Beverage of choice on hand? Awesome. Let’s consider Love, Trust, Battles, and some Other Stuff.
I recall realizing my understanding of what’s really going on – naturally and supernaturally speaking – was so far off the mark from what Almighty God states in His Word. But, my incorrectness was how I and so many others were raised: Practice the religion you’re born or marry into; be a basically decent person so God blesses you with some of your wants like health and material stuff; and when you die, you’ll go to Heaven. There’s so much inaccuracy in that belief system, and that’s based on God’s Word, not my opinion.
I complained, “Lord, no one told us getting saved means waking up to the fact we’re engaged in a spiritual battle and are on a battlefield. That we might (or will) get wounded. We’re unprepared! I doubt the ones who should have prepared us are even prepared for it.” It’s Reality vs. the Matrix.
From a FB post by Jovelyn Begaso:
Sometimes the very thing you’re trying to escape… is the very thing God wants to use.
We pray, “Lord, take this problem away.”
But what if God is saying, “Trust Me… I’m going to use this.”
That struggle you’re facing…
That pressure you didn’t ask for…
That situation that makes no sense…
God doesn’t waste pain. He transforms it.
Corrie [ten Boom] learned something powerful—not in comfort, but in hardship:
God turns problems into platforms for His power.
The miracle isn’t always in the removal…
Sometimes it’s in what God produces through it.
Faith grows when control is gone.
Trust deepens when answers are delayed.
And God shows Himself strongest when you feel weakest.
KJV Verse: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” — Romans 8:28
So don’t despise the season you’re in.
God may be writing a testimony through it.
What looks like a problem to you…
may be the beginning of a miracle in God’s hands. -Jovelyn Begaso
What We Need Going Forward, Because of the Craziness
God’s question posed to me (in spirit while in prayer) back in 2016, came up again recently: “Do you trust My love as much as you trust My wisdom?”
I’m beginning to understand that the measure of my trust in God (the Ancient of Days) and my love for Him are like mercury in a thermometer. Each indicates the measure of the other: if I genuinely love Him, then I must genuinely trust Him – no matter what.
In God Is Faithful, David Wilkerson wrote: “In God’s eyes, our problem is not sin, it is trust. Jesus settled our sin problem once and for all at Calvary.” Wilkerson also wrote, “Something marvelous happens when we simply trust our faithful God. A peace comes over us, enabling us to say, ‘It does not matter what comes out of this ordeal. My God has everything under control. He preserves my life. I have nothing to fear.’”
The trust our Father wants from us is not about do we trust Him to be able to do something, it’s do we trust His love for us, whatever He does or doesn’t do. Because whatever He does or doesn’t do IS for us, whosoever has been cleansed through the blood of His Son Jesus Christ and are counted as His sons and daughters.
It’s about LOVE
All of it. Our Creation in His image. And establishing an irrevocable way to redeem us from the Enemy who deceived Adam and Eve, thereby tainting our spiritual DNA, giving us a sin-nature. Even the Battle of the Ages we’re currently in and His invitation to us to participate in it in some measure, is motivated by His great love for us.
Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground. – A. W. Tozer
Sincere Question: Do you truly understand that you/we are in a spiritual battle that affects our physicality and every aspect of who we are – including our thoughts? Are you sure? See if this is part of your conscious awareness:
From Jamie Walden’s book, Omega Dynamics: Equipping a Warrior Class of Christians for the Days Ahead: “As noted author, researcher, and film producer, Steve Quayle, once stated: ‘Everyone wants to follow Jesus until they find out where He is going. We live in a society and culture where godly men will not answer the call because the Pulpit will not only not call them to battle, but will actually stand in the gap and prevent them from entering it! …We are so worried about looking like a “Christian” and acting like a “Christian” and about not being hard, harsh, or turning people from the Gospel. And all the time, as we are trying to be nicer than Jesus, the Enemy is eating our lunch! …This should not be so!’
“Take heed, those with ears to hear: understand the depth and the nature of the war you are engaged in! It is ‘seed’ (genetic) warfare against God’s created order and His people, as established in Genesis 3! …. The most basic building-blocks of God’s created order are being corrupted. Our genes, our food, our air, our sensory perceptions, our neurology, our emotion, our logic and understanding, the Word, our hearts, and our spiritual discernment are all undergoing ‘genome editing’ while we remain tragically unaware. [Bold-font emphasis is mine, not Walden’s.]
“If what was orderly and perfect in its estate is reordered at the most basic, foundational level, everything it yields will be tainted. Jesus declared that the world will know we are Christians by our love. And yet, the Church’s very genetic coding – what ‘love’ is and what it is not – has been ‘tampered’ with by the ‘Luciferian Whitecoats’ in high places. Sadly, today’s Church, and the fruit it yields, have become representative of a ‘genetically modified organism’ (GMO).”
