Wait On The Lord For Your Spouse!

 

Genesis 2:24

"Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."

This is what God ordained from the beginning! Marriage, between one man and one woman. He decreed that a man should leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife.

Did God ordain a boyfriend? How about a girlfriend? Both questions can be answered with a resounding, NO!

Of course you can have a friend that's a girl, if you're a male, and a friend that's a boy if you're a female. BUT, the relationship should not move beyond that friendship if you're not an adult and God has not made it clear that the person you have a close friendship with, will become your husband or wife.

There is so much heartache and sin amongst young people today who just can't wait on God to bless them with the ONE. You can avoid all the pain and heartbreaks from the so called boyfriends and girlfriends that you think you love for a time, but then for whatever the reason it doesn't work out.

If the world followed the commands of God and the teachings of Jesus Christ the amount of abortions would drastically decrease and the amount of children born without a father present would plummet as well. 

There wouldn't be any sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies, and no promiscuity etc.....

Here's what the statistics say:

"In the United States, over 18.5 million children live with a single mother or father. Approximately five million children aged five and under live in a single parent household. Almost one-fourth (23%) of children under the age of 18 live with one parent and no other adult, which is the highest in the world."

"Approximately 40-50% of marriages in the United States end in divorce. Specifically, about 42%-45% of all first marriages and 60% for second marriages end in divorce. The divorce rate has been declining, and in 2019, it hit its lowest point in 50 years."

"In the first six months of 2024, the monthly national abortion count averaged nearly 98,000 abortions. That eclipses the 2023 monthly average of 88,000 and the 2022 monthly average of 81,400." 

That means that over one million pregnancies were aborted in 2024 alone!

So if all this is going on in the world, shouldn't those who profess Christ be completely the opposite? Yes Indeed!!!!

Let the people of God, OBEY the commands of God! We must wait on the Lord for our spouse's, and we must cry out to Him for guidance, and confirmation about the one we are to spend the rest of our lives with. It's a very important decision, and we need to be absolutely sure we are making the right choice!

In Christ,

Tyrone

Azusa Street Testimonies! (Part 2)

 

Arrested For Jesus Name

A brother who has been baptized with the Holy Spirit was arrested on account of the disturbance which the preaching of the Gospel created among the people who crowded about the tent in Pasadena. As he stood to answer the accusation of disturbing the peace, another brother says he saw an angel standing by his side. He was released. The Lord has been doing great things in that place and we expect greater things.

Some workers were preaching on the street corner in Los Angeles and a poor drunkard had just been saved, when a policeman came up and ordered them to stop, and took two of them off to jail. The sister sang all the way to the jail and shouted and prayed while they were there. They soon were anxious to get rid of them and let them go. Meantime the other workers returned to the mission and told how the workers had been arrested and they all went to the altar and prayed and arose praising God; and soon in walked the ones who had been arrested. We are ready not only to go to prison, but to give our lives for Jesus.

Missionaries To Jerusalem

A band of three missionaries, Bro. Andrew Johnson and Sisters Louisa Condit and Lucy M. Leatherman, who have been baptized with the Holy Spirit and received the gift of languages, have left for Jerusalem, going by way of Oakland, leaving there Aug. 10th. Reports came of meetings on the way that four souls received the Pentecost in Colorado Springs and three in Denver. Bro. Johnson has received seven different languages, one of which is the Arabic. Sister Leatherman speaks the Turkish language, and while in Oakland, some were talking on the street about the gift of tongues; Sister Leatherman began to speak just as a man wearing the Turkish fez came by. He listened in wonder and asked what college she had attended, saying she spoke the most perfect Turkish tongue he had heard spoken by a foreigner. He was an educated man from a Turkish college in Constantinople. She told him the Holy Spirit gave her the language which she did not understand herself and he was the first person that had interpreted for her.

