Vigilant Devotion to God.

In studying and developing my own personal relationship with God, I find that I need to shut myself away from the cares of the world and my daily work to truly hear God's voice as I seek after him with all my heart.  God's ways are higher than our ways and there are truly moments where my patience runs thin and I have to go to God, submitting myself to Him and allowing His perfect will and works be done in my life. 

 

For instance, in my current life situation, I have high expectations for this year for certain events to happen that have not yet come to pass.  The year is half over and those expectations were starting to feel lower and lower.  I had to refresh myself by reconnecting with God through prayer, studying and personal devotion time. Turning the TV off, shutting the door on the world and taking the time to praise God for his goodness and thank Him for his many blessings.  God doesn't always come through when we want him to, more often than not in my own life, God comes through at 11:59pm, BUT right on time.  He certainly cuts it close, but God is on on-time God and a God that shall not lie or go back on His Word. 

 

This is why I must continuously exercise my faith and act on my faith; for acting on faith is pleasing to God.  Obedience is far better than sacrifice and God will honor our obedience as a result. I know this from my own personal experiences.  That is why when tribulations and hardship comes, I know to stand firm upon God's Word, for when He promises to do something, it may not be when I want it, but it will be in the right timing and in my best interests.  When we try to do it, we mess it up, when God does it, our lives are blessed. 

 

My bible study today concentrates on 1 Peter.  I pray you will be blessed and testimony or thoughts are always welcome.  God bless!  

Prophetess Abrams
 

1 PETER 5:6 (KJV)

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he might exalt you in due time." 1 Peter 5:6 (KJV)

1 Peter 5:8 (KJV) states: “Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:” 

The Devil will always seek to oppose those that walk with the Lord, and that is why we must humble ourselves to God and submit ourselves to Him in all ways, leaving no door open for Satan and his demonic army to attack.  For we are not immune to Satan’s attacks, he will come and when he does, we must be ready and keep ourselves close to God and in the center of His will.  We do this by praying, studying, having daily devotional time with God and fasting.

1 Peter 5:9 (KJV) states that when the enemy comes to attack we must resist: “Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.

1 Peter 5:10 (KJV) further tells us that “the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.” 

How does God strengthen and settle us? The Bible states that if we have patience to wait on God and submit ourselves to Him in all things that he will raise us in rank, to another level in due time, in His timing.  But before he can do this, we have to be stripped of our pride, our unstable ways and our thinking.  We must take His chastisement and have faith that God has His best for us! God loves us and wants each of us to prosper and reach our destiny. God will honor us if we honor Him!

When talking about “due time”, God will bring us up when we have reached that point of maturity in Christ, when the time is owed, when we have been obedient and have taken God’s discipline, submitting ourselves to Him.

We submit ourselves through pursuing a personal relationship with God, putting on the whole armor of God by studying the Word of God and using the authority God has given us by speaking God’s Word when Satan comes to attack and oppose us.     

Definitions: (taken from dictionary.com)

“Humble” means: “not proud or arrogant”; small in size; low in rank or status; submissive; meek; unassuming; polite; not prideful”

“Exalt” means: “raise in rank, honor, power, character, quality; to praise; to intensify; to stimulate; promote; glorify”

“Due” timing means: “having reached the date for payment”; owed; rightful; proper; fitting; something that is owed or naturally belongs to someone” 

“Chastisement” means: “Rebuke; punishment; to discipline” 

“Adversary” means: “a person, force, or group that attacks or opposes; enemy; foe; an enemy who fights determinedly, continuously and relentlessly”

 

 

A New Journey has begun.....

A New Journey and healing has begun…….

We lost a great mentor and friend, our teacher and spiritual father, a general and leader of God’s people.  Apostle Moses Hall was truly our family and we miss him even two months later.  Apostle passed one day before he would turn 56 on March 14th,

right at the age of 55, double grace. Now it is May, another month of grace that God has blessed us to get through.  As we struggle and ponder why we weren’t able to spend the last moments with our precious and wonderful mentor, we also need to know that God’s purpose and his ways are higher than ours.  There are things we will understand when God reveals them to us and other things in this life that we will never understand. 

