The Jesus Message

The Difference between Promise and Prosperity

19/02/13 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

February 17, 2019

The difference between prosperity and promise. Prosperity looks at what you have now. Promise looks for what’s ahead. Prosperity can make us feel relaxed, sink us into the mire of religion and leave us vulnerable to temptations that come to the luxurious.

Promise is hungry. Promise is searching. Promise journeys to the unknown, looks for something beyond the ordinary; is not satisfied with the ho-hum of where you are, but goes forward looking for a city whose builder and maker is God.

Prosperity has the sense that we’ve arrived. We’ve dug out the mine and found the gold; we’ve plumbed the depths and found the treasure; we’ve investigated the land and found the fertile soils; we’ve grown the best crops and reaped abundant harvest. There is a smile of satisfaction; whereas, promise may still where the grimace of laborious conquest. Prosperity says you are there enjoy it; promise says you still have a ways to go but the journey is worth it.

The difference between prosperity and promise promise.

How can God breakthrough your moral calluses? How can he deliver you from the desensitizing delicacies of modern convenience? How can you show you that your temporary satisfaction threatens eternal reward? We are paupers of what we call prosperity, thinking of kings while playing in the dirt in heavens dominion waits above us.We dress ourselves in the garb of success and failed to see that we are naked in the righteousness of God. Listen now… \lsdlocked0 Lis

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Not Without Christ

19/02/06 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

February 10, 2019

How do we do these things without Christ? In fact, Paul said I can do all things through Christ which strengthened with me. How can there be true self actualization? How can one truly keep the faith? How can one boldly go where no man has gone before?

How can you be a truly effective environmental us and not believe in the presence of the Lord? That’s like having an atmosphere without an atmosphere. It’s impossible. You could never have a clean environment if God is not in that environment. You can save the whales who’s going to save the souls?

How do we truly decrease the deficit if God is not a part of the economy? It’s like having a combine with no face on it or a dollar bill with no serial numbers; hence, it would just be a counterfeit. There is no financial improvement without the God who put the gold in the mountain. There is no real economic growth if all you have to work with our humanistic weeds. You have to have heavenly words.

People want self-help and self improvement ideas. They want to be a better self. They want to tap in to the inner success that dwells naturally in mankind. But let us not forget that man was made in gods image. So if you take the God out of the image then you shrink possibility, limit the phenomenal, cancel the supernatural; so then, how can you really improve? Think of this, if every American sacrificially gave in obedience to the Bible right now, what kind of untold, immeasurable prosperity would come to this nation? Because the Bible still says when you give to God he gives back pressed down, shaken together, and running over!

We can piece together cynical social reform that auspiciously vacates any premises of the Bible, but what is being formed or reformed? Because the Bible says the last days they will have a form of godliness but denying the power thereof.

People talk about wanting enlightenment, better understanding; To know what is in our universe, to boldly go where no man has gone before; but what enlightenment is there without the light of the world, Jesus Christ?Because after you’ve had all of your mysticism and transcendental meditation, after you’ve had all your fortune-telling discoveries and star studying prognostications and you climb that ladder to the spiritual mistress what will you find? A black kinky blob? A smoky featureless nothing? Because there will be no god they’re there. There can only be a forged substance of a humanly imagined god. But it will be no God, not without Christ. The throne will be empty. The journey will be wasted…Listen now.

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Good People in Bad Places P2

19/01/30 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

February 3, 2019

A rare calico lobster was recently discovered in a Maryland market. The attentive owner of the Ocean City Seafood accurately knew something was special about the oddly colored lobster. And just how special was this crustacean? According to the University of Maine’s Lobster institute,  The chance of finding a calico lobster is considered to be one in thirty million. The mottled orange and black shell was named Eve and segregated from the other lobsters to “keep her safe.” But the other lobsters sensed the distinctive regality of the calico lobster and raided the barrier, broke it down, and huddled around Eve, protecting her. Eve will not be on her way to a dinner plate for some hungry patron. It’s on its way to be shown off in a Georgia Aquarium.

What does it mean to be a rare breed? How do we distinguish one in a thirty million treasure of truth? What separates the exclusively authentic never before seen heir of God?

This might be said of Moses who was considered the meekest man to ever live; this Scriptural epitaph is exclusively given to this one man. His beginning was in a bad place. Born under threat of execution by Pharaoh’s death command for all Israelite male children. He was hidden in an ark of bulrushes and covertly placed in the Nile river; where destiny’s current pulled him to the loving, compassionate, saving arms of Pharaoh’s daughter. Moses was a calico deliverer, a One in a billion leader. He was raised from the Nile, reared in Pharaoh’s household, forged from the fiery trials of exile, and called at a burning bush to something that could never have been done if someone’s hadn’t gotten Moses out of a bad place. Moses was drawn out of the water to one day divide waters with a Divine summoning staff at a Red Sea…listen now.

