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Gods covenant
Psa 69:28 Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
We havent seen that but we know from the Bible that God has a Book of Life. This Book of Life was written before heavens and earth was created.It was written before the first human being was created. There was written your name and my name. There were written many other names. Though God foreknew how these people will answer to His call, it is still written in the Bible that these names will be erased from the Book of Life. It means that something is wrong in your behavior and then God erases your name from the Book of Life. The Bible says: „God will never change.“ It means that something changes in your behaviorthat is not in the standard of God. God doesn't like that and then He will erase your name from the Book of Life.
Rev 3:5 He that overcometh shall thus be arrayed in white garments; and I will in no wise blot his name out of the Book of Life, and I will confess his name before My Father, and before His angels.
What can we see here? We can see an eraser in the hand of Jesusand you have to fight so that your name would not be erased from the Book of Life. Your name is written there and you are born-again and that is a wonderful gift from God. It doesn't mean that it is the end no,it’s only beginning. It is a wonderful, a great, an amazing opportunity, but also it means that you must fight with sin, resist the devil, and fight againstyour carnal lusts, so you wouldn't end up being unfit, in opposition with God and grieving the Holy Spirit. You must fight so that Jesus wouldn't erase you from the Book of Life! Do you understand? It is not that you only hang out, go through life and are pulled about like a mop and give thanks: „God, I thank you that I am in Christ, the blood of Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the gospel belongs to me.“ It is not fighting. In no circumstance can sin get in side of you, it can not make nests, bastions etc. inside of you.You must fight!
Heb 10:19-22 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, His flesh; and having a great priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience: and having our body washed with pure water,
In one other translation 22. verse says „Draw near to Him, with a real heart!“ Not with a dirty heart, that is filled with passions, not surrendered but with a heart that is pure, holy, cleansed by the blood of Jesus. This means sins are confessed, you have fellowship with the Holy Spirit, you have revelations about what is sin in your life and what is not, what pleases God and what doesn't, it means that you see what is wrong and admit it. „I want, I wish but I can not have it now.“ Let’s draw near by the blood of Jesus! When the blood of Jesus comes in, there is no joke anymore, there is no kidding around it is the question of life and death and that is why God tells you: „Don't be kidding it is a high-tension!“ Draw near to the church service, into home group with a real heart! In full of faith. Perfect faith believesthat God hasn't left me without anythingI am healed by the stripes of Jesus right now, even if I can not see that. Perfect faith believes that I have been promised prosperity, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost. Real heart, perfect faith, without that you are not allowed to enter into the church service. It is a parable. You can not go before Him in the name of Jesus, if your heart is not pure and you are not in perfect faith. There is no use, no point, you tempt. The author of the Hebrew letter says it so. Let’s draw near in the name of Jesus into His presencewith a pure heart and in a perfect faith.
Heb 10:23 and having our body washed with pure water let us hold fast the confession of our hope that it waver not; for He is faithful that promised:
Look how you must come before Him. In faith with a pure heart, free from all sins, admit Who He is and what He has promised you. You can not come when you are dissatisfied, crumbling, in lack of faith. God sees that. You must always keep that promise, read the bible, pray and worship. Otherwise you can not keep your heart clean for if you won’t do anything than satan will pollute it. Capriciousness, manipulation, whining won't help you.It is not a fight; it is giving up - a desertion.
Heb 10:24 and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and good works;
What is a good deed, a deed of faith? It is when you confess His word and live in it. That you won’t let envy, hate, crumbling, lamentation, dissatisfaction get into your heart. Say: „Father, my heart is pure, I will fight.“ We have 10 000 reasons to be dissatisfied, only look outside and you will see hundreds of reasons - others have more things, bigger refrigerators. God is bigger than a refrigerator, bigger than a momentary need. Bible says: „Be satisfied with what you have!“ You have more than a refrigerator, banks, great cars, you have Christ!
Heb 10:25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.
First thing that He says: „At first if you don't fight like you need to, you feel fear and discomfort.You have an uncomfortable feeling about going to the home group, to the churchand you think that it is because others are bad and you think that it is not the will of God for you at all. „If this would be the will of God, then the road would be green. You would walk in a paradisiacal road, birds would sing and flowers would grow all around you andwhat pleasant perfumes like in the Garden of Eden,sky would be pink, no rainand you would have an awesome feeling."That is satans lie on your life.
