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		<title>Failing Breath Devotional</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Devotional is about Failure. If you feel like you are caught in the fire of failure, please watch this video.]]></description>
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		<title>The Kingdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; When the feet of Jesus pounded the dusty roads of Galilee searching for His disciples, He was concerned with a bigger picture that we could imagine. Jesus did not come only to save sinners, nor did He come only to make disciples, and contrary to popular belief, He did not only come to do [...]]]></description>
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<p>When the feet of Jesus pounded the dusty roads of Galilee searching for His disciples, He was concerned with a bigger picture that we could imagine. Jesus did not come only to save sinners, nor did He come only to make disciples, and contrary to popular belief, He did not only come to do His Fathers will. Those things mentioned make up a larger more distinct image and reason for His coming. He came to re-establish the Kingdom. The Kingdom fell by man so it must be regained by man.</p>
<p>God entrusted man with the authority of His creation and sadly the kingdom that man ruled was stolen from him through lust and trickery. From that moment onward it has been the sole agenda of God to restore His Kingdom among men. This Kingdom includes souls, disciples, God’s will, signs, wonders, blessings, holiness, deliverance, prophecy, and power. To many times, entire churches, movements, and individuals, are obsessed with one or more of these things until it consumes them. Their whole life, and the reason Jesus came seems to be about one of these issues that they feel strongest about. There is only one thing that consumed Jesus, the Kingdom of His Father. We cannot take one piece of the puzzle and make it the whole. The Kingdom is power, it is holiness, it is miracles, it is signs and wonders, it is the will of God, it is deliverance and prophecy, and it is souls and disciples. We tend to favor one piece of the puzzle because of the seasons we are in. Whatever season God has us in we deem it as the most important season of them all. However being Kingdom minded is the issue God is trying to get at in us, by taking us through different seasons.</p>
<p>The Kingdom is God’s ultimate rule—now instated, but yet to be enforced. In fact the only way the rules and laws of the Kingdom will be enforced before eternity, is if they are enforced through us. A true child of God understands that when he was born anew that there was a different law, a new moral code, beckoning his allegiance. A true saint knows that the way heaven operates right now, is how we are to operate now in the earth. Kingdom laws do not start when we get to heaven, they are active as we speak. This fact sheds light on judgment day. All broken rules of the Kingdom will be enforced on the day judgment. Like a pile of tickets dumped before a judge, our preference to not have had God’s law rule over us while we were on the earth, will be our own condemnation to what we have chose to become.</p>
<p>Something happened at the cross. A transfer of power and authority occurred. Many Christians believe that God sends people to hell because they refused to be owned by God. This is not true. At the cross God purchased EVERY man, heathen and saint. He owns them all. At the cross God took over the Kingdom once and for all. He re-instated His rules, government, and order. He gave all power to His Son for the enforcement of these rules, His Son gave that power to us. We enforce the Kingdom on earth, Jesus enforces it in heaven.</p>
<p>The rules of the Kingdom are what Jesus taught and lived by while He was here. The teachings of Jesus are not options, they are Kingdom rules and laws that bear consequences if broken.</p>
<p>A great deception of thought is that if there is no immediate consequence then the action must not have been wrong. However, this is not how the Kingdom operates. The Kingdom waits until the end to bring the consequences that we thought that should have come immediately. But once this happens it is to late to repent. God only enforces His Kingdom laws on the earth through men. This is the reason that much judgment will come to the souls of men for rejecting God’s word that came through a man. In God’s mind we are His officers and people have the freedom to not obey or listen. They are free to justify, criticize, and defend themselves from the officers of God. And momentarily these people feel that they have freed themselves from the tyranny of religion and Divine regulation spoken by a man or woman. But on the day of judgment the books will be opened and Kingdom law, that has been active since the cross, will be enforced. “That which you have done to the least of these, you have done to me.” Kingdom law considers actions for or against God’s officers, for or against God Himself. Because there is no immediate consequence to offense, pride, and justification, it seems that we are right in our own minds and we assume that what we feel and think is correct because of the lack of immediate consequence. We are used to instant enforcement in this life and we figure that God’s laws are the same. I speed, I get a ticket. I murder I go to jail. I favor myself over God, God should smite me right then and there. He wont, it is against His Kingdom laws. He waits until the end to do His smiting because He is merciful and patient with our arrogance and self partiality.</p>
