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My name is Pastor Tony Catron I graduate from K.S.U. with a degree in electronic/electrical engineering. While doing that I became a Junior Deacon and also a musician in my dad's ministry in Cleveland, Ohio. Years later, my career took me to Michigan where I worked as a Electrical/Electronic Engineer. While in Michigan I became a Minister, then later went to Seminary training at Birmingham Bible Institute and became an Elder at a large Pentecostal church in Michigan called LLCC. I was called to the ministry by God. So I headed up an outreach ministry based on the End Times, dealing with restoration in people lives. Then my dad called me back to Ohio to help him Pastor his church. During that time, God changed my outreach ministry, turning it into a full-time restoration ministry. He gave me the name Ark of Covenant Ministries and the rest is history.
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What Does Jesus Need to do to Breakthrough to You?

In the Word of God, we say we understand, but we still do what we do. When people look at you, what do they see? Do they see the real you or a mirror image of what’s in you or on you? A lot of times spirits see spirits. If people look at you and see a spirit on you, they aren’t looking at you but the spirit that is controlling you. When you look in the mirror what do you see? Not what you’re wearing. What do you see when you look at you? Think about Michael Jackson’s song, Man in the Mirror. “I’m looking at the man in mirror. I’m asking him to change his ways.” He took a good clear look at himself. Have you ever taken a good clear look at yourself? What we usually see is what we’ve done in the past or what we’re going through. Maybe what people say about us. We tend to take that upon ourselves that they say “I’m this or that,” and you look in the mirror and say “is that who I really am?” After that we begin to do a self evaluation of our worth, tearing down the real us and say that couldn’t be me.

Snow white. The wicked queen sent her troops out to find the mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall who’s the most beautiful woman of them all? You aren’t the most. There is one more beautiful. Snow White. The wicked queen sent someone out to kill her niece, but Snow White survived. The wicked queen in actuality was the ugliest one of all.

When we look in the mirror it will show us who we are. It can’t show your inside but will only reflect the outside. We stand before a mirror so we can be presentable before others because we’re concerned about what others think about how we look. During the 1970s and 1980s there was an opening of hearts and minds of people, dressing how they want, looking how they want. When I was growing up you had to look neat and dress properly. They didn’t believe in sagging, we only knew that was something that came from prison, because you only sagged to let another man know you were a woman. Why are young men sagging now? Its a style now to let other people see your underwear. Men need the companionship and intimacy of a woman, and when you lock and cage them up, they begin to revert to being dogs, mating with anything they can mate with. He tends to change the weakest man in there and converts him to be a woman in his eyes. He expects that man to be a woman to him, not to anyone else, just to him. If you can’t defend yourself against a bunch of men, they will try to kill you to convert you. Once you have become docile as a man, if you know anything about male dogs/wolves, they will turn their hind section to a dominate male, letting them know that they’re submissive. This happens in prison. You are no longer who you are. If young men out here are sagging, if you walk like a duck, talk like a duck, what are you? A duck. If you do what the world does, if your lifestyle is like the world then how are the people in the world going to perceive you?

But pastor I only do a little bit of it. What is that saying? Pastor I drink a little alcohol, but that doesn’t make me an alcoholic. I only go to the bar because they have good pretzels and chips. If you go into the bar drink a little beer and another saint comes by and sees you coming out the bar, what will they say? Nothing to you. The Bible says don’t let your good be evil spoken of. If you are not a crackhead, why do you have a spoon in your hand with a lighter?

What does Jesus need to do to break through to you, because its you who is doing what you are doing. If you look like the world, act like the world, talk like the world…the what are you? Of the world. We have to be excited about mimicking after Jesus not this world. Does this world have a heaven for you, or a place you can go not to worry about pain and anguish? The Bible says, mark yourself after the perfect One. Mark yourself after your Lord and Savior. A lot of the modern day people have people they like in sports, but when they begin to become idols then there is a problem.

All of a sudden you start living you life according to the broken bits and pieces of how others and you feel. Sometimes you’ll do things without ever really noticing, living your life according to what someone said about you or talked about you. When you live your life according to the world’s word, and not according to the Word of God, then you take on the responsibilities of the world. The Word becomes 2nd place in your life. The Bible tells us that by their fruits they will know them. What does a Christian really look like? Are you a Christian? Are you living the life of a Child of the most High God? The Bible says there is no name under heaven given where by men must, no probably, must be saved, except the name of Jesus Christ because He’s the One who died for our sins. How long halt you between 2 opinions? Either you’ll be a Child of God or child of the world.