Your conscience is unclean, you are not fighting, because if you would fight satan would be already bound and no enmity would be between men and animals. First thing that he brings in if you are not fighting and guarding is an uncomfortable feeling when you meet your sisters and brothers.You think it is the will of God otherwise you wouldn't feel that. Your heart must be pure! You feel what others don't feel. I don't feel that. All others were cheated by the snake. „Oh, I would feel great if I would be in my home.“ There are two homes - heaven and hell, there are no more homes. On the earth we have only a temporary home. Human being is born and then he-she will disappear like a vapor, he just doesn't exist anymore. It is not your home. Who said that this is your home? You didn't come from here. You are a spirit, you have a soul and you live in the body.Your flesh will become dust, but even this is not his home, for the earth will burn. Don't show out your feelings! It is the first sign that tells that you have stopped fighting.You are lazy; you don't take care of yourself. You won't walk in the perfect faith although you have Jesus and the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. This faith that you have now, is your perfect faith and you will grow and your perfect faith will grow. What has been given to you is perfect. We bind this lying and lazy spirit over our church.
Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins,
What is written here? Is it written that you drink, brawl, debauch? No. Willful sinning means that you are not searching your heart, whether it is pure or not. Here sinning willfully means that the proclamation of faith has disappeared from you lips. It means that you won’t fight but surrender to the devil and say: „Oh, I really feel uncomfortable to go there, I am afraid. Yes, others hate me, no one can tolerate me there.“ You have this feeling. This means willful sinning. Alcohol and other things come later. Here we don't speak about small detailsthey are not mentioned.Here we deal with roots - basic and important things that can decide your future. We deal with small things but the Bible tells us to deal with basic things. If your most important thing is the refrigerator and what to wear, then there is a misery in the house.
Heb 10:29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Everything starts when you don't walk in your perfect faith and your testimony about Who He is and what He has done for you has disappeared from your lipsor hasn't even come in there. After this it’s pretty logical that you feel discomfort in meeting your brothers and sisters, in helping in the churchwork, with praising, thanking and worshiping Him. Bible says that with this lifestyle you trod the Son of God under your feetand think that the blood of Jesus as unholy. Look what it is all about, what God means when He says thatin this case your name will be erased from the Book of Life. These things are serious. That's why there is a war for life and death. Satan fights against you. God wants to fight for you and with you! That's why the headline of this part of the Scripture says „Encouragement and warning“. Warning that your name would not be erased from the Book of Life.
I am not 100% sure that when you get saved, baptized with water and with the Holy Ghost, you will remain in the Book of Life. This theory is very popular in America, were most people are economically independent, for they have been told that they have received grace and who has received grace has been purified from sins and these sins will not be remembered and anyways you will get saved, but there is something else written here. If all this had been written before the book of revelation, then later we could stand before Jesus and say: „You didn't write anything in the last book that my name could be erased from the Book of Life. You didn't write anything about that. Everything was in the Old Testament“, but see it was written in the end. This is the last revelationand it is very clearly said that „who overcomes“. If you do good things then you won’t sin and that's sure but He also reminds us that things are not so simple. These Scriptures that we read are very serious and it is a very serious warning. I am not talking about big sins. Here we speak about pure consciousness, being alert and keeping the covenant.
Let’s pray: „Dear Heavenly Father, we are ultimately thankful to You, that You have made a covenant with us, the blood covenant. It is an amazing, wonderful covenant. This covenant helps us to receive the helpin a right time in every thing, but this covenant tells us alsothat we must live a holy, a pure and a sinless lifeand we must rejoice, praise and worship You for this great covenant. Thank You that You have chosen us at all, for we didn't seek You we didn't want You, we went our own way but You came and found us. You washed away our sinsand placed our feet on the right and firm ground. You gave us Your Word, Holy Spirit, brothers, sisters, gifts of ministry. You have taken care of usand You continue to do thatand we must keep our covenant. We thank You, Fatherthat You help us to keep this covenant. We thank You that we can lean on this renewed covenant always, if we need help from You. We thank You for that, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.“
Agape ,
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Storm in our lives!(1)
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching.(John 14:23)
Love is the main argument because His grace does not depend on us. Grace has been given to us as an argument before Him so we could listen and understand His Word. His grace is a proof that we have received His Word.
