MOMENTS Volume No. 9 Issue No. 6

FFebruary / March 2010

REFLECT  A  MOMENT 

Inside this Newsletter

Make Us One
Reflecting on some excerpts from a series of articles specifically for the Body of Christ... to usher us into oneness.

Moments of Meditation
Something for you to think about.

Gospel of the Kingdom
By Margie Epps
A.K.A. Mar-Jay . . . Hiz-Way

A Jesus Hug
By Gene Minix

Will You Trust Me
By Lillie M. Hooks

Heartbeats
By Suzanne B. Lester
AGAPEgirl

Motivating Our Youth
By FAITH:
Bridging the Gap!
By Nathan Morgan
The Israel of God
 

   

For this generation, we spread abroad, WORLDWIDE, a beam of light ( YESHUA), a glimpse of Hope and Truth, as we prepare the way and usher in the imminent return of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Following are excerpts from a series of articles which the Father has graced me to write entitled Make Us One. As it’s name implies, my hearts cry is for the entire House of Israel to come together in oneness; Jews and Non-Jewish believers together, walking as one man; coming into the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Yeshua the Messiah). I pray like Jesus prayed....

Father Make Us One

In His Eternal Love & Service,

Gods Handmaiden

Make Us One

 

Oh what a glorious time of refreshing that will be when  Jesus returns, to this earth, to rule and to reign throughout eternity.  With so much devastation and turmoil escalating at lightning speed, the world bows down their knees and collectively cry out to the Lord God above.  Since our last edition where we experienced flood waters in Georgia, this edition unfolds with a massive apocalyptic magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, only to be followed one week later, by another 6.1 magnitude earthquake shaking buildings, and sending screaming people running into the streets of Port-Au-Prince.  People if ever there was a time that we needed the Lord . . . That time is NOW.  Thank God for the aid that is coming from China, France, the United States, and other nations, as they send food, water, medical supplies, and financial aid into this already poverty stricken area, which killed an estimated 200,000 people, and left 250,000 injured, and 1.5 million homeless.  Thank God for the prayers of the righteous that have been ascending up to the Throne Room of the Most High God . . . But sisters and brothers, again I say . . . If ever there was a time that we needed the Lord . . . That time is NOW.  There will be no real peace or joy on this earth until Jesus returns.  The stage is being set, and all the players are falling into place.  Europe is rising to power, The European Economic Community, and the United States is going down.  Russia, China, Iran, Rome, and all of Jerusalem are readying themselves for Jesus return, as King of kings, and Lord of lords, whether they realize it or not.  What about you sisters and brothers?  Are you preparing for the return of Jesus Christ?  Do you know that the 3rd heaven, where God the Father and God the Son resides will not be your final home?  Do you know that the bible declares, without a shadow of a doubt, that Jesus shall rule His Kingdom from here on this earth, and after 1,000 years, then God the Father, shall also come down to this earth for all eternity, to dwell with man.  That’s the day I’m looking for.  That’s the greatest hope that we have for this devastated world . . . True peace and true harmony with Jesus Christ our Lord, and God the Father.  No more dying and no more crying.  The Lord our God shall wipe away all tears from our eyes.  Let’s see what the Word of God has to say about the matter.

 

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.  And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.  And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.  (Revelation 21:1-3)

 

Do yall see that?  New Jerusalem is coming down to this earth and God Himself is going to dwell among His people.  We shall not be spending eternity in the 3rd heaven where God resides now.

 

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.  And He that sat upon the Throne said, Behold, I make all things new.  And He said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.  And He said unto me, It is done.  I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End.  I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be His God, and he shall be my son.  (Revelation 21:4-7)

 

What words of hope and encouragement that is for those who are suffering today, even words to cling to for those who have been affected by the tragedy in Haiti.  My friends there is hope for the children of God, and when Jesus returns, in victory, he will abolish death forever, and the Lord our God shall wipe away tears from all faces.  That’s good news for the House of Israel, for those that are the physical seed of our forefather Abraham, as well as for those that are the spiritual seed of Abraham.  Tell me sisters and brothers . . . Can dry bones live?  Can God restore a seemingly dead situation and bring it back to life?  Of course He can.  Ezekiel, in the Word of God, prophesied to the four winds so that the dry bones of the House of Israel would live, and as it is written . . . They shall live.  Let’s look at it yall.

 

Then said He unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.  So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.  Then He said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole House of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.  (Ezekiel 37:9-12)

 

That’s some more good news my friends. God is in the restoration business.

 

And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.  (Ezekiel 37:13-14)

 

Saints of God, this prophesy is yet to be fulfilled.  The House of Israel, all 12 tribes, have not been placed in their own land, and it shall not happen until Jesus returns.  Somebody else is occupying the nation of Israels land.  Selah  Somebody has taken a nationality of people, and have made it into a religion called Judaism.  The House of Israel, all twelve tribes, are awaiting the arrival of their soon and coming King . . . Even Jesus . . . The King of Israel.  When He comes, He shall gather, not only the Jews from the tribe of Judah, but He shall gather the Danites, the Benjamites, the Gadites, the Levites, and all of the tribes of Jacobs seed, both physical and spiritual.  Check this out yall and listen to these powerful words spoken to the House of Israel.

