The Jesus Message

Wood out of Lebanon Part 2

23/03/16 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

March 19, 2023

Someone needs to hear that you can get back to the vineyards of hope. You can get back to the cause you feel has been lost. The cluster was cut down to reveal a future cause. And eventually the transfer of faith and fruitfulness would be in a place they had already been. They would literally come full circle. Maybe that things in you was cut down to give you a taste of where God is taking you. Where he wants you to be a witness. Where he wants you to grow in greater faith. Where he wants you to dwell in peace and prosperity. A place in relationship with Him, not just a distant memory of what it used to be like. It’s return to the Supernatural. It’s a return to a cause in the Kingdom. It’s rediscovering a place in God that was cut down long ago, tasted in a time of sensitivity to His voice and now you are back there; standing in the same place years later, knowing that what was cut down was just the beginning of deeper experiences to come; deeper encounters with God; deeper callings to be a vessel of honor in His House. Whether it’s wood from Lebanon, or a walk from Cherith to Zarepheth, or the grapes of Eschol; the cutting down, the cutting place is speaking to us a spiritual transfer. From the ordinary to the extraordinary. From the secular to the spiritual. From the bitter to the blessed. Listen now…

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Wood out of Lebanon

23/03/09 at 2.25pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

March 12, 2023

Wood out of Lebanon. We gain things from the world that are transferred to the house of God. There are places that get cut down in the world, dream forests, ambition trees, desire lands of hopes and wishes for prosperity. They get cut down. We see growth in something we wanted from the world. Money. Fame. Respect. Purpose. And it gets cut down. And we feel severed from our significance in the world. We feel rejected by those we trusted in the world. We feel angry about the things we invested so much energy in just to see them cut down. You can hear the enemy say timber. And the confidence comes crashing to the ground. The well forested lands of possibility are suddenly barren and stripped and lost. But wait. It’s not over. There’s a transfer coming. What was cut down in Lebanon will be used in the Promised Land. What was failure in your past will be materials to be you as a house of God for the kingdom.

There are things lost in a dark place that end up being found useful in the light. There are memories that haunt you now that can actually become a part of God’s redemption plan. He takes the hurt, cuts it down, reshapes it and fits into the House of God. What was tragedy becomes testimony. What was painful becomes purpose in the potter’s hand. What was terrible loss and grieving areas of your life are now transferred to a place of spiritual reflection. Grace is seen. Listen now…

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Ruth and the Reapers

23/03/02 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

March 5, 2023

You can’t sow in Moab and reap in Israel. You can’t want earthly acclaim and Moab’s popularity and gain the heart of Judah. You can’t long for the successes of the world and reap the fruit of spiritual breakthroughs and encounter the incomparable supernatural. The nativity of the flesh was in Moab but the spiritual future, her significant part of Messianic lineage came when she left Moab behind. The lingering shame. The call of yesterday’s affections. The reach of people once loved. The connections of Moab’s causes. The fears of not being accepted in a strange land, in a new experience. The emotions conjured up when you think of things you knew in the land of your nativity, in the sinner’s home of spiritual Moab. But you have to leave it behind. You have to let it go. You have to loosen yourself from the binds that tie you to family traditions and long-ago influences. Eventually, the pressures subside. The temptations to go back, to do those things again are distant and cloudy and too ambiguous to challenge you.

Abraham left the Ur of the Chaldees for the yearning of a Kingdom.

Peter, James, and John left fishermen’s nets to explore the seas of the Gospel.

Jacob left his homeland for the people of the East and came back decades later with children who would make up the twelve tribes of Israel.

Jesus left behind heaven to deliver the world from hell.

Paul left behind Gamaliel’s teaching to take up the mantle of the Gospel to the Gentiles. Listen now…

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An Ocean of Anointing

23/02/23 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 26, 2023

What is the difference between a reservoir and a river? One is man-made. The other is God-made. A reservoir is measured in feet and depth. Man determines the volume of water. But a river is determined by rain levels and banks and flow. Spiritual things from God are immeasurable. You can’t control its current, you just have to move with it. Spiritual movements are powerful as long as we don’t put up humanistic barricades and try to control it. And in the world of the Spirit, God has given us depths of anointing. We don’t have to settle for little ponds of religion. We need to use powers of truth at our altars to touch a hurting and hopeless world. Go deeper. Pray a little more. See the impossible become a fulfillment. Listen now…

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The Eighth Person

23/02/16 at 3.09pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 19, 2023

During the Storm. The muted thunder rumbled in a graying sky. Haughty men who had laughingly scoffed at Noah silenced their conversation. The roofs that served as umbrellas from the beginning rain would soon offer no defense from the flash floods. Soon the midday sky would look more like a sky in the night. Darkening clouds grew even darker. Lightning raced ahead of each deafening boom of intensifying thunder.

The thinking man who had reasoned away Noah’s predictions suddenly shut off his mind. For his hand held mouth could no longer speak logic; it was too busy screaming. Understanding gave way to shock. Need overtook arrogant denial; a need for safety, a need for survival, a need for shelter. Those who had danced in bars while Noah and his sons stayed busy building now began involuntary dance routines as the fountains of the deep broke up.

The thrill seeker became the God seeker. Undulating waves of death attacked every inch of lower elevation. As the nightmare continued, thousands rushed to higher ground. But doom could not be avoided; for the water ascended to higher elevations. They had a chance to enter the ark on a sunny day, when there was no threat of bad weather, when the rain of destruction was still thousands of miles away. Instead, rejection ruled their tongues; hateful rhetoric spewed with fervent insults now reciprocated back to them in untamed torrents.

The torment most felt was not provided by the swirling winds and rain, but in the horror of being so terribly wrong. All the tarot card toting prognosticators, the astrologers who studied the stars, understood celestial maps and calculated seasons had arrogantly overlooked the simple words of Noah. Listen now…

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When God Looks at Himself in the Mirror

23/02/09 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 12, 2023

Brightness is the Greek word, apaugasma, which means radiance, effulgence, or reflection. The quality of sending out rays of light. Jesus came as the light into the world; not a separate light from another face, or from another person, or from a demigod figure on a different throne; he came as the one true light of the character of God.
You must understand that Jesus is not a resemblance of the Father, he is a reflection of the father. If God could look in a mirror and see Himself the image would be the man Christ Jesus. Think about that; God is not looking through a lens of eternity upon a separate image that has his appearance or likeness; He is not glancing upon an imitating substance derived from his omnipotent nature; He is not looking at a stump carved out His everlasting glory, planted in our human world and witnessing a distinctive growth or plant or god-form. God didn’t Xerox himself and send that into world. He created a human house and came himself to dwell in it. Jesus was not a close version of God; He was not an imitation; he was the incarnation. Jesus didn’t stop by the fueling station of the heavens and get a filling of the Divine nature; he was the fuel, the gas station, the everlasting power of God.
Remember, He is the brightness of his glory. Think, rays of sunshine; a beam from a flashlight; an illumination from a torch; you can’t separate the one from the other and they both distinctly exist. Also, glory is significant as the God said he would not give his glory to another. Isaiah 42:8
This is why the Trinity doctrine corrupts the image of God. It diminishes the authority of one and makes it reliant upon three different forms, or on unanimous counsel to get something done. Listen now…

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The Troops of Tema

23/02/02 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 5, 2023

Job 6:15 My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Job 6:16 Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:

Job 6:17 What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Job 6:18 The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Job 6:19 The troops of Tema looked, the companies of Sheba waited for them.