God Still Heals

God laid His hand on a little crippled boy seven years of age and healed him of disease and made him whole except his ankles. He walked on the sides of his ankles. Then, when he was fourteen years of age, he had been sent to college and God had called him to preach. One day as he was sitting reading his Bible, a man came for him to go and hold a meeting. He began to say to the Lord: "Father, if I go to that place, it will be necessary for me to walk here and yonder, just put strength into these ankle joints of mine." And immediately he was made whole and leaped and praised God, like the man at the beautiful gate. He has since been in evangelistic work over the United States, seeing multitudes saved, sanctified and healed.

The Shekinah Glory Cloud

"Five years ago, God put it into this man's heart (Bro. Charles Parham) to go over to Topeka, Kansas, to educate missionaries to carry the Gospel. It was a faith school and the Bible was the only textbook. The students had gathered there without tuition or board, God sending in the means to carry on the work. Most of the students had been religious workers and said they had received the baptism with the Holy Spirit a number of years ago. Bro. Parham became convinced that there was no religious school that tallied up with the second chapter of Acts. Just before the first of January 1901, the Bible School began to study the word on the Baptism with the Holy Spirit to discover the Bible evidence of this baptism that they might obtain it.

The students kept up continual prayer in the praying tower. A company would go up and stay three hours, and then another company would go up and wait on God, praying that all the promises of the Word might be wrought out in their lives.

On New Year's night, Miss Agnes N. Ozman, one who had had for years "the anointing that abideth," which she mistook for the baptism, was convinced of the need of a personal Pentecost. A few minutes before midnight, she desired hands laid on her that she might receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. During prayer and invocation of hands, she was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke with other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance.

This made all hungry. Scarcely eating or sleeping, the school with one accord waited on God. On the 3rd of January, 1901, Bro. Parham being absent holding a meeting at the time, while they all waited on God to send the baptism of the Spirit, suddenly twelve students were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, and when Bro. Parham returned and opened the door of the room where they were gathered; a wonderful sight met his eyes. The whole room was filled with a white sheen of light that could not be described, and twelve of the students were on their feet talking in different languages.

He said they seemed to pay no attention at all to him, and he knelt in one corner and said: "O, God, what does this mean?" The Lord said: "Are you able to stand for the experience in the face of persecution and howling mobs?" He said: "Yes, Lord, if you will give me the experience, for the laborer must first be partaker of the fruits." Instantly the Lord took his vocal organs, and he was preaching the Word in another language.

This man has preached in different languages over the United States, and men and women of that nationality have come to the altar and sought God. He was surely raised up of God to be an apostle of the doctrine of Pentecost.

In Christ Jesus,

Tyrone

Becoming!

 

John 1:10-13

"He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the [e]right (authority, power) to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God."

This is so deep! A treasure trove of knowledge in these few scriptures! 

1) God Almighty the Creator of Heaven and Earth, and everything in it, prepared a body for Himself to enter His own creation, so that we might have a chance to be redeemed, reconciled, and saved from the corruption and fallen state that all human beings are born in because of  the sin of Adam and Eve. 

2) God Himself in the form of man entered the world through a virgin woman, who was supernaturally impregnated by the Spirit of the Living God, and walked amongst the work of His own hands and was not received by those He made and loved!

3) But the ones who did receive Him and love Him, He gave the authority, right, and power TO BECOME children of God! Oh if you really understood what this means you would be rejoicing from here to eternity!

You see a man or woman can become just about anything they desire to become! That's the power of the soul and spirit working in man to become what they desire. Every human has this power because God made us that way! He breathed a part of Himself, His essence, into man, and man BECAME a Living Being or a Living Soul! The breath of God Almighty made us come alive!!!

Genesis 2:7

"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."

So you can set your heart and mind to become a doctor, a lawyer, a body builder, a scientist, a basketball player, football player, a baseball player, and the list goes on and on! And all this becoming takes effort, practice, dedication, persistence, study, sacrifice, time and money! 

I thought to myself wow, a human being can devote him or herself to becoming whatever he or she wants to be. So why are there so many who call themselves Christian, who don't desire to become disciples of Jesus? Why don’t most professing Christians devote their lives to Jesus and dedicate their souls to become like the One they profess?

