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​As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts
​Isaiah 55:9​
The Lord showed me that our enemy has been operating just outside our comprehension since the day we were born again, causing us to be spiritually disoriented without our knowledge.

Obviously, he knows the significance of faith in our salvation.

But he also knows something that we may have forgotten, mainly because he has been hiding it from us: that faith is equally significant regarding our spiritual oneness.


The righteous will live by faith

Faith is crucial because it is the means by which we have a relationship with God.
As it is written, 'For by grace you have been saved through faith' (Eph 2:8).


Faith is how we receive the benefits of what Jesus has done for us. It's our faith again that will unlock the door to the power found only in spiritual oneness, and Satan knows it.
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For there the Lord commanded the blessing
Ps 133:3
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 It's because of this that he is desperately trying to prevent
you from taking back
the faith he stole from you.  

​I pray that they will all be one- as you are in me Father, and I am in you.
May they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.
 
Jn 17:21

There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;
​you were called into the one Spirit of God.
 
Eph 4:4

By his deceptions, he has refocused our attention away from faith in what God has already done and onto the carnal church in his natural world. 'Fix that mountain,' he says, showing us the vast unity problems, as if the Body of Christ and the carnal church ​were one and the same.
We must not forget that the perfect Body of Christ only dwells within the physical church in the natural. The worldly imperfections, divisions, and doctrinal differences are not the Body of Christ; she simply finds herself encased
within this man-made 'disappointment'.

Satan cannot steal our God-given spiritual oneness power.
But what he can do, and has done, is enticing us into redirecting our focus onto his custom-built mountain of demons,
​the divided global church in the natural.

But if we take our eyes off that mountain in the natural and put them back onto Christ and His one, holy, perfect Body, we see spiritually that we don't need to find our unity; we simply believe God's Word and walk as one in faith.



We all know perfectly well how faith works in the Kingdom of God: we won't see our second step until we have
faith enough to take our first.
Only then will our next steps become clear and manifest.
We don't need to doubt this;
the Holy Spirit longs to lead us in it - it's not something we have to figure out on our own. He is our Father, and we can be confident that if we have the faith and are willing,
​He will lead us by the hand into this new land.
He's been preparing for this day;
He's been in it, so He knows the way.
The only thing we need to do is hold His hand very tightly.


​From belief to unbelief, a drop at a time

The Lord has been showing me since 1975 that our enemy has skillfully 'drip-fed' us with tiny, camouflaged lies since
​the very first day we were born again.


​This may sound difficult to believe or even contemplate, but even the most experienced Christians know that we were all spiritual infants once, digesting the spiritual milk we were being fed.


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​As spiritual infants, we were enveloped by a subtle mist of lies, so fine and pervasive that it was indiscernible to us as newborn spirits. These lies seeped into every aspect of our lives,
shaping our senses, experiences, emotions,
and dreams,even our subconscious.

​ Like tiny pixels forming a cohesive image, they created a deceptive backdrop, designed to convince us that
​the Body of Christ has a need for unity.

We're trapped in a fabricated reality, designed to disarm us by eroding our confidence in who we truly are – the most powerful army ever assembled, the Body of God.

By deceiving us into doubting our identity, this insidious deception undermines our greatest strength.


 "Unity, that's what you need", Satan mocks,
and we've believed it. 
​BUT THE BRIDE HAS NEVER HAD THIS NEED



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Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and forever.
Hebrews 13:8
We know Satan's strategy is not original; he's used the same tactics repeatedly. As we examine the 'backdrop' of division in the natural, listen closely, and you'll recognize his voice –
we've heard it many times in our own walk with God.


We know that influencing our beliefs is his business and expertise. However, we also recall that when we chose to ignore him and open ourselves to the unbelievable, forgetting what we thought we knew, the Holy Spirit was more than willing
to share more of Jesus with us.

In fact, it's His purpose, and He eagerly awaits our call.
He has amazing spiritual power and blessings beyond our comprehension, waiting for us to receive from Him in faith.


The only thing holding us back is the formidable size of the giant or mountain we're facing in the natural, which has prevented us from moving forward spiritually in faith.

Let's conduct a meticulous examination of this intentionally built satanic stronghold, this mountain, with unwavering dedication, mental clarity, and openness of heart.