<p>God set all men free to rebel against His Kingdom, or submit to it. Kingdom laws obeyed here on earth, are obeyed due to the love that pours from the obedient saint. Kingdom laws always seem optional and unnecessary.</p>
<p>God gives goodness and mercy to the wicked and often they prosper in their wickedness. They take this as a sign of Divine approval of their lives. Christians do the same. The are rebellious, lazy, hateful, selfish, prayer less, full of fear, pride, bitterness, pain, hurt, rejection, and offense, when you tell them the truth. Because there is no immediate physical consequence to these Kingdom sins, they feel at ease with their choices. Yet on the inside they know they are wrong.</p>
<p>Jesus taught, lived, and breathed Kingdom life. He lived on earth as He would have lived in heaven. This was His definition of Christianity. To live no different here than you would live there. To have the same power here as you would have there. To have the same holiness here as you would have there. God does not live in time and therefore all of His powers and abilities that reside in heaven are available on earth. We don&#8217;t have them because the Kingdom costs us this earth. Remember the man who found the pearl in the field?</p>
<p>The fact that the devil has been defeated at the cross, and God now owns all things, puts all my failure, my every sin,  and my total weakness upon the shoulders of my own selfish desires. The devil is no longer to blame for my sin. The Kingdom proves this. Jesus defeated the devil and stripped him of his power. Therefore all lack of submission to the Kingdom of God and His government is my own desired choice. When I choose to live by the rights of Americanism I forfeit my rights to the Kingdom. When I choose to walk other than they way Christ walked, I stare God in the face and tell Him that I will build and run my own kingdom.</p>
<p>This is an overview of the Kingdom messages that are going to come. Stay in prayer about this and God will open Himself and His laws to His abilities through you!</p>
<p>Let your Kingdom come and your will be done, in earth, as it is in heaven….</p>
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		<title>Relevant Ministry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 19:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have learned to survive on bitter leftovers that fall from the table of life.  Feeling impoverished and hungry we feed upon whatever attention, love, or fulfillment we can find. Anything flashy, glittery, and pretty, tempts us just as a shiny lure tempts a hungry fish.  Our lives are so dull that anything new that [...]]]></description>
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<p>We have learned to survive on bitter leftovers that fall from the table of life.  Feeling impoverished and hungry we feed upon whatever attention, love, or fulfillment we can find. Anything flashy, glittery, and pretty, tempts us just as a shiny lure tempts a hungry fish.  Our lives are so dull that anything new that comes along we eagerly accept all that it has to offer, regardless of its content or spirit. We have lost the ability to see the beauty of God in our own hearts, so we run somewhere to find it.</p>
<p>With all the fast paced trends, movements, thoughts, lights, smoke, pc&#8217;s, games, and videos peering back at the boring, and often blank, canvas of our own lives, we long for adventure, a life that would rival that of Hollywood&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Spending our days searching and investigating how we can not only extend but enhance our life, we find that it only passes us by. The hurry and bustle of 5th avenue freezes our minds into a cold cube that can only think of the now. Excitement and cool are the words we want tattooed on our life, something fresh and real, even if we really do not know what it is, even if it leads to the loss of life itself.</p>
<p>Jesus never had lights and smoke. He was a young man &#8220;stuck&#8221; in the family business. His days were predictable and dull. The better part of His life He spent working for another mans achievements, while letting His own lay on the alter of dormancy. His job, time, and location, were not attractive or alluring to the seekers of adventure and success. He had no mission trips to attend to, no youth groups, no concerts, and no crowds. He could only offer a simple, but heart-felt, obedience to His Step-father and His mother.</p>
