Interruptions: They Augment the Good or the Bad

Interruptions: They Augment the Good or the Bad   Kelly Durant

John 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else did, they would have no sin; but now they have seen and also hated both Me and My Father.

2. What is an interruption? I think the past 2 months we have learned a lot about it with all the new restrictions and changes that occurred during the Covid 19. An interruption is when there is an activity going on, like regular business, and then something stops it abruptly but usually temporarily; there is then a timeout time and a focus on something else other than the regular so called ‘normal’ activities. New knowledge and awareness of things are disrupters as well bringing on new results. We must always analyze these outcomes if they are of God or not.

When you serve Jesus and serve others as a missionary, preacher, or in particular as a Soldier or Officer in the Salvation Army, your whole life becomes one big interruption of going from one unexpected activity to the next. It seems daily unforeseen things happen and you really have to hold on to Jesus to manage this type of lifestyle. I call it good stress, because in the end what we do is for God’s glory to help others, amen? But we must also have a time for a Sabbath rest.

All Christians when they get serious with the Lord will be called to do many things extraordinary that we are not familiarized to do, like becoming ‘fishers of men’; It will become uncomfortable, and it will involve learning patience, and also, a dying to your pride. Today I will focus on some angles of how interruptions affect us, I’ll start with myself, how I had to change, then focus on the community at large and the Covid disruption, and finally focus on the church, and more things to expect.

3. Personal interruptions: I recall as a kid I would be having fun outside, practicing throwing a knife at the tree or acting out as some character or something and then I would hear my mother yell, “Come inside now! It’s time to eat, wash dishes, and get ready for tomorrow!” I hated being interrupted but there seemed to be no other alternative if I wanted to eat and not get whipped.

Also, after being married, even on the first year my sweet wife Regina would yell at me too, “Come here and take your son, I need to cook!” I would in vain respond, “But I am practicing a song, or working on a project!” as that seemed to not have any priority. So again, having a family, I learned to get interrupted about 20 times daily and learned to just do what a parent does and become extremely flexible.

Also, when I was 21 and in college, thinking I would become a psychologist and make myself into some eccentric earth loving character but I got my lifestyle  interrupted with a call to go serve the Lord in Brazil. Thank God for that interruption! I would not trade all that I have learned while serving Jesus for nothing! When Jesus calls you, you must stop what you are doing, make a u-turn, and go down the road He has for you in life. Life after the interruption of ‘God’s calling’ gets excitingly better, and purposeful, but also full of unexpected changes and interruptions. You become as the wind, driven by the spirit. John 3: 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” Soldiers in the Salvation Army get this call, a call to serve and love and then the action!

4. Interruptions in the community: When Jesus called Peter and Andrew, they thought they would be fishermen until they were old and dead, but then Jesus interrupted them one day and totally changed their lives and direction, Matthew  4:18 And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. 19 Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 20 They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

This is how it is when you learn of Jesus, you have to make a decision to follow Him or not, to keep on with the old, or choose a new life with Him at the stern guiding your deep sea adventures. I can tell you I am amazed that even after so many years (over 40 for me) the adventure with Jesus never ends and what a glorious life it is to see souls saved and lives made better!  

The lifestyle of serving others and Jesus implies that every day you will get interrupted in your planned activities by a dozen different things and people that have some kind of a need and then their need becomes your challenge on how to help them as much as possible so they gain hope and faith that there is a God that loves them. Jesus changes us from being self-serving to God-serving!

5. Not everyone likes getting interrupted by Jesus (or you telling them about Him). Mark 1:24 saying, “Let us alone! What have we to do with You, Jesus of Nazareth? Did You come to destroy us? I know who You are—the Holy One of God!” 25 But Jesus rebuked him, saying, “Be quiet, and come out of him!”

You and I must be Jesus’ spokesperson sharing the ‘good news’ and like it or not, Jesus will bring on a change! Where there is a demon possessed person, Jesus will rebuke and heal, where there is a sick person, Jesus will comfort and heal, where there is a broken hearted soul, Jesus will heal it as well and give that person a new life, a mission, and one of sharing His ‘good news’ of life eternal!

So do you see the cycle? Jesus shows up, He interrupts normal business, He then repurposes the broken stuck-in-a-rut person to do good for God’s Kingdom, and then He gives that person a mission. So you or I when touched by Jesus also go on to interrupt others in their day-to-day boring existence to share the gospel with them. We see some people change totally, and then we see others who miss the boat and go back to their mundane repetitious life and are forgotten by all. 

6. Interruptions by Satan: Satan certainly does scheme time and time again how to interrupt the flow of things and deceive and murder God’s people! His tactics are diametrically opposed to Jesus! Jesus in the community comes to bless, to heal, to give meaning to life, and life eternal, to instruct on humility and love but not so with Satan. Satan inspires people to spread violence, sickness (viruses), division, and death. We see him too active of late!

Satan always comes in with deception fooling people who are carnally minded motivating them with temptation; temptation with power and personal wealth, playing on their fear of living life poor, enticing a person, you or me, to satisfy inordinate passions which always  includes harming and abusing others, even to steal from them and even kill. He also pressures all to be subdued under fear, to succumb to his demons who are merciless psychotic debauched gang leaders and dictators who overtly exploit and persecute  innocent people.  I really hate Satan and His people with a passion! All true Christians will hate Satan and expose the evil works of his people!