Notice how Satan has utilized all our past negative experiences and observations related to local and global disunity,
​etching them into our subconscious like

​trophies, posters and signposts.
These reminders constantly reinforce the disappointing realities of church unity, creating a backdrop – the mountain, his Goliath.
Wherever we look, the vast unity problems are inescapable,
and we can see each other's responses to them.
We've become part of each other's backdrop,
​much like the 'Emperor's New Clothes.'

Unwittingly, our actions and reactions propel his deception, perpetuating the illusion that global unity is required
​yet impossible.


The enemy's strategy is to steal our faith, it's been his
​successful strategy all along. If you examine this closely,
you'll see that it's a brilliant, strategic maneuver,
attacking the army of God from its blind side.

It's strikingly obvious once you see it.
Simply ask the Holy Spirit to reveal it to you.

Amazingly, he's brought the most powerful army ever
​to relative disablement without direct confrontation,
simply by manipulating our beliefs.



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Impossible,' we say. 'It's not realistic.'
How could we have been deceived on such a massive scale?
It's inconceivable, right?

​We attribute it to human nature, free will, or just one of those things. '50,000+ denominations and all the other endless reasons for disunity' –it's just how things are.

But what if it's not?
​What if it's a masterfully crafted plan by our enemy,
a grand deception that has us convinced of our own limitations?


Are we absolutely certain about this?
Leaders, would you bet billions of lost souls on it
while we strive so hard to reach just one precious life?

That's exactly what we will be doing if we dismiss this
without examination, without asking the Holy Spirit
to reveal deeper spiritual truths.
​He's eager to show us more of the things of God,
as clearly stated in His Word, but we must ask.

​Are we open – wide open – to considering the unbelievable?
Or are we closed off? If we're closed, the veil remains,
and our enemy can easily deflect our focus.
His demons can then continue to freely scale
and breach our undefended walls
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What's not immediately apparent from our individual perspective is that when we view ourselves as a unified team against external challenges, teamwork becomes the priority.

From this vantage point, disagreements and doctrinal differences become irrelevant in the grand scheme.
Instead, we see that every challenge comes with one purpose:
to divide our team. By adopting this perspective,
​ we gain clarity on the truth.


For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, ​against spiritual wickedness in high places. Eph_6:12

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From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part,
maketh increase of the body unto the
edifying of itself in love
Eph 4:11-16

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"How can we offer peace and love to a chaotic culture, if we don't have it within our own ranks"?  Nicky Cruz.

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It’s nothing more than taking our eyes off his Goliath
and putting them back on our God.

We weren’t born again into a faction, and contrary
to what Satan tells us, we don’t have to choose one.

We are the whole and complete Body of Christ;
our denominations, ministries, and churches aren’t
more important than the Body itself.
If they are to some leaders, those leaders aren’t fit for leadership, and God will remove them.

Denominations are man-made—I’d say Satan-made--
​and he births two new ones every day from sin.

​I’ll show you this in a minute.

Yes, two new denominations start every day—it’s shocking and unbelievable. But as shocking as this is, the more shocking and unbelievable thing is that we’re not talking about it.

I've never heard this before, have you?
Have you ever heard any one of us address from the pulpit
the issue of two ​new Christian denominations forming every 24 hours, or discuss what we're doing to address it?
No, neither have I.
​Why is that, do you wonder?

It's as if the proliferation of denominations is a dirty secret
we're hiding from our own consciousness, and
conveniently imagining the world hasn't noticed.

Let's remember now, the number of times we've heard from those pulpits that our testimonies are important,
I whole heartedly agree with you leaders.

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​Why isn't this obvious disgrace we're bringing upon Jesus
being dealt with as a matter of urgent importance?



It's simple, it wouldn't fit into Satan's backdrop,
another words, he's got us all transfixed on the size of the giant. Our spiritual paralysis won't allow us to believe there
is anything substantial we can do about it.


There we saw the giants, and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight. 
Numbers 13:25-33

I pray you are hearing from the Holy Spirit and these scriptures are beginning to speak to you in a new way.

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​Does the enemy suggest that global unity requires
compromising our faith or watering down our doctrine? 
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Perhaps it implies partnering with churches with vastly different interpretations of scripture, ones that seem plain wrong to us. 


Thoughts of unified worship under misguided leadership
​might also come to mind.


​But why should it, when there's only the truth?
Those who have received Christ are one in Christ and grace.
That's where we need to be focused.

And then there's​ everything else—law, denominations, traditions--and an endless list of other temptations,
all of which is nothing more ​than smoke and mirrors.

