Reading for today and was led to share here too: Jeremiah 25: 1-38”This message for all the people of Judah came to Jeremiah from the Lord during the fourth year of Jehoiakim’s reign over Judah. This was the year when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon began his reign. Jeremiah the prophet said to all the people in Judah and Jerusalem, “For the past twenty-three years—from the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah son of Amon, king of Judah, until now—the Lord has been giving me his messages. I have faithfully passed them on to you, but you have not listened. “Again and again the Lord has sent you his servants, the prophets, but you have not listened or even paid attention. Each time the message was this: ‘Turn from the evil road you are traveling and from the evil things you are doing. Only then will I let you live in this land that the Lord gave to you and your ancestors forever. Do not provoke my anger by worshiping idols you made with your own hands. Then I will not harm you.’ “But you would not listen to me,” says the Lord. “You made me furious by worshiping idols you made with your own hands, bringing on yourselves all the disasters you now suffer. And now the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Because you have not listened to me, I will gather together all the armies of the north under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, whom I have appointed as my deputy. I will bring them all against this land and its people and against the surrounding nations. I will completely destroy you and make you an object of horror and contempt and a ruin forever. I will take away your happy singing and laughter. The joyful voices of bridegrooms and brides will no longer be heard. Your millstones will fall silent, and the lights in your homes will go out. This entire land will become a desolate wasteland. Israel and her neighboring lands will serve the king of Babylon for seventy years. “Then, after the seventy years of captivity are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his people for their sins,” says the Lord. “I will make the country of the Babylonians a wasteland forever. I will bring upon them all the terrors I have promised in this book—all the penalties announced by Jeremiah against the nations. Many nations and great kings will enslave the Babylonians, just as they enslaved my people. I will punish them in proportion to the suffering they cause my people.” This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from my hand this cup filled to the brim with my anger, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it. When they drink from it, they will stagger, crazed by the warfare I will send against them.” So I took the cup of anger from the Lord and made all the nations drink from it—every nation to which the Lord sent me. I went to Jerusalem and the other towns of Judah, and their kings and officials drank from the cup. From that day until this, they have been a desolate ruin, an object of horror, contempt, and cursing. I gave the cup to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, his attendants, his officials, and all his people, along with all the foreigners living in that land. I also gave it to all the kings of the land of Uz and the kings of the Philistine cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and what remains of Ashdod. Then I gave the cup to the nations of Edom, Moab, and Ammon, and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea. I gave it to Dedan, Tema, and Buz, and to the people who live in distant places. I gave it to the kings of Arabia, the kings of the nomadic tribes of the desert, and to the kings of Zimri, Elam, and Media. And I gave it to the kings of the northern countries, far and near, one after the other—all the kingdoms of the world. And finally, the king of Babylon himself drank from the cup of the Lord’s anger. Then the Lord said to me, “Now tell them, ‘This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink from this cup of my anger. Get drunk and vomit; fall to rise no more, for I am sending terrible wars against you.’ And if they refuse to accept the cup, tell them, ‘The Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: You have no choice but to drink from it. I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city that bears my name. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!’ “Now prophesy all these things, and say to them, “‘The Lord will roar against his own land from his holy dwelling in heaven. He will shout like those who tread grapes; he will shout against everyone on earth. His cry of judgment will reach the ends of the earth, for the Lord will bring his case against all the nations. He will judge all the people of the earth, slaughtering the wicked with the sword. I, the Lord, have spoken!’” This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: “Look! Disaster will fall upon nation after nation! A great whirlwind of fury is rising from the most distant corners of the earth!” In that day those the Lord has slaughtered will fill the earth from one end to the other. No one will mourn for them or gather up their bodies to bury them. They will be scattered on the ground like manure. Weep and moan, you evil shepherds! Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock! The time of your slaughter has arrived; you will fall and shatter like a fragile vase. You will find no place to hide; there will be no way to escape. Listen to the frantic cries of the shepherds. The leaders of the flock are wailing in despair, for the Lord is ruining their pastures. Peaceful meadows will be turned into a wasteland by the Lord’s fierce anger. He has left his den like a strong lion seeking its prey, and their land will be made desolate by the sword of the enemy and the Lord’s fierce anger.”
July 10, 2026. Last night I sensed very strongly after showering and changing, after coming back from the hospital, where as shared in the previous blog post was to share the Good News of Jesus on the way there, do what is done in the Great Commission there, then to go down and read the Bible with the young adult, disciple that is my daughter’s age. So much happened as in the midst of reading the Bible; people came to Jesus thru the Good News of Jesus and the prayer of salvation, people were anointed, people were spoken to, a man came to ask the young adult for forgiveness, which he rejected as it has been recurring and forgiveness for both is understood thru the Holy Spirit, as we read in Matthew 6:9-15. The life in the hustle and street is hard, there is no respect, no accountability, people hurt each other all the time, it is painful to watch and I can not imagine how the Lord feels, I hear from the Lord; that we feel what HE feels, as we have the Holy Spirit in us. There is so much evil in us when we do not have the Holy Spirit. Money is the god in the streets and the desire to have material goods at any means possible, since there is no Holy Spirit there is no margin as to what is willing to be done in the name of obtaining those material goods, selling drugs, the body and other things is seen as “normal”, but it is so painful, that is why there is so much numbing that pain in the streets. It reminds me of when I had not given my life to Jesus and gotten baptized that I would eat my pain, sleep with people, seeking a savior and to numb the pain through those things, without understanding as Jesus, Holy Spirit and the Bible’s teachings were not there. It was not till the message of the cross came at me as clear as water thru an Apostle thru the Gospels, good news of Jesus in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, got baptized, started reading the Bible, surrendering everything to the Lord everyday, going thru the re-birth that you made me understand that as we are met by Jesus, Holy Spirit we are constantly seeking a savior, we either drink it, drug it, numb it, sleep around and are willing to do anything to accomplish our dreams and desires, we are like animals, with no moral compass, without the Holy Spirit, vessels for the enemy to come thru us, hurting ourselves and so many people.
