Visible and Invisible Fruit in the Kingdom of God

I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.John 4:38 We want validation by recognition. Successful ministry of serving people, fulfilling God‘s calling, bringing fruit, etc. comes down to visible results. We want to preach and have people come to the front and accept Jesus, we want to post a video sharing a revelation and have views to show that it was needed for people, we want to meet someone one on one and then see improvement in their thinking or behavior.  It probably was the same … Read more

Don’t trip over God

The predictable “world” While watching a few movies in the past weeks I noticed that the “world” is so predictable. There’s always a mistress or an illegitimate child or forbidden love or some other relationship outside of traditional family. There’s usually somebody trying to achieve something and he is fighting within himself the need to ‘step on others’ to get to the top, fighting the moral thing to do to follow his or her dreams, but he or she clearly comes to the conclusion that that’s what you have to do to win to achieve the dreamed, and he or … Read more

Money and Gods provision. 

Here are a few thoughts and scriptures in random order.  Read to the end and meditate on these scriptures.  Two economic system. One is driven by mammon, it’s a demonic principality. Greek translation is “money diefied”. It dominates, you are never free or happy, you want more always. It’s a slavery. Money in the world is a ruthless taskmaster. Makes you think of lack instead of provision.  You cannot live by a hybrid of the two, cannot serve two masters, you will love one and not be happy about the other (Matthew 6:24).  The other is provision of God that rules. Comes … Read more

LETTER TO PARENTS (#1). Raise kids, but mentor teenagers.

(audio coming soon, but check out other article recordings by following the Spotify or YouTube icons) We raise kids, but we assist teenagers in applying what we already helped them learn into the real life. We cannot raise teenagers anymore, in the sense that we cannot correct them on every action and teach them in every situation and so on, like we could with a younger children. A teenager is more like a brother or a sister in Christ, who is new to the Kingdom of God, and we show them Christ’s character by our actions, our love, and our … Read more

LETTER TO A TEENAGER (#1). Honor parents, and forgive siblings.

(audio coming soon, but check out other article recordings by following the Spotify or YouTube icons) There is a period of time called childhood where parents are the ultimate authority, ultimate source of answers, ultimate source of marvel, and so on. You could look at Jaden and Jenna and Theo, and it’s still like that for them. They look up to Olga and I without questioning us. Then comes the age when a child starts growing to be an independent woman or a man (usually around teenager years) where the kid grows up, and understands that parents don’t know everything, … Read more

Letter from Heaven, a dream. 

I received a letter from Heaven. The transfer process had started and will be complete this night. signed Heaven’s Welcome Team. A volcano erupted in my heart, blinding light shot out in all directions, and then came peace, and warmth, and calm. And then I felt nothing but peace and warmth and light. And I was calm.  It wasn’t a physical letter, nor an email, nor any other media I knew. I just knew I got it, in my mind, in my heart, in my spirit. And this letter felt more real than if I was holding one in my … Read more

How to earn a special position in heaven.

I wonder if I need to do something special in this world to have a better role or position as a reward in the eternity. Do my actions on Earth determine that? Or will we all have the same role? Probably not the same role, based on just how all things work with hierarchies in everything in this world and in the Bible, right? Even with Jesus there were levels of closeness to Him: Peter, John and James were closer than others (Matthew 17:1, Mark 14:33, Mark 5:37), Lasarus and his family were very dear to Jesus (John 11:5). How … Read more

What does it mean to give my body to God?

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Romans 12:1-2.) I have been thinking and praying about this passage for a while and I will offer comments on the verses and a practical application, as I believe God had revealed this to me. I … Read more

Why people read the same Bible verse, but understand it differently. Isn’t there one truth?

Two sources of understanding the Bible. As I see there are two types of understanding or interpreting of the Bible: 1. a revelation from God, and 2. people deduce things from the Bible on their own. The second one, people’s own deductions and interpretations, that is not interesting to me, as its very likely far from truth that God intended to convey. I heard someone say that satan cannot touch the Word of God, so satan tries to twist people’s interpretation. I agree that when people deduce or interpret and study on their own, without God, without the Holy Spirit, … Read more

God, when will I be successful?

God’s promises are not happening. Yesterday going to sleep I thought that I’m not really successful at what I should be doing in life or with ministry. I have some promises that God gave me about ministry 20+ years ago through prophecy, and I don’t see majority of those promises coming true yet. So I was saying that to God. And then a thought came, which I believe is from the Holy Spirit: God doesn’t measure success as we do. And that is right!  Let’s explore this a bit. Ephesians 2:1-5. 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and … Read more

What thoughts should we think? Our thoughts are not worth thinking…

Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)    8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Examples of our thoughts:Why is God silent, does He not need me, did He forget me? Ok God, if You are silent, I will be too.This verse means this, not this, this preacher is wrong, if tried it, it doesn’t work. This verse must be lost in translation, when was a mountain ever moved because someone believed?The … Read more

Is being led by the Holy Spirit a proof that I am a son of God?

