I think that Christians all want godliness. It has been said, and I agree, that there should not be any reasonable explaination for a redeemed person's activity other then that Jesus Christ is actually the cause of the activity, and anything short is wood, hay and stubble.

But, often the mystery is lost. We strap on a WWJD (what would Jesus do) braclet and take on divinity in human effort.

I saw Tiger Woods line up a ball around a tree from 150 yards away. He had the perfect back swing and the perfect follow through. And it looked impossible but he hooked it within 8 inches of the pin. So, I got me a WWTWD (What Would Tiger Woods Do) bracelet and lined up around the tree. I had the perfect back swing, and follow-through. The ball soared around the obstacles and hooked to softly land next to the pin - exactly 8 inches, right?

WRONG! That doesn't work, it never will. What Would Jesus Do? Give me a break!

The Man that did everything, did nothing. Everything that He ever did, was everything that He never did.

John 5:19
"I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself;" - Jesus

John 5:30
By myself I can do nothing; ... - Jesus

He said, "I can do nothing" and He said, "We will do greater." Do you think that you can rise to the challenge to do nothing? THAT is the mystery!

John 15:5
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing." - Jesus

I firmly believe that the only things of which I will be rewarded is the very things that I did not do, because I couldn't do them.

What is wood, hay, and stubble? Is it any more then the good, bad and ugly of what man can make by the sweat of the brow? Is that what we want to face the fire with ... what a human can fabricate?

What is precious stones except that of which man cannot produce because it is impossible? This is what will make it when the quality of our works are tested ... the exact stuff that we could not make by our own efforts.

Let it not be said that we WWJD'ed on the day of our union. Let it be said that as the Father sent Jesus, so did He send us: totally dependent!

Romans 8:4
And now what the law code asked for but we couldn't deliver is accomplished as we, instead of redoubling our own efforts, simply embrace what the Spirit is doing in us.

If I poke my hand into a balloon, then a camera inside the balloon would show fingers stretching the rubber around them, and at some point you could see through the balloon and it would appear that my hand is inside the balloon. Though it is just that the balloon is shear, around my skin.

The Christ was in this world, even having it wrapped around Him, but He was never OF this world. He was the visible image of an invisible God. God descending from His realm into ours ... taking on the appearance of man ... all the while ... if you looked around the back-side ... you could see that there is a tether to the Father ... like an umbilical chord up to Eternity, and then you would discover that this man standing before me is from above and we are from below. We are of this world, and He is not of this world. He is God with us. His shape / His body ... is the temple of the Father. Jesus is God by the Holy Spirit that is in Him ... God's Life flowing to Him from eternity ... though we see the shell that we call Jesus, so that we can discover what this invisible God is like. We would not be able to see God in any other way.

Here is the mystery. That tether, that chord, was choked off ... so that we could join ourselves to the Christ. Now if you look behind me .. you will see that I have a tether, a umbilical chord stretching up to Jesus Christ the Lord. His Life is my Life. So, that I am no longer of this world, I belong with the Vine. Indeed, it is as I am sitting with Him in the heavenlies, even as I am here on earth. I am part of His body and so are my spiritual brothers and sisters. We are all part of His body on earth ... like branches grafted into a vibrant living vine. Our vital signs are beginning to match His, and the Vine is producing fruit that we might bear. All in accordance to His strength and power, through the Spirit that is within Him and imparted to me, and was that of the Father as the Christ descended into creation (like a hand stretching a membrane of the balloon around it.)

He joined Himself to a Body (the church,) after He was forsaken by the Father (this on the cross.) We pierced Him with our iniquity, but we did not pierce the Father. By His wounds, we are healed. In the near future, Christ with ascend to the Father and consummate His marriage to His purified Bride. I will be with Him and all the other Sheep ... a bride for the wedding. We will dwell in Eternity for the last day will have come and gone, and no more any counting of days.

As we are One with Christ, He will again be one with the Father. Creation will see the last day, and the redeemed will see Eternity.

So, "Did the Son join Himself to and become part of the creation?"
In short ... "Not exactly. He brought forth a harvest of His sown Spirit-seed in the field of creation, through the mystery of godliness which is Christ in us!"

For Video, Click Here (or the title above)--> Thick Clouds and Darkness, Bitter Sorrows... Day of the Lord.

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From Letters From God and His Christ.

2/24/06, From God the Father. A Letter Given to Timothy, For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear.

