{controversal faith}

You cannot love God if you do not have a fear of The Lord.

Those who do not know God, can not know the secrets of Heaven & Earth. It is only God who gives wisdom, worldly wisdom is false deception & a manipulation of the truth. Even if we were to tell the world the mysteries of God (1 Tim. 3:16), they could not believe it unless it is the Spirit that reveals it to them.(Matt 16:15-17, John 17:1-26)


{Psalm 25:14}
The secret of the Lord is with those who fear Him, & He will show them his covenant.

{1 Corinthians 2:6-15}
However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written:

“ Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one.

{Luke 23:34}
Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.”

{Colossians 1:25-27}
...to fulfill the Word of God, the mystery which has been hidden from ages from generations, but now has been revealed to His saints. To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the gentiles: which is Christ in you, the HOPE of glory.

{Ephesians 1:9}
Having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure purposes to Himself.

What is the Mystery?
{1 Timothy 3:16}
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness:

God was manifested in the flesh,
Justified in the Spirit,
Seen by angels,
Preached among the Gentiles,
Believed on in the world,
Received up in glory.

{Matthew 11:25}
At that time Jesus answered and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have revealed them to babes.

{Matthew 16:23}
But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

These are only just a very small amount of Scripture that talks about the Mysteries of God. I haven't even touched on the fear of The Lord. I mainly wanted to bring to the table that if you do not know the Lord, you can not know Him. Sounds repetitive I know, but now that you've read it, repeat it out loud. Now then, just think about it, the world claims all these horrible attributes of God, why? They don't know God. Well that's because of the fine example us as His Bride- the Church has made. Therefore we don't really know Him. Scary thing to claim, but I can confidently say that I truly don't know God. More than anything, this grieves my heart. But I know it's a passage from glory to glory, I do what I don't want to do & I don't do what I want to do, even though I so desperately desire to follow the voice of my Shepard! Thanks to Jesus, though we are all reconciled to God forever as Romans 5 says! This is a journey folks, & it's only by God's amazing grace that we are able to make it another minute.
So now with all that said, let's pray & diligently seek after His face while we still have time!(Isaiah 55:6)

War over a Woman's soul

There is a war raging. Raging not only on our own souls, but a war that is after our families and the true order of God for mankind. The face that the enemy is using in the battle is so crafty, that it's crept into most aspects of our life. Some of you may have not even heard this term before, but it is the most dangerous tool because it is the most subtle. This tool is called humanism- the desire & for self recognition and pleasure to be gained in any capacity necessary. Not only have we seen this inside the church, but everywhere, woman have recognized the lack & lost calling that God places on each of them. The freedom riots and peaceful marches of the 1960s were supposed to liberate us but instead has left us in every sense of the word lacking. But there is hope! No longer must we listen to the lie that we are less than a person , but that the message of God is clear to His Bride, a message of hope, obedience, prayer & death to self. This is God's heart felt approach for us to turn back to godly womanhood.

