Martus for Truth

As painful and fearful as these times, indeed, are I have been the subject of great works of God around about me. Even in times such as these how can I forget those great works? Would I not be as those great unfaithful hordes who rail against me and my ilk—even including those among them who claim, but do not demonstrate, Christ? I am martus for truth—not for your personal preferences. I stand with Christ. #PlayersOnTheStage, #FearfulTimes, #IStandWithChrist

Jesus commands us, “Whoever has two tunics is to share with him who has none, and whoever has food is to do likewise.” Why do you need a mansion when other people don’t even have a place? #Mansion, #Need, #Place

This hymn is a prayer for national repentance. Many of my hymns can be found at https://www.musescore.com/billsey #Mercy, #Grace, #Love

What is this nation facing, and what is truly yet to come? #Future, #JudgmentOrGrace, #GodsPlan

Calm down! This is not the end of the world—or even of the United States, or the Constitution. Just because you don’t know what He’s doing does not mean God doesn’t know what He’s doing. He does. God knows. God’s got this. Calm down. #CalmDown, #StandStillAndSeeTheSalvationOfTheLord, #Reversed

Remember what Jesus told Peter: “The one that draws the sword will die by the sword!” Please don’t be that person. Stay under God’s wings. #SurrenderToGodNotAnger, #SeekPeaceWithin, #LetGodsWillReign

If you want to deal in fact, you have to be able to distinguish between what can happen, and what will not. #History, #SciFi, #Fiction

Are you just drifting through life, not even curious what God wants you to be doing? Have you never asked Him? If not, why not? Each person is unique. Being unique, they have a unique purpose from God. Have you never asked God what your unique purpose FROM HIM is? What are you doing? #WhosePurpose, #YourWill, #GodsWill

What do you do about toxic people in your life? In keeping with the Scriptures, what do you do? Joseph fled, leaving his cloak in her hands—and wound up in prison because of her lies. Jeremiah wound up stoned to death because of toxic people who refused to let him stay in Jerusalem where he wanted to be—away from them. Now, it seems someone wants to invite a toxic person back into my life—someone I thought I had been delivered from. I got driven out of an entire denomination by a toxic woman who kept following me from congregation to congregation, spreading slanderous lies about me. Stephen got stoned to death by toxic people who thought so highly of themselves that the Truth drove them insane. #ToxicPeople, #JosephFledHisCloak, #JeremiahWasStonedToDeath

Without God, there is no you; indeed, without God, there is nothing. Even the ancients knew that “out of nothing nothing comes”, or in Latin, “ex nihilo nihil fit”. Those who seek to set one group against another to gain power over both are painting without light. There is no color without light. #PaintingWithoutLight, #ExNihiloNihilFit, #NoGodNoThing

This video is about making sure you are accurate in what you espouse and in what you say. Emotional reactions, in general, will not get you there. #Truth, #Honesty, #Delivered

Where, in Holy Scripture, is the explicit command to love your nation? I know, I know, it’s embedded within the command to love your neighbor, but that raises another question. How many of you are obeying Jesus’ explicit examples on how to love your neighbor? How many of you have been slandered by party workers, yet HAVE DONE NOTHING to instruct them in the matters of repentance? How many of you have neighbors who cannot pay their rent? Their mortgage? Their utility bills? How many do you see walking or sleeping out on the streets, keeping all their worldly possessions with them? How many of them have no food to put on the table? How many of them have no table? Jesus tells us in the Gospels, “If your neighbor has no cloak (or tunic, which is like a shirt), and you have two, give them one.” In short, help them. #LoveGod, #LoveYourNeighbor, #HelpThem

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness CANNOT overcome it.” Without repentance you ARE the darkness. Good news, though: Jesus Christ, who IS the Light, pursues you to bring you into the Light. #GoodNews, #TheLightShinesInTheDarkness, #AndTheDarknessCannotOvercomeIt

The strength to finish the task is a gift God gives to those faithful to attempt it, and to pray to ask Him for it. #Pray, #Strength, #Finish

“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness CANNOT put it out.” That is the fifth verse of the Gospel according to John. In the beginning of his Gospel account, John equates the λόγος, the word, which means reason, knowledge, or speech, with life, light, the power of creation—and with Jesus Christ. Therefore, keep your trust—your faith—in Jesus Christ. #Life, #Light, #JesusChrist

There are times when we do need to cry out to God to deal with our adversaries. Today’s Psalm is what is known as an imprecatory psalm, with David praying out imprecations against his adversaries. Should we, though, not restrain ourselves, lest we cry out in such manner when it is not truly justified? #AdversarialAttitudes, #PrayingOutImprecations, #RejoiceInTheLord

No matter the manner in which you get treated as the result of it by the haters in this life, you keep speaking truth, because that is your assignment from God. #CheckYourself, #KeepSpeakingTruth, #YourAssignmentFromGod

The visceral reaction, while immediate and powerful, is likely NOT the accurate one. You must speak truth, not emotion. #Visceral, #Emotional, #SpeakTruth

Assuming that the positions you hold are correct and accurate can be a very dangerous thing. Prayer is the best solution to that. The best prayer sessions are not monologues; they are two-way conversations with God. The question, therefore, becomes, “Are you willing to listen?” #DangerousAssumptions, #Prayer, #ListenToGod

Evidence for faith does not come from you consciously trying to exhibit it for others to see. Jesus, in fact, cautions us to let it go unseen by those around us, to do it in secret, so that, for the most part, only God sees it. He is, after all, the only righteous Judge. Remember? #EvidenceForFaith, #Unseen, #OnlyGodSees

If you are waiting on the Lord for something you’ve been fervently desiring, be ready for the answer you don’t want to hear. You should not ignore it when it comes (and don’t blame Satan just because you don’t like it). Instead, be faithful to His no. #Prayer, #GodSaysNo, #BeFaithfulToHisNo

Through dark and difficult times, the Lord does, indeed, comfort His people. #LikeEden, #LikeTheGardenOfTheLord, #TheLordComfortsHisPeople

Did you know that, by prayer, you can effect details of God's design of nature, and—far more importantly—people's lives? You do so by prayer. #Prayer, #Weather, #GodsDesign

Sometimes you have to go through things and you have no Biblical idea why. God, though, does have a purpose for it. #Ordeal, #WasItWorthIt, #WhatDoesGodHaveInMind