Thus says the Lord your God: Harken unto My Word, oh house of Jacob. Listen, all you captives in Israel, and all in the isles have understanding. Hear the voice of the Lord God, the only God, all you people in the desert and desolate lands, even all unto the bitter ends of the earth. Hear the Word of the Lord, you who dwell in the fenced cities, where satan dwells... come out, and humble yourselves before your God. You have forgotten Me, and denied My name, the name of the Lord given to Him who I have sent to you as Savior, Christ the Lord.

Harken, says the Lord. I am come... a fury of judgment shall blaze before Me. Woe to you, oh mountains... woe to you, oh giants...woe to you, all hidden and dark places... you are not hidden from the eyes of the Lord, nor have you escaped My judgment. You have forgotten Me, having went out parading your whoredoms.

Hear the voice of the Almighty, the Holy One of Israel: I have not forgotten and I have remembered your evil-doings, and that which you have surmised is not hidden from Me. I have left you desolate, none having heard the voice of the Lord in all the land, save those I have sent to you. All have went out seeking, yet none have found even one spring of living water flowing from the mountain in purity... all is corrupt and decay, dry bones in a wasteland of iniquity and sin, great and evil sins. None harken, all cry, ‘Cast these shackles from us. Let us go our own way. Our knowledge has reached past Heaven. Our egos reign!’

Thus says the Lord: The mountains and all high places shall crumble before the quaking footsteps of the Lord. All giants shall fall by the sword, by their own sword which they have wielded in bitter arrogance and greed, having given heed to every evil desire and temptation of the evil one. All, that is hidden, shall be seen, and all the dark places shall not escape the glory of the Lord.

Take up a lamentation, My children, and I may yet have mercy on you. Cry out to the Lord, saying, ‘We have done an evil thing. We are desolate, starving, and in bitter thirst. Heal our wounds, oh Lord. We have eaten up all the bread, and broken every stave, and defecated in the springs and pools of living water you have given us to drink from. Save us, oh Lord.’

Thus says the Lord, your God, the Redeemer of Israel, to all those in the hills and mountains and those who are afar off: I have saved you already, having sent the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world. He was come into the world, and you would not receive Him. Blessed are they, who have received, for they know Him. He is come again, and He have I poured out on every nation, yet you are offended in Him. Blessed are the thirsty, who have drunk deeply... they are filled with His glory. He is yet come again, and you will neither see nor hear Him. Blessed are they, who see and hear Him, for they shall be gone from the earth, and none shall find them; for they have both accepted and received of My cup filled with the blood of atonement.

Now must you, My insolent children, also drink from yet another cup I must pour out... and yea, all shall drink from it, all those who would not harken unto Me. It is the chalice of My reckoning, and it shall eat you up. Even so, blessed are all those who call on the name of the Lord in that Day. They shall be saved and shall not want, for I shall be with them... what is impossible with man is possible with God.

Listen and give heed to the watchmen, for the Lord dare not stay silent anymore, lest all perish by the way, having tread upon the wide path to destruction. The voice of the Lord is sent out and sounds in the ears of the watchmen and the hearts of My witnesses. They shall lead you out of the storm; and they shall endure, even unto the end, for the sake of the remnant.

Watchmen, hear the voice of the Lord and give heed, and obey all I command of you. Give unto this strange people your testimony, and a testimony in your bodies upon every Sabbath day, the seventh day of each week. Not on the first, nor on the second... yea, the seventh shall you eat no foods of any kind, nor any drink, save pure water. Let this be a testament unto those who are near and those who are afar off, for during the light you shall honor My command, and fast. Drink only water that is completely pure, for I have poured upon you the fullness of My Spirit, the very Water of Life, which you have received in Christ Jesus the Lord. And so that by which you have drank shall you share with all those who seek after Me. The Bread of Life was sent, and has already been broken for all. Eat not any earthly bread... receive of the Bread from Heaven, and pour upon the desolate that which you have drank. Watchmen, this shall you do as a testimony and a lamentation to the people every Sabbath day, until again the Lord has come. Then shall you fast never again, having received the True Bread and Water from Heaven that shall sustain you unto eternal life, being both in you and with you, forever and ever.

The whole world is in famine, eating from the table of lies...
yea, a feast of abominations, leaving them starved and dying.
Listen, My children... your Redeemer lives, and shall feed all who have eaten of His body and drank of His blood.
These shall be gathered, and nourished for one week in the house of the Lord.
Woe to the house of satan... your children shall be meat and drink for the birds of the air and beasts of the
earth, in the great and terrible Day of the Lord God Almighty that comes quickly.