I do not always get to hear people’s testimonies, as the focus is what the person will become when they come to Jesus, Holy Spirit through repenting and giving their lives to Jesus. From what I have experienced for almost 17 years now of the 47 years here on earth, I just heard that as chosen, humbled and contrite vessels we do not sin, that we fall into temptation. 1 Corinthians 10: 13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it. 1 John 3: See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure. 4 Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness. 5 But you know that he appeared so that he might take away our sins. And in him is no sin. 6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. 7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. The one who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous. 8 The one who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil’s work. 9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God’s seed remains in them; they cannot go on sinning, because they have been born of God. 10 This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not God’s child, nor is anyone who does not love their brother and sister.
James 1: Trials and Temptations 2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
9 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position. 10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower. 11 For the sun rises with scorching heatand withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.
12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
Listening and Doing
19 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, 20 because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.21 Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
22 Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. 23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in a mirror 24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
26 Those who consider themselves religious and yet do not keep a tight rein on their tongues deceive themselves, and their religion is worthless.27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
Wow Lord it is so true, as when we come to you we do not desire to sin, not because we are scared of punishment, but because we do not want to do anything that hurts you, we do not willfully sin In Christianity, sin is defined as any thought, action, or attitude that goes against God’s law and perfect character. It is essentially rebellion against God. Sin separates humans from God and causes harm to others. The Bible teaches that everyone sins and needs forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
Key Biblical Terms
The original languages of the Bible use several words to explain the concept of sin:
- Missing the Mark: The most common Greek word for sin is hamartia. Imagine shooting an arrow at a target and missing the bullseye. Sin is falling short of God’s perfect standard of goodness.
- Lawlessness: Sin is also defined as anomia, or lawlessness, which means acting as if there are no rules and rebelling against God’s authority.
- Transgression: The Hebrew word pesha means to a line or break a relationship, like betraying trust.
The Core Problem: The Human Heart
Sin isn’t just a list of bad rules we break. It is a condition of the human heart. It comes from human selfishness, pride, and the desire to be in charge instead of letting God be in charge.
When we fall into temptation, repent, are delivered, come back to the Lord it produces what it says in James 1. It teaches us a lot about the spiritual realm, we go through an internal procession and grieving, keeps us humble, makes us pray and seek you more, just as anything the enemies of our souls do. When we have been chosen for your Great Commission, nothing can separate us from the love of GOD, nothing as we read in Romans 8. I was so delivered from the lies the enemy of our souls try to implant in me; when I was first called when a teacher of the law which are very demonic as the Holy Spirit is not there, invited me to eat at his and his wife home to tell me that the Lord was not going to know me when I got to heaven as I wanted to be a pastor. That was so painful to hear, with me not understanding what that meant as I did not know about any gifts or fruits of the Holy Spirit, at that moment I had come to Jesus because of the cross, how humble the Lord was when HE was here as a man and everything HE went thru for us. That word walked with me for many years and I thought that for any reason and at any time I would lose my salvation and place in the New heaven and New earth, but through the Holy Spirit telling to me to replay Romans 8 over and over there was a deliverance from the word and now I do not fear of losing my salvation, as the Lord tells us thru HIS word in the Bible that the love of the lord covers all fears and the one who fears expects punishment and the only thing that we are expecting or better yet waiting is for the Lord to come back and take us home when we have allowed to receive HIS love, love HIM back and obeyed HIM, as we read in Hebrews 11 and Revelations 21. We are exiles, here for sometime to go home with ABBA, FATHER.
My knees have been hurting a lot lately. I have been so fragile lately, feeling like my heart is going to stop, almost collapsing, reminding me of humanness, that nothing can be done without the Holy Spirit, nothing, as we read in Zechariah 4:6, 1 Corinthians 1:26-30 and 1 Corinthians 13. Today I heard that from lunchtime till then, drinking water with the hydrating powder, had some yogurt as led before starting the fast. Also waiting for the provisions needed such as cooking gas money, rent money to finish paying the $1,230 dollars left to be paid for the rest of the days here, internet for the phone money, money for food items and anything else needed for the Great Commission. Praying against distractions in the area and anything else that can affect what needs to be done for the Lord’s kingdom to come and will to be done in Jesus name, all for the souls in the Great Commission, for those who are meant to understand.
