The Indictments Against ‘Cultural Christianity’ and Man Made Traditions of Old – A Time2Stand and the Urgency to Rise is now – Calling all Professing Christians back to Biblical Truth and Accountability.

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Axiom – the denial of American ‘Christianity’

Will you be the same? Will your church be the same? Will we remain in our comfort?

moving back towards biblical truth, through repentance and igniting sanctification

“I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.”  Hosea 5:15 ESV

Purpose:

            To outline and set out a beginning application process for the tension between Biblical Truth and the reality of the current ‘church’ condition today.  Clear biblical distinction should be shown as to what is true and what is of partial truth or in other words a lie.  Truth is unalterable and anything outside of the truth of Jesus Christ is nothing but a deceptive ploy set into motion by satan to deceive and blind a person to who God is.  The importance of this cannot be overstated.

“Half a truth is a whole lie.” 

Mark Olmstead

            We need to stop trying to be perfect in the ways of men and strive after holiness with an authentic passion to know the Way, the Truth and the Life.  Only a desire to be with the Only True God will contentment, peace, love and joy be found.  All of mans intellect, if not completely set upon Christ and His will, is of no avail and vanity in the eyes of the Lord.  Only through the strength, love, truth and power of God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit, can we live, love and worship as we ought.  (I highly recommend reading, praying through and questioning the ‘church’ today in regards to these verses: Joel 1:13-14, 2:12-17; James 5:1-7; Hosea 5:15-6:4, 14:8-9; Malachi 1:6-2:12, 2:18 – these are just for starters.) 

“We must give up routine work.  It is written, “Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully” (Jeremiah 48:10).  The Church must wage a frontal, spiritual attack on the principalities in captive nations.  Wars are won only by offensive, never by defensive, strategy.”[1] 

            Even though this was written regarding the Underground Church, the principle for our local ‘churches’ and sin is the same.  We must wage a frontal, spiritual attack on sin and hypocrisy of man-centered traditions in the local ‘church,’ otherwise we are not wise in our discernment, absent of the Spirit and powerless to convert souls.  Our community essentially will not come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ and our outreach will be weak at best.

“But it is not enough that they (Western churches and Pastors) do not love those in captive nations and do nothing to win them for Christ.  By their complacency, by their neglect, and sometimes by acting as actual accomplices, some Western church leaders strengthen the infidels in their infidelity.  They help the Communists to intrude into Western churches and to win leadership in the churches of the world.  They help Christians remain unaware of the danger of Communism.  Western church leaders do not love their own flocks either, if they do not allow them to participate in the spiritual battle around the world.”[2]

Once again, Wurmbrand is talking about Communism and the disregard for doing nothing for the persecuted and Underground Church.  But is this not the same with sin and man-centered traditions in the ‘church’ of America today?  We must take the Scriptures seriously and apply them to our local congregations first.  Once a congregation is working through repentance and on a path of sanctification then would it be right to do and be active in worldwide missions.  If we do not confront sin specifically we thereby unconsciously strengthen sin and blind the eyes of men to justify their sinfulness with the most selfish of arguments.  If we do not repent in the areas that we need to, we will then just spread our disease to people overseas who need Christ and not some sick form of ‘culturally relevant Christianity.’

“Christ does not belong only to America, England, and other democratic countries.  When He was crucified, one of His hands was stretched out toward the west, the other towards the east.  He wishes to be the King not only of the Jews, but also of the Gentiles, of the Communists, and of the Western world.  Jesus said, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).  He gave His blood for all, and all should hear and believe the gospel.”[3]

We are to preach unto all the world but how can we when we do not even preach the full truth in our local ‘churches’ at home?   We need to stop trying to be perfect in the ways of men.  We need to stop trying to become better intellectuals.  All of man’s intellect, if not completely set upon Christ and His will, is of no avail and vanity in the eyes of the Lord; to hell with man’s way of doing Christianity!