I have belonged to alot of cults. What can I say ... I guess I am a sucker for them. They are alluring to me. And, though I hate to admit it, I have been a part of heaps of cults.

I bet you did not know that. However it is true, but what am I calling a cult?

Cults are not defined by their system of beliefs. A cult is a cult because of their attitude. The cultish attitude is this: "You have to do things the way that I do it, and you cannot go outside the boundaries that I set up. I strip your freedom from you, and you have to do it the way that I say that you have to do it. God has to work in your life the way that He worked in mine."

Did you know that Jesus Christ was into something completely different? Christianity is about freedom, and those that abide in Christ will find out that as they abide in Christ they are agents of freedom. They will say, that "God will work in your life different then He worked in mine, and I won't strip your freedom from you to make you like me." Instead they celebrate uniqueness, and want God to work within your uniqueness in a special way.

As soon as I fashion a mold for others and try to press them in it so that they become as moldy as me, then I am operating a cult, and am not functioning within Christian freedom.

I can be released from all of the cults that I have found myself a part of, because of freedom. How? By adopting a new attitude: "Thy will be done."

So, I don't want to have plans for you, and how you can wind up like me. I am not particularly concerned about all of that, because I don't know. I don't need a plan, because my plan is to welcome God's will. So going left or going right is not the question for me. My question is to abide or to not abide, and what difference does it make if while abiding I go right or I go left? The point is that I am abiding, so it will go great if I go either way. How can I take a bad step when my steps are wrought in God? How can I think that you can take a bad step if your steps are wrought in God? So I don't want you to follow my steps! I want you to abide in Him and let Him direct your path. I would hope that you find freedom, but I won't twist your arm to make you take it, and neither will God.

Some will say that a life like that won't work, but my answer is "Fine! Alright, but don't drag me into your unbelief." Maybe that is true for you, and the God that you have wouldn't let that work, but I don't want your God.

With plans and goals come all kinds of manipulation, because we have to see that our plan is brought about. But, without a plan, I am free from a cult's mindset. As I remain restfully available, I don't need to fix the world around me, and fix the problems that come against me. Rather I can let problems fix me, and the problems drive me into God's presence.

I am through using the force of my will to manipulate those around me to conform to some notion of fulfillment that I made for them. ... but I might need to remind myself of that tomorrow. ... the cults are calling me.
;-)

• "Oneness, not Sameness"
• Why God allows my ignorance to persist.
• MANIPULATION 101
• ... because I already am

In some ways it is fitting for me to become unteachable and in some ways it is fitting for me to become more teachable. Some deep groanings of Truth are within me and as I learn to put them to words, I find that the concrete is setting up solid around them, and I soon won't be able to move away from them.

You will never convince me that God depends on me instead of me depending on Him. That is pretty settled in my mind.

You'll never convince me that I can sway God's love either toward or away from me. That is something in which certainty is growing every day.

You will never convince me that I need more then Christ. He is the highest revelation, and if I have Him, then I will never need anything more, and I will never ever have to get by with less then His sufficiency. There is no way, loving or cruel to move me from that.

I will never be convinced that one can stand in Christ alone, and at the same time be under condemnation. I have seen that is impossible.

But, at the same time I am aware that there are some ghastly wrong things that are part of what I think is right, and that there is no way that I'll ever be able to present the fullness of Truth to anyone else, much less sort it all out for myself. I can only speak about what I know and be open to knowing more. That is the teachable/unteachable dichotomy. It involves a lot of saying what "I know," and a lot of admitting what "I do not know," but less and less blindly asserting things that I don't understand.

May we grow in the sensitivity of the difference, and speak primarily about what is burdened in our heart, while not assuming that what is on our heart would be spiritual for everyone else to have on their heart.

I love the topic of obedience (for example,) and find it crucial to the Christian life, but I can't lay aside what is placed on my heart and speak to that subject all the time. I only have so much time, and though I would like enough time to speak to obedience in proportion to its importance, I have to share what is in my heart. I don't think it more spiritual for anyone to speak about what is on my heart. Everyone has different emphasis's in accordance to what they have been graced to understand. Likewise, others should not assume that obedience isn't important to me, just because I don't often speak about it. Just because it is the most important to me, doesn't mean (when I don't speak about it) that I think that it isn't important. I just have limited things to share about.

