Afflicted

Back in the summer, I was in my bed doubled over in pain from what I  
now have found out was a mass pushing against my large intestine.

I asked the Lord in refference to a word He spoke to me; Lord you said  
You would make me a mighty man because of my love for Your creation;  
is this the way a mighty man is made? (in the bed of affliction)
He said the pathway of affliction leads to the precipice of victorious  
life.

Then the scripture came into my mind in Psalms 119:71
It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn Your  
ways.

Which led me to search out that verse, which then led me also to  
Psalms 119:67 which states:
Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now I have kept Thy word.

In other words it could read, before I was afflicted I did what ever I  
wanted to do without regaurd for Gods will for my life.

Which upon further meditation of this thought I remembered the verse  
that says in Hebrews 12:11
Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous:  
nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness  
unto them that has been exercised by it.

The question then arises in my mind, is chastisment and affliction one  
and the same?

In the first letter from Paul to the church that was in Corinth in the  
fifth chapter there he makes refference to a man that has taken his  
fathers wife.

After which he says that you should deliver such a one to Satan for  
the destruction of his flesh, that his spirit man may be saved in the  
day of the Lord.

Later in the very same letter he states in the eleventh chapter in  
refference to the Lords supper about examining ourselves that we don’t  
eat or drink unworthily, for this cause many are weak and sickly among  
us, and sleep before their time.

The main point of that thought is found in the thirty first verse that  
states:
For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
But when you are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, (WHY) that we  
should not be judged with the world.

So I would say in conclusion that if we are born again into the family  
of God and we find ourselves in a place that our flesh is being  
destroyed, (such as that happened to me this past summer) remember:
For whom the Lord loves He chastens and scourges every son who He  
recieves.
Hebrews 12:6

Is every affliction a chastisement?
I think not, yet we need to examine ourselves and judge our ownselves  
daily with fear and trembling.
Remember also that the demons believe, yet they tremble.
For the just are scarcely saved.

So my brothers and sisters in the great and woundedful body of Christ  
may all of our eyes be opened and our ears likewise be opened to the  
truths of the Spirit of God found in His Manual that we may all grow  
in the fulness and likeness of Him, that we will ultimately bring  
glory to Him because of Christ in us.

Peace to you.

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Frank & Vicki Thompson

Tactics of War part 6

There is a whole lot more for me to reveal about the tactics the enemy has used against me.

However I am going to change directions for only a moment.
I would like to talk about a tactic the Most High God has given me (or should I say to all of us) to combat some of the onslaughts that have been sent our way.

I have noticed when I stand (or sit) in my house, regardless what is
coming against me, and just start thanking Him for all that He has done and is currently doing in my life, stuff (oppression) just starts  
to lift and I can tangably sense  His Presence.

I PRAY and SING fervently in the Spirit mixed with thanksgivig and  
addoration in my understanding. Thats when things just start to  
happen, WITHOUT FAIL.
He shows up and lifts my spirit.

My faith starts to rise, my joy starts to rise, I am filled afresh  
with His Spirit and that only leads me into the assurance that He  
really is here, that He really cares for my concerns, that He has  
this, whatever that may be if I would just release it to Him and not  
try to hold onto it.

Therefore my friends when you are down, say to yourself, I have had  
enough.
This far and no more.
Start to thank Him with all that you can muster, and feel the  
oppression lift.
Remember Saul had David come to him to sing and play when he got down.

Also David makes reference that he too had to comand his soul to  
praise the Lord.

It is when we are down and we don’t FEEL like praising God that it  
then becomes our sacrifice of praise.

By Faith

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Frank & Vicki Thompson

Tactics of War part 5

There is a battle that ensues in the heavenlies that is fought here on  
our plant, we must stay aware of this FACT.

We have a part in that war, weather we know it or not, or weather we  
like it or not.

It does not matter if we are so called Born Again, Baptist, or Buddhist.
It only matters if we are human and have been born on this planet.
Can the eye say to the foot I have no need of you?
Or the foot say to the ear I have no need of you?
We need to look past a persons belief system, their culture, their way  
of life and remember they too are a part of this battle.