<p>Yet this Man, in three and a half years, changed history more than any other man alive. He fought devils and won, saw the prophets in the mountains, healed children that others could only offer food and sympathy to, He actually changed peoples lives, unlike our modern ministries today.  He was a man of aggression, and power. He challenged all the wrong in His generation, He was an undercover agent, a missionary to free His people and destroy His enemy.  He had very few friends, no music ministry, He authored no books, and had no written sermons or blogs to offer others. He was viewed as the exact opposite of what He really was, yet never defended Himself. He was not a shooting star, but rather the Polaris by which men eternally guide their lives. He was patient and thought it necessary to spend enormous amounts of time on just a few men. Crowds were not His pleasure, discipleship and dirty lives, that often soiled His own garments were. He refereed His disciples, taught them, had simple meals with them, and thought it important just to live with them so that they could see God in human life.</p>
<p>What amount of excitement, what amount of energy, and attraction will stop your day of death? When the lights and smoke you chase are gone, and all the crowds have gone home unchanged, where will our thoughts lie as we release our final breath? Suppose you gather the crowds, suppose you obtain the best, suppose you suck every drop of life that you are allowed to have, in the end what is it worth? Did the crowds go home touched but unchanged?  Did the catchy sayings and slogans stimulate but not saturate? Can you repeat what you heard yet never show that you listened? When the stars of the current materialistic age die and end in an exploding loss, what will you have? Did YOU make a difference? We need to chase the Spirit not the man or woman on the stage. They, no matter how much you like them, cannot make you be as they are.</p>
<p>People today are chasing something that is not real. It has only been the last 30 to 50 years that have unveiled the current &#8220;Entertainment Era&#8221;. No other generation has had to face this monster, and yet it rears its ugly head in our life telling us that we need the glamor, the frills, the smoke and lights to be successful, to be relevant, to be productive in life and in ministry. This age tells us we need these things to be valuable, yet God saw fit to die for us before we had youth groups, and smoke machines.</p>
<p>Today it is not good enough to be like Jesus. The church won&#8217;t accept you if you do, the world will tell you that you are outdated and irrelevant to the culture. Should we walk in tunics and turbans while trashing our i-pods and smashing our smoke machines? No.  But if you need such things to stimulate the emotions of others so as to imitate a move of the Spirit, then you know nothing of Christ.  If you need those things to feel accepted and productive then you have traded treasures for trash.</p>
<p>Big ministry is popular regardless of the teaching it holds, people like it. Popularity is the filter by which we judge all ministries. No book, no power. No money, not popular. No lights, not accepted. Today&#8217;s youth are particularly drawn into this revolving trap. We have once again returned to the place where we idolize the rich and despise the poor. Yet it seems to be OK for us to do this because the &#8220;rich&#8221; that we are lifting up are the Christian rich, and that makes it all OK.</p>
<p>When persecutions arise and famine increases people will not care about the show anymore. They will no longer follow the rock star church. A time will come when those who call themselves Christian will have to sing their songs in a whisper for fear of getting caught.</p>
<p>Being relevant is being full of God. Lights never changes a heart, music does not transform a person, emotion never changed anyone, it only is a temporary pain reliever. God in a human heart without limits, is heavens cure for the sickness of man.</p>
<p>Move into a time of prayer and isolation with God. Do not chase what others seek, or you will only rise to the level that everyone else achieves. Those who impact the world find God in a place where no lights, no smoke, and no crowd exist. They are simply alone with God and there they hear things that the crowd, being to noisy, cant hear.</p>
<p>Embrace the silence and hear God in a way most never will, then you will have a relevant ministry.</p>
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		<title>Returning to the Wild Side of Jesus</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let God back into your heart where He belongs.  Take the hammer of the Word and smash all self advancing ideas of religion and come back to the child like love of Christ. Be what He designed you to be, a child in His arms. Reduce yourself to a child of God, and see like you used to see.]]></description>
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<p>Play music while reading post.</p>