This is where we must not be focused.
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We know sin is at the root of all disunity in the Body of Christ, and our enemy can't force us to sin – we always have a choice. This means he can't compel us to accept his reasons for division or act on them; we must willingly choose and accept one.

Am I saying we're being deceived and tempted into choosing disunity over our natural state of oneness?

Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
​We've been deceived into moving away from our spiritual starting point – and this leads to our actions,
reactions, and the outward ​appearance of disunity
​that we and the world see.

No matter how hard we work towards unity in this state of unbelief, we have no chance of success, and Satan knows it.
 

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As I said, did you know that two new Christian denominations are birthed from sin every 24 hours? Denominations, not churches or ministries. If we're serious about reaching the lost world with God's love, shouldn't we be wondering why this isn't being addressed in every born-again church?
There are plenty of Christians questioning how this is allowed
​to happen –listen to Nicky's heart again on the matter.
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​"How can we offer peace and love to a chaotic culture,
​if we don't have it within our own ranks
"?  
Nicky Cruz.
It seems we're more concerned with appearances, 
than with addressing the underlying issues,

and I speak from church experiences.
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​Two new Christian denominations birthed from sin every 24 hours

​34,000 denominations in 2000, by 2012 there are estimated 43,000. These figures have exploded since the year 1900 when there were 'only' 1,600 denominations, ​which tells us that in the 112 years since 1900 a total of 41,400 new Christian denominations have been formed. This equates to over 369 per year, more than one every day. But that's not all, it gets worse, see between 2000 and 2012 ​there were 9000 new breakaways, which equates to 750 per year or over two every day. That's two new denominations formed every day from 2000 to 2012. It is estimated there will be 55,000 denominations by the year 2025, so we can see ​clearly that the attacks of division on the army of God are intensifying, and this does not take into account the 'cracks' forming and already formed within todays denominations. 
(All this information was taken from Wikipedia around 2015)

I am updating this now in Feb, 2025, I see no letup in the attacks on the Church.
Throughout this website I have referenced 40,000 denominations, which was approxamatly true when I began to write on this site. However according to Wikipedia we can now assume there are 55,000. Leaving you to do the math, that must now be far more than two new Christian denominations birthed from sin every day.
​You see the point, that our enemy's attacks are intensifying, and what is our response to it?
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When we look at the world today in light of this information,
it seems like the church has suffered a seriously damaging attack that hasn't been addressed or defended against – somehow slipping under our spiritual radar.
It's like a stealth attack on an undefended
wall from our blindside.
Do you see that?


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Unfortunately, deceptions happen to unsuspecting
Christian leaders all the time. 


 If larger churches truly cared about the Church of Christ, wouldn't they prioritize showing love and encouragement to the smaller ones, demonstrating the unity that comes from their shared oneness in Christ?

I've witnessed too many times established church leaderships identify a need in an area and decide to plant a new church, without considering the smaller local church already there.

Satan often whispers reasons against collaboration,
citing doctrinal, social, economic, or cultural differences. Ambitious leaders of the larger church may lend an ear to these concerns, and ultimately, nothing beneficial happens
​for the oneness of Christ.


I wouldn't like to say it, but I've heard it from many disgruntled congregations that it seems the leaders of the larger church are more interested in their own 'kingdom building' than in
the unity of the Body of Christ.

It's not hard to see their reasoning: the smaller church only needed a little Holy Spirit-filled encouragement and support –
a helping hand on the battlefield. Instead of that, the enemy points out to them how the larger church without a thought,
​ is blindly and carelessly treading all over them.


Why have you come out to draw up for battle? I defy the armies of Isreal this day.  
1 Sam 17​

​The giant is again mocking God and His people.
Satan is presenting a false perspective to the larger church leadership, highlighting the difficulties of partnering with another team while showcasing the benefits of planting their own 
satellite church with their own leadership.

But that's our Goliath today, telling God's people they don't
have enough faith to trust in what God has already done:
Our today Goliath is shouting out clearly to us.

"Why have you come out for battle, you don't even believe in yourselves or God's Word, you are what you think you are,
just cockroaches."


Satan knows he has us transfixed on the perspective of size; we've lost our faith to see past his Goliath.

The leadership of the larger churches that planted another new church in the backyard of the smaller church shows apathy and indifference to their fellow soldiers on the
front lines of the army of God.
Of course, we believe we make these decisions with the best intentions, but the spiritual fact is we've been
deceived by our enemy.
Again, leaders, if you don't accept that, then bring your reason for your doubt out into the light and let us meet our God at the brook. I am available – where is your reason?

