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Is the worship at your church free?

 The answer is in the nearest mirror.

Okay, I admit. That was a trick question...sorta. Actually that question made the top 10 list of my all time pet peeve, believer asked questions.

 I can not tell you how many times I have been personally asked, "So, where you are you going to church now? Is the worship free there?"

Umm answer to the free worship part? Yes. Always. :)

You see where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom! And I have the spirit of the Lord in me 24/7/365.

I have had the AwEsOmE pleasure these last 37 years of worshiping the LORD in many different denominations from Catholic, Baptist, Evangelical Free, Charismatic, Holy Rolling Pentecostal, Assembly of God, Non Denominational, Messianic Jewish Congregations and more.....ALL so VERY different in the way they technically worship the one true God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob....still I worshiped in freedom!
and
I felt free while worshiping!

Goodness if we don't feel free here in the USA now while worshiping G-d then we should feel shame....millions all over the world who are being slaughter, tortured for believing in G-d and they do it with JoY!

How DARE WE complain about a music worship service not "tickling our emotions" just so!
We are so spoiled in this American church we run from church to church spewing talk/gossiping about the church we just left because we "didn't feel free" enough there.

It is time to look in the mirror.

If you really wish to see the chains that bind - that is where they are.

Only then will you be able to STOP running and lay at the feet of He who can heal,
 restore and bring the complete freedom you seek. 

Freedom begets freedom.
Like a spark another spark....soon a fire catches .

If its a church on fire full of freedom you want.....then stop running and BE STILL AND KNOW GOD.
He is TRUTH...Know the TRUTH for the TRUTH will set you free.

Shalom.

Is YOUR Church Serving Cheap Red Wine?

Well I went to bed last night but I didn’t sleep that is certain; at least not the kind of sleep where you get any kind of rest.

I spent the better part of the night on the living room sofa so as not to keep my husband awake; I was tossing and turning so much! Between the vivid dreams and night time awake visions and impromptu Holy Spirit prayer sessions…yep…I do believe I have been wide awake all night long!

I would love to share just about everything here with you that the Lord has shared with me and in due time I am sure I will. For starters however, I would like to share with you the very vivid night dream/visions I had (half while I was awake and some while I was asleep.)

 I will title this first one simply;

 Cheap Red Wine

I was walking through a huge market place filled with people; all shapes and sizes; colors and beliefs. I knew they were of different beliefs because it said so, on a sign that floated above their head. An invisible sign somehow only I could see.

This market place looked like one of those new Hyper Market Grocery Stores where you can buy just about everything you need all in one stop. 

You know the kind I mean. The mesmerizing kinda store that sucks the money right outta your wallet when you pop inside to pick up a  quick ½ gallon of milk on the way home from a busy day at work....instead you  get lost half way back to the dairy section and end up walking out of the store sipping a cup of gourmet coffee. Having spent $50 on everything else BUT the  milk you came in for! Yeah, we've all done it, at least once…right?

Well, back on subject..... :) .......There I was (in my night dream/vision)....walking through this beautiful market place.  I had my guardians with me. We were just walking along from isle to isle. Then after about the second or third isle  I noticed  the Wine Bottles. They were every where. I mean every isle had wine bottles along with a few other food items. And the Wine to food ratio was  five bottles of wine to one  food item. Everyone who was shopping was looking at the Wine Bottles. There were small bottle and medium sized bottles and large bottle of wine. Just as if you had gone to your friendly neighborhood grocery or liquor store. All the wine bottles had price tags on them and names as well. They were very clearly priced and named; though I don’t recall the names now or the exact prices I do recall the prices of the wines being extravagantly expensive.

THEN there were these other bottles of RED WINE. They were clearly marked as well.

They were dated 1084, all of them and they had price tags marked hanging from them $3.99 for the small bottle and $5.99 for the large bottle.

(let the reader note that the number 1084, represents the cheerful priest covenanted with Nehemiah in the rebuilding of Jerusalem. 

Also, the number 399 In biblical meaning means to carry or bring up. The number 599 means to die off or perish.

This cheap wine may temporarily bring cheerfulness but drinking too much may cause death)

I watched as people talked among each other and asked the store keeper some questions.

They wanted to know if the wine was deep red wine like the expensive wines.

The Store keeper answered them, “No it is more of a light red color.”

Then they asked the Store keeper why it was so much cheaper than the other more expensive wines.

The Store keeper answered them, “It is water down so I get twice as much out of my yield.”

One of the customers who had been silent got a bit angry and spoke up and said,

“So you are cheating us?”

At this the Store keeper answered them, “No. I am not cheating you. It is still very much wine in the bottle. I have just added a little water to dilute it a bit. To make it go further. Make it more affordable for you in these rough times.”

At this point I got upset and realized the Store keeper was cheating them and worse yet was deceiving them. They all just stood there staring at their bottles (plural) of wine. Cheap Red Wine.

I could see there heads spinning, their minds, their thoughts,

“I could really use the extra money for other things.”

“It’s ONLY wine.”

“It’s sooo much cheaper.”

The Store keeper piped up again,

“You have asked me your questions and I have answered you. You are the one who makes the choice to buy and drink from my cellars. The price you pay to drink MY WINE is much less than that of He who owns the Master’s Vineyards. Just think of all the things you could do and places you could go just by drinking my wine. The choice is yours.”

Super Bowl Sermon Sunday

I have heard it said (from leaders in the churches)  that it is "necessary" to enlist these ridiculous antics while  sharing the gospel of Jesus with the world and well those that apparently are already professed followers of Jesus himself but just can't seem to muster the  desire to make it to church on Sundays.

Hmmm

I have also heard it said that these type of services  are great because they reach "everyone" regardless of  where they come from in life. (I will add, where they are going in life as well....because several of these people are living in a lifestyle of sin and have no desire to change that. Sadly  from what I have observed in many cases because  they have no knowledge of the need to change At least from the support groups within their church.)

Okay - this is why I am blogging about this.

I find this to be absolutely outrageous! 

Who do we think we are that we think we need to

 "assist" God or otherwise  "edit his plan of love and salvation for the world"?

Is it flagrant pride?

Or is it just plain laziness and disobedience that we cannot get up and GO!

As the LORD command us to ???

Have we instead found ways to extort money and time from every congregant, making promises we can't keep, hiding behind walls of empty busyness, dressing ourselves in fine linens and jewelry,  bought with money meant for suffering saints and  STILL disobeying the small still voice of the LORD? 

Holiness. 

Does anyone even know what that means anymore?

There is none Holy but you oh G-d.

None can enter into your presence....none without the Blood of Lamb as a covering.

Yeshua.

The audacity of the Pastors and leaders of the churches of today.

To think that we need to help G-d.

That we need to edit His Gospel.

Lord have mercy on us all.

I have yet to find any scriptural foundation for the necessity of the "sermon show".

 

Instead there are many more scriptures to support quite the opposite.

Here are just two of them.

"For a time will coming when people will not have patience for sound teaching, but will cater to their passions and gather round themselves teachers who say  whatever their ears itch to hear." 

2 Timothy 4:3

“Go in through the narrow gate; for the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the road broad, and many travel it;  but it is a narrow gate and a hard road that leads to life, and only a few find it. - Matthew 7:13-14

Personally,

I am glad I am a part of a congregation that does not believe it needs to

 "assist" God or otherwise  "edit his plan of love and salvation for the world"

While at the very same time I feel heartbroken for so many who are being lead {astray} while they truly believe they are being lead down the narrow path to life.

Shalom in Yeshua

AmyColleen