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"A
false balance is abomination to the LORD: but a just weight
is his delight" (Proverbs 11:1)
 Welcome
to my web page
My hope for this site, is that it be used of God in a way that
speaks to the heart of those that are looking for the wisdom
or strength to take the next step in their spiritual walk.
I
say this only because this is what I am doing right now in my
life (with a totally open heart to God and His leading)
Since
I will be sharing many of my experiences and revelations throughout
this site, maybe some of what God has given me, will be a witness
to you.
To balance out the ministry of the word and stay on topic: I
will create and link a new topic page when I am writing and
then feel the Holy Spirit saying that I need to explain or teach
something that I am casually mentioning, but realize that it
may contain some personal revelation or something not so mainstream
or conventional in the middle of a sentence. If I happen to
miss or skim over something that you do not have a complete
revelation on as of yet, feel free to email or message me. I
will share my revelation, knowledge or understanding with you
(anyone) on any topic. 
About
Mike From Church
I am not here to proselytize for a church, organization, fellowship,
etc.. I am not here to demand that you believe any of my doctrine
to be saved. Sometimes we miss the point of it all: It is not
what we do; It is not what we know; BUT, IT IS WHO
WE "KNOW" ...read
more on this topic here.
As
an introduction, if there was only one opening thought I wanted
to convey more then anything else, it would be that I am not
here for myself, I am here for you. I have much more then a
single testimony to share, I have a way of life and a life of
experiences that testify that God is real beyond any possible
shadow of anyone's doubt.
I
myself was an Atheist; that was raised in a Muslim home; that
became a Christian; and later found out that I was born of a
Jewish mother which (according to old testament law) makes me
a Jew. If you thought that your spiritual makeup was strange,
let me testify that you need to sit and listen to me for about
twelve hours.
I
don't know who you are: You might be an atheist, agnostic (or
in-between); You might be (or have been) part of some Eastern
based religion; Western cult; or Christian based organization;
faith; etc.; You might be a philosopher in your own right; you
might be into powers of the mind; astral projection; wicken/wicca
or pagan religious views; I do not know how God has or will
eventually make himself real to you, but one thing for sure:
If you have an honest heart and are open for God to reveal Himself;
get ready for the surprise of your life!
We
Can All Know God:
I am here to testify that each one of us can have a REAL two
way interactive relationship with a living God. Not only is
this possible, HE has already made the provision for it. As
you work your way through my web site, let the Holy Spirit of
God be your guide. Let God lead you to the reason for coming
here and not one of the other 3.74 billion web sites out there.
Do
not expect much of my web site to teach you the kinds of things
that you learn in a conventional church. This is what you have
mainstream type churches, pastors and evangelists for. I will
leave it up to them to tell you what is accepted by the mainstream
and tell you all of the things that you can't do today. The
desire of my heart is to simply speak truth and express it here
on this site, as the Lord gives it to me.
As
you read through my pages expect God to speak to you. Expect
me to prophesy and bear witness to your calling, as well as
allow the Holy Spirit to speak confirmation and truth into your
life. I pray not to hold anything back or to care (when it comes
to truth), what some mainstream religious organizations have
already taught you. This includes any tradition or doctrine
that satan may have already used to hold you captive at your
own will, and/or snared you and kept you from some living or
quickening truth for your walk.
If
you are reading the Bible and God is revealing things to you
that nobody else seems to understand, don't be afraid. As in
all things, you get what you put into it. What you sow, you
will also reap. You need to understand that most people are
sowing a couple hours on Sunday (maybe even another couple hours
midweek), BUT, you can hardly expect them to have the real book
of acts type experience or lifestyle that God is starting to
show you. You should also be aware that many spiritual landmarks
have been replaced with religion (or religious practices) and
have lost their true meaning. In the average Church experience
today: there is not much corporate worship; corporate prayer;
etc.. While you may crave spiritual fellowship and continued
ministry, you find people talking about everything else but
the things that your spirit craves to hear or experience. Conventional
Church has lost the true meaning of "Church" (the
gathering - Greek: ekklésia) and what it really means
to minister the Spirit.
Church vs. Synagogue:
A friend of mine (Dennis) says that "church" (in our
days) is like the "synagogue" in the old Bible (book
of acts) times. You may have not realized that while the disciples
and apostles could hear Moses preached every Sabbath (Acts 15:21)
this was kind of like going to "church" for them one
day a week. [I like to fantasize myself that Christians gathered
together in a larger assembly on the first day of the week to
testify of all the great things that God did when they witnessed
for Christ at the synagogue the day before].