We are all ensnared to some degree in a trap laid by a cunning enemy.
Lets not cast stones at anyone who may be entangled in the traps of  
their religion, their habits, or their culture.
They are, as we are the victims of the traditions of our fathers and  
ways of life.

I am not in any way saying these other forms of religions or ways of  
life are pathways to the Most High,

But mearly forms of entrapments set against us to lead us astray.

The enemy would have us set our eyes on their errors and lambast them  
in the name of the lord.
Whereby we enter into fruitless debates as to why they are bound for  
destruction.

This too is a tactic of war, designed to separate us all mearly by our  
differences.
When infact we should be honoring each other because of our differences.

Its design is to keep us from uniting under one banner and one goal to  
establish Heaven on Earth.
To retain that which is ours, OUR LIVES.  To have tbe ability to walk  
in the pathways established by our Father.
To tend to the business at hand here on Earth, and walk with Him in  
the restful times of our day.

So when we have the tendency to look down at someone with a  
selfrighteous air, and think in our hearts, how could they ever  
believe such a thing? Remember if you are told a lie long enough and  
with absolute sincerity, from the ones you know and trust, say your  
parents, you would probably believe that lie without question.

So have pity on those and not a religious distain, thinking in our  
hearts, Father I am glad I’m not like one of these.

But with all sincerity lift up all men to the Father so that they  
might see that their Father in Heaven cares for them as well.

There is fresh manna from Heaven, downloading into my heart for all  
people.

I AM GOD

I AM HERE

I DO CARE

I AM ALIVE

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Tactics of War part 4

I ended the last post with the question, can I help those who I negitively affected regain their lives back?

Can the relationship with my wife ever be repaired? Maybe
How about with my daughter and my two sons?
Maybe
Can I help anybody? Maybe
Either way I’m going to rest.

I can see without very much effort that my sons have ventured down the very same path of self.
I am the center of the universe.

I have come to realize there are only two gods in this world, and only two.
Me and Him.

If I am serving me I am not serving Him.

My only determination now is to know Him, that with His help I may change and reverse the incorrect training I established in my children, and possisbly repair the damage between my wife and I.

I need wisdom.

He must increase and I must decrease.

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Tactics of War part 3

Alright I believe I have covered quite significantly my pursuit of sex, and some of the effects it had on me. However if by any chance I can remember anymore, rest assured I will expose those areas as well.

Now another tactic that the enemy has used to cause me to either shrink back or to become ineffectual in entering the war mounted against him, was drugs and alcohal.

It seemed to start off not so bad.
A little here and a little there.
I started smoking pot at thirteen but didn’t really like the taste of alcohal until later when I found I could still get a buzz without the expense.

Folks’ said as I was growing up “smoking pot leads to harder drugs.”
Bologna I said.
What it did do though was to exposed me to the people who sold the drugs that were harder and more debilitating than pot.
Debilitating is a good choice of words to decribe its effect, which means; imparing the strength and vitality.  

Well you can guess what happened.
A little reefer, a little bit of this, a little bit of that, and before long by the time I was fifteen I was shooting up speed, and taking LSD.

A little side note, as I was growing up I was very much interested in becoming a pilot, then onto becoming an astronaut.
You see my dad was a lifer in the U.S. Air Force and watching jets takeoff and land on the millitary bases as a young lad was exciting.

When my parents got divorced, however it kindof put something in me, anger I suppose.
Because my dad was in the air force I seemed to have spurned everything that he was.
Why? I do not know, abandonent maybe.
This could have been one of the contributing factors how the “I don’t give a hoot” attitude was established in my heart.

I do not have the insight as to why I chose the underworld to gain my acceptance with my peers, but that seems to be exactly what I did.

Please keep in mind the recounting of these times and events, is to bring into the light the tactics the enemy uses to keep me under and not engage in the war against him, the taking back of my life, and to help others get their lives back also.

So with the introduction to the drug and underworld scene, motivated by the distain for that which seemed to be normal, I was now incapable of being any use to the Kingdom of God, or so he (devil) thought.

