I AM NOT A LEGO

I AM NOT A LEGO

By Dwight Cunkle

Recently I took two grandchildren to the LegoLand Movie. I think I enjoyed it much more than they did. It surprises me how much humor and truth is written into children’s cartoons that only “adults” will “get.”

What profound truth struck me from the movie?

Thankfully, our God is not like  “The man upstairs” in the  movie who is the “creator” and has ultimate “control,” but is unaware of mischief going on in Lego-Land. Our God came in the flesh and revealed himself as a personal and good God.

The different realms of Legos (Frontier, Castle, Pirates, etc. are all connected by mysterious passage ways (like the way C.S. Lewis has Aslan send the children to and from various worlds). The few who become aware of this realize they can affect what happens in the various realms for good or evil.

As I read Scripture this morning I contemplated God as Lord of the various heavens, the earth and things under the earth. Jesus humbly entered all these realms and ascended Victor but we are limited by time and space, except in spirit.

I pray God open our spiritual ears to listen with His ears and find his heart. We need to humbly enter into the “realms” of others and listen with them for God, following Jesus’ example. Our goal is to live fully in divine life and love in our daily life:  entering fully into all our times and places, bringing his life to those around us, always thanking God because He is working his glorious will in all realms.

Phil 2:3-11 In humility, count others more significant than yourselves. Look not only on your own interests but on the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

God’s Word Is Always Ahead of Science

God’s Word Is Always Ahead of Science

By Rick Warren

“Praise him, you highest heaven and the water above the sky. Let them praise the name of the Lord because they were created by his command. He set them in their places forever and ever. He made it a law that no one can break.” (Psalm 148:4-6 GW)

Someone may have told you at one time that the Bible isn’t scientifically accurate. That person is wrong. They’ve either never studied the Bible or never studied science. God sets up the laws of science; he made sure that his Word doesn’t contradict those laws.

Johannes Kepler, the famous mathematician and astronomer, once said, “Science is simply thinking God’s thoughts after him.” In other words, God established the laws of physics, and then we discover them.

The Bible wasn’t meant to be a scientific textbook. You don’t study the Bible to build a rocket. And the Bible doesn’t use scientific language. But the Bible never gives bad science! Not once during the 1,600 years in which the Bible was written does it give bad science. In fact, it’s always ahead of science.

For example:

·         For thousands of years, people believed that the earth was flat. But God said 2,600 years ago in Isaiah 40:22 that God is enthroned above the sphere of the earth.

·         For thousands of years, people believed something held the earth up. Hindus believed huge elephants did it. The Greeks believed Atlas did it. The Egyptians believed five columns held the earth up. The Bible never says that anything is holding the planet up.

·         For thousands of years, people believed that the number of stars were finite. But Jeremiah 33:22 says the number of stars can’t be counted.

Truth doesn’t change.

Talk It Over:        

·         Search the Bible today for truths that confirm what you see all around you in nature.

·         How do you respond when someone says the Bible isn’t scientifically accurate?

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PROPHETIC WORD ABOUT OUR NATION

PROPHETIC WORD ABOUT OUR NATION

 

About two Sundays ago, I felt the Lord wanted me to give an instructive to us.  It went like this:
"Pray that  darkness in high places be exposed and replaced with light / righteousness."  Within a few days the current scandals broke about the IRS, the Benghazi scandal and possible cover up and the AP scandal, the DOJ hacking into private phone numbers and emails of press members.   It took a few days of me watching the news before the Lord reminded me that this was that prophecy starting to work out in the natural.

Sunday morning, May 26, 2013, I believe the Lord spoke to me again a prayer/prophecy mix ( which I delivered to Covenant Life Church) saying:

Don't forget to continue to pray that God expose the wickedness in high places with His light.  The "scandals" we are hearing about on the news right now are God's light knocking on the doors of darkness.  Unlike a righteous heart which will invite the Lord to enter through the door into our inner living room, the dark heart will not let Him enter unless it repents.

Pray the Lord of the Breakthrough act on the pleas   of the righteous. Pray the Lord will expose darkness where it is, bring it to shame and to righteous judgment. Pray the Lord deliver our nation from the violence the enemy would do.

Though the kings of the world gather together against His Anointed One, pray the Lord rebuke them and remind them that God has installed His king in the heavens.  The nations are His inheritance.
Lord give us boldness to warn the kings of this world to serve the Lord with fear and trembling, to embrace Christ for His wrath can flare up in a moment.  But to those who embrace Me now, you will always have refuge in Me.

Soldiers!  Do your duty.  Obey the One you signed up to follow.  I am wanting my people to come into unity...one accord, mind and purpose, crying out to Me to heal your land.  At present, as I look at my own body on earth it is like a broken, shattered vessel.

But as you pray for my kingdom to rule in all of your high places, your unity will draw power from my Spirit because you will be agreeing with the Father of Lights whose very presence causes darkness to flee.

