Lord Jesus Christ. And, this isn’t a bad thing at all. No, it absolutely isn’t.

Not everyone who simply says, repeatedly, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven; how convicting, how confronting, how challenging. This is especially true when you consider what the Lord then goes on to address. Even though there were mighty things seemingly being done through them, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, He will still drive them away because He did not actually know them. There was never any genuine relationship, of  God faith, saving faith or righteous repentance. It was simply a profession, of words rooted in presumptions.

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Are We Really Ready For His New Wind?

Posted on July 17, 2011 by mcalmond

I believe there is hope for the church and the people of God. I also believe that we need very real change. Could it be that in spirit and in truth we need a reformation, a rebuilding from the foundation (1 Cor 3) of Christ Jesus and up?

Reformation: 1) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs 2) rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course.

There is something stirring out there and I pray that what is stirring is the breath of HIS change that we need. Will we see it when it comes or will our hurts, frustrations and disappointments and dissatisfaction’s with the church and the people of God keep us from seeing the changes that are coming or even that are needed? Will our being blinded by what we want or expect to see or have occur, keep us from seeing what really will be happening in the Lord Jesus and his church/body as happened so many times before?

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The Need For Wisdom

Posted on April 10, 2011 by mcalmond

How do I explain what it is that I feel the Lord is doing within me? I mean, there is certainly a moving, a realigning, a reasserting of the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ within me and I believe will also be manifested through me as well.

We have been on the shelf for a rather lengthy and extended period of time. Yet, all of a sudden there is once again, a fresh resurgence of the prophetic within me as well as a fresh leadership dimension awakening up within me. This is all serves to make doing what I need to do, each and every day, to continue to pay the bills, all that much more difficult. I know that for now, however, I must keep doing it but my heart is less and less into it. The Lord knows.

There is the expectation that the Lord is going to re-release me to move out again in the ministry for which he has chosen me, yet, only He knows when, where, and how, that will take place.

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A Clear Evidence That Is Steadfast and Enduring

Posted on March 31, 2011 by mcalmond

2 Thessalonians 1:3-4 (NKJV) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, 4 so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure,

“We are bound to thank God always for you”, speaks of that deep sense of obligation that Paul is feeling towards those in the church of Thessalonica. Me we all be bound to always to give thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ for each other. This is true and is a very powerful tool of relationship. Oh the lives which are transformed through thanksgiving before the Lord God, rather than by our complaining, attacking, criticizing, etc.

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To The Teaching & The Testimony!

Posted on February 25, 2011 by mcalmond

As Believers, the Word of God as a whole, was written in part that we might discover and apply to our everyday lives, what it means to live for the Lord God Almighty. We are to live and walk out our lives as His children, as His servants, servants of the Most High God. The simple result of this was to be His evident witnesses in the earth. The truth is that far too many professing believers in the Lord Jesus Christ only profess a faith in Him, while when it comes to living and walking out the written Word of God in our everyday lives, well, that is totally another matter.

Jeremiah 6:10 (NKJV) To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Indeed their ear is uncircumcised, And they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the Lord is a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

It is apparent that there is an all too clear devaluing of the Word of God as the Righteous Standard for our every day life and living. It has in oh so many ways become a reproach, some thing of shame, or disgrace and embarrassment. It has in some circles even become a point of blame for the world’s problems.

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He Who Completes Us

Posted on February 13, 2011 by mcalmond

Man’s faith is incomplete in itself. It needs God’s gift of faith (Rom 12:3) to join together with his, completing that faith so that man can come into God’s saving faith. This is accomplished by the Power of God the Holy Spirit, God’s grace and His Living Word.

Man in every aspect is incomplete apart from a union in and with the Lord Jesus Christ. It is in this union that we are only made complete  through God’s saving faith in Christ Jesus and the resulting regenerative Work of God.

Jeremiah 29:11-13 (NKJV) For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.

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Holy Spirit Baptism & Godly Character

Posted on February 7, 2011 by mcalmond

In light of my having shared with you our three part series on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and with another series on the Benefits of Speaking in Tongues (Pt One and Two) soon to follow this post, I just felt that I should share with you this post on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit and the issue of Godly Character right in the middle of them. It has been the severe lack of a Godly Character that has done more harm to the church and its witness of the Lord Jesus Christ in and before the world, than any other weakness we as the people of God have.

I, for one, believe that we need not have to choose between our needing and thus becoming a people of Godly Character and the Holy Spirit anointed power of God. I believe the Lord God Almighty has intended for us both. However, a Godly Character comes more slowly, through the fires of refinement and discipline, healing and deliverance, and a righteous inculcation of the Holy Word of God. It is this reality, this all too often painful process over time and growth in the Lord Jesus Christ, that most seem not to desire nor embrace, let alone seek after. We all too often seek the power without the heart and character of God, to our shame and error. While this is a lengthy post, I pray it is of value to all who take the time to read it with an open heart to the Lord Jesus Christ and what He is saying through us, each and every one.

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Simple, Essential, But Not Always Easy

Posted on February 6, 2011 by mcalmond

From the very beginning, the old paths have always been the same: Listen to the voice of God, Obey the voice of God, walking in all that He commands and there, He will bless us His people. It is so very straight forward and simple. We’re to Listen, Obey, doing the Will, Word and Ways of God and He will be our God and we will be His people, prospering under His righteousness.

Jeremiah 6:16 (NKJV) Thus says the Lord: “Stand in the ways and see, And ask for the old paths, where the good way is, And walk in it; Then you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

Exodus 15:26 (NKJV) and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.”

Jeremiah 7:23 (NKJV) But this is what I commanded them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ (cf Jer 11:4.7)

Luke 6:46 (NKJV) “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do the things which I say?

1 John 2:3-6 (NKJV) Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

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The Family, The Church in Miniature, Pt Two

Posted on June 24, 2010 by mcalmond

Let us continue our discussion from the last post with another quote from Brian Knowles. We continue with the thoughts of our needing, as the Body of Christ, to return to an understanding that the family is the church in miniature.

Therefore, we as parents, must accept our responsibility to see that our families and homes become, in spirit and truth, the church in miniature. There is tremendous power and opportunity in this, if we can only embrace this, by the mercy and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. The center of our life, faith and walk, in the Lord Jesus Christ, of indeed Christianity must be the family and therefore the home first. Brian continues with these thoughts,

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Family, The Church in Miniature, Pt One

Posted on June 20, 2010 by mcalmond

I was struck recently by an article that I was reading which began its discourse with a discussion regarding the importance of the family in Jewish thought and practice. This article was written by Brian Knowles. I was definitely impressed with it overall.

I would like to take a couple of quotes from this article and respond or expand on them over a couple of posts, as I found his remarks speaking to right where I am at, regarding this whole issue of the importance of the family. So, let me begin with our first quote.

“In those days, much religious activity rotated around the second temple. Yet, despite the fervor surrounding temple worship, the Jewish home had always been the most important center of spiritual life. Following the destruction of the temple in 70 A.D., the role of the home as a “small temple” or “sanctuary” (miqdash me’at – cf. Ezk. 11:16) became even more important. Dr. Marvin Wilson writes, “Foundational to all theory on the biblical concept of the family is the Jewish teaching that the home is more important than the synagogue. In Jewish tradition, the center of religious life has always been the home. The Church has yet to grapple seriously with this crucial concept” (Our Father Abraham, p. 216)

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