Stranger Truths Chapter One - The Vanishing of Will Byers

There are many reasons why Stranger Things is such a hit on Netflix.  From the nostalgia of the endearing cast of characters to the suspense and its totally tubular synth score--this show has it all.  Kinda like the Goonies, ET and 80s horror films all rolled into one.  Season 1 and 2 were fun to watch.  It was tough to just watch one or two at a time and spread the viewing out a bit so i could enjoy it over a couple of weeks.  My brain gets full quick.

The Bible talks a lot about some Stranger Truths that the show Stranger Things alludes to.  If you ever read the book This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti, about a little town named Ashton, which is a pivotal center for a war between unseen angels and demons, then you might be picking up what I’m laying down.

The fictional towns of Hawkins in Stranger Things and Ashton in This Present Darkness have a lot in common.  In Stranger Things, Hawkins is the place where the Upside Down, an ethereal realm full of badness, is trying to break through into our world and take over the place.

The Bible talks about the Upside Down in its own way.  The Apostle Paul wrote about the real Upside Down in the biblical book of Ephesians in chapter 6.  He put it this way: “For we are not fighting against mere flesh and blood enemies, but against evil rulers and authorities off the unseen world (The Upside Down), against mighty powers in this dark world, and against evil spirits in the hidden heavenly places.”

Paul said we have an enemy.  He was God's enemy first--and then he declared war on God's creation--mankind.

Or People-kind if you're Justin Trudeau.

But I digress.

The Bible teaches that Satan used to be a good angel, Lucifer, the son of the morning, a beautiful and powerful angel.  Then he got uppity and decided that he wanted to be God.  Problem is there is only one God--stop applying for his job.  So when Lucifer rebelled and tried to take over heaven there was a great war in the heavenly realms and God defeated Lucifer and he was thrown out of heaven (Revelation 12:7-9).  Lucifer became Satan, which means adversary or enemy.  Jesus tells us that Satan is the father of lies (John 8:44) and that he is on a mission to steal, kill and destroy (John 10:9).

Paul tells us that there is indeed a real ethereal realm that we can’t see that is ruled by dark princes who want to take out the human world.  Like the fictional Upside Down, this real Vale of Shadows is where the dark forces who hate all that is good plot against us.  If you watch Stranger Things you will remember that the Upside Down is almost in the room you are in but it is dark and cold.  This is how the Bible often talked of the heavenly or unseen realms.  The Bible says things like, “An angel stepped out of heaven” and into our world.  Not “down from” heaven but “out of” heaven.  Another dimension right next door. 

In Stranger Things the Demogorgon reaches out from the Upside Down and kidnaps young Will Byers who is played by the amazing Noah Schnapp.   In the Bible we are told that mankind is captive to the darkness of sin just like Will Byers is trapped in the darkness of the ethereal dimension.

The Upside Down has mankind in its grip.  This truth explains why the world has gone so very dark and continues to get darker.  Just watch the news and you will see what I mean.  What else could inspire such hatred and racism and something so dark as the murder of innocent children in schools by men gone mad, wielding weapons that governments are incompetent to regulate.  Mankind has gone dark.  Romans 1:21 says that sin has made our minds dark and confused.

There are forces led by Satan, the enemy of God and man, and these forces inspire this evil in mankind.  This army of sin holds people captive to their anger and bitterness and violence and addiction and abuse and war.  These forces from the Upside Down exist to steal joy, wipe out human life and destroy everything that is good.  The Upside Down tricks us into stepping into its trap of sin.  Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin (John 8:34).  The book of Proverbs says “An evil man is held captive by his own sins; they are ropes that catch and hold him”(Proverbs 5:22).