So what are Satan’s end-time plans for absolute dominion which will require every person on earth to worship him? We already know from what Jesus revealed in Revelation to John His servant. These tactics keep repeating and keep getting more intense. His favorite is to divide and conquer. 

7. Interruption by prophecy: From the 4 horsemen we learn that these objectives will be used by Satan and they are: Subjugation by force, war and division, hunger, an imbalance of wealth, and then death which implies death by diseases. What is implied under death? Revelation 6:8  So I looked, and behold, a pale horse. And the name of him who sat on it was Death, and Hades followed with him. And power was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword, with hunger, with death, and by the beasts of the earth.

The interesting part here is “and by the beasts of the earth”. The first claim was the Corona 19 was from a virus (or bacteria) carried by bats, but soon it was said to be one made in a lab (in China or the US), so maybe the truth is somewhere in between; it could be bats carry it but it was enhanced by a lab to infect humans more readily. A bat is considered a beast as it is not an animal that can be domesticated. Basically beasts do kill many humans yearly by many means!

So we are at the moment in time in which man’s intervention, or interruption of nature’s normal containment, is what is provoking more death carried out by people doing Satan’s wishes to discover how to kill mass amounts of people. 

8. What terrible days we are living in and we all need Jesus like never before! Imagine, the news groups already report that due to the shut downs we should expect more death from suicides from the effects of having the Covid 19. We also should expect many deaths from hunger, from food shortages, as the interruption of the production of food from the factories and slaughterhouses has crippled the normal supply. China already only produces half the meat they use to!

And what do we know from WW1 and WW2? It was failed economies and mass desperation for food and goods that provoked Japan and Germany into the war invasion phase to invade other countries and kill on a mass scale. Also China’s leader, Chairman Mao killed 26 million or more of his own people to subdue them into atheistic communism in 1949. Don’t think it can’t happen again! Mass destruction is already in the works by these elaborate elites that already own more than half of the world already. Governments obey their bidding because they own the governments, the world organizations, and most everything!

Satan has always killed some of his own to get to the ones he really hates, and that is his adversaries, the Christians, who always with the truth expose his plans for dominion, wars, hunger, death and population reduction by ‘plandemics’. Imagine, lab generated poisons and viruses can kill more people on a mass scale more than anything else besides an atomic bomb. And will things now get calmer? It seems not as they announce a 2^nd wave and that no normalcy will happen until 7 billion get the vaccine they already planned to market years ago.. 

9.The interruption to the church by Covid 19: Genesis 50:20 But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive. (The evil done to Joseph by his own family, sold into slavery).

As Christians it seems that so many times that the attacks against us turns into something unexpectedly beneficial. Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. By the closing down of houses of worship many thousands of house churches (church-in-the-home) were opened up! Some churches probably will lose some folks for a while, but the number of Christians in this time of uncertainty and confusion, I believe, has actually grown. 

Christian church buildings are only a modern luxury. Before it was like this,  Acts 5:42 And daily in the temple (Jewish ones), and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. Worship before was an everyday thing! It was as we do it today, it was a scripture reading, a devotional reflection, a singing of a hymn or inspired song. With the internet you can hear the teaching of most anyone you like, just be careful with false doctrines though!

10. One last thought, the interruption of death: As Christians our hearts go out to families right now who are dealing with loved ones who have died due to the Covid 19 interruption. There is nothing like a death in the family to interrupt your normal life and change your destiny and the relationship dynamics you have with others. Death, no matter if it is by prolongated fear, an addiction, a virus, an accident, a murder, or old age, is an interruption by Satan! 

He brought death into the world by enticing humans with temptation, never forget that! He still provokes early deaths by getting people involved in wrong and destructive activities. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

We cannot control much of what happens in the world or in this life but we can control how we will respond to all these interruptions.  Will we do what Jesus would do? Will we trust God anyway despite the world rapidly going to hell?  Psalm 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God. Today this could include almost every nation! It is time to increase our faith and always be ready to get interrupted, ready go or ready to stay, either way we must glorify the Lord, loving everyone, in all we do! Let’s pray… 

Invite the Holy Spirit’s Discernment In Your Life!

Invite the Holy Spirit’s Discernment In Your Life!     Kelly Durant

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15 But he that is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? but we have the mind of Christ.

2. I forgot exactly how this conversation was but a French man was asked about how he felt about his life as a soldier during the French War. He replied, “There are only 2 outcomes. If I am called to serve, I will go, or I will not, When I am on the battle field, I will be put in the front lines, or I won’t be. If and when I fight on the front lines, I will live, or I will die!  It is simple, one can accept these types of facts, or not”! It’s true that in life there usually is only 2 final outcomes, you will survive, or you won’t! After here, there will be heaven, or there will be hell.

So the question today is, how are you accepting things with this so called ‘new normal’ of masks and social distancing? Things will get better, or thy won’t! Life will get back to how it use to be, or it won’t. Your faith and trust in God is either getting stronger, or it is not! How are you responding to things? How you respond depends of how much you are guided by God’s Word and how much of the Holy Spirit you have in your life. So we must be living in a way that places us on the narrow path to heaven, or we are on the highway to hell. It’s up or it’s down!

Back to the Covid 19 crisis new rules, as the experts tell you in counseling classes, you cannot stop or control outside situations or an abusive person from being abusive to you (and it is usually not your fault, but theirs) but you can control how you respond to them! As Christians we do not play into the negative drama of illogical emotions because if one does one ends up as messed up as what the abuser is! 