Understanding the call of God – the truth brought to light

1.     The Lord is revealing the truth to individuals all over the world.  With the wisdom that God has given, handling that wisdom properly is of essential and crucial responsibility.  To whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48).

2.     The revelation of this truth is causing people to earnestly pray for a movement of God to occur.  People are crying for true revival back to the Holy Scriptures and to a pure worship of Jesus Christ in and through sanctification.  These people are studying God’s Word with diligence, on their knees and seeking the LORD’s ‘face’ until He moves people to action.

3.     These people are earnestly and authentically striving to know God’s wisdom and seek to change that which is wrong, all while waiting on the LORD for direction. 

4.     Eventually and swiftly these people will begin to move at any and all costs in total love.  Their goal is to see that souls are saved and demonic influence and ritual in the church is completely purged.  These believers will risk their homes, their families and their lives to spread a true Gospel.  This has been ongoing since Christ ascended into Heaven and continues to this day.

So how do we go about in moving?

1.     As Paul Washer has said, “With bloody knees.”  We must be in prayer crying out to God with a passion and a desire to see Him save souls.  We need to be continually praying.  We should be in constant intercessory prayer.  1 Samuel 12:20-25, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Hosea 5:15-6:6, 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Romans 8:26-27, and Jude 1:20 for starters.

2.     We are to see people as Ezekiel – “The hand of the LORD was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones.  And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry” (Ezekiel 37:1-2).  We have to understand that in Ezekiel we see the very process of salvation (37:1-14).  We must understand that salvation is a supernatural work of God and God alone.  We must see people as ‘dry bones’ needing God to breathe life into dead hearts.

3.     We must repent, not only of our sinfulness, but of the way we have preached the Gospel.  We cannot hold back nor use any excuse for doing so.  People’s souls are and eternally at stake – eternal salvation/damnation.

4.     We must bring to light the unbiblical issues of our ‘churches’ in prayer, in fasting and in absolute love.  There can be no other way.  So how do we actually move towards repentance and approach the people?

a.      Identify that which is not biblical

                                                                                     i.      Practices, traditions, friendships, ministries, lack of accountability and lack of loving discipline.  This list should be backed up with Scriptural references to point out every point made on the list.  There should also be Scriptural references that describe the consequences of refusing to repent of such ways.

                                                                                   ii.      The Scriptures must not be sacrificed for tradition.  If some way or something is not biblical, repentance is then required and change must be made; otherwise tradition has become an idol. 

b.     Present the “Ten Indictments” DVD  preached by Paul Washer to ALL church Elders, Deacons, leaders, teachers and pastors at the same time.  Tell them of the urgency and importance of this matter.  Ask the people to pray about what they are going to see and the truth of what they will hear.

The first indictment: A practical denial of the sufficiency of Scripture.

The second indictment: An ignorance of God.

The third indictment: A failure to address man’s malady

The fourth indictment: An ignorance of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The fifth indictment: An ignorance of the doctrine of regeneration

The sixth indictment: An unbiblical gospel invitation.

The seventh indictment: Ignorance regarding the nature of the Church.

The eighth indictment: A lack of loving and compassionate Church discipline.

The ninth indictment: A silence on separation. (pursuit of holiness)

The tenth indictment: Psychology and sociology have replaced the Scriptures with regard to the family. 

Not to show the Ten Indictments video to the ‘church’ is to have a greater fear of man and a lesser fear of God. (the time in between the next step has to be handled in prayer, led by the Spirit and with great care and concern)

c.      Present the list of unbiblical ways to the appropriate members of leadership following the current chain of command.  Be sure to show a great amount of respect to those in leadership authority.  Once leadership understands the biblical necessity to change and the issues at hand, then the people/congregation must be addressed.

d.     Once again urge the people to pray and examine the Scriptures and examine themselves throughout this process.  Prayer cannot be emphasized enough!

e.      Meet often to pray as a group seeking God’s will for addressing the necessity to change.