 

Apostle Moses Hall
Our Beloved Mentor
A True Man of God

 

I have to admit I have battled my mind on a daily basis with not having Apostle in our lives here on this earth, constantly questioning and being angry about how the events unfolded, how my husband and I were cut out of precious last moments with Apostle and even cut-out at the very end.  But, now, we are finally in a place of moving forward with God’s vision and plan for our lives and live out this legacy that Apostle left for us to carry on and press forward, entrusting us to see it through to the end.  We will always carry Apostle with us, and he will forever live inside our hearts and in everything we do.  He taught us the true meaning of love, being humble and above all, being an obedient servant of God. 

Now we face new beginnings and a new life together carrying out the vision God gave Apostle.  My husband and I are doing 90 day studies now together, and we are starting with Genesis and also completing a 90 day study on the life of David.  I really feel that our healing is just now beginning and God will carry us through to this next level.  We are looking forward to completing our course in this lifetime and putting ministry first and keeping God close.  

In looking at David’s life, he performed with an excellent spirit, one thing I know I could certainly take a page from.  There are moments I complain and wonder why me, why do I have to go through this, why can’t I just do what I want.  Well, those are my human moments, and I certainly have to go back to God and repent when I act in a carnal mind frame and ask that God continue deal with me and manifest himself to me in different ways. 

The wonderful thing about God is that he is a forgiving and just God, when we go with an open heart and ask God to forgive us for our sins, he will forgive us and this gives us a new slate to start off.  Not only asking for forgiveness but turning away from the very thing that caused us to sin.  David himself made many mistakes as a man, but one thing he did not do is repeat those same mistakes.  As Christians, we must take care to not continue to make the same mistakes or we will continue to have to learn the same lessons over and over.  I do not know about you, but those lessons can be painful to keep repeating.  When I go to God and ask for forgiveness, I also ask God to keep me from doing the same thing and change me from the inside out.  

I will be writing about our new journey and events that are about to unfold in this coming year.  God bless.  I leave you with this scripture from Ecclesiastes 9:10 KJV:  “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.”

MEMOIR TO APOSTLE MOSES HALL

APOSTLE MOSES HALL

Our beloved overseer, mentor, teacher and spiritual father, Apostle Moses Hall, went home to God on March 14^th, 2013. This is a hard memoir to write, for we never thought this day would come so quickly, so forgive me as I brush aside tears to pay our respects to a man that walked and lived each day for God. 

My husband and I celebrate Apostle’s life, while not quite sure how the void on this earth will be filled each day without the strength of his presence here on earth.  We keep picking up the phone to call him, only to put the phone back down, realizing we can no longer speak to him here on this earth.  However, the joyful news is that we will see him again in heaven, God’s kingdom, for we know where he went and there is no doubt he lived his life for the Lord and loved God with all his heart. 

We remember Apostle saying that God was his friend.  He truly had that personal relationship with God and sacrificed his life to live right and be a set example to those around him.  Not only did he live right, but he reminded me of the prophets of old that walked the earth preaching the Gospel Message of Jesus Christ in all corners of the world.  Apostle loved people, he continuously prayed for people, never turning his back on anyone, no matter what the circumstance. 

We call this man “The General”, he reminded us of a lion and a lamb, larger than life with his presence, both authoritative and strong, but also that side of him that was gentle and meek as a lamb, God’s humble servant, praising God in the midst of everything he went through in his life.  Truly, he was a watchman, set to watch over those that God assigned.  He spent many a day praying and interceding on behalf of people that God would lay on his heart, and I know he prayed for Franz and me, our lives, our safety, our families.  Apostle told us to pursue God with all our might, to live a life of prayer and fasting and look to God for the answers, not to man. 

This man was a gift to Franz and me, a true blessing and part of our family.  We honor his memory and his last request to us: “Don’t forget” and “live right” “live right” live right” and “love each other”.  Apostle emphasized that he had given us everything God gave to him, that he poured what he had into our lives, that we were equipped now to carry on, but never forget and do not let the vision God gave him for this ministry die.  Apostle rarely went a day without checking on us in some manner, he was truly our friend and family, a loyal and honest man that we will forever be grateful for and thank God for allowing us to know him for the time he had on earth. 

We will miss his corney jokes and talking every day, listening and soaking up the words he spoke of God and the visions God gave him, as well as the fellow-ship.   Apostle spoke destiny and purpose into our lives and we will never forget him.  He is a part of us, in our hearts and we will carry him with us the rest of our days. 

