Maranatha Renaissance Ministries

06/28/2025

05/27/2024

Charitable Organizations include: The United Way, The Red Cross, The Salvation Army, Purple Hearts!
There is NO Michael Way,The Higgins Cross, The Mikegenehigg Army. My Heart is not Purple. And you don't qualify for Earned Income Credit by having 9 kids with 14 different dadies! I realize that work is an arcane concept, but he who does not work does not eat still holds.

If you're gonna beg and w***e for a living, at least pay your 15.3% self employment taxes. Ya know?😷

11/02/2022

Romans 5:6-8
[6]For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
[7]For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
[8]But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
[4]Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
[5]Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
[6]Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
[7]Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

I LOVE YOU -- Easy to say, to wives, to husbands, to children, to friends, to relatives, to congregations, to the world, to GOD! Easy to say, oh so hard to do!

We say it every day. And scripture makes liars of us all! May we all be consumed by the love of God in such a way that we cannot do other than love one another.

And we shall be praised by their saying, "See how they love one another!"

Be blessed children of the Most High God!😷😉

10/01/2022

Philippians 4:8
[8]Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
We need to do this more than often instead of the constant "This is what's wrong with the world" tirades. The unchurched already know what's wrong. They have Steve Wilkos to tell them that. Besides, you so-called preachers, prophets, apostles, seers, teachers, evangelists, bishops, and supposedly anointed know it alls don't seem to realize that you're stuck in a "preach to your own genre" algorithm! Teach the good. That's assuming of course that you don't need to be taught first! And if this offends you, then it says much about how far you need to go!😷😬

06/28/2022

There's this game that I play quite a bit. Actually, I play it everyday. At each level of the game, I get a certain number of moves to complete the tasks successfully thereby enabling me to go to the next level. Now I've played this game long enough to know that no matter how difficult the level, at some point, even without the game helpers, things will fall right and I will complete the level and move on. I know this just as surely as I know that I'm a teasing tan man named Mike. But all too often, I get impatient and begin to think that I'll never win at this level without some helpers. Of course helpers cost money in a "free" game, $1.99 to be exact, and more, much more for people who allow the neverending frustration associated with these games, get the better of them. So just what does this to do with the things of God? Well, when the Hebrews crossed the Red Sea on dry land and looked back to see the Egypt consumed by the same Hand that had just saved them, they rejoiced, believed that they were the chosen of God, the He was their Father and Savior, and that He was worthy of their worship, praise, and obedience. But just as soon as the Red Sea was out of sight, the saving power of God was out of mind. Logic says that a God who saves you from and destroys the enemy who seeks your life, would surely not allow you to be consumed by thirst or hunger. And surely we would not suppose that the food we desire is better than the food He supplies. And surely we would not think that we need to hoard the food of our desire because He probably won't give us anymore. Not only does logic say that this God of ours will supply our every need and many of our desires, but our daily experiences say the same! But even knowing all of this, like Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Noah, David, Saul, Moses and the Hebrews in the wilderness, we convince ourselves that God needs our help to get things done, to get them done right and on time. So, we put our $1.99 worth of input into our situation, only to see that the results we obtain are always far less than the gifts that God has for us. We produce Ishmael when He intended Isaac. We choose to free Barabbas and nail our Savior to the cross, all the while being forgiven for not knowing what we do. And don't blame the Jews. He was up on that cross for our sins too! S, when they raised Him up on that cross, they unknowingly did what had to be done for anyone to be saved. While obedience is better than sacrifice, the sacrifice on the cross was infinitely better than the obedience of the so-called stewards of creation. And it still is! So, the next time you want to improve, help, instruct, revise, or otherwise alter the things of God at the altar of Molech, Baal, Golden Cadillacs, or whatever your favorite idol is, you might be better served to keep your $1.99 in your pocket, and your golden calf in it's molten form!

Be blessed children of the Most High GOD!😷😉

06/22/2022

There are actually three tithes required under the law. In order to meet the requirements of the law, most Jews paid 23.33 percent in tithes yearly. So if you believe you are required to pay tithes and you are only paying 10%, you are in violation of the law.
Additionally, a tithe was never money. Bring the tithes into the storehouse meant exactly that. First fruits went into the silos/barns. If someone didn't tithe with produce, they had to redeem the tithe with an additional ten percent in currency. I don't care if someone gives their whole paycheck. But whatever you call it, tithe ain't it. Or do you have some hidden Levitical congregation to whom you're donating the first fruits of your soybean crop, or whatever it is that you're growing over there. And what storehouse/silo are you saving it in?
Besides, someone once said that God loves a cheerful giver, not a coerced one!
But you are right about most pastors working a job. And the premise that a poor pastor can't teach biblical economics just won't fly. Even Jesus said that foxes have holes... but the Son of Man has no where to lay his head. Methinks the congregation (and that's only in the Western capitalistic world) is much too invested in physical prosperity while God concerns Himself with our souls, rich man, camel, eye of a needle, trying to enter into the kingdom of heaven, and all that.😷🧐

05/05/2022

America, generally speaking, has convinced itself that if it likes a thing, or if a thing is especially liked and pleasing to the majority, then it has to be okay. And God needs to mind His own business, especially if He disagrees. If we say that certain likeable behaviors are are explicitly warned against by God, then our understanding of the Word is wrong, or we are lying on God, or God is out of touch with modernity. God has become the sixth man, the relief pitcher, the pinch hitter, who shut up, sit on the sidelines, and come into the game only when the coach (mankind's majority) calls upon him. "God, you need to show up during the hurricanes, the forest fires, the earthquakes, and tsunamis. But when I'm sleeping with my neighbor's spouse, stealing from my job and calling it lagniappe, killing babies in the womb and calling it the right to privacy, and redefining marriage because these are no longer the Dark Ages, then God needs to keep his mouth shut. It is my "right" to end my unborn child, but I'll go to prison if I fight my dog! Poor Judge Alito has been stuck in a moral quagmire for so long that he doesn't know how to justify a right ruling. All he has to say is that abortion is not a right. Certainly the unborn don't think so. It is also not about the ability to choose and have control of one's own body. In far too many cases, it's about being able to screw without consequences! According to science, amoebic dysentery is caused by one-celled living organisms called amoeba. Yet a multi-celled zygote is not a person because it hasn't exited the womb. How foolish, yea even stupid, is the man/woman who cannot create life but believes that he/she can define it? Among the stars of heaven, that is known as trying to usurp the Author! That didn't work out very well the first time it was tried! So, do you in the finite, and He will finish doing you in the infinite! IJS The Creator doesn't owe us anything but death!😷🧐

01/22/2022

Isaiah 40:10-15
[10]Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
[11]He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
[12]Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
[13]Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?
[14]With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?
[15]Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Isaiah was the holiest one in the land. The contemplation of the Most High gave him pause, and shed light on just how little he knew and just how holy he wasn't. Are we any better? I don't know about you but I'm not! 😷🐿️ Of course, I'm not one of you New Age Apostles and Prophets! 🧐😬