The Jesus Message

Sing O Barren

19/04/24 at 2.22pm   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 28, 2019

Don’t be fooled by the salesmanship of Satan. Don’t lose your birthright of God’s promises for Esau’s bowl of beans. Refuse to barter with darkness for shortcut methods of pain relief in the form of illegal drugs, alcohol, or illicit behavior. Throw the thirty pieces of silver back at the enemy and let your mind be filled with truth rather than betraying doctrines of devils. You are bought with the precious blood of Jesus. Nothing hell has to offer can compare to that; everything else is a cheap substitute for the invaluable grace of God. You have the best. Stay blessed. Find Holy Ghost rest. Don’t take Lucifer’s quest. Don’t buy the fool’s gold of iniquity but trust the God of infinity and stay with the riches of His grace. Don’t lose your place for the cheap chase of things that disgrace. Anger. Adultery. Fornication. Envy. Strife. Rebellion. Hatred. Vindictiveness. Pride. Lust. For all these debase and erase what God has given by His grace. So when the tempter shows up on your doorstep, decide that you will reside in the House of God; that you will remain now matter how good the salesman can explain the delights of his domain; you will not buy his brand; you will not sell out the truth; you will not exchange something priceless for that which is worth nothing; you can’t be bought out because you have already been brought out and even though you are sought out by the sweet tasting inventions of hell well thought out; you won’t settle for what you’ve been sold in the past. You have the pearl of great price. You have the golden streets of the New Jerusalem you are eternally invested in; you have the walls of Jasper that fare better than any flashy fences of Satan’s world.

1Pe 1:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

1Pe 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

1Pe 1:20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you…Listen Now

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The Scourge and the Sword

19/04/16 at 7.22pm   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 21, 2019

The blood is dripping. Redemptive raindrops. A crimson storm. Dusty soils splotchy and darker, patches of grace here and there. Ribbons of flesh hang. Wheezing moans resound on bitter winds. Those who hear will be haunted on a thousand nights by the ghastly figure of this beaten man. It is ugly. Who can bear it? It is nauseating. Who can leave the scene and have an appetite? Yet, in contrast, it is morbidly beautiful, contradictorily amazing. For in the shredded muscle and flesh one finds a miracle; in the torn and ripped, gashed and gaping, one finds something greater than medicine; a Divine prescription for the diseased and gruesomely sick. “By his stripes ye were healed.” I Peter 2:24

Slap. The scourge has found its aim. Slap. Guttural moans escape the Healer’s lips. Slap. Gasps and sickened oohs and aahs fill the air. Slap. The ragged cords like razor sharp teeth of leviathan dig in, catch and tear. Slap. Blood spatters the ground, the guards, and the splintery column to which he is bound. Slap. And the flesh tearing bite takes another hunk of his mortal body, while something otherworldly is being sewn into the fabric of eternity. If this man had been a criminal even then it might seem too gratuitous, this macabre form of punishment, torturous and borderline sadistic. Maybe a mass murderer deserved this, but not a Messiah. Maybe a pirate captured from high seas of plundering and thievery might deserve this, but not a Giver of love. But he wasn’t going through this because he deserved it; he was going through this because he desired it. Listen now…

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Not for Applause but for a Cause

19/04/12 at 9.04am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 14, 2019

Jesus walked onto the world stage. There was a curtain drawn before the foundation of the world. Those curtains unfurled across grueling ages of laws and prophets, of judges and kings, of good and evil. And when the Son of God was finally born, his lines too had been well scripted. For Jesus stated on several occasions, “What I do I do not of myself, but they are from my Father in Heaven.”

When he healed a sore riddled leper and solved the puzzled expression of the blind by giving them sight, he did it not for applause, but for a cause…listen now.

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Beware of Dogs

19/04/03 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

April 7, 2019

The dogs of this generation are barking. They drool from deadly mouths. Blood stained fangs threaten. Growls from the pits of hell can be heard in every dark alley of sin. Angry. Ferocious. Uncontrollable. Rabid in their self righteousness. Biting mad in their hatred of holiness. Unchained. They are Roaming violent predators without conscious or moral restraint. No one can tell them different. No one can command these vicious Gospel mutilators to heel or stay. They will devour in an instant. They will kill any vestige of authority in a moment. Truth will never tame them. Love will never lead them. Conviction will never corral them. They bark and bite and blaspheme and bitterly moan at any kind of fence or restriction or Biblical standard.

Lawlessness is…1. The Desire to do it your own way. Stubborn steps. Rebellious routes. Roads that lead to destruction but all signs are ignored because of pride and self conceit. It is Cain bringing the fruit of flesh to a God that demanded blood and sacrifice. It is a generation that wants to save itself without a cross. They have altars with staircases into hell. They are stiff-necked and resistant to the commands of their fathers. a. You can’t get them to see it God’s way. They are the blind leading the blind as Jesus stated in Luke 6:39. Their perspective is so tainted that they can’t tell when they are doing wrong as Jeremiah bemoaned in Jeremiah 6:15, “ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.” They have no shame. They see no…listen now.