 
Righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written:

​The righteous will live by faith.  
Rom 1:17



So let's take those reasons and present them to God, and see them for what they really are.
Leaders, even if we're confident in our reasons and explanations for why we can't bless and encourage those with different doctrines than ours, or even receive this revelation, I assure you that you won't be able to bring those reasons and expose them openly before God.
Here's why: all those reasons or justifications we use are nothing more than camouflaged demons, sitting at the table of our decision-making, disguised as truth and God's will. But if they were legitimate, why do they refuse to allow you to bring them out into the light? The truth is, they are all part of the stronghold in our thinking.


Are you asking congregations to believe that God can do all things, except when it comes to His own global Church?

Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him:
for the marriage of the lamb has come, and his wife hath
made herself ready.

Revelation 19:7 KJV​​
We're not individual droplets, soldiers, or brigades on our own crusade; we're part of God's one army.
The encouragement and love shown in your church can be a powerful blessing to other churches. We want the world to see and understand that what unites us—Jesus—is far greater than what divides us—sin. I know we all agree on this.



It may seem easier to ignore the symptoms of division,
but they're obvious to the world and contribute to
keeping it in darkness.
Ignoring this issue as we can see, is a catastrophic
military disaster. It's also denial, and we know
​there's no healing in denial.

As representatives of the Truth, this should deeply unsettle us. It's naive to think the world hasn't noticed our shortcomings, especially when we're sharing the Good News.
​Behind our backs, they call us ridiculous hypocrites.


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​We can be sure that our enemy has all our individual personal measurements of our weaknesses, even those we don't know we have. He's a fly fisherman of a different caliber,
and if we're the fish biting today, he'll find and offer
us the perfect bespoke lure.
He'll keep offering them to us until we eventually choose one – any one 'reason' that takes our eyes away and back onto his mountain, the backdrop – and then we'll stay believing global unity is impossible.

BUT ONLY IF WE'RE BITING​.


He's not bothered which lure, as long as we willingly swallow one. That's his only purpose and objective here – to undermine our faith in the power of our oneness, in any way and at any cost. But it has to be with our consent; we have to choose from his colossal menu for his strategy to work.

As I said, he can't make us sin or choose a reason to believe it's impossible for the Body of Christ to walk in her natural state of oneness in this world. All he can do is keep offering us lures – reasons from his colossal menu.



But if we know we're one in Christ by grace in faith,
we're unimpressed, and we'll see that all his lures and reasons equate to exactly the same thing. In the spiritual realm,
we see that they all look the same.

It's of no value to us, knowing we are one in Christ,
just as the religious know whatever it is they know (the law).
By our Father's grace, we then clearly see that we have nothing to fear regarding this Goliath – it's he who is really afraid of us, as one.

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Obviously, the truth of our oneness is irrelevant if we don't believe it, and our reasons for not believing it
are all individual to us.
Our paths to this subconscious conclusion have all been unique.


How many times have we had this thought: 'God is in control, and He understands the reasons for our disunity.

Jesus will sort it all out on His return. Let's just focus on those all-important ministries that God has called us to?'
When we hear this, be assured it is the voice of our enemy.

 We've heard this from some of the mightiest soldiers,
but does that sound right to you,
considering we've already been given everything?
'It is finished' suggests that our salvation and unity
are already accomplished.

Jn 19:30
​Since when do grooms prepare their brides?

The Bride will ready herself.
 Rev  19:7

Satan's not bothered which path we took to unbelief;
all that matters to him is that we chose one of his lies and ended up here, believing that global unity is impossible.

But when we settle for that, are we feeling the pain that Jesus must feel, seeing His Church, His beloved Bride, tearing herself apart from the inside like a person possessed,

while billions of souls are going to hell?

No matter how much we love our God, our church, and our brothers, if we don't know that we're one in Christ, we'll be deceived from our blindside. We'll eventually choose one path or justification from his inexhaustible menu that inevitably
​leads us down to base camp, unbelief.

Or, if we're not wearing our unshakeable faith in our oneness like a rubber wetsuit, we won't stay 'dry' for long in an ocean of reasons for believing in our own division--
​we'll eventually accept one


Jesus said "if a kingdom be divided against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand".
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Mar 3:24​

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Is Jesus a bigamist, as Derek Prince asked?
No, our Groom is coming for us together, His Bride as one. Where the last shall be first, and where our weakest and slowest are carried up front by our strongest and fastest, our priceless maverick warriors have come home, along with all the prodigal sons who will come out from the caves, just as I have. We are going home together as one, and nothing can or will stop us.