With drugs and now alcohal as a daily routine in my life I seemed to stop growing emotionally and intellectually as a resault of that abuse.
So when God finally intersected my life I was still a little kid inside and really not capable of stable, emotional and rational thought.
It was still, me, more for me, and yet a little more for me. Not you but me.

So now I am twenty six years old, thinking and acting like a thirteen year old, caused by the various negitive influences and choices I had made as a young man, ready to have a child, and yet a child myself. eeyah.
What was I thinking? Oh yeah, I wasnt.  

Drugs and alcohal coupled with the sense of abandoment, toss in anger and then a little teenage rebellion, add to that combination a whole lot of me and sex.
My God what a mess.

I would say that the combination of a mixture like that has been used by the devil for eons against humanity, generation after generation with great success.
No wonder when they (fallen angels, or demons) can’t get you here, they try there.
They have studied our frailities over time and used them against us, so as to keep from us our very own lives.

But with the intervention of the Most High God, by whom we were created to be a representation of Him, through His power, strentgh and Wisdom, He made availiable to us HIS tactics, that we may through Him pull down the strongholds that have been used against us.

Am I able to recover from this life of error?
I am not sure, and quite frankly the mess I’ve made with my relationships here on Earth is not a good track record.
Its not about me anymore, I am old now and possiably not many years ahead of me.

The real question is can those who I negitively effected recover from this?  Its now about what can I do with the Wisdom of God to help me get the lives of my children and now grandchildren back for them.

If you were ever inclined to lift someone up to God in prayer, lift me up to Him who loves us, to have HIS WISDOM on how to help those who are coming up after me. To be able to keep their lives and to do that which we were intended to do from the foundations of time.
PRAISE HIM and THANK HIM for ALL HE DOES for us.

There by having healthy and prosperous lives with others here, through Him.

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Is There One

Is there yet one man?
1 Kings 18

Is there not one man who will speak the word of the Lord?

Have all men gone astray from the Most High God?

Are there none that seek after Me?

My heart breaks when I hear these questions from Him who continualy seeks after me with a consuming drive.  

Am I that man?
I would like to say I am.  
But I am certain I’m not.

The meditation of my heart is not always pure, nor could it be pleaseing to Him.

I catch myself wondering in my mind at times that make me ashamed.  
I can’t believe some of the things I think about or even daydream.

Now not all of us think wired stuff, some of us have our minds firmly fixed on Him 24/7.

I’m sorry to say I can’t be numbered amoung those.  
Not that I don’t want to be, but at times or seasons, its hard sometimes to stay concentrated and my meditation to stay pure towards Him and Him alone.

Sometimes I’m out in left field and I try to figure out how did I get here.
Well one thought unchecked leads to another and before long I’m all spun out.

I’m sure that, that hasn’t happened to any of you, but it sure seems to happen to me at times or seasons.

It is a tactic the enemy uses to keep me fixed, generally on the wrong things, and not on the things above or eternal.
To keep me on a treadmil of sin, guilt then condemnation. Which leads me back to sin, guilt of that sin then back onto condemnation.  

How have I personally stayed clear and overcame these tactics.
PRIASE and THANKS

Whenever I catch myself leaning in the wrong direction in my mind, on with iPod.

Keep this in mind;
Bring our thoughts into submission to God, resist the devil and he WILL flee.

Sin resisted will eventualy cease.

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Frank & Vicki Thompson

Tactics of War part 1

If by the Spirit of the Living God, I precieve Him to say;
“Is there yet one man who will stand on the wall, to peer into the darkness and declare to My people without shame the tactics the evil one has used against them, to cause them to shrink back and not engage in this war that has been mounted against Me?”

I say, yes Lord I will speak.
Let me say this though friends, this will still come with a personal price, to cause me to have to face some fears and shameful acts, if this is not the Voice of Him who Loves me, it will cause me ruin and shame in my mind and soul.

However if I precieve correctly, this to be His still small Voice, it will cause the strongholds of hell and the chains of bondage that wicked men or demons have set up in my life, to come crashing down, not only for me in my life, but for all those who the Spirit say come, and be set free.

