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Incinerable Works

21 Tuesday Feb 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work. If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward. If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. ~ 1 Corinthians 3:12-15, NASB

 See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the heaven.” This expression, “Yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire. ~ Hebrews 12:25-29, NASB

 

 

Burning

                   Fire

                             Shut

                                         Up . . .

Ragingly bursts out

                     Unapologetically . . . no

                                                          Stammering

                                                                                   Stuttering

                                                                                                        Hesitating . . .

Holy Spirit

Judging works’

Qualities, if

                  Gold

                            Silver

                                        Gemstones:

                                        Diamond, Sapphire, Ruby, Emerald . . .

Or if

          Hay

                   Wood

                               Straw (stubble) . . .

 

Former qualities’

Valuable blocks

Solid structures

Well laid

Well joined

Well cemented

Together;

But then

Topped with

Latter qualities’

Junk piles 

Patchwork structures

Poorly laid

Poorly crammed

Poorly heaped

Together . . .

 

Unscrupulous workers

Rebellious children

Jerry-building;

Badly adding on to

The Foundation

Interiorly laid

So God-kind of

                           Morality

                                              Righteousness

                                                                            Holiness

Can spring forth . . .

 

Principled conducts

Incongruously manifested

As carnality’s

                    Unscrupulousness

                                                      Corruption

                                                                          Impurities . . .

 

Christian life inconsistencies:

Mix-Match traits

Producing reduction

Unsought—ashes;

Consuming Fire’s

Day of revealing,

Testing, purging

Worthlessly sown

Incinerable works . . .

 

Holy Fire God’s

Benevolent Bonfire

Removing trash;

Saving unfaithful,

Disobedient saints from

Everlasting burning . . . .

 

– I finished this poem on 2-20-2017

 

 

 

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Overcomers’ Rewards

18 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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Who shall ever separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? Just as it is written and forever remains written,

                     “FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE PUT TO DEATH ALL DAY LONG;
                     WE ARE REGARDED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER.”

Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors and gain an overwhelming victory through Him who loved us [so much that He died for us]. ~ Romans 8:35-37, AMP

Overcomers or those believers who truly are more than conquerors clearly are the faithful and obedient victorious members of the Body of Christ—the faithful and obedient spiritual conquerors. Notice that, in Revelation chapters 2-3, Christ never addresses the entire Body of Believers, which is His whole Ekklesia, as overcomers. Nor does He address one entire ekklesia (one entire assembly or one entire “church”) as overcomers. While speaking individually to the seven “churches,” Christ promises heavenly rewards ONLY to the saint who overcomes—Christ uses only the singular pronoun when He says: “He who overcomes.” Thus, Christ makes it clear that not all saints, not all members in His Ekklesia, are or will be overcomers. These overcomers are the saints who shine like the stars that are far and above the spiritual corruptions or spiritual problems in Revelation’s seven “churches” (see Revelation 1: 16).

I know what I said above is an uncomfortable truth, but the Truth is that Bible verses prove that the overcomers—the ones to whom specific rewards are promised/offered and to whom these promised rewards will be given—are separate and distinct types of saints. If we read closely, we see that in every one of the seven “churches” mentioned in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 there were—and, indeed, there always have been—those saints who were faithful believers in Christ and those saints who were unfaithful believers in Christ. There were—and there always have been—those saints who were obedient children of God and those saints who were disobedient children of God. In other words, there were then—and always have been—spiritual and carnal members in the Body of Christ. Therefore, there also always were (and always have been, even now there are) overcomers AND those saints who were/are overwhelmed/worn down/defeated. To put it differently, from the beginning of Christ’s Ekklesia, there always have been those believers who have become spiritual conquerors and those believers who have been spiritually conquered!

Again, the Scriptures prove that Christ only promises EACH spiritual conqueror in each of Revelation’s seven “churches” that if that person—if he or she—is a faithful and obedient overcomer; that is, if the spiritually mature man or spiritually mature woman in each “church” continues to fight against Satan’s fiery darts, his destructive deceptions, and his toxic lies AND WINS, even if his or her resistance leads to his or her death, then that OVERCOMER is the believer who will receive the following specific rewards:

1. The Tree of Life

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.’ ~ Revelation 2:7 (Ephesus)

2. The Crown of Life

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, so that you will be tested, and you will have tribulation for ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. ~ Revelation 2:10 (Smyrna)

3. The White Stone

He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.’ ~ Revelation 2:17 (Pergamum)

4. National Authority

He who overcomes, and he who keeps My deeds until the end, TO HIM I WILL GIVE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONS; ~ Revelation 2:26 (Thyatira)

5. White Robes

He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments; and I will not erase his name from the book of life, and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. ~ Revelation 3:5 (Sardis)

6. The Permanent Pillar

He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will not go out from it anymore; and I will write on him the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God, and My new name. ~ Revelation 3:12 (Philadelphia)

7. The Throne

He who overcomes, I will grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. ~ Revelation 3:21 (Laodicea)

Anyone who has an ear needs to hear that Christ’s overcomer is not just the run-of-the-mill kind of saint, who gets into Heaven with the smell of smoke on him or her (see 1 Corinthians 3:15). To get these mentioned rewards that saint must be the spiritual conqueror (more than a conqueror) kind of overcomer—a faithful and obedient even unto death kind of saint.