3.As a society, we the people are getting bullied into false paradigms and we must not back down to conform to aggressors and deceivers. Nothing should ever be mandatory in a free country, but intimidation is a favorite tactic of Satan. After I accepted Jesus at age 21 and I decided to do mission work, I decided that I would not allow myself to be belittled by any small minded ignorant person out there who thought I was a fool, a freak, a fanatic, or lost-his-mind dupe. The Holy Spirit gave me the power to overcome this! The typical reaction from people when you propose you will do something deemed ridiculous or impossible (like going to live in a poor country to preach Jesus with no solid support or knowing the language) is that you have gone crazy. This is because they have a carnal, thick-as-a-brick, mentality that cannot accept things that come from the Spirit of the Lord. Most people instead of climbing the mountain with you, they make every excuse why they wouldn’t and why you can’t!

To truly understand an on fire, radical, unafraid of anything Christian Soldier you have to be one yourself! Like the old saying goes, ‘walk a mile in his shoes’! Try it! Step out on the water of faith! You will become empowered and invigorated and the mundane ambitions of the so called normal greedy average person will be correctly judged by you to be foolish, fading endeavors. ‘A life will soon be past, only what’s done for Jesus will last!’ 

Christians before were forced to accept the Roman ‘new world order, and if you did not say, “Cesar is god’, you would be killed! The problem today, as it has always been, is that the regular Christians, instead of being out in the arena of the Roman Coliseums preaching salvation with their last breath are sitting idly by in the grandstands watching their Christians brothers getting mocked, laughed at, falsely accused, discriminated against, and even killed in the hands of evil people in power who hate hearing about Jesus and hate hearing they have sins they need to repent of. Now the globalists, politicians, and technocrats want to be the new gods. 

4. Carnal people are always attacking the spiritual ones! It’s Cain and Abel all over again. Here is an example from the Bible (John the Baptist) of how the carnally minded respond when a righteous person calls them out to try to help them to be righteous and pleasing to God. Matthew 14: 3 For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. 4 For John said unto him, It is not lawful for thee to have her.

So what is happening is that John the Baptist is making a judgment call that Herod was wrong for stealing his brother’s wife away from him. In most cultures, stealing your brother’s wife does invoke anger, it might even lead to murder within the family! So laws (God is the originator of them, except for others man invented) exist for a reason; They are to control abuses, suffering, and tragedy to bring justice and consequence to the perpetrator. But lawbreakers and abusers, who are usually the powerful at the top, the ones who think they are above the law, are always acting out on their inordinate passions not caring about suffering, morality, God, or who they destroy. We do live in a wicked world highjacked by Satan.

So one action leads to another and the evil adulterous wife of Herod persuades Herod to give to her daughter anything she pleases in exchange for a sexy dance. Today many people get manipulated with sex and later pay horrible consequences! Little did Herod know she would have so much hate against John for calling her (and him) out that she would demand his head on a platter! How sick! So learn this, unspiritual carnally minded people who want to sin as they please hate Christians and make war against the righteous because they expose their cruel murderous hearts! All Christians battle against those who sin in their families, communities, and against the powers in secret dark circles in high places. 

5. So you as a Christian knowing you are not to conform to the world but to have the ‘mind of Christ’ how does that play out in real life? Have you ever thought about it? (Romans 12:1,2) What are you accepting, or not accepting concerning your lifestyle as a Christian? I hope you have not ever tried to steal someone’s soulmate as Herod did (but some so called Christians have done these types of sins!) and recall that King David paid grave consequences for doing this very same thing. There are some sins that carry a bigger punishment than others. Jesus sums it up like this, Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

1 Corinthians 10:4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit, 10(a) To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits. Most everything centers around discernment and convictions to do the right thing! Will you stand up even though everyone is against you? Another problem is our culture today has lowered the bar on the responsibilities of Christians and evil powers are advancing and this world is going to hell at a rapid pace because of it. It is our job to seek out truth and not just accept anything we are told by the world’s perverse people. You either obey God’s Word in faith or you obey the world’s. It’s either God’s reality, or the world’s delusion; the red pill or the blue one!

You could almost do the entire opposite of what the world says to do and you would mostly likely be in God’s will!  Luke 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. With discernment we can evaluate and judge that the world wants us subdued to them to our own demise, but, we have not God but Jesus!

6. Christians must discern how to live a healthy lifestyle, and this implies dominating many areas of our lives. Taking care of your body by eating well, resting well, and not abusing our body with addictive substances is a first start and a must do. (A requirement to be a Salvationists Soldier). Doing this you can resist germs and viruses! I also believe you should not allow just any vaccine concoctions into your body either as many of these have proven to do great harm. (Big pharma always pay big techys to remove truth but investigate the lawsuits in India, and ask me about Bolivia) The new vaxes are not as the old ones either (some old ones only provoked sterility!) because these new ones have nano-bots and DNA altering genetics! We need discernment and be informed on what evil ones want to do to our bodies and minds. They want us subdued and defiled, they want to be worshipped as our savors, and they want our money!

As we say in The Salvation Army, everyone needs Soup, Soap, and Salvation! We have human bodies and we do need to eat to be healthy, and then we must take care of our bodies. Cleanliness is Godliness. We must discern between healthy and good foods, and discern that our bodies must be clean and attractive in a modest way, without the vanity of plastic surgeries and extravagant clothes. We are only borrowing this temple that God gave us, right? So let’s keep it a good testimony.

