Is God Doing A New Thing in Our Days?

The Joel Osteen Most People Don't Know 

http://www.charismanews.com/us/40377-the-joel-osteen-most-people-don-t-know 

I like Pastor Joel and I respect him. He appeals to much in me that is deep like many others. He speaks of a Loving and gracious and kind and generous heavenly Father. We should not be quick to judge someone whom God is using in a different way to bring people to Himself. Always Joel ends with the Altar Call. How many Churches do this? If Joel has a big Church and congregation, does it mean that it is wrong? No. A great multitude used to follow Jesus and on foot. Nowhere in the Bible is it reported that few people followed Jesus. No. There must have been something about Him that was attractive to them. And he always spoke to them in the language they knew. he used examples of daily life. He wasn't sophisticated. That's the appeal to the human spirit.
It is not right to equate Joel to Jesus, for Joel is totally human and makes mistakes like any other. Yet it is equally wrong to limit Joel to what was recorded in the Bible as Jesus' works and words. The Bible says that it is only a fraction that was recorded. Not only that, Jesus said that greater works shall those who follow Him do.
"12 “Most assuredly, I say to you, he/she who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he/she will do, because I go to My Father. " John 14:12
 
If some of you do not understand Joel's calling and mission, don't fret. Ask God to show you your own calling and mission and excel at it. You may even go beyond Joel. I am not an advocate of Joel, but I have watched him for some years and read his books. They are life giving. God is doing a new thing in His Kingdom. Are you listening to the new sound? Can you see beyond the known?

"18 “Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
19 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 43:18-19

"28 “And afterward,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams,
your young men will see visions.
29 Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days." Joel 2:28

Some of us went to Seminary, have many years of training, but classroom if applied to the marketplace without the wisdom of God is useless. Tradition needs the breath of the Spirit to bring new life.

It is sinful to limit God as to how He can use His people in different generations. The message is still the same, yet packaged in generational wineskins.
We should pray for them to be preserved in uprightness and not fall into temptation. We Christians should not be acting as the Devil trying to pull Joel and Victoria down, but encouraging them on and upholding them.

"And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy, giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in light. He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. (Colossians 1:9-14, ESV)"

Chrisitians and Complex Physiological Issues.

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/watchman-on-the-wall/40459-did-pat-robertson-really-endorse-the-transgender-movement 

I hear him too and was surprised at what he meant. He himself didn't sound so sure and he cut off Terry so fast. Who knows, ''...in the last days...." many things are happening and many will turn away and many will bring in false teaching in the Church. I would have respected him if he had said that he does not really know but he will pray and research. For surely, even him does not have all the answers. Why would he give any such answer just to prove that he is Alpha and Omega?
His answer was not helpful at all!
As Christians, we should love anyone but hate sin and unholiness. We are commanded to love one another, but to hate sin and unholiness.
If we are not sure, we should let others know and pray for them as well for God to reveal the truth to them.
For Pat, pride comes before a fall.

I have heard that people have been born transgender, and that doctors or medical personnel decided which genitalia to keep. I don't know what that means but prayer to God can reveal so much. I am still learning and I don't claim to know everything. I am also wondering, do these people have ovaries, uterus or not? Do they grow beards? How do they look like as they turn to puberty for this may be a determining factor of nature. Getting injected hormones or treatment to change one into prominence of a different gender is what I would not agree with. That will tampering with the DNA. It is time for Christians to address such complex issues with prayer, diligence, compassion and truth.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7

God Is Holy and Cannot Tolerate Sin

Revival Is Coming, but God Is Turning Over Stones First

http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/in-the-line-of-fire/40445-revival-is-coming-but-god-is-turning-over-stones-first 
Exactly. There is so much sinning under the table in the Church!! Too much compromise! I agree with you for Jesus is coming back to take a Church without a blemish, spot or wrinkle. God is so gracious that He is giving us a second chance to put things right. God loves sinners but hates sin. God is Holy so He cannot tolerate sin, unholiness! May we cry out to Him to cleanse us of anything unholy! anything that may prevent us from entering Heaven. He is a God of more than second chance. But Christians have compromised holiness! Even Non Christians are appalled at how Christians behave, speak, dress or live our lives. God help us.

In The Last Days Even Believers Will Fall Away And Many Away

In the Last Days Even Believers Will Fall Away and Lead Many Away

Desmond Tutu: ‘I’d Pick Hell Over an Anti-Gay Heaven’

I admire Bishop Tutu but on this one I think he is shooting himself in the foot. I hope that publicity and celebrity status and money has not gotten to his head! Such comments don't help in his position. He has never been to Heaven, and he may sure miss it! As Christians we should love not hate gays but hate the practice which is not godly as God says in the Bible. We don't have to explain away God's word just to gain cheap popularity! How could God be homophobic? How could God love what He hates? God loves all sinners, but hates sin. That's why he sent His only Son Jesus Christ that whoever believes in Him should not die eternally but live. John 3:16
Beware Believers, the Bible that in the last days, even some believers will fall away. And many false prophets and teachers will come with false teaching! Some times false teachers are within the Church not outside.
Acts 20:28 Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son. 29 I know that after I am gone fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. 30 Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them."

God's Sense of Humour

Marrilyn Hickey Great Woman of God

Marilyn Hickey and daughter Sarah have deposited so much in my life. I asked God whom to partner with as I was at crossroads in my spiritual life looking for a Mentor. I had prayed for years. Then God impressed on me Marilyn Hickey whom in 2005 I used to watch on and off on TBN way back. I was like, Oh God, why a White woman, not a Black man or a Black woman? Not even a White woman or other? God is so humorous! I thought that I had missed God's answer! Anyway, I was looking for someone who looked like me at least! And for years, I eluded God, but continued to watch her and learn from her. In 2006, I even attended her Conference in Anaheim, CA, 50 miles from my home! I was delighted to meet her in person.

Over the years, I have realised that God does not make mistakes! Marilyn (and Sarah) have helped me in so many ways to look at myself in a different way, in a sincere way, in a true way, seeing my weaknesses, my strengths, my woes, my delights, my sorrows, my joys, my nights, my days, my weeping, my happiness, my gifts and talents, my past, present and future. They have reached depths no one could ever have reached they unveiled secrets only God knew! She is a mirror in my life in which I see myself! What she says or writes resonates with me, past, present and future! It took me some years to agree with God. Nowadays I ask myself, "What took me so long?"

 As well as my struggles, my doubts, and my failures. Its only God who knows each one of us at the deepest level, who knew us before we were formed in our mother's womb, Jeremiah 1:1ff, who can minister to us, and unlock those secret closets we have locked up since childhood, because of the pain to terrible to bear, too much hurt to recall or remember! And thrown away the keys in the oceans and deserts of our lives? Its only God who can heal the cancerous wound that has failed to heal, but continues to ooze when pricked by the troubles of this world! its only God who can reach down to that wounded child inside of you, and heal her or him! Its God who can hug and comfort that lonely child, that lonely girl, that lonely boy inside of you - yet you are an adult woman or man, and says its OK. However, we have to let God use people around us or whom He has put into our lives. My Dear Sister, my Dear Brother, will you let in your life that man, that woman, those people God has put in your life! They may not be the ones you expect. 

Healed of Physical and Spiritual Blindness.

Praise the Living God, who was and is and will be. Praise Jesus who was, is and will be. Only Jesus can make the blind physically and spiritually see. Like when Saul who was persecuting Christians was blinded by a bright light, then had to be prayed for by Barnabas and scales fell of his eyes. He could see again physically and spiritually, yet anew.

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But even Death cannot overcome the power of Jesus