Daily Fellowship
/ Daily Exhortation:
Even though the first century Christians may had still "went
to church" one day a week (when they went to the synagogue),
they also assembled themselves together and/or exhorted each
other daily as seen through the book of Acts and other letters
written in those days. There is no disputing here as this fact
is all throughout scripture. You can even see this truth by
deductive reasoning because it permeates the word as a common
truth: Examples: How could the Lord add to the church daily
if they were not meeting daily? "And the Lord added
to the church daily such as should be saved"
(Acts 2:47). "And so were the churches established in the
faith, and increased in number daily" (Acts
16:5); Other scriptures are much more straight forward, such
as: "And they continuing daily with one accord in the
temple, and breaking bread from house to house" (Acts
2:46); "And daily in the temple, and in every
house, they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ"
(Acts 5:42); These were more noble than those in Thessalonica,
in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and
searched the scriptures daily, whether those things
were so" (Acts 17:11); "Therefore disputed he in the
synagogue with the Jews, and with the devout persons, and in
the market daily with them that met with him"
(Acts 17:17); "But when divers were hardened, and believed
not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed
from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in
the school of one Tyrannus" (Acts 19:9)
In Hebrews 3:13 (daily) was talking about the actual assembling
of Christians together (not to be forsaken) as seen in Hebrews
10:25). The exhortation in Hebrews 3:13 and 10:25 is a manifestation
of the Spirit and is the same as the "word of exhortation"
spoken of in Hebrews 13:22. This manifestation through the Spirit
is also taught by Paul and included as part of the vocal gift
of prophecy to be manifested in the assembly as seen in I Corinthians
14:3. Here in this verse Paul mentions three vocal or word gift
manifestations associated with prophecy. Paul teaches that when
we prophesy, we are either speaking a word of exhortation, a
word of edification or a word of comfort. The writer of the
letter to the Hebrews said that he wrote a small letter, so
allow the supernatural gift manifestation of the "word
of exhortation". This in the writers context would allow
the Holy Spirit gift to supplement what he felt was not being
supplied in his "small letter". Today we can understand
or see this manifestation taking place while listening to the
preaching the word. However my personal end times vision would
be this on steroids, allowing everyone to use "the gift"
(their spiritual variations) and not only one single person
(like in a conventional church meeting). Spiritual variations
would also include other Spirit manifestations of spiritual
songs (I Corinthians 14:15); Psalms, doctrines, tongues, interpretations
and even revelations as seen in I Corinthians 14:26. Also: "If
any thing be "revealed" (Greek:apokalýpto to
receive revelation) to another that sitteth by, let the first
hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all
may learn, and all may be comforted" (I Corinthians 14:30-31).
So as not to get to much off topic right now, I will just say
that as you read my site more, you will understand (as well
as get a more perfect vision of) my revelation and vision of
how the first century church functioned concerning spiritual
gifts.
How it all started in my life
"...Man
shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God" (Matthew 4:4)
When
I first "got saved" (or started my journey to come
to know God), it all started with one single word from him.
This word came to me at the same time teaching me that the Gospel
of God: His Wisdom, His Light, His Power, and His Word were
hidden from me (because of my own choices, or at my own will).
I said my first prayer in my entire life. I never really prayed
before and I never before even entertained the thought that
there really might actually be a "god". I prayed:
"God if you are really there, then let me understand your
word" (which I had tried to read a few times before).
Then (and only then), I was able to understand my first word
and revelation which was: "Turn you at my reproof: 'behold',
I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words
unto you." (Proverbs 1:23). It was truly a miracle! It
was like magic to me: As I 'turned' to him, I 'beheld' his glory
as 'he poured out his spirit' and I was able to understand 'his
words' for the first time in my life. I might add that this
was a VERY "personal" and REAL "experience",
that did not stop as God showed me one more verse after another.
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Do
The Math
All through my site you will begin notice where I call
special attention to "the math". The above is
one good example of a type of experience that anyone can
have, where we all just need to sit back and "do
the math". You can do this math in your own head,
or just sit back in AWE as you give it over to God in
simple trust. There are so many different ways to compound
the math that it only proves the more of God "stepping"
in, which we then recognize and automatically calculate
in our minds and heart as "random independent (and/or
coupled together with multiple dependent/conditional)
compound event probability". Here in this experience
I asked God and then trusted him for the answer when I
opened the Bible and tried to read. The whole verse was
not understood to me all at once, it was really foggy
for maybe just under a minute as it came into focus. "Behold"
was an experience and then the promise that he would continue
to make his words known to me, I must admit was mind blowing.
However, this verse may not have hit home as much to someone
else under different circumstances, or for me without
my initial question and plead to him. Also I have to understand
that there are others that can read the verse and not
see it as anything special at all, being just another
promise in the word trying to speak to their seared conscience
or make it known to their numb or sleeping spirit. "For
unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them:
but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed
with faith in them that heard it" (Hebrews 4:2).
My spirit came to life when I read those words for the
first time only because of the intervention of God's grace
which brought forth the hope (or the solid substance)
of faith so easily seen and confirmed in the actual math
of the experience.
There
are 31,240 verses in the Bible if you include the 137
verses that are unnumbered, so if we were keeping it all
really simple I just won a lottery with the odds of 31,240
to 1. However, it is not this simple at all. In fact when
we look at this and understand it with a simple mind of
truth, it just got a whole lot more complicated. God is
all about a just weight and balance. His word and everything
that he does is all tried and true. Every place we try
and disprove, it only makes a more sure case and study.
For example: Someone might think that by dividing the
number of these verses into how many have to deal with
God revealing his word (which may be a handful), that
they can take a small part away from the odds to disprove.