What does God need to do to breakthrough to you? What does He need to do? What does He need to do to get you to do what you’re suppose to do and live for Him? Does He have to beat you up in every trial and every test, every time you turn around your going through? How many remember the song I Surrender All? “I surrender all, all to thee my blessed saviour.” When we say surrender all we don’t really understand what that means. A lot of times we surrender all or bits or pieces. We’re suppose to say all but we do some of the time. All means everything. All. That means your problems, your finances, your emotional situation, it means all. Because He can fix it all.

Ecclesiastes 7:10-25

Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him. All things have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness. Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ? Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time? It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all. Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city. For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others. All this have I proved by wisdom: I said, I will be wise; but it was far from me. That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

1 Samuel 16:1 And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”How long will you mourn Saul?” Is someone caught in the past?

1 Samuel 16:2-3 And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And the Lord said, Take an heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to the Lord. And call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will shew thee what thou shalt do: and thou shalt anoint unto me him whom I name unto thee.

Israel needs a replacement king. Most were thinking it would fall underneath the lineage, staying all in the family of Saul. But the Lord said it would come out of one of Jesse’s sons. When you’re going through something and God is trying to promote you, He will take you from among everyone else. It could be family friends…He will take you out of them because you’re not like…them. So He pulls you out. I’m not saying that they are not believing in God, but He pulls you out because you’re not like them.

1 Samuel 16:4-7 And Samuel did that which the Lord spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably? And he said, Peaceably: I am come to sacrifice unto the Lord: sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. And he sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice. And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord‘s anointed is before him. But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

When God gets ready to promote you to something, He’ll push them all away from around you. Because its you that He wants, because you are going to take care of the mission. He saw something in you that He didn’t see in them. God will wait for your time to be who you are in Him, and He will push everybody else aside. No matter how much you may fight it. When there is a great call on your life, God is going to direct you.

1 Samuel 16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.

Romans 8:30-39

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

Shall your headache, health, problems, circumstances? What shall separate you from His love?

36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

What does Jesus need to do to get through to you? Nothing. He doesn’t have to do anything to break through to you. Who can open the door to a building if you have the key? You need to unlock the door to your heart and let God come in freely. If you can’t unlock the door, He will never get in. So you need to take you out of the equation. Amen.