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Good People in Bad Places

19/01/23 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

January 28, 2019

Why be a guest in Egypt when you can be a family member in the Promised Land? Abraham will not be himself in Egypt. He will compromise his integrity. He will be driven to this foreign land because of food shortages in Canaan. Yet, he will digest more into his spirit at this moment than just physical sustenance. His honesty will be disconnected like a river being redirected from a thirsty village, and he will have his reputation drained of integrity, the rivers of truth drying up, a test failed in a grand way. Abraham is the father of faith but at this moment he is the citizen of fear. Often on our home turf of singers and preachers we boast goodness and integrity, but it’s when we wander into unknown, unfamiliar, hostile territory that we find out the authenticity of our acclaimed faithfulness. We can only really boast truth when we’ve resisted the most irresistible treachery. We can act as if our spiritual immune system is up to date with prayer and fasting and a healthy dose of Bible Reading, but until the viruses of sin test us, until the diseases of darkness encroach our safe environs, until temptation threatens to infect us with virulent rebellion and lust laden error, we don’t really know the extent of our immunity.

Think about when Peter boldly announced he would be willing to die with Christ. He was so sure of himself. The impetuous nature just knew he would face any challenge, meet any foe, stand up to any ruler or power or warrior for Christ. And yet, within a few days he was wilting away from the challenge, scared, and profanely denying that he even knew Christ. Just because you can boast doesn’t necessarily mean you have the bravery to match.

1Co 10:12  Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall. 

1Co 10:13  There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. 

  1. The Amplified Bible says, “Therefore let the one who thinks he stands firm [immune to temptation, being overconfident and self-righteous], take care that he does not fall [into sin and condemnation].” This is like having a flu shot thinking you are immune to the Ebola virus. Maybe you would never tell a lie, but what about envy you have for someone else’s possessions? Maybe you pay your tithes faithfully, but what about your brother’s needs you ignore? We cannot become religiously arrogant in our elementary good grades against temptation when harder tests may wait for us from expert devils of destruction.

The word “think” here implies “reputation.” So, we can have a stellar reputation, clean and honest. But take heed. Be careful. Don’t boast. Avoid careless assumptions. Keep your guard up. A reputation can be lost in one moment…listen now

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One Blood One Battle One Bride

19/01/16 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

January 20, 2019

By this one leper cleansing Physician of heaven; by this one virtue sharing hemorrhage healing savior; by this one lover of lepers, friend of the flawed, hope of the hurting, light to the listless and staggering generations of despair; this one man brought fertile soil to the grieving lands of withered dreams, and the seed of His word grew miracles where death, doubt, and Roman dominion oppressed. He was a lone root out of the dry ground. Isaiah 53:2 He was the single lamb staining the foundations of the world with his blood. He was the lone survivor in temptation’s obstacle course of lust, pride, and selfish ambition. By himself he purged our sins and sat down on the right hand of the majesty on high.[1] He put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.[2] He was the only High Priest in all time and eternity that could be touched with the feeling of our infirmities and walk that road of compassion without compromise. Hebrews 4:16

He gave the world one cross to crossover the chasm of hell; a bridge of Divine origin roughly hewn by worth millions of diamonds; and we march on that rugged wood-bridge of sacrifice and hope over the fiery canyons of everlasting hell. One man did that; one mediator between God and man. I Timothy 2:5

Adam of the Garden of Eden brought death with one bite.

Adam of the Garden of Gethsemane brought deliverance with one cross.

Adam of Eden brought iniquity and sin to every generation to be born.

Adam of Gethsemane brought inspiration to live beyond the grave to every generation born again…

Can one man really make that kind of difference? Can the rock slung out of David’s posterity bring down the Goliathan rulership of rebellion and darkness? Can the Samson like power of His Words spoken from the jawbone of God manifested in flesh bring down more than a thousand Philistine powers of evil? With one cross he paved a blood stained trail from sin bound earth to grace endowed Heaven; and with one crown he will rule all the nations with a rod of iron…listen now.

[1] Hebrews 1:3

[2] Hebrews 9:26

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What Miracles Tell your Enemy about You

19/01/09 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

January 13, 2019

You belong to a Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep. You belong to a King who took dominion away from the Devil and put his own name brand on the markings of death, hell, and the grave. You can’t be bought by something else or someone else; the perfect price has been paid. Blood has been spilled. Sacrifice of a matchless source, of a spotless lamb has been given.

When you remember this and act on this it cripples the arsenal of the enemy; it blanks his guns of condemnation; it defuses his bombs of self-worthlessness and shame; it paralyses his weapons, disengages his missile defense of hatred and bitterness; it silences his brutal commands to break down your faith or point out your constant deficiencies. It’s like taking a superpower’s military and making no more intimidating than a third world countries’ military. Eternal death can’t touch you if the blood already covers you. Destruction cannot have free access to your life without first encountering the Divine Parent of all hope and salvation…listen now.

