people think of all religions as different ways to be a better person. but consider how the living God sees things: this temporary life we live is just the trying grounds for his eternity. there really is no point in having any faith in God at all if you don’t believe in and take hold on the power of the resurrection. once you do take hold of it, however – it won’t produce stale religion; the resurrection will overshadow everything about how you live…

psalm 68.20 20 Our God is the God of salvation;
And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.
hosea 13.14 I will ransom them from the power of the grave;
I will redeem them from death.
O Death, I will be your plagues!
O Grave, I will be your destruction!
john 5.21,28-29 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will…Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth—those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
isaiah 52.14-15 Just as many were astonished at you,
So His visage was marred more than any man,
And His form more than the sons of men;
So shall He sprinkle many nations.
Kings shall shut their mouths at Him;
For what had not been told them they shall see,
And what they had not heard they shall consider.
isaiah 53.4-12 Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the wicked—
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors.
psalm 49.7-9,15 None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
Nor give to God a ransom for him—
For the redemption of their souls is costly,
And it shall cease forever—
That he should continue to live eternally,
And not see the Pit…
But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave,
For He shall receive me.
acts 23.6 But when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
1 corinthians 15.30-32 And why do we stand in jeopardy every hour? I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
philippians 3.10-11 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
jonah 2.2,6-7 Out of the belly of Sheol (Hell, the Pit) I cried,
And You heard my voice…
I went down to the moorings of the mountains;
The earth with its bars closed behind me forever;
Yet You have brought up my life from the pit,
O LORD, my God.
When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
And my prayer went up to You,
Into Your holy temple.
matthew 12.38-41 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.
psalm 16.9-10 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoices;
My flesh also will rest in hope.
For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,
Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

1 corinthians 6.17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him.
psalm 86.11 Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; unite my heart to fear Your name.
psalm 119.36 Incline my heart to Your testimonies, and not to covetousness.
hebrews 5.13-14 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a baby. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
psalm 141.4 Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men who work iniquity; and do not let me eat of their delicacies.
amos 3.3 Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?

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when we interact with the Word of God, we experience a miracle. anything else we read is information and entertainment – we get what we need out of it and move on. but the Word of God is supernatural and living. when we pray “search me o God and know my heart, try me and know my innermost thoughts, see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting” – we enter into a miracle realm of being examined by the Spirit of God and the Word of God. no one ever grows out of this! every morning we have the opportunity to open our lives up to God and allow him to tune our hearts up in total unity with his own heart, his own unchangeable Word.

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snapshot of soul-junk in ’95:

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the jams…this one is probably glen sax ron guitar brian cantrell drums or maybe all glen 4tracked
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the JAM…this one is glen gtr/vox/drums…released on a comp i think…anybody remember??
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deuteronomy 8.3 So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.
job 23.12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
revelation 3.20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
matthew 6.11 Give us this day our daily bread.
exodus 16.18-20 Every man had gathered according to each one’s need. And Moses said, “Let no one leave any of it till morning.” Notwithstanding they did not heed Moses. But some of them left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank.

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i think our hunger for God’s Word works just like our conscience. the Holy Ghost speaks clearly to us through our conscience, but if we ignore him at all…the voice gets softer & softer til we can’t hear it. ask God right now to give you a keener sense for your spirit’s appetite than for your physical needs – he’ll work a miracle for anyone who truly desires this.

part of the reason that the witness of the Spirit is drowned out on the world’s airwaves and TVs and articles and theaters today is because for years men and women in the world have been speaking out of real human appetites – and appealing to people who are hungry. people in the world watch and listen to and read and buy what compels them. meanwhile many of God’s people have let their spiritual appetites dwindle to bare survival rations. so when we speak, there is no deep calling unto deep. no one is fooled: day-old bread is a huge turn-off. week-old bread is worse. etc.

for the voice of God to truly be heard coming pouring out of our mouths and lives, we need our ears radically opened to that still small voice that calls us every day to come and dine with our God >>

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2011 was an antennae year covered in hi+octane marmalade drumsticks this is how it felt sometimes
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