What does being led by the Holy Spirit look like in our lives. For a long time I had looked at Romans 8:14 (ESV) For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God, as proof that I am a son of God, because I believe that I am led by the Holy Spirit. And when I would be asked what does it mean to be led by the Holy Spirit, I would say that I talk with God daily and I consult with God about everything in my life and I try to obey Him … Read more

Fruit and benefits of a vine? Exploring what it is to bring fruit as a Christian.

Audio version MP3, YouTube, Spotify Podcast. Ezekiel 15:1-5 1 Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 2 “Son of man, how is the wood of the vine better than any other wood, the vine branch which is among the trees of the forest? 3 Is wood taken from it to make any object? Or can men make a peg from it to hang any vessel on? 4 Instead, it is thrown into the fire for fuel; the fire devours both ends of it, and its middle is burned. Is it useful for any work? 5 Indeed, when … Read more

Does God want to heal me?

How can it be God’s will that we get sick or remain sick?  He is committed to giving us a new body and wants us to live eternally. We have a fallen nature and live in a world subjected to futility (Romans 8:20), but Jesus restored the ability to fight the fallen nature and to live in health, and by His stripes we are healed (1 Peter 2:24).  There are many examples of people in the Bible that were healthy and full of days when they died, they didnt die of sickness, but because God called them home. Moses climbed … Read more

How to stop questioning the Bible

My old, thick, slow, unbelieving mind of flesh… I noticed when I translate or listen to a sermon, it often happens that when a preacher reads a scripture and comments on it, my first reaction is ‘how did he get that’, or ‘that is not what the Bible says’, and so on. It doesn’t happen always, but still happens, especially with some of the preachers who really experience major work of God in their life and who witness healing and miracles and demons fleeing. But these are teachers who traveled the world and seen God’s hand in all the work … Read more

The measure that you use…

I recently translated a preacher, his name is A. L. Gill, who shared a good thought about the passage in Luke 6:38 (NKJV) Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” The measure we use to give to others, is the measure we present to God, and it is the measure He will use to measure things back to us. He will take the teaspoon, or the cup, or the … Read more

Faith is my choice.

God healed me of headaches about two years ago, and in recent months I have been having headaches again here and there, as if the healing was receding or God has given me temporary relief (those are the thoughts that I started accepting in my heart). On Monday, right after receiving healing in February 2020, it was like my nerves were trying to find pain where there was none anymore, and I remember I told myself that, ‘its not possible to have pain now, since God healed me’. And for almost two years I didn’t have abnormal headaches. But two … Read more

What is overthinking and how to deal with it?

My niece and I were taking a walk in our neighborhood and I was passionately sharing some thoughts and advice for awhile. I believe that what I was saying to her were not only my words, but Holy Spirit was speaking to her. At the conclusion she said that she ‘will have to really think about all this’. In that moment I believe Holy Spirit spoke to me and reminded me that spiritual things cannot be understood and cannot be first processed by our mind. 1 Corinthians 2:14 The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of … Read more

The Great Commission of Jesus.

After being bothered about the fact that we don’t see signs and wonders everywhere, I went to the Bible and looked up the verses about the Commission of Jesus to us right before He ascended to Heaven. Here are the scriptures about Jesus’ Commission to the Church. Here are these verses split apart into categories and I named the categories as seemed appropriate by the content. It is amazing how much clearer the picture had become! I suggest you guys read these prayerfully. God Bless!

ИСПОВЕДЬ О ЗАВИСИМОСТИ К ФОНДОВОМУ РЫНКУ

English version here. Версія українською тут. YouTube интервью с Александром Шевченко и Антоном Антоновым здесь. … держи, что имеешь …Откровение 4:11 ПРИВЕТ. Торговля на фондовом рынке была самым разрушительным пристрастием в моей жизни и продолжалась она 5 лет. О, если бы я даже и не начинал заниматься этим делом. Ниже вы найдете некоторые мысли, переживания и наблюдения, которые, надеюсь, направят вас, дорогой читатель, на путь освобождения от этой зависимости. GE. ВЛЮБИЛСЯ В СТАРУЮ КАРГУ. МЕЛЬКОМ О КОНЦЕ. Всё началось с покупки акций GE (general electric). Я купил чуть-чуть, потом еще, и еще, но уже дешевле… конечно я рассчитывал, что цена на них … Read more