The Upside Down’s biggest strength is the fact that it is unseen.  No one quite believes Will’s mom, Joyce Byers, when she tells them that Will has been kidnapped, and that he is just outside her reach in the dark realm around them. She knows he is there.  She can hear her lost boy crying out to her from the darkness.   Joyce knows her son is captive and wants to see him freed from the evil one who has him.  She sees the darkness breaking through and trying to get her as well.  In Stranger Things the Hawkins National Laboratory, which opened up the stupid portal to let The Upside Down in, is covering up the threat.  Likewise most institutions in our world give no credence to the biblical truth that there is indeed a spiritual threat to mankind and say its just supersition from an ancient religion.

Slowly, people like Hopper, and her son Jonathan begin to believe her. But whether someone believes her or not Joyce is gonna move heaven and earth and bust down walls with axes in order to free her son from his captivity.   Mike, Dustin and Lucas are not going to rest either until they find their lost friend even if it means sneaking out and firing up those cool walkie talkies and riding like a squad of adventurers on those banana seats.

For ten years now I have been working as a pastor in a little town to show them and tell them that Jesus loves them and wants to free them from their slavery to sin.  But like, Joyce Byers, very few people believe me when I tell them that there is something sinister and insidious going on and that people are actually trapped by evil and lost in darkness.  Paul wrote these words about this: Gently instruct those who oppose the truth. Perhaps God will change those people’s hearts, and they will learn the truth. Then they will come to their senses and escape from the devil’s trap. For they have been held captive by him to do whatever he wants (2 Timothy 2:25-26). 

I believe what the Bible tells us that God loved the world so much that He gave his one and only Son, Jesus Christ, to free us from this present darkness, and like in Stranger Things, someone stronger than Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Hopper and Joyce are going to have to help free Will from the Upside Down.

It's the same for us.   We are gonna need some serious help.

That's where the uber cool Eleven comes in.

More next Friday.

Billy’s Casket

This week was different.  A Christian soldier who spent his life on a crusade of love retired.  He went to be with his Lord and Saviour.  He was 99 years old and an amazing example of sheer determination. But he was more than that.  He was the genuine article.  A man who flat out told you that he was a sinner.  He didn’t avoid excuse-free apology and he learned from his mistakes.  He knew that he had one job.  He wasn’t in it for the glitz, the gold or the girls.  He was in it for the Great Commission.  He was a simple man.  This is why he is buried in a $200 plywood casket alongside his awesome wife Ruth who was waiting to greet him on the other side.

From the Washington Post this week:

“Graham’s casket, like much else about his funeral, was planned by the pastor long before his death. Two simple, $200 plywood caskets were made for Graham and his late wife, Ruth, who died in 2007, by inmates of Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, a prison with a longstanding history of brutality and racial tension. The group of incarcerated men who built the caskets, a group who found faith in prison, was led by Richard Liggett, who was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder (Liggett also died in 2007 shortly after the Grahams’ coffins were completed).  According to the Washington Post, Graham had requested that his and his wife’s caskets be made by prisoners at the penitentiary after preaching there in 2005, a request that a prison warden later described as providing prisoners with the “the most profound” opportunity to celebrate their faith.  According to the Billy Graham Association, no upgrades or improvements were made to the casket after Graham’s death, at Graham’s request.”

He wanted to take the simple Gospel, “Jesus saves” to the world.  To anyone who would listen.  He was diagnosed with Parkinson in 1993.   And he just kept right on going.  Billy Graham loved God and he loved people.  I bought the time magazine in 1993 with Billy on the cover and the headline was “A Christian in Winter.”  There in that magazine article they talked about his Parkinson’s diagnosis and how this would mean the end of his storied career.  But it wasn’t. Not even close.  When Billy continued to talk about Jesus in the film The Cross (you can watch it here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcIWnaXiJLk) he was 95 years old.  He could barely talk with that broken body and voice exerting Herculean effort to do it.  But he loved that message with all his heart and he spoke it with such conviction.  That film changed lives.