<p>Remember when you had that burn, that bliss and excitement that made you oblivious to the opinions of men? Your heart leaping in your chest, weights ripped from your shoulders, peace like liquid presence flowing through your veins, your face shining like the sun, and you were no longer afraid of mirrors! God became tangible and wild through you, He was captivating, and alluring to the point you could almost smell Him.  You were sure it was possible to leap over a building in a single bound, heal all disease, scale the walls of the enemies camp, and turn the tables on the devil.</p>
<p>Our hearts scream to return to a childlike obsession of our beautiful Father. It is the heart that He put within us that calls us back to Him and draws us home. It is a silent but persistent call that must often compete with the noise of lust and the chaos of modernism. Nevertheless every now and then we hear it and are stirred.</p>
<p>One day while seeking to be more like Him on our Christian journey, Religion introduced himself to us. He spoke of awesome understandings of God, and works so great that they were sure to bring a smile to our Fathers face. His voice was so confident and his presence so dignified that we we followed because we wanted our Father to smile. After walking with him a while hate grew within us. Not a hate for Religion or others, but a hate of self. We were to weak to keep up with Religion as he violently ran his race before us. We were left in the ditch covered in the filth of failure. Scratching and clawing at our faces we could not believe we let our God down. Bloody and bruised we squirmed in the ditch of choice. God became boring, dead, distant, and uncaring.</p>
<p>Flies of blame, rejection, judgment, and confusion whispered in our ears until we were convinced of their lies. We grew tired of trying to swat them away so we allowed them to live on our shoulders speaking whatever they desired.</p>
<p>Along came Compromise with his good friend Justification and offered us a way out of our mess. Since we longed for release we eagerly accepted the terms. Lifting us from the mire, they placed a blind fold over our face and told us to trust in God to be led in the right way. We tripped, we fell, and we stumbled. Our pain increased, our hearts grew to a weight we could not bear, our eyes grew used to the dark and soon sleep overtook us.</p>
<p>We woke up after a great deal of time in the prison of prayerlessness and death. Our hearts were sick and our life fading, we were faithful, we went to church, we read the Bible but we were dying, we were slowly leaking what little life we had left.</p>
<p>Someone came and told us of God wanting to free us from the Religion and Compromise that we had joined ourselves to. We prayed, we believed, we waited&#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p>Could God bring us back to the wild heart we had for Jesus before we became dignified? Could God redeem the revolution in our hearts that was there before we became predictable? Would we be afraid of losing our so called freedoms that we gained under the compromise of religion? Could God break the chains of confusion and stress? Could God rid us of the tame and non-threatening Jesus that we created?</p>
<p>As we prayed our eyes began to open and we we felt a great stirring in our souls, the blind fold began to loosen and fall; we saw our Jesus, that passionate and crazy side of God that we first fell in love with. But He was holding something, it was small, so very small,  He placed it in front of us and He stood there. As we gained our focus upon it, we saw that it was an image that we had made of Him, a small, gentle, toothless, distant, and unattainable image of Him. Jesus placed a hammer in our hands and gave us the choice between the frail image and His fiery eyes of  Truth.</p>
<p>Lifting the hammer we brought down the idea that caused us to listen to Religion and Compromise in the first place, and as it blew into a thousand pieces we instantly found ourselves once again dancing with the King, free and wild.Our hearts gaining strength, our minds clearing, peace returning, and a feeling of intense heat that seemed to fill our entire body. We knew&#8230;..we knew we were home again. We knew we could seek again. We knew we had found our place.</p>
<p>Let God back into your heart where He belongs.  Take the hammer of the  Word and smash all self advancing ideas of religion and come back to the  child like love of Christ. Be what He designed you to be, a child in  His arms. Reduce yourself to a child of God, and see like you used to  see.</p>
<p>He is calling&#8230;Tell Him&#8230;I am Yours&#8230;&#8230;.I am yours again.</p>
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		<title>Flood And Fire</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>chad</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a note based article of a powerful message that was preached by the mercy of God at PJM in the beginning of 2011. For a Cd of the message, &#8220;Flood and Fire&#8221; please contact us and we will send you one for free. Thank you and may God bless you in your new [...]]]></description>
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<h1><span style="color: #333333;">Below is a note based article of a powerful message that </span></h1>