Apostle taught us to walk by faith, to trust in the Lord, praising God in all circumstances, to persevere, press on, rise up when opposition comes, trust God with all our might.  Most of all, he taught us to love and pray for everyone, even those who persecute us.  Live right, live right, live right.  Love each other, never go to bed mad at the other and above all, forgive and let go of offenses. 

 

 

We love you Apostle, God has you now and we know you are dancing in the heavens with your new body and singing those songs you used to sing to us.  Your vision will not die here on earth.  We give God praise, honor and may God get all the glory.  We are forever God's faithful and humble servants and we will not forget. 

May God's perfect will be done.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

 

 

Greetings to all my co-workers in Christ Jesus our Lord. The Holy Spirit is speaking expressly to the church to look unto Him.   

The Prophetic Anointing is intensely operating in my life and the Lord spoke to me saying, send this word to the church. " Listen",  you're in  a spiritual battle and you're  thinking:  I'm losing this battle, and nothing has changed for me; my home is a wreck; marriage on the rocks; children  gone wild; people saying all kind of bad things about me; problems on my  job; not enough money for my needs; and it seems like God doesn’t hear my prayers.

But wait, I see it, I hear it and feel it in my spirit; victory belongs to you.  (Listen) Step by step, God is positioning you for Victory and I speak  to YOU by the Holy Spirit.  With hands raised high, now shout with an uplifted voice, "Praise the Lord who has given me the victory”. Now, expect it and victory shall be yours in the name of Jesus.

Now, the Lord is on your side, you can't lose, God is fighting your battle for you!  "So, stand still on His Word and victory shall be yours, Amen." In parts, this is what the Lord said to His Church. 
 
Apostle in Ministry, 

Bishop of Force International Ministry INC. 
Apostle/Bishop Moses Hall

FREEDOM TO SERVE THE LORD

WORDS FROM APOSTLE

Freedom to Serve the Lord 

Romans 8:1-2 KJV: “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.  For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.” 

Condemnation

Is the act condemning, of which is to pronounce to be guilty and sentenced to punishment.  When a person is charged with a capital crime, he is usually arrested and put in jail awaiting trial. If he is pronounced guilty, the punishment is death in most cases. In the first sentence of Romans 6:23 KJV:  states “For the wages of sin is death".

To be carnal minded 
Is pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its passions and appetites; sensual: carnal pleasures. 

In marriage, as long as the husband is alive, the wife is bound in marriage to her husband, but if her husband dies, she is free then to marry another and so is he that lives in sin is bound to fulfill his lustful desires.  When we act and make decisions based on sinful lust, we are carnal minded, or walking after the flesh. 

Romans 8:6 KJV: “For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.”  For they that are after the flesh do mind or think on ways to fulfilling their lustful habits and desires. 

That’s why Jesus said place your affections on the things that are above, where God is and not things on the earth.  For where your heart is, that’s where your mind is.

These are signs of a carnal mind or the lust of the flesh: 

Galatians 5:17-21 KJV: “For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,  Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”  

Spiritual Minded 

John 4:23-24 KJV:  “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” 

When a person accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they instantly receive the Holy Spirit which sets them free from their sins. The Holy Spirit influences the heart or soul, to live a life of loving obedience to the word of God.  As a person yields in obedience to the Holy Spirit, his heart becomes as fertile ground, ready to receive seed “the word of God”. 

The Holy Spirit is like rain that waters the seed that's in the ground. Then “The Holy Spirit” begins to produce a new life, new desires, and spiritual fruit within that person as written in Galatians 5:22-23 KJV: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.”  So the sum of the matter is: when a person confesses their sins, and accepts Jesus as their Lord and Savior, they become a new creature inside, then and then only can they live a life that’s pleasing to God.  

The sinner or unbeliever cannot walk in the spirit, nor produce spiritual fruit because of his mindset which is to fulfill his carnal or fleshly desires. If you want to live a life that’s pleasing to God, and enhance your life, walking in the spirit, and producing spiritual fruit, all you have to do is to acknowledge that you are a sinner and come to the Lord in a simple prayer, saying Lord Jesus I confess my sins to you. I live a life fulfilling my fleshly desires and I'm asking you to forgive me. Help come into my life as my Lord and Savior I ask in your name Jesus, Amen.  

