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 Faithfulness means Everything, you see

January 25, 2026

Pastor Loran:

4  And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

5  And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

6  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

7  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

Full proof of your ministry…

Works prepared for us

The tendency to cruise and compare is a nono!

7  And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

Dont let anybody take your crown!   We receive a crown but someone can distract us from our work.

Communities that God sets us with an open door.

 

The Holiness of the call of God.

The awesomeness of serving God   keep the fresh  on fire and alive 

On your knees and with your face in the bible

Matt 25

​​24  Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

25  And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

26  His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

The one with one had squandered his opportunity..seems unfair

3  And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name's sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted.

4  Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

5  Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

Jesus wants you to love him

Not just love your works

True worshippers must worship the father in spirit and truth!

Do you love Him?

Do you love Jesus?

Get back to where you used to be…

Don’t forget who called you and what he called you to do!

Be faithful and be a worshiper 

The “or else” is the loss of influence and ability and reality and seriousness of the ministry.  Getting people ready to step into eternity!  You will spend eternity where you are readied for.

It makes us fall in love with people again.

Represent him!  

The example of a man jumping out of an airplane checking his parachute and others around him checking all the straps and things.

Revival of conviction and prayer warriors    I can do nothing without you   i need a touch from heaven   .

PReaching is second to ministering to the Lord daily!!!

The Holy Ghost said…

The holy ghost cant talk to you with all the noise that is around and about!...   A sermon or a message.

Sermons are a dime a dozen.  But God’s word that is relevant is nothing like it!

 God has a special word for his sheep and my sheep.  Boney sheep or malnourished sheep are the result of packaged and prepackaged sermons.   Waiting on the LOrd is most important. Preach the word!   The word will feed them.  But your sheep are your sheep.  God has given you the vision for them.

The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrines.   No impact or power is in the old wives tales of storytelling.

All longsuffering and labor.  Be extremely careful how you handle the word.

Renounced the hidden things of shame   “not walking in craftiness”...etc.

Not ashamed to call sin what it is.  Don’t use the word.  Preach the word.   Not a battering ram.  He is not a manipulator.  He is not a man who tries to get the credit.  

Why you do…what you do is important    kill the fatted calf.  

Submission to the orders that are above you notwithstanding you have to be true to the Lord.

If you preach the word the word will produce.

The word will do the work!!!

The whole counsel of God is what is important.   

Revelations 22:

15  For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

16  I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.

17  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

18  For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19  And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

20  He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

21  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

It isn’t easy, but he called us to labor in the word

“CANT LIVE A DAY”

How firm a foundation in our aging? just a thought

 6 “E’en down to old age, all my people shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne.

How do we prove His love in our aging?

1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in his excellent word!
What more can he say than to you he has said,
You who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?

2 In every condition – in sickness, in health,
In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth;
At home, or abroad, on the land, on the sea,
“As thy days may demand, shall thy strength ever be.

3 “Fear not, I am with thee; O be not dismayed;
I, I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
Upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.

4 “When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;
For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

5 “When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
My grace all-sufficient shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

6 “E’en down to old age, all my people shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in my bosom be borne.

7 “The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to his foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavour to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.”

Day of Judgment

The Calculus of Christmas

 1. Joy to the world; the Lord is come;

Let Earth receive her King;
Let ev'ry heart prepare him room,
And heav'n and nature sing.2. Joy to the Earth, the Savior reigns;
Our mortal songs employ,
While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains,
Repeat the sounding joy.
3. No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make his blessings flow
Far as the curse is found.
4. He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of his righteousness,
And wonders of his love.

The Glories of His Righteousness and wonders of His Love! How do the nations prove this?

Mark 4:

40  And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

41  And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

When Jesus rules the world, it is with truth and grace.   The Theorem of the nations Theorem of Truth and Theorem of Grace.

Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any nation.  Any nation reproached by sin?

Rich nations who can cover their sins are reproached openly… Poor nations who cannot employ means to cover sin sometimes are reproached in not as embarrassing a way.  Still, both are reproached.    

Exaltation of nations based on sins acceptance seems obvious, but perhaps not.   The promulgation of deceptions is just one of the reproaches used to whip the naughty nations into the real acceptance of the Theorem of Truth and Grace!