                                                                                     i.      A small group study of the narrow way/path and biblical sanctification would be extremely helpful here.  Isaiah 52 & 53, Jeremiah 31:31-34, John 3, 1 John, Hebrews, Romans, James, 1 & 2 Timothy, 1 & 2 Peter would be great in this study.  This will help to expose the sheep and the goats in leadership.

                                                                                   ii.      Church membership classes/mentorship should be a process lasting at least 6 months.  Although this should be based totally upon the individual as the Spirit leads.  We need to strive to know if a person is saved and is in the sanctification process.  We must tarry to find out the truth.

5.     During this process begin a one year study/preaching/teaching on “Who God Is.”  During this initial first year the attributes of God, what is the True Church, the Word of God is inspired and sufficient, biblical fear of the LORD, the acropolis of the Christian faith (Proverbs 17:5; Psalm 5:5; John 3:16 ect…), regeneration, sanctification, and what does the narrow way look like, should be the main topics of preaching.  A clear painting of the holiness of God should be painted for the congregation; although at the same time a clear and accurate picture of mans moral depravity and darkness of heart must also be painted.  During this year, initiate small changes as the LORD leads the leadership team.  Once again I quote Wurmbrand:

“I have decided to denounce communism, though I love the Communists.  I don’t find it to be right to preach the gospel without denouncing communism.

Some tell me “Preach the pure gospel!”  This reminds me that the Communist secret police also told me to preach Christ, but not to mention communism.  Is it really so, that those who are for what is called “a pure gospel” are inspired by the same spirit as those of the Communist secret police?

I don’t know what this so-called pure gospel is.  Was the preaching of John the Baptist pure?  He did not say only, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2).  He also “rebuked [Herod]… for all the evils which Herod had done” (Luke 3:19).  He was beheaded because he didn’t confine himself to abstract teaching.  Jesus did not preach only the “pure” Sermon on the Mount, but also what some actual church leaders would have called a negative sermon: “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!… Serpents, brood of vipers!” (Matthew 23:27, 33).  It is for such “impure” preaching that He was crucified.  The Pharisees would not have bothered about the Sermon on the Mount.”[4]

6.     DO NOT BACK DOWN!  There will be people who are unregenerate.  God’s Word, if preached/taught with a passion led by the Holy Spirit, will bring these people to light.  The first signs of these people will be their refusal to change and back-stabbing gossip.  They will seek to take those who question tradition out by all means possible.   “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you” (1 Peter 4:12).  Remember, God’s Word when preached fully through true love and with great power, will not leave people lukewarm.  People will either draw closer unto Christ or will become angered and run more into selfish desire and away from everything representing biblical truth.  The Gospel does not leave a church looking like Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-22).

“The Underground Church is a poor and suffering church, but it has few lukewarm members.  A religious service in the Underground Church is like nineteen hundred years ago in the Early Church. The Preacher knows no elaborate theology.  He knows no homiletic, as Peter did not know it.  Every professor of theology would have given Peter a poor grade for his sermon on the day of Pentecost.  They are like Job who said that he would believe in God even if He would slay him.”[5] 

7.     We must realize and understand some things.

a.      We are to be like Ezekiel when we look out upon people when we preach. (See point number 2)

b.     Only by the power of the Holy Spirit in truth and conviction and by the Grace of God will people be saved/converted/regenerated.  Ezekiel 37:1-15, Acts 16:14, Mark 9:24 & John 3, 6:60-65, are places to start.

c.      People who are of the flesh do not understand the things of the Spirit. 1 Corinthians chapters 2 and 3 are a great start in this area.  Romans 8 is also a good place to start here.

d.     We must understand that true theology is theology that does not remain at seminaries, in private study and in an office, but rather is applied when moving within the world and within the Church.