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Building Bridges Back

What I’m about to talk about today is the worship movement and the worship rock stars. One song comes to mind, the lyrics g something like this “Spirit of the living God we are waiting on you.” That Basically is repeated over and over, or “My to Lord,” but never mention the name of Jesus, and I have never seen so many musicians before when so many ministries can’t find any musicians for any service. For the musicians, their services go anywhere from $500 to $1500. How come?
The International House of prayer. All they do is play music, they never speak the Word. Its the Word that breaks the yoke, its not the music. Because He has angels in heaven worshiping 24/7. He doesn’t need us to do that. So what does this have to do with anything?
In 1963, 1964, there was a movement called the Flower Children; the Volkswagen Beetles with the flowers painted on them. During that era, they had a zen of worship. They would go around and lifted arms, hands to the heavens, eyes close, and they would go into some sort of spiritual high. Throughout the 60’s, Satan used that because they got involved with weed, opium etc. Why is it so important? Everyone can’t be saved in the world today and there is still all sin. So when you see on TV all the different groups that come up. International House Of Prayer, as far as I know there is no Pastor, they are just musicians playing music. Out of those musicians come worship rock stars, in so much that they are effecting the old mainliner, Amy Grant. She was never a worship singer.
The Lord put it in my head and heart that its a worship movement. Satan is using the same tactics. Here are thousands of kids on campus, concerts, mega churches doing this raising their hands. A Pastor doesn’t even come out. They begin to perform. I didn’t know it was a concert. Its suppose to be a service. If you don’t believe it just watch yourself. There is a movement taking place in the Christian Church that Satan has taken place to diffuse the Church. Everyone has their arms up, eyes close, music hasn’t even started. Some may say, there is nothing wrong with that. But where is your heart? Do they love the Lord so much that they found their nirvana. You can’t get a musician to play for anyone in the Church, but those at International House of Prayer play for 2 hours straight.
Its a move of Satan to lull away the people. All the songs I’ve heard are “Lord, He is mine,” or “Waiting for Your Spirit.” What does that mean? If you were a sinner coming into that place would you fit in? Why, because they refuse to tell a name of whom they are saying. They are giving you a generic face of worship. You know how many young people specifically are falling for it? You know why? I want to believe. There can be no restoration unless the word of God does it first. “He is wonderful,” yes He’s wonderful. Who is He? I know who I serve and I know who not to serve. You may not like me after this, but do you want to know the truth, or do you want me to give you a lie?
If worship brings people through the door and they don’t know who they worship, how would they know the Lord loves you? I build a relationship so I get a chance to know you, and to know you I love you, and you’ll say automatically what can I do Lord. By their fruit you shall know them. Satan has drawn musicians with money where you can play what you want. He has no respect for nothing that God has. That corrupt keyboard player is over your praise and worship music, and it only takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch. There are musician with piercing in their ears, lips, and noise, leading people in prayer. Who are they leading you to? They are leading you to Satan, or a demon that he is controlling. That was a concern of mine. When you are in public, a lot of times people express themselves with hair color, hair highlights. Shave your hair on one side and the hair is growing long on the other side? Just my opinion. The Bible says that a woman’s beauty is her hair. If its her hair, then when you destroy your hair with chemicals, what have you told the Lord? I don’t like how you created me. Are you not satisfied with what God has made? Typically no, so we try to correct what God has done. Now man has put so many chemicals in the air, water and food, but you don’t have to give them any help.
Sometime building bridges back to a place where you can have peace of mind, even finding love again is a God sent time. But finding again how to love yourself once more is a blessing from Jesus and through Him the Agape love will set upon your heart and soul and it will bring you back to His arms to reignite the love you once had when you first fell in love with Him.
Do you know the Lord wants to hold you, and speak loving words to you, that He wants to be in your life fully? But something has destroyed the bridge in your life. We have been side tracked by so many things, and these are the things externally, and that’s not even talking about us. When you combine the external and internal, we don’t know how to get back to God. You get on your knees and say “God,” but do you know He is hearing you? Why do you pray? For things to get better? We pray so we can talk to a higher authority than us. Has anyone seen God at anytime? The point is, is no man has seen God at anytime and is still in existence today. So we pray to who? God? Does He have a name? Who died for you? Jesus Christ. He died for us so why don’t we call Him by His name? “God” is a name we used when we didn’t know Him. His name is Jesus. The Son of most high, the Son of the living God. God deserves worship, but not just any kind of worship. How can you know to give Him what’s in your heart? Because your heart is you, and your heart is your soul.
How do you build a bridge to get back to when you first fell in love with Him? The whole point is this, the song use to say “Take me back, take me back where I first received you. Its been so long.” Do you have that one to one like you want to have with God? Do you have that Elijah type connection? We don’t have that but we desire it. Why are we not building bridges to that? We’re building bridges to our next hair appointment, where am I going to eat next, where am I going to have fun next, what am I going to do next. We build bridges to all the wrong things, but we should be building back to him? How do you build a bridge? A little at a time. Building a bridge is like putting a puzzle together. So how do we do that? By reconnecting. A lamp can’t light unless it has a plug and electricity. Just as the light bulb becomes lit, it has to be connect to the source. Holy Ghost can’t move unless your connected to the source. It needs to be connected, you need to be connected to the Source before you can move in Him. When you’re connected the praises go up and the blessing come down.
John 15:7
I can give God praise when I go through, because my praise is in His name. I know His name. Jesus. If He is not, where is your is your praise going? To the prince of the power of the air, Satan. So when your prayers go up, Satan intervenes with what you don’t need. The only one who can ever wrap you up in love is Jesus. Do y’all know he loves you when you lie, when your thoughts are evil. He goes that is my love. The mess that we do and He still loves us. Do you remember your first love? They left a lasting impression that still if you call their name out today those thoughts come back. Amen? You must desire the sincere milk of the word before you go into communication with God, before you can sup with Him. God, Christ is a spirit, those who must worship mus worship in spirit and truth.
1 Peter 2:2-5

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Its all about Jesus. If God tells you you have to go through Jesus then go. God did not die for you, but Jesus did. 
Psalm 27:4-7

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock. And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

 

Set me on a hard sturdy foundation in Him, so I cannot be moved. If your foundation is correct, no one can push you off of it. It’s when your foundation is shaky. God will make sure your foundation is sure. One thing I want to do is be with You lord. Lord whatever You have I want. I don’t need to follow after a group of people. Lord don’t ever leave my situation because if You leave it I’m lost. How many would have been dead if it wasn’t for the grace of God? You might not have made it past birth. Its not by chance there is a reason for everything. Its because He loves you so much. Its an awesome thing to stand in the reverence of a real God.
Revelation 2:1-5

Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

The only way you can leave your first love is when your bridge has been destroyed. If it has been damaged because of some other external thing. Some of us are Christians that are burned in. We still have the remnant of what it use to be like, being connected. There are people walking around with a ghosting of what it use to be like, I have an impression, so I’m going on the imprint that has been placed on me. I’m operating under the imprint, but you’re not connected to the Source. If I’m not connected to the Source am I getting anything new? No. So you go around with a false sense of salvation, and if anyone challenges it you combat with a burned in image. We have to reconnect back to the Source, and stop living the past. We’re living with a past anointing. How long halt you between 2 opinions? If God be God, why are you not serving Him? Does He need to serve you? Some like to think He’s a genie in a bottle. He’s not like that. You need to reconnect back to him. If you feel tired spiritually, you feel disconnected, then you need to be reconnected to the source. Rebuild your connection back so He can revive, restore, renew His anointing in your life. Do you like old anointing? Its like old bread. Do you like old bread? We want freshness. Let get back to building Bridges back in our life and in our walk in Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
1 Peter 1:15-25
But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
People are still carrying along things that were in the past, and they became traditions. What’s in the past stays in the past. It got carried from this son or daughter or that son or daughter. If the teaching of the Lord got lost back in the 1920s, what would we have today? A mess. Jackedupness.
Romans 5:6-10
For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Jesus is the One who died, not God. His Son died for you and that is the only Way to be reconciled back to God. Most people say I have the Spirit of God, its all inside me, the Spirit of God. But you don’t have the Holy Ghost. Without the Holy Ghost you have no power, and without power you can’t do the work of God. Coming against a demon you have no power.
Psalm 103:14-22

For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children; To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them. The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all. Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word. Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure. Bless the Lord, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the Lord, O my soul.

Philippians 2:1-5, 2:12-16

2 If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Its important that we get the point that we be like-minded. I can’t have you shooting off the mouth here and there, and reports come back that corrupt words have come out of you. That shows disorganization not with the ministry, but the walk of that person. We all have to speak the same thing. If God says you have to be baptized what does that mean? Get baptized. If the Word of God says you must be, you have to be filled with the Holy Ghost, then be filled with the Holy Ghost. If you have this innocent person that says what must I do to be saved, and we are all not like-minded, how is that soul going to receive anything cohesive? The blood of that soul is on your hands. Use the Word of God as your back up. Be careful what you say. If you have any questions go to the Word. Don’t ever try to battle with the Word.
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Are You Being Tossed?

Ephesians 4:11-16

And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

I believe most of us have been on or seen a ship being tossed about by a lake or sea. It looks like whatever direction the water would move, the ship or object would move in that direction. Even if the rudder is being steered in the opposite direction, the waves will continue to drive the ship or object in the direction of the wind. Now you must understand that the waves are being directed by the force of the wind and at anytime, the wind can change it’s direction. It goes where it wants to. You can see these results with some of the outrigger sail boats with sails. One moment the sailors would lift the sails and wind and waves would move the ship in the direction of the rocky shore. The look out would sound the alarm, then the captain would tell the crew to lower the sail because the waves and wind would push them toward the rocky shore! Same way in your natural life, it is in your Christian walk. Have we even heard the voice of God say “that’s not My Word, that’s not Me,” but instead had been like a sponge so long that we had a bit of everything in us that we really can’t hear the captain say “take down your sail, you’re headed for confusion, you’re headed for some jacked up mess!” Then He tries to tell you to drop anchor so that your mind won’t be blown away!
John 3:1-8
There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God:for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him. Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born    when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth:so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
We can not lean to our own understanding. We have to trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5).
Ephesians 4:11-16
And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
You’re held accountable for every word that’s not His Word that has caused people you have talked to, to fall short of the glory God. Jesus wants us to take that sponge, which is us, and squeeze and or press that confused word out of us by being transform by the renewing our minds (Romans 12:2).
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What is “Tag You’re It?”