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Faith at the Faultline

19/03/29 at 9.00am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 31, 2019

I can please myself or I can please the Savior. Often these two platelets of thought and action collide, creating earthquakes in emotions, tremors in relationships, and damage to superficial unsteady beliefs. Everyone is going to arrive at crossroad decision moments. Do I stay or do I go? Should I sell it or keep it? Should I go right or left? We hesitate for fear of losing control. We avoid tough questions as they may reveal that too many steps already taken have been waywardly walked. We guess, when honest, soul searching, introspective prayer would make it simpler and plainer. But clarity is lost is stumbling stubbornness. We think we see it detailed and clear enough, so we journey ahead. We become like Lot of Genesis 13; we survey the land, we life what we see, we calculate the earthly possibilities of prosperity, but we forget to discernably hear what God thinks about it.

Lot chose the twin cities of future destruction because he had no sense of warning in him, only want. Eve proves the deceptive nature of desire, for she desired the forbidden fruit and then desired for her husband to participate in her discovery; afterward, the Lord told her that her desire would be for her husband. In other words, desire lost in the forbidden would be divinely adjusted to be submissive through faithfulness to her husband. Wrong desire get things out of order. And so, Lot, as Eve, saw something good (not godly) in Sodom and Gomorrah. He saw something that favored the legendary extinct Garden of Eden, but didn’t necessarily have the favor of God on it.

You see, you must have faith at the Faultline. You see, a fault is a “planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock=mass movement.” Or as Webster’s defines it, “a fracture in the crust of the earth accompanied by a displacement of one side of the fracture with respect to the other usually in a direction parallel to the fracture.” And with that in mind the fault line is a place where the fault can be seen or mapped on the surface.

Spiritually, fault lines deal with what is seen and heard from opposing sources. One being the Word; the other being the World. And we must have faith at the fault line. We must trust God to know what goes deeper than we can see; for instance, we can brag about our One God belief, but the Word states that the “devils also believe, and tremble.”So, you see, one can tremble and not have truth; one can shake with extreme fear of God and in the end not submit to His will. One can even be horrified by possible outcomes of what it means to reject God and still do nothing about it. So, don’t just be shaken; be changed. Don’t just be stirred by a convicting Word; let it transform your thinking; let it redirect your misguided path; let it counsel you away from the dangerous edge of…listen now.

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Warning Signs on the Road to Hell

19/03/20 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 24, 2019

Stuck in the soils of urgency. Pushed deep into the heart of understanding. Markers of destiny. Signs swaying in destiny’s gusty winds. Who will pay attention? Who will trust what is being conveyed? Travelers must pay attention. Explorers must heed the warnings. Curious sight seers must know this is not a safe way to go. One can now zoom in on the well traveled pages of the Bible, and observe upon these map like pages the warning signs; signs planted on mountain sides, in valleys, in times of prosperity and poverty. They even give you the road conditions, like, The Way of a Transgressor is Hard. So, if you are going to traverse the illicit trails of the tempter’s persuasion you can expect long delays of happiness, washed out bridges of relationships, mudslides of well conceived plans, bumpy lanes and overgrown places of disappointment. It will take you off the beaten path of peace, traversing guilt laden courses. Paths of pain. Paths of unnecessary problems. Paths of pride sponsored mistakes. Paths of ruin for the Keep Out signs were ignored. Yes, the map of Scripture is up to date, ever timeless with its lines marking the distance between a sinful addiction and the starting points of simple curiosity; probing lanes of lust that lead off safe routes into treacherous terrains; searching unholy hungers that lead to canyons of devastation. All of these are well marked.

You might could see Judas standing at point, road blocking a greedy preacher yelling, “turn back, the money is not worth it. The silver is tainted. The noose is too tight. Hang up that idea before it hangs you.” Listen now…

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Seated with Kings Part 1

19/03/13 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 17, 2019

He was only five years old when the chaos broke out. The smoke of war ascended. The fires of destruction crackled all around. The life altering news of Saul and Jonathan’s deaths morbidly circulated throughout the battle enraged land. And the boy was snatched up in a fury. The nurse caring for him paid no mind to any toys or keepsakes the boy may have had of his father’s. She had to get him to safety, get him away from the malicious grasp of would be assassins wanting to finish off the royal bloodline. The sun hid behind gray curtains. The scent of rain urged a melancholy sleepiness. The coolness of the air contradicted the burning flames of distant villages attacked by vicious Philistines.