Now, if you just confessed and accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior, or you recommitted yourself to the Lord, now you are free from your sins to serve the Lord. I want you to go to the phone call us at 516-492-8597 and share the good news. We'll pray with you, and encourage you to continue your walk with God, or, email us at forceim@gmail.com and share your testimony with us. Now may the joy of the Lord and the peace of God and the Holy Spirit fill your heart.

STANDING FOR GOD

 STANDING FOR GOD  

The enemy would like nothing better than to take each of us out and have us believing in everything BUT God and his word.  This nation is in trouble and we have fallen from God’s grace with our culture turning their back on God’s very existence.  The society attitude is all about self and not about living and glorifying God’s existence.  This topic is near and dear to me, as we MUST get back to a Godly culture, one where values and morals come back into play in the lives of not only ourselves, but our youth and the next generation.  We must come together and pray for this nation, for our political and religious leaders and come together in revival and of one heart, a heart for God.  Not only praying, but acting and sharing with those that are hungry for Jesus but have no one to share the word of God with them. 

I wanted to write about something different, but there is a leading and urgent need to talk about more than just my journey.  This life of mine is not about self but about doing God’s work.  God has ordained and given me authority to speak the word of God and I will tell you that we are never to ignore what God will have us to do.   We are not to fear what man could do to us, but what God will do.  I have been in several situations where my husband and I have ignored God’s word to us, going with our human emotions.  The outcome was disastrous, we ended up almost losing everything, but God gave us the grace and another chance to come out of these events.  We repented, we turned back around to where we needed to be, what we needed to do and God made everything right in our life. 

The problem is that most of us ignore the Holy Spirit whispering to us, we ignore God’s voice because we ultimately want to do what makes us feel good.  The results are never good when humans do not take heed to a warning, to a whisper, to physical signs and do their own thing.  The day is at hand where God will show himself fierce and better believe that it is of the utmost importance to be right with God when that time comes.  I never want to be separated from God, for I want to hear “well done, my good and faithful servant”.  I do not want to be cast aside for the enemy to devour me, just because I wanted worldly things instead of Godly things. 

2 Thessalonians 2:1-2 states: “¹Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our gathering together unto him^a, ² That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.”  The time is at hand and we must be shaken to the core to return to Godly foundations and shake the enemy off our backs.  2 Thessalonians 2:3-4 goes on to state: ³ Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; ⁴ Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.”  The signs are there that there will be false prophets and teachers, who would deceive and have people following them rather than following God and what the word states. 

This time is biblical, for it has already been spoken in the Bible and for us as believers, God wants us to rise up and STAND against those that have turned their backs and have refused God. 

A few application principles to follow as believers to stand against opposition and the devil:

·        Active prayer AND fasting.  Not just on Sundays either, make God an everyday priority.  Seek the face of God, confess and repent ALL your sins, open your heart to God and his will, ask him to teach you understanding, give you wisdom and knowledge in the things of God. Fasting is wonderful and brings us into a regiment of discipline and really enveloping ourselves in God's presence.  Our mentor has taught us the importance of fasting and the principles, which I will share in a separate blog topic. We did a 40 day fast this past year and the effects were awesome and unexplainable, with great change taking place as a result of yielding ourselves to God and his word. 

·        Research and study the word of God.  Take a verse or a chapter of the Bible and really ask God to reveal the meaning, for the Bible is full of parables and mysteries, therefore we need to ask for the truth to be revealed to us. There are those that read the Bible cover to cover but have no real understanding or depth of knowledge.  WE MUST HAVE UNDERSTANDING IN ORDER TO BE A FORCE IN THIS WORLD. FOR THE DAY IS COMING THAT WE WILL NEED TO ARMOR OURSELVES AND BE ABOUT REVIVAL AND CHANGE.  THE TIME IS NOW TO PREPARE WITH AN URGENT FERVOR.   

·        Don’t bypass someone in need. There are times I have walked by someone and felt a pulling to go back and pray for that person or just to talk to them. When you feel that pulling, don’t ignore it, embrace this and reach out to someone in need. This is a cold world we live in, and most of us have forgotten the lost and hurting, the broken and wounded.  We must come back into remembrance that there is more to life than just ourselves.  Not only are you blessing someone else, but even more so, it is a blessing to be of help to others.  We are servants of God and must never forget to walk humbly in his presence and not think we are above others.