My dad came to faith in Christ watching Billy on a little black and white TV in the ‘60s.  Because of that the course of our lives changed.  Our address changed from hell to heaven.  Our life went from pursuing temporary things to chasing eternal things.  The only things that are going to last for eternity are God, God’s Word, people and angels.  The angels chose sides millennia ago.  People still have a chance to choose eternal life as long as they have breath.  That is why Billy went nuts telling as many people as he could that Jesus loved them.  That He died to pay for the sins of the whole world.  That the door to life was Jesus and that everyone was welcome.

His detractors, some of them my fellow pastors, didn’t like the fact that Billy was so inclusive.  But the way that Billy sees Christ now affirms that Billy was right.  Because the Jesus who welcomed him to glory the other day still bore the healing wounds upon his hands and feet and side.  Those wounds are there for all eternity to say that ALL who call upon the Name of Jesus WILL be saved.  Those nail scars mean that thieves hanging on their last breath, those who haven’t got it all together, those who screw up daily and those who are feeling lost can all run into the open arms of Jesus Christ—no matter who they are.  The words of the song that was sung at every Billy Graham crusade say it way better than I am.

Just as I am, without one plea
But that Thy blood was shed for me
And that thou bidst me come to Thee
O Lamb of God I come

Just as I am though tossed about
With many a conflict, many a count
Fightings and fears within, without
O Lamb of God I come, I come

Just as I am you will receive
Will welcome, pardon, cleanse, relieve
Because You promise—I believe
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.

I can’t wait to hang out with Billy and go for a hike and enjoy a meal and sing a hymn.  See you on the other side Billy!

‘Nuff Said.

Wisdom on Selfishness and Selflessness by George Lucas

The core of “The Force” in Star Wars is in the Dark Side and the Light Side.  One is selfless, one is selfish. When you drift to the dark side you get really selfish and you forget about what is important.  Being selfish means you get stuff or you want stuff.  And when you want stuff and you get stuff then you are afraid someone is going to take it away from you.  Whether what you want is a person or a thing or a particular pleasure or status or experience.  Once you become afraid that someone is going to take it away from you or you’re going to lose it then you start to become angry.  Especially if you are losing the thing you want more than anything else.  And that anger leads to hate.  And hate leads to suffering—mostly of the person who was selfish, because you spent all your time being afraid of losing everything you got, instead of actually living.  

Whereas with joy and giving to other people you can’t think about yourself and that’s why there is no pain in joy.  But the pleasure factor of greed and selfishness is a short-lived experience. Therefore you are constantly trying to replenish it.  And the more you have to replenish it the harder it is and you are constantly upping the ante.  You’re actually afraid of the pain of not having the joy.  That is ultimate core fo the Dark Side.  Obviously the Sith are always unhappy because they never get enough of everything they want.  Mostly their selfishness centers around power and control.  

The struggle is to always be able to let go of power and control.  You’re allowed to love people but you aren’t allowed to possess them.  Anakin went too far in not wanting to lose his wife so he made a pact with the devil so that he could become all powerful and therefore he would never have to lose what he perceived was his.  But when he sold his soul for that power she didn’t want to have anything to do with him anymore and all he did was end up destroying his relationship with her.   He lost her.  

The only way to defeat the Dark Side is discipline.  The Dark Side is pleasure gone wrong.  The pleasure is temporary and easy to achieve.  The Light Side is joy everlasting and is achieved through difficulty—a great challenge.  You must overcome laziness and give up quick pleasures and overcome your fear which leads to hate.

                                                                            —George Lucas 

How to be Ready For Anything In 2018

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them —to the Israelites. I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates —all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 1:1-9

Joshua 1 is a great, and i mean GREAT, passage of scripture.  It is a passage that should be almost memorized.  Joshua should be Read again and again so that it gets in the blood. 

Joshua 1 sets the stage for us for 2018.  This is going to be a big year.  I can feel it in my bones.  Lots of ground taken for the Lord.  Lots of challenges.  

I think we have to go into 2018 with an aggressive mentality.  I don’t think it is a good thing for a Christian to enter a new year with a passive mentality or mentality of survival.  We were meant to live for so much more.  Don’t get lost in the past or fear the future.  Instead use today to make the future better.

