CHILDLIKE

Simply put, YESHUA (Jesus) taught in the temple, the Pharisees and Zealots didn't like what He was saying, time of get rid of the critical spirit.   Now that sounds familiar!!!!!!   Don't rock our boat, challenge our authority.

A fellow Christian posted on the blog Shining Remnant "to read this you'll need a stiff drink first!!!   Bless.

Whatever I write is from the heart.  I'm not sharing to tickle ears, to appease, flatter or win public approval.   I remain hidden - its enough that via cyber space I might perhaps reach a wounded individual who accidentally drops on my blog, and that prayerfully brings them under the sheltering wings of the Father.

For Yeshua ha Mashiach - (Jesus the Messiah) will come again,  but this time He will not be despised, scourged and butchered alive by those who considered they were the Authority.      He will rule with a rod of iron.    He will separate the wheat from the chaff.   Many will die, but praise the Lord those who truly know Him are being refined and will be part of the new heaven and earth.

Meanwhile for all the precious saints who have suffered rape, torture, imprisonment and decapitation,
witnessing His name, make it soon Lord.   The blood of the martyrs cries out (Revelation 6 - 10) And they cried with a loud voice saying "How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You Judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth. 


Revelation 21 (4)
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying.   There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.

Thank you Lord for giving me not only discernment, but the ability to laugh at the 'wild and whacky' who claim to be your followers.    There but for the grace of a Holy God go I.!!!

Top prize of the year for Christian comment must surely go to the author who obviously sick of being followed too closely by the vehicle behind devised the following bumper sticker.

DO YOU FOLLOW JESUS THAT CLOSELY?

AMEN AND AMEN.  

As long as the car remains, his words will go on and on, that is enough reward for any soul,
knowing they are but a tiny grain of sand on God's beach.

Some years ago I was a member of a church with a very different vicar.   He objected to wearing the "frock" as he laughingly called it,  but to placate the pharisees he agreed to dress up for one service in three.  

In a morning I am hardly at my best and it does take some time to get my body mobile and for this reason I usually prefer to attend a Sunday evening service       It was an understatement to say that this  particular service was "moving in the spirit" it was a challenge for anyone.   When the spirit of the Lord fell and we were glued to the benches for three to four hours, no one actually wanting to go home.   The vicar abandoned ship first laughing, leaving behind little groups huddling together in prayer until the call went out.   Time to lock up.   Please go home.

I will never forget Colin.   His colourful blazers, brightly patterned shirts.   He sold his Saviour with all the enthusiasm of a competing utility/insurance salesman.   Once again the Pharisees and Zealots arose, "he had to go" and they were watching and waiting for any wrong move.  They were not disappointed.

It was during one such service I received a similitude of a beautiful beach with huge waves crashing on the shore,  I was filled with amazing joy and in the early hours still high from the experience,  I felt the need to record the event in my journal.

GRAIN OF SAND

Here I am,

minute,  insignificant,

jumping for joy at the touch of your spirit.

Here I am,

my love song soaring to reach your throne.

Here I am,

hold me, fill me, teach me,

give me your peace.

This tiny grain of sand leaps,

soaked with love,

as your wave crashes over my life.

Changing, renewing,

filling my being with laughter and hope,

for just one more day.

T. Hills

2003

For those blessed with a precious glimpse of a future place beautiful beyond anything our human intelligence could possibly envisage - hold fast - as Keren Pryor, widow of the late Dwight Pryor so beautifully penned, THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR MESSIAH KING DRAW EVER NEARER.

SHALOM. 

  

 

FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE

Comment published in the Independent Newspaper by Mary Ann Sieghart.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO BELIEVE IN GOD TO CHERISH THE CHURCH.

Small wonder the Church is falling apart if it is made up of such people.     With friends like that who needs enemies.

Second mind blowing comment posted on the internet by a very confused individual who obviously has not read any old testament scripture in his bible, or was this just his version.

Jesus wasn't a Jew.   God just decided to come down in that place. 

Oh for heaven's sake read the bible.   Either that or at least speak the Truth,  you don't believe the bible, in which case you have invented another Jesus, a false Messiah, and your destination is HOT HOT HOT.

And if you question scripture read The Testimonium  Flavianum  Josephus Flavius's account of the Christ (Christos) in his historical recording of that time.   FREELY AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET.   No excuse for ignorance.

In Rome in the year 93 Josephus published his lengthy history of the Jews whilst discussing the period in which the Jews of Judea were governed by Roman Procurator Pontius Pilate, Josephus included the following account:-

About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man.   For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the Truth gladly.   He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks.   He was the Messiah.   And when, upon accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to the cross, those who had first come to love him did not cease.


He appeared to them spending a third day restored to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him.   And the tribe of Christians so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.