<h1><span style="color: #333333;">was preached by the mercy of God at PJM in the </span></h1>
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<h1><span style="color: #333333;">For a Cd of the message, &#8220;Flood and Fire&#8221; please </span></h1>
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<h1><span style="color: #333333;"> Thank you and may God bless you in your new year!</span></h1>
<p>The beginning often is a taste of the end.  From the moment God brought order to the chaos of this earth, chaos has tried to reclaim its rule through sin.  The world lay in water, baptized into a death that God ended by resurrecting the earth from the watery grave that covered our globe.  He brought forth ground from the depths of death in order bring forth the life that He gave us. Resurrection gave way to form, a body, a man, whom God called good.  The power of baptism was made evident from the foundation of the world. God hid within His creative process a law, a law that would  forever be applicable to His creation, which was the law of life exploding from death.</p>
<p>The grave was our beginning.  We were sealed in a womb, baptized in a death, covered by water as the earth once was. We were a life hidden and covered by water.  Birth was our creative resurrection, our exposure to the world God had made.  Our bodies are 70 percent water, the earth is covered by 70 percent water.  We are an image of the creative process that God brought order to in the beginning. We mirror the earth.  What happens in us also happens in the earth, since we came from the earth there is a response in us that reflects the laws of creation in the earth.</p>
<p>The law is this, God brought life out of a watery grave, then brought water again to destroy the chaos, then promised to never cover the earth in water again, but to destroy it in the end with fire.  He has reserved the final blow of victory over chaos to be done with fire.  God brought new life into the world through Jesus Christ and Jesus was baptized into the watery grave and so were His disciples.  This reflected the new beginning that God gave in creation, new earth out of a watery death.  However this was not the final baptism.  Just as God has reserved the world for a final baptism of fire, so He intends us to be touched with this Fire.</p>
<p>2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished.</p>
<p>2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.</p>
<p>The earth is reserved unto fire. Fire is the only permanent cure for sin.  Creation proves that we are made of this earth, and just as this physical earth is reserved unto fire so are the saints of God. It is a breech of creation and the process of God not to be baptized with Fire.  Fire is the reason that Jesus came, to give His creation an infilling that burn up the watery grave of repentance, leaving only a new man purified by an ever burning inward fire.</p>
<p>John was of earth, he was the greatest among men, but his ministry was only that of repentance from sin.  He had a ministry of water.  Many today are baptized into this first baptism, the baptism of creation anew by repentance, but the Fire that they are reserved for is often never received.  Fire burns out the elements of the flesh that cause the need for repentance in the first place. Fire is a continual consuming of that which is earthly.  Fire does not burn once, it is a torch of perpetual proportions.  If once ounce of earth, flesh, or sin, comes into contact with this flame it is immediately destroyed.  This is the baptism God wants for you!  Jesus did not die into the baptism of death for us to only experience a watery repentance.  His plan for us as a new creation, a  new earth, was that we would be burned with an eternal Fire; a Fire that keeps secure all that we have repented of.  The Fire of God is the bodyguard of the saint.  It kills all that the serpent floods the world with.</p>
<p>Rev 12:15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.</p>
<p>Rev 12:16  And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.</p>
<p>Rev 12:17  And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.</p>
<p>The woman is the Church, the mouth of the dragon is the mouth of Satan that only speaks lies and fleshly fulfillment.  The flood is a chaos and an iniquity of sin much like that of Noah’s day.</p>
<p>Mat 24:37  But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</p>
<p>Mat 24:38  For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark,</p>
<p>Mat 24:39  And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.</p>
<p>Iniquity marked the day of Noah and so it will mark the end of mankind and the earth. In the end God will not destroy the earth by a flood as He did in Noah’s day, the coming of Christ will be a coming of the Fire of God. This flood of hell will not be brought about by God, as He promised to never flood the earth again, but it will be brought on by Satan himself. The New Testament ministry of God is not of water, but of fire.  We are invited to be touched by a Flame of heaven so that when this fire comes to the earth we will be found already pure.  This Flame is the baptism of the Holy Ghost.</p>
