Broken by The Rock

Luke 20

⁷ Then He looked at them and said, “What then is this that is written: 
      ‘ The stone which the builders rejected
      Has become the chief cornerstone’?<sup>[b]

 18</sup> Whoever falls on that stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”¹⁹ And the chief priests and the scribes that very hour sought to lay hands on Him, but they feared the people^[c]—for they knew He had spoken this parable against them.


There will be a day that you will either choose to fall on The Rock, or you will ignore him and The Rock will fall on you. This is true ultimately to judgement after this life and age is over. However this is also true in areas and arenas of your life. Judge yourself and you will not be judged.

1 Corinthians 11:31 (Amplified Bible)

³¹For if we searchingly examined ourselves [detecting our shortcomings and recognizing our own condition], we should not be judged and penalty decreed [by the divine judgment].


The Rock will break you. If you throw yourself on the Grace and Mercy of The Rock He will remove from you whatever needs to be removed to take you to the next level of His Plan for you. If you sense that you ought to be beyond where you are in life or in His plan... something is there holding you back. Something you may not understand. Nevertheless, if a child jumps into a fire he will be burned, despite not understanding it. Therefore it is very important to continually, daily, throw ourselves upon The Rock so that He may break us of the things that bind us and hold us back.

If you press on without letting Him Correct, Rebuke, and Discipline you than you will find The Rock crush you instead. The Rock was not meant to crush but to be fell upon.

Broken is Good... Broken = Whole

Unbroken is Incomplete and empty

Darrell G. Wolfe

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Seize the Day!

Luke 19



⁴¹As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it ⁴²and said, "If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes. ⁴³The days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment against you and encircle you and hem you in on every side. ⁴⁴They will dash you to the ground, you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of God's coming to you."

     There are times and seasons appointed for the moves of God and the changes of the Holy Spirit. It is not possible to attend a meeting of Smith Wigglesworth, John Lake, Martin Luther, John Wesley, or other mighty leaders. It's not possible to attend the final West Coast Believers Convention of 2009. There are defined and definite seasons. Those times are set and you cannot go back in time. Grace and Mercy are new every morning, but certain things cannot be done over, only forgiven and washed. You cannot REDO your kids lives growing up, you cannot REDO a marriage... sometimes you can start over, but not REDO.

     One must take a hold of the seasons that arise. You must take part in what is going on and participate in any way possible. This applies especially in the callings of God for your life in general and daily. You have divine appointments today, will you keep them?

     Recognize the time, before it's too late. Has God been calling you to make changes? MAKE THEM! Has God been calling you to move? MOVE! Seize the day!

     Darrell G. Wolfe
Newsies Cast - Seize the Day Lyrics

Music by Alan Menken.
Lyrics by Jack Feldman.

DAVID:
Open the gates and seize the day
Don't be afraid and don't delay
Nothing can break us
No one can make us
Give our rights away
Arise and seize the day

DAVID and NEWSIES:
Now is the time to seize the day
Send out the call and join the fray

DAVID:
Wrongs will be righted
If we're united

DAVID and NEWSIES:
Let us seize the day

Friends of the friendless, seize the day
Raise up the torch and light the way
Proud and defiant
We'll slay the giant
Let us seize the day

Neighbor to neighbor
Father to son
One for all and all for one

Open the gates and seize the day
Don't be afraid and don't delay
Nothing can break us
No one can make us
Give our rights away

Neighbor to neighbor
Father to son
One for all and all for one

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Pressing Past!

Luke 18


¹Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.


In this chapter Jesus is telling me that there are factors to prayer I have not participated in. As the woman had press past the judge and the blind man had to press past the people around him so must I press past the things that attempt to silence my desire and prayer.



⁷And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?"


⁴²Jesus said to him, "Receive your sight; your faith has healed you." ⁴³Immediately he received his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they also praised God.