1 Timothy 2:9 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array; Do you discern that you are taking correct care of yourself, not too much, and not too little?

Most people actually, naturally, do take good care of their flesh, but what about the mind? I think too many of us do not discern what comes in and what goes out of our minds. When society was a bit more innocent and Christian influenced in the 1950s & 60s, it seemed that children were respected, cursing in music and in public was taboo, and values were cleaner. But now for a generation already it is as if Pandora’s box of filth has been opened! All vulgar and abominable destructive communications are the ‘new normal’ and it has contaminated the minds of the young and old. A new normal of debasement and evil has been imposed on us to create division, confusion, fear, a mocking of Christian values, and in the final chapter, in our weakness, an enslavement to a new world order governed by extreme A.I. computer systems of control. But there exists a salvation to keep a person from falling into these new deceptions, and it lies in the discerning the signs of the times which Jesus prophesied about. (Matthew 24)

7. Here is a preliminary prophecy of how we would discern with the Holy Spirit after learning from Jesus. Malachi 3:18 Then shall ye (the people of spiritual Israel) return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serves God and him that serves him not. 

All of us who have become Christian must unlearn most everything from our past in order to learn from God’s ways. Too many people only obey commands from the world’s people, but recently, as always, they have shown themselves to not be so smart after all as they keep changing what you should or shouldn’t do day to day. The world’s people always blame others and never accept that they are wrong on anything. Due to this evil nature is why Jesus always said, “Repent”!

Here is our reality, we as Christians will quite often disagree with the majority of people who, not using their minds to research or pray to discover truth, will usually be mistaken in their convictions. And when one is resisting the trends of the world, one is labeled, attacked, mocked, and now destroyed on the internet before getting fired from your job for not being a parrot for the globalist cabal crowd. 1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

8.The bigger tragedy today is that too many Christians have forgotten to ask the Holy Spirit for wisdom and discernment and they are not defending God’s statutes  evaluating, judging, and deciphering all things spoken and all deeds done.The goal is to have the mind of Christ! 

The Greek idea to ‘know thyself’ is helpful, but this must be within the context of discerning how God sees us, now how we what to make ourselves be perceived: we only want to reflect Jesus! Discernment concerning those around you and leaders, no matter their branch of work, or what comes into your own mind from yourself, must be filtered through what is God’s truth on all our decisions as the consequences is a life and death matter!

In the Salvation Army it is ‘blood and fire’ and most Christians remember the blood to ask for forgiveness but let’s not forget the ‘fire’ of the Spirit! We must always ‘try the spirits” (1 John 4, read the whole chapter) and determine how to live free in God and be a testimony for good. Pray for the Holy Spirit to be in your life and pray for discernment so no evil controls you!  

Tune In: The Holy Spirit; Tune Out: The World’s Confusion

Tune In: The Holy Spirit; Tune Out: The World’s Confusion    Kelly Durant

Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

2. Have you ever made a wrong or bad choice and then later you could have kicked yourself for being so gullible and stupid? One that comes to my mind is when my wife and I decided in the 1990s to buy a Kirby vacuum cleaner from a friend of a neighbor. It was a time when our 4 kids were in high school and we really had zero money, but it was only $39.99 a month for 3 years!

That would be like $100 or more a month today! I grew up in the 1960s knowing it was a good brand and even though we could not afford it, somehow we got convinced to buy it. So month after month for 3 years we suffered to find the money to pay for it. I now look upon this as something we did without prayer. All of us are vulnerable to make huge mistakes without prayer and asking the Lord what to do about every decision in life.

Here is the problem, we are conditioned since are children by the media and the government schooling to just go along and accept whatever is presented to you whether it is fake or real, right or wrong, helpful or destructive. Subliminally we are conditioned to believe, ‘Resistance is futile’! People who want to make money from you, exploit you, control you, and gain advantage from your naivety are aggressively, intimidatingly, and harmfully trying to make you be their next victim. But, if you have God’s Holy Spirit, you may have a chance to escape! This involves what happens to your body and mind, and your soul’s destiny, whether it will be on the path to heaven or to hell!

3. The world’s people and countries are on edge from this recent virus, are they not? What happens to people under stress? When a person is in confusion from contradictory messages, under duress from months of anguish not knowing how to keep on surviving, when the pressure has produced a breaking point, what occurs? That person makes irrational decisions; these are usually decisions that will provoke their own harm and self destruction! We are in dangerous times and we need the Holy Spirit guidance like never before! It comes by prayer and study! Also, ‘walking in the counsel of the Godly’ helps a lot! (Read Psalm 1)

Just like how my wife and I were in the predicament of being pressured by a salesman that you must sign now, you must commit, this is the only opportunity, tomorrow we can’t offer this deal ever again, we, as weak humans, not guided by God in all our decisions, cave to the bullying of the people of the world who just won’t go away until they have pocketed you and got you under their thumb! A vacuum cleaner is one thing, but the decisions about to be made right now in the near future will repercussively affect not just the destiny of our minds and bodies, but of our souls! 

Here is a warning from God which applies to all people who do not obey His righteous statutes, Deuteronomy 28:20 “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

4. History proves to us time and again that when certain people or a previously God respecting nation stop obeying God, when the people become prideful, arrogant, and God defying and produce a rat on your neighbor, rat eat rat environment, the Lord allows them to fall under the curse of a self-destructive punishment. When you sew to the wind, you reap the whirlwind! Hosea 8:7.