Job 6:20 They were confounded because they had hoped; they came thither, and were ashamed.

“Travelers in caravans from Tema, in northern Arabia, and merchants from Sheba, in southwestern Arabia, both known for their trading, had gotten lost looking for water in the riverbeds. So they were distressed. Similarly Job was disappointed, expecting help from his three fellows (you is pl.) but getting none.” Bible Knowledge Commentary

You are a traveler hindered by lack of water. Thirst unquenched. Desires unmet. Hopes that seem unquenched on your way to completing a mission, to acting out the will of God. You are among the troops of Tema. Tema simply means desert. You are a desert traveler. I speak to your dry days and frigid nights. The sands are endless to the sight. The course is draining, and weariness cooks the soul. God won’t leave you thirsty in the troops of Tema if you seek Him. Drink from His wells and experience unparalleled joy. Listen now…

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Your Adversity has an Expiration Date P3

23/01/26 at 9.27am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 29, 2023

Gen 8:5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

Decreased in this context means to decrease in amount as to become negligible. It doesn’t have the ability to harm like it did. It doesn’t have the measure of intimidation it once held. Now think about it, for 150 days it kept getting worse; but then when the decreasing began it kept decreasing until the tenth month. So, for a time it gets worse every day; and then for a time it gets better every day.
At first the only peaks visible were the highest ones on Ararat. But then in the tenth month, the tops of other mountains were seen. If you continue in grace, if you persist in prayer, if you keep walking in the Word, if you maintain your daily principles of righteousness, the waters of defeat will recede. And they will recede to a point to see other victories, hidden peaks of hope and spiritual restoration. You don’t just a one or two victories, but the tops of many mountains, a range of revival. Listen now…

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Your Adversity has an Expiration Date P2

23/01/18 at 1.04pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 22, 2023

Awareness must accompany awakening. If we are simply awakened by the noise but have no idea what is taking place, then we don’t really know what to expect. We may not know all the details of God’s design (especially since no man knows the day or the hour the Son of man will return); but we can stay aware to what’s happening in the world and stay awake in the Word. Our discernment should not be blurry. Our eyes should be absent the cataracts of human opinion and our vision should be clear with obedience. We should not be stumbling around in carnality. We should be taking each step with the lamp of truth shining before us. We should be avoiding unnecessary off ramps of human reasoning. We should be throwing off the blindfolds of prayerless blame; we should be maintaining a clearly visible burning passion for the Presence of the Lord. Things will still happen we can’t determine on the clock or human radars, but we should be prepared and maybe even prayer-pared, if you will.

Knowing when something is going to happen is different from being always prepared for any occasion or any event. We are not in darkness. People in darkness don’t care. People in darkness have zero spiritual perception. But the vision of truth is clear and precise. Let us keep our eyes open. Let us keep our hearts pure. Let us keep our altars hot with prayer. Jesus is coming soon! Listen now…

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Your Adversity has an Expiration Date

23/01/05 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 15, 2023

1Pe 4:12 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:

1Pe 4:13 But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

The word strange is foreigner, so first of all the apostle is telling us that the fiery trial is your friend, not a stranger. To be foreign is to not know the territory; but this is no stranger of danger, but a friend of faith and revelation. Jesus called Judas friend. He knew what Judas would do. Anything that helps shape your destiny is your friend and though it becomes your enemy, the result reveals it was as if a friend had done you a favor.
Happened. Not happening. Past tense, not presently occurring. So, this means whatever was taking place has already happened. It’s over. Your past it. You’re through it. You’re at the end of the chapter. You’re over the mountain of conflict. You’re beyond the valley of strain and stress. You’re out of the wilderness of confusion. Your victory has developed out of the darkness. Your treasure has come out of the fire. Your faith has come out of the furnace of anxiety. It has processed into a promise. It has formed from broken to something priceless. Also, happened is a word that speaks of an event. An event has a time stamp on it. It is based on something transpiring at a particular time. If you buy tickets to some type of entertainment, it has a date and time on it. You can’t show up a day later and use the same ticket. Hey, devil you can’t show up in my tomorrow promise with yesterday’s pain…listen now.

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Failures you should Never Embrace

23/01/04 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 8, 2023

Every day mistakes can be made. What will you do with them? Will you let them haunt you until you are too hesitant to make a move? Will you transform them into faith-steps leading to your destiny? Failures will happen, but there a some you should never embrace. When you allow built in failures the chance to tell you what’s going to happen before you even try is quite discouraging. So, refuse their entrance. Lock the door of faith and don’t let them in. Resist the temptation to make excuses before the battle even begins…listen now.

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Victory in the Valley

22/12/29 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 1, 2023

We face adversaries in a valley. In these times, our faith is revealed or our failures are magnified. Those who trust in the Lord always gain something for the better. We also face afflictions in the valleys of life. Miseries of mistakes. Ailments of the body and soul. And like Israel coming out of bondage, we rise above these afflictions to greater promises; for the area where they were used as forced labor to build the city of Ramses was only about 32 feet above sea level; but Jerusalem was some 2500 feet above sea level. So, in the low places Israel built a house for Pharaoh, but in the higher places of calling and deliverance Israel built a House for God, in Jerusalem. You can rise to new levels of faith with experiences and lesson learned in the valleys of life…listen now.