CONFESSION OF AN ADDICT TO THE STOCK MARKET

Версия на русском здесь. Версія українською тут.YouTube интервью с Александром Шевченко и Антоном Антоновым здесь. … Hold fast what you have …Revelation 4:11 HELLO. Trading in the stock market, that was one of my strongest and the most financially destructive addictions in life that lasted for a period of 5 years. How I wish I never started trading. Here is a collection of thoughts, struggles, and observations in no particular order, hopefully one of these things will direct you to the path of being free of this addiction.  GE. LUCK. CRUSH TO CRASH.  It started with a small amount deposited into … Read more

the Soil of our Heart

God told the earth to bring forth all types of trees and plants, and Jesus said that we put a seed into the ground and don’t think about it, and it’s not for us to know what processes make a corn seed turn into a corn plant with the stalk and leaves and cobs. Woman’s womb receives a seed and through certain processes — including mother’s dedication and energy and food and care — a baby grows and then is born and is separated from its mother, and later will bring her own children into the world.  Our heart is … Read more

I am the LORD your God, who teaches you what is good for you and leads you along the paths you should follow. (Isa. 48:17)

Joseph’s older brothers had done some things that would qualify them as people whom we wouldn’t put as fathers of a great nation. They sold Joseph into slavery, deceived their father, slept with the wrong women, etc. But they, just as a child of a king or child of a slave, were born into something that was their destiny, to be patriarchs of 9 tribes of the nation chosen by God to be His special possession. It’s not something they’ve earned or deserved, it was theirs regardless. It was their lot. You and I have gotten our lots, and Solomon … Read more

TALENTS AND MINAS, what to do with God-given abilities and talents.

Yesterday God put it on my heart to read and re-read these two parables many times and then write down a few thoughts. Read Matt 25:14-30; Luke 19:12-27. Why did the Master say to the lazy servant in both parables, that the servant should at least had given the money to the bankers and this way the Master would get His money back with interest, at the least? With no effort from the servant but still some increase. If talents and minas represent our God-given gifting, then what is the bank, where do God-given abilities grow with practically no effort? … Read more

I choose to wait

Then Abraham waited patiently, and he received what God had promised. Hebrews 6:15 There are many cases in the Bible where people had to wait for God after He promised something for them (wait for a blessing or an assignment or a position). He said the disciples are to wait for the Holy Spirit, and then when they received Him they acted. Joseph, David, Paul, Abraham, Isaac and many others got a promise and then they were waiting for the door to open for the promised to happen. In the meantime, they lived waiting for and expecting for the promised … Read more

WHY CHRISTIANITY HAS SO MANY VIEWS, OPINIONS, COMMENTARIES, AND DENOMINATIONS?

We should all arrive at the same understanding of the Bible, because there is only one understanding, because it’s from one Spirit (God’s Spirit), there is only one truth. It should not be possible to have multiple interpretations of the truth, it should be understood in one way – the true way. If some passage does sound like it could be interpreted into many ways, make sure it’s not an opinion and best to leave it without interpretation and ask God to reveal the truth.  Bible commentators, pastors, teachers, come to different conclusions for many reasons, but it must be … Read more

ON BEING APPALLED BY WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD (a letter to Anna)

Dear Anna, many month ago I was asking God what is going on in the world, what is with all this stuff with masks and restrictions and the weirdness, what is the purpose and what is the motive and what are ‘they’ trying to do with us. I kept wondering and thinking and praying about it. But God clearly told me not to spend time thinking about it, not to give my energy to that, not to worry because I simply don’t need to know. God has got it in His hand and it’s in His control and I don’t … Read more

Trip to Europe. With the perfect guide. One day at a time.

Imagine you took your family on a trip to Europe. For one whole year. There is so much to see, so much to experience, so many countries to visit, mountains, hikes, race tracks, fishing places, museums, churches, famous buildings, rivers, raises, train rides, bus rides, bike rides, beaches, hotels, and list is endless, one lifetime is not enough. What do you do, you research, you read reviews, you read people’s journals, you can prepare and research for years actually and make the perfect plan. And then your kid gets sick, or you fight with your wife, or kids fight, or … Read more

few thoughts on Angels

Angels are powerful beings. Their eyes are not like we imagine with rays or orange fire coming out, they look like human eyes but there is immense power and understanding. They are watching you from 20-30 feet and it’s like a sphere of covering and they see you in the room or office or wherever and they wait as you slowly struggle and try to figure things out. They have a message or an assignment from God to deliver to you or perform for you but they are restricted by you. And they will wait a day or a year … Read more