Measure of a Man Ministries

03/28/2024

Good Morning,
If I may be open and vulnerable here this morning...
Yesterday I let my guard down I guess. Alot of financial things weighed in on my heart and mind that I am facing. I guess I didn't lay it down at the Lord's feet soon enough. I guess I held onto the doubt, the worry, the unknown outcome of it, just a little longer than I should have. We as men are providers. It is in our DNA to provide. When anything justified or unjustified occurs to threaten us from fulfilling that call, we have to process and decide how we will carry it.
It consumed me throughout my day so much I became physically tired. I went to bed at 3pm and did not get up until 330am. Even as my eyes opened and my mind started to function, the weight was still there. Just as it was before 3pm.
Three am in the morning is a good time to be alone with the Lord. It was then I released it to Him. I had to remember who is really in charge and that He is in charge with a great love for me. His promises of meet my every need are true and faithful and have never failed me before. I need to take time to remember those times of rescue in my life where God ALWAYS showed up. Not just the knowing that He will, but the experiencing that He will time and time again. As I took the first sip of coffee I looked up on the wall. There a wall hanging states; "Love Never Fails". God sure can speak through anything anytime can't He?
I am thankful that because of Him I will see a miracle happen in the midst of me laying it down at His feet.
This life brings us stuff for sure. We must keep on the forefront of it that His Love Never Fails! We must push our worries, guilt, and lack of understanding into that statement.
If you have experienced Jesus, then you know how hard He runs after you. Hold onto that! Tie it around your neck and set it in the middle of the table of your heart! It's a great thing, His Love For You!

Psalms 18
I love you, Lord; you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. I called on the Lord, who is worthy of praise, and he saved me from my enemies. The ropes of death entangled me; floods of destruction swept over me. The grave wrapped its ropes around me; death laid a trap in my path. But in my distress I cried out to the Lord; yes, I prayed to my God for help. He heard me from his sanctuary; my cry to him reached his ears. Then the earth quaked and trembled. The foundations of the mountains shook; they quaked because of his anger. Smoke poured from his nostrils; fierce flames leaped from his mouth. Glowing coals blazed forth from him. He opened the heavens and came down; dark storm clouds were beneath his feet. Mounted on a mighty angelic being, he flew, soaring on the wings of the wind. He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dark rain clouds. Thick clouds shielded the brightness around him and rained down hail and burning coals. The Lord thundered from heaven; the voice of the Most High resounded amid the hail and burning coals. He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies; great bolts of lightning flashed, and they were confused. Then at your command, O Lord, at the blast of your breath, the bottom of the sea could be seen, and the foundations of the earth were laid bare. He reached down from heaven and rescued me; he drew me out of deep waters. He rescued me from my powerful enemies, from those who hated me and were too strong for me. They attacked me at a moment when I was in distress, but the Lord supported me. He led me to a place of safety; he rescued me because he delights in me. The Lord rewarded me for doing right; he restored me because of my innocence. For I have kept the ways of the Lord; I have not turned from my God to follow evil. I have followed all his regulations; I have never abandoned his decrees. I am blameless before God; I have kept myself from sin. The Lord rewarded me for doing right. He has seen my innocence.
Psalms 18:1‭-‬24 NLT

https://bible.com/bible/116/psa.18.1-24.NLT

02/19/2024

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02/19/2024

I was sitting here in my garage looking out at the storm clouds passing by. Cup of coffee and going through all those things rhat life brings. I can dwell on stuff but I choose to dwell on Him.
Two sisters that survived to holocaust told a story...
They were put in an encampment where there was open sewage. So much sewage that fleas and flies would overcome the encampment. There was so much sewage, flies, and fleas that the n**i guards would not enter there. This gave the two sisters freedom to minister out of the Bible to many, bringing them to salvation.
Sometimes the sewage, the flies, and the fleas bring opportunity for great things we could have never imagined to happen.
Hold the line!
You are loved!

12/31/2023

Listen to the Lord, you leaders of “S***m.” Listen to the law of our God, people of “Gomorrah.” “What makes you think I want all your sacrifices?” says the Lord. “I am sick of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fattened cattle. I get no pleasure from the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. When you come to worship me, who asked you to parade through my courts with all your ceremony? Stop bringing me your meaningless gifts; the incense of your offerings disgusts me! As for your celebrations of the new moon and the Sabbath and your special days for fasting— they are all sinful and false. I want no more of your pious meetings. I hate your new moon celebrations and your annual festivals. They are a burden to me. I cannot stand them! When you lift up your hands in prayer, I will not look. Though you offer many prayers, I will not listen, for your hands are covered with the blood of innocent victims. Wash yourselves and be clean! Get your sins out of my sight. Give up your evil ways. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Help the oppressed. Defend the cause of orphans. Fight for the rights of widows. “Come now, let’s settle this,” says the Lord. “Though your sins are like scarlet, I will make them as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, I will make them as white as wool. If you will only obey me, you will have plenty to eat. But if you turn away and refuse to listen, you will be devoured by the sword of your enemies. I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Isaiah 1:10‭-‬20 NLT