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Peace of the Rock

22/12/22 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

December 25, 2022

You may feel at times that you don’t have the capacity for tenacity. Why? Sometimes beginning again looks like going again. Another cycle of disappointed. Another season of setbacks. Another moment of missing dreams. Another fruitless field ploughed for no gain. Another discussion ending in fury and pain. Another investment reaping weeds and thorns of disappointment. So why even try again? Why put in the sweat and toil when the results will only cause your blood to boil? Why push ahead with expectation when the last few times of doing so has brought only frustration and negation. You feel emptied by siphoning let downs. You feel uninspired by countless failures. You think negatively because consistent droughts in your land of dreams and you laugh within yourself when rain is forecast. But, when you know the promise came from God, then your persistence is based on continuing with a cause beyond your comprehension; moving forward despite the outward signs of encouragement or discouragement. You simply understand that at some point the journey’s path will lead to the opening of true joy. You will get that promotion, because your hard work with pay off; you will see Revival in your family, because every prayer will continue to persistently accumulate before the throne of God until fire descends, faith wins, and souls are changed. To persist you often have to resist.

Resist the temptation to quit. Resist the detour signs of earthly shortcuts and humanistic self help methods that may be contradictory to the Word of God. You see, we resist the Devil so that he will flee from us, James 4:7; but we persist with God so that he will come to us and through for us, Matthew 7:7. Resist the lies that would tell you the place you are trying to get to doesn’t exist (if the woman with the issue of blood had believed this she would never have persisted in falling to the ground, weaving her way through the crowd to touch the hem of the garment she believed to have her cure, Mark 5); the faith you are fighting for is inconveniently too far to achieve (if this were so then Abraham would have exhaustedly told God he could no longer pursue a city whose builder and maker was God; for there were so many altars built and desert lands traveled and mountains explored; but he staggered not at the promises of God, Romans 4:20); and your lack of worth will cause you to be rejected once you arrive (if this was true then the woman at the well in John 4 and the woman caught in adultery and shoved along ungraciously by the Kangaroo court of Pharisees, these women would never have received the well of living water and the mercy given by Jesus).

When the roof of your faith is leaking, keep seeking. Persist in the peace of what God has promised. Listen Now…

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Preserving the Promise

22/12/15 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

December 18, 2022

Noah built an ark for the salvation of his family. Then, after the flood, Noah built an altar for sacrifice. Salvation and sacrifice go together. And in the Christian life we need to maintain our altars. We learn to be selfless when we sacrifice. We learn to be continually thankful to God when we show in our relentless devotion. The Promises of God are not just about saving us from danger; but they are equally about showing us our future, our fruitfulness. So, don’t be hampered by hurt or bound by bitterness; build an altar and see yourself grow through prayer, preserving every promise of God spoken over your life. Listen now…

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The Field of Answers

22/12/08 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

December 11, 2022

Where were you when God gave you a promise? It is important to remember because you may have paid it little attention if you were in a time of trouble, or if you were feeling your self-worth to be lower than the trash in a land fill. It’s hard to receive a promise when you are down in the dumps because you might just throw it in the dump. I wonder how many treasures could be found in the trash, how many seeds of prosperity lay in the wastelands of our doubts and fears?

Bankrupt. Broken. Emptied. Exhausted. There seems to be nothing left. All options are drained. Desolation rules where forsaken empires of vegetation once dwelt. The gates are unhinged and crooked. The walls are crumbled into piles and scattered in charred debris. Empty sacks once filled with grain blow around in the abandoned streets. It doesn’t look good. The future is mysterious and obscure. The nights seem longer and the days have little sun. Nothing is growing. There are mostly things that are rotted and peeling and wasted…

Jeremiah was instructed by God to make an illogical investment…

Part of this is that Redemption doesn’t make sense. Why buy something that looks run down and forsaken? Why purchase something that can’t give you anything in return? Why put value into property that is owned by another Master, for at the time Babylon possessed the land. Redemption doesn’t see the present condition; it invests on the future possibility. Not what it is, but what it could be.

You are now in a field of answers. Growing from the thickets of trial and trauma are lovely leaves. Pushing through abandoned acreage are tenacious stalks of restoration and grace. Shames melts away in the blanketing revelation of roses and lilies and orchids and hope. Walk out there and tear one from its soil, pluck it from the fertile dirt. And know that for every pain there is a promise; for every ache there is an answer; for every heartbreaking setback there is a Sovereign plan; for every fragment of dreams stuck in the potter’s field, there is a vessel of honor to be formed from the damage. As Romans 8:28 states, “All things work together.” Listen now…

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Secret Powers of an Overcomer

22/12/01 at 9.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

December 4, 2022

The blood. This is not just blood loss on the cross; this is a bloodline flowing through time.

The cheap detergents of human reasoning can’t remove sin stain and blemishes of lawlessness. Corrupt cleaners only add more to the deep ruin of society. Unholy institutions that appear to have a good cause but reject the Bible act like they are disinfectants to injustices, but they end up only infecting with more hate, and anger, and vindictiveness, and rage, and destructive behaviors.

A testimony. It is a consecrated testimony. It is a committed testimony. It is a collective testimony. It is consecrated because it was dipped in blood, empowered by the Spirit, and grown like a sacred tree planted by the rivers of water.

A testimony is based on what you see. It is the witness of His resurrection, and it can’t be objected to in the court of the Almighty. This testimony speaks of angels wings shrouding the mercy seat in the OT tabernacle; it speaks of the holy lid covering the God-authored commandments, the miracle rod of Aaron that budded, and the golden pot of manna. This testimony of the Old Testament proved God’s presence among the Israelites; it served notice to heathen enemies that the Highest Power of eternity resided with this people. It summoned fire for sacrificial approval. It received the sprinkled blood of annual atonement. It was more than ornate, golden, Cherubim engraved furniture sitting behind a curtain; it was the essence of the Almighty who rules the Universe.

And that testimony now is not in an Ark of the Covenant but in the church of blood washed saints. That testimony has the evidence of life after death, the evidence of manna in the Word of God that every child of God reads and quotes and lives and prays; the evidence is in the Apostolic ministry that for two thousands years has been chasing devils and poisonous serpents of darkness back to the hell-pits from which they emerged; the evidence in this testimony is…listen now.

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How to be Strong in a Weak World

22/11/23 at 10.37am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

November 27, 2022

You can be strong because you have money. Money can get you influence, buy you nice things, and get you through many doors in life. But there is weakness in this earthly kind of strength. “The root of all evil is….love of money.” You can have it, but not have a heart. You can own things and have nothing by way of truth and integrity. Money is a means, biblically speaking, for achieving the will of God; it is not, on the contrary, just the end to the means.

You can be strong because you have meaning. Popularity. Prestige. Celebrity status. Social acceptance. This is certainly higher, even in an earthly sense, than just being driven for money. Many philanthropists give themselves to human interests, world improvements, Global initiatives. And they have meaning. They do good. They mean well. But even this is empty without God.

As report by the Associate Press, in June of 2006, Warren Buffet announced that he would donate 85% of his 44 billion fortune to five charitable foundations. In response to questions about his generosity, Buffet said: “There is more than one way to get to heaven, but this is a great way.”

