I say this because the way I see it, if we make it a goal to continue to seek His Heart and love Him and be more like Jesus every day, we will stay out of a lot of trouble.

I heard a pretty disturbing radio show about a week ago while driving in my car. The topic was human trafficking and it went into great detail how it’s done and how common it is right inside the US and even here in Cali. They were talking about how there is no need to go outside the Country anymore, it’s so easy to get away with it right here in our backyard. It’s a huge money making business for the people who do this, what really got me though was…

They told a story of a 12 year old girl who was befriended by an older man. As time went on, the girl began to trust this man and soon later he took her away and sold her into the sex industry. By age 14 she had been arrested with charges of prostitution numerous times. The craziest part about the whole thing was that the guys or should I say her pimps never once got in trouble. But yet, this 14 year old girl who was kidnapped and sold into slavery is the one with the big police record. Something is seriously not right with that. These little girls and boys are tortured beyond anything you would ever want to think about.

Something that was brought up in this show was that there was a lack of SAFE places to truly help these girls.

I bring this up because, we need to be praying for this serious problem, we need to be seeking the Lord’s heart and going to war for these kids that never stood a chance.

So I am asking each one of you that read this blog, seek the Lord and see if this is your fight. Because unfortunately when things are kept secret no one thinks to pray.

So let’s stop bickering amongst ourselves over stupid matters and remember we are in a real war, let’s act like it! We must never take our Freedom for granted, too high of a price was paid.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! I wanted to let everyone know that we now have the site back to normal! Woohhoo! It took a while, but everything is transferred over now.

I also wanted to let you know I have updated the podcast page. I will warn you, the program I am using for the podcasts at the moment, I am also using for business. So you will find sermons, bible studies and business podcasts. I hope you enjoy them!

We are also starting something new. Because of the people we lost at are weekly Bible Study, due to college. We are now doing the Bible Study Virtualy, meaning you can now join us live. We are still testing this out, but people seem to be enjoying it. So please feel free to join us live: Possess Your Land Bible Study.

And, it was requested to have a discussion forum, so here it is: PossessYourLandForum

That’s all for now. Keep on standing!

To Hime be the Glory!

He said on Sunday, that’s what the Lord was telling him, “hold the line”. How very true that is for each and every one of us. As I was thinking on “hold the line”, I started thinking about how easy it is to get so bogged down with things of this world that we forget we are in a very real war. Something happens when we allow others and situations to dictate to us who we are and what we do.

I have been experiencing this recently…

For the past few years I have been on this journey of business and entrepreneurial ways. I never wanted to go that route, but the Lord had other plans. ? Anyways, I have learned TONS and now love it, but at the same time in the world of business when you must look and be professional, it’s very easy to get civilized. What I mean by that is, it’s easy to start to adapt to what is common to man. Take the recession for example. The media screams that we are going into a recession and people freak out and stop spending money. Everyone is affected…

But, what does God have to say about all of this? Did we forget to ask Him? With all the business owners I talk to on a daily basis, the economy is in the forefront of their minds and the first thing that comes out of their mouths.
With all these facts floating around, it becomes very easy to adapt to a different way of thinking. The way the world thinks and sees things. This is where our faith becomes civilized and it’s a very dangerous place to be. When we start to become civilized we forget there is a war going on, we stop fighting the good fight and we stop representing Christ and His Kingdom in the way we should, we lose our Kingdom thinking.

It’s a very scary place to be…

We can’t allow things to desensitize us! We just can’t! There is too much at stake! When we allow our faith to become civilized, most of the time we don’t even know it. We still think we are all big and bad, but in reality, we can become prideful and pathetic. We may even pick fights with other Christians just so we can still feel like a warrior. What a bummer deal that is!

Please remember, Christianity can be messy and brutal and yet, the best thing you could be….A child of the living God!
So let’s hold the line and dig our feet in deeper than ever before, because our King didn’t die for nothing!
Let me hear a war cry!!

It’s been a while since I have posted on here. Which is going to change…

There have been many changes and many opportuinties that have come up to talk to others about God. The one common thing about all these people are, they are business owners. Which many of them are extremely stressed about the economy.

A few weeks ago I was able to go to the first ever Christian Internet Marketing Conference, which was a blast! Learned a TON and met some really cool people!. But still, I was very surprised to see how many don’t include God in their business.

I say all of this to introduce you to something I came up with that is directly meant for people who own their own business, people who want to start their own business, or looking to get into Internet Marketing.