America, We gotta stop worshiping God in our own strength!
We gotta stop the continual sin going on and then put on a fake Christian mask. A smoke screen of righteousness to hide our spiritual lack. Don't read this and agree with me that some or many do this because WE ALL have done this! We are like Adam and Eve in the garden hiding our nakedness from God. But He knows! He sees everything! We can't hide behind our Christian masks and then do things in the dark thinking God doesn't see or that if He does He will just forgive us.
Just like believing is an action word, repentance is as well. Both take a place of action in the heart then manifest in our function. Standing before God, you can't hide the position of your heart. If it is not repentive and believing, then what manifests is a smoke screen. God says He would rather you be hot or cold. He doesn't like the games we play.
Do you really want it for real? 2024 is a great year for change. Revival can start with you, then go out to the multitudes. It is a miracle promised by God if you decide to want His heart for real. If He stands at your door knocking then let Him in once and for all!
May this year be different, more prosperous and fruitful than any past year we lived.
Happy New Year! Welcome 2024!

12/30/2023

Listen, O heavens! Pay attention, earth! This is what the Lord says: “The children I raised and cared for have rebelled against me. Even an ox knows its owner, and a donkey recognizes its master’s care— but Israel doesn’t know its master. My people don’t recognize my care for them.” Oh, what a sinful nation they are— loaded down with a burden of guilt. They are evil people, corrupt children who have rejected the Lord. They have despised the Holy One of Israel and turned their backs on him. Why do you continue to invite punishment? Must you rebel forever? Your head is injured, and your heart is sick. You are battered from head to foot— covered with bruises, welts, and infected wounds— without any soothing ointments or bandages. Your country lies in ruins, and your towns are burned. Foreigners plunder your fields before your eyes and destroy everything they see. Beautiful Jerusalem stands abandoned like a watchman’s shelter in a vineyard, like a lean-to in a cucumber field after the harvest, like a helpless city under siege. If the Lord of Heaven’s Armies had not spared a few of us, we would have been wiped out like S***m, destroyed like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 1:2‭-‬9 NLT
America, wake up!
We must turn our eyes from ourselves and return to the heart of God! So much selfishness and selflessness in people today! I see it on the faces of many. I see it on the freeways and highways of my town. I see it in the grocery store parking lots. I see it everywhere I go!
Be the hope giver! Be the few that show many that God can save our land from punishment. Give your heart away! Let your own guard down and let God be your guard. It is all His, your possessions and your heart are His. Pray for your land and all those in it. Pray that you can stand. In Isaiah 7:9 God says "unless your faith is firm, I can not make you stand firm."
The warning is, we can not save this land, but God can! His few people, set apart by Himself, are the difference between the punishment and the Grace of God's hand upon this great America!
Be the difference. Be God's difference!
Let's move to let "God" make America Great Again!

12/10/2022

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Titus 1:15‭-‬16 KJV

https://bible.com/bible/1/tit.1.15-16.KJV

Alot of people these days think they are right. Self evaluation placed up against the Word of God will tell your truth. Has you faith changed? Do you believe in Jesus, or do you believe in man? Where is your faith based? What is your hearts desire? Does it branch out of you or stay within yourself? Is there purity or has Sin overcome you so as to call itself purity? Please. God accepts repentance. He welcomes a heart longing after the truth of Him. Keep it real. Cast down the lies.

09/25/2022

This is a long read for a Facebook post. However, maybe there is confusion about the Christian that sins and the price paid for those sins. Maybe where you stand in that? I know for myself question arise. So this is a long read but pretty much explains things on how we should walk this Christianity out. Hope it blesses you. It is the entire chapter of 2nd Cor 5 in the Amplified version. So good! Enjoy!

FOR WE know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Here indeed, in this [present abode, body], we sigh and groan inwardly, because we yearn to be clothed over [we yearn to put on our celestial body like a garment, to be fitted out] with our heavenly dwelling, So that by putting it on we may not be found naked (without a body). For while we are still in this tent, we groan under the burden and sigh deeply (weighed down, depressed, oppressed)–not that we want to put off the body (the clothing of the spirit), but rather that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal (our dying body) may be swallowed up by life [after the resurrection]. Now He Who has fashioned us [preparing and making us fit] for this very thing is God, Who also has given us the [Holy] Spirit as a guarantee [of the fulfillment of His promise]. So then, we are always full of good and hopeful and confident courage; we know that while we are at home in the body, we are abroad from the home with the Lord [that is promised us]. For we walk by faith [we regulate our lives and conduct ourselves by our conviction or belief respecting man's relationship to God and divine things, with trust and holy fervor; thus we walk] not by sight or appearance. [Yes] we have confident and hopeful courage and are pleased rather to be away from home out of the body and be at home with the Lord. Therefore, whether we are at home [on earth away from Him] or away from home [and with Him], we are constantly ambitious and strive earnestly to be pleasing to Him. For we must all appear and be revealed as we are before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive [his pay] according to what he has done in the body, whether good or evil [considering what his purpose and motive have been, and what he has achieved, been busy with, and given himself and his attention to accomplishing]. Therefore, being conscious of fearing the Lord with respect and reverence, we seek to win people over [to persuade them]. But what sort of persons we are is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood by God, and I hope that it is plainly recognized and thoroughly understood also by your consciences (your inborn discernment). We are not commending ourselves to you again, but we are providing you with an occasion and incentive to be [rightfully] proud of us, so that you may have a reply for those who pride themselves on surface appearances [on the virtues they only appear to have], although their heart is devoid of them. For if we are beside ourselves [mad, as some say], it is for God and concerns Him; if we are in our right mind, it is for your benefit, For the love of Christ controls and urges and impels us, because we are of the opinion and conviction that [if] One died for all, then all died; And He died for all, so that all those who live might live no longer to and for themselves, but to and for Him Who died and was raised again for their sake. Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view [in terms of natural standards of value]. [No] even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a man, yet now [we have such knowledge of Him that] we know Him no longer [in terms of the flesh]. Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him]. It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor). So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God. For our sake He made Christ [virtually] to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in and through Him we might become [endued with, viewed as being in, and examples of] the righteousness of God [what we ought to be, approved and acceptable and in right relationship with Him, by His goodness].
2 Corinthians 5:1‭-‬21 AMPC