 

 

 

 

 

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey His Voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.  (Deuteronomy 30:1-3)

 

Hold up a minute yall.  God knew that His people, as a whole, would not keep and obey His laws in the beginning.  He also knew that they would be driven and scattered among all the nations of the earth, and come under all the curses listed in the 28th Chapter of Deuteronomy.  In spite of all of this, our Loving Father also knew, in His Infinite Wisdom, that the day would come when a remnant of His people, Israel, would obey His Voice according to all that was commanded to them on that day.  He promised to have compassion upon His people, and said that He would return and gather them from all the nations, from which they had been scattered.  Has the Lord returned my friends?  Has all the tribes of the House of Israel been gathered?  Well again I say . . . Somebody else is occuping the nation of Israels land, and it has gone past the world like a bullet.

 

If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will He fetch thee:  (Deuteronomy 30:4)

 

God said if any of His people are driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, which is this earth . . .There are 3 heavens, Selah, then the Lord said again, that He would gather them back together.

 

And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.  And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and that thou mayest live.  (Deuteronomy 30:5-6)

 

Do those who call themselves Jewish love the Lord our God?  Do they acknowledge Him, even Jesus, as the God of Israel?  Selah

 

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.  It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?  Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?  But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.  (Deuteronomy 30:11-14)

 

My friends, these are the same words that the Apostle Paul preached, even in his day.  He said hear the Word and then do it, as written in Romans the 10th Chapter.  Let’s look at this it that’s recorded so that we, in this generation, can hear it, and do it.

 

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.  But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.  I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:  That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey His Voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto Him: for He is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.  (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)

 

For He is our life indeed.  We have but two choices life or death, and God told us to choose life, that we and our seed may live.

 

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.  (John 6:63)

 

And, behold, one came and said unto Him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?  And He said unto Him, Why callest thou me good?  There is none good but one, tht is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.  (Matthew 19:16-17)

 

Sisters and Brothers, that’s it in a nutshell. Jesus answered it plain and simple.  The same instructions He/Jesus gave to the children of Israel in the wilderness years ago, it still applies to us today . . . If you want to enter into eternal life, on the good side of the Kingdom . . . Keep His Commandments.  More in our next edition!

 

Moments of Meditation  

But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it. Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up. (Psalms 94:15-18)

  
And This Gospel Of The Kingdom Shall Be Preached..

 












Margie Epps
margie@kingdompoets.com

As we draw closer and closer to the return of Jesus Christ, this handmaiden of the Lord has been given a mandate by God to Blow the Trumpet in Zion and to Sound the Alarm.  My hearts cry is only that which has already been written in the Word of God, and I pray that he that has an ear, will hear what the Spirit of the Lord is speaking to the Church.  "But he who endures to the end shall be saved.  And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come."  (Matthew 24:13-14)

 

In His Eternal Love & Service,
God's Handmaiden.Margie Epps


Jesus The Unknown God

 

 


 

 

People go to church yall every Sunday morning

Without a clue of Who my Jesus is

Oh yeah . . . They think He’s some Fuzzie Wozzie Powder Puff

But let me give you . . . A little bit of history of His

 

You see Jesus didn’t begin in the book of Matthews yall

But first in Genesis . . . At the beginning of the book

It was Jesus Who killed the Egyptians army back in Moses Day

If you don’t believe me . . . Take a little time to look

 

It was JESUS Who commanded that . . . Fire to come falling down

Back there in Sodom and  . . . Also in Gemorrah

And ordered to kill all of those wicked Cannanite nations

Somebody need to learn . . . From all those horrors

 

Let me tell you . . . Jesus loves each and every one of His Children

But there’s a side of Him . . . That remains to be told

Cuz when our Lord returns . . . There’s gonna be a whole lot of blood

So please excuse me . . . Oh let ME be bold

 

See when He stomps His Feet over there in Jerusalem

It shall be Him . . . Against the kingdoms of this world

And blood shall be splashed up to the horses bridle

And His Vengeance . .  . He sure shall twirl

 

Oh Jesus . . . Sweet Jesus . . . That’s the God YOU know

Well you better look again . . . Cuz the Lion is spotting His prey

For all those who refuse His Commandments to obey

The Lake of Fire . . . Is where you sure will lay

 

You better acquaint yourself with the God of this bible

You better forget about the traditions of men

Jesus Christ is more than a bundle of love

Cuz the Lion of Judah . . . Is Who the Father shall send

 





Enjoy This Season

By Joe Breunig

 Withering grass of this season

With your abundance of green,

Take advantage of Today

Contribute to this Earthly scene.

 

Enjoy your present strength;

Ignore worries of the past.

Let the distant failures fade

And let sweeter memories last.

 

Be true to yourself always,

Standing tall and strong.

Focus on your own meadows and . . .

Learn to hum to Life’s song.