Almighty God, Who is Love, reveals in His Word how significant love is to Him and should be to us. But, first, we need to understand more about what He means by love and what He expects of us, as opposed to what the Woke, the World, and the Lost push on us. We must be able to discern the difference between self-induced (or other-wise induced) emotionalism vs. genuine, intimate, Spirit-led relationship with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Walden’s book explains it better than I can. Here is some of what God wants us to understand about love and about it being one of our most significant weapons of spiritual warfare.
From Omega Dynamics:
“So how do our orders to ‘love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself’ undergird Christ’s Mission to ‘destroy the works of the enemy’? How does it actually manifest in the War of the Ages?
“These questions are difficult to answer if the basis of our understanding of love is deficient or distorted. Remember, the Word declares, ‘if the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?’ (Ps 11:3). If we replace the foundations of God’s throne with ‘love and goodness’, usurping the truth that it is actually established upon ‘righteousness and justice’ (Psalm 89:14) we instantly come into significant error. Consequently, the activity of our Mission becomes convoluted, confused, and compromised. This in no way is dismissive of the equally powerful truth that ‘love and faithfulness’ go before Him, but these flow outward from a firm foundation of ‘righteousness and justice’.
“Altering the foundations of His Mission-Set to suit our selfish ambitions in how we want to conduct the Mission of ‘love’ (tolerance, acceptability, comfortableness, and validation by all people at all times) is tantamount to insubordination! When we do not love rightly we are not able to carry out our Commander’s ‘task and purpose’ with diligence.
“Because we have become lovers of self, lovers of pleasure rather than of God, having the form of godliness while denying its power, as we trumpet ‘prophesy illusions, tell us pleasant things’, the Church has contaminated the roots of our Mission to be the Lord’s ‘Main Effort’ advancing His Kingdom Objectives. A new strain of ‘genetically modified’ Christianity has been sown; and its yield is reaping devastation to the ‘saved’ and ‘lost’ alike.”
While in one of the concentration camps during WWII, Betsie ten Boom learned who the man (Jan Vogel) was who’d betrayed their family to the Nazis (they’d been helping to hide and save Jews): Papa ten Boom had died 10 days after being incarcerated. Corrie wrote that upon learning their betrayer’s name, “Flames of fire seemed to leap around that name in my heart… I could kill him. All of me ached with violent emotion.” Betsie, however, seemed less disturbed. When Corrie pressed her about this, Betsie replied, “I’ve felt for him ever since I knew – and pray for him whenever his name comes into my mind.” More about this in a moment.
The World System (and FB “warriors”) want us to believe Messiah Jesus is a Malibu, sandal-wearing, easy-going Savior. “The Lord is a Warrior; the Lord is His Name” (Exodus 15:3). Walden said, “Love compels a warrior to fight for others, even to the death.” John 3:16 BSB – “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” John 15:13 BSB – “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”
Just as in the military there are those on the front lines, there are also those in KP duty, making sure those front-line warriors stay strong. Intercessors dedicate hours of their life to pray for others: We might call this the gentler form of spiritual warfare, but all warfare must begin and continue with it (see Ephesians 6). Read about Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles, to see how God commanded then responded to prayer and worship.
This is not easy to hear or admit, but more often true than not: Part of our trust issue with God stems from our still loving ourselves and our lives more than we love Him, and definitely more than we love others with agape love, that is care and concern for their soul and where they’ll spend eternity. The colder our love grows toward God and others, the more of a narcissist we become. Narcissists not only lack love for others, but also lack true fear of God, and fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. The closer we are to Jesus, the more love or at least compassion we have for others. The less love or at least compassion we have for others (and their eternal state), the further we are from a genuinely intimate relationship with Jesus. This should cause each of us to push Pause, to reassess.
But let’s face it: Feeling agape love for others, especially those who hurt us or hurt those we love, isn’t always easy. That’s why we must trust what God’s Word tells us and strive to operate in spirit, not from feelings.
One way the Enemy seduces us into the opposite of love is covered by Rob Pue in his article, “Beware the Fake News – On Both Sides”: “So now, we have sensational headlines, known as ‘click bait.’ We also have headlines designed to tug at our emotions as they highlight something evil that’s happened. This is known as ‘rage bait.’ People click on those stories and are enraged to read about injustice. These ‘news sources’ make their money based on the number of ‘clicks’ they get online as people engage with their content. People engage with such content because they’re responding emotionally, rather than thinking critically. Stories like this make them feel something — they tickle their itching ears.” I add this: A.I. tracks what we look at – and gives us more of it. “Watch out that you be not deceived!” Wisconsin Christian News
We are commanded in Matthew 5:16 NKJV to “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.” We’re to be salt and light in the world, not to put salt into wounds and snuff out wicks, though our inherent sin nature “entertains” such thoughts (like all those memes and videos and pundits who insult those we disagree with – and doesn’t it feel so flesh-and-ego-feeding satisfying to point out how less ‘whatever’ than us They are? – as we become more and more haughty and narcissistic – God forgive us!), for which we need to repent, as Corrie ten Boom explains next, regarding the man who’d betrayed her and her family and led to her father’s death.
