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The job of the adversary: Trying to shake your foundation

“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long suffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

2 Peter 3:9

You ever get the feeling that you’re under attack? Last week, we hit on foundation. While one of the most controversial topics within Christendom, it also serves as the most indispensable element of Christian living. When we think about how God serves His people, it is always within the foundation of justice and judgement. Since the fall of man, God’s mission has been to re-establish man to inherit his place with Him. That means submitting to the task of putting on the breastplate of righteousness! It is a task we should be honored to complete. Everything He has created, established and covered has been for man to observe and adopt the foundation He established in the beginning. Therefore, yes, His desire is that all may reject sin and aim for holiness.

Satan works daily

Just as in the Garden of Eden, at the beginning of time, Satan still works daily to overthrow God’s assignment. He seeks to dismount and eradicate the foundation, Christ Himself and everything connected to Him. “For we are God’s coworkers. You are God’s field, God’s building” (1 Corinthians 3:9, CSB). Satan wants to us. His garden experience is strikingly similar every second of the day. Watching for our fall; awaiting the tragedy. “Control yourselves and be careful! The devil is your enemy, and he goes around like a roaring lion looking for someone to attack and eat” (1 Peter 5:8, ERV). The amazing ending to this attack by the enemy is that God “is not slack on His promise” to us. He’s not sloppy! His service for us and to us is FIVE STARS 🌟🌟 🌟🌟🌟 and more. “The yes to all of God’s promises is in Christ. And that is why we say ‘Amen’ through Christ to the glory of God” (2 Corinthians 1:20, ERV).

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Satan is a Liar

Satan works to end this thought! However, he is a liar! Standing on the foundation of Christ, that He came that no one would die eternally, gives us hope. God’s status of beyond FIVE STARS 🌟🌟 🌟🌟🌟 isn’t just talk… but a fact we can risk our lifetime proving. Holy people rise to the assignment and live out the deliverance our Lord has handed you. See the truth in the wreckage’s midst. Cry aloud to your God and believe every word He has declared over your life. “And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you]” (Romans 12:2, AMP). Stand against what seems to make sense, for Satan wishes to sift you as wheat (Luke 22:31) as he requested to do with Simon Peter.

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Where is Your Altar?

Genesis 13:1-4
You should never go a place without taking out time to communicate with God. Don’t lose focus on what God has planned for you to do. We have to be careful to wait on and follow God and not get off track with Him.
Abram means “high father.” His recognition was bestowed upon him by his personal experiences with God. He built altars to worship God when he went certain places.
Three altars that Abraham built:
Altar #1: Genesis 12:6: Abraham built an altar at Sichem, which represents strength. Strength represents obedience to God’s will about where to go or to stay. Sometimes we need the will to stay where God wants us to stay, instead of our own will that tries to to leave where He placed us. Don’t just use God’s will in things that favor us. We can’t make our will God’s will. Sometimes it is God’s will for you to stay put because He is trying to build up something in you and prepare you for something to come. We can’t spend more time asking God what His will is than we spend doing it.
Altar #2: Genesis 28: An altar of sacrifice at Bethuel, which represents the church and the church represents sacrifice. We must give God ourselves for God to fulfill His purpose in our lives.
Altar #3: Genesis 13: Altar of unity at Hai, where we share with others.
Genesis 12:10
You can’t go to the world expecting to be delivered. Nor should you go to a place inferior to what you already had. Egypt was inferior to Canaan.
We have to take our eyes off the circumstances we’re in because God has already put you in the best place! Why would you leave a land that God is watching over? Be where God’s presence is. Be where God is watching!
If you walk out of the church and into the world, there are consequences. If you think you only committed one sin, that one sin will lead to another. There are consequences even to that one sin. Abraham trusted in Egypt. We can’t trust in the world, which is like Egypt.
Don’t let the world take your will and your testimony. Wherever you got off track, go back and get it straight. How? Repent and confess your sins. You can’t repent and stay in the same place. You have to come out!
Even though God will forgive you, there is something you can’t get back: time. You lose time when you are in the world. Somethings you do have lasting effects even after God forgives you. Don’t waste time getting to God.
Do go anywhere in this world where you will have to leave your testimony behind. Be in a place where you can keep your testimony and stay in the presence of God. Get back in place!
Where is the place where you commune with God? You can be with other saints, be in every prayer meeting and service and still have no altar. Sometimes you have to separate from those who have altars in the wrong place. Go back to the place of the altar that you made to commune with God. Go back to where you messed up and get it right with God. Get back to the right place!

Pearls of wisdom from Bishop Samuel Wright


Bishop Samuel “Handsome” Wright of Zion Apostolic Christian Memorial Temple in Petersburg, Va., was a guest speaker during the PAW International Men’s Conference. He stayed to preach on Sunday, and shared the following pearls of wisdom:

-Don’t listen to random Last Day prophecies: No man knows the day nor the hour when Jesus is coming back.
-The church’s job is to win souls and your job is to be a witness, and your walk has got to match your talk.
-Some of you might think you’re saved, but you’re not. All you have to do it take an attitude test.
-Learn to tell the truth even if it hurts. Liars will be swimming in a hot lake when all is said and done.
-The Holy Ghost will check you if you want to be checked. He makes you respect and be concerned about people.
-You don’t boss God, He bosses you; You never know how He is going to move.
-If a sermon is preached and doesn’t hit you then it may not be from God. If it does (more…)