·        Allow God to change you from the inside out.  When we allow God to do a work in us, you will experience a change unlike anything you have ever experienced and you will be blessed as a result.  God wants us to prosper and have a wonderful life on this earth, he doesn’t want us in misery and discomfort.  However, there are lessons to be learned, tribulations to overcome and a walk in faith to get the blessings God has for us. There is a price to be paid to walk with God, to have a relationship with God, to be spiritual.  We are in this world, but not of this world, in other words, we are spiritual beings and must not act on worldly things.  God will prosper us in every way if we act in accordance to his will. 

·        Walk by faith and act on faith.  “⁶ But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6 KJV)  Hear the report, believe the report and act on the report. When we diligently pursue and act on faith, this is pleasing to God. He will reward us for our faith. 

·        Patience and waiting on God to move first.  I will say that this is the hardest to manage for myself, as patience is something I continuously work on.  However, God wants our faith to grow and be in him, not in man, so we will be tested and our faith will be tried. This means that we must have patience to wait out our circumstances and wait for God to swing those doors wide open, than act of our own accord.  I love Hebrews 12:1-2 (KJV): “¹ Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, ² Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.”  

The point to writing these application techniques is to give assurance that there is more than just this life, for we have salvation when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour. Romans 10:9: “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”  Confess with an open heart and God will hear you. 

Below is a prayer that you can pray right now with an open heart for God (allow God to lead you in prayer):

“Lord, I admit that I have sinned and made myself unclean before you, the Holy God.  I understand that I deserve death as the penalty for my sins, and I believe that Jesus Christ paid this price with his blood.  I want to turn away from my lifestyle of selfishness and sin; I repent.  I confess Jesus Christ as my savior and I put him in control of my life as my Lord.  I pray in Jesus name, Amen.” 

God bless each and every one of you.  May his peace be upon you, your household and your loved ones and may God touch your lives in every way.  May God’s perfect will be completed for your destiny and may you come to know that your purpose is to serve our most high God by speaking his word to the people of this world, for he does not want any one of us to perish but to have eternal and everlasting life.  In Jesus name, Amen. 

Abrams Team: God is my Invincible Army! Habakkuk 3:18-19

Habakkuk 3:18-19: "Yet I will rejoice in the lord; I will exult in the victorious God of my salvation!" "The Lord God is my strength, my personal bravery, and my invincible army; He makes my feet like Hinds' feet and will make me to walk [not to stand still in terror, but to walk] and make spiritual progress upon my high places [of trouble, suffering, or responsibility!]." ...adapted from amplified bible

Go through obstacles in your life, push through and do not give up! The most resistance is usually right before the breakthrough. Keep pushing the enemy back with your faith, persistence and determination. 

How to keep those doubts at bay and move those mountains in your life?

• Having Faith in God continuously (this means constantly).  If you falter, asking for forgiveness and continue on in life. God will give you grace, mercy, love and forgiveness. 
• Releasing faith by speaking TO the mountains with authority and conviction (belief), hurling God's will (his word) to those mountains. Remember that faith without works is dead, so we must exercise faith by exercising authority and conviction and speaking to that mountain with belief and faith in our hearts, that God will move the mountain that stands in your way. Hearing, believing and acting on your faith is pleasing to God. He is waiting on you! 
• By praying and believing those prayers, that God will do his will for you.  Remember, the key thing to note is God's will for you, not your will for you.  In other words, not praying "carnal" prayers, but prayers that flow from the holy spirit within. 
• By walking in love, and forgiving those you hold anything against. We cannot operate under one of God's principles while completely ignoring another.  We must uphold all of God's principles. 
• Praying and asking for understanding of the Word of God to live a full and balanced life.

We are not perfect, only God is perfect, but God does give us grace to overcome and grow into the person God wants us to be.  We, as the human race, will never have "perfect" faith, but we should know that God is always faithful, and ever present.  When we falter, isn't it wonderful that we can go to God and ask for forgiveness and continue to receive his grace to overcome and flourish?! 

God wants his children to live a wonderful prosperous and blessed life, reaching their destiny as ordained. Following God's will, hearing and believing the report and putting action to your faith will take you to a whole other level in your relationship with God, for this is pleasing to God and he will honor his word.  Know that God sees all, cares about you and is waiting on you to make that first step, so step out and step up.  God is waiting and extending his hand, just grab hold and watch your journey begin.  

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Prophetess Stacey Abrams
Prophet Franz Abrams

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