8.     Movement – a time2stand, even unto death if necessary (this is not the goal – should go without saying), must be initiated by true bible saturated believers.  There is no sacrifice too great for the Gospel. 

Parts of this is credited to Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary Society.  This has not been endorsed by HeartCry.

Random Quotes and Scriptures

“A game cannot be won by talk.  We must show up and play.”[6]

“When Christians in free countries win a soul for Christ, the new believer may become a member of a quietly living church.  But when those in captive nations win someone, we know that he may have to go to prison and that his children may become orphans.  The joy of having brought someone to Christ is always mixed with this feeling that there is a price that must be paid.  We had met an entirely new type of Christian – the Christian of the Underground Church.”[7]

“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?”

“But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation.  When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.”[8]

          “And behold, I am coming soon.  Blessed is the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.  I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.”[9]

Cultural ‘christianity,’ pastors, teachers, professing Christians – you have no right to deny any part of the Scriptures!

“Whoever has known the spiritual beauty of the Underground Church cannot be satisfied anymore with the emptiness of some Western churches.  I suffer in the West more than I suffered in a Communist jail because now I see with my own eyes Western civilization dying.  Oswald Spengler wrote in ‘Decline of the West:’

You are dying.  I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay.

I can prove that your great wealth and you great poverty, your

capitalism and your socialism, your wars and your revolutions, you

atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your

broken-down marriages, your birth-control, that is bleeding you from

the bottom and killing you off at the top in your brains – can prove to you

that there are characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient states –

Alexandra and Greece and neurotic Rome. 

This was written in 1926.”[10]

“Tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands.  I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers.  I tremble for Western Christians who don’t help their persecuted brethren.”[11]

“The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of captive nations.  I cannot put the guilt on some of the Church leaders of the West who compromise with the haters of Christians.  The evil comes not from them.  These leaders are themselves the victims of a much older evil.  They did not create the mess in the Church; they found it.”[12]

“Whoever knows what is right to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”  James 4:17 RSV

          “My brethren, if any of you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.”  James 5:19-20 RSV

          “Jesus has been dressed up as a corporate CEO, life coach, culture-warrior, political revolutionary, philosopher, copilot, cosufferer, moral example, and partner in fulfilling our personal and social dreams.  But in all of these ways, are we reducing the central character in the drama of redemption to a prop for our own play?”[13]

          “Demonic oppression and mental idolatry has crept into the ‘church’ virtually unnoticed by the majority of professing Christians.  Satan’s subtle deception has led the ‘church’ to operated in a superficial mode by denying the true God of the bible.  This denial is obvious as the demonstration of ‘Christian living’ by most people appears as only a vague outward transformation, at best.”[14]

Axiom

1. a self-evident truth that requires no proof.

2. a universally accepted principle or rule.

   3. Logic, Mathematics. a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it.

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God Bless His Church and may you seek to know God for who He is!

10:31 Sermon Jams

Remember if you do not apply this to yourself, communicate this with your local congregation and refuse to share this with everyone you know, then all of this knowledge means absolutely – NOTHING!

If you are not willing to deny yourself and willing to die to yourself this day,  then what makes you think that you will die for your faith when under persecution in the future?

Condrad Mbewe will be at this years True Church Conference in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.  For more info click below.

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“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.  I give them eternal life, and they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand.  My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand.”  John 10:27-29

     There is good new if you are a true believer in Christ Jesus - you are His and no one can take you away from Him.  Jesus promises a true believer persecution and hard days on this earth, but there is deep freedom from sin and joy within the heart of a true believer no matter what the situation is!  People can beat us and kill us and yet they are powerless to steal us away from the Father.  People will bad talk us and slander our names and yet we are secure in Him.  So, stay focused on Christ Jesus, study His Word with all diligence, pray without ceasing and find joy in His commandments. 