There are things in life that are calling for my attention. Some of them are strictly unpure. But many of them are seemingly just. Finances, work, and the pressing desire to move forward. I've allowed my own fears, past mistakes, and past misunderstandings to hinder my prayer life. If you cannot trust God and Believe He WILL answer, than your prayer is just noise. "God might, if He sees it fits into his will... blah... blah... blah" is NOT faith! It's fear based praying based on past failure. If you don't know what the will of God is, than you need to go to His word, find out the will of God and then pray it. "If it's your will..." is very rarely a faith based prayer.


     I must regain a time in my life where I followed God unashamed and unhindered by past. Today is new... today begins again.


Darrell G. Wolfe

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Don't Look Back... Jesus is Coming!

Luke 17

²⁰ Now when He was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, He answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; ²¹ nor will they say, ‘See here!’ or ‘See there!’^[d] For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
²² Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. ²³ And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’^[e] Do not go after them or follow them. ²⁴ For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. ²⁵ But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. ²⁶ And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: ²⁷ They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. ²⁸ Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; ²⁹ but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. ³⁰ Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.
³¹ “In that day, he who is on the housetop, and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them away. And likewise the one who is in the field, let him not turn back. ³² Remember Lot’s wife. ³³ Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it. ³⁴ I tell you, in that night there will be two men in one bed: the one will be taken and the other will be left. ³⁵ Two women will be grinding together: the one will be taken and the other left. ³⁶ Two men will be in the field: the one will be taken and the other left.”^[f]
37 And they answered and said to Him, “Where, Lord?”
So He said to them, “Wherever the body is, there the eagles will be gathered together.”


     This set of passages intrigued me deeply. I have just been listening to a teaching from Charles Caps from June 2002 on The Solomon Concept and end times prophecy. He caused me to rethink some of what I know about end times prophecy and how the scriptures paint those days vs how people have said the scriptures paint those days. 

      I asked myself several questions about this passage. The main one I was curious about is that it seemed to me at face level this passage contradicted something he said about the rapture NOT taking place in the twinkling of an eye but the changing of our bodies would take place in the twinkling of an eye and we would be here for 40 days after. It's very interesting. But doesn't this verse speak of the rapture? I've quoted this verse as a rapture verse several times.


    Answer: NO It doesn't. 


     Where then? His disciples asked? Where will those taken be taken? They will be gathered like wheat at His Second coming, which is after the rapture and not until the end of the tribulation. The Holy Spirit had me compare his wording in this passage: 

• Everyone Sees Him
• Heaven opened and Lightening in the sky
• HIS day
• Comparing destruction of evil places to His coming
• Gathering People
• The BODY refers to HIS body which will come WITH Him at the end.

To This passage in Revelations:

 Revelations 19


¹¹ Now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And He who sat on him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He judges and makes war.
¹⁴ And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,^[b] followed Him on white horses.
²¹ And the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of Him who sat on the horse. And all the birds were filled with their flesh.

2 Thessalonians 1

³ We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is fitting, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all abounds toward each other, ⁴ so that we ourselves boast of you among the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that you endure, ⁵ which is manifest evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you also suffer; ⁶ since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you, ⁷ and to give you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, ⁸ in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power, ¹⁰ when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe,^[a] because our testimony among you was believed.
¹¹ Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, ¹² that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

Therefore this passage is talking about the last day, the day when Jesus returns to set right all things for his thousand year reign to begin. It is not talking about the rapture. Which means an entire paradigm shift regarding end times thought. There are very interesting things to come.


     OK... so what? What does this mean to me right now? I think the biggest admonition here is to remember Lot's wife. DON'T LOOK BACK!


     Do not look back at past years decades or minutes. Look forward. What does God have for you? What are His plans for you? Is what you're doing right now taking you toward his plan or away from it? There is no neutral.

     Are you making plans for later this year that God would totally LOVE to turn upside down if you'd let Him? God wants me living independant of any "JOB" and living in a house fully furnished, finished, full and free before 2011. Will I let Him do that? Will I break my own mindsets and plow the ground of my heart to allow my mindset to expand to include TOO BIG DREAMS?