FOR WE know that if the tent which is our earthly home is destroyed (dissolved), we have from God a building, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Here indeed, in this [present abode,

09/19/2022

Therefore if any person is [ingrafted] in Christ (the Messiah) he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old [previous moral and spiritual condition] has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come! But all things are from God, Who through Jesus Christ reconciled us to Himself [received us into favor, brought us into harmony with Himself] and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation [that by word and deed we might aim to bring others into harmony with Him]. It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor). So we are Christ's ambassadors, God making His appeal as it were through us. We [as Christ's personal representatives] beg you for His sake to lay hold of the divine favor [now offered you] and be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:17‭-‬20 AMPC

https://bible.com/bible/8/2co.5.17-20.AMPC

"Newness of Life and set free from our chains!
The old man screams. "Release me from these chains!"
I remember the "old days." I look back and remember my heart. It was not how I wanted to continue. If you living in those "old days," do you want to continue in them? You know,the life that seems like a dead end. Life that can never be satisfied. Full of wrong decisions and choices that have reaped havoc in your life. A feeling of no way out? Like the hole is just getting deeper? Maybe it is ok, just stale. We have a Savoir! He is not one way, but the only way to walk in total freedom from the old days. I was mentioning just the other day to a friend. after reflecting on my journey, that it totally amazes me on where my journey in Christ has taken me. It is not just for me. All I know that are in Christ will tell you the same thing. Amazing, Abundant, Life!
Jesus, that is His Name. Give whatever you got, wherever you are at in this life, to Him. He turns crumbs into feasts. Have an excellent life! He wants that for you. He truely does!

07/21/2022

Alot of people are living with a knowledge of Jesus Christ. They believe there is a God "out there", "somewhere".
This is the first step for sure! But to stay here is not God's desire. Jesus came to shake things off of you. To make all the wrongs right. I ask you to search your position today. Is God pitching a tent over you and dwelling upon you? Do you feel Him dwelling in your heart? Is lost being replaced by found? Is anger being replaced by Love? Is hate going away and forgiveness tugging at you? When God comes to dwell between your shoulders, things are gonna change!
Ask, Seek, Knock! Do whatever you must to grab ahold of Him!
Jesus is the only way and He is walking by today! Don't just know of Him. Know Him!
Today is a great day for a tent meeting with Jesus!

But He said to me, My grace (My favor and loving-kindness and mercy) is enough for you [sufficient against any danger and enables you to bear the trouble manfully]; for My strength and power are made perfect (fulfilled and completed) and show themselves most effective in [your] weakness. Therefore, I will all the more gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the strength and power of Christ (the Messiah) may rest (yes, may pitch a tent over and dwell) upon me! So for the sake of Christ, I am well pleased and take pleasure in infirmities, insults, hardships, persecutions, perplexities and distresses; for when I am weak [in human strength], then am I [truly] strong (able, powerful in divine strength).
2 Corinthians 12:9‭-‬10 AMPC

Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by Him; He covers him all the day long, and makes His dwelling between his shoulders.
Deuteronomy 33:12 AMPC

07/18/2022

This is long for a post. But it is the voice of our Lord to us so it is a blessing it is a long read. I just want to say, let the gift that God has given you be a gift back to Him. Our gifts are meant to bless, not confess of our own piety, but that of God's!
Enjoy!

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell? But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as he chose. If all were a single member, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.” On the contrary, the parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and on those parts of the body that we think less honorable we bestow the greater honor, and our unpresentable parts are treated with greater modesty, which our more presentable parts do not require. But God has so composed the body, giving greater honor to the part that lacked it, that there may be no division in the body, but that the members may have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together; if one member is honored, all rejoice together. Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? Do all possess gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.
1 Corinthians 12:4‭-‬31 ESV

https://bible.com/bible/59/1co.12.4-31.ESV