So may I introduce you to…. Possessing Your Land!

I hope you enjoy! And you will be seeing more posts on this site as well

God bless!

In our recent Bible studies we have been covering the topic of being “more than conquerors”, which means above and beyond the average conqueror. Romans 8:37 “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

It’s awesome that what God says, is what we are. But what happens when we don’t feel like we are? Why is it we can read that and still walk in so much defeat? There are so many areas we could talk about from conquering sin and the flesh, finical issues, the devil, insecurities, etc. Then we could even take it deeper to matters of the heart and emotional things like bitterness, unforgiveness, hurts, depression, lust, gossip, cussing, and the list goes on.

Most of these things plague the body of Christ and the really scary part is, many never walk in true victory or freedom from those things. That’s sad!

So how do we walk out Romains 8:37? The first things that is so important is to know what God says you are and own that verse, not just read it but own it. Where the Word becomes a part of who you are and you live that out. Despite what comes at you or how you feel or what that person said about you, Jesus sealed the victory at Calvary. Because of that we have been given every spiritual blessing to stomp on the things that step up to us. Once we start realizing this and the Holy Spirit begins to bring up more and more verses on this matter, it?s transforming! Isn’t God good!

Did you know it’s our inherited right to walk in victory and freedom? It is! And that’s very good news for us!

In Eph. 2:6 says we have been seated in heavenly places in Christ. That’s far above all principalities and powers. We have been positioned to walk in victory and the newness of life. It comes down to continuing to grow in grace as 2 Peter 3:18 talks about. As we do that, we are not trying to get the victory in our own power or might, its all Jesus doing it through us!

Taking up our Cross daily is huge in conquering; we must come to a place of complete surrender. Where we lose sight of our desires, concerns and feelings and make them all about Jesus. It’s a walking in agreement with God kind of a thing.

Being a conqueror doesn’t mean you never have problems or troubles, in fact you will have them. It’s all about of training to conquer, it would be hard to be more than a conqueror if there was never anything to conquer! When you understand you have been positioned to win, you can walk to adversities with joy and peace, all the while keeping the devil under your feet. For that is your inherited right! It?s up to you if you want to walk in it or not. When this become a part of who you are and how you live, it doesn’t matter what people say about you, it doesn’t matter you didn’t get that job you wanted, or that bad thing happened? You are MORE than a conqueror! And you walk in the peace of knowing God’s got it. You can walk in the joy of knowing the Lord is being perfected in you. And you can walk in the victory Jesus purchased for you and not allow the enemy to take any ground.

So next time you are feeling defeated and you aren’t going to be able to make it, remember you can’t. But Christ in you the Hope of glory can and will! The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead is in you! How can you fail!?

God is so good!

A few nights ago I was in a class where we all had to do a personality test. In this test it was broken into four different personality groups, all of positive and negative qualities.

It was a lot of fun and we all had a good laugh. It got me to thinking though?

After spending some time studying what personality you are with both the positive and negative traits, it would be very easy to justify the negative. How many times have we caught ourselves saying things like, “That’s just the way I am”, “it’s just part of my personality”, or “it’s just in my nature”.

Well the thing about that is, you are made in the image and likeness of God, we are the Lord’s personal representatives. And the really big one, Jesus died on the Cross and make you’re a new creature, so there really is no excuse for bad behavior, bad thinking, and unfruitful deeds.

That’s why it’s so important to bring our bodies under subjection to Jesus Christ, take up our Cross daily and continually live in the Word of God so our minds stay renewed. If we don’t do this, everything becomes about us and not about Jesus.

I don’t know about you but, I’m tired to running into mean, self-centered Christians. Not because they are bad people, but because they are going around giving Jesus a bad reputation.

We need to make a choice not to let the old us get out and manifest itself. So make the decision to walk in agreement with the Lord and walk as crucified vessels of honor, allowing Jesus to manifest Himself through us.

2 Cor. 4:11 “that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.”

So give yourself a personality test, does your personality manifest carnality and self-centeredness or the One who died for you in the fullness of His divine nature?

Blessings to all of you.

In Gird Up Part 1 we covered hoping to the end, now I would like to cover the rest.

We are talking about 1 Peter 1:13 says, “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

This verse sticks out to me so much because it has become so apparent that we as Christians aren’t taking our thoughts captive, which then leads to many unholy things that put so many in bondage. In other words, we aren’t taking ground and possessing our own minds for the Lord.