One of the curses is the confusion of not being able to distinguish right from wrong, male from female, or healthy from unhealthy. The disobedient to God seem to always fall under a destruction that comes from the collective wickedness of the entire murderous, exploitive, Satanic system governing from around the world in ‘high places’. (Eph. 6) 

We can talk all day about where a virus originated, about whether it is man-made or animal transmitted but none of it matters if there is not a resolve on how to live Godly so that God blesses each of us with His protection. Exodus 15:26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Deuteronomy 7:15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

5. You and I will be faced with some life altering decisions in the very near future. You will be pressured to cave and be silent to the new draconian totalitarian ‘new normal’ which means that you will be tracked and spied upon by different means, one being an app on your iphone, because it was mandated for your own good to control the spread of any flu virus. And now there are previously prestigious hospitals training people on how to hunt down everyone you have ever met up with because you have had the potential to spread the virus. The so called ‘protective services’ will take your kids away, and you will be forced into confinement. Doesn’t this bring Nazism to mind?! Christians had better toughen up and be Spirit led for all that is happening!

The world’s contradictory statements and confusion over the virus are these: 

1. Mass testing is needed (but there are many false positives), and where it has been done it reveals that up to a quarter of us have already had it 

2. That once you have had it, it can reoccur again at any time making you a labeled threat to your workplace and community (applying the police must make sure you self-quarantine)

3. You must accept that hospitals and noisy neighbors will now spy on you and denounce you when they like so you are rounded up (What happened to HIPPA?!)

4. You will accept that any fever or high temperature read by your workplace or by a drone flying over your head downtown will flag you as ‘Covid positive’ therefore marking you for immediate arrest to be placed in quarantine

5. You and I will be striped of travel and other privileges unless new credentials that prove you have submitted to their vaccine solutions (In the works in several cities).

6.You and I will be expected to just go back into self-isolation shut down mode anytime the global authorities claim the virus is once again active in the world.

Our current situation really looks like a nightmarish sci-fi movie, does it not? It has been Satan’s dream for centuries to psych people with fear to the point they will accept Him and his beast control system as humanity’s salvation. Some Christians do see through his recent deceptions and tricks but those without God’s Holy Spirit are infected with the virus of the ‘world’s spirit’ and these are the new victims, the useful idiots, the fearful ones Satan uses to subdue all resistors to his ‘new world order’. Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

6. We all desperately need the Holy Spirit!  Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Do you want to ask God for His Holy Spirit right now? You should, let’s pause and ask Him…(prayer)

There are many verses on the Holy Spirit, but I just want you to know that, ‘the Spirit will guide you into all truth’, it will ‘comfort you’ when in any trouble, and it will ‘give you power’ to be a testimony for Jesus. I can say that at one time when young I was very afraid of being looked upon as an fanatical church idiot. I was prideful and wanted to fit in with the vain false crowd and now I ask myself, how could I have been so dumb and deceived to think those unloving, vain stupid people were cool? They never would have accepted me, an ordinary Joe! The people of the world are always too busy stepping on heads to climb the ladder of success to care what happens to you or me! If you want to find authentic loving caring people, it will only be in the band of a few Christians.

The Holy Spirit power is what solves all our spiritual needs! One of the greatest needs right now is the discernment of what is truth and what is not. Should you trust your health, your financial income, and your future by doing what certain authorities with horrible abusive records mega say to do? Unless the person speaking is a Christian and has good fruits in his past, then you should not listen and you should do the opposite of what is suggested. Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

7. It is a big challenge to let the Holy Spirit rewire your habits and way of thinking. Almost everyone I know are so proud they can never accept that I, or anyone, could ever offer them any good advice. It is a sad reality but too many Christians have never asked God to fill them with His Holy Spirit, to smash and break them, like the clay in the hands of the potter, to be remade into the image of Jesus. Ask God today to remake you, rewire you, and to most of all not let you do any decision without His Holy Spirit ‘s guidance!

Jude 1:10 But these (the people of the world without God’s Spirit) speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Today we are appalled at how so many people make irrational decisions, like a dumb animal, and like a parrot, they repeat to their friends and family the enslaving loathsome messages of the world that all must submit to the ‘new’ system?! And those not ‘with the program’ get censured and persecuted! John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 

8. Better it is to be loved by God and saved for eternity than to be loved by the world’s debauched perverts who only want to use you and then throw you away like garbage! Better it is to let God lead you than the old serpent Satan who only offers pleasures and wealth for a short time before he drags you into the lake of fire and punishment reserved for the unrighteous.

Luke:11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

These verses describe exactly what is happening today. The masses of people are living in uncertainty and confusion, they are hungry for love, for a comforting peace, for truth, for reality, and what does the world offer them? A cold stone of nothing! Solutions that are fake and a scam from the world’s evil rich serpent worshipping bloodlines! Solutions from the nation of the flying serpent that hates God and jails and kills Christians at will! Which do you want, the serpent’s spirit, or the Holy Spirit?

9. We are in desperate times! Christians with the Holy Spirit see the reality, liquor stores are open, abortion clinics are open, the rich circulate as they please while ‘we the people’ are being told that the churches must remain closed and that we must stay at home and that ‘for our own good’?! We knew a totalitarian draconian ‘new world order’ was coming but did we ever imagine that it would be implemented with such velocity?