Jesus gave us much to get excited about.  He gave us much to expect.  When he said, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to every person,” he was expecting us to take new ground all the time and to do new things to reach people all the time.  New ground.  New adventure.  Newness of life and newness of purpose.  

Remember what God said in Isaiah 43 - 

This is what the Lord says— he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.

Isaiah 43:16-19

He has defeated enemies in the past.  They lost.  They are gone.  They are done.

He now says forget them.  Forget the slavery and the way that the past treated you.  FORGET THE FORMER THINGS and do NOT dwell on the past.  See I am doing a new thing!

Miracles will happen.  God is making the ground in this desert world break open and streams of LIVING WATER will erupt from that dry, parched ground like geysers.  

That means GOD is ON THE MOVE and he is doing new things. 

Joshua had to have this mentality.  

When my Dad resigned from the church in Quesnel, a pastor who took the church from a little church in a old building downtown and by the grace of God grew that church to over 400 and in a new building. It was tough for the church to lose their Pastor.

I was a mere 35 years old and didn’t know what I was doing.  I knew I wanted to be their pastor.  And I quickly found out a truth.  “Pity the man to follow Randy Evans”  Even his son.

Now imagine how Joshua felt. 

Can you image trying to follow this guy?   MOSES.  Just think about it.

But Joshua had to follow this guy. 

Thankfully he had been mentored by Moses.  Here in Joshua 1 God commissions 

His new leader for the people of Israel.  

Joshua 1:1-4

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide: “Moses my servant is dead. 

Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them —to the Israelites. 

I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates —all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.

GOD is saying the same thing to Joshua.  MOSES is gone.  Follow me.  YOU get going.  You’ve got a people to lead.  I am about to give you and these people NEW LAND.  I will give you every place where you set your foot.  Your territory will be huge.

The current Evil Occupants of the land will be evicted. 

Get going.  Don’t dwell on the past.  I learned some lessons in 2017.  I am sure you all did.  Things change quickly.

The reason that I called this talk, “How to be Ready for Anything in 2018” is because I believe that, like I said, we have to approach the new ground ahead of us with boldness and with purpose and with intent and with courage.  We must steel ourselves for the battles and expect victory.  

GOD promised that his people, and we are God’s people in Christ, will take new ground.  There is promised land in front of us.  IF you take your eyes off the past and set them on the new ground that HE will show us.

There are new people to be saved.  There are new souls to be won.  There are new things for our church to do.    

There are new ideas that He will give us to accomplish the conquering of the land in front of us.  

Jesus said, All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Matthew 28:18-20 

DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE GREAT COMMISSION will be SUCCESSFUL?  It will be.  

Christians all over the world are taking new ground.  The ground beneath the world shakes with fear these days.  Massive storms, wars, men shooting innocent people from hotel balconies like fish in a barrel, world leaders with no backbone or no sense.   

God is shaking the planet and even the confidence of the people who paid Him no mind until recently when everything around them began to fall apart.  

They are ready for something solid.  They are ready for the truth of Jesus Christ.  They are open like never before.  They are asking for help.  They are reaching out saying, “I need some help.”

The harvest of souls is ripe.  We need only be the people who take the love of God and take God at his Word and do what He says to do.

This isn’t some human idea or man made endeavor.  These is the marching orders of Jesus Christ and his generals that has been written down for us.  

GOD IS ASKING YOU TO BE BOLD THIS YEAR.  

To realize YOU are NOT STUCK in the past.  

You are not merely human.  

You have the SPIRIT WHO RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD LIVING IN YOU.

The DEATH SHATTERING SPIRIT OF GOD.

“Aslan is on the move”

Winter is thawing before Him.  It is all falling apart.

Evil is in it DEATH THROES.  Satan knows his time is short so he is raging.  He is clawing at the cliff he is hanging off of, shouting orders at people, grasping at straws, getting them to do stupid things to take down as many of them as he can.  