Wrong! You can have money and use that money for worldly meaning, but it won’t buy a ticket to heaven. Listen now…

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Three Frogs and a Sword

22/11/16 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

November 20, 2022

What comes out of the mouth of this trio of darkness is dubious to the mind, dangerous to the soul, and destructive to the body. If you listen long enough to their speeches you will feel yourself begin to question things that were concretely driven deep in your heart. If you taste the temptation of their offerings you will begin to believe that holiness tastes nasty and rivers of living water are too bitter to drink.

So, you have to challenge these ancient spirits with a newborn experience. “out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength that thou mightiest still the enemy and the avenger.” To still the enemy is to silence his hateful, demeaning rhetoric. The Spiritual application here is that when someone opens their mouth as a newborn babe in Christ, the New Birth Experience; it mutes hell. It’s like every auditory nerve in the Universe suddenly goes deaf, and as if some ethereal sound producer is at the controls the evil words fade out. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy singing. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy quoting the Word. Huh? I can’t hear you. I’m too busy praying in the Spirit. Your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic exaggerations that try to intimidate you. They will boast weapons of shame. They will target your vulnerable areas. But your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic excavations. These are the things they dig up from your past. Bones of bitterness. Rotted flesh of failures. Decomposed bodies of sin and regrets. Skulls of old thoughts in the dirt of shame. But your New Birth Experience has more power than demonic exploitations. These are the disadvantages the enemy thinks you have; your weaknesses he can key in on; your failures of the past that he can try and capitalize on when you try to do something for God, say something for God.

Goliath threatened Israel in I Samuel 17 and the Israelites were weakened by what they saw in Goliath. But then came David. And David was strengthened by what God saw in him. God’s view of us is more powerful than our fearful view of the enemy. Listen now…

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As Long as You are Under It You Can Get Over It

22/11/09 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

November 13, 2022

We are overcomers when we submit to God. Our ability to withstand trials and test is directly related to our obedience to the will of God and our dependence on His Word. He shields us. He protects us. He secures us in the worst of storms. Submission places you in a better position to witness the Supernatural. God has not only a shelter to put us in during the storm, but it is strong enough to withstand any attack. When fear comes, He shields us with peace. When anxiety wrecks our sleep, He calms our spirit. You will break through the next demonic obstacle because you are an humble servant of the Lord. So don’t be alarmed by the world as much as you are assured by His protective arms. Listen now…

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The Colt at the Crossroads

22/11/02 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

November 6, 2022

The colt was something that the Lord needed at a specific time. This is us at the crossroads. You and I are often frustrated and fearful at the crossroads. The crossroads of life that can often be indicative of indecision. It can be a place of hesitancy because of past failure. It can be a place of pause because we’re just simply not sure what to do next, where to turn, or what direction we should take; and what signs we should follow. But if we can treat our faith like this colt in the text, we need to understand that it was tied by the door, and that’s exactly where it needs to be until the Lord says go. Till the Lord says move. When it comes to faith that is exactly what God is requiring of us individually as a church; because, with faith comes faithfulness, and out of truth comes fruitfulness. It’s the ability to have fruitfulness out of our faithfulness to God. Listen now…

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When the Compass is Broken

22/10/26 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

October 30, 2022

Pro 14:12 There is a way which seemeth (it looks like the way to go but will really be the way of woe) right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. K&D say of this verse, The rightness is present only as a phantom, for it arises wholly from a terrible self-deception; the man judges falsely and goes astray when, without regard to God and His word, he follows only his own opinions. It is the way of estrangement from God, of fleshly security; the way of vice, in which the blinded thinks to spend his life, to set himself to fulfil his purposes; but the end thereof (אַֽחֲרִיתָהּ with neut. fem.: the end of this intention, that in which it issues) are the ways of death. He who thus deceives himself regarding his course of life, sees himself at last arrived at a point from which every way which now further remains to him leads only down to death. The self-delusion of one ends in death by the sentence of the judge, that of another in self-murder; of one in loathsome disease, of another in a slow decay under the agony of conscience, or in sorrow over a henceforth dishonoured and distracted life.

So in this verse there is self-determination (which at first appears admirable).
Then is it becomes self-delusion (a course taken that satisfy flesh more than faith)
Then it becomes self-destruction (I’m going to do it my way usually ends up being “I wish I would have done it another way”)

Pro 16:9 A man’s heart deviseth (to weave or to fabricate; to plot or devise in a malicious sense) his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.

Moral disconnection. Wandering dreamers. Listless ships at sea, unable to find the horizon of fulfillment. Unable to escape the storms of anxiety. Unable to chart the better waters of spiritual oneness with God. The sea of sin has monsters of condemnation and guilt and shame. Long tentacles of temptation that wrap around the soul of a man and pull him under. More than 20,000 leagues beneath the sea, it becomes an eternity in the depths of misery. Why does a man go on a course of compromise? Why does he so easily forget God when the sea is calm and the sun is shining and the nets are full of fish?

It is because the compass is broken, the needle of truth unhealthily stuck in one direction; unable to point man in the right direction, unable to point man toward his true divine destiny. He is vulnerable now to the pirate ships of hell. He is captivated in the chains of experimentation while true experience with God is dead. Man is trying to find an evil substitute for the aching in the soul, for the thirst that he cannot slake with the salty waters of philosophy in 1 million searches. Listen now…

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A Bipolar World needs One God

22/10/19 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

October 23, 2022

We are living in a world of extreme opposites. Many are increasingly confused by differences between light and darkness; truth and evil; right and wrong. Blended theologies are challenging our minds. Persuasive speeches of clever humanists are clouding vision. Confused theologies are filling more and more pulpits. We need a certain sound. We need the knowledge of God. Jesus will not fit into a pantheon of human opinions. He will be obeyed and believed, or simply rejected and scorned. There is no middle ground of mixed worldliness and the Word. We have to chose one or the other. We can no longer be halted, crippled between human opinion and Divine revelation. His truth is the final truth…Listen now.