Jewish Antiquities
18.3.3 § 63

For those who don't believe in God, or His precious son, it is biblically correct to say God obviously hasn't chosen to draw them to Yeshua.     They remain blind and deaf.    And the study note in my bible states they will be judged according to their conscience.   There are plenty of good, caring people doing wonderful things but they can't see God, they just feel the need to help their fellow pilgrim.   We are stuck on this tiny planet why not help our brother/sister on our journey through life.

GOD CHOOSES WHO HE USES.   Not man.   There are many church goers who are just that.
One woman stated proudly  "I have never missed a Sunday service"   Wonderful - has she read her bible.   If you truly follow God's Word the Lord's day is the Sabbath - Saturday, and the only
congregation I would want to fellowship with are those who know who they worship.  And Messianic Fellowships (Jews and Christians together)  have a deep reverend respect for their creator God and His son.

Nowhere in scripture did Yeshua tell us to worship him, he always pointed his followers to his Father in heaven.    The surreal whacky worship groups covered in tattoos with their heavy metal music are certainly worshipping someone and its not Yeshua (Jesus) ha Mashiach (the Messiah).    Satan was supposed to have been in charge of music in heaven!!!!!   Enough said.

This Holy Week I pray that those who don't know their Saviour will one day meet His awesome gaze.
Meanwhile blessings, love and peace.

May you be spared the "are you under the blood" zealots who pin their hapless victims to the wall.    May you be spared the Pharisees who consider themselves righteous and first in line.
May you be spared the religious who certainly don't seem to practice what they preach.

May you know the love of a true Christian just trying to walk in the steps of their Saviour King realising they are but a thread in the grand tapestry.

Remembering when you moved out of the darkness into His light - Thank you Father.
Remembering the victims trapped and infiltrated by the accuser's followers.
Remembering how in a culture that treated women badly He always spoke on their behalf.   How He loves the Magdalene's, the adulterer and the woman at the well.    Loving the sinner, but hating the sin.

And the positive side - that radiant day, may it come soon,  when He reappears to His people on the Mount of Olives.

Hold fast to your vision and His promise as darkness continues to cover the land.

BARUCH HA BA B'SHEM ADONAI - Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.
SHALOM  SHALOM  SHALOM.

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

The commandment that throughout the centuries has been ignored by many who claim God is on their side.

Lord, we weep for the innocents snatched so cruelly from this world by the ugly face of evil in France. The killer showing one aspect of his personality to his neighbours but smoldering within, watching, waiting, the terrible and brutal nature of hot wired revenge.  

Yeshua said (Matthew 5.44) "love your enemies...................................."

Ghandi said "if its an eye for an eye then the whole world will be blind"

and still we can't even love enough to see little children as innocents caught up in a religious war not of their making.  

Nothing changes this side of heaven,

wars follow wars,

man never listens to warning cries,

 the world swallows the lies.

Its all about power,

squabbling until the final hour.

I see through the sham,

as your agenda you plan.

 Innocents fall foul of the mess

as you walk away,

and little children have to pay.

Nothing changes this side of heaven.

T. Hills

2012

FOR THE LORD SAID TO ABRAM:

GENESIS 12.3

I will bless those who bless you,

And I will curse him who curses you.

Make sure you are grafted into the vine!!!!!!!!!

Jeremiah 31 - 31-33

God never made a covenant with "the church" the covenant is with ISRAEL.

THERE IS ONE GOD, the Holy One of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

(Isaiah 43.10, 44.8)

HOLDING FAST TO HIS PROMISE.

We pray Baruch ha ba b'shem Adonai.    SOON LORD. 

 

ONE WAY TICKET

Whilst waiting patiently in a supermarket queue I couldn't help noticing there were three heavily stacked trollies in line for the checkout.  I clutched my small basket grateful I didn't have to pay that amount.   I remembered the absolute drivel proceeding from a well paid politician on the television.    Excusing his youth, and the fact that he obviously didn't know the meaning of deprivation or poverty, I listened as he cheerfully promoted five fruit and vegetables a day as the suggested healthy eating plan.   Yes minister just supply the funds.

Old enough to remember rationing during the war,  I considered the very best option was to reach for the off button, which I find myself resorting to daily.    Its either that or shouting at the television set.    The pure hypocrisy of the latest bunch of dictators is enough to send my blood pressure sky high.

My generation could survive shortages, that's if we don't starve to death on the state pension.  But amazingly healthy eating is very expensive.   The cheapest food on the supermarket shelves could well be described as junk food, biscuits, sweets and crisps to curb the appetites of hungry children.   Cheap fruit is tasteless.   Rather like pet food and the hallowed kibble versus wet food debate.   Place a fillet steak in the dog bowl, alongside a bowl of wet dog food, and in third place,  the kibble.    The dog goes for the fillet steak.   FACT.   Wet food second, and then suggests you kindly wrap something around the kibble if you want it to eat that stuff.   Remind them this is excellent quality, perfectly balanced.   Oh yeah - any more of that steak.