So while you are alone, do you pray and experience God’s presence? He speaks into your mind His Word, His comfort, and His peace. When I pray or write sermons verses come into my mind, and that is God’s Spirit. Every Christian needs to ask God for this kind of an experience! John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The only alternative to being guided by God’s Spirit is to be guided by the confusing serpent’s spirit of the world! Christians please get serious with God and read His Word as never before! Don’t be ignorant to deceptive ones who will entrap you for their own benefit! Only the strong survive, that is the ones strong in Jesus! We can be empowered by something far greater than ourselves, and that is with the Holy Spirit! Ask for it and believe, and you will perceive, speak, and act in the way God wants you to. God’s Spirit is beyond words! It’s a fire that warms your soul and shines a light for all to see!    Kelly Durant

Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

2. Have you ever made a wrong or bad choice and then later you could have kicked yourself for being so gullible and stupid? One that comes to my mind is when my wife and I decided in the 1990s to buy a Kirby vacuum cleaner from a friend of a neighbor. It was a time when our 4 kids were in high school and we really had zero money, but it was only $39.99 a month for 3 years!

That would be like $100 or more a month today! I grew up in the 1960s knowing it was a good brand and even though we could not afford it, somehow we got convinced to buy it. So month after month for 3 years we suffered to find the money to pay for it. I now look upon this as something we did without prayer. All of us are vulnerable to make huge mistakes without prayer and asking the Lord what to do about every decision in life.

Here is the problem, we are conditioned since are children by the media and the government schooling to just go along and accept whatever is presented to you whether it is fake or real, right or wrong, helpful or destructive. Subliminally we are conditioned to believe, ‘Resistance is futile’! People who want to make money from you, exploit you, control you, and gain advantage from your naivety are aggressively, intimidatingly, and harmfully trying to make you be their next victim. But, if you have God’s Holy Spirit, you may have a chance to escape! This involves what happens to your body and mind, and your soul’s destiny, whether it will be on the path to heaven or to hell!

3. The world’s people and countries are on edge from this recent virus, are they not? What happens to people under stress? When a person is in confusion from contradictory messages, under duress from months of anguish not knowing how to keep on surviving, when the pressure has produced a breaking point, what occurs? That person makes irrational decisions; these are usually decisions that will provoke their own harm and self destruction! We are in dangerous times and we need the Holy Spirit guidance like never before! It comes by prayer and study! Also, ‘walking in the counsel of the Godly’ helps a lot! (Read Psalm 1)

Just like how my wife and I were in the predicament of being pressured by a salesman that you must sign now, you must commit, this is the only opportunity, tomorrow we can’t offer this deal ever again, we, as weak humans, not guided by God in all our decisions, cave to the bullying of the people of the world who just won’t go away until they have pocketed you and got you under their thumb! A vacuum cleaner is one thing, but the decisions about to be made right now in the near future will repercussively affect not just the destiny of our minds and bodies, but of our souls! 

Here is a warning from God which applies to all people who do not obey His righteous statutes, Deuteronomy 28:20 “The Lord will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in which you have forsaken Me.

4. History proves to us time and again that when certain people or a previously God respecting nation stop obeying God, when the people become prideful, arrogant, and God defying and produce a rat on your neighbor, rat eat rat environment, the Lord allows them to fall under the curse of a self-destructive punishment. When you sew to the wind, you reap the whirlwind! Hosea 8:7.

One of the curses is the confusion of not being able to distinguish right from wrong, male from female, or healthy from unhealthy. The disobedient to God seem to always fall under a destruction that comes from the collective wickedness of the entire murderous, exploitive, Satanic system governing from around the world in ‘high places’. (Eph. 6) 

We can talk all day about where a virus originated, about whether it is man-made or animal transmitted but none of it matters if there is not a resolve on how to live Godly so that God blesses each of us with His protection. Exodus 15:26 and said, “If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you.” Deuteronomy 7:15 And the Lord will take away from you all sickness, and will afflict you with none of the terrible diseases of Egypt which you have known, but will lay them on all those who hate you.

5. You and I will be faced with some life altering decisions in the very near future. You will be pressured to cave and be silent to the new draconian totalitarian ‘new normal’ which means that you will be tracked and spied upon by different means, one being an app on your iphone, because it was mandated for your own good to control the spread of any flu virus. And now there are previously prestigious hospitals training people on how to hunt down everyone you have ever met up with because you have had the potential to spread the virus. The so called ‘protective services’ will take your kids away, and you will be forced into confinement. Doesn’t this bring Nazism to mind?! Christians had better toughen up and be Spirit led for all that is happening!

The world’s contradictory statements and confusion over the virus are these: 

1. Mass testing is needed (but there are many false positives), and where it has been done it reveals that up to a quarter of us have already had it 

2. That once you have had it, it can reoccur again at any time making you a labeled threat to your workplace and community (applying the police must make sure you self-quarantine)

3. You must accept that hospitals and noisy neighbors will now spy on you and denounce you when they like so you are rounded up (What happened to HIPPA?!)

4. You will accept that any fever or high temperature read by your workplace or by a drone flying over your head downtown will flag you as ‘Covid positive’ therefore marking you for immediate arrest to be placed in quarantine

5. You and I will be striped of travel and other privileges unless new credentials that prove you have submitted to their vaccine solutions (In the works in several cities).