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God Always has a Schedule for the Supernatural

22/10/12 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

October 16, 2022

God is not bound by chronology. He is not limited by hours of missed opportunities. He is barricaded by seconds of suffering. He works beyond the clock. He reaches beyond journals and calendars. He never sleeps nor slumbers. He always on time but is not pushing a time clock. His eternal power is always available. There is no particular time stamp for the supernatural when it comes to His church. He just needs hunger to match holiness. He just waits for the seeker to look beyond earthly boundaries and pray into the endless possibilities of His Word. Listen now…

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The Day of the Lord

22/10/06 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

October 9, 2022

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Hour after hour the Lord has been reaching for the rebel. He has given a cross laden path to redemption. He has literally spilled blood to take away the blame. He has patiently paced the mercy floor waiting for one prayer, one submission, one hint of a desire to turn to Him. But you can only spurn the Spirit so long. Eventually the hourglass will drop the last grain sand. Mercy will close her ears. Grace will retire. The cross will be only a broken memory. The blood river will dry up. The ark doors will be closed on this generation of evil doers and God-haters and selfish rebels and every refuser of His Gospel. The Word is plain in 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9:

2Th 1:7 And to you who are troubled (to be brought into difficulties, stress, or struggles) rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed (previously hidden but made fully known) from heaven with his mighty angels,

2Th 1:8 In flaming fire taking vengeance (penalty inflicted on wrong doers) on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2Th 1:9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power. Listen now…

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The Lingering Passion of a Relentless Calling

22/09/28 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

October 2, 2022

1Corinthians 7:18 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision? let him not be circumcised.

1Corinthians 7:19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God.

1Corinthians 7:20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.

Every calling is of equal importance to the Kingdom, but not of equal authority. Your background doesn’t keep you from being appointed. Your social status does not keep you from being anointed for a spiritual task. He can use a nameless servant girl to lead Naaman to a healing prophet. He can use a humble girl Rhoda to recognize an apostle at the gate of deliverance and door of Revival. He can use a farmer from a non-descript region of Israel to proclaim heart rending prophecies, as he did with Amos. Their calling in the society and the overall concept of the Church of the Living God was not limited by social restrictions, education, or ethnicity. You can have money or be as broke as an egg dropped from a high-rise building. You can have popularity or be unknown and overlooked by the crowd. In other words, you can be God’s chosen witness.

There are portions of this that apply to the five-fold ministry and if you are a part of that then you know the relentless fire that burns with your calling. But it also applies to corporate body, to the priesthood of believers; you are called. You are chosen. You have distinct purpose. You live in the separation-zone of God’s blessings and giftings for your career; for your family; for your local church and the man of God to whom you submit. There is a lion of faith in you to fight back the evil forces surrounding your city. There is a spiritual connection to specific significance where you work, the people you are around; the souls that you link to everyday in this chaotic world. You are not random; you are redeemed; and you have a righteous calling as a light of the world. Listen now…

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The Lingering Piece of a Miracle Moment

22/09/21 at 4.48pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

September 25, 2022

God supplied it. But He didn’t just provide a miracle on a mountainside. He gave them a fragment of the experience to take home. You see a piece of yesterday’s miracle can feed your lonely soul in today’s valley. With the crowd the crumbs don’t mean as much, but when you are by yourself in the burdensome sun-soaked desert, the crumbs of a miracle memory feed the soul. Don’t forget what God did for you last year; it may encourage you through today’s storm. Don’t forget the provision God miraculously provided last week; it may be the spiritual groceries you need now in the scarcity of a depressed emotion. You packed joy in last week’s service because the tears of today are very real, very relentless, and very painful.

Divine leftovers. Something to dine on later. A promise that keeps on giving. A hope that grows more when you use it. A faith that increases the more you exhaust it. Don’t leave the leftovers in the field of complacency. Grab them. Gather them. Store them. Seize the encouragement. Put them in the inventory of your testimony. And remember that the miracle bread was broken from something else to fee you; so your brokenness can be bread for another, not just isolated bitterness in yourself.

You know there are those Divine moments that stick with you. You can’t get over them. They linger in the deepest regions of your heart and soul. They smolder on in the recesses of your spiritual man, a consuming reminder of a powerful Hand that touched you; changed you; transformed you from distressed to blessed. These are the fragments of the supernatural that remain. It is the lingering piece of a miracle moment. Listen now…

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When Dr. Jesus Walks into the Room

22/09/14 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

September 18, 2022

God doesn’t need a second opinion on the condition of your heart for I John 3:20 says “…God is greater than our hearts and knoweth all things.”

God has the best prescription for life, the antidote that works every time, the daily vitamin of the soul that will resist hell’s bacteria for the Word stats in Exodus 15:26,

Exo_15:26 And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee.

God is not trapped to one location or one holy place or one sacred box where he might operate; He is the ultimate Doctor without borders for the Word says,

Mat_4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Cancer doesn’t get an exemption from the Cross. Diabetes doesn’t have dominion over the blood. Every virus on the planet, above the planet, in space, under the earth, in the air, in the caves, in the ground, in the seas; not one of them escapes the stripes of healing from the beating at Calvary. Every virus must bend its knee. Every sickness must surrender. Every mental ailment must acquiesce to the anointing that breaks the yoke. Every heart issue and blood issue and emotional issue must lay its weapons at the door of mercy and leave the premises where the authority of Doctor Jesus has spoken.

Not every sickness was healed in the days of Jesus on earth, but most assuredly, without even a hint of a shadow of doubt, without even one percentage of failure, every single individual Jesus ever touched or spoke a word of healing to, everyone was healed. No exclusions. No mishaps. No false diagnosis. No mistaken medicine. Listen now…

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The Lingering Peace of a Forgiven Past

22/09/07 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

September 11, 2022

Psa 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.

As far as the east is from the West is Unreachable. This is not a measurable distance. It is the horizontal revelation of God’s mercy, dealing with us on a plain of sin and hope. Sin is stretched so far away from the sinner, that now the sinner can hear the voice of God without condemning interference.

As far is truly contrasted with east from the west. If I said as far as Denver is from Dallas you would have a measurable. You can’t measure forgiveness with a ruler, or a mileage track, or traced steps of grounds discovered and surveyed. You couldn’t even say as far as Pluto from Mercury. Or our galaxy from the most distant galaxy from us. And then think of he directional revelation. East from West. It keeps moving. It is an infinite gap that keeps growing. Forgiveness from condemnation incrementally grows more distant with each service, with each perfecting season of prayer; with each fiery trial successfully endured and testimony gained. The power of forgiveness increases and guilt of the past decreases as you walk with God. That should inspire you to keep on the move. Keep going forward in faith and faithfulness. Listen now…

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The Lingering Pain of a Missed Promise

22/08/31 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

September 4, 2022

Heb 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, (this is a powerful summation the outpouring, the “rain the cometh oft”; the moves of God, the rain of His Spirit; those spiritual microbursts that drenched you in His glory; you, like the earth, used to drink in the rain of the Spirit; it nourished your soul; it opened your wells of understanding; it unloosed you from the sin-banks and carried you in the flow of overflowing faith; it helped you reap things you never thought possible in the realm of spiritual success; it instilled in you a desire to go deeper, to climb higher, to overflow the banks of your limitations and believe God for anything; it soaked you in truth and heaped up crops of goodness and established new boundaries of supernatural possibilities and often drenched you in the powers of God’s presence during prayer…) and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

It used to be a blessing to go to church; it used to be blessing to break bread with your spiritual family; it used to be a blessing to be involved in ministries and soul winning; but the fruit is no more; and the soul’s desire is cold; and the heart is hardened for lack of rain, a dry parched ground, a hard indifference to what God is doing now; it used to be a prolific field of thanksgiving in your heart for the things He had done for you, but now it’s empty and cold and barren and bitter.

