Truth is rare these days while deception runs rampant. Science proves that masks offer zero protection, but people easily believe the Liar over the Truth. WHY ??? The protection we need is not a mask but a the TRUTH, a helmet and a sword!  Worldwide we are living in wildly wicked days. Masking is a cult practice specifically designed to reverse the order set in place by God Himself. By God’s design we are ambassadors of His Word on this earth. Our job is to speak His Word, on His Sovereign behalf to others. He’s the King, and we are His mouthpiece on a mission to carry His Word to others. His plan, His purpose is to engage us by speaking.  Our Father gave us this command. 2 Timothy 4:2 — “Preach the word” Our job is to pray for the harvest, for more workers in the field.

Transgenders performing in sports, laws changed to stop people from identifying as a male or a dad. Kids being taught that they can switch genders. Women are now called the birthing people. What???  Lawlessness abounds as the police Department of Seattle, Oakland and several other cities has been fired, or defunded!  Spiritual discernment is needed to see the depth and severity of the attempted coup against God and His people. “Don’t be deceived, Don’t be ashamed, Don’t hide your faith, Don’t be silenced”. God’s Word warns us that there will be times we can’t even trust our own neighbors. Jeremiah 9:4-5 “Beware of your friends; do not trust anyone in your clan. For every one of them is a deceiver, and every friend a slanderer. Friend deceives friend, and no one speaks the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they weary themselves with sinning.”   Hebrews 10:26 warns, “For if we sin willfully, after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sin.”

God tells us in advance that the war is spiritual, not physical and our Lord tells us that we win the war with prayer. The unsaved will go through the great tribulation. Read Revelation chapter 6-19, and imagine 7 certain years of pain, suffering like no other time in history. God’s just wrath is what is on the horizon.  2 Thess 2:9-12 “The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, and all the ways that wickedness deceives those who are perishing. They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.” The global scale of strong delusion is seen by a Supreme Court decision. Riots are in the streets because women demand the right to kill a baby? Is this according to God’s will?

Before their disobedience in the garden, Adam and Eve were both naked and not ashamed. After they disobeyed God they became fearful and a sense of shame made them hide from God. Our Father’s grace provided clothing for the first time and ever since believers who fear God cover themselves modestly. Modesty contains harmony between our conscious and soul, it is not just how we dress or adorn our bodies. Lack of modesty, throughout the Bible, is most often connected to an intent to commit sexual sin. Isaiah chided the women of Israel for exhibitionism. The allegory of unfaithful marriage in Hosea referred to shameless behavior with a sexual connotation.  Why expose your body as a lure to wanting to sin against a holy God?  NOW  is a critical time to  What is Truth?

In 2022 we exist in a world divided about many issues.  Who is the divider?  Who is the one responsible for people hating others? God warns us “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” 1 Peter 5:8.    “Do not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 9:12   God does not force Himself on anyone. Our gracious Father allows us to choose Him over evil.  Check your pride, and ask yourself who are you to question God’s Word or His plan?  God wins in the end, for now the prince of the air is the ruler. Our Father allows us time to seek Him, trust Him, receive Him, and believe in Him alone.   1 Peter 5:8  Satan blinds the minds of unbelievers and a great self delusion brings them to think “I’m a good person and if there is a heaven, I am certain based on my good character, I will go to heaven.”  Remember that the Devil tempted Jesus right after He was baptized.  “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted there by the devil” Matthew 4:1  There is always a test. The devil seeks to devour, destroy and test our faith in God. Don’t dread the challenge, rejoice in the Word of God to cancel and destroy his empty threats. Keep standing firm, use the Sword God gave you to slay giants!  Focus on the crown you get to lay at the feet of Jesus.  Everywhere you are God is. Soberly see the problems and difficulties and rejoice in knowing you are His valiant, courageous warrior, not a worrier!

The one true God always develops faith during trials. We always get the VICTORY as we trust God in His ways and perfect timing. Our little faith becomes great faith, when we must apply it. We must use it. We must stretch it. And we must avoid the temptation of spiritual slumber and laziness so that we don’t miss out on what God is doing.

“Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble.  But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.”  1 John 2:10-12 – The GOOD news is “The anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you don’t need anyone to teach you.  Instead, His anointing teaches you about all things” 1 John 2:27  So what is the will of God? That we are recognized from afar for the love that He poured into us, and the love we show to ALL others. Our Sword of Truth, His Word is alive and active in us, and with us, so we can always be confident that the victory is ours!

Let us hold on tightly to Who is holding us up.  “Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will.”  Let us be encouraged by what God has promised to those who love Him.  Heavenly Minded