In today's society, regrettably there are many hearts that are full of unbelief towards the reality of God, as they stubbornly remain satisfied within their indifferent and unchanging rejection of His written word. The ennemy of all righteousness continues to imprison and blind them within His cloak of darkness, which has all but extinquished any hope of their true Glory.....

Words of discouragement are often hurled at the Saints of God by those that have never tasted, nor willing to experience within the undeniable precepts of Faith, the power of the Holy Spirit in their lives, which is not only God's word to us, but to all who ask, it's His Promise!!!

There are many reasons for the continuing resistance of God's promised light, but none stand higher than our own unwilling ignorance and defiance of committment to that which is unseen. It's in this statement that our answers are found within an unknown fear, which is not even ours, but Satan's, as He knows of the inexpressible greatness of our lives, should we even in unbeleif attempt to grasp God's Promise of Eternal Life.

Often times the weight within the perplexities of crippling circumstances that seem to govern our very existience, which could range from a multitude of addictions or negative behaviors, to that of those paraylzing fears, in something as simple as going to the store.

Like that of an inescapable electrical current, it draws us to the unimaginable limits of desperation, where now within the confines of a depraved and degenerate dysfunctionalism, we enter the very halls of hell, where helplessness, madness and suicide become a living reality. The only hope of escaping the pits of hell is through the salvation found within the written word, which is the breath of our almighty God !!!

However you cannot live a wholesome Christian life by exercising the strength of your faith alone, and those who try to run this race alone know nothing, for our sustaining grace of pardoned sin, is mercifully given to us by a redeeming God, who alone has freed us from the very temptations and deceptive captivity of Satan...Amen

Within their murmuring, I keep hearing how hard it is to do the right thing, " if only they would put their trust in Christ, who is Mighty enough to restore your soul from any circumstance, they then unquestionably would have a different story to tell. The Mightiest warrior in the world, after being defeated in every battle placed before him, would surely lose confidence in himself, and my own journey through life was of a very similar nature.

For forty years the pits of hell were the playground of my existience, within issues of sexual abuse, abandonment, almost twenty-five years of criminality, fourteen years of imprisonment, twelve years of drug addiction, and thirty-five years of alcoholism. If this wasn't enough to shake the confidence of the bravest and strongest warrior, before my life was to get any better, it had to get worse ! As a direct result of sharing needles, I contracted the devastating and incurable HIV virus, and was told that my life expectancy was to be very short-lived...

it seemed at this point that my life was coming to an end, for I needed a hope beyond all hope, and even in that moment, twelve years ago, if I was to in fact grasp a Christian faith, would it be enough, within a life of continual failure, to sustain the spears of discouragement that would now daily hammer away at me, as if fired from a machine gun ? Tell me, when standing in the abyss of darkness, how ?? could it be possible to cling to an unseen and unknown faith !!!

If only the eyes of all brave warriors could be opened as mine have been, and recognize the need and urgency of losing that very confidence in self completely, and then entirely placing your trust in God, who is our only hope, beyond all hope...I remember my feable plea as if it were yesterday.

 In itself, it did not represent any expression of helplessness, sorrow, remorse, or forgiveness, it did not within it self have a spark of sincerety, nor did my plea sing within its simplistic ignorance of anything that would be an endearment to an almighty God. "big fella, if you're up there, I could sure use a hand right about now", I never had a faith, nor a belief, but this didn't matter to God. Regardless of its nature, the essential requirement within my plea was met. "

 I had somehow in that fraction of a second, lost all confidence in myself, and asked for God's help. Now would begin my greatest battle, no longer was it a battle over self and things of this world, it was now a battle of Principalities, and as long as I was willing to surrender to God's molding influence, He would reshape my life, beyond my wildest imaginations.

From the very moment we profess ourselves to be Saints of God, we are no longer under the natural law of our flesh, but rather under the power and grace of God. The pyschological complexcities that fuel the passions of human desires, such as our motives,affections, coupled by our principles and purposes should understandably be considered our greatest weaknesses within all of Satan's temptations.

As Saints we are called by example, to fight the battle of righteousnesst, before a lost world. Sin of any nature is incompatible with the Christian life, it must not be our master, for we have been freed from sin and given eternal life, if we would but walk that narrow path.

"Within the breath of creation, from the unexpressible beauty of nature itself, to the indescribable greatness within our humanity, it has always been by personal experience and reflection within those mythical experiences, that we gain our greatest understanding and most influencial wisdom of God's everlasting pressence in our lives. Certainly then, artists in whose gifts radiate, magnify and glorify the majestic Supremecy of Jesus Christ, are to be considered similar to that of prophets, as inspiration of a heavenly nature is all of God.