I was also not capable to live with one woman when I was told that I had to I thought that these people are crazy. But as I heard this I also heard that it was called whoredom. I thought well, where is the right one then? I was searching. I was seeking a wife but I sought it every evening and that was a mistake. Mistake was in me and not in the people whom I sought for.
This lasted until I heard the Word of God from the woman I later married. She asked me: „Where are you going tonight?“ „To my friends bar“ I answered. My friend was in a special army called „Berkut“ (Eagle) in Ukraine he had a bar and he was also one of my bodyguards. In the evenings I went there. She asked: „But what to you do there?“
„We will see! What do you think?“, I replied.
She said: „Hey! Halloo! Excuse me?!“ I asked: „What do you want from me? I am single. I have all rights!“ Sha sked: „Are you a Christian?“ „Yes!“ „Are you baptized with water?“ „Yes!“ „Are you baptized with the Holy Spirit?“ „Yes!“ „Do you believe in the church?“ „Yes!“
She said: „Wait a minute that´s not right“
I thought what are you talking about? For five years I lived like that when I was a Christian but when I was confronted face to face I allowed this word to come inside of me. I said: „Yes! “ You know I didn´t understand that! I am not doing adultery because I am not married. I am not an adulterer! She said that there is one more word there – a whore.
I said: „Excuse me? I´m a man. I have money, I have time!“
This was my old worldly thinking and as I heard this word I received it.
Do you think that this was my last jump to the left? No! But the word was already inside the heart and had rooted. I held unto this root with my two big hands. It was so precious to me to find out that I can not do that otherwise Gods punishment will come.
I found out that I can get punished because of it and this was a blessing because now I was already afraid of something! This was already in my heart. I don´t know how I hold unto this. It seemed to be so unimportant to me but because of that people can go to hell and be eternally destroyed.
One of our sisters told me many years ago: „I had some kind of a relationship with one boy but we didn´t do adultery!“ Listen to me carefully! Jesus said that if you look a woman with a desire then this is already an adultery.
You have sinned already! Yes, it was a sin of adultery and you must repent of it! Listen these thoughts attack me also today but I have the helm of salvation and they fall off as green peas. In the same way do not allow fear, unbelief and doubts into your head. Don`t think these bad thoughts! The devil slanders the pastor and he slanders you! Don`t receive these thoughts! It poisons you.
Pay the price to receive the power of God into your life. Terrible times are ahead.
To be continued...
Agape
Pastor Paul Armand
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Storm in our lives!(2)
I want to tell ypou about the revelation i received this morning as I went to run. I went to run at 6.00. Wind was very against me. I don´t know who was up so early. There is a storm beside the sea. I could not see anything. Then God began to talk with me. God enjoys when you pay the price. I am paying the price so He could use me mightily in the future. MI ran in the motorway because there was no other way where to run. Everything was under the snow I couldn´t see any traffic signs. It is risky in the winter. Ice is under the snow, ther are chances to fall and I noticed a car trail in the snow so i began to follow that. God told me: „Tell them this morning that the same storms are in their lives now.“ It´s drifting you can not open your eyes. You don´t know where you are going. Everything is covered with a white blanket. But you still continue to go. Sometimes God showes you the road.You open the bible see a trace and the road. No matter how hard or diffcult it is or hor fierce is the wind, continue to run. Don´t give up! Do not let negative words come into you mouth and thoughts into your head! Don´t allow then there! Continue to run! He wills how you the way if you continue to run.
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Storm in our lives!(3)
Find your first love!
Those of us who are married know what first love is. We all have been fiances and women have been fiancees. Do you remeber? The bridal outfit. The wedding. Some of us are not married but you remember the first date. We all were groomed and pure. But years go by... And you think: „Oh,to have a make-up for this pig. Cad!“ You have lost the first love. Bible emphasizes the first love. Christ maintained the first thought even until the last day when He was beaten.
If you would like to ask: „Father, where are You? It´s drifting, stormy, snow and no trace to follow!“, then maintain these first ideas, thoughts and vision. He will show you the trace be at peace. Pay the price! He is testing you through these difficulties that are in your life. Will you leave your first love and these thoughts that we talked about in the church.
Jesus was accused all doors were closed before Him and He was told You are not a Son of God! What are You babbling about? Don´t come into our city! Go away! He said that nothing can take away His first love: „Father, I love You!“
When others went to eat and sleep then He went to pray to be free of this filth, the lies of satan and lampblack.The Word of God was very important and precious to Him!