We have a mocking bird in Texas. It is our state bird, and they are all over the place. When you listen to them, they sing about 12 or so songs, and just go over that rotation. Another mocking bird will have 12 or so songs, but maybe only one or so of them are the same as the first bird, so together they have about 20 songs in their rotation. And so, adding more mocking birds to the list, would add more songs, but at some point you could add 100 more birds and not get a single new song, because they are already sung by one of the others. To me this is like the body of Christ. We sing the song that is placed on our heart and it may overlap what has already been said, but we are not in competition, we are together joining in a chorus of music that reveals the music placed in our heart ... and can only be fully experienced in the corporate expression from each of us. None of us have the whole song, but we each have a part of it, and we should not condemn others if their song is a bit different.

Now of course that analogy breaks down, because two opposite teachings are at odds with each other, but that is because one of the birds, isn't a bird or maybe they are a bird, but they are singing someone - else's song instead of the one that God placed there.

Anyway, I hope you are encouraged by my viewpoint on that, and encouraged to shine inasmuch as you are given the grace to shine. Just be sincere, and genuine, and never teach someone else's gospel. Teach the gospel that is burned in your heart, and comes alive when you read it in scriptures or hear it from others.

_{by Trent - from Sept 2005}

We have this little joke around my family: "That makes me angry" we say with a smile. The toll road is now 50 cents more ... so "that makes me angry" we tell each other. Whenever something bad happens, we joke that it makes us angry. The reason that it is funny to us, is because we know that we are in charge of our own temperance, and it is not up to the world to prevent our anger.

Circumstances do not change what I am; they reveal what I am. Thus, it is up to myself to prevent my own anger.

I really do get angry sometimes. It seems like every time that I am angry, it is because I am afraid about something ... afraid that I will miss out, disappoint. loose, etc.

And the top reason that I have fear, is because of pretense. As I try to hold things together and keep up appearances, then I am highly stressed, because someone might find out that I am faking it ... and I want them to think that I really do have it all together. So the fear of unflattering disclosure of my limitations can quickly put me into a position where my anger is revealed. (I say 'anger is revealed', because that is what is really taking place. Nothing can make me angry, but many things can reveal my anger.) I want them to approve of me, but I think that will only happen if I am reliable.

With one hand I beckon them closer because I live for their smile, and with the other I push them away, so that I can hide my true condition ... all for the sake of my own kingdom.

For example:
Often I am angry when circumstance may have me arrive late. Why? Is it not because I am afraid what people will think of me, who are counting on me, or for whatever reason might be disappointed if I don't show up on time? What if I do show up late, and what if they do think badly of me? What if they don't trust me anymore and turn to someone else who shows up on time? What if I am cut out of something because of the accumulation of blown expectations upon me? Do you see how I might make "anger" into my little friend to control the situation so that won't happen? I'll just be angry enough to intimidate those around me so that they won't risk making me late and I can maintain my image.

Angry, because I fear. Afraid, because I fake.

Freedom is knowing that you no longer live for others approval, because you know that you are approved by God. Those that know that I have Christ living in me, would honor me for His sake even if I am always the last person to show up. If they cannot find it in themselves to do that, then so be it. I do not require them to do that, and instead I will honor them for the sake of Christ. They don't have to be lovely to earn my love, and I can choose to abandon the pretense and let them know what is always true: I am unreliable. I cannot be counted upon. In fact, it is a bit of a release to know that at least one group of people no longer has unrealistic expectations on me. Now, they know the truth, that I won't always do what I say, nor be where I said I would be at the time that I said that I would be there. So be it.

To walk in the light is to simply abandon the image building. In such a walk you will find alot less fear, and alot less anger. Wouldn't you agree that this is a more excellent way?

Here are as many as I can remember, of hand... feel free to check them out and pass them along to anyone and everyone. (None ask for donations. ALL glorify God and point to Jesus as The Lord... The Only Way!)

"Jesus is Lord!"

http://www.TrumpetCallofGod.com

http://www.TrumpetCallofGodonline.com

http://stores.lulu.com/TrumpetCallOfGod (absolutely NON-PROFIT!)

http://www.myspace.com/lettersfromgod

http://www.myspace.com/trumpetcallofgodcom

http://www.faithfreaks.com/LettersFromGodandHisChrist

http://www.faithfreaks.com/TrumpetCallofGodAudio

http://www.faithfreaks.com/TrumpetCallofGodOnline

http://www.jcfaith.com/TrumpetCallofGod

http://www.peoplefisher.com/index.php?do=/public/user/name_Letters_From_God/

http://opencoffee.ning.com/profile/Timothy7

http://endtime.ning.com/profile/Timothy

http://christianitytoday.ning.com/profile­/Timothy7

http://www.myyearbook.com/lettersfromgodandhischrist

http://youtube.com/user/trumpetcallofgod (*This is Emily's site, she set it up)

http://godtube.com/trumpetcallofgod (*This is Emily's site, she set it up)

There are a few others, but I have forgotten the login info. and website names.