6.You and I will be expected to just go back into self-isolation shut down mode anytime the global authorities claim the virus is once again active in the world.

Our current situation really looks like a nightmarish sci-fi movie, does it not? It has been Satan’s dream for centuries to psych people with fear to the point they will accept Him and his beast control system as humanity’s salvation. Some Christians do see through his recent deceptions and tricks but those without God’s Holy Spirit are infected with the virus of the ‘world’s spirit’ and these are the new victims, the useful idiots, the fearful ones Satan uses to subdue all resistors to his ‘new world order’. Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

6. We all desperately need the Holy Spirit!  Luke 11:13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Do you want to ask God for His Holy Spirit right now? You should, let’s pause and ask Him…(prayer)

There are many verses on the Holy Spirit, but I just want you to know that, ‘the Spirit will guide you into all truth’, it will ‘comfort you’ when in any trouble, and it will ‘give you power’ to be a testimony for Jesus. I can say that at one time when young I was very afraid of being looked upon as an fanatical church idiot. I was prideful and wanted to fit in with the vain false crowd and now I ask myself, how could I have been so dumb and deceived to think those unloving, vain stupid people were cool? They never would have accepted me, an ordinary Joe! The people of the world are always too busy stepping on heads to climb the ladder of success to care what happens to you or me! If you want to find authentic loving caring people, it will only be in the band of a few Christians.

The Holy Spirit power is what solves all our spiritual needs! One of the greatest needs right now is the discernment of what is truth and what is not. Should you trust your health, your financial income, and your future by doing what certain authorities with horrible abusive records mega say to do? Unless the person speaking is a Christian and has good fruits in his past, then you should not listen and you should do the opposite of what is suggested. Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

7. It is a big challenge to let the Holy Spirit rewire your habits and way of thinking. Almost everyone I know are so proud they can never accept that I, or anyone, could ever offer them any good advice. It is a sad reality but too many Christians have never asked God to fill them with His Holy Spirit, to smash and break them, like the clay in the hands of the potter, to be remade into the image of Jesus. Ask God today to remake you, rewire you, and to most of all not let you do any decision without His Holy Spirit ‘s guidance!

Jude 1:10 But these (the people of the world without God’s Spirit) speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves.

Today we are appalled at how so many people make irrational decisions, like a dumb animal, and like a parrot, they repeat to their friends and family the enslaving loathsome messages of the world that all must submit to the ‘new’ system?! And those not ‘with the program’ get censured and persecuted! John 15:19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 

8. Better it is to be loved by God and saved for eternity than to be loved by the world’s debauched perverts who only want to use you and then throw you away like garbage! Better it is to let God lead you than the old serpent Satan who only offers pleasures and wealth for a short time before he drags you into the lake of fire and punishment reserved for the unrighteous.

Luke:11:9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”

These verses describe exactly what is happening today. The masses of people are living in uncertainty and confusion, they are hungry for love, for a comforting peace, for truth, for reality, and what does the world offer them? A cold stone of nothing! Solutions that are fake and a scam from the world’s evil rich serpent worshipping bloodlines! Solutions from the nation of the flying serpent that hates God and jails and kills Christians at will! Which do you want, the serpent’s spirit, or the Holy Spirit?

9. We are in desperate times! Christians with the Holy Spirit see the reality, liquor stores are open, abortion clinics are open, the rich circulate as they please while ‘we the people’ are being told that the churches must remain closed and that we must stay at home and that ‘for our own good’?! We knew a totalitarian draconian ‘new world order’ was coming but did we ever imagine that it would be implemented with such velocity?

So while you are alone, do you pray and experience God’s presence? He speaks into your mind His Word, His comfort, and His peace. When I pray or write sermons verses come into my mind, and that is God’s Spirit. Every Christian needs to ask God for this kind of an experience! John 14:26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

The only alternative to being guided by God’s Spirit is to be guided by the confusing serpent’s spirit of the world! Christians please get serious with God and read His Word as never before! Don’t be ignorant to deceptive ones who will entrap you for their own benefit! Only the strong survive, that is the ones strong in Jesus! We can be empowered by something far greater than ourselves, and that is with the Holy Spirit! Ask for it and believe, and you will perceive, speak, and act in the way God wants you to. God’s Spirit is beyond words! It’s a fire that warms your soul and shines a light for all to see!

The Salvation Army Mothers

The Salvation Army Mothers              5-10-20    Kelly Durant

Eph 6:2-3

2 "Honor your father and mother"-which is the first commandment with a promise- 3 "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."   

2. The other day a woman applied for her driver’s license and the lady at the window asked her what her profession was. She said that she was a:

Research Participant on the behavior of infants in domestic and communal environments. The woman giving the driver’s test not really understanding exactly what profession that was asked her, can you explain that in plain language? The woman replied; “I am a mother!”

3. God expects mothers to be strong characters that defend what is right and raise their children in the word of God! They must be influencers and leaders in society. The founder of the Salvation Army had a strong character, and Catherine, his wife and mother of their children, had a very strong character too! Listen to this example of what happened in a street sermon open air one time.

4. A man hearing Catherine Booth’s sermon shouted, “Shut up! You are a woman, you need to keep silent, it says in the Bible for the woman to be silent in the church!”  Being full of the spirit she replied, “Well young man, to begin with I am not in a church, I am on the street, and second Paul wrote that only to the women in the Corinthians, and I am not aCorinthian, and third, in the same chapter Paul, recommends that the men remain single as he was, but I see you have a wife!” It became his turn to keep silent!