Think about that! Devil will do everything to accuse us and make us hate each other so we would forget these first thoughts. The first attraction. The plans we had then..
No way! Even if we can not see, if it is srormy and it´s drifting. Be at peace! God will show you the trace!
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Storm in our lives!(4)
I continued my race I was already taking a second lap, when devil came again with his crazy voice saying : „You breathe in too much cold air. Half of you church is already sick! Stop it!“
I replied: „Shut up! I continue!“
„Your feet are tired, you are running like in a sand..“
„Shut up!“ I continued to run. I reached another lap and saw my footprints I could not see anything else. Everything was covered with snow, it was drifting I could not open my eyes. I saw my footprints and they were straight. I ran and thought: „Father, but I am running straight?“
Then I saw another person running before me and his footprints were like a snake. My footprints were straight. I was so happy. God, I´m running straight ahead.
The first thing that God is doing in your life. He will make you walk straightly. All jumps will be left out both in the natural and in the spiritual world.
I finished the last lap and ran back home.
I noticed some other footprints there. They were crooked. I don´t understand why that person went like that but probably so I would understand.
Then the devil told me: „These are your footprints!“ I said: „Devil these are not my footprints! I will leave straight path as I ran with the torch of the Holy Spirit through Estonia! Satan this is not my handwriting. My handwrite in Christ has been already established!“
The Holy Spirit is saying today : „If you see your old path and footprints then you understand that it is not yours anymore!“ You understand that it is pointless waste of time.
God told me how to walk in the Spirit.
God said: „As much or as long as you think My thoughts and about Me you walk in the Spirit!“
I grabbed my head with my hands.
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. (Gal.5:16)
If you think of Him you are on top of the water. Other wise you are constantly scubaping without any oxygen. Bubbling... under water.
Do you know how disgustful it is to go out of the spirit? Three things that you feel immediately: fear, unbelief, hopelessness, that God will never fill your prayers and expectations.
If you feel it in your life then you walk in the flesh and satan has besieged you. It is so uncomfortable or what? Imagine living with feeling that your plans will never be fulfilled and afraid. Is it good to walk this way? No! People take medications because of that.
I said: „God, I want to get back under your wing!“ He said: „Then think about Me! Don´t hink about anything else!“
Is it really that simple? Yes! Why is it so hard to do it? Becuse there is a devil.
He will not let you think, rejoice and fill the Word of God. He lies to you and you receive it. God said: „You know My Son went through all this and the trace has been guaranteed! He went through it! With the Holy Spirit it is possible!“
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Storm in our lives!(5)
I have learned to walk all the time in the Holy Spirit. God wants you to learn it also. If you learn it you will always be bold, sure, loving, goodnatured, kind and generous. You will never make big foolishness. Small mistakes will happen but then ask also for forgiveness. Say: „God I don´t want these things to be in my life. I don´t want to argue and fight anymore. I want to smile to my wife all the time, I want to give a hug to my husband and do what he tells me to. We don´t fight anymore!“ Devil will do everything to prevent this.
There will come time when you start to go through these things on your own then you remember my sermons and understand the place where I was. Today I think about Jesus when He stood before these mercenaries, killing-machines who were taught to kill. They beat and threatened Him... and He did not give up.
I start to prepare myself already now for the times taht are ahead so that I would not find out one day that I am good for nothing and I abjure Christ. Today you maybe deny Him because of vodka, cigarettes and food. Look how you deny Him today. But these were the best soldiers of Rome specialists in beating. The Bible teaches us that He was so beaten that people turned their faces from Him. I don´t want to give up and God will help me so I will not give up even if they should do it with me because I have been obedient and God has prepared me and will prepare me if it is needed. I have allowed Him to come into all my rooms I have left nothing in secret and if I have seen my mistakes I haven´t fallen into anguish tearing hair out of my head but I have said: „God, this is my weak side, make it strong!“ Be honest, He wants to help you! You know what you are weak in but you will never make them strong on your own. You hide and weld them together but the enemy has bullets that go through the armor you have made and you will feel pain again. You are humilated and see your weaknesses, but if God makes you strong then you will become strong. Maybe some of us can not say „No!“ to different things. Others can not say „Yes!“. If you can not then ask God to help you to say: „Yes!“ to people and „No!“ to sin. Say: „God teach me how to smile, thank and pray. Teach me! Please, these are my weak points!“ Then He will look from above and say: „Once again you saw your weaknesses. Go on!“
We have storms in our church now. A lot of you have said: „I want to serve You with the gifts You have given me!“ Most of you haven´t understand what that means. This means total re-learning and testing. This means that God wants to show us whether we want it really or not. We want to serve Him then when there is no losses and pain, not cold and snow. Then we want to do it. But if it gets cold then we don´t feel like it anymore. If you really want that then even this will not stop you. Look at yourself and say: „God teach me again to serve You even if I am in a bad mood and there is no light and money!“ Jesus hanged on the cross, everyone had left Him and the last blow was when God turned His face from Him and He cried: „Father, Father why have You left Me!“ Maybe you are going through a time of dying, you die to yourself, but know that the third day is coming when He will wake you up, glorify you and use you more than ever before. Don´t give up! Even if only one person stays here except my wife I will see even more reasons for prayer. We won´t give in!
