Are you hungry for food and thirsty for drink? Jesus prepares a table for us all to sit and eat with him.

I was in what looked like a forest and I began to hear singing and music so I followed it and as I drew nearer, a little friendly baled head African boy child about seven years old suddenly appeared, grabbed my hand and said, “the master is waiting on you, come on, hurry!” as held my hands pulling me. He opened a gate made out of freshly cut wood. He allowed me to go in all by myself and then the music and singing stopped. Appeared behind me was a scruffy looking bearded man with a rod in his hand, with long black curly hair like locks. He reminded me of Moses from the movie The Ten Commandments. I couldn’t help but to think at first he definitely was John the Baptist. He looked so humble and spoke quietly as he said, “ ten years has been along time to wait, but now you’re here and I am going to take you to the four corners of the world.” Before I can complete my thought as to what’s the four corners of the world meant? He quietly said, “ east, west, north and south.” Not another word, he spoked after that. All he did as I watched him prepared us both something to eat. I was fasting and praying, and trust me without even saying a word some how I felt he knew how hungry I must of been.

I it was Jesus not John the Baptist, after some meditation and praying. Why Jesus? I searched the Bible and the only person that fit the description was Jesus, “ The Lord’s My Shepherd.” The reason for my fasting and praying was to draw nearer to the Lord for guidance and protection in my life and a closer walk with him to try and understand the meaning of life. The table was set and prepared by a beautiful stream of water. I can remember and it looked and felt like paradise. I was surrounded by peace and tranquillity. I didn’t want to leave, but then I woke up. And like in Psalm twenty-three says, “He leaded me besides still waters, he restores my soul. Thou prepare a table before me.” That’s exactly what he had done. I remembered eating fish and rice freshly prepared and drinking water that quenched my thirst. My conscious thought lead me to believe I started off my journey in my dream with Psalm 23.

There’s no excuse nor reason that can be given for any humans treating other human beings in an inhumane way, regardless of race, religion, skin color, etc. We are all human beings with our strengths and weaknesses. What is it going to take for us to realize this, an alien invasion from another planet? The Holocaust if had not documented by film I am pretty sure no one would have ever believe such an atrocity ever happened.

We must remember the Holocaust, remember the cruelty of humanity towards one another. Let it break our hearts and mind so badly that history like this never ever happens again. When looking to understand the working of the devil which is pure evil, remember the Holocaust, slavery, racism; any kind of cruelty towards each other. It is hypocritical of any of us who has experienced such treatment in one way or the other of cruelty and evil and don’t recognize when we ourselves the hurting, can also hurt others.

The Holocaust is proof that racism has to do with fear. Hitler was afraid of the Jewish people, he felt they were a threat to his plans of world domination.

Will is a powerful thing, put it together with Faith and all things are possible. Matthew 17:20 Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, if you have Faith like a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Hebrew 11:1, Now Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not see. Will: to want or to choose, to cause something to happen through force of desire.

I can’t help but believe the life we are living is the consequences of decisions we’ve made. Whether good or bad we have the ability to change the course of our lives. But it require a determination of Faith and will. God, to whom we are created in the image of, and we have certain abilities like. God created the world from nothing and our lives like an empty pages of a book by us living we beginning to fill the pages. He has already given us ninety-five percent of the work completed for life the other five percent is our free will to live accordingly to all he desires. With freedom of choice comes the responsibility also for others, so whatever decision we make concerning ourselves, we should always take this in consideration. Like a domino effect one bad move and everything connected to life itself can come thumbing down.

Faith and good will! A lot of us has will but most of the time it leads to bad through our weakness, sin.

You’d think that I’m speaking about some kind of intoxication like alcohol or a drug high. I am speaking about a spiritual high. Now that fasting season has come to a close and I am able to eat, my flesh feels heavy and sluggish when before I felt like I was flying. The best way to describe the feeling is my feet was not touching the ground. Clarity of mind, body and spirit came over me like being in oneness with the Lord. The fears, doubt and hopelessness that once incapacitated me had been lifted.