James 1: 14-15 says “But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.”

Before sin can be brought forth, it is conceived, but where? In the mind, in the heart, those thoughts that were not held captive, but instead where put above Jesus. And notice the end result? Death. No way around that one huh?

This is why it is so important to bind up the loins of your mind. To truly understand what you are supposed to bind, we need to talk about the loins of your mind. What a weird thought isn’t it?! Loins of your mind!? Whenever I thought of loins, the “mind” never came to my mind!

But what this really comes down to is, you are binding up your mind in such a way that when God births something in you, it doesn’t get jacked up. The loins of your mind is where stuff get’s birthed. It is a creative thing, but if you don’t gird up, James says the end result is death. What a shame that this has been the case with so many. God gives someone a Word, a dream, a passion or desire and because they didn’t Gird Up, the enemy was able to come in and twist things around and they never knew it. They think they are still doing the Lord’s work, but in all reality that just simply isn’t the case.

We must be and remain sober with a clear mind (Cool, calm and collected). When I think of the meaning of the word sober, I think about someone who is not drunk. When someone is drunk, they can’t think straight, they don’t feel things, they can be unpredictable and can become dangerous. That?s exactly what happens when we don’t gird up and keep a sober mind. We end up living in a delusion. . . It would be like saying ?I hear God well!? But, really you are listening to spiritual AM and FM signals at the same time. It’s just not going to work very well.

The thing I want to make very clear is, this stuff happens so easily, because we aren’t completely separating ourselves with things that contaminate. We aren’t living in the Word of God where are minds are renewed.

It’s sad so many Churches that started out as a good thing have gotten jacked up because they didn’t gird up. Very small, un-biblical thoughts, teachings and philosophies crept in and no one paid any attention to the seducing forces around them.

Now they are messed up in a spiritual stupor just like some drunk guy and they have become dangerous. Any Church that isn’t teaching people to live a separated life unto Jesus Christ, is one of satan’s counterfeits.

Anyways, don’t get me started!

What I’m getting at is the mind is such a complex thing, yet the instructions in what we are to do about it are so simple. The mind is where thoughts and imaginations happen and God can speak through those things, but if we aren’t girding up and casting down vain ones. We will walk around confused thinking we are advancing the Kingdom of God.

So Gird Up! Don’t allow the enemy to cause death to those things God has spoken to you! Get in the Word, keep your mind on the things above. And with your thoughts, make it a point to live more abundantly for the Lord.

The Word of God says that we believers are the Church, the body of Christ and the Bride of Christ. If you were engaged but had to go out of town for a while, but got news that your fiance was cheating on you, how would you feel? How would you feel about being engaged to a whore?!

We must examine our own lives, we must examine what we are preaching and teaching. The Bible says in Jude 1:23 “And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”

Did you catch that? “hating even the garment spotted by the flesh“

Something we need to be very careful of is preaching and teaching that spots are ok. They’re not! If you truly understand what Jesus went through at Calvary, there is no way you can be ok with spots! Spots of defilement on something that has been bought and cleansed by the precious blood of Jesus? What a disgrace! What a disrespect to the Lord!

There are way too many pastors, preachers, teachers and leaders out there thinking all they need to do is love people and everything’s all good. Well it’s not and you are loving some people straight to hell! We must examine what Gospel we are preaching and living.

You want to talk about love? Calvary was love and that was a bloody mess! Stop preaching a powder puff Gospel! How about loving the Lord enough to stop doing stupid things? How about loving people enough to say “I love you too much to let you continue to do that”

The Bible screams that we are to be holy and sanctified. Why doesn’t the church behave holy? Why does the church look like it’s just spent a night in Vegas doing who knows what with who knows who?

So to all the leaders out there and I’m preaching to myself first…

Get a clue! Stop saying that things are ok when they are not! Stop empowering people to live powerless, pathetic, beat up lives.

The Lord is tired of people preaching another Gospel and leading His children astray. We are never going to take ground for the Kingdom living a defiled life. Talk about a no-brainer huh!? Oh, but the devil has been having fun desensitizing those who will let him. And the really scary thing is, those people have no clue.

So now it’s time to get a clue, examine yourself to see if you are in the faith or not and hate the spots of defilement and carnality. Love Jesus enough to say enough is enough!

There is NO grey between Heaven and hell. Choose a side and live it!