© Copyright by Joe Breunig

Author, Reaching Towards His Unbounded Glory

 

 

 

You Don't Have To Be Perfect 

By Joye Atkinson

 

 

My body may be mangled

I can't write or talk

My legs may be immobile

Therefore I cannot walk

 

My hands and arms may tremble

From nerves I can't control

But there's one thing that will not change

God's spirit's in my soul

 

Although I can't express in words

The way I really feel

I know the love of Jesus Christ

Within my heart is real

 

I know some people look at me

And think I'm deaf or blind

But they don't even have a clue

What's going through my mind

 

Of course there are some times I think

 Of  how I used to be

But God and I've been talking

And He has a job for me 

 

 

He wants me like I am for now

So people know it's true

You don't have to be perfect

For God to work through you

 

Yes the Lord is using me

Just the way I am

He is my Great Shepherd

And I'm His precious lamb

 

It may not be until the day

The Lord comes back again

But that will be the greatest day

There has ever been

 

That day I'll kneel before God's throne

And with my voice I'll sing

Then I will LEAP into the arms

Of Jesus Christ my King


Written For & Inspired by Bill Shaw

 


Suzanne B. Lester
A.K.A. AGAPEgirl
suzanne@kingdompoets.com

 

When a Daughter Becomes a Mother

When a daughter becomes a mother
she takes a different view.
At last she is finally able to see
what her loving mother went through.
She feels the pains of childbirth,
but soon forgets them all.
She remembers her loving mother
and wants to give her a call.
She feels the same pride within her
as she holds her child in her arms.
She remembers her loving mother
and how she protected her from all harm.
She now knows the joy of a miracle
as her baby begins to cry.
She finally has some answers to
the what, when, where and why.
She understands things that her mother
tried to teach her along the way.
She finally feels all the pleasures
of living to see this day.

 

Motivating Our Youth


Nathan Morgans

 

By FAITH

 

Bridging the Gap!

 

Take a journey with Brother Nathan Morgan of The Israel of God as he motivates our youth by FAITH:  Bridging the gap through Jacob?s Heritage Foundation.  The purpose of this organization is to observe and strengthen the positive attributes in our youth and then mold individuals into leadership.  Jacob?s Heritage Foundation is a faith-based organization with a 501(c)(3) status in the state of Illinois.  Their mission is to teach our youth through individual empowerment toward self-improvement in personal, social, academic, vocational, and economic skills which would nurture a positive growth in spirituality, responsibility, education, and family structure.  Brother Nate is also my Co-Laborer in the Gospel on the Voices of Victory Radio Broadcast, which airs every Sunday night, where he teaches the Word of God.  Sit back now, and relax my friends, as he enlightens our youth by FAITH, and bridge the gap!

 

Greetings readers!  Once again I am delighted to inform you of our progress with Jacob’s Heritage Foundation.  It is such a Joy to learn new things. Knowing that it is God who waters the seed and give increase to our knowledge and understanding.  Not only in the word of God, but in the things that’s common to mankinds physical needs.
 
The scripture speaks about we perish for lack of knowledge, regarding God’s word especially, but even in the issues of life.  If you could not read in high school, you probably failed Comprehension Class. If you could not do multiplications, you probably failed Mathematics.  The same as, if you do not know how to work out your own salvation, there is a greater chance of condemnation.

Therefore, all that is good is given to us as seeds to increase from.  We just have to seek, knock, and ask!  Regarding this, I have increased in the non-profit sector.  As of September 1, 2009, I have completed an intense twelve week business workshop course organized by Genesis Housing Development Corporation here in Chicago.  This organization is known for its redevelopment of housing in the community and is responsible for millions of dollars of renovations in Chicago, and they are also known for community empowerment and education.

I decided to hang around Genesis Housing Development Organization because I believe my affiliation will be beneficial to me in the long run. Therefore, I pray they grant me funding.  At this time, my business plan is complete, and eventually I will be asking for start up money in the amount of $375,000, which is needed over a twelve month period.

I have polished up my mission statement and my purpose, thanks to the guidance and motivation from my instructors, Kathleen Robbins and Steve Kidd.

Therefore, with my prayer, I ask you to pray also for this great mission that is a treasure in my heart.

To give you a reminder, I have posted our mission and purpose:

We are a registered 501 c3 organization named, Jacob’s Heritage Foundation.  We are a charitable youth development organization and our mission is to recruit young adults ages 14-21 to teach and guide them in self-awareness and development, in academic studies, economic training, public relation, job creation and spirituality.  Through our teaching and guidance in our programs, our purpose is to inspire and nurture a positive growth in responsibility, education and family structure.

We plan to publish our operations and updates in our monthly readers digest magazine next year.  Our magazine will be parent friendly and the contents will be the orientations of our young adult’s voices, gifts, talents, knowledge and skills.

I like to give thanks to GOD the Father and His Son, the GOD of Israel, for allowing me to take hold of the things that are true, honest, pure, just, lovely; the things that are of good report, and the things that are of virtue.  Amen!

Nathan Morgan
Jacob’s Heritage Foundation
Grace and Peace

 

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But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.  Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.  (Matthew 13:8-9)


 This newsletter is to exhort the Body of Christ. If you have a poem of encouragement
that you would like to share, please submit it to margie@reflect-a-moment.com.

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