     A few questions must be asked, are you His child?  What biblical support do you have that backs up your claim?  Are you walking in His Truth?  Does your style of life reflect that found in the Scriptures – don’t know where to look – examine yourself in Light of all the Scriptures, 1 John is a great place to start.  If you have time to watch TV, read a book, newspaper or magazine or you just want to sit at the coffee shop, you have time to examine the deeper things of Christ.

God bless,

        Jeremy Strang

Urgency to Rise – a call to the American ‘church’

coming soon…

“Ten Indictments Internet Offensive”

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“These things you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like yourself.  But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.” Psalm 50:21 ESV (context click here)

      Whenever we study the Scriptures we should always remember to look at the overall context of the verse, understand the historical content and gain understanding of who the writer is and who he is addressing.  But one of the least ways the Bible is studied is through direct application unto the reader.  We should apply the Scriptures to ourselves and test ourselves to see if we are even in the faith. 

      How often do we think that God is like ourselves?  How often do we try to justify our sin(s)?  How much do we strive and discipline ourselves to know who God is and seek to understand His will in our lives?  Much of what we call ‘christianity’ today is nothing more than a man made system set out to make man feel better about himself so that he can have his best life now.  We really do need to examine ourselves (2Corinthians 13:5) and see if we are in the faith as according to the Scriptures.  Often we hear the verse, “… Let us make man in our image…” (Genesis 1:26), and we begin to think that God is some how like us and happy with us when we sin.  We even begin to twist love and grace into meaning an absence of holiness, purity and separation is ok with God.  We are called to “deny” ourselves and then follow Jesus (Luke 9:23). 

     We need to head this warning, “…you thought that I was one like yourself…,”  we need to study the Word of God and apply it to ourselves and not in a way that justifies our sin unto God, but apply it in a way that leads us to greater holiness and invokes the sanctification process.  “…examine the Scriptures daily to see if it is so” (Acts 17:11).  “Let us test and examine our ways and return to the LORD” (Lamentations 3:40). 

     “Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of this glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever.  Amen.” Jude 24-25

We are still looking for Paul Washer fans, reformed ‘junkies,’ John Calvin and Martin Luther fans and true Bible believing born again Christ followers.  What do we want you for?  Check out this link: http://time2stand.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/paul-washer-fans-attention/

I highly suggest checking out this link:

http://bromalachi.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/radical-islam-and-homosexual-a-spirit-akin/

Paul Washer fans, we want to hear from you!  We want to do the largest internet offensive ever done and we need your help!  We want to spread Paul’s message, “Ten Indictments,” farther than ever before.  Why?

We see the great need for American ‘christianity’ to be called back into alignment with the truth.  We want to get at least 100 people (more is always great) to join us in sending out accross the internet Paul’s Video message of the “Ten Indictments,” a begining outline to calling the ‘church’ back to truth, links to Anchored in Truth, and other resources.  What are we asking for?

1. Your reply

2. Your name, email address, blog page and any internet site that you have or know of.

3. Once everyone has replied, we will choose a date for us all to send out an email, a blog or a website link to everyone we have access to.  I will put the blog/email together so you can copy, forward or link to the “Ten Indictments Offensive” all at the same time.  I will include any sites that you have submitted to me.

Help us to send out blogs, emails and links to call back professing christians to the truth as found in the Bible.

It’s time for change and it’s TIME2STAND! 

Forward this as much as you would like.

This is not in association with nor was this blog placed by HeartCry Missionary Society.  This is being initiated by Time2Stand.

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PS.  We are also looking for a name when we go to spread this internt offensive – so you who are good at the internet help us to think of a name that  will make this messge go far.  We may send it out a couple of times under a couple of different names.  We are looking for title names, tags and category names.

Costs and Beauty in Following Christ.