It's so easy to go inside a building, sit down and say amen and hallelujah, sing a few songs, say hi to a few folks, smile, and then go home and watch T.V., or go out to eat at your favorite restaurant, thinking you're better than you were before you went into the building! What a great deception this is!!!

This is why the scripture tells us that the first century Christians devoted themselves to Jesus, the apostles teaching and to each other!

Acts 2:40-45

"And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. Then fear came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common, and sold their possessions and goods, and divided them among all, as anyone had need."

If you don't become like Jesus, and you don't become His disciple, and you don't devote yourself to His teachings, and His word, then you will most certainly hear these words on the day of judgement, "away from me, I never knew you!"

Yes, you can become just about anything you want to become, even an alien, just ask Anthony Loffredo!

The Choice Is Yours!

In Christ,

Tyrone

Azusa Street Testimonies! (Part 1)

 

Azusa Street Testimonies! (Part 1) 

God’s Workings Amongst His People

No Bottom

We meet many honest souls these days who are under the delusion that they have committed the unpardonable sin. The following incident should be an encouragement to such.

A child of God was attacked by the enemy with the suggestion that she was forsaken of God and had committed the unpardonable sin. She was then on a mission field in the South, separated from other Christian workers; and without any apparent cause, the archenemy that tempted our Savior told her that God hated her. The words, "God hates you" seemed to be continually shouted in her ears and she could not get away from it. She lost her faith and believed the enemy, not knowing his power. The next suggestion was, "Drown yourself in the river." She stood looking into the dark water, but the thought of her dear mother made her turn away.

She returned to her room, and throwing herself down, fell asleep and dreamed. She seemed to be on a boat on which all the people but herself were rejoicing and praising God. She heard the captain call out to the pilot, "Sound the depths and compare it with the love of God." The depths were sounded and the call came back "No bottom! No bottom!" She awoke in an ocean of God's love, all darkness past and the cry ringing in her ears, "No bottom!" For years since then she has been in Gospel work on both sides of the ocean.

The Lord Provides

A sister who was called to Oakland had her faith tested as to her fare, as the time was near and she had not received it. That night she was caught away in the Spirit and when the Lord brought her back, the words came to her, "If I can carry you around Los Angeles without a body, I can take you to Oakland without a fare." So that day she received the money.

T.W. McConnell Testimony

The first time I was out of wood after the Lord had shown me to trust Him, I asked the Lord for wood and the wood did not come. The Lord had shown me that I could not ask for what I already had. If there was flour in the barrel, I could not ask for flour till it was gone. I went down into the basement that morning and found some hard knots that had been laid aside and had enough wood for that day. The "next morning I asked the Lord for wood. The wood did not come. I picked up enough chunks and chips to do that day.

The next morning, I went to the Lord and said, 'Father, there are no more chunks and chips, we are out of wood. Send the wood.' I went down to the city and forgot all about it. Did not think of it, until I returned home, and my daughter said, 'Papa, who brought the wood?' I told her that 'she need not trouble, the Lord would send it.' But she said, 'some man brought wood, who was he that you sent it by?' I thought she was joking, but she said, 'Look in the box and in the basement.' I went down and found a large load of wood already for the stove and just the length that we used in our stove.

I did not know for some time who brought the wood; but one day when holding meetings in South Seattle, a man invited me home with him, and while at dinner he said, 'I want to tell you something that happened to me. I was crossing the bridge with a load of wood. My wife had written out a bill of some things that we had to have, and I needed feed for my horses. I was taking this load of wood in to get the groceries and feed. While out on the bridge and no one near me, an audible voice said behind me and just above me, "Take this wood to McConnell." I looked around me and there was no one near me. I said, "I cannot take this wood to McConnell, I have got to have the groceries and feed," and drove on. The voice said again, "Take this wood to T.W. McConnell." I said, "How can I take this wood to McConnell; I must have these groceries and feed for my horses." And the third time the voice spoke, and so strong that it scared me, and I answered, "Well, I will," for I believed it was the Lord talking. There was no one about.