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Hearers and Doers

19/01/02 at 1.57pm   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

January 6, 2019

A hearer of the Word observes. A doer of the Word participates. Thousands heard Goliath hurl malicious verbal insults at the frightened Israelites. Only David did something about it. Observation can stay distant. Participation gets up close and personal. You can’t stay on the mountain and get something done. You have to get down in the valley where the threat can be turned into a triumph. Grabbing rocks from a brook, loading your shepherd’s bag with ammunition for your sling shot, and confidently marching toward the enemy is what a doer does. But a hearer simply reports. There were many that day who could initially inform the slinger with more details of what had been heard about the giant, about the reward for killing the giant, and about the King’s daughter. They could quote everything verbatim, but they weren’t willing to do anything about it. Religionists are collectors of things heard, but revivalists are collectors of defeated giants, their swords and their heads. Hey, did you hear? That’s often the verbiage of those who journal someone else’s actions. They can analyze it. They can articulate what they did better than the one who actually did it. They can criticize it with words, but they can’t compare their own experiences of the thing scrutinized.

What you keep in the Word today will help you conquer the world tomorrow. David kept His father’s sheep and one day killed a giant. His relationship with God didn’t just start up on the day he faced the gargantuan Philistine; he had been singing songs on the hills, serenading grass grazing sheep, and writing prophetic lyrics while the willow trees bent in rhythmic winds. Jesus let his disciples know that if they were going to be world changers they would have to keep his Word.(John 14:23); he also stipulated that true love was connected to keeping His commandments. (John 14:15). Listen now…

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Beware of Dogs

18/12/26 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

December 30, 2018

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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Darkness Falls P2

18/12/19 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

December 23, 2018

Oblivious seekers staggering through dim lit valleys of dying light. They thirst for water but they drink from the brackish streams of the unknown, for they cannot perceive the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. Everything is the same, if you want it to be. Everyone is their own judge. Everything of the dark, by the dark, and for the dark, an allegiance of sin-freedom, a pledge to tolerance as long as it fits the legislations of transgression and lawless law.

The murky sun covered with smoke and ash of incinerated truths, hauntingly glows like a fading ember on a forgotten fire. This traveled way is too dangerous for it is too dark. Creatures of death linger in the rocks and caves. Destinations are imperceptible. Signs of hope gone. Markers of trust shifted and misguiding. There is no compass in this land of darkness. There is no real leader, for they all walk blindfolded by greed, lust for power, and a need to be in control.

Even with the last gloomy rays barely piercing the remains of might be called day, darkness falls. And it will be deep and desperate. Starlight won’t be available for celestial guidance. The moon is non-existent and drained of night life. Cain wanders these shady lands where hate can hide. Balaam is somewhere in the misty environs still seeking a reward. Judas-silver is in the black hills ahead. Who will make it out of these stygian deserts? Who will survive the lies and deception? Who will become a light when everyone chooses the darkest places to go? What blinds you? And why do you let it blind you? Why isn’t prayer made? Where are the seekers of God in this lonely place? Even a low lit Lot who chose to live in Sodom and Gomorrah would seem like a red hot fire of illumination in this place? Even a weak Samson with rediscovered…listen now.

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Darkness Falls

18/12/12 at 10.30am   /   by Dannie Hood   /   0 Comment

December 16, 2018

It is the darkness of the world system; tolerance for transgression while exhibiting hatred for Biblical holiness; love of one another as long as it fits the secular or Satanic agenda, but present a verse from the Bible as a foundation for moral reasoning and you are labeled as the sinister forces of evil against the doctrines of their darkness. They can speak ill of Christian principles, but speak out against the philosophies and lifestyles of homosexuality and you are guilty of Hate speech. They must get rid of the Righteous to have their dimmed views made plausible, because anyone with a stronger wattage of light that exposes the flaws of their mindsets, well, that person is hated and ostracized. They need Biblical values to be dead so they can enjoy the darkness. They need every person of truth to disappear so they can feel better about their collective reasoning of perversion and alternate lifestyles.

We are a generation that wants to soar among the stars in rockets and space stations, and yet refuses the Sun of righteousness with healing in His wings. This is an hour of millennial attractions to spiritual getaways through experimental drugs, yet they mock the Pentecostal who staggers under the power of the Holy Ghost. Take away moral boundaries and the revelations of true love and people wander in the shadows of lust perpetually dissatisfied, trying new things that only deepen the darkness, obscure the mind, and empty the soul of self-worth. They take drugs to cope with depression, yet only dig the hole of despair deeper. They lose their sanity with Crystal meth for temporary euphoria and give away their hearts to the demons of addiction. Foul mouthed celebrities gauntly pictured as icons of freedom and wealth blindly lead generations of the new “free thinkers” into pits of hell. Special interest puppet politicians claim ethics and humanistic morals (which is really tolerance for deviance and hatred for purists); but they are only visionless pundits verbally…Listen now

 

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