“Secret reserves in closing with Christ.  To forsake all for Christ, to hate father and mother, yea, a man’s own life for Him, ‘This is a hard saying’ (Lk. xiv. 26).  S0me will do much, but they will not have the religion that will save them.  They never come to be entirely devoted to Christ, nor to be fully resigned to Him.  They must have the sweet sin; they mean to do themselves no harm; they have secret exceptions for life, liberty, or estate.  Many take Christ thus, and never consider His self-denying terms, nor count the cost; and this error in the foundation mars all, and ruins them forever (Lk. xiv. 28-33).”  pg 48

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I just wanted to let everyone know that starting next week I will begin my training for becoming a voice volunteer for Voice of the Martyrs.  Last Monday I was welcomed to join one of the VOM teams here in the Midwest.  It looks as if I will be representing a good sized area in Northern IL.  In less than 10 weeks I will be speaking, setting up displays and signing people up to the free monthly VOM magazine.  Having said this, and I do not say this to boast, I need a tremendous amount of prayer.  Spiritual demonic oppression has been very high since accepting this role.  Many people I know are under pressure as well.  On top of this, God seems to be directing even more men towards our ministry – this is an extremely important time to beware. 

We are also just begining to pray about hosting a men’s conference here in Stillman Valley, IL next year.  We are praying and will continue to pray about a special guest speaker to come up and spend two days with us.  If it is the Lord’s will, we will be extremely blessed.  More about this in the future.

I got to thinking the other day about spiritual warfare and Christianity today in America.  Here is what I was thinking:  The most dangerous demons, these ‘goat angels’ of death, appear in highly bleached costumes of wool, presenting themselves in such a way that entertains, appeases and brings glory to the flesh.  They confuse the soul and bring death to the person if intervention, God’s righteous conviction, does not intervene.  Many professing believers have danced and continues to interlude with sinful godless passion and do so willingly in the name of grace.  Perverted and blind are the ways of a person who does not consider their every willful step.  They essentially take the title of Christian, deny the Scriptures, crucify the Christ again and joyfully dance into eternal hell because they have not denied themselves and held fast to what is good.  Salvation they do not know.  Their very actions prove that they know not joy because they willfully chase down appetites that God hates yet feels so good to the flesh.  The most deceiving, blinding and heart-hardening demons cause a person to profess Christ and live as though they never heard the Word of God.  They profess freedom but in reality they run in the ways of the wicked.  Readers beware – is this you?  What case do you have to prove this is not true in your life?  Examine yourself.

Jeremy Strang