5. This heckler was not respecting her and the problem in society is that we are not teaching people enough how to respect women, mothers and the word says: 2 "Honor your father and mother"-which is the first commandment with a promise- 3 "that it may go well with you and that you may enjoy long life on the earth."  This implies life will not be good for you if you do not honor both of them!

6. Did you know when the Salvation Army was founded in 1865 that 60 to 70% of the initial members were young mothers and they were valiant preachers too! And today in this Corps, we expect the mothers to be leaders to their children, and leaders in society too winning many souls to Jesus! It is selfish and boring to just be home, get out and spread Christian family values and salvation in Jesus!

7. Paul states that men and women, fathers and mothers, are spiritually the same in Christ. Gal. 3:28. Gal 3:27-28

 28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. The sad thing is few churches practice this, only the true ones do!

8. Christianity is a liberating and socially just religion because it teaches us to honor and respect! However, for more than 80% of the women today in the entire world are under other religions or communism, and the word woman or mother is virtually synonymous to the word slave! In China today still millions of girls are aborted or abandoned each year because the husband and government want boys! Pagan worshippers never respect women or mothers and this is a disrespect to God who created everyone!

9. But it should not be that way with Christians! Christians both men and women have been bringing more light and liberation through the centuries. In the Renaissance era of the 1600’s more respect for women and mothers awakened due to the actually reading of God’s word which had not been read by the common people before!

In all cultures, mothers, being more defenseless and weak, are often the oppressed sufferers who need to be defended and helped by those who have the power positions to do so. It is your and my job as husbands, fathers, and sons to honor mothers!  They may be weaker in some areas but they need our support! They sacrifice everything for you and me!

10. It is often the women throughout history that have been the ones to bring about a real change in society, in their homes, and with their children! In the mid 1800’s in England, there was terrible corruption, in particular in the poor areas of town like in East London; even children used to buy liquor at Gin houses where every house in five was a store that sold alcohol. Oppression, exploitation, adultery, thievery and alcohol addiction were the norm! And the women prayed with many to convert these lost dark souls to Jesus and it worked because they used tears!

The Salvation Army used to march in the streets with their instruments and then preach to the crowds (both men and women preached) but as you can imagine, they soon became not so popular. Those living in sin do not want anyone coming down their street to remind them that they should repent and not make more money selling liquor! Jesus made it clear that, “Because we are not of this world, therefore the world hateth you, John 15. Also, II Tim 3:12, “If any man will live Godly in Christ Jesus, he shall sufferpersecution.”

11. But why did those women preachers and mother’s have so much success? 

700 souls in the street one day, and 500 the next?  It is because they sincerely loved the people they were preaching to! 

If you don’t know the power of water, wait until you experience a woman’s tears! And women are often the first to start serving others in need!

Their sermons were powerful, and as William Booth said, ”When all else fails, try tears!” 

The Salvation Army has dozens of thousands of buildings all around the world to prove their love for mothers, children and others that are weak by providing shelters for the homeless where children can stay, safehouses  to escape the danger of leaving the lifestyle of prostitution, drug- alcohol  rehab centers, health clinics, boarding schools, and international causes that contribute to free others from oppression both men and women!

12. You have seen the hats the women use in the Army? Before they use to be bonnets, which would protect them from the cold, but do you know what else it protected them from? All the tomatoes and eggs and things the evil people would throw at them while they would preach the gospel on the streets! There are many accounts of their tears being shed for the lost and it touched people’s hearts to know they were being loved by God and by them despite the evil! When there is resistance, it proves a lot of effectiveness is happening!

Only the Holy Spirit can touch hearts to accept Christ, but we all must learn the lesson of letting ourselves get out of the way so Jesus can shine through! The Bible describes the woman as the weaker vessel and also we know God “chose the weak things of the world to confound the wise.”

13. Each person is different and we must learn to accept and respect each person. We must learn to value who we are in God and be thankful for how God has made us different and find our place in his body. 

You are all serving in many ways! And another thing about all the original soldiers of the Salvation Army (the ones I told you were 70% women), did you know they were people from the ordinary working class that worked in factories? And the English were very class discriminatory at that time! 

(Many of the them still are) God uses the foolish things to confound the mighty!

I know many of you here may think, I can never do anything big for God because I don’t know much, I am just a worker. Or a mother may think, I cannot do anything with a bunch of little kids at my feet. But history proves the contrary, women, and anyone can change a whole society if they work together! KD

14. .Jesus will make you and me smarter and braver and, if we will put our pride away and die to our selves, he will use us mightily and give us rewards in heaven! Jesus said to take up your cross and follow Him! I don’t know about you, but I want to live with Jesus forever in Heaven and any family or friend that we lose now cannot compare to what will be ours for eternity! 

Also, if we deny Him here on earth, (either by not telling others about Him or by our poor example) He will deny us before His father in heaven. Take a stand today to be bold and courageous like the founders of the Salvation Army! 

Because one man and one woman obeyed the calling of God about 150 years ago, today we have the great work of the Salvation Army that saves hundreds of thousands of souls every year! But you must do your part as a soldier of this Army in this community! Have you prayed with someone lately to accept Jesus? Let’s pray for the mothers who teach their kids!