     “My friends may turn their backs on me and call me all kinds of names; I will love them because I too have called people many names and turned my back on many people.  Members of my family may call me ‘crazy’ and ‘ignorant,’ they may even seek to do me harm; I will love them because I too have held bitterness and hatred in my heart because of the unknown.  Liberals will call me a legalist; I will love them because I too did not understand the wonderful joy and comfort of God’s commandments.  Naturalists will hate me because I value Christ and mankind greater than the trees and the animals; I will love them because I to have spurned the name of God and cared more for the created rather than the Creator.  The liars will hate me and say that I am judgmental; I will love them because I was a better liar than most people are today.  The intelligent will call me a fool; I will love them because I too have thought I was better than someone else because of my position in life.  The morally good will say, “Heaven is theirs too, so who are you to judge me?;” I will love them because I too thought I was good until the Lord of Glory opened my eyes to His holiness and my wretchedness.   The religious will call me intolerant, a bigot and a blasphemer; I will love them because I too thought I knew the truth based on my ‘good works.’  The drunks and addicts will despise me because I am now free; I will love them because I too have consumed a great amount of alcohol, taken drugs to get high, and have been addicted to my own selfish ambitions.  The abortionists will hate me and tell me that I am taking their freedom; I will love them because I too valued a decision and freewill more than human life.  The homosexuals will hate me and want to kill my body because of the case against them; I will love them because I too have committed acts of sexual immorality and carried out lust-filled thoughts before having been regenerated.  Professing ‘christians’ who do not know God in American ‘churches’ will be the worst of all; they will hate me, deny me, persecute me, slander me, gossip about me, deny God’s Word in front of me, twist what little they know about the Scriptures to destroy me, make false acquisitions about me, and hate the very words of truth that I speak – I will love them because I too have hated God, denied His truth, twisted His Words, persecuted His Believers, made false acquisitions, hated the full and true Scriptures and gossiped to the destruction of another.  Praise be to my God that He sent His Son to die in my place, take my wrath, and become my curse!  Praise be to God that Jesus Christ washed my sins with His blood upon that tree!  Praise be to God that He saved my soul and made my spirit alive to Him!  Praise be to God for His regeneration of my life!  The cost is nothing compared to the beauty of knowing, loving and following the only eternal and true Lord and Savior!  Praise be to Jesus Christ the King and my propitiation!”

Jeremy B. Strang

I really liked this post by Marianne Lordi and I want to share it with all of you.  Go to Marianne’s personal site here.  Marianne is also the main author for our new women’s website called Time2StandLadies.  Check them both out!  Enjoy her blog below!

A message of hope in a dark world

The world is spinning out of control and each of us has turned to his own way, as we continue to rebel against our Creator.  Yet despite our iniquities, God’s love still surrounds us as he desires all to be saved.  His love is so far reaching that while we were his enemy, he sent his only Son to die to pay our debt to him.  Why would Jesus want to suffer on the cross for people when he knew that most would reject him?  This is a love that defies definition.  The depths of our minds cannot contain the understanding required to comprehend the love that God has for us.

We are told that this world and even the highest heavens cannot contain God, yet man is always attempting to define him within the limitations of our own finite understanding.  If we truly realized the magnitude of the knowledge of God and how great is his love for us, we would constantly be on our face before him. His holiness would bring us to our knees in utter contempt for our sin.  Sadly, the fact is that we have allowed the darkness of this perishing world to occlude the revelation of the truth. 

But Jesus, the Son of God, gave up the splendor of heaven to come to earth to suffer and die so that we might have eternal life.  He is the Way, the Truth and the Life who gives us freedom from the bondage of sin and death.  His sacrifice was made as a free gift to all so that none who call upon his name shall perish.  The love of Christ invites us to be joint heirs with him in heaven for all eternity.  He is a lamp unto our feet and a light unto the path of all who are seeking him.  He has a way out of every storm in our life and his purpose and plan for us cannot be hindered. 