Be blessed in THE Beloved, Jesus our Lord, in Whom we are accepted,
Timothy

Religion is my shepherd: I shall sin no more.
It alloweth me to lie to myself in flattering ways;
It leadeth me to water down the law.
It represseth my wickedness;
It leadeth me to a righteous exterior for my name's sake.
Yea, though I walk among the sinners in the temple,
I am glad I am not like them;
My piety and fig leaves, they conceal me.
I preparest my award acceptance speech for distinction from my peers;
My head no longer fits through the door;
My cup is outwardly cleansed.
Surely reputation and excellence shall follow me all of the days of my life:
and I will rule at the right hand of Jesus forever.

_{by Trent - from March 2005}

I was out of town at a training, and running a bit behind. But if everything went well, I could roll out of Kinko's having sent an important fax before class started. .... If everything went well, that is.

Ever notice the Kinko's clerks? They never notice you. It is worse when you are in a hurry, because they just stand there trying to look busy.

So, I am behind the counter, trying to burn holes in the backs of their heads with a "please me if you can" angry-customer stare, while everyone is ignoring me. The only person that notices me is the cashier, who won't lift a finger to help me, because she can't leave her general area near the register. Finally, a dude notices me and then takes his time finishing whatever meaningless task he was doing to look busy before slowly walking over to the counter.

"Yes, you can help me." I urgently reply, "I emailed two pages to be printed, and confirmed that they would be ready to pick up this morning?" Without trying to even look like he gave a darn, he started to look around and scratch his head, then mumbled something before disappearing into one of the back offices. That is when I see it, right behind the counter ... the two pages that I emailed.

So, I pick up the pages and start waving them over my head, intensifying my angry-customer stare. But, I can't stare at him when he is behind the wall in the back office, I am just hoping that he is looking out of the tinted glass. Finally, he re-emerges to actually retard his normally sluggish pace while walking to the counter. I describe the fact that I found the prints, and giving up on sending the fax .. I request to pay. The clerk-o-the-month, scribbles something on a sheet of paper and says to take it to the cashier. "Oh, that is great!" I think to myself "... another line!"

The cashier seemed to be the only person to care, so I gave her the benefit of the doubt and explained that I called for a quote when I sent the order, and the total that was quoted to me was $0.25 ... thinking that the information might make her job easier, with the relief that at least I had part of what I came for.

"ten-sixty-six," the cashier mumbled.

Immediately time stood still as I pondered a thousand different possible meanings of the words coming from this nice young woman's mouth. Is it a code? Is she trying to tell me something important or making conversation, I actually had no idea, and thought that I misunderstood.

"ten cents?" I asked.

"ten-sixty-six." she nodded.

What does this mean? Is this a riddle? The quote was for 25 cents and she is not saying that the total is ten cents, so what could she be trying to tell me? To clear up the ambiguity, I asked the following question without really thinking about it: "Do you mean $10 and 66 cents?"

Unfolding in slow motion as my temperature immediately went through the roof, "Yes, ten-sixty-six."

AGHAHHGHAGH!!!

I let her have it, she relented, and I threw the receipt at her head. (Well, actually I didn't do throw it, but I wanted to.)

There I am, flushed with emotion, as I speed off ... late to training class. ... and I still haven't sent my fax.

Here is my prayer as I am am undone, "Lord, I can't even handle a trip to Kinko's, I can't even handle loosing a buck or two without loosing my composure. I am weak and I should have realized that when I woke up instead of two hours later. If I only would have prayed this before, but I pray it now: with my hand over my heart - Lord, you are welcome in my heart today, I want my wants to be your wants, because today is too great of a day for a man, it calls for divinity. Lord, I am out of love, you come be my love today. I am out of peace, you come and give me your peace." And with that I re-gained some of my peace. The rest of it returned when I went back and apologized for being a jerk.

Thus has the Lord spoken:
"And this shall be its consequence upon you, thus shall it bring forth against you: Confusion, a swirling wind... water, a flood of fear... destruction, collapse of all your foundations. Even the earth shall rise up against you, and nature shall fight against you, oh perverse and mighty nation." ~ From: Recompense, 11/28/07

Also watch this video! (Click Here)---> (Video) Recompense - THUS SAYS THE LORD AGAINST THE U.S.A.!