2000 years ago accordig to the gospel of Luke Joseph and Mary came to the city of David. Mary was pregnant and in Judea a great miracle was born.
I want to tell you a bit about what happened there. You have heard much but let´s see what the angel said. What was the message to the shepherd and people?
And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. (Luke 2:9)
Greatly, glory – that is always the hand of God. Look what creatures come from heaven. There is holiness and purity. There are no bastards with 4 eyes, 2 horns, tails and hooves. You can see them in the mouvies and cartoons (f.e. pokemon). Terrible beasts. They are not in heaven!
Look, what the angel said?
Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid..“ (Luke 2:10)
The first thing! Don´t be afraid! Don´t give up! don´t quit! Let it be drifty, stormy and cold. So what that you can not see the trail! Don´t be afraid, because you have hope!
..for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.“ (Luke2:10)
Revival will come to everyone!
For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”
(Luke 2:11,12)
Faith without works is dead! They say that this is a fairytale. But the angel said: „Go and look! It is a fact!“
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.(John 1:12,13)
You can receive God or not to. If you recieve Him into your heart and are obedient then you will also bear fruit. If there is no fruit in your life and you say that you believe then you have not received that word.
He gave you the power, right, and a chance to receive the Word of God and become a child of God. All you have to do is listen and say: „Yes, Jesus! Forgive me, please, thank You! I will make my things alright with You!“
First message that John the Baptist began to preach was: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3: 2)
Holy Spirit spoke very clearly to me today: „ Tell all Christians who live in sin to repent because time has come and I am going to move very quickly.“
Look the message of Jesus.
From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
(Matthew 4: 17)
Do you believe that today 2000 years later the kingodom of heaven is more closer then it was? All you who live in sin but believe in God make your things well with God because the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Christ´s return is close. God can change everything or nothing. Fix your things with God and don´t postpone this!
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Don´t walk in fear!
If you read from the word of God that by the stripes of Jesus you are healed then your duty is to repeat the word of God as it is written in the Bible. If you look at your sickness then the sickness is speaking with you. Listen! Sickness is not dead. It is a living organism. It has mouth and he knows that you have ears and he will tell you: ”See how great I am! Look I am incurable! Look at me and bow down to me. Tell everyone how feeble you are. “ Yes, I´m so weak. This sickness is so great and strong! Remeber the bible is teaching you: don´t listen to the devil! Don´t dance with him! Tell that you are not dancing with him anymore. I don´t believe that you are incurable! I believe God Who said that I am already healed. This is the truth! It is an order for you!
During worship the spirit of God told me that many of you walk in fear. Someone has once threatened you and this threat has become fear in your thoughts. Know that the bible calls it sin! The bible says that if we deliberately keep on sinning then no sacrifice for sins is left.
What God meant when He allowed this to be written in the book of Hebrews? I think, if you want to know my opinion. This might not be 100% truth but 99.9% I think that it is the truth. I think it means that we voluntarily either receive these thoughts or not. We have an opportunity not to receive them.
Understand that if we receive fear, cowardliness and the threats of the people who have threatened us either for a reason or for no reason at all then we release the power of the devil into our lives and curse comes not because of the devil but because of us and curse has a quality to bring sicknesses God wants to end this once and for all!
What thoughts am I talking about? If we are dealing with young girls or maids then the devil will say: „You are not worthy! Remember what this one said and what the teacher of mathematics said! She said that an empty place will not hurt!“ I was told that. You are not right away stupid if you don´t know mathematics. You are not a bastard just because someone told you that. He himself is a bastard because he looks at you through -7 glasses!