I Believe in the Holy Ghost, I worship in Spirit and in Truth

I Believe in the Holy Ghost,
I worship in Spirit and in Truth

By Dwight Cunkle

God anointed Jesus with power to proclaim the new kingdom, heal and do good (Acts 10:37-38) and through his glorious ascension his Spirit is poured into our hearts, sealing us and guaranteeing our future (2 Cor 1:21-22). As one of God's elect, I am a stranger in this world, chosen and sanctified by the Holy Spirit (I belong to God as his elect-1Peter 1:1-3).
     I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Counselor, who since He came, convicts the world (and me) of guilt, sin, righteousness and judgment (John 6:18-11). I believe in the Holy Spirit who dwells in me as a temple (1Cor 3:16) and who lives in me and is jealous over me (James 4:5). I believe in the Comforter, Counselor, Spirit of Truth, who guides us into all truth, who brings glory to Jesus by taking what is His and making it known to us. (John 16:15) He brings all things to remembrance that Jesus said, and gives me what to say when I testify (Matt 10:19-20).
     I believe in the Holy Spirit who is the Anointing and abides in us and teaches us (1 John 2:20, 26), in whom we are baptized into Christ (1 Cor 12:13) and are all made to drink of one Spirit (Eph 4:4). He gives me life and leads me; because I have my mind set on the things of the Spirit I have life and peace (Rom 8:6-7) and am renewed in my mind (Eph 4:24). I am filled with the Holy Spirit (Eph 5:19) and power (Acts 1:8). He quenches my thirst (Jn 7:37-39), prays in me for the saints according to the will of God (Rom 8:27-28), prophecies through me (1 Cor 14:1-3), gives me strength as I wait on the Lord, quickens my body, enlightens the eyes of my heart (Eph 1:17), gives me revelation from the Father, uses the Word of God as a Sword in my mouth (Eph 6:17) and gives me a NOW word that has proceeding application and power (Mt 4:4).

     I believe in Holy Spirit and am born according to the Spirit (Gal 4:28), born from above (Jn 3:7); have received the Spirit by faith not by works (Gal 3:2).
     I believe in the Holy Spirit whom I have received the Holy Spirit from Him who supplies the Spirit (Gal 3:5) and since I began in the Spirit (Gal 3:3) I can continue to live in the Spirit and walk in the Spirit (Gal 5:25) for God has sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts; so, I’m no longer a slave but a Son (Gal 4:6-7) and His Spirit bears witness with my spirit-I am a child of God. (Rom 8:15-17).
      I believe in the Holy Spirit who bears in me spiritual fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control  (Gal 5:22-23). The Holy Spirit helps me walk in the spirit so I will not gratify the desires of the flesh. (Gal 5:16) but I will be led by the Spirit (Gal 5:18).
     I believe in the Holy Spirit who gives manifestations of grace through me as He wills, and I earnestly desire spiritual gifts, especially that I may prophesy to the building up of the body in love (1 Cor 14) and  so I may speak in tongues in an ongoing prayer language which I do not understand but is according to the will of God for the saints and builds myself up in faith (Jude 20). I also ask Him and He gives through me, by the same Spirit, words of wisdom and knowledge, supernatural faith, healing and working of miracles, discerning of spirits, tongues and the interpretation of tongues as a sign to unbelievers(1 Cor 12 and 14).

I believe in the Holy Ghost

and worship in Spirit and Truth

Christ’s Ascension

Christ’s Ascension

By Dwight Cunkle

Christ ascended—What effect has this today?

Truth creates the new order and kingdom: On the third day Christ arose; He appeared to many over 40 days, speaking to them of the kingdom of God; He commanded them to wait for the promised Holy Spirit and was seen by many as he ascended to heaven ten days before Pentecost. 

Mark 16; Acts 1:1-11; 1 Cor 15:1-3

Luke 24:50-53

And He led them out as far as Bethany, and He lifted up His hands and blessed them. 51 While He was blessing them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven. 52 And they, after worshiping Him, returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple praising God.

WHO? What would it have been like to see the resurrected Jesus? To watch Him ascend to heaven? To praise God and wait together. for the promise to be fulfilled? What would it have been like to be filled? 

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WHAT did the apostles immediately and continually do immediately following the ascension according to Luke 24:53? __________________________________________________ 

WHY? According to Acts 1:8 and Acts 2 what was the purpose of Holy Spirit in filling the believers? 

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HOW? What did God do in response to their "doing" recorded by Mark 16:20 and in the book of Acts.

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WE know what it CAN BE LIKE to be filled with joy like new wine and to share Jesus stories with others and see God confirm the word with signs following us. Is this our purpose?  Do we wait with praise and prayer? Do we share Jesus with others? What effect?

What effect does all this have?

Are we waiting on God? Praise and prayer.