The enemy in me was me. I found out throughout my praying and fasting that food is a weight to the flesh and a obstacle to the spirit. The body needs food for nourishment and without it the body would die; like water, fluid, it is a necessity for us. Food is the bodies fuel for energy and drink for hydration. We can’t fool ourself to believe other wise, God created us that way from the beginning of time, Genenis 2:16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden you may eat freely. I believe fasting and praying take us in a different realm, being in the world but not of it. You get connected to a higher consciousness, tapping into that oneness with the Lord. It’s a sacrifice and discipline of the flesh. Matthew 17:21 Jesus healed the boy that way possessed by demons his disciples couldn’t. He said, “howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” (KJV)

What’s going on in the world today needs an spiritual  intervention that can only be attained through fasting and prayers. When the earth is some how being disrupted by the atmosphere is doesn’t affect humanity as much as when it comes from it’s inner core or both. It takes a century for both to begin to affect us humanity and that’s what’s happening today. There’s a vibration we all feel in our mind, body and soul when it concerns the earth core and an never ending echo of the selient sound of change, evolution taking place. The sound is so loud that it effect the mind mentally.

Fasting and praying is a weapon also against the enemy.

Matthew 27:50-53  And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rock split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

“What can wash away our sins? Nothing but the blood of Jesus!” Jesus’s blood is as important to us today as it was back then. Matthew 26:28 “For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. This verse in the scriptures verifies the blood of Jesus important to us all. Jesus the sacrificial lamb for our sins.

His resurrection after Calvary was as important today as it was back then. Why? Because Jesus resurrection fulfilled his mission for humanity, we no longer can fear death as the wages of sin. Death has now became our a salvation, we can enter into eternity through faith in Jesus. Also trusting and believing that one day we’ll be united with our loved ones who passed away. Jesus resurrection allows for us all the hope of heaven, that when we do die, we return to the Father. The breath of life, ours spirit like Jesus is committed into the hands of our heavenly Father.

Jesus taught the disciples in life as well as his death, God kingdom come and His will be done. And through the lessons learnt that has been passed down through the scriptures and the other comforter, Spirit of truth, lest we forget. Resurrection is the fulfillment of God love, will and desire for humanity. If Jesus had remained dead the seed of life would have cease to exist for all of humanity.

Resurrection is proof that life continues to go on, not even death can stop it.

John 20:17 Jesus said unto her, “Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father.” But didn’t he also said on the cross, “into they hands I commit my spirit, Father” Luke 23:46.

Matthew 12:40 “For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Jesus saying to God his spirit is committed into his hands, what could it mean? Was the writer of the story of him on the cross, wanted us the readers to envision his life, breath, going back to God? Or was Jesus at that time giving up his entire being to God to finish in death through him what he started in life. He predicted he was going to be in the heart of the earth. We know his body was in the tomb and his spirit in God’s hands. It can only mean one thing, no longer about Jesus being half man and divinity. God was completely in control from this point.

As I prayed and asked for the wisdom, knowledge and understanding of Jesus words, ” Touch me not” Why would Jesus say such a thing? He said such a thing because he was all powers, lots of energy radiating from him. One touch and it can kill. Scripture declares we fight not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, spiritual wickedness in high places, in which Jesus presence over came in life. Jesus raised from death to life, especially under the circumstances of his death being a sacrifice for all our sins. What a burden he took upon himself, our sins. We all know if he had to battle the devil in life what even a greater battle it must of been in death. He took the sting out of death, he fought and he won the victory, the devil lost. The wages of sin is death, but through Jesus we have everlasting life.

Jesus couldn’t be touched until purification.

Today is Good Friday and I can’t help but think of Jesus and what he had gone through this day on the way to Calvary. We must remember you Jesus and all you endured for our salvation. The cross should be no longer seen as a death sentence, but a doorway to our salvation.

The garden of Gethsemane is the place where Jesus released his divinity and took on all the fragility of humanity as he cried out to the Father to take the cup from him, yet not his will but God’s be done(Luke 22:42). He said, “the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” as he saw the disciples asleep as they just couldn’t fight to stay awake and keep watch(Matthew 26:41). Sleep is a possession of the soul we have no control. Sleep is the weakness of the flesh, it’s like the drug that makes us vulnerable that we give into temptation. God doesn’t sleep nor slumber, neither does the spirit.

When Jesus died on the cross, he transformed the weakness of flesh. The spirit can’t be lead through weakness and temptations like the flesh, only back to God. Before when we die there was what I call nothingness, because of sin, just darkness. Dreaming for us  is the traveling of the spirit out of the body during sleep. I can’t help but believe that’s what death is like. Jesus death captured and control the liberty and vulnerability of the flesh. On the cross Jesus cried out in a loud voice, ” father into your hands I commit my spirit” Luke 23:46.  There was nothing but Jesus flesh that remained to be taken off the cross and buried in the tomb.

Jesus was broken, but in a good way, even through so much suffering. I like to think more of him being broken open, to let us in, than being broken like a shattered glass. After all, “He’s the way, truth and the life!” John 14:6

Unlike Jesus our loved ones is not going to see us walking around after we’ve died and be alright about it without freaking out. We take it very calm and casually like Jesus dying and resurrecting back to life is normal. After all these years this thought still petrify me. Jesus was a ghost as we understand it today. If someone we know dies and we see them walking around we know it’s a ghost, they are supposed to be dead and stay dead.

“The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak” the declares scriptures. We must be  born again in spirit by being baptized. Unlike Jesus we don’t have to die on a  cross.  The only death is our old way of being, repent and be baptized. Jesus death was to purge and wash our sins away. The flesh through its weakness concealed sin in darkness. But Jesus life, death and resurrection gave us the victory over sin through the power of his light which penetrated the darkness. He was the manifestation of the will of God, Kingdom that came here on earth and the kingdom rules(governing laws) for that which is of the spirit of the most High God. Is the flesh sin? No but it’s weak. Jesus being in the flesh, born of spirit transformed the weakness into giving the spirit victory over the flesh. The spirit is no longer has to be at war with the flesh, the flesh is now working together with the spirit. It’s called balance and unity. The middle man of destruction( devil) can no longer operate to divid them both. Jesus has now became the middle man to unify them through his death.

Like Adam whom God had created before the fall was one with the Lord, now with the understanding of the life and death of Jesus all humanity must try to live accordingly.

So ironic that Passover is being celebrated the same week as Holy Week commemorating Jesus journey to the cross to set us free from the burden of another form of slavery, sin. Passover is a week long festival commemorating the emancipation of the Hebrew people from being slaves to the Egyptian.

As a child I remember the only way for me to understand what the Passover was all about is by watching the movie the Ten Commandments staring Charlotte Heston in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic movie. The scene I recall is the cloud of smoke representing death in the sky covering the moon slowly making its way to earth. Moses and all his family seated at the table eating and a little boy asking Moses, “ why is everyone afraid, why this night is different from all others?” And you could hear the cries and screams of people outside. Moses looked at him and said, “because this night the Lord our God, would deliver us from the bondage of Egypt.” Then you see the smoke on the ground as Joshua enter the house, opens the door and says, “ it is not forbidden to look upon the breath of pestilence and see for it is here.” Moses says to the boy, “do not look” and then proceeded to tell Joshua to “close the door and let death pass.” This is how I became to know and be interested in the celebration of the Passover.

One world, with one God who has love for all of humanity with so many religious beliefs in him that no matter what, it all leads right back to the monotheistic God. The God who created all things and his in control of it all, lest we forget.