Contact Sports
October 2nd, 2007
contact sport
n. A sport, such as football, hockey, or boxing, that involves physical contact between players as part of normal play.
sport
n.
1. a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often
1. a. Physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and oftenengaged in competitively.
b. A particular form of this activity.
2. An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
3. An active pastime; recreation.
5.
a. One known for the manner of one's acceptance of rules, especially of a game, or of a difficult situation: a poor sport.
b. Informal One who accepts rules or difficult situations well.
c. Informal A pleasant companion: was a real sport during the trip.
6. Informal
a. A person who lives a jolly, extravagant life.
b. A gambler at sporting events.
9. Obsolete Amorous dalliance; lovemaking.
I heard the Lord say “contact sports” and looked up the terms but only included what seemed significant.
1 Cor 9:24-27 AMP Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete , but [only] one receives the prize? So run [your race] that you may lay hold [of the prize] and make it yours. 25 Now every athlete who goes into training conducts himself temperately and restricts himself in all things. They do it to win a wreath that will soon wither, but we [do it to receive a crown of eternal blessedness] that cannot wither.
26 Therefore I do not run uncertainly (without definite aim). I do not box like one beating the air and striking without an adversary. 27 But [like a boxer] I buffet my body [handle it roughly, discipline it by hardships] and subdue it, for fear that after proclaiming to others the Gospel and things pertaining to it, I myself should become unfit [not stand the test, be unapproved and rejected as a counterfeit].
I then listened for what the Lord might say, and heard:
“ Some people are treating church like contact sports. They are competing for the wrong prize. I AM THE PERFECT PRIZE. I am the pearl of great price. But some are not free of the world, and continue to use My house for illicit contact sports.
They vie for the single women in the church and actually compete to see who can have sex with them. They lust and whore after each other in My own house – the same place where they pretend to worship ME ! They even compete for the young men they might seduce into homosexuality. They wonder why the world mocks them and mocks Me because of their own behavior. They entrap little children in Sunday schools and molest them.
Then they have the audacity to act as though they are walking with Me, and have fellowship with me, when they are fellowshipping with demons.
They even compete for who will have the most success in making money, in giving money, in suckering people into giving to their own cause. Some even laugh and joke and mock those who give to them as if they are stupid, and even call them stupid sheep.
Once popular, they become untouchable and lose humility they once had, because their success goes to their heads. Men take great pride in THEIR accomplishments as if they could do anything without ME. Then if that wasn’t enough many are still so laden with sores and infection spiritually that they try to bring down those whom I love, casting them aside like so much flotsam or jetsom instead of valuing others as they value themselves. Some will call in great revivalists, and have them preach, and there is presence of My Holy Spirit released, but then the next day, the next week, I AM NOT ALLOWED in the church. They only want church THEIR WAY.
Others accuse others out of competition and the pride behind it. They pick fights and argue and disdain others who are called by My name because they are yet unperfected in ME. They judge without mercy and condemn My beloveds. This I say with tears in My eyes beloveds, to see the church who calls themselves by MY NAME, so polluted with the world, and greedy for money, that they will do anything for it.
Some are into witchcraft, and dabble in astrology, and other occult activities, or new age practices, and have been deluded into believing lies of fallen angels, and then think their revelations are above those of others and even above what is spoken in My Word.
Others are witches without realizing it because their way has to be the way anything is done. They are unbendable, inflexible, and controlling due to pride and fears, and have not been healed or delivered, because the church no longer values deliverance ministry as much as just comforting their own pocket books.
Do you think I should just pat them on the back beloveds ? Do you think it’s wise to sit in pews aligning yourselves with evil ?
If so, then you are in deception and danger of delusion.
Some align themselves with ungodly politicians, to gain favor and success. Some are practicing divination in freemasonry, and idolatry on the side, then coming to MY HOUSE and acting as though they are worshipping ME, the ONE TRUE GOD.
These are an abomination in MY EYES ! They are ships without sails. They are double-minded and deluded.
The only FAITH that will stand in this hour is faith in JESUS CHRIST MY SON.