But he has LOST.

Humanity sits in a cage on a bench with the cage door wide open.  All we need to do is run in there and take them by the hand and lead them out into the freedom that was purchased by HIS BLOOD.

Yes the enemy may attack us.  But is defensive attacking.  We are the ones moving ahead.

When JESUS said, “I will build my church on your confession of me, the gates of hell will NOT prevail against the church.”  THAT MEANS the church is a BATTERING RAM and hell’s gates cannot keep it from entering their dark castle and plundering it.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I will FEAR NO EVIL for THOU ART WITH ME.

Even when I walk through valleys with people the light of the World is by my side and the darkness will NEVER extinguish it!

We can withstand ANY BOMBARDMENT, for the Name of the Lord is a strong tower and all those who run into it are SAFE.

When JESUS rose from the dead he turned you and me into indestructible people.  Stop living like normal, death avoiding people.  There is no DEATH FOR YOU.  Only life. 

Should you walk into battle and be slain you are immediately with the LORD.  And you will pop back out of that grave with speed and eternal strength and you will reign with Christ forever and ever. 

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Joshua 1 - Look at verse 6 - Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

GOD promised the new land.  He promised that these meek Canadians will inherit the earth.  I didn’t promise this.  I didn’t make this up.  

Be inspired.  The LORD of LORDs, the GOD of gods, the KING of kings, He promised this.  And he bolstered the disciples by saying that when you GO into all the WORLD I AM WITH YOU to very end of the age. 

Never will He leave us, NEVER will He forsake us.  

If John Glenn could strap a rocket to his butt and soar into space remember we have the jet fuel of scripture in our tank and the Holy Spirit ignites that fuel and propels us globally and heavenward. 

Ed Stetzer, a pastor to pastors, leads a church as well as educates pastors all over the globe.  His church plants a church every year.  They step into every year knowing that they are going to do something new. 

Hudson Taylor defied all the logic of family and friends and countrymen when he grew his hair long and starting dressing like a China man to reach people for Jesus.  He lost two wives and learned languages and didn’t stop til the Lord said, “Okay Moses, you’re done, come home and rest now.”

You are a missionary who takes new ground just by doing your job and loving your family and loving these friends and co-workers that God has placed in your path.

You are their LIGHT.   They don’t know Paul Paquette, They know you.  They trust you. 

They need you to step forward into 2018 and march on your knees and in prayer and faith CLAIM the promise that GOD MADE that He will grant new ground with every step on that ground that you take. 

HOW TO BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

Joshua 1: 7 -  Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.  

You will lead these lost children of God home to Jesus. 

You.  My very introverted friend Margo who is shy and would rather stay at home.  She leads people she is friends with to church and Christ all the time.  She isn’t bold by nature but she is strong.  She knows JESUS is the only way that her friends will be saved so she invites them to movie nights, kids club and basketball and Christmas Coffee houses and helps organize them.  And people come. 

My dad always said there are probably 100 people you guys all know right now that are just ready to be saved.  They just need to be asked.  

By you.  Not.  Hey one day you should come to church with me.  it should be this weekend you would come to this ladies tea thing. This weekend you should come to Alpha. 

Again, they don’t know Paul - they know and trust YOU.

Tell them you are praying for them.

Tell them Jesus Loves you.

Tell them you love them.

Have them over for PIE and COFFEE.  Take them muffins.  LOVE ON THEM.  

LOVE IS THE WEAPONRY and the WEAPONS are handled through prayer.  NINJA warriors all.  Prayer is unstoppable.   Pray all the time.  

Start your day with a focus on prayer and God will bring to mind the people who need His help.  And there in the shower and over coffee and written in your journal pray the names of those He is going to save.  He gave you those names and He loves them even more than you do.

But you know why you’re going to be strong and courageous?  I will tell you now.  The stirring in your heart that the Spirit of God is doing right now isn’t because of some faulty human messenger named Bob who is standing before you.  NO.  