'I went and made inquiry, finally looked in the directory and found where you lived. I drove to the house and unloaded the wood, then drove back home as quickly as I could, loaded up some wood that I had and drove back to town, sold my wood as soon as I reached town, got my feed and groceries, and from that time I have prospered as never before."

The Gift Of Tongues

We clip the following from the Apostolic Faith published by Bro. Charles. Parham at Baxter, Kansas

A remarkable incident of God's searching power was recorded in Melrose, Kansas, during a revival which has been held by some of our young people at that place.

The power of the Holy Spirit was greatly manifested in the meetings by the speaking in unknown tongues. This was much criticized by the town and vicinity, so the principal physician, who was familiar with several different languages, was prevailed upon to go to the meetings in order to denounce the whole as a fake. Miss Tuthill, in an unknown language to herself, but known to him as Italian, spoke his full name, which no one in the town knew save himself, telling him things that had happened in his life twenty years ago, and on up to the present time, until he cried for mercy and fell on his knees seeking God.

He found full salvation the next day, and is now a believer in 'the Gospel' that Jesus taught, and also in the power of the Holy Spirit that was given unto us to witness to a living Christ. He now says he would rather pray for the sick than give drugs, and is seriously thinking of leaving his profession and going into the Lord's work.

Many precious souls have been saved, sanctified and baptized with the Holy Spirit as a result of the preached word under the Spirit's anointing power."

Jesus Is Coming!

Sister Anna Hall, who came here from Houston, Texas, in response to the call of God, is now assisting in Los Angeles. The Lord led her into the Pentecostal Baptism and gift of tongues without her hearing the truth except from the Word. She related the following wonderful vision and revelation.

A few weeks ago, as we were in our camp meeting, the first night we called our altar service there were 100 at the altar seeking God, and a strange power came into my being that I had felt once before when God wanted to reveal something to me. I have learned that it pays to be quiet before the Lord. I went home to my daughter's house and prepared for bed. Just as the gray dawn began to appear, I waked as if someone had touched my shoulder, and felt the same power. I heard the beautiful warbling of a bird, and thought it was a mocking bird which one might hear there. But no, It seemed away down in my soul. And as that beautiful bird began to sing, I saw a little infant face right before my eyes. And as the song of the bird began to ripple, it began to sound like water running over pebbles. It increased till it sounded like many waters, and the face enlarged till it was a full-grown face. I said, 'Surely this is a messenger from the holy country.' The voice answered, 'Yes, and I have come to tell you that Jesus is coming. Go forward in My name, preach the Gospel of the Kingdom, for the King's business demands haste. My people have only time to get on the beautiful garments, and prepare for the wedding supper in the Heavens.' Dear ones, have you got on the beautiful robes of righteousness? I said, 'Lord, reveal unto me what this means, the singing of the bird and rippling of the waters.' And God spoke to me, 'The singing of the beautiful bird and the baby face was the proclamation of the first coming into the world; and the voice of many waters is the proclamation of Jesus Christ that is soon coming.” Repent and believe the Gospel, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Divine Healing!

Bro. J.A. Warren of Houston, Texas, relates his experience as follows: "I had suffered two years from chills and fever and could never get rid of them. I was down with them, when it was told to me that the Lord would heal us and wanted to do it without the help of medicine, so I made up my mind that I would not have another chill; that the Lord would heal me. My chill was to come on about seven o'clock in the morning. It started to come and I was about to call my people to put more cover over me, when I thought how I had taken the Lord for my healer. So I got up and dressed and would not let the devil bring a chill on me, but prepared for breakfast. When the ice wagon came along and my little grandchild called my attention to it, I started to say, 'No, I will not take ice for this is my chill day.' (I was in the habit of taking ice only on the day I had fever). Then I stopped myself and said, 'Yes, I will take ice,' and I drank ice water all day. I was healed and in two months had gained about twenty-five pounds in flesh."

The Best Is Yet To Come! Jesus Has Saved His Best Wine For Last!

In Christ,

Tyrone

The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth!

