MEN OF GOD DON'T LOOK NOW BUT THE HOMOSEXUALS ARE DANCING!!

Praise the Lord everybody! Let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord! I pray everyone is enjoying the Lords blessing. Despite still being on lock down in our apartment due to our elevators being still out of service, my wife and I are taking advantage of all this time to draw closer to the Lord. We want to be on fire when God delivers us from this so we can hit the ground running. We don't want to have to rekindle any flames and start all over when He decides our time is come.


I was going to write about the Children of Israel and Manna from heaven but God has led me to write a second part to my last post about the New voices crying out in the wilderness 2000 years after John The Baptist. If you remember the story, John was not just preaching on the coming of Jesus, he was also preaching about Sin and the need for repentance.(Matthew chapter 3), but he also spent a lot of time rebuking  Herod in Mark 6: 17-26    17 For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

18 For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother's wife.

19 Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.

21 And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

22 And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

23 And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.

24 And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

25 And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.

26 And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. 

God is sending out a warning to the Holy Men of today who are like John the Baptist, crying out against sin in the "wilderness". Our enemy the devil like Herodias would like to silence you but has not been able to just as she was unable, but her daughter like homosexuality now, have been growing more and more attractive in the eyes  of the world and has cast a spell over it as it dances it's hypnotic dance and weak minded so called men of God are also falling under it's spell as they add their voices to the cry for the "heads" of the John the Baptist of today who have the nerve to stand against the rising tide.

God is saying to those who are willing to stand in the gap and repair the breach that the enemy has scratched open with this new attack on the body of Christ, not to grow weary in their well doing because He has raised them up for such a time as this. A time where majority and popularity rule and not God's word. A time where sound doctrine and holiness are seen as artifacts of a bygone era only being taught by a bunch of "uneducated jail house preachers, ex druggies and old men."

God called us to be a peculiar people but most of the Church is struggling to blend in with the world. Jesus said we are "the salt of the earth" but to most of the Church the word of God leaves a bitter taste in their mouth and they refuse to swallow it. Jesus said "I have not come to bring peace but a sword"(Matthew 10:34,35) but most of the Church has compromised it's walk with God because of family more than any other reason.
But to those latter day Holy men of God who refuse to compromise God's word for family, fame or fortune, stand strong in the power of His might and keep on crying out as a voice in the wilderness against homosexuality and all sin, unmoved by the thoughts and opinions of man. The homosexuals may be dancing for your head but God...!

                        God Bless You All, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

THE NEW VOICES CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS: NO MORE GOSPEL LITE!

Praise the Lord everybody, let everything that has breath praise ye the Lord!! The praises of the Lord will continually be in my mouth. Like Job I say "though He slay me, yet will I trust Him!" I have been shut in since January due to snow and a broken elevator but I have learned to be content and accept what God allows. God knows what's good for me and I'm learning to accept this. I pray everyone out there is also growing stronger in their faith and trust in the Lord.

As I was studying the other day I was thinking about how great it must have been to preach the Gospel back in the early church, not easy but great. Great to be bringing a fresh, new message to the people. Only true believers, men zealous and sold out for the Lord would even dare to be associated with "Christians" let alone preach the Gospel.

The Apostles were such men, fully converted, Holy Ghost filled men of God who's faith was unshakable and everywhere they preached signs and wonders followed. They were men of authority, appointed by the Holy Spirit. When Peter was walking into the temple at the gated called Beautiful they exhibited such power in Acts 3:1-8  3 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.

2 And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;

3 Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

4 And Peter, fastening his eyes upon him with John, said, Look on us.

5 And he gave heed unto them, expecting to receive something of them.

6 Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

7 And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

8 And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

The power of God was able to flow freely then. The Church had not yet become THE Church. The Gospel was fresh and new and people came out just to hear the "Good news" and be forgiven of their Sin and saved. Yes, those must have been good times, all you had to worry about was being able to practice your beliefs freely. There were no "Christian theologians" to contend with no "Church folk", no usher or Deacon boards or self-indulgent old timers and backroom power brokers wanting to be "shot callers" in the body of Christ.