<p>The dragon wars with all of those who keep the commandments of God.  We know that we cannot keep God’s command in the old nature, but in love by the purified process of Fire, we will keep the commandments of God.  In short, the devil only wars against those who have been touched by Fire.</p>
<p>The earth opened her mouth and swallowed the flood of the great dragon.  Within the inner core of our planet lies a fire, a heat so great that even rock is made molten.  This is to be the reflection of the saint. The “earth”, or body, of the saints will swallow up that flood, and consume with fire all of the putrid water that is of chaos and sin. The Fire of the Holy Ghost within us will purify all that the devil tries to drown us in, just as it was with Jesus on the cross.  The Fire of God was so hot in the center of Christ’s body that when the flood of the sin of the world entered into the “earth” of Jesus it was consumed by the inner flame, just as the Fire of God consumed the water at Elijah&#8217;s alter.  The alter is where we sacrifice ourselves unto God.  Water prepares us for Fire, but water by itself is not a complete creation of God in the new man, only the Fire of the Spirit can make a man like Jesus.</p>
<p>As Noah sent the dove out after the flood to find a place to rest, so God sends His Fire to the earth, covered in the flood of sin, looking for a place to rest.  This Dove found her place on the heads and in the hearts of the New Testament church, they were baptized with Fire.</p>
<p>God intends us, as the end time generation, to have this Fire.  Without it we will be overcome by the flood of compromise, excuse, justification, worldliness, idolatry of self wants, judgment, slander, disobedience, pride, and lust.  But God put in the earth, in creation, a law, a lesson, that we must pay attention to. Just as the earth was baptized into a death and brought forth into new life, and the earth will be baptized with fire bringing a final end to sin, so must we be baptized into the same baptism that will result in the end of sin for us.  The Fire of the Holy Ghost is the answer to every struggling Christians problems.  But to have this fiery Flame burning in our hearts we must first be willing to lay down all that we have justified and held onto.  We will receive this Fire just as Jesus did, through death and surrender to the plan of God for men.  To seek Jesus today is to seek the Fire of His Spirit, this is what made Jesus who He was and the Flame of God is what makes a Christian a Christian in the true sense of the word.</p>
<p>Allow the desire of God to straighten you to be baptized with the baptism of Jesus, which is the baptism of Fire. Jesus longed to kill sin once and for all, He did this by fire on the cross.</p>
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		<title>2011 Events and Seminars</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please go to the Genesis Project web site for more information on the upcoming events and Seminars. (Click Here) Below is the scheduled events, seminars, and camps for 2011. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ANY OF THE EVENTS BELOW, MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US AS THERE WILL BE FEES AND FORMS TO FILL OUT [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>Please go to the Genesis Project web site for more information on the upcoming events and Seminars.</h4>
<h4><a href="http://extremegenesis.com" target="_blank">(Click Here)</a></h4>
<p>Below is the scheduled events, seminars, and camps for 2011. IF YOU  WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ANY OF THE EVENTS BELOW, MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US  AS THERE WILL BE FEES AND FORMS TO FILL OUT BEFORE YOU MAY ATTEND.</p>
<p>We will be happy to send a registration packet to you or your group  to secure your spot in our upcoming calendar.</p>
<p>For more information go to the Genesis Project tab or<a href="http://www.proclaimingjesus.com/genesis-project-summer-camp/" target="_blank"> click here</a></p>
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<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Sept 2nd-4th</span><br />
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<p>Men&#8217;s Seminar  Registration starts at 3:00 pm on Friday.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">Oct. 7-10th Registration starts from 1:00-3:00 pm</span><br />
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<p>Women&#8217;s  Seminar! Registration starts at 10:00 A.M. on Friday</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>September 24th </strong></span></p>
<p>Kid  Day   Camp! (ages  4-11) Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 Pm.</p>
<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>November 26th </strong></span></p>
<p>Kid  Day   Camp! (ages  4-11) Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 Pm.</p>