The word received in this text means to participate not just receive. That means one took ownership of the blessing, but now it seems it’s in the garage sale of religions, no longer needed, no longer fitting the aberrant lifestyle stubbornly chosen. The participation has become critical observation. The input of truth has now become the output of lies and self-deception. The blessings are now blamed for your heartaches and religious miseries. The blessings are now subject to new interpretations based on lawless judgments now perceived. It’s like certain Israelites in the book of Numbers who errantly identified their past days in Egypt. They said that Moses had brought them from a land that flowed with milk and honey…Numbers 16:13. Really? The old territory of torture was flowing with milk and honey? The days of whips and harsh words from slave drivers was better? Egyptian bondage was better than Canaan’s promises? But this is the sad refrain of those who live in the lingering pain of a missed Promise. It’s God’s fault, not their flesh. It’s God’s lack of answers, not their blind attempts to fix things themselves; it’s God’s cruelty, not their own stubborn headstrong collision with dead ends in life. Listen now…

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The Secret Power of a Little While

22/08/24 at 12.00pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

August 28, 2022

John 16:21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

When something is being born the pain precedes fulfillment.
What pain in your life could be the signs of a promise being born? You push at times, and it seems nothing happens. You hope when everything seems to indicate disaster. You continue to carry that promise of God in your spirit even though you know hell is trying to make you abort every prophecy spoken; yet you let it gestate a few more days and grow in your spirit and be nourished by the consistency of prayer. You won’t stop believing. You won’t stop trusting the infallible God you serve. You won’t let mishaps and misunderstanding cause you to lose the coming forth of a dream or a plan or a divine design in your life. So, you’ve failed in the last three Bible studies you taught and no one has yet to come and be baptized or experience an Acts 2:38 conversion, but you hold on to what you feel in your soul, to what’s being formed in your faith, to what’s impregnated in your spiritual mind; and at some point, the birthing of revival will come; the breaking forth of children in the womb of struggle and the altars of intercession, they will come. Listen now…

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The Rain is not always on the Radar

22/08/17 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

08-21-2022

Recently, we were driving a short trip from New Orleans to Buloxi, MS. It’s about 100 miles. It’s all interstate, so that was nice. As we casually enjoyed our beignets from Café Dumon in New Orleans, I was in no rush because I had looked at the Weather App Radar and it was all clear. Several other storms were moving off to the Northwest, but that was in the opposite direction. So, we strolled back to the parked car, made our way through slow traffic for about 10-15 minutes and then we were off. Then there was thunder, and I was like, oh that must be headed the other way; but then raindrops followed by Noah’s downpour and for 70 of the 100 miles, it rained, heavy and heavier, not light and lighter. I was fussing. I was complaining about my Premium weather app. I felt like I had gone back to weather balloons of the past and needing to rely on old grandpa on his front porch with the weather predicting knee ache. Because anything was better than my state of the art, modernized, satellite backed so called accurate weather app.

And so, the spiritual lesson began. The rain doesn’t always show up on the radar. The sudden formation of thunderstorms is normal for that part of the country, and I was caught off guard. But here’s what I gained in spiritual insight. First of all, the rain was pouring but the road was still there. The direction hadn’t changed. The destination still computed correctly on the GPS. Listen now…

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A Path to the Front Door

22/08/03 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

August 7, 2022

You don’t open a door to a stranger with the same confidence that you would open to a friend or family member. We must have a relationship with God. It needs to be more than casual or part-time. Those who are sold out to truth, obedient to that truth, and prayerful each door, they will stay on the path to the front door. That’s the front door of the House of God and futuristically speaking, the everlasting Kingdom of God. And you can’t enter that door without being born again…listen now.

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The Two Sides of Forgiveness

22/07/27 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

July 31, 2022

The recipient of forgiveness has a responsibility to change his actions. Stumbling and falling while going in the “right” direction is different than stumbling and falling while willfully headed in the wrong direction. One is seeking true pardon to have an opportunity to pick up where they left off in doing right; the other is merely seeking approval for an alternate lifestyle or for transgressing actions they plan to keep doing. Remember, God looks at the heart. The heart makes the difference. If someone is sincerely broken and contrite and wants to truly change, it reveals a heart for God.

There is righteousness in repentance, not rebellion. Forgiveness is not the license to stay in rebellion.
We cannot continue in sin. Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? Rom 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
We cannot confuse repentance and forgiveness. Repentance is our part to change. Forgiveness is God’s part to give us a chance to change. God doesn’t need to turn around; we need to turn around or away from sin…listen now.

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The X Factor of the Last Days

22/07/20 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

July 24, 2022

Mar 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Endurance and the end go together. Times are changing, but not truth; yet many are trying to redefine truth. We have to endure the temptations to modify the message just to fit in. The love of many waxes cold while the fires of destruction burn around the world. The names of a thousand other gods are permissible in many social and educational settings, but the name of Jesus is canceled; and we have endure the possibilities of being eliminated from social circles because we dare pledge allegiance to the Son of God.

When the race started it may have appeared to be a level track; that your race would circle around seasons of conflict, but basically stay on the same grade, never rising or falling too high or low; fans of Apostolic past cheering you on; sponsors of hope endorsing you from every side; everyone open to your testimony because of the miracles in your life; but as time goes by you’ve realized that this race is more like cross-country than the neatly, outlined boundaries of a race track circling a nice grassy field…listen now.

