Breaking enemy strongholds. Freeing captives through Sword of Truth.
**NOTE: there is a new issue that is just a visual problem I discovered today with the Paypal landing page when the above button is clicked which has led me to post this update: it defaults to the amounts of $75, $100, $150 and 'other'. These amounts are not by my setting, but a Paypal override. Use the 'other' option to type in the amount you are led; no amount is too small, except Paypal has a minimum fee charging so in order for those fees not to be consumed by Paypal so any aid given has no meaning, I believe that to be $2.00 USD. In my opinion I believe this is a work of the enemy to inspire abandonment by making one believe anything less I would be unhappy, but this is not the case. This is a default setting by Paypal, maybe in their own rationalizing to aid in inspiring higher donations, that second part, though, is my speculation of why these default amounts now exist. Personally I think it may cause more to abandon than help.
God bless you that you are even here reading this under prompting of the Spirit, for this labor that I do has costs, although I receive nothing back. Every song and even simple video where I make use of images or effects, from its start to what seems unprofessional video on YouTube costs hundreds of dollars by the time I am through: hosting, licensing costs for images, update costs for video and music creating softwares, plug-ins and so ons, props, production, etc.
Unfortunately some individuals also in their own personal ministries are under the false mindset that because they are doing something to further salvation they can use any photo or video in that work without paying for it and that Jesus will understand; but that is stealing; copyright laws are real, and there is no getting around costs if I want to be a righteous servant and not a hypocrite servant saying, ‘do as I say and not as I do!’
The Lord has tasks for me to do and I put them above all to a level that may surprise many who are not used to giving the proper priority to those things which are of God; now sometimes it leaves me in a place where I ask the Lord as in the Scripture, "Who will believe what I have told them?" for this is true---we can lead people to the truth, but reception of it, belief in it is something not a mark of our success to be faithful, but a mark instead of extent of the enemy's counterwork against every plan of God.
And I know whether or not people believe, the rewards that the Lord has both for me and those who aid me in this labor are unshakeable and await each soldier’s end, yet it is not for that which I labor but for the passion of meeting Christ’s passion which is saving souls.
And in truth, any genuine servant of the Lord carries this same burning torch in his or her heart to do all for our First Love even if never any recognition is received from men. Perhaps I will never get the aid the Lord has intended for me to get in this battle, yet with the aid of God I will stand true, even if no one believes, no one receives, no one comes to assist, this donation link is never used, everyone looks but drops away for whatever whisper the enemy got them to stop in helping to fulfill God’s plan for his kingdom in my life, one of the rocks he has decided to pick up in these Last Days to use to bonk the heads of the handpicked elite who have gone the way of Balaam, son of Beor who loved gain from wrong doing as 2 Peter 2 tells us.
Look at Apostle Paul: he recounted how he was treated as an imposter, harmed greatly by many such as a person named Alexander the coppersmith caused him great harm, a harm which no one came to defend him from. Yet Paul was not an imposter and he was not deserving that harm that coppersmith gave his reputation to which he never received defense from which Paul spoke about in 2 Timothy 4.
He also recounted that he had been poorly dressed, hungry often, without sleep, in chains many times, beaten, literally he said treated like scum of the earth, yet we know he was a personally picked servant of our Lord, but yet he suffered these difficulties too many of which in his earth life he was not left justified or aided!
So if the Spirit is leading you, please quiet the enemy trying to override that prompting and help a fellow soldier in Christ as you are getting led, in order to continue pushing that plow at the frontlines, often without sleep, hungry, with no prospect of a home, yet with hand fierce to the plow because the time is short, and the redemption of the faithful draws nigh. That battle that the Bible specifies we wage is not fantasy; every word in the Bible is true, alive and kicking TODAY!
Those passive in the fold usually do not see much or any of such warfare in their mistaken idea fruitlessness is safer, but many brethren, as myself, who go on forging into the war zones can attest those things the Apostles complained about, how the devil worked to hinder them and sometimes would, and all those difficulties they went through in their personal races for Christ, are as they said back then, and it can be brutal, for that enemy we fight is brutal, merciless. Yet such labors that may lead to such enemy attacks we are never to shirk from for the Almighty has great displeasure in the soul that shrinks back.
And to those drawn here who don’t have anything monetarily to give but do have connections or influence to spread the work the Lord is leading me to do, I appreciate that aid which is as essential as financial aid especially in a day and age when news story after news story is emerging how YouTube, Facebook and so on, the free mediums that were once powerful ways to spread the Lord's work, are waging an anti-Christian agenda where they are taking down Christian accounts, or failing to do the normal feed of the posts or videos so that in effect, the messages never get out in any number of views that have impact, and in that way as effective as disabling an account.
So this means having to more heavily cling to word of mouth, and the connections other Christians may have to reach the dying (outside of the Body and inside the Body of Christ for there are false brethren amongst us, some not even knowing they are false), and consider and make use of paid advertising, which I now find myself also exploring to look into in the continual strategizing of ways to complete the mission to its most effective end. It's a battle, and when a servant takes his or her role, it is the start of fighting that can be won through endurance and joint support in the various ways offered by the rest of the members of the Body.
So if you do do something in that way towards the ministry the Lord has me doing, whether notifying others in your network to aid in furthering what the Lord is having me do in whatever way you have the ability that the Spirit is leading you, you do not need to tell me nor ask me for the Lord rewards those who give in secret and just follow that prompting for it may be that pivotal push, uplifting or momentum that gets me where I need to go in the Lord’s designs.