Say: „God loves me and gave His Son for me!“ That is the truth and God will break this curse over you! Right now as you read this sermon this curse is broken over you! You are not a bastard you are a child of God and the same is with other things in your life. Different people have cursed you! They have wanted to revenge you because they know or knew (all demons know) that one day God will save you because God has chosen you and the devil will do everything to crush you, put you in slavery, book you with a seal of fear so you would in no way feel as a human being. So you would not sart to enjoy life! So you would not turn your eyes to the blue ski, listen to the birds singing and enjoy the nature! He says: „Go there quickly or other wise...!!!“ There is no other wise! Christ intervened! You will not loose a thing. God has a husband, a wife, riches for you .
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Don´t walk in fear!(2)
Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you, and people in exchange for your life. ( Isaiah 43:4)NIV
'I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the wealth of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD of hosts. (Haggai 2:7) NASB
I will give men in exchange of you and wealth of all nations! This doesn´t mean from hand to mouth or from one payday to another .
One man came to me yesterday and said: „You have began to teach prosperity and that is not very correct teaching !“
I said: “Excuse me?!“
„Food will not bring you near to God nor lead you away from Him. “ Food is for the stomach and the stomach is for food, but God will do away with both of them (1. Cor 6:13) A man who had been a Christian for 25 years told me that!
„Very well mister, don´t eat then for a long time! We will see how far from Him you will go!“
Do you understand, this is written there for stupid and disobedient people! If you have nothing to eat then you will end up very far from Him as long as your payday comes! This is not the meaning of this scripture! Understand! Here is a pure heart. This is your antenna! Your pure heart is like an antenna that takes hold of all Gods signals.
In the beginning of the gospels Christ said: “Follow Me!“ and they went! Noone fought aginst, argued or disputed! Understand that when pastor is telling you to come into the church and take people with you then it is the same what Jesus said: „Follow Me!“ And if pastor starts to teach then it´s the same what Jesus taught them.
You must finallychoose a church and a pastor whom you can trust!
Very wise people say: “Test everything!“ When I for the first time listened to the sermons of Lester Sumrall, Reinhard Bonnke and other men of God , do you think I understood something? No I didn´t!
But the Spirit inside of me affirmed: “Okay, continue!“
And then he told me this: „We test all your sermons and we want to give you one book about prosperity and growing.“
I told him that if you want me to teach you about prosperity then it takes two months to prepare your brains first!
„Well, we have to test everything!“, he replied.
I told him: „Have you seen a fool who goes to the canteen and orders one dish of a hotpot!“ We know that there is a lot of vegetables and roots in the hotpot. So this fool does a chemical analysis for each one of these items! Have you seen someone like that? I have not! If you don´t know the consistency of this carrot you will eat it anyways! But what will happen if you go to Asia? You probably have never seen the things that look at you from your dish! You trust the cook of this restoran that he has not boiled a rat for you! You will not start to demand there: „Bring me a referance that this animal is eatable!“
You know I became nervous! I haven´t been that angry for long time. I said: „How can you be so ungrateful! Only your resistance paralizes your brains!“
Dear brothers and sisters, when I listened to the sermons of great men of God the Holy Spirit told me: „Okay! You don´t understand many things! Receive it, receive it! Eat it!“
When I ate hotpot in the old times then there were greenpeas, carrots, potatoes, turnips. The one who wanted added chicken too and that was the whole menu. Now there are different kinds of broccolis, chinese cabbages and who knows what. If you start to meditate in each one of them then there is no point to go to the restoran. Eat only bread and thats it!
Look, dear ones in spite of the fact that the spoon goes into your mouth you don´t know how your stomach grinds it! You don´t know! Yet in spite of your knowledge your organism assimliates all vitamins. The grace of God! If He had bound it with what you know then you could not enjoy life! Imagine if you had to learn the chemical formula for all the things you eat! Oh, God thank You that You do not force us to go through the eye of a needle every morning
If God says that He has not given you fear and if this fear has somehow come into your mind then it is not because of God but because of you. You have allowed it to come there!
Remember God doesn´t want that, because this spirit when he is in your brains is a poisonous spirit. If you walk in the forest then there is one mushroom that you know. It is a fly agaric. It`s known from all childrens books. Why is it in all these books? Because it´s the most popular eatable mushroom in Estonia? No, on the contrary. One small piece of this mushroom will kill you! One small spoor, thread of fear in your brains will destroy your good mood, hopes and good plans. Listen to me! You joyfully wake up in the morning screaming: „Hallelujah!“ In the afternoon you are already hanging like a rag on the clothesline!