There was no "Gospel-lite" a Gospel that has been so watered down over the past 2000 years that in some Churches it is hardly recognizable. Paul said to Timothy in 2nd Timothy 4:2-4   
2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

People no longer want to hear the pure, full council of God and Pastors want to keep their sanctuaries and their offerings full. So today you find that most preachers have entered into an agreement with their members, "you keep coming and paying your tithes and offerings and I will give you some "ear candy" every Sunday.

Thanks be to God that Heis raising up a remnant of Holy Ghost filled, full Gospel preaching men of God, Who are preaching Holiness and are not trying to build their own empire. They are true Kingdom builders, the Kingdom of God that is. These men are like John the Baptist, voices crying out in the wilderness. We need to again flock to these voices and HEAR the word of God and then we need to become these voices. My Pastor is one of these voices, some call him a legalistic, hardliner and a separatist homophobic. But the truth of the matter is that he is an uncompromising holy man of God who believes in preaching and teaching the full council of God's word. There are others out there and they need our support, not our disdain.

                             God bless you all, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

OUR PERSECUTION DRAWETH NIGH!!

Praise the Lord everybody!! because He alone is worthy to be praised! I pray everyone is enjoying God's blessing. Despite our current trial my wife and I are pressing in even harder in our relationship in God. Now is not the time to faint. If you can read the signs of the times you can see that there is movement, led by the Anti Christ heading from overseas to America. And there are those right here in the land of "In God We Trust" that is ushering it in. The Lord gave me a message about six years ago concerning this that I posted on my old website "Rock Salt Ministries" and He is leading me to share it again here with you all. All we have to do is read the papers to see there is a change coming.

LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OH YE GATES!!



                               OUR PERSECUTION DRAWETH NIGH! (first posted 06/24/2009)

Matthew 11:12      12) From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has
been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it.

Sisters and brothers A time is coming and will be here soon where right here in America Christians will be persecuted for openly displaying their faith in public places. Just recently my pastor and his wife were accosted while waiting for the bus, by a man who was agitated by the fact that my Pastor was talking about the goodness of Jesus to someone on his cell phone. The man was on the verge of becoming violent and he began cursing my pastor and demanding that he get on the next thing smoking so he wouldn't have to listen to him talk about Jesus. My pastor was able to bring the situation under control by the grace of God.

Incidents like the one my pastor experienced are becoming more and more frequent as the spirit of the Anti-Christ begins to spread through the fabric of this country. The very mention of Christ in this country now suddenly is “offensive” to non-believers and is a “violation” of their rights. With opposition to Christianity growing daily, Matthew 11:12 was never more significant than now. The kingdom of God has been forcefully advancing as forceful men and woman of God, who is able to stand against all opposition, lay hold of it and not only stand but advance the good news of Gods coming Kingdom throughout the world. As we draw closer and closer to that “great getting up morning” many will fall away, unable to take the heat but those of us who are forceful of will,
will stand and continue against all opposition. God bless you all.
                                                           Brother Darrell

With All the things that just happened in Africa with the martyring of Christians, I was reminded of what God showed me in 2009 and I felt it was a good time to share it again on this website at this time. The spirit of the anti-Christ is sweeping the world and heading and is already here. The Bible states in Revelation 17:3-6      3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.

6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.     

LIFT UP YOUR HEADS OH YE GATES,  OUR PERSECUTION DRAWETH NIGH!

                          God Bless You All, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

PAYING IT FORWARD: OUR DEBT TO CHRIST

Praise the Lord everybody! For He alone is worthy to be praised! I pray you all are enjoying God's blessing as we quickly approach "Resurrection Sunday" which may even have passed by the time this blog is posted. When I think about the emotional roller coaster that Jesus and His disciples must have been on from "Palm Sunday to resurrection Sunday" it kind of boggles my mind. The highs of His triumphal entrance to the city, to his betrayal, capture and beatings, to His death and resurrection.