There are so many reactions like in Job, depending where people are spiritually, when I was telling a man that gives out what people call tracks of messages from God, which was the 2nd time we met he was saying that I was possibly being attacked because I let my guard down, to which I heard that when he starts sharing the Good News of Jesus and bringing people to Christ to receive the Holy Spirit then he will understand the attacks and the purpose they have in us as chosen, Christian, ambassadors of the Holy Spirit life. Another one that I heard from the Holy Spirit teacher of the law, saying that I need to be part of a congregation and the Holy Spirit told me to tell him that that is what a teacher of the law would say, as we read in Matthew 23, as they do not have the Holy Spirit therefore there is no discernment of who is who in the spiritual realm, and the role we each have part of, they go by looks, what they can see with their natural eyes. From time to time they pop up, as well as other things, as we read with the people that came before us, including the Lord who came as a man to go through everything we go through and more, including being born in a manger and dying on the cross.
Matthew 23: Jesus Criticizes the Religious Leaders
23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses. 3 So practice and obey whatever they tell you, but don’t follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. 4 They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.
5 “Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear robes with extra long tassels. 6 And they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the seats of honor in the synagogues. 7 They love to receive respectful greetings as they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi.’
8 “Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. 9 And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. 10 And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you must be a servant. 12 But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
13 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
15 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
16 “Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’ 17 Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 And you say that to swear ‘by the altar’ is not binding, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding.19 How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it. 21 And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it. 22 And when you swear ‘by heaven,’ you are swearing by the throne of God and by God, who sits on the throne.
23 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens,[g] but you ignore the more important aspects of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things. 24 Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, but you swallow a camel!
25 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you are filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! 26 You blind Pharisee! First wash the inside of the cup and the dish,[i] and then the outside will become clean, too.
27 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity.28 Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. 30 Then you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would never have joined them in killing the prophets.’
31 “But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. 33 Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
34 “Therefore, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers of religious law. But you will kill some by crucifixion, and you will flog others with whips in your synagogues, chasing them from city to city. 35 As a result, you will be held responsible for the murder of all godly people of all time—from the murder of righteous Abel to the murder of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you killed in the Temple between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 I tell you the truth, this judgment will fall on this very generation.
Jesus Grieves over Jerusalem
37 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me. 38 And now, look, your house is abandoned and desolate.[j] 39 For I tell you this, you will never see me again until you say, ‘Blessings on the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’
After the fast around 6:30pm today; I had two packs of soda crackers with mayo and salami, as the gas for the stove finished, so did other eating items and I am waiting for provision. This is definitely a season of prayer, doing, trusting and waiting, as always, but this time it feels different. I have heard that intense times are coming, as we read in the word in the Bible in the prophets where the wrath of God is coming to judge people who have kept doing evil and need to repent or HE will take to hell. I have heard in places where the Holy Spirit has taken me; where the Holy Spirit gives people many chances to repent and they keep doing evil and making God upset, sad and I have heard: I am taking that person. They are taken to hell. It’s interesting to me because from the beginning of the call the focus has been the souls and lately I have heard the end times is near, that hard times are coming to the earth for the biggest revival we have ever seen and that could be at any time, as one day is like a thousand years for the Lord, as we read in the Bible. There is definitely a preparation for endurance that I sense from the Holy Spirit, as HE told me recently. I feel like crying as I write this. Then around 9PM I sensed to go down and read Matthew 2 and Genesis 3, as we had read Genesis 1, 2 and Matthew 1 yesterday, with a young man who is a disciple, as so much comes out of the word in the Bible. We spoke with there being some push back and all that happens as the Holy Spirit confronts too thru HIS Holy Spirit and word in the Bible and with their being some testing questions from the young adult disciple, then we were led by the Holy Spirit to join some of the community members who got to hear the Good News of Jesus and I was led to put some christian Merengue music and play some domino with them to be relatable and share words as the Holy Spirit led. I was then led to walk for a bit till I felt like I was going to collapse and came up to drink some water and had the last pack of crackers, mayo and salami left. I have to eat what there is, until people are moved to be obedient and give. I live depending on the obedience of others in giving, as the Lord when HE called me asked me to surrender everything trust, wait and obey. May the Lord’s will be done and HIS kingdom come, in Jesus name.
Christian maturity—along with the resources, fruit, gifts, and everything else needed for the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:16-20—is attained through the time we dedicate daily to the Holy Spirit and the Bible, surrendering everything to the Lord each day, as we read in Matthew 16:24-26. In the name of Jesus. We were born to be loved by God—by the Holy Spirit—and to love Him and, consequently, obey Him. We love because the Lord loved us first by dying on the cross for us.
Thankful for those who are praying for both my daughter and I, as well as for those who have and will be of monetary support all for the souls in the Great Commission. Take the time to read or re-read the Bible verses mentioned here, asking the Holy Spirit to help you understand what HE needs you to understand and put into practice in Jesus’s name. Take the time also to go into this page and read and or listen to the other teachings and testimonies, as well as sharing and subscribing, all for the souls in the Great Commission. Please share how this blog post spoke to you, in Jesus’s name.
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