HE ALONE has all power, all authority, in heaven and on earth and under the earth.
Make no mistake about it, unless you ABIDE IN ME, and I IN YOU, you will not be able to run your race with success. INTIMACY with ME, is the only salvation for anyone in this hour. Ask and you will receive, knock and the door will be opened.
Do not think think there is no consequence for the evil they do. Do not envy the wicked ! For they will go insane.
Isa 44:24-26 NKJV Judah Will Be Restored
24 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: "I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself; 25 Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness; 26 Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers;
As violence increases, so is insanity. But those who worship ME in spirit and in truth will shine like the stars in the heavens. For I have ordained the best wine for last.
DO NOT BE AFRAID of anything ! For IN ME, you have your being. PROCLAIM MY WORD ! SPEAK MY WORD ! BELIEVE FOR OUTRAGEOUS MIRACLES, for I LOVE MY BRIDE, and I will not forsake My anointed ones. I will change the church. SHE WILL BOW TO ME. SHE WILL BEND TO ME or be left aside and in pain and shame until she repents. I will destroy the influence of the world in the church of the world.
No nation will be left out. I AM JEALOUS for My own. NOTHING will keep ME from MY PURPOSES. I will give GREAT GRACE to those willing to REPENT, and I will transform My people, and transform the LOST who repent with a great ourpouring of My LOVE.”
Isa 66:3-4 NKJV
3 "He who kills a bull is as if he slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he breaks a dog's neck; He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine's blood;
He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol. Just as they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations, 4 So will I choose their delusions,
And bring their fears on them; Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear; But they did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight."
My BRIDE will outshine all that has come against her ! I will be at her side. I will be at your side through everything and in everything you do. I will walk with you and supernatural occurrences will be commonplace. I will bring to birth, for I love My BRIDE and provide her with intensive CARE to become all she is to be !
Isa 66:7-11 NKJV Before her pain came, She delivered a male child.
8 Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion was in labor, She gave birth to her children.
9 Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?" says the LORD.
"Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?" says your God. 10 "Rejoice with Jerusalem, And be glad with her, all you who love her; Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her; 11 That you may feed and be satisfied
With the consolation of her bosom, That you may drink deeply and be delighted
With the abundance of her glory."
Rev 12:1-2, 5-12 AMP AND A great sign (wonder)--[warning of future events of ominous significance] appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and with a crownlike garland (tiara) of Twelve stars on her head.
2 She was pregnant and she cried out in her birth pangs, in the anguish of her delivery….
5 And she brought forth a male Child, one Who is destined to shepherd (rule) all the nations with an iron staff (scepter), and her Child was caught up to God and to His throne. [Ps 2:8,9; 110:1,2.]
6 And the woman [herself] fled into the desert (wilderness), where she has a retreat prepared [for her] by God, in which she is to be fed and kept safe for 1,260 days (42 months; three and one-half years).
7 Then war broke out in heaven; Michael and his angels went forth to battle with the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought.
8 But they were defeated, and there was no room found for them in heaven any longer.
9 And the huge dragon was cast down and out--that age-old serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, he who is the seducer (deceiver) of all humanity the world over; he was forced out and down to the earth, and his angels were flung out along with him. [Gen 3:1,14,15; Zech 3:1.]
10 Then I heard a strong (loud) voice in heaven, saying, Now it has come--the salvation and the power and the kingdom (the dominion, the reign) of our God, and the power (the sovereignty, the authority) of His Christ (the Messiah); for the accuser of our brethren, he who keeps bringing before our God charges against them day and night, has been cast out! [Job 1:9-11.]
11 And they have overcome (conquered) him by means of the blood of the Lamb and by the utterance of their testimony, for they did not love and cling to life even when faced with death [holding their lives cheap till they had to die for their witnessing].
12 Therefore be glad (exult), O heavens and you that dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in fierce anger (fury), because he knows that he has [only] a short time [left]! [Isa 44:23; 49:13.]
Scribe:Priscilla Van Sutphin