Your heart is stirred by the TRUTH that you are hearing and you IMBIBE the word of God and listen to it FAITH is being ACTIVATED in your heart.  The Truth of God is flowing through your veins. 

Joshua 1:8 says that is the KEY to being strong and courageous in 2018, able to take ground and withstand any bombardment. 

VERSE 8 - Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

This BOOK should always be on your lips.  Mediate on it day and night.  Do what it says.  THEN you will be prosperous and successful.  

Your emotions cannot fuel your success.  They can help.  They are like wild horses, when bridled can be turned into powerful allies.  But your emotions must be corralled and inspired by this TRUTH.  Your will must choose to read and listen to and sing and watch the LIVING TRUTH of the Word of God.

Truth powered action.

Your emotions, your stress, your fears, the way you are feeling physically, they all will get in the way of action.  

GET UP, GET DRESSED, GET INSPIRED BY TRUTH OF GOD and GET GOIN’.

No matter how you feel you need to get the WORD OF GOD IN YOU.  My wife does it by listening to Worship music and changing the dark atmosphere at 5:30am.  She imbibes the truth of these songs.  I do it by reading the Bible and listenin to sermons and praying and watching movies like The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and Star Wars and Superman and Rocky and the Lord of the Rings and having coffee with guys like Paul Paquette when I am down. 

I inject TRUTH into my veins.  When I start seeing people around me dropping like flies from the flu what do i do?  I react.  I start taking handfuls of vitamins and washing my hands like an OCD dude.  

INJECT the TRUTH OF GOD into your daily routine and SHOWER Yourself with it.

You get VERSE 8 and you will get VERSE 9.

“Courage isn’t a feeling it is a God-truth powered obedience in action.”  

‘’You want a change of heart then you need to change your habits.”

Mediate on the Word and then VERSE 9 - BE STRONG and COURAGEOUS, do not be not afraid, neither Be thou dismayed, for the LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU WHEREVER YOU GO.

You are stronger than you know.  You are braver than you think.  Don’t get discouraged when a sin sick culture gets you down.  Strike back.  Ask God to remind you of WHO THE LION of JUDAH is.  Remember Jesus Christ who held back nothing but instead set his face like flint and headed into Jerusalem knowing it was going to be tougher than anything that He faced.  And he was like you, facing it as a human.

When he became a man he knew he could be killed and that it was going to hurt.  But why did he do it.  Hebrews tells us that “He, for THE JOY that was set before him endured the cross, despising its shame.”

He had the joy in front of him.

Be a Christian who reads Acts and Revelation 1 and Revelation 12 and Revelation 19-22 and read to the end of the book to the happy ending where we win!  And you know we do. 

Get that JOY in front of You.  When the current world crumbles and the renovated earth stands and Christ is King you are going to look around for the joy of seeing someone you love there with Christ and you forever and ever. 

Get that JOY in front of you constantly.  No more Death or sorrow or crying or pain.  JOY.  Sheer happiness.

BE STRONG and COURAGEOUS because HE IS WITH YOU NO MATTER the PLACE.

I feared going to Israel.  I feared going to the streets of LA.  I feared walking into the Wander Inn on Granville street with all its weird street youth.  I fear when I approach people with the Good News.  That man of fear is the OLD BOB.

The natural Bob. Then I remind myself who I am and who I belong to.  I am a son of the living God, an agent of change, a man who can go anywhere or do anything for GOD is with me.  It is just as safe in Africa as it is here in this room for God is everywhere you are and He is for us.

And if GOD Is for us - who can be against us?

No one.

If He did not spare his own Son to save us will He not gladly give us all things?

Your King, walked up to the White Witch and said, “I will die in this traitor’s stead,” then he took the blade and then He took His life back and He smashed her face in and cut off the head of Goliath and he rose up and said, “it is finished.”

Buck up.

You’re on the WINNING TEAM.

Jesus is with you!

Resurrection POWER leaving the building.

‘NUFF SAID, true believers!!!