Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB

You might be wondering what on earth does a high dive life lesson have to do with Proverbs 3:5-6. Keep reading any you'll find out.

An article discussing about keeping America the land of the free seems to be a strange time to be posting it on October 1rst. We are no where near a holiday such as Memorial Day, Independence Day or Veterans Day. The nearest “holiday,” if you can call it that, is Halloween. We won't go into that right now. Please, I beg you to read this entire article.

Do we really trust the Lord with ALL our hearts? Do we really LEAN NOT unto our own understanding? Do we truly acknowledge Him in ALL our ways? If we were, God would be directing all our paths and the direction of our nation would not be such as it has become over the last several decades.

About one week ago I posted a Restoration video, Joy Comes In The Morning. I mentioned that on Easter/Resurrection Sunday morning that the Lord spoke to my heart. Before I get into what the Lord said, this is not going to be a message on what the Lord spoke to my heart when I first woke up. I'm using what He spoke to my heart for the video to set up the another message the Lord spoke to my heart later that same morning.

There was once a time that truth, was revered, including absolute truth. There was once a time when the Bible by many, was believed to be the absolute true Word of God. As time went on, especially during my life time, absolute truth has been discarded by many. Many believe there are no absolutes. The amazing thing about the people who say there are no absolutes, is that they believe they are absolutely right! Their own adamant stance of there being no absolutes actually works against them.

With the last throes of winter hanging on to some extent, and the month of March coming up, most people are looking ahead to spring. Although here in Oklahoma we are in what is infamously called, “Tornado Alley,” most of the people still pine for the rebirth of life that spring so much symbolizes.

The things that looked dead during the winter months come back to life. They resurrect. The dry brown dead looking grass becomes green again. Lifeless looking tress whose branches are bare start coming forth with lively looking green leaves. Flowers begin to bloom. Not many things can compare to a warm spring day with a gentle breeze, blue skies and bright sunshine. Life just seems to burst forth in the spring.

A few days or weeks ago, I forget as to whether it was at a church service or if it was during an event that I was watching on the television, the Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung. I can remember singing it at times during assemblies in elementary school. Of course I always related the hymn to the Civil War in which the Union Army used as their anthem. Being in elementary school I never paid much attention to the lyrics. I did love the rhythm, though.

“You say you want a revolution, well ya know, we all wanna change the world.” The opening line to the Beatles, “Revolution.” Many people do want to change the world. Some for the better, some for the worst. Whether people want to admit it or not, there was One who changed the world 2000 years ago. Many recently celebrated His birth. The One who changed the world, was Jesus Christ. He was and is the only One who did and still does change the world. Jesus Christ changed to course of human history.

Back in February 1988, the Lord spoke something to my heart that appears to have growing significance for this upcoming year of 2025. It was a bitter cold, wet, rainy day. I was driving on one of the busy streets in south Tulsa, not thinking about anything in particular other than what a dreary day it was when the Lord spoke to my heart, “On My agenda is to restore the Christian Church in America to the way My church moved in My power in the book of Acts.”

We recently celebrated Thanksgiving in which officially begins the holiday season that includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years. I say “officially begins,” because many retailers start selling Christmas decorations a week or so prior to Halloween. Although Christmas decorations start showing up in stores, people do not generally focus on Christmas until right around Thanksgiving.

Back in the mid 1990's revivals broke out across the United States of America, and Canada. The most notable revivals were in Pensacola, Florida, and Toronto, Canada. There were others in Kansas City, Kansas, Baltimore, Maryland, but those revivals for what ever reason were less notable. The revivals in Pensacola and Toronto actually caught the eye of the news media. Most of the coverage was objective. In fact, media from all over Europe went to Toronto to cover the revival, and dubbed it the Toronto Blessing. Pastors John and Carol Arnott called it the Father's Blessing. John Arnott actually wrote a book about it that I would highly recommend.

A few weeks ago on a Friday morning at about 4 a.m. I woke up. I couldn't get back to sleep as I was under the impression that the Lord wanted me to get up and spend time with Him. I got the sense that it was not about me just spending time with Him just to get into His Presense as I often do (but usually later in the day, not at 4 a.m.). I got the distinct feeling He was to speak something to my heart.

I do not consider myself a prophet, but there are times when I have moved prophetically, more so in dreams and sometimes in visions. But every now and then the Lord speaks to my heart about things that will happen. This has been going on and off since 2001. I did not have the liberty from the Lord to share them, but I do have the liberty to share what God has spoken to my heart yesterday and today.

I am not one who lives in the past. Yes, I do have memories that I cherish. There are certain times, events, and people that I sometimes wish I could have and see again, or be with. However, I don't live in the past. I don't stay in the past. As to the future, I do not live in the future either. True, sometimes I have anticipation for the future, I think about what I do in the present that could lead to what I would desire to happen in the future, but I don't live there.

Back on March 3rd 2019 I made a Restoration Video entitled, A House Divided. In the video I shared a word from the Lord that He placed on my heart just prior to New Year's Day 2019. I said that God had placed on my heart that He was going to baptize America with the Holy Ghost and fire. The context was that America was deeply divided at that time, and using the Scriptures from Matthew chapter three and Matthew chapter thirteen, that God was going to separate the wheat from the chaff (Matthew chapter three) and the wheat from the tares (Matthew chapter thirteen).

Recently during our Sunday service at church, one of our leaders who heads up the prayer time before I give the message, shares information that he relates to Scripture. This time he shared a study of current statistics on church attendance and a particular cultural condition statistic. What struck me after he read the statistics, was when he read the part about the cultural condition statistic. The study of course, only focused on the external cause of the decline of church attendance and the cultural condition. Studies and survey's of this nature rarely if ever take into consideration the internal causes of such issues. By internal causes, I'm meaning spiritual causes. What happens in the external, or natural realm is always due to a spiritual dynamic. There is more to the story of everything we are see happening in America and around the world. We all need to come out of our so-called sophistication and realize there is truly spiritual dynamics at work.

At our church in Sand Springs, we have Communion the first Sunday of every month. As the first Sunday was approaching, I found my self thinking of how interesting it is that the birthdays of two Presidents were in the same month. It wasn't that their birthdays were in the same month that was intriguing, it was that both men were involved in history changing wars. Both wars were for freedom.

At various different times, in various articles I've written and You Tube videos I've made, I have quoted Filipino General Carlos P. Romulo who said, “Never Forget, Americans, that yours is a spiritural country. Yes, I know that are a practicle people. Like others, I have marvelled at your factories, your skyscrapers and your arsenals. But underlying everything else is the fact that America began as a God-loving, God-fearing, God-worshipping people.” General Romulo served alongside General Douglas MacArthur in the Pacific Theater of World War Two.

A few weeks ago, two friends of mine within a few days of each other posted the same viewpoint on what Christians should be focused on regarding the "End Times." Both posts said, "Imagine if our Christian view of the End Times was centered on preparing for Christ rather than the anti-christ, on the mark of the Lamb rather than the beast, on preparing for the redeeming of the earth rahtn than escaping it, on hope rather than fear." I couldn't be more in agreement with that statement. I responded to the post sharing what Jesus clearly stated we should be focused on in Acts chapter one.

I came across an article I wrote and posted on Facebook on 07/09/2015. As I read it again, I am amazed at how things have changed in our nation, and sadly, not for the better. I'm reposting the article, and then after the article I am going to explain the reason for the repost. I hope anyone who reads this will read it all the way through, and then pass it around to as many people as possible.

The Article posted on 07/09/2015: