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This is the word of the Lord.......

My name has been brought to a place of misguided rhetoric and many are painfully unaware of who I am. The culture has promoted fear and trepidation and has caused many to jump out of their box by becoming admirers of Culture and lewd displays of sexual behaviors. If it's normal it must be ok!

The new normal. See how fast a world can change. I have come to bring a truth that is no longer popular, it is becoming adherent to the norm. Once culture came from the truth of my life, now culture is built around the cause of Christian takedown. If it looks good, do it..... if it is normal explore it.....

That's why Satan starts with the children building a platform that conforms to the culture and radiates freedom to choose who and what you want to be, not who and what you were created to be! So many choices!

In today's culture we are fascinated by what is available to us to choose from. When the Lord gave me this word, I immediately remembered going into my neighborhood ice cream store as a kid and picking out my favorite flavor from the Many options available. Mine was always Pistachio you know that green ice cream with the nuts and cherries in it. I know no one else in my family ever enjoyed pistachio and didn't really understand why I ever got it. And yes, it was an unusual choice from what most kids my age got like chocolate strawberry or vanilla. But for me it was super delicious and somehow fit my tastes perfectly.

But our lives cannot be dictated by so many choices that we are misguided into believing that to find our perfect fit we need to peruse Every available option that is before us until we Settle on just the right one!

Our lives and the way that we were created have nothing to do with ice cream!

In Romans 12:2 the Niv version it says..... "Do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is - his good, pleasing and perfect will."

The whole chapter of Ephesians chapter five speaks about how we should really live our lives. "Be very careful then how you live not as unwise but as wise making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil."

How do we live in culture and not be a part of it? Romans 12: 2 gives us a command, " Do not conform to the pattern of this world."

The people of Israel were given the promised land. All of Israel were to be different from the rest of the world. They were to be wholly and set apart from the culture around them. We are to stand firm amid the wicked culture, we are to live differently, and we must acknowledge that there are things accepted in our culture that as Jesus followers we must turn away from!

Pray fervently for our Young People so that they can See and not be blinded by all the many choices around them.