For Jesus after the joy of eating His last Pass over supper with His Disciples, I'm sure a time must have come where He began to prepare Himself for the trials and the pain that was coming. In Luke 22: 14-18 Jesus states    14 And when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve apostles with him.

15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

After laboring with these men for three years in the fields of ministry He grew to love them and care about them and now their time together was about up. For all the joy Jesus must have felt during that last Passover there must have been an equal amount of despair as He later prayed at Gethsemane, so much so that His sweat appeared as drops of blood as He asked His father in Heaven if "this cup could be removed from me"(Luke 22:40-45) 40 And when he was at the place, he said unto them, Pray that ye enter not into temptation.

41 And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed,

42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

43 And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him.

44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

45 And when he rose up from prayer, and was come to his disciples, he found them sleeping for sorrow,
Even after all this \Jesus was able to humble Himself and be obedient unto death, even death on the cross. He knew the Pain, the humiliation and the shame that awaited Him but He also knew joy that awaited Him too. That His enemies would become His foot stool as He was seated at the right hand of the Father and that His name would be exalted above any other name and that one day at the name of Jesus Christ every knee was going to bow and every tongue was going to confess That Jesus Christ was Lord of all.

So Jesus was able to face the cross and not turn back so how much more should we be able to face our so called trials and tribulations and not turn back but press on as we bring the Gospel to the lost, at any cost. We can never repay Jesus for the price He paid for our sins so our job is to "pay it forward" and spread the Gospel of Christ Jesus and let His light shine through us.
Jesus paid the ultimate price as only He could. Let's not forget that and pass on the blessing.

                God Bless You All, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall                                                                          

THE BLESSING POSITION!!

Praise the Lord everybody!! He is Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley, He is our Peace and the Author and the finisher of our Faith. He is our all and all and He is everything to me. I want to praise Him with my life, be a living testimony to His love, His grace, and His mercy. I wonder sometimes what God thinks of my efforts but even I must admit they are but "filthy rags" compared to what He has done for me. Still, I strive and press toward the "mark" that Paul talks about in Philippians 3:14, knowing I may never attain it but pressing just the same.

Over the years I along with many other Christian believers have come before our Father God asking for many things, some important, some not so much. Yet we always come expecting to get an answer in our favor, a blessing if you will and if we don't get the answer we want, the blessing we expected, we begin to question God. In 2nd Chronicles 7:12-14 God states     12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice.

13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

God wants to not only hear our prayers but He also wants to do something about them but He has given us some guidelines we must follow in order for us to be in position to be heard. Most of us have the prayer part right. We can put some words together that are like honey for the ears but we fall short when it comes down to humbling ourselves before Him, repenting of our sins and diligently seeking God's face.

We can't keep running to God with our petitions like everything in our lives are alright, just great when in actuality there is sin in our camp. Go read about Achan in the 7th chapter of Joshua and see what happened to him when he had hidden sin in his camp. The Bible says the sin of disobedience is as the sin of witchcraft and this is the sin we most often overlook. God has given us an assignment and we for whatever reason do not carry it out, we don't even try sometimes and then we go before God to ask of Him without confessing or asking forgiveness for our disobedience.

We all know that God is more than worthy of all glory, honor, and praise, and the good news is He has already blessed us and He wants to continue to do so. So when you come before the Lord come correct and be in proper position to be blessed.

                     God Bless You All. Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

SOME TIMES WITH GOD: MORE IS LESS!

praise the Lord everybody! because He alone is worthy to be praised! I pray every one of you is enjoying God's blessing. He blesses me every time I open my eyes in the morning and gives me one more day in the land of the living, and for that alone, He is worthy to be praised. Even though the weather and other circumstances such as my wife's surgery have kept me from attending church these last few months I thank God my wife's surgery went well and there was no cancer or nerve damage found. God is preparing us for something and I can't wait to see what it is He's going to do in our lives and our ministries.

