Gathered Around the Fire

  Teshuvah takes place from September 1 - through Oct 10 this year... Let's take a look at Matthew 22 and then maybe we will understand Teshuvah's two parts the first 30 days and the last 10 days. Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:   “The kingdom of heaven is like  a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.     He sent his servants  (the prophets)  to those who had been invited  to the banquet to  tell them to come,  but they refused to come.     “Then he sent some more servants  (prophets, revivalists)  and said,  ‘Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner:  My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready.  Come to the wedding banquet.’ (NOW!) (implied)   Matthew 22:1-4 This first phase of the story is the 'Days of Elijah' a voice calling men to decide once and for all, who is God, and then worship Him. In these final days,  God will not always strive with man,  but after being refused over and over aga

Have you ever taken your birth date and looked it up in Scripture?  Why not?  I never had either until now but it got me to look at several books I might otherwise not go to.  Here are the verses for my birth date 8:22  “As long as the earth endures,  seedtime and harvest,  cold and heat,  summer, and winter,  day and night  will never cease.” Genesis 8:22 “‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen ,  where my people live;  no swarms of flies will be there so that you will know that I, the  Lord , am in this land. Exodus 8:22 "He then presented the other ram, the ram for the ordination ,  and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on its head."   Leviticus 8:22 After that, the Levites came to do their work  at the tent of meeting under the supervision of Aaron and his sons. They did with the Levites just as the  Lord  commanded Moses. Numbers 8:22 Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the

We must Return 2 Him before He Returns 4 Us The Feast of Trumpets is fast approaching both on our annual calendar and in the prophetic season, we find ourselves in. It is critical that we all return to God as sons before that day comes... I am speaking of the historical season we are living in when I say... it is high time we examine ourselves. Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and  the  sin which so easily ensnares  us,  and let us  run   with endurance  the   race  that is set before us,      Hebrews 12:1   The Parable of the Two Sons  A man had two sons, and he came to the first and said, ‘Son, go, work today in my   vineyard.’     He answered and said, ‘I will not,’ but afterward he regretted it and went.   Then he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, ‘I  go,  sir,’ but he did not go.   Which of the two did the will of  his  father?”  They said to Him, “The first.”     M

On August 3, 1993, I was invited to a presbytery held in Austin, MN with a group of church leaders from across Southern MN, and Northern Iowa. These men prayed and prophesied over me as I moved into the region. Among the many prophetic prayers and words (none of which were recorded, unfortunately), this one word stuck out...and it has stayed with me for over 25 years now. It went something like this... paraphrased here but very close to the original  My son: You have run the 100 yard dash and you have run it well.   You have run the 440  (quarter-mile) and you have run it well    You have run the mile and you have run it well. but  this next season, I am going to train you to run the Marathon.  Track and field Events Short  Distance  or Sprints are  short running races. 100-yard dash, 440 Dash-    Middle Distance . The  races are the 800m, the 1500m, and the 1-mile long runs.   Long Distance . There are three main  long-distance  races: the 3000m, the 5000m, and the