Faith is to truth as Unbelief is to Heresy}  If x = the wonders of His Love

X +truth+grace=the proving of the nations!!!

The Voice of Truth...

 Be not many teachers?

Thank God for those who have risked much to teach us truth in spite of themselves.  Life that backs up the truth they teach is an impossible task.  We stumble and trip ourselves up, but God uses His word in our mouths to win others to himself and grow his people into what they should be.   Godly examples in this world.  If our works are burnt up with the wood, hay and stubble, we still have our souls to show for the time spent serving him.   I want to see true increase in His word and not the fake gold of worldly accolades. 

If I am a Master of this world’s estimation, I am not a master of God’s people.  I am a servant.  Great are they who give God the glory in humility and not in what people call mastering it over the flocks.  God give grace to pass on the intimacy of a real relationship with the Jesus who was ridiculed for making mud on the Sabbath, without a degree.

The Coverage of Grace:

  "Lord, your grace,   covering me like a soft gentle shower" Fred Hammond

We, who know the Lord have comforts and treasures that are immeasurable.  We know that we have them, but often the viscicitudes give us pause for our complaints.  This is unfortunate and weighty, we know God is good and our worship is true and given with much intensity at times and then at other times the weights of sin and complaints choke our praise and worship and give us liberty to give words to them that they indeed do not deserve.  Magnifying our complaints is indeed our felt condition.

The Lord's grace is greater than insurance and greater than a blessing.  It is bigger than we are.  It reaches us wherever we are and lifts us from the dungheap of our own makings.  Jesus paid it all for this great privilege of access to God in prayer and praise.  It comforts and protects us from even the designs of our own malignancies.  

We seek it and reach for it, when we are not feeling well and it is more present in the goodness of God, than we are.  It is new daily.  It is unmerited and it is everpresent in the knowledge of the love of God.  Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God.   We need but to open and look into the Word of God and the eyes to see it will be granted us!   Halleluia, what a Savior!

just thinking out loud

 Pastor Loran preached today April 6, 2025

Talking about the school of faith and the school of anti-faith…

“What do you want the Lord to say?” Song came to mind

“What do you want the Devil to say?”  “Ha,ha, I made her quit?”

The sacrifice of praise is Praise Halleluia! Anyhow!

Above the fray.

In spite of praise

Glory to God in the highest, when you are lowest

Make the devil mad, praise

No matter when and how many times it happens, Satan doesn’t quit his attacks.   His goal—-   to make you quit.   Did God hold you up in the last traunch of attacks?   He has an allotment of attacks for each season.  Is that surprising?   He has them scheduled and set, for the dispatch at just the right or wrong time in your life.  

What do you want the Lord to say?   That is the song.  The answer is "Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter in the joy of the Lord"

Diddys like that remind us of a strategic concept in a repetitive way that helps us remember that we are in a fight.   Float like a butterfly sting like a bee, was the song of Mohammed Ali.  It kept him floating and stinging, when the discouragement kicked in.  Nice strategy.

Often we lose sight of our part in the spiritual battle of the church, giving God praise when there are seasons of struggle.  Lifting Jesus up and seeing HIM draw men to himself is a concept swiftly forgotten.   The “talkatives” have convinced us that it is us who draw people to Jesus.  

Praise is a team

Prayer intercession

Soul winning

Praising and worship in unified manner is part of the hedge of protection that guides and guards us from the strength of the onslaught that comes against us in the battle of living for Jesus. 

Some of the victory is given to us individually, as part of the corporate relationship of our individual church and part of the corporate interchurch battle as we intermingle with the church Triumphant and the “church militant”.   The vision of the church militant’s labor of fighting against the onslaughts of the enemy.  “Confessing our faults one to another”, Not holding long term grudges, bearing one another’s burdens, giving to the needy, holding one another accountable are the areas where we are Lifting Jesus up that HE may “draw all men”.  Hedges of protection that God sets up for His people are not words only they are laid out in scripture for us to earn them and grow them sowing the seeds that God has placed in our hands through his word.

Give Grace that we may see your servants protected and guarded by your hedges of protection and that we may live on earth as a visual expression of Your letter of intention of what life on earth should and can be.   We love you Lord and we would exalt your word as you do above, even all your name.  Help us not make the Devil rejoice.

In Jesus name Amen.