 

Jesus knew exactly waht He was saying to the Jews who believed in Him for a moment, but after He spoke the words, “IF you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Those Jews who had believed, turned on Him very quickly!!

In today's world, the truth has become subjective, it's your truth, or what you believe to be true. The lines have become blurred between the truth and a lie. Many don't know what it means to be deceived because they were never taught the truth in the first place!

Pontius Pilate said two thousand years ago, "what is truth." Jesus answered his question in:

John 17:14-19

"I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth."

Jesus is clearly saying that we can be made clean, holy, transformed, and righteous by the truth! What is truth? God's word IS TRUTH! So that means if you don't believe God's word then you live in deception, you live in a world full of lies and you accept what the world teaches you. 

That also means that when you hear the truth of God's word you immediately oppose it, and you don't want it, because if you accept it, then you would have to change the way you are currently thinking! Change your lifestyle, and change your whole way of being!

This is why God supernaturally preserved His word, so that His creation could know the truth and have the choice to OBEY His commands and the teachings of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ!

As Christians we have a moral compass, we have a lamp that guides our path, if we don't obey God's word, then can we expect to receive the blessings and promises of God? NO!

The time has come for the truth to be spoken, without fear of backlash from unbelievers and sinners, who care nothing about the truth of God's word, and don't want to change. The word tells us that men love darkness rather than the light, and will not come to the light, because they don't want their sins to be exposed!

This is why Jesus said, "Whosoever will, let them come," because He knew that many wouldn't come to Him! But He still spoke the truth to all, and gave everyone a chance to repent and come to a knowledge of the truth. 

There aren't very many who want to hear the truth about themselves! You have to really love the truth and desire to be different in a world designed to entrap souls. And anyone who doesn't want to engage in the pleasures of this world and become true disciples of Jesus, are called weird and brainwashed, etc......

Satan himself also has a part in all of this because he has the power to deceive the whole world and he also blinds the minds of unbelievers so that they remain deceived until the day they die!

2nd Corinthians 4:1-4

"Therefore, since we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.

The truth can and will make you free, IF you really want to be free! But you must be ready and willing to die to this world and everything in it!

The Choice Is Yours!

In Christ,

Tyrone

3 Days Of Darkness!

 

My wife said she heard these words this monrning, "Three Days Of Darkness"

Multiple people have spoken the same thing for many decades, could the time of this prophecy be upon us?

Time will tell!

In Jesus,

Tyrone

Hard Decisions For ALL!

 

Why did Peter deny Jesus three time's even after he said he would follow Jesus to the death? The simple answer is that he wasn't ready in his heart and mind to face death for Jesus and likely for anyone else either!

It takes years of preparation, deliverance, maturity, and spiritual growth to be able to stand before an angry mob, religious leaders, or even government officials and say I love Jesus, I believe in the scriptures of the bible, and I stand for the truth contained therein. 

I was recently pondering, and said to my wife I wonder what the outcome would have been if Peter would have said, "Yes! I know Jesus, He's my best friend, I love Him, and He loves me!" Likely he wouldn't have been martyred because God had big plans in store for Peter, we know that today, but he didn't know that then!

In the same way, how about the rich young ruler? He had a hard decision to make too, didn't he?

Matthew 19:16-22

"Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions."

Even though Jesus said, it's hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, I wonder how much the rich young ruler would have been blessed if he would have done what Jesus said! It may have been hard for him to obey, but not impossible!!!

The original twelve disciple Jesus called during the beginning of His ministry all had hard decisions to make.

Matthew 4:18-22

And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brothers, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen. Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men.” They immediately left their nets and followed Him. Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him."

These disciples left their jobs, their homes, their family members, their spouses, and their old lifestyles behind to follow Jesus!

And likewise in the near future, every person on earth will have have to make a decision that will determine where their immortal soul resides for all eternity.

Revelation 13:15-17

"He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

Revelation 14:9-11

"Then a third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out full strength into the cup of His indignation. He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascends forever and ever; and they have no rest day or night, who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.”

Revelation 20:4

"And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years."

What decision will you make? 

In Jesus,

Tyrone