     Jesus is coming soon! We have no time to wait and wait for nothing to happen because we were too scared to take His plan and run with it. I will take steps toward that freedom. It starts with consistency here in this journal. It then moves to completing what I started with KOG Concepts. What's next? I'll get that done and let you know.

Darrell G. Wolfe

PS... Charles pointed to the scripture and said that we WILL know the day of the rapture as the day approaches. The time will not be a suprise to us at all? Throw your head for a loop? Click on the link to hear it for yourself. You be the judge:

The Solomon Concept

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Luke 16


⁸ So the master commended the unjust steward because he had dealt shrewdly. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in their generation than the sons of light.
⁹ “And I say to you, make friends for yourselves by unrighteous mammon, that when you fail,^[c] they may receive you into an everlasting home. ¹⁰ He who iswhat is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in faithful in what is least is unjust also in much. ¹¹ Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? ¹² And if you have not been faithful in what is another man’s, who will give you what is your own?
¹³ “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”

      The children of the Kingdom of God are still over messing around in the worlds system and trying to get it working for them. The problem is that the worlds system is broken and only broken people can use it with any form of success. They may seem to be doing well for awhile. But sin always has it's payback.


     The hardest part about being faithful is being consistent. It is fairly easy to be faithful in a hard time or emergency. But can you be consistent day in and out. When no people are looking, do you treat your family the same.  Are you harder to deal with on days when you're tired or days that end in "y"? Are you seeking the best interest of every customer whether a new hire is sitting with you or not? Are you treating each and every person as though you were on review for a promotion? Because you are? Jesus himself is looking for people he can trust to do work in His Kingdom. But if you have not been faithful in what is another man's who will give you what is your own? Not God!

     Consistency is THE KEY to living a faithful life for God!.

Darrell G. Wolfe








 

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The Older Brothers Lack

Luke 15


¹¹ Then He said: “A certain man had two sons. ¹² And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods that falls to me.’ So he divided to them his livelihood.
    ³¹ “And he said to him, ‘Son, you are always with me, and all that I have is yours. ³² It was right that we should make merry and be glad, for your brother was dead and is alive again, and was lost and is found.’”


      Here is an interesting story about being lost and found. Both brothers had growing to do. The older brother is the one I'm concerned about here. This is the story of dedicated workers in the ministry and church world. They serve and serve. They get jealous of the younger brother who seems to be getting blessed despite his lack of obedience. The Father lovingly points out: It's all yours. The younger brother forgoes his rewards and inheritance. The older brother gets mad a calf was never offered to him. He didn't understand that the inheritance was divided to THEM no just his brother. The calf was never offered because it was already his. He had only need receive it. But he didn't. He kept working for something that He already owned.

      This is the story of the older brother and the story I need most hear. Recieve and walk and work FROM The Blessing not FOR it!

Darrell G. Wolfe

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Luke 14

²⁵ Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them, ²⁶ “If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple. 

      Jesus is not here telling us to HATE if He says we must LOVE right? There is a matter of degree. Have you ever taken a drink of tea but thought you drinking coke? Did it taste awful, even though you like that tea? Or even one soda but another in mind because you grabbed your friends glass?

     In that context you hated that drink you might otherwise like a lot. In comparison to everything and everyone else, God and He alone, must be your first and only love. Your love for others does not come second to your love for Him. It comes through your love for Him. You have no love for others, not true agape love, without loving them through Him. All love outside of His love becomes destructive. Passion turns to lust, protection becomes smothering.


     And as My wife pointed out as we were talking this over just now, SLEEP is NOT first place. If God calls you to pray early in the morning, do you roll over and go back to bed or do you get up and pray? Never say that you are "Not a morning person." All you do is set your mind and body up to decide that you are unavailable to be used of God in the morning.

     Ask yourself this question today:


"What am I allowing to take first place above God in my life?" 


     If you can truly answer: "Nothing." 

Than you are truly blessed. Strive after, aim at, and press toward that goal.

 Darrell G. Wolfe

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