The queue moved forward.   I was now held captive by the tempting chocolate display.   The hurried piece of toast before leaving home had not been a good idea.    I was hungry, really hungry.
My struggle with temptation was duly noted by a woman standing nearby.   "Go on" she coaxed,
"might as well have what you want"    She had probably realised I was a senior, and on the way out.

ONE WAY TICKET

She smiled, the ticket's just one way,

so have it all, live for today.

You will not get a second try,

so grab it all, before you die.

This one way ticket I don't buy,

my soul has heard the angels cry.

Visions of a perfect place,

glimpsed, far beyond the human race.

Working till each day was done,

wealth and fame, I wanted none.

But there was love, and Lord I knew,

I was so blessed with gifts from You.

Content to know your precious peace,

saving grace and swift release.

Journeying the road ahead,

by the Shepherd gently led.

Loving as He said we should,

sharing for the common good.

Caring for each living thing,

we play our part, our gifts we bring.

A final heartbeat and I'm free,

soaring to my destiny.

Transformed at last I understand,

His master plan and Mighty Hand,

that led me to the promised land.

T.Hills

2003

  

DIFFERENT

When others accuse you of being judgmental, stand.
You follow the King of Kings.

When others suggest you have low self esteem, stand.
You don't dance to the beat of their music.
The only approval you ever seek is that of your Father in Heaven.

We all receive gifts, use them wisely,
but walk the path of humility.
Those who seek fame and adulation know the terrible price
they can pay when the bubble bursts.

Be aware you are truly precious to a Holy God,
but also minute and unimportant in the scheme of things.
HIS PLAN IS UNFOLDING.

Blessed with your revelation of the divine you are truly
set apart, your destiny assured.

Isaiah 35 - 8
A highway shall be there and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness,
The unclean shall not pass over it.
But it shall be for others.

Don't listen to the siren call of this world,
or the constant stream of directive rhetoric
from both lay and religious leaders,
power is a jealous mistress, they will conform,
their opium position and place, control of the masses.

GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED

Isaiah 26 - 20
Come My people, enter your chambers,
And shut your doors behind you,
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment,
Until the indignation is past.
For behold, the Lord comes out of His place,
To punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity
The earth will also disclose her blood,
And will no more cover her slain.

DIFFERENT

I'm lonely in this crowd,

they want and I won't give,

myself, or change the way I live.

Dare to be different, or just give in,

turn from His teaching, walk in sin.

It simply begins with a compromise,

half truths, deception, leading to lies.

Dare to be different, lost in a crowd,

abuse and comment shouted loud.

Bright eyes shine His truth and command,

every thought word and deed, placed in His hand.

I draw a line, I will not cross,

fickle hearts are not my loss.

My gaze must reach the eyes that see,

the beauty of the soul in me.

Father, when the sirens call, help me to be strong,

remind me of Your promise and the place where I belong.

T. Hills

2003

FREE WILL

Dictionary definition of FREE

Not captive, confined or restricted

Not in another's power

Not prevented from doing something.

Dictionary definition of Will

The mental faculty by which a person decides upon and controls his/her actions.

A neighbour commenting on current affairs proclaimed "I don't believe there's a God, because he wouldn't allow these atrocities.    My reply, he's not a policeman.    You are not a robot controlled by a higher power.   You have the gift of free will.   

Matthew 7 - 13 - 14

Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction and there are many who go in by it.

Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it. 

FREE WILL

This world the trial, this place the pain,

sleep brings brief respite,

yet the dreamer laughs, screams,

runs here and there,

but wakes here.

Why do you hurt your brother, lover, friend,

what darkness lurks in the mind that cannot just love, and be still,

trashing everything it touches,

fouling pure air with its torrid breath.

Infant unaware of self and place in time sees and smiles,

opening petals of a rose worship.

Nature weeps, her gems encased in plastic domes,

sole survivors of her lush mantel.

Your eternal promise of changing seasons,

a snowdrop pushes through,

pure, undefiled against the gloom, mud and decay.

Brilliant light sweeps the darkest corners,

absolving, absorbing into itself.

The soul chooses.

Talitha Hills

THY WILL BE DONE

THY WILL BE DONE

Not listening, not listening,

but soon they will.

Lies, compromise, my will be done,

what is right in my eyes.

It begins with the shifting of boundaries,

It begins with the father of lies,

fed and nourished by a degenerate culture,

waiting for the bones of destruction, the vulture.

If only they could see their destiny, 

but they refuse to listen.

I want, its all about me,

 appetites of squatting demons must be satisfied.

Soon it will be too late,

as nations rise against nations,

lawlessness increases,

human garbage litters the streets,

churches bloated with wealth and hypocrisy

would not even recognize their Saviour.

Still He searches for the lost sheep,

as martyrs and saints plead at His feet

soon Lord, your  kingdom come.

T. Hills

2012

2 CHRONICLES 

7 - 14

if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves,

and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,

then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

AMEN.