Corrie wrote, “For a long time, I lay silently in the shadowy barracks. Wasn’t Betsie telling me in her gentle way that I was as guilty as Jan Vogel? Didn’t he and I stand together before an all-seeing God convicted of the same sin of murder? I had murdered him in my heart and with my tongue. I needed forgiveness just as he did. ‘Lord Jesus,’ I whispered, ‘Forgive Mr. Vogel and forgive me.’”
From Corrie ten Boom’s God Is My Hiding Place – plus a few of her prayers:
- When the actions of others alter our life, we must remember this truth: Our lives, no matter how difficult the circumstances, are in God’s hands. Regardless of the sin, we all need God’s mercy. No one is exempt. It isn’t our duty to understand or to shift blame. It is our responsibility to keep our hearts clean, to walk in God’s compassion and to use our lives to help others. If it takes us to our graves, at least we will go there knowing we have done God’s will, and there we will forever be hidden in His glory.
PRAYER: Father, I need Your help. It’s easy for me to pass judgment on others and see their sins, but You have a higher way for me to walk—the heavenly path of mercy. I know You are teaching me to bless my enemies and to pray for those who hurt my loved ones and me. I need Your grace to do that. I need You to change my heart and to soften it with Your love.
- In every dark trial, we have the opportunity to bring light and release those who are imprisoned in darkness. We must learn to love even the vilest people who are deceived by the enemy. We must be willing to shine our light.
PRAYER: Father, how difficult it is to love my enemies without Your help! I know the only way for me to release Your light with power is by having a pure heart filled with compassion. Lord Jesus, purify my heart and remove any hatred I have toward those who have done evil. You died for everyone without exception. We all need Your mercy. And I need it, too. Help me to see each person through Your eyes.
And to Corrie’s prayers, I add this: Holy Spirit, help me to remember that I am commanded to forgive as the Father forgives me (forgiveness will be given to those who forgive) and that to those who show mercy, mercy will be shown. Help me to keep foremost in my heart and mind that my love for my Almighty God and Father and my Lord and Redeemer Jesus Christ is the foundation of my strength to do what He commands I do—for my protection against a subtle, crafty, legalistic Enemy and to the Father’s Glory and Honor. Do I love my God enough to obey Him—to humble myself into full obedience as my Lord Jesus Christ did with the Father—no matter what, even unto giving my life for Him? Lord Jesus, I thank and praise You for being faithful to bring me to that goal of sanctification, because, as You know, I cannot do it on my own.
So I Ask Again: What’s Love God to Do with It?
Truly, love is one of the ultimate spiritual warfare weapons to wield.
Colossians 3:12-17 ESV: “Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” We daily face the choice, as Walden said, “to be right vs. to have a right standing before a Holy God”.
Lastly, Walden wrote, “Love will always manifest itself in the degree to which it is willing to sacrifice toward the object of its love.” We know that it was not nails that kept Jesus on the cross, it was love – for you, for me, for each person made in God’s image. God cannot/will not move through us if/when the root of bitterness in in us.
I’ll close by repeating Jovelyn Begaso’s FB comments here (and please see the Extras that follow):
Sometimes the very thing you’re trying to escape… is the very thing God wants to use.
We pray, “Lord, take this problem away.”
But what if God is saying, “Trust Me… I’m going to use this.”
That struggle you’re facing…
That pressure you didn’t ask for…
That situation that makes no sense…
God doesn’t waste pain. He transforms it.
Corrie [ten Boom] learned something powerful—not in comfort, but in hardship:
God turns problems into platforms for His power.
The miracle isn’t always in the removal…
Sometimes it’s in what God produces through it.
Faith grows when control is gone.
Trust deepens when answers are delayed.
And God shows Himself strongest when you feel weakest.
KJV Verse: “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.” — Romans 8:28
So don’t despise the season you’re in.
God may be writing a testimony through it.
What looks like a problem to you…
may be the beginning of a miracle in God’s hands.” [Jovelyn Begaso]
EXTRAS THAT MATTER FOR THE DAYS & SPIRIT OF THE AGE WE’RE IN:
Q: Epstein files and more disturb you? How bad might it get, and why would Almighty God allow it? A WORD: THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS – YouTube
Are you certain you follow the true Jesus? Be sure: EPISODE 6 | Hoodwinked: Nephilim Agenda, False Jesus & Mind Control
The Church Warned [The modern Church is under attack — not from the outside, but from within. False doctrines, twisted theologies, and spiritual deception have quietly crept into congregations around the world, leaving believers unprepared for the greatest spiritual battle in human history.]
Why Most Christians Never Find Freedom Jamie Walden (Part 2) | Ep 81 – YouTube
The Prmises of God | Bible Verses For Sleep 8 Hours of God’s Promises
Government Agents Believe the CHURCH is NOT READY for Disclosure! w/ @JAMIE WALDEN
Is This the Beginning of WW3? Jamie Walden on Armageddon, Deception & What Comes Next
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