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		<title>What Has Happened To Us?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new breed of Christian is on the loose in the American church today.  This group is organized, unified, and very numerous, yet they do not even know it. It has no formal membership yet its numbers rank in the millions. This groups members do not even know they have enrolled.  This movement is mysterious [...]]]></description>
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<p>A new breed of Christian is on the loose in the American church today.  This group is organized, unified, and very numerous, yet they do not even know it. It has no formal membership yet its numbers rank in the millions. This groups members do not even know they have enrolled.  This movement is mysterious and vague, yet is present in every church today. The core issues of its fundamental belief centers around the individual himself. The participator is his or her own ultimate authority.  Every whim, want, and will is fostered and fed until it becomes large enough to be branded as Gods will. Its defense and insulation from outside conviction is the accusation of judgment and personal relationship. This new breed submits to no one but themselves yet they are amazingly obedient to the allegiance the movement demands.</p>
<p>The Word is of private interpretation to these people and words like submission, accountability, judgments of God, and obedience are only accepted if they fit within the parameters of their already planned wants and desires. Their favorite sermon is always the love of God back dropped against the absence of consequence and true repentance. Jesus and His cross are a great idea as long as it doesn&#8217;t cost them their lusts, families, desires, children, money, or time, for these things are what God is supposed to give them, not what they are to required to relinquish.</p>
<p>The fact that Muslims are more diligent in obedience and morality to their religion than these people are  to theirs no longer convicts them. They have heard every sermon there is to hear and their heads are deeper than their hearts are. Their bookshelves are filled with the latest best sellers yet they themselves are not changed.</p>
<p>These people are full of blame and judgment against anyone who would dare to try and show them they are wrong, because these people love their pride more than they love their God. They are dividers, backsliders, and the full epitome of the warnings that Paul gives in Second Timothy, yet even explaining this to them, they simply do not see it.  To them, anyone who convicts them by life or word is extreme, judgmental, called different, or branded as just flat wrong.</p>
<p>Theses people are great workers for their work is a blessing unto themselves, yet they are for the most part prayer less, fruitless, defeated and deep down they know that something is wrong with them yet won&#8217;t change anything to fix it. Fasting is out of question and the last time they have ever led someone to Christ is not even spoken of, because most never have.  They undermine the commandments of Jesus by a spirit of freedom from the law, and grace is their favorite word, yet this grace has done very little to change them from the spirit of this world.They watch the worlds movies, use the worlds language, submit themselves to the worlds lusts, all in the name of the grace of God.</p>
<p>What has happened to us! We would rather hear sermons about the devil and his tactics against us then we would hear about the judgments of the God we say we love.  We have pulled out a few verses in the New Testament and built more on them than God inteneded. God has been reduced to a toothless old man who call every person who names His name to come and sit in His lap so that He can lavish them with blessings and love regardless of their piggish lifestyle. They fact that salvation is ever continuing and that God will judge the works of &#8220;believers&#8221; does not concern them one bit. Revelation is a book that will happen after they are gone and even it if doesn&#8217;t they are not a part of those that God comes back to slay, all because they prayed a prayer once and have live pretty much the same since then.</p>
<p>The reality of salvation being saved from themselves, being a new creation, with nothing of the old around is utter foolishness to them. The culture they live in has formed them more than the word of God has.</p>
<p>God&#8217;s plan was to change us, not conform us to moral beings. Jesus didn&#8217;t bleed to make you a nice person. He bled to give you power to be a son as He is, in full obedience to the word that He gives us power to keep, by abiding Him through love.</p>
<p>We have fallen far enough that the influence of the church today has not been able to stop abortion, suicide, and the horrible spirit of religion that rapes millions of souls every Sunday morning. All of this because we have made religion about what we like, instead of what God wants.</p>
<p>Each man has become accountable only to himself, therefore he will never rise higher then who he currently is.</p>