​But Jesus looked at them and said to them, 
​“With men this is impossible, but with God
​all things are possible.”​ Matt 19:26  
How can any one of us preach that 'nothing is impossible for our God' to the congregations while believing something very different regarding Jesus' own Church?
It doesn't make any sense to me, and I find it unacceptable.
I'm sure your spirit is just as grieved as mine—I hope and pray that it is. But is it?


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We can now tell our enemy that things have changed, and we will no longer follow his rules or play his game.
We won't be concerned with what our enemy is showing us about the apparent size of this task, because we know our omnipresent Father has already been here in this day,
and is a little bit bigger than this wee mountain.

So we know He's already provided in abundance everything the Bride needs to rise up together in His love. There's literally nothing that can stop it from happening.
The truth is, it has already happened—we just need to get out of Father's way and watch.


 His bride has made herself ready.​ Rev 19:7  Past tense

​Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
​Rom 8:37
  

Let us remember now that we are not heading out to the battle here, we are returning home from the victory,
​AS ONE IN CHRIST​​​
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Then the multitudes of previously reticent foot soldiers will see the difference, hear the Spirit, and rise up, coming out from within the ranks of the battalions whose generals promote their own colors before their King, for the harvest is ripe.

It won't take long for the congregations to vote with their feet if they see their leaders reject 'walking in faith as one,' because the Holy Spirit will reveal to them that this message is without doubt from the throne room of God.


Disciples seeking truth will recognize the true shepherds by their example, and the old rhetoric promoting their own organization will begin to smell like sour milk.

Love your neighbour church, ministry and denomination as your own.
Let nothing be done through selfish ambition,
but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than itself.

Philippians 2:3

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​​As it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him-- 1 Cor 2:9
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faith always precedes proof 


Before we saw the light, we had a lot of practical questions,
like now. And just like the story of Jesus, the answer didn't look like what we wanted to hear. How could believing and trusting in Jesus possibly help us solve our huge life problems?

We wanted answers to our worldly questions before we'd commit and lay our lives down for this unseen Jesus. Looking back, we recognize our enemy's strategies. In response to his endless whispers of doubt and fear, the answer is always the same...


​We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
​Romans 8:37
We are well-equipped for this journey. We can testify that God would always show up when we shared the gospel with the lost in faith. So we know we can handle negative responses from disapproving or suspicious leaders, because sharing the Good News with the lost wasn't always easy. But we coped because we knew it was the truth, we knew who lives in us,
and we know what's at stake.
We'll approach the churches, ministries, and denominations around us with the same resilient spirit, knowing the Holy Spirit is with us and about to do a miracle.
And if we don't get the unity result we want, we'll pray about it and pray for the other church, reacting no differently or being
no more dispondent than we are when sharing
the good news with the lost


​And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear your words,
​when ye depart out of that house or city, shake off the dust of your feet.

Matt 10:14
​ Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
Isa 31:4
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We know where to look for our Father's truth: it's living and always current for today, loaded with every scripture we need.
It speaks deeper into a new perspective of our true oneness.
I can testify firsthand that many Holy Scriptures are about to open up for us in a fresh, new, and deeper way regarding this word – walking as one in faith.

​We know that after a revelation, there is always
a 'new beginning'. This means that even though achieving unity has been fraught with difficulties and disappointments in the past, we now have 'the new beginning' in front of us.
Walking in faith as one is not an improvement on the Church;
it is the Bride readying herself for her Groom.

We won't be a nation held back by our past anymore;
It's now about our willingness to move.

Our tent pegs are coming out, and 
we are on the move,
we're on our way home, and we're going home
together as ONE.

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NOTHING can or will stop us, if there is something out there that thinks it can,
​bring it now for the slaying.
​I was born for this day.
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​39 Now when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces; and they said, 
“The Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

40 And Elijah said to them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let one of them escape” So they seized them; and Elijah brought them down to the Brook Kishon and executed them there. 
1 Kings 18:39-40
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Thank you for investing your time in reading these pages.
I pray that the Holy Spirit has revealed to you that they hold just a drop from the vast ocean of our oneness truth.
My purpose is to share this truth with the Bride of Christ;
I am here and live for that purpose.

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​Love in the ONENESS of CHRIST

​Stephen David

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