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.

Holy Week, the time of commemorating and remembering the Goodness and love of the Lord for all humanity. A reflection on the time leading up to Jesus journey to the cross. His enduring suffering and unwavering spirit of obedience and willingness to follow through the will of God. Flesh and spirit; with spirit taking the lead over the weakness of the flesh, Jesus surrender freely to his destiny without a fight. So can we!

We see this as a time of joy for ourselves, Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for of salvation. But really this should be a time of mourning under the circumstances in which our world is going through today, social injustice, racism, pandemic, spiritual warfare and the list goes on. Holding unto all that Jesus has done for us without we ourselves doing our part in follow through to his will as he had done the Fathers. We got to break the traditions and let our actions be true in our consecration and devotions in this season of life. The change has taken place already and through the moving of the Holy Spirit our comforter and truth revealer, we all should have recognized it, and not feel the sense of lost and hopelessness. We are fasting and praying because it’s Lent season, a time of sacrifice and self-denial leading up to Easter. But now is a time to pray and fast for connectivity to God. Seeking first the Kingdom of God and all righteousness. We no longer have to sacrifice what Jesus has already done, our deliverance which is forever. We have to remain grounded and connected to Jesus.

This is a time to weep for our world and it’s stubbornness. It’s time to acknowledge and understand that obedience is the only sacrifice need to live in the will and peace that God ordain for us through Christ Jesus. As children of the most High God we must pray and fast for ourselves as well as others. See and feel the presence of His light in our lives today!

Jesus presence is within and surrounding us. Let’s begin with the love for family and being rejected by them. Nothing can break your heart like the lost of family members and it’s not about death; dying, but actually being cutting you out of their lives for nothing more than jealousy. To be hated and resent by family members like sibling rivalry, being so much different than them. To be seen for your compassion, mercy, Kindness, forgiveness and love as someone phoney wanting something in return. It may seem like you’re doing everything in your power to out shine them when you’re just being you. The hardest thing to do is to find yourself at war with one of your own. Tears in your eyes and reluctant to war with them like they are a stranger on a battle field. Put aside all your love, psych yourself out to see them as an enemy when you know in your heart how much you love and care for them. The devil is liar! He put thought in peoples heart and minds towards one other, and we’re the ones who allows him the invitations instead of resisting him in the process and not give in.

Are we not our brothers keepers? There’s always going to be a Judas in the midst of us, whether family or friends. And just remember it is the devil who possesses them, so when we recognize it we must pray for them. Like Jesus being nailed to the cross looking down at the people remember how much he loves them and would do anything for them with the echoes of “crucify him, crucify him” repeating in his head. So as you enter the room with them in it and you’re filled with dread because you know anything you say or do is going to be met with criticism or respond with a negative comment. Their energy in the room towards you is absorbed within your spirit, you feel it and everything in you wants you leave, but yet you stay allowing them the audience to keep throwing the punches as you wait and pray patiently for a change in them. Always a target of their jokes and humiliations, but you continue to hope and pray for the love of God within you. Do they even know what they are doing? Like Jesus said, “ forgive them father, for they know not what they do? Can they be so cruel? When they needed me I was there, nothing was too much for me to give when asked, I did my best when I could to help them and it was all unconditional love. But for my love hate, my tears resentment, and for my mercy and forgiveness a constant reminder not to let it go.

A stranger can treat you with such hatred and you’d expect it, they don’t know who you are, but your own? You feel like someone has sliced your spirit and soul, you can never be the same again and you’re broken, shattered and divided. “Family” Blood is ticker than water, isn’t that the way it should be? But like the Gentile to the Jews, stranger would love and treat you better than your own, which shouldn’t be! You can be kin by blood, but yet divided by the devil, to walk the walk of shame and to know you sell yourself short not because of sin, but because of the lack of knowledge, wisdom and understanding to who’s and whom you are.

When you’re inflicting hurt and pain to others unknowingly, especially to your own family with such hatred and discord it’s call possession. When you’ve picked up your cross and follow Jesus as he commanded, you do endure what it felt like for him. He never expected for us to carry the burden he’d carry, but for us to never forget so we can carry on the legacy for generations until he return, lest we forget. It is our responsibility like Jesus to recognize the frailty within one another and to leave the judgement and condemnations to such as a time when Jesus himself returns. Jesus knew it at the cross and many of us has to feel it in meeting Jesus there on Calvary, the brokenness of heart that it takes to fulfill the will of God all for love. Maybe for all we know the return of Jesus is predicated on all of humanity to meet Him at the cross, remembering when he said, “take up your cross and follow me. The cross costs!

As Jesus prayed in the garden of Gethsemane, “ my soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink, may your will be done.” If Jesus being born of flesh and spirit (immaculate conceived), can feel so emotional and weary of mind trying to hold it together for himself as well as the disciples, so much more we who are all flesh has to battle within our minds. But there are those of us who are born of spirit (baptized) and those who are not, who also struggles with the thought in our mind.

How many sleepless nights and tired some days have you sent in worrying about one thing or the other? Fear and worry is a weapon of the mind used by the enemy to get at you especially when it concerns the ones you love, like the concerns of parent for their children. Maybe you found out you have a terminal decease, lost of a job, someone you loved passes away, you were in an accident, you have to make a life changing decision and the list goes on to the things that would cause you to be troubled and fearful. So think about what it must of been like for Jesus.

To wear the Crown of thorns like Jesus it’s never about you personally, but you face challenges and encounter many situations that renders you vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy for being and doing good for no apparent reason. You endure, ridicule and dangerous abuse of hatred by your peers and strangers. You become a target in the world. You walk with humility and grace . The favour of the Lord when shinning upon you that others can see makes you the enemy target. But you must endure and persevere right through it all, never changing. Smile when truly you feel like crying, love when hate has been thrown at you, hold your peace when war is coming at you and never allow your faith to waver, but to hold on even in the hardest of situations trusting.

Crown of thorns is given as a reminder of the never ending torment of the mind you go through when serving God. The enemy wants to keep you in hurt and pain to lose all focus on that which is at hand, God’s will, as you endure the sufferings