Main Passage: Matthew 22-23
Do you remember when we were young, and played different games? Hide and go seek. Remember the song we sung? “Last night and the night before 24 robins knock at the door, I got to let them in, then I hit them in the head with a rollin’ pin are you ready?!” Or this one: “2 pounds of washing powder, 2 pound of soap, all not ready holler billy goat, lol.” Needless to say, I had an interesting childhood. Do you remember stick ball? Or I Know all of you remember Tag, You’re It? When you were it, everybody would run away from you because you were it. Even though we did not know what “it” was, we felt bad and even sometimes would get mad. There was always the kid that would take you to your limit, you know.
My subject today is Tag, Your’re It. Lets look at the word tag.
Tag: a descriptive word or phrase applied to a person, group, organization, etc., as a label or means of identification; epithet. or Hashtag: (on social-networking Web sites) a word or phrase preceded by a hash mark (#), used within a message to identify a keyword or topic of interest and facilitate a search for it:
Have you ever been Tagged as “IT” or have you ever done something that made people associate you with a type of person, group or a kind of behavior?  Are they justified? Are some of you carrying a Tag you just can’t shake?
For some of you, that Tag has destroyed your name, reputation, even your life as a Christian.
The Word reads in Mark 8:38
Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
I remember when I lived on the farm, I went to a county school where if you got caught doing something wrong you had to sit on a stool in a corner with a dunce pointed hat on your head  And you had to sit there that whole period in the corner in front of the class quiet with that dunce hat on you head. Have you been dogged so much in your Christian life that you fill like that kid that sat in that corner? Have you just given up and tried to hide being a Child of God because of what someone said about you or acted towards you?
The Word reads in Galatians 1:10:
For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
Jesus is saying its time to take the Tag off and live for Him totally by changing who you are to what you should be in Him.
In the Bible reads in Roman 12:2
And be not conformed to this world:but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. And always remember
2 Corinthians 8:20-21
Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us: Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
Peter 2:11-12
Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles:that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.
Matt. 5:22-23

But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

In my conclusion I’ll say this: whatever Tag that has been placed on you from wherever the Bible lets us know in Hebrew 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
You just got to let it go or your bound for a TKO as one song writer wrote.
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The Broken Song

Passages: Psalm 96:1,1 peter 3:15
Almost everybody has a favorite song that they like to hear, even to the point where they’ll begin to pat their feet or bounce their head, etc. If we don’t have that song, we’ll buy or download it. We sometimes will do what it takes to get that song or piece of music. Now if that song gets corrupted then we have issues with that song or device that its playing on. Then we’ll set out to find out what happen to it and see if it can be fixed, so that it can return its original state. And we’ll stop listening to it at all because it is broken. I tell you the only problem is that we are our own worse enemy. We are songs unto the Lord, and we are broken songs. A song that He wants to change back to where He can once again hear the sound of our love for Him.
1 Peter 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Psalm 95:6
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.
The word Song means: A short poem or other set of words set to music or meant to be sung.
synonyms: air, strain, ditty, melody, tune, number, show tune, track, anthem, hymn.
What does a song consist of?
Pop songs often connect the verses and chorus via a bridge, which as its name suggests, is a section which connects the verses and chorus at one or more points in the song. The verses and chorus are usually repeated throughout a song through the bridge, intro, and coda (also called an outro). These are usually only used once.
Our life is so much like a song. Our life contains an intro which is our birth, a verse that tells about the situations on our journey in this existence. The chorus which is the memory, and a bridge which tells whether or not things have changed for your life.
The Lord tell us in Psalm 96:1 O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
A song writer once wrote these words: May the life I live speak for me!
“Scriptures of Being a living witness”
Matthew 5:16 – Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Acts 1:8 – But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
1 Peter 3:15 – But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and [be] ready always to [give] an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
Acts 22:15 – For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
Matthew 28:19 – Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
2 Timothy 2:1-3 – Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.  (Read More…)
Isaiah 43:10 – Ye [are] my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Acts 4:20 – For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.
1 Timothy 2:1-15 – I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, [and] giving of thanks, be made for all men;  (Read More…)
Proverbs 14:25 – A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies.
Matthew 5:15 – Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Philippians 2:15 – That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
Acts 10:42 – And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God [to be] the Judge of quick and dead.
Romans 12:1 – I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.
Matthew 5:13 – Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.
So when your song is broken, somewhere in your song, a verse is gone or missing, or your chorus has been corrupted or was never in place in your life. So you never made it to the bridge. Someone or something took some part of your song and left you incomplete, so your life can’t be a living testimony for our Lord Jesus and you can’t be a living witness. Plus your life can not shine before men (Matthew 5:16). We are songs unto the Lord (Psalm 96:1).