Oh, there is no devil, there is no God. If there is no devil then why when the afternoon comes you are like a rag? All you have is stolen and you are walking naked. You are angry at everyone. Maybe you don´t have the boldness to curse. Maybe you have never done that. Praise God for that. Remember every stupid word you say is like if you would hit your forehead with a kuvalda (a big hammer that is used for breaking walls). Please, remember that!
Now if it is possible to receive fear or not then it means that you have been given authority over fear.
God, I ask You to teach us what that means so we would not receive this fear no matter the situation or human being. Regardless of the name of the sickness. Is it cancer or something else. In the name of Jesus! We can not receive fear, it`s sin!
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Don´t walk in fear!(4)
You know I have been told that you teach that if we cross our hands in prayer then it is a sin. I didn´t say that a sword from heaven will hit you but one day it will. Well, what should we believe then? Paul himself said:
I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. (1. Tim 2:8)
Should we believe what one half- frail priest taught you? Toddered there in his Lutheran church and crossed his fingers saying: “Do like this!”
Or shall we do what the bible teaches us? There it is written to lift up your hands not to cross your fingers or put them in between something or in pockets. It means that the content of the teaching is that you are good, open and you just receive it. You will not start to argue with your pastor.
It`s written: “to lift up your holy hands!”
One man once came to my church service and said: “You know I am not holy!” There are times when I also think that I`m not holy especially when things don`t go the way I want them to and then you get a bit angry or what? And then it seems like you are not holy.
But He said: “You are still holy, because if you are holy then you are holy!”
Mercedes in Africa is still a Mercedes. If God said that your hands are holy then you are also holy! I haven`t seen that if one part of a person is holy then the other part is not.
So, let there be no place for fear in our lives! No, you will not fail, you are not weak! No, you are not a fool! It doesn`t matter if other people say that? Fear is sin!
If you think that you are a fool then it`s a sin! Don´t think that you are a fool!
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Don´t walk in fear!(5)
If you think that you are clumsy then it is a sin! He said: “Let the weak way that he is strong!” He has changed that. You have a right to say this.
If you are without Christ and you are strong then the Bible says :
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. (Prov 16:18)
Pride goes before destruction but if God is on your side and orders you to say it then say: „I am strong! I am healthy! I am bold and rich because God ordered me to sai it!“
No, I am not a fool. I am not an autosuggestior or a maker of a self-portrait . God has painted my self-portrait!
God ordered you to say that and you show Him your fist! You might say: „But I am already so old how will I ever get healed! No! No! I don´t want to!“ Listen! God ordered. If God orders then if you do it you will release blessings into your life!
„Oh, I don´t want to be a millionaire!“ Of course you don´t want to because then you will have much money and subconciously you already think that you need to take care of money. It is much easier to receive your pension every month. You have a calculation – half kilos of green-peas, bread, butter, this and that.
You must take a responsibility on yourself! Receive it. Say that by the stripes of Jesus I´m healed let them think that you are crazy but you have just lit a lamb in your life. Otherwise you wandered in darkness, sighed and groaned: „Oh, poor and wimpish me! I´m done !“
The Bibe says: “I call you to speak life! I give you the words of life!“
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia
Don´t walk in fear!(6)
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2.Tim 1:7)
And then you think about your husband or wife and you remember last payday when you expected him to to come and bring you money but he came in the evening or in the morning.
You ask: “Where were you?“
„I don´t know!“
„Where did you put the money?“
„I don´t remember anymore!“and this continues for half a year.
Pain says: „I can not take this anymore!“
This is a test. But God has given you the spirit of love. No matter what happens against your will don´t be cheated! You are able to go through it all. Even if you go out and I tell you that you are blessed but as you walk out you will have leprosy. You are pale, everything rots and stinks. Even then you must have hope that God will heal you! This is faith! In spite of everything the Word of God must be on the first place in your life.
Do you understand? Don´t look on what you can see. If you look into the word o God then with this faith you will go to heaven.
It`s hard for you to imagine this? If this will not shake you then you are dead! I will reanimate you later! I will admonish and warn you.
Pastors Paul and Ella Armand,
City Church in Tallinn,Estonia |