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A Glimpse of Tomorrow for a Better Today

22/07/08 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

July 10, 2022

Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

For the joy set before him. The incentive of the saved gave him durability during the sacrifice. He was looking forward. You can endure when you know there is somewhere better you are going. In other words, you won’t stay here in agony but you are traveling to a land of angels. The durability of our faith is constantly challenged by current events. Broken hearts. Wounded emotions. Desperate needs. Traumatic losses. Discouraging news. Bad medical reports. Betraying relationships. Sudden changes. Negative feelings. Recurring sickness. The joy set before him was a fixed outcome. If you go in this direction this is where you will end. The conclusion is greater than the conflict. The end of a thing is better than the beginning. Ecclesiastes 7:8 Listen now…

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Expectations of a Fool for Christ

22/07/03 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

July 3, 2022

Fear will have you looking at every possible “bad outcome”. Faith looks for the miracle, trusts God through the storm, waits on the Lord despite the terrible report, believes scripture more than analytical statistics…

Fear torments. Faith triumphs. Fear clouds the mind with every negative thing, every pessimistic possibility; it feels the wind and thinks of nothing but destructive tornadoes; it feels the heat and thinks of nothing but fire and ruin; it feels the rain and thinks of nothing but flooding and loss; but faith knows that in every storm of life there is a contrast of nature in the supernatural. The wind is the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Ghost. The fire is the life altering passion of truth that consumes the believer. The rain is the outpouring of the Spirit that brings dreams and visions. The River is not a flash flood of ruin, wreckage, and death; but it is the flow of abundant life that brings life, growth, and unparalleled fruitfulness.

“Trust in the Lord and lean not to your own understanding, but in thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.” Listen now…

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The Deep Things of God

22/06/15 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

June 19, 2022

Psalm 42:7 Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

The depth of sorrow reaches for the depth of the supernatural. If its only pain then the waters are drowning; but if by chance God intervenes then the waters become something of power, something of deliverance, something to transfer in the flow from the past horrors to future glories. Shallow Christianity never gets there. Knee deep religion can’t satisfy this need for the deep.

Where did Peter find the catch when Jesus directed him on his boat? In the deep. Deep consecration. Deep experiences of the Supernatural. Deep places of the heart and soul that worldliness can never reach, never touch, never contaminate.

The Red Sea was a deep place of trouble, but God used that depth to drown the adversaries. If you are afraid of the depths of faith then shallow comfort won’t eliminate the enemy. He’s not afraid of half-hearted trickles. He doesn’t get spooked by misty tears that go nowhere. A little sprinkle of Pentecost doesn’t intimidate the darkness. But when the rain pours. When the soul is sold out. When the vision is unstoppable. When the flow is religiously unmanageable, the devil can’t handle a Holy Ghost flood. It takes depth to conquer devils. Listen now…

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The Singular Sovereignty of the Godhead

22/06/08 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

June 12, 2022

Psalm 83:18 That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth

He cannot be separate and distinct and be three separate distinct persons at the same time. There are not three that answer to that name. Only one. If you used this deity identifier in the Old Testament you didn’t have three heads turn. You didn’t have three different gods puzzled at which one you might be referring to since they all had the same name. One name. One presence. A singular sovereignty in the Heavens.

Isa 44:24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself; (this cannot be a theological misinterpretation, or an arrogant member of a three person Godhead who wants all the credit; it is simply what it is, a singular God doing a creative work.) Listen now…

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The Urgency of Washing Wounds

22/06/01 at 11.49am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

June 5, 2022

Cleansing is important. But workers of iniquity stay filthy. If you don’t keep the filth out then stopping spiritual infection will fail. God’s word is daily source for the “washing of regeneration” (Titus 3:5). Jesus stated that his disciples would be “clean through the word (John 15:3).” Paul instructed the Corinthians that their past lives of sin and seduction should remind of the power of the Gospel because they were “washed”, made clean from their past. (I Corinthians 6:11) Paul also informed the disciples at Ephesus that Jesus gave himself for the church that he might “cleanse it with the washing of the water by the Word.” (Ephesians 5:26)

If you keep rubbing dirt in the wound how can it heal? If you keep giving your ear to gossip how your trust repair from past betrayal? If you let the mud of accusation be smeared on your injured faith how can it recover? Stay clean through the preaching of the Word. Stay disinfected from doubts and lingering failures by applying the ointment of truth, the balm of Gilead. You need some salve, not fifteen more minutes of the latest headline news that confuses and angers you. Take a break from social networks and the grime of gossip contaminating your spirit. Listen to His Word. Let the counsel of Scripture wash your mind from strife and needless stress.

I see bandaged people looking for complete healing, but their bandages are being removed by dirty hands, hateful people, and apostate teachers. They are not helping the wound. They are worsening the wound, infecting it with the touch of unclean doctrines. And you wonder why you become more suspicious of the church? And you question things that used to convict you. And you open channels of thought you would never have allowed yourself to tune into when you were clean through His Word. Listen now…

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Feelings that Interfere with Faith

22/05/25 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

May 29, 2022

Isaac trusted what he had been used to feeling. The hairy garment. The smell of the field. The gruff expectations of a hunter. We have to be careful of habit forming desires that lead us away from the certainty of Apostolic doctrine. Just because you feel it doesn’t mean you should say it, partake of it, or create a new belief system based on the power of that feeling. In the Kingdom of God it’s faith first, feelings second. “We walk by faith and not by sight.” II Corinthians 5:7.

He asked for venison and got goat. Venison was wild game associated over time with hunting deer. So, the taste of goat was disguised to resemble deer. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. The taste test is failed when we trust the wrong feelings. We end up settling for doctrinal goat when God wants to give us the true venison of His will. We swallow the philosophies of the world as if they are the same thing as God’s unmatched promises. We pursue experiments in the name of freedom. We exercise liberties because we believe we can do what we want without consequence. We lose intimacy with God because we’ve been convinced that sensual things of the world are equal substitutes. We bless the things that God would curse. We evoke conclusions and content and commentary based on sensations, sensations that can cause us to lose our sensitivity to the Spirit. The more you repeatedly ignore the conscience the more desensitized one becomes to the wiles of the devil. We try things we should avoid. We incite patterns of behavior that could be avoided if we simply followed the instructions of the Word. The everlasting Word becomes subject to the temporary satisfaction. Listen now…

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Release the River

22/05/11 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

May 15, 2022

John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

God’s desire in all of us is to have a flowing River of His presence. What’s holding you back? What is keeping you from fully believing? What barricade of bitterness or damn of doubt keeps the River from flowing? God wants to release the joy and peace of His love into your life. Let him do it today. Release the River…listen now.

