At the foundation of God’s plan for people on earth is the family.

Our family is where we discover relationships.  Real relationships.  Relationships built on love; the most powerful emotion and motivator human beings have.  Family demonstrates God’s ‘love plans’ to care for, protect, and nurture so that we might be raised up in His perfect image.  My wife often reminds me that the hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world; she is right.  The family is where we learn to love, work, and steward God’s blessings. 

‘Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents], Even when he is old he will not depart from it.’  (Proverbs 22:6 AMPC)

This is why Marxism/Socialism/Democratic Socialism and Christianity CANNOT go hand in hand.  I’m sorry to bring the truth to bear on the world outside our church doors, but it must be done.  There is a reason why every government that has implemented marxism/socialism makes the destruction of the free worship of Jesus AND the abolition of the family as its top targets.  

In case you haven’t figured it out God is shaking everything, especially His people, right now and He is not finished.  The grey area most have comfortably lived in is shrinking at an exponential rate and everyone is discovering a side must be chosen;  Good vs. Evil.  This isn’t about politics, race, or gender.  This is about truth vs. lies, and love vs. hate.  The spiritual war we are in the midst of is only played out in the culture we are living in; therefore we see the clash in politics, education, the media, and the rest of society.  Our weapons are not weapons the world fights with, they fight with curses, propaganda, and hate.  We fight with weapons from heaven, and the greatest of these is LOVE.  We fight with the power of the good news of God’s Kingdom.  A Kingdom whose fruit is love, joy, and peace.  A Kingdom whose foundation is RELATIONSHIP.  At the end of the days Jesus will gather the nations, all people, and we will all will face judgment, but the only thing that will matter will be if you have a relationship with Jesus.  He will separate sheep and goats.  The goats will highlight the mighty deeds done in His name and He will simply tell them that they are not welcome in His Kingdom because He does not know them, i.e. no relationship.

There is a cry from heaven to repent and honor the relationships God has entrusted to us.  This starts at home; your family.  It then branches out to your neighbors, your co-workers, your community.  What all human beings desire is unfailing love (Proverbs 19:22).  The darkness and evil screaming today is void of love, and void of life.  The Bride of Christ, the ecclesia or called out ones, His Body is the source of all love.  We are the one’s being called to arise and shine and let the world see the glory and love of God.  We have what the world needs.  They must see it.  We cannot tell them and then live a life that mirrors theirs; a life void of love, void of relationship.  The church for far too long is seen saying one thing and living like the world.  The world recognizes this and rightly labels it hypocrisy.  Our only choice is to repent and live what He has called us to; Love.  The greatest commandment is to love God and the second is to love your neighbor as you love yourself.  If you do not love God you cannot love yourself.  If you do not love yourself you cannot love others.  

God is calling people everywhere to align themselves with His will and plans for their lives.  It starts within; our hearts.  Honor the relationships God has entrusted to you.  Let your life be heard, let your light shine in the darkness.  You are a city on a hill, you are the salt of the world.  You (and His Spirit in you) are the world’s only hope.  It’s time to get in the game.  Quit ignoring society, start relating to it from Heaven’s perspective.