<p>Investigate your life and see if you see any of this new creed carved in your heart, and if you do cry out to God for mercy and get into the word. Humble yourself and God will lift you up from this mire, then righteous of the earth will no longer wonder what happened to you.</p>
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		<title>Genesis Project Kids</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is our 2011 Kids Camp Schedule or click here to  go to the Genesis Project Website IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ANY OF THE EVENTS BELOW, MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US AS THERE WILL BE FEES AND FORMS TO FILL OUT BEFORE YOU MAY ATTEND. We will be happy to send a registration [...]]]></description>
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<h1>Below is our 2011 Kids Camp Schedule or <a href="http://extremegenesis.com" target="_blank">click here</a> to  go to the Genesis Project Website</h1>
<p><span style="color: #000080;">IF YOU  WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND ANY OF THE EVENTS BELOW, MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT US  AS THERE WILL BE FEES AND FORMS TO FILL OUT BEFORE YOU MAY ATTEND.</span></p>
<p>We will be happy to send a registration packet to you or your group  to secure your spot in our upcoming calendar.</p>
<p>For more information go to the Genesis Project tab or<a href="http://www.proclaimingjesus.com/genesis-project-summer-camp/" target="_blank"> click here</a></p>
<p>Go to the <a href="http://www.proclaimingjesus.com/contact-us/" target="_blank">contact  page</a> to register or to ask any questions. Or feel free to call us  at</p>
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<p><strong>September 24th </strong></p>
<p>Kid  Day   Camp! (ages  4-11) Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 Pm.</p>
<p><strong>November 26th </strong></p>
<p>Kid  Day   Camp! (ages  4-11) Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 Pm.</p>
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		<title>When we Began</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the world began for us, we didn&#8217;t know anything except unconscious dependency. When the world began for us, we knew nothing of pride and self-vindication. When the world began for us we were only able to show tenderness, we were oblivious to our needs.  Time passed, and so did our innocence.  We learned.  We [...]]]></description>
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<p>When the world began for us, we didn&#8217;t know anything except unconscious dependency. When the world began for us, we knew nothing of pride and self-vindication. When the world began for us we were only able to show tenderness, we were oblivious to our needs.  Time passed, and so did our innocence.  We learned.  We understood. We began to know.  That knowing, that learning, we used for our own gain.  We took the knowledge, that only God had the power to use, and turned it toward our own wants.  We learned how to be what we are not, to get what we do not have. Life gently grew away from that first place of dependency, and transformed itself into independence. Each man now waves his or her own flag, calling to passerby&#8217;s to pledge allegiance to them and their ideals on life. The man who has the biggest crowd before he dies is the winner.</p>
<p>God never began, but had a new beginning planned for you. He looked down and saw your flag flying amongst the worn torn grounds of your own heart, he had compassion on your blindness.</p>
<p>Hard to believe such babies would grow to be murderers of God himself.  Pilate, a sweet young tender boy. Herod, a tiny infant baby who smiles at the cooing of his mother. Caiaphas, a small  and delicate baby who brings joy to those around him. They grew, like you.  Their ideals of life, happiness, and what it meant to serve God, were waved in God&#8217;s face as He hung on the cross. Then, these men used their flags of religion, power, and pride,  to pierce the King of kings until he had no more blood left to bleed.</p>
<p>Jesus stands upon the shore of heaven and earth in His people waving His cross of victory calling to all those who pass by to pledge allegiance to His kingdom. &#8220;TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND FOLLOW ME!&#8221;, He yells.  Can you see Him waving His flag violently and passionately, as if to deter people from hell itself?</p>
<p>What flag are you waving?  Rejection? Bitterness? Accusation? Pride that you are right? Anger? Unforgiveness? Blindness? Selfishness? Self-Pleasure? Rebellion? Railing against authority? We may think we are waving another flag, but our mind, emotions, feelings, passions, and actions often betray us, by telling us the truth. If you wave these flags against a man you wave it against God.</p>
<p>Run to Golgotha and burn your flag, jump into the arms of Jesus and let Him bring you to where you begin again a second time.  Innocent and able to love those around you.Let Him make you new.</p>
<p>Take up your cross&#8230;</p>
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