The nurse ran with the boy, as fast as she could. She hurried over rugged bumps of the rough fields. She stumbled over jagged rocks and uneven terrain, an obstacle course too challenging for the woman to handle. And along the way she dropped the boy. She didn’t mean to do it. It just happened. She stumbled. He slipped from her hugging grip. And then there he was, lying on the ground wincing in terrible pain. Something snapped. His feet suddenly looked deformed.

He had been dropped. Have you been dropped? You may not be literally crippled, but maybe you are emotionally paralyzed from the soul up. Maybe you struggle with self-confidence because abusive environments haunt you from childhood. Maybe you limp along life’s path unable to trust many; your heart has been crushed too many times. Maybe you are bruised and bitter. Crippled and overly cautious. Spiritually injured and distant from God. You do your best to look well; to put up a good front that everything’s ok. You smile while the storm rages on the inside.

You try to walk fun emotional steps, laugh at jokes, pat others on the back, while you suffer greatly in the secret chambers of your heart. You halt commitment because of past hurt. You are lame in areas of follow through because of one too many failures. You are gimpy with your finances due to a bad investment. On an on the list may go. You try. You cry. You cringe when something similar shows up at the door. You want to crawl back into your hole and disappear from any possibility of being taken for granted or for someone to take advantage of you.

Pro 18:14  The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? 

The word “bear” here means to sustain, to support, to sustain; to lift up. And so, you try to sustain happiness on a soul with an empty stomach; it is starved of love and empty of the Presence of God. You support this grudge, maybe, of what was done to you. And it hampers your walk. It keeps you from getting to the places you really want to go. You are too angry. You are lifting up the dead weight of resentment each and every morning. You don’t want to carry it around. But you do. And it gets heavier each day…listen now.

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The Two Fortunes of the Promised Land

19/03/06 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 10, 2019

Seekers of fertile lands. Hope seekers of a peaceful home. 12 spies canvass the ordained territory. They are renowned. They are chosen. They are discernibly determined to bring back a thorough report. They will see the land promised to them.

Fallen limbs crunch beneath their methodical steps. They are camouflaged by green brush and wilderness growth. They are not sent to attack, but to attain. They will bring back a report. The wind howls among the distant rock formations of Abraham’s property, mountain ranges majestically inviting these explorers. They will hike twisting trails, sip from refreshing waterfalls, taste of grapes wildly grown in the delicious vale of Eschol. And it will be too irresistible not to take some samples back to their anxious brethren. Grape stains dot their sweaty clothes. They sport milk-staches. They laugh and ooh and aah at their surroundings.

But what looms on the horizon? What grows from the soil of impossibility, stretching toward the heavens with intimidating size? Gates. Iron fences. They gasp at the sight of them. These are barricades of hell before them. And if the gates have to be that large, who guards them, and what of their stature? How could they ever take these mountain folk; and then they get a view of the citizens. Armored guards stand like giants statues at the entrance of the gates; they are monstrous. These men had never seen such human beings? Could they be human? Legends abounded throughout the land of giants, but now the legends were visible, instantly haunting realities. Men with shoulders broader than any three Hebrew warriors, carrying swords apparently confiscated from angels; large and sharp, able to behead several opposing soldiers at once. When they step in the soft earth they leave pit like footprints. When they lean their weight against a tree it appears the aching trunk may snap like a twig. Maybe then one of the spies observed a nearby frog darting his tongue out to snatch up a helpless grasshopper, and a thought thunders in his imagination. Listen now…

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There is more Where that came From

19/02/27 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

March 3, 2019

The amazed disciples repeatedly received the miracle bread from Jesus’ hand. It kept coming. How could he get that much from five loaves and two fish? Jesus was reaching into a supernatural inventory. Be blessed it. He broke it. And he gave it to the disciples who gave to the crowd. Piece by piece it multiplied. And when they thought it might run out, there was more where that came from. Grace provisions far exceed earthly supplies. Human resources usually come to an end, spent and exhausted. We see this when fuel costs go up because of oil and gas shortages. We see this in the supermarket when certain items are marked up because the supply is diminished by storms or freezes or failed crops. We see this in the stock market because company performances wane or product development is slowed by regulations or terrorism in certain parts of the world enhance market fears. But on that sunlit afternoon with thousands huddled for dinner, an assembly line of bread and fish made it down to the last hungry mouth. My friend, if you think the God of that bread multiplying moment is retired, well, there is more where that came from…listen now.

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The Journey Beyond

19/02/20 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

February 24, 2019

The Lord makes a journey prosperous. We can track temptation on short cut roads to eventual regret. But for the seeker of Heaven the trail of truth is not only more important; it is ultimately more rewarding.

Sin will offer you stopping points. Seductive settlements. Enthralling encampments. Rebellion residences. But nothing in this world compares to the glory that shall be revealed when Christ returns for the called, the chosen, and the faithful.

But we have to continue. We have to keep going with doctrine and scriptural instruction. We must push ahead when the journey seems pointless and too wearisome. Listen now…

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