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Breakdown or Breakthrough

22/04/20 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

April 24, 2022

Psalm 1 tells us not to walk after the counsel of the ungodly. So, don’t go north with notorious enemies of the faith. Don’t go in the same direction as doubters, demons and deceivers. Don’t follow the trends of the unsaved. Avoid the pitfalls of the promiscuous. Stay away from the hallways of rebellion. When you go the wrong direction you end up in washed out dangerous places. When you stand for the wrong things you end up breaking down in storms of stress. Many are fracturing in their walk with God because they are keeping the wrong company, hearing the cynical descriptions that tear down spirituality. But if you will just stay the course of truth, walk the path of righteousness for His name’s sake, you will breakthrough walls of conflict and barricades of doubt. Listen now…

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What God did Last Time was not the Last Time

22/04/13 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

April 17, 2022

Deuteronomy 30:9 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous (this literally means that God’s priority will be to give you prosperity; it also means once you have used what you needed there is just as much left over) in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:

Deuteronomy 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments (more specific to the law; this is how you stay out of trouble) and his statutes (applies to every decree made by God, whether written or spoken; this is how you live the promises) which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

If you stay away from blame you get blessing.

Some are looking at the desolation of the moment and not using what God gave you in excess. The excess was not to store up in memory; it was not to be thrown away in the trash bins and garbage cans like it ain’t any good anymore; for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish…

May of the blessings were to apply at a later date; it was to expend in the valley of nothing; it was to be a supply when scarcity was in the land. Some of us need to go back to the pantry of prophecies and find that non-perishable promise and use it. Why is it dormant? Why is it forgotten? Your experience doesn’t have an expiration date. What you have lasts forever. What you believe can’t be broken. What you own can’t be exhausted.

Think about the fragments that remained. Mat 14:19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven (some are looking on the earth and wondering why nothing is multiplying, no ground is being gained, no breakthrough seems to be imminent; but we have to look up to heaven; we can’t just see things on earth as all the work of hell; Psalm 121:1-8), he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude (Jesus wants us to take it from the cross to the crowd). Mat 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. (God leaves more than what he started with…this is why the end of a thing is better than the beginning Ecclesiastes 7:8) Mat 14:21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children…listen now.

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The Confidence Booster

22/03/18 at 3.27pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

March 20, 2022

Psalm 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:

No matter where you travel or spend seasons in trial, God has a refuge to be found. A moving shelter. A constant fortress. A consistent help in the desolate places. Some might travel a few miles in life and forget what they left behind; but the power of truth goes with you. It travels well. You see, he gives confidence to the ends of the earth. If you are in the Siberian ranges of cold mornings and frigid expectations, he gives confidence. If you are in the Sahara of heat and desert and long miles of waterless journey, He gives confidence. It doesn’t just work in the regions of the familiar. It works in places we’ve never been. Territories of pain. Landscapes of sickness. Dark valleys of frustration. Your trial has a finish line, but not your treasure. To the ends of the earth, both in trial and time. Chronologically and emotionally.

And the powerful revelation is that it’s not a place as much as it’s a person. It says “Who art”, indicating the person of God. How could it get any better than that? Diving housing. Sovereign residence. Spiritual refuge. Confident and secure. Peaceful and refreshing. It’s kind of like a heavenly embassy on location. And God is the ambassador. Listen now…

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Trust the Father’s Hand

22/03/10 at 11.53am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

March 13, 2022

We face uncertainties in a destructive world. Wars. Invasions. Terror. Life has unexpected twists and turns. But our confidence comes from the gentleness of our Heavenly Father. He lays his hand upon our heads and leads us to better places. He proclaims higher purposes. He protects us from ravenous wolves. His Hand catches us from the unnecessary falls that align with the human condition. And so, when everything else seems a disappointing mirage of lies and insecurities, we can always trust the Hand of our Father. Listen now…

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All that Work for Nothing P2

22/02/09 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 13, 2022

Job 24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Man-made religion will make you work this way. Pressure and no payoff. Labor and nothing for the soul. Struggle and no experience of His Presence. Religion goes through all the work and appears to have a form of success. But there is no anointing and no spiritual experience.

Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

There is no moral reference if the foundations are destroyed. The boundaries are lost. the landmarks are absent. The marking of truth faded, glossed, and painted over with new words documented. Quicksand theories replace foundational truths. We need the foundation of Apostolic doctrine to ensure that we have HIs Presence in all our ambitions. Listen now…

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All that Work for Nothing

22/02/02 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

February 6, 2022

Job 24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.

Man-made religion will make you work this way. Pressure and no payoff. Labor and nothing for the soul. Struggle and no experience of His Presence. Religion goes through all the work and appears to have a form of success. But there is no anointing and no spiritual experience.

Psalm 11:3 If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?

There is no moral reference if the foundations are destroyed. The boundaries are lost. the landmarks are absent. The marking of truth faded, glossed, and painted over with new words documented. Quicksand theories replace foundational truths. We need the foundation of Apostolic doctrine to ensure that we have HIs Presence in all our ambitions. Listen now…

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Release the River P2

22/01/19 at 10.30am / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

January 23, 2022

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John 7:37 In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

John 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

John 7:39 (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)

God’s desire in all of us is to have a flowing River of His presence. What’s holding you back? What is keeping you from fully believing? What barricade of bitterness or damn of doubt keeps the River from flowing? God wants to release the joy and peace of His love into your life. Let him do it today. Release the River…listen now.

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The Lazarus Generation

20/04/29 at 9.14pm / by Dannie Hood / 0 Comment

December 19, 2021

Why was Lazarus bound?

Simply because he was dead. It was custom to bind the dead. The Custom of darkness says “fall apart”. The custom of hell says, “You’re dreams and hopes are dead, why are you still praying?” The custom of the wicked says, “There is no God foolish Christian, why read the Bible?” The custom of false religions say, “We have the new answers, the right answers, and if you don’t do it this way you’re dead.” But Jesus doesn’t listen to the custom of the dead; He brings a new custom…it won’t be routine anymore to just wander around life like a mindless zombie; it won’t be the ordinary to just settle for broken things, messed up stuff, frayed nerves and worn out excuses.

How long was Lazarus bound?

Four days. You can’t bring him back after four days. Some have been living in the musty garments of the grave for months; your marriage has been dead; your confidence has been dead…but when life shows up he doesn’t need earth’s permission to enact his power. He has timeless grace. He has ageless answers. He’s got enduring truth. He’s walking in the prison door with everlasting mercy. That’s ministry for the misery. That’s expectations of a better day. That’s refreshing for the thirsty soul. That’s compassion for the relentless pain in your seemingly endless days of sadness. That’s a yes in God’s love for all the no’s you’ve had from closed doors, crushed affections, and rejected wishes.

The woman with the issue of blood had to deal with it for twelve years.

The paralytic at the pool of Bethesda had to endure shame and frustration of failure for thirty eight years.

Blind Bartimaeus sat by a highway as a beggar for over thirty years.

Sarah of the OT called her childless husband Father of Many nations for twenty five years before Isaac was born.

For over a decade, David lived on the run in caves before he got the crown.

The souls beneath the altar in Revelation cry “how long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?” Listen now…

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