Sometimes when you are pressing hard to be the man or woman of God you believe God wants you to be, as I do, sometimes and you find yourself missing and falling short of the mark, do you find yourself trying to make it up to God by promising to do even more things for Him like going out and handing out tracts or volunteering more of your time at the church's soup kitchen, or adding on two more fast days to your week, for extra credit on top of what God has already given you to do. Like when you were in College  So on top of the work God has ordained for you to do now you're adding your own stuff, your own burden when all God wants is for us to be obedient and do the job He has called us to do.

I find myself doing this all the time, trying to make amends for my own shortcomings, figuring if I add the burden of more good works God will overlook my shortcomings concerning the works He ordained for me to do. Now not only do I find myself carrying the load I was called to carry but now I have added a load I'm not even supposed to have. secondly, I have lied to myself saying I'm doing this to appease God when I'm really doing it to make myself feel better and more deserving of God's forgiveness, and all the time God is saying "I ain't mad at ya!" He knows your heart and He knows who is worshiping in spirit and in truth.

While all this is going on God is standing there shaking His head. In Matthew 11: 28-30 He says   28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

He has called all who are burdened down by sin not to add to their burdens but to get to know him and take up His yoke because it is easy to follow and His burden is light, the "light" of the world which we are all ordained to carry everywhere we go, even unto the ends of the earth. When we fall short we must not punish ourselves by adding burdens out of guilt but we must get up confess our sin and continue in the race. God will chastise whom He will chastise and He chastises those that He loves. Even His chastisement is perfect leading to His will for us being fulfilled. We make shipwreck of our faith when we try to choose what we think our discipline should be when God can see our beginning and our end and only He knows what is best for us.

So I've decided to focus on what God wants me to be focused on and stop trying to get extra credit. You can't brown nose God.

                God Bless You All, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall

LET THIS MIND BE IN YOU!!

Praise be to God! The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end and the author and finisher of our faith! I pray every one of you are enjoying God's blessing. I thank Him for His grace and His tender mercies which are new every morning. I thank God for my wife's recent surgery going without a hitch last week. I thank God for the help He sent us with those errands and chores that have become to difficult for my wife and I to do. I'm just sorry we could not make it to the revival last week due to the weather and my wife's recovery. we may not have been there in body but we were there in spirit and a revival has begun in our hearts and minds.

In the war for our souls our minds are the "Hamburger Hill" of the battlefield. Whoever controls that hill is well on their way to winning the war. The enemy is constantly trying to take the Hill and sometimes he succeeds only to lose  it back as our faith regroups. Then the enemy takes it back again as soon as our feelings change and our faith is tested again and back and fourth we go. The word of God gives us instructions on how not to keep letting the enemy regain control of our minds.
Philippians 2: 3-8 states
             3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

First of all the word says "let this mind..." meaning God is not looking for robots. We as believers have to make a conscious effort to allow our thoughts to become His thoughts. the Bible talks about us taking our every thought captive and making them obedient to Christ(2nd Corinthians 10:5)
and once we have attained this we will be able to humble our selves and become obedient just as Christ became obedient for us. Jesus was able to shrug off what most of us find almost impossible to do. He shrugged off His power, His authority and His place in line to the throne to become a man and die a horrible death and be buried in borrowed grave forsaken by the one He loved the most, His father. to put it in perspective how many of us would step down from being the billionaire CEO of Microsoft, leave EVERYTHING behind and move to the inner city to teach "bad" kids at a public school knowing that you will then be murdered by unhappy parents.                                                     
Apostle Paul talked about the renewing of the mind in Romans 12: 1-3      I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

3 For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

The word of God states that "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature, old things have passed away, behold all things have become new."(2nd Corinthians 5:17) This is true but our minds must be renewed and filled with His word to the point that the enemy has no place to gain a foothold.

So brothers and sisters let us allow God's word to scrub our minds clean and fill every nook and cranny so that we wont have to let this mind be in us that was also in Christ Jesus because it will be already there.
                          God Bless you All, Brother Darrell, Speaking Off The Wall