Christianity…is not a religion

                                                   …but a lifestyle that impacts the world.

What is Christianity anyway?  Basically, every definition you come across has it labeled as a “Religion”.

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Wikipedia’s definition.

No wonder so many Believers appear to be so confused, lost and torn apart in Sects and misguided truths about this walk and the real reason you were called by God. We’ve become watered-down, fearful and timid in the hands of institutionalized religions instructing and guiding us based on the standards of this world and NOT the Word of God. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Hosea 4:6. Don’t get me wrong in my sharing, because I don’t believe that every church out there is teaching in this fashion, however many are and continue with a passion not realizing their error. The Apostle Paul asked a profound question in

1 Corinthians 1:13 “Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul? (Sects) Going back to verse 10 he states: “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Now I don’t know about you or even how you may feel about this verse, but it speaks very clearly to me. I know we all may not agree on scripture meanings or translations, but when the obvious is stated there is no room to disagree. Everything from “New Age Religion” to seeking your universal higher power, appears to be of the “same mind” thought, focus and power to boot. “Giving them what their itchy ears want to hear.” It’s a god as you would like him to be in your own mind for you…a gene in a bottle and millions are like minded in that walk “Deliberate Creation”. It’s almost like the Israelites in the desert praising a calf, right. I’m just a sinner saved by the grace of God, and most of the time I struggle in this walk more than most, however, I don’t give up and when believers are in need of guidance, stewarding and wounds mended from a harsh, cruel and uncaring world…I want to know that I can comfy in brothers or sisters that are believer that is filled with the Spirit of God with Christ as Lord over their life that I may know that those words that I hear are actually the words of my God understanding, building me up and preparing me to stand back up and finish the race of faith…Amen. We ARE NOT an Institution, we ARE NOT show boaters for the world, We ARE NOT misinformed and we ARE NOT defeated. Christianity is a way of lifestyle for those who are real believers. Nowadays, everybody wants to a be the captain of the ship, the head-man in charge, the title holder, but if I’m not mistaken, Christ was a servant for the world and King of all today. Food for thought. I love you through Christ Jesus my Lord and may the Father of ALL living things bless you unmeasurably, you and your household and protect you from all unseen hurt harm and danger. Amen if you agree. Now I will leave you with this for your encouragement.

There is a hero in us…click here

“The Enemy of Our Household”

”A man’s enemies will be those of his own household” Matthew 10:36

What was the true meaning behind this statement Christ so profoundly exclaimed? That our family members are secretly our enemies out to see us harm or destroy us in some kind of way? That jealousy, money, greed or power of one family member over another create enemies within our homes? Well, I don’t entirely agree with this more than I agree with the fact that we ourselves are our worst enemies we could ever have in our lifetime based on the battle waged against ourselves in our minds…the true battlefield. We know that we are the living temple of God and that His Spirit dwells within us…an extension of God in human form. Therefore, we tend to beat ourselves up to death at times destroying the very thing we’re trying to build…spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. The “I can’t”, “It’s impossible”, “Fear”, “Self-hate”, …all the expressions of lack of faith and excuses we give ourselves is what we continue to receive because we haven’t learned yet about that almighty living power of God dwelling within us to press forward in absolute faith to overcome. Didn’t it say somewhere in the word…”³¹ what then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^[b] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.   Romans 8:31-39

Paul made something very clear if we are to be more than conquerors in this lifetime and start life anew with a new vision and a new hope…renewed with a new strength as a new man and that was…”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.” Romans 12:2. The battle and the real enemy is that of the mind, and if there is no enemy in the mind, then there is no enemy to point the finger at on the outside. Conqueror your inner fears with faith and let the light of God shine throughout your entire being. Our Lord did it and showed us how…keep in step with the Spirit. God bless.

“For He that is in me, is Greater than he that is in the world”

D.R.Tracy is back for 2018…Hello and sorry for the disappearance for a time, but other projects demanded my attention and still going, but here I am. Battlefield of Angels as a series along with the new release coming soon “The Gossip Corner series and I’ve been busy working on the screenplay, which I must say is another beast entirely, but of course I invite the challenge which requires a lot of focus and attention, and in between projects just seems to take up so much time. I’m glad to see so many still faithfully continuing to post…this is a grand motivator for me. May God through the Lord Jesus Christ who works in and through us continue to watch over, strengthen and bless EVERYTHING you do and touch for 2018 and keep your loved one safe from seen and unseen hurt harm and danger…God bless you family.

KINGDOM VIRTUES…are not achievable through human effort

 

 

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” John 15:5

We don’t understand as we ought to when it comes to the things of God and pertaining to God…walking with God the Holy Spirit and keeping in step thereof. Only my opinion of course not knowing the hearts of men and women of God, only the evidence of what is seen around us on a daily basis pertaining to our struggles and fears and doubts and wavering back and forth in faith amongst Believers. My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I also include myself in this number of struggling as well. We attempt to try to achieve many things ourselves apart from God but leads us becoming independent from God and causes the enemy…ego– the joy to see that inner struggle and shipwreck faith when clearly we can do NOTHING apart from God, because that outter man knows not the spiritual things which pertains to God….only that which is worldly, Amen. The word states; “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.” James 4:10. Humility and faith incorporated with love are our strongest weapons of warfare here and now. That humility of heart, that allows our Lord to fill us up with His Spirit that God will lift us above all adversity that we may encounter; “Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. That faith that shakes mountains because we believe in the God of our Lord and Savior that is the same yesterday, today and forever; “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Revelations 22:13…and that love that surpasses all understanding that confuses “the world” because of its insensitivity to accept it; “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 3:16. Kingdom virtues don’t compromise with sin or play parts in negotiations with the world or the enemy. Kingdom virtues stand in a position that looks at the world through the eyes of God and knows that it know, that it knows who we are and is evident by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. “Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?” He said, “No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD.” And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him, “What has my lord to say to his servant?”…(a representative of the kingdom of heaven knows his place in this world), Amen.  Let us, therefore, strive to put on these virtues as Ambassadors of Heaven, knowing who we are in Christ as the Lord leads us and direct us from faith to faith and glory to glory, being no longer tossed as a child, but striving to become mature in our faith to carry out the works God has prepared for us since the beginning; “For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Hebrews 5:12. May the God and Father of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob watch over, protect and bless everything you do and touch in Jesus name. Amen.