So I will go to the begining, or at least as far back as I can remember.
For now, until I can sense or realize the significance of my preadolecence years and how the evil one effected my life, I will start in my teenage years.

As I have previously stated in the post entiled Manipulations of Men and Demons, it was set up in my minds eye to desire the firm naked form of the female body.
Mind you this was not to desire the woman, but only her body.

This was an ungodly desire not established by God.
God set up the pattern, to know her, how she thinks on different subjects, how she feels about certain things, to really get to know all areas of her life, and her body would be an intimate union of that spiritual and emotional bond.  

This ungodly desire would cause me in my later teenage years, and then into my early twenties to seek after women who would willingly, through whatever reasons of their own, expose themselves and engage in sex with me.
That was nothing more than the consumption of their flesh in my mind, culminating with using their bodies in essence for various acts of masterbarion.
I didn’t care at all about them or their own inner demons, I was only consumed by the desire for more flesh, to fullfil my own lust.

Now that I am in my early fifties, I still catch myself looking at a womans body first, before I look into her eyes.
This may only be a firery dart trying to get me off course in my meditation on God, or indeed it could still be a stronghold, where I analyze in a spilt second what she would look like with her clothes off.
Either way I am faced with the decision to engage in fantasies about her, or to cast them out of my mind.  
To my embarrament I have caught myself thinking on the former at times.

I said to the Lord one time, sir, I keep going around the same old mountain, over and over again, and quite frankly I’m getting a little bit tired of it.

His responce to me was the same that He told those of His day, repent (think differently about how you think about things)
He said you are looking at your sin and circumstance from above, try looking at it from the side.
I said, what do you mean?
He said you are looking at it from above, where indeed it does look like you are going around in circles.
However if you are looking at it from the side, it will appear as a tornado, wide at the top, and ever decreasing circles to the bottom.  

Like James said, “resist the devil and he will flee”  
Sin resisted will eventually cease.
So keep resisting, keep casting down those wacko thoughts and live.   

With the lust of my eyes and the lust of my desire for more sex firmly intrenched in my life, this then led to a more cynical stronghold in my life, that could have led to the destruction of not only my life, but the lives of my wife and children.

More on that in the next post.

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Sing to Me

And I 
I      
I 
I’m desperate for You Lord
We’re Nothing with out YOU Lord
Jesus 
Fill us Lord
Fill us Lord 
With YOUR GLORY
Fill the earth with your GLORY
Fill us LORD
Fill us JESUS
Holy  Holy Holy is the
LORD GOD!!!
Give HIM Praise
Give HIM Glory
Give HIM the HONOR
That is DUE HIM!!
Give HIM Everthing
Your LIFE
YesLordYes
Yes Yes Yes
Say Yes. Yes
Yes. Yes yes yes yes

Praises to the King of Kings
Jesus. 
Lamb of God
Holy Lamb
My Master. Savior. Friend. 
Soon Coming King
Lover of my soul
Glory. Glory. Glory 
King Jesus

I’m coming quickly and My reward is in
My Hand
I’m singing over you
My bride 

America

Listen 
Listen
I hear get your house in order for
I’m coming quickly in an hour that
You don’t want to be caught off
Gaurd.. Keep your heart pure for
Out of it flows the issues of life
I see your heart… It is My house
You are My habitation if you dwell
In Me then I will dwell in you
Says the Lord of heaven and earth
Keep yourself from idols little children
Keep your heart from the things of
This world  
My love is a consuming fire
I desire your company your adoration 
I am your beloved and you are mine
Sing to Me  love the One who died
For you
Your Savior
Your King 
Your God
Your Prince of Peace
Jesus

His mercy is new every morning

Don’t let bitterness take root in your
Heart for the mistakes or bad decisions
You’ve made   Be at peace.  I’ve 
Overcome the world
Don’t look back
Don’t blame others
Don’t blame yourself 
Peace be still
Did I not say 
My Mercy is new every morning
Weeping may endure for a night
But joy cometh in the morning
Be still now and know I’m here with
You 
I love you My child