Once again, every saint—each believer in Christ, every Body of Christ member—must model his or her life after the One who first overcame this world and the devil. That Overcomer is Christ Jesus! Is anybody listening? Selah . . . . .

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Godly Resistance

15 Wednesday Feb 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? But He gives us more grace. This is why it says:

          “God opposes the proud,
                but gives grace to the humble.”

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you. ~ James 4:4-10, Berean Study Bible

 

Join the resistance:
Cry heard round the world
Calls all right standing
Righteous disciples
To submit themselves
Fully only to
Adonai, not as
Nations’ patriots,
But Sons and Daughters,
Kingdom Citizens
Holy Spirit filled,
Taught, empowered, led
To resist devil
In whatever form
He reveals himself,
Whether spirit or
Human or evil
Personified—sick
Depraved, merciless.

Godly resistance
Sends devil fleeing;
The most powerful
Defiance ever:
Refusing to yield
To his temptations,
Submitting instead
To the Will of God.

Wearing His armor
Holy activists
Stand up against the
Satanic arrows
Seeking to puncture
Humanity’s core—
Life, liberty, and
Happiness pursuit—
Unalienable
Rights from the Supreme
That trump politics
Always, forever.

 

– I created this poem on February 15, 2017.

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Betrothed Believer: Married to Christ

11 Saturday Feb 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Poetry

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And I heard a sound like the roar of a great multitude, like the rushing of many waters, and like a mighty rumbling of thunder, crying out:

“Hallelujah!
     For our Lord God, the Almighty, reigns.
Let us rejoice and celebrate
     and give Him the glory.
For the marriage of the Lamb has come,
     And His bride has made herself ready.
She was given clothing of fine linen,
     linen bright and pure.”

For the fine linen she wears is the righteous acts of the saints. ~ Revelation 19:6-8, Berean Study Bible

 

 

Righteous arranged marriage:
Predestined Bride and Groom
Prophesied in Message,
Saved from eternal tomb.

Negotiating match:
Father of Groom has Son
Bear expenses for “catch”;
Marriage costs for Bride – none.

The Son pays agreed price:
Mohar purchases Bride—
Redemption’s sacrifice,
Grand cost for purified.

Groom’s additional gifts:
Spirit, Authority
Power, private airlifts
For His holy Body.

Mattan’s heavenly best:
After Mohar is paid
Groom shifts from his request
To next response conveyed.

Bride imbibes poured out wine:
Shed blood that covers sin—
If faithless to Divine,
Quaint parade a no-win.

Banned bridal march harsh news:
Foul betrothal charade
Causes legal tie blues—
Consummation waylaid.

Only true Bride Father
Selected for Groom goes
In Rapture with honor—
Wearing white linen robes.

Wedding processional:
After that, seven days
Being affectional—
The consummation phase.

Leaving bridal chamber
For Groom’s Marriage Supper—
Faithful Overcomer
Celebrates with Savior.

Snapshot of Bride’s events:
Betrothed same as married—
Christ perfects agreement
With staunch and unwearied.

Live consecrated life:
Know Bridegroom’s returning–
Be pure and holy Wife;
Lamp kept trimmed and burning.

He’s coming to lift up
His Bride and take her Home
Where they’ll drink from the cup;
Finalize vows that Yom.

The Day of the Lord will
Come like thief in the night;
Stay prepared Bride until
It is time to take flight.

 

– I created the above poem on February 11, 2017

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Encourage One Another, Daily

02 Thursday Feb 2017

Posted by Rev. Nadine Drayton-Keen in Spiritual

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I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me face to face, that they may be encouraged in heart, knit together in love, and filled with the full riches of complete understanding, so that they may know the mystery of God, namely Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. ~ Colossians 2:1-3, Berean Study Bible

But exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness. ~ Hebrews 3:13, Berean Study Bible

Let us hold resolutely to the hope we confess, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. ~ Hebrews 10:23-25, Berean Study Bible

Therefore encourage and build one another up, just as you are already doing. ~ 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Berean Study Bible

 

What have believers in Christ done with encouragement or exhortation? Where have they hidden it, because most believers never receive any encouragement or exhortation?

How sad that is, especially since encouragement or exhortation was a necessary and expected staple in the lives of the first century Body of Christ. Indeed, it was a major way to urge or motivate one another to remain faithful, to be fruitful, to be joyful, to keep the faith, to stay hopeful, to continue to persevere/endure, to remain strong, to remain united, and so on and so forth.

Surely God knew that we all would need encouragement. Surely God knew how we all would feel when encouragement was absent from our lives—useless, forgotten, unwanted, unimportant, and/or unloved, just for starters. No wonder the apostles instructed and expected the first century Body of Christ members to encourage one another DAILY, as in the following verse: “But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called ‘Today,’ so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” ~ Hebrews 3:13, NASB

So, again, I ask: What have believers in Christ done with encouragement or exhortation? Without a doubt, it is sad that God’s children do not encourage ALL their brothers and sisters in Christ, when they have the opportunities to do so—sad that so many believers, instead, think it is okay to pick and choose the people they will give support to, give hope to, give help to, show love to, inspire, strengthen, and etcetera. My brothers and sisters in Christ, we must do much better than that!

Grace to every brother and sister in Christ . . . . .  Every blessing . . . . .

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