However, all they have done is bring up a question to
now compound two (and more) math entities together (making
the odds actually grow instead of shrink).
Let
me explain in short: Why this verse and not one of the
others from the handful? So now we are forced to come
up with comparatives (assumptions) of other verses and
many more reasons why this verse was the most perfect
for the actual need at the time. However now each reason
only now serves to compound and re-compound the math again
and again to enforce or make or begin to lay the foundation
to support the most impossible odds (now axioms brought
about through the compound math). The math is already
compound together with many other circumstances: What
I was doing at the time; If I was doing what I was normally
doing during that time it could not had happened at all;
The grace of God stepping into my life which caused me
to question that which was not normal for me. This is
because normally experiencing what I was at the time I
would always be extremely happy and boosted with self
power. God had caused me to experience something against
my nature and previous experience and knowledge, which
was his divine intervention. Now what are the odds and
possibilities of this all taking place. I am saving space
by not getting into the actual story right here along
with it's mathematical cracks and crevices, just to give
you a simple glimpse of what you are in for as we move
on into the actual math of many different types of testimonies.
It
is my hope that when I share the math in my testimonies,
you will realize how easy it is and then start doing your
own math. By seeing what God does and how he does it,
we can see HIM and his steps in our life more clearly.
The Bible says that we are not (or should not be) ignorant
of the devils devices (II Corinthians 2:11), neither should
we be "willingly ignorant" of any opportunity
to see God by understanding his ways or devices more perfectly.
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After
this realization that God truly existed, the next thing that
he revealed to me was who Jesus was. This again was a very personal
experience that happened only a few days after my first experience.
As I read the words that Jesus left behind, it did not take
long to see and realize that you could not have spoken these
words, I could not have spoken them. In fact, no one else could
have done what he did. He said: don't look at me, it is my
father that "does the works" (or "God that
giveth the increase"). John planted, Jesus watered, it
was God that gave the increase. We see God through what He does
(it is God that gives the increase as we plant the word and
water by ministering the spirit) "Who then is Paul, and
who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as
the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered;
but God gave the increase. So then neither is he that planteth
any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth
the increase" (I Corinthians 3:5-7)
 After
first coming to know God, I started my hunt in the world of
religion and the so many different Christian denominations and
independent Churches, in hopes to find the same truth that I
was witnessing while reading what Jesus and his early disciples
taught. I guess I should tell you up front, that I did not find
it in completeness anywhere that I looked. My only guide was
the Bible and what people were saying that it meant, while being
compared to what I felt God was saying to me. God taught me
his perfect wisdom while I watched people trying to cram square
pegs into round holes. The beginning of Wisdom says if it does
not fit, turn it a bit and try it again. If it still does not
"work" try another hole. Perfect Wisdom figures it
out in the mind first, while looking at all sides and then measuring
closely while slowly fitting the pieces together. Without a
balanced open mind of truth there can be no fellowship (read
Hebrews chapters five and six). If you are not willing to change
or grow up you will remain on the milk having need to be taught
again and again until you can grasp fundamental principles.
These basics do not need to be hard, sometimes all we need is
for someone to start the teaching process for us. Rules, weights
and balances are put into place for our own safety until we
are ready to receive perfect truth and then let Him wield His
perfect power.
I
started with a foundation of sorts as God first lead me to a
blessed (spirit filled) full gospel church for my deliverance.
My pastors had experienced many hardships having escaped from
a concentration camp, but only after many decades of tribulation
and separation from their loved ones. God met them there in
special ways sending angels to minister to them in their trials.
It was from them that I learned the importance of daily fellowship;
praying in the spirit; the laying on of hands and Impartation.
I could go on for hours and teach what God has showed me about
their life and how certain blessings and inheritance was passed
on to me. While they were good shepherds, God had a whole different
life that HE wanted to show me. He spoke strong desires to me
and then confirmed the direction by placing steps before me
(which he through the abundance of his grace made easy for me).
God put desires in my heart and then made them come to pass.
Sometimes (even when you may think that you are walking in your
own direction), we need to realize that God leads us by His
grace and mercy. Proverbs 16:9 says: "A man's heart
deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps".
David claimed the grace and leading of God when he said "Thou
hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip".
(Psalms 18:36) Sometimes we can claim that we can control the
plan of God, but true wisdom says: "Consider the work
of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked?"
(Ecclesiastes 7:13) The answer of course is that only He can,
as we see in prophecy: "And I will bring the blind by
a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they
have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and
crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and
not forsake them" (Isaiah 42:16) I will go before
thee, and make the crooked places straight" (Isaiah
45:2) "They shall come with weeping, and with supplications
will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers
of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall not stumble"
(Jeremiah 31:9)
I
have much more then a single testimony to share, I have a way
of life and a life of experiences that testify that God is real
beyond any shadow of anyone's doubt. To me it is all about math.
The figures do not lie. Using math along side of my life and
experiences, there is no room for doubt. I am here to testify
that each one of us can have a REAL two way interactive relationship
with a living God. Not only is this possible, HE has already
made the provision for it -- And it can all start RIGHT NOW!
For
more please read the topic We
Can All Know God
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