The early rise of the feminist movement in the late 1960s, had it's roots almost 50 years earlier in the Tea-Party meetings and suffrage marches for woman's rights. With women in all cultures across the world deemed as sub-human, scripture tells us a very different account.
Genesis 1:27 recounts God making both men & women equal in His image. Satan knew that in order to get man to be separated from God, he could use the woman to his own advantage. Not only by causing the woman to believe a lie, that she could be like God & obtain all knowledge,(Genesis 3:5) but in doing so, this would cause God's order for family to be distorted. In result of the fall of man, God spoke a curse directed to the woman saying, "And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you."(Genesis 3:16) Stating that you will want to lead in whatever you do, but man will be over you. Ever since that day in the garden, there has been a battle between the sexes.
So what is the problem with this? One word, submission. Submission to some, would send ill shivers down the spines of those who aren't well acquainted with the word. Yet, to submit actually means to give over or yield to the power or authority of another. So you see to submit means to allow yourself to go low so that another can be lifted high, and in this there is only room for love and grace to abound, not selfishness or bitterness. In many societies, the misunderstanding of submission is that only women are subject to this rule. When in reality, the bible clearly states that women are not the only ones who are called to submit! Ephesians 5:25 says, Husbands love your wife as Christ loved the church and submitted Himself for her even unto death. And again in Matthew 26:42 where Christ Himself submitted His will to the Father. Submission means to allow God to intervene. When we stay the course of God's good and righteous order(1 Corinthians 14:40), we allow God to do what He needs to do in any situation whether it be avenging the injustice(Romans 12:19), or praying for a loved one to be saved.
So with all this said, I hope we see submission in a new & positive light, because submission is such a powerful principle that operates on faith and without faith it is impossible to please God.(Hebrews 11:6) P. Bunny Wilson- Biblical Womanhood in the Home>
When we walk under this liberating biblical principle, we are obeying God's commands, & God desires obedience over sacrifice,(1 Samuel 15:22) and we can not do obedience without faith.(Romans 1:5) So no matter how many dishes you wash, dinners you cook or gardens you plow, if there is bitterness harbored inside(Matthew 5:23-24), it is all done in vain,(Psalm 127:1) & we are in sin.
But where sin is, there grace abounds even more!(Romans 5:20) You may ask yourself well how in the world am I supposed to just change my way of thinking, change without an up front solution? Well the amazing news is that we can not only have the mind of Christ, but God is constantly calling us away with Him.(1 Corinthians 2:16, Hosea 2:14-15, Hebrew 13:20-22) I'm not saying this will be easy, but if it's worth fighting for than it's worth dying for! The way to the heart of God is to go to the cross. At the cross there is submission of ones will in place of God's in our life. At the cross Jesus spoke of Paradise.(Luke 23:43) Now normally when someone thinks of death, they do not think of Heaven. They think of all that will be lost, their families, possessions, positions & whatever else they had in this life. But for Jesus to say there is faith, hope & love in the cross of Christ, wow. So for Christ to say it is better to lose your life to His, so that you might gain His cross, what better way is there?(Matthew 16:25-27, Mark 10:21)

So ladies, is there hope?? Yes, Jesus is our only hope in this life.(Hebrews 6:19) There is no greater reward in this life than to love the Lord with everything! In everything you do, do it for the glory of God!(1 Corinthians 10:21)

The Church says she's Pro-Life, but is she Pro-Child?

There are aproxiamtely 7,500 children in San Diego foster care right this moment. There are OVER 500 churches in SAN DIEGO County alone. If each church adopted only 15 kids, the San Diego foster care system would HAVE to close it's doors. We NEED to wake up and BE THE CHURCH to the people AS Christ IS to His Bride! This frusterates me sooo bad. People don't understand that the adoption & foster care system is a BLACK MARKET of buying and selling of kids. People respond with, " Oh, well that's just the way the system works." My response, "It is the way the world works, not God. When Jesus spoke of Heaven, He said it is FULL of children!(Matt. 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16) He also said, there are many rooms in His Father's house, and that He must go away to prepare rooms for us.(John 14:2) Another part of canon that is close to my heart is James 1:27, where it says, Pure & undefiled Religion IS this, to take care of Widows & Orphans, & to keep ourselves unspotted from this world. " Why does the Church need to wake up you may be asking yourself? Because God has fully and completely adopted us into His family. Where would we be without the love of the Father for whom He loved so much that He gave of His only Son to be our sin offering, so we could come into His Kingdom.

You may also be asking well what can you do?

• Pray, Pray, Pray
• Go here: Randy & Kelsey Bohlender, answer to the money problem
• Start foster parenting classes, if you go through Christian homestudy's, they are usually free-of-cost. (My Hubby & I went through Rancho Jireh Foster Care)
• If you decide to go through state care, instead of a private foster company, you will not recieve support or help in any way, because time costs the government money.

Don't worry if you feel you won't have the support of your friends or family, God will provide in whatever capacity He needs to in order to get His lost sheep out of the lion's den. If you have any questions, I would recommend contacting Randy or Kelsey Bohlender.