For this reason, our momentary problems are far reaching in working out a reward that will last forever.  The furnace of our affliction is burning off the corrupt carnal nature which keeps us from being with God.  After we emerge from the crucible knowing that our God was with us the whole time, we can joyfully proclaim with the Apostle Paul in saying, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ lives in me”. (Galatians 2:20)  As we stand by faith in the battles of this earth, we know that Jesus has already made us winners.  We can never be taken from him for the Good Shepherd knows how to keep those who are his. 

We are never without hope, for the peace that comes from trusting in Jesus will never fail.  Those who are facing divorce or separation can know that he can restore your family.  To those suffering with serious medical issues, the Great Physician has your life in his hands.  He knows how to heal you and bring you to wholeness.  He can give peace to the hearts of those who have lost loved ones. Our God owns the sheep on a thousand hills so your financial problems are not too hard for him. He knows how to rescue godly men from trials and he will give you rest as you struggle to make ends meet. He can and he will mend the pieces of your broken heart if you are willing to put your trust in him.

In all of life’s difficulties, faith is the key to allowing God to work through your problems.  He can make a way through impossible situations and there is no tough circumstance that can hold back the promises of a loving God.  The one thing you must remember as you endure hardship is that you can NEVER be defeated.  Your victory has been paid in full by the blood of Jesus.  The enemy of your soul knows this and will use lies from the pit of hell to convince you that your situation is hopeless.  But God is faithful and will help you to understand that he alone is sufficient for all that you need.  His love never fails!

May God give you the understanding to believe the truth of this message that he has given just for you!

Marianne Lordi

Are you thinking about Missions?  If so, please check out this video from Voice of the Martyrs called, “Underground Reality – Vietnam.”  This DVD is geared towards all ages and especially the young adults generation in American ‘christianity.’  EVERY professing believer and EVERYONE going into missions should read Richard Wurbrand’s, “Tortured for Christ.”  Read a bit from this below.

“Scattered around Vietnam in secret meetings, believers risk all to follow Christ.  For the most part, they remain unknown or even ignored by the Western world.  What would happen when eight ordinary teens set out on a mission to meet the underground church in Vietnam? Now you can travel with The Voice of the Martyrs and a group of American and Australian teenagers through the cities, jungles and everyday life of the Vietnamese underground church.  A journey that started with a single mission to smuggle Bibles and ended with the dramatic reality of harassment, persecution and a courageous faith like none of them had witnessed before.”

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“Months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from hunger and cold, the anguish of brainwashing and mental cruelty – these are the experiences of a Romanian pastor during his fourteen year in Communist prisons. 

His crime, like that of thousands of others, was his ferverent belief in Jesus Christ and his public witness concerning that faith.

Meetings in homes, in basements, and in woods – sometimes daring to preach in public on street corners – these faithful souls persisted in their Christian witness knowing full well the ultimate cost of their actions.

This is their story – a classic account of courage, tenacious faith, and unbelievable endurance.  This history of the Underground Church reflects the continuing struggle in many parts of the world today.”

Estimated 200 million Christians are suffering some sort of persecution!

75 million has died as martyrs!

You can bet the American ‘church’ was not a part of these numbers!

Urgency to Rise – a call to the American ‘church’

It’s time to take a stand for your faith.  “Examine yourselves!” 2 Corinthians 13:5

Time2Stand is pleased to announce Time2Stand Ladies Ministry Website.  Go to www.time2standladies.wordpress.com and check out our new blogs for women. Our goal is to build women up in the truth of God’s Word one word at a time.  We believe that God’s Word is sufficient, perfect and the very inspired Word of God!  Check us out, leave us a comment and watch for more blogs, lots of Scripture, online community, and only the LORD knows what else!  We want to hear from you.

God bless,

        Time2Stand

Join us for our world wide Bible study.  James 4 is now posted.  Read James 4, read the comments, and leave us a comment.  Tell us how the Lord is speaking into your life through His Word.  Don’t have your Bible with you – that is ok, we have now made it so you can click on the orange verse numbers and see the ESV version of the Scriptures.