Prophetic Signs of the Times

For Such A Time As This! My Glorious Church Without Spot Or Wrinkle     

IF YOU PREACH THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD AS JESUS COMMANDED US, YOU GET KINGDOM RESULTS.  We weren't told to preach the gospel of salvation, but the gospel of The Kingdom of God.  You can't have a kingdom without a king and you can't enter that kingdom without submission to that King, Jesus.  Jesus can't be savior if He isn't Lord in your life.

You can know the word of God and not know or experience the God of the Word.  This ministry is dedicated to showing why we are not knowing or experiencing the God of the Word in order that you might.  God created us for intimacy with Him and to experience His power and presence.  We are not to be a church that has a form of Godliness and deny the power thereof.

The resurrected Jesus appeared first to a woman and He told her to "Go tell His disciples" and so I do just that!  We are a ministry dedicated to teaching discernment in the church and preparing a church or bride "Without Spot or Wrinkle". This ministry washes the church in the Truth, or the water of the word in these end times and teaches discernment where there are so many false beliefs and doctrines of demons within the church. We are a prophetic and teaching ministry. God has also called us to a ministry that "Turns the Hearts of the Fathers". This ministry brings truth and healing into hurting relationships and allows you to apply the truth of God's word in your life to bring about healing and reconciliation in family relationships.

 

   

To contact Joanne Armstrong for speaking engagements, call: 813-393-9384

 

 

 

 
WHAT GRACE IS
 
Grace = Charis; the Devine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life of the person resulting in gratitude, thank worthiness, benefit, liberality (from slavery to sin not freedom to sin), acceptance, favor, joy and pleasure.
A person who has received the biblical definition of grace will demonstrate that their heart has been influenced by God. It will result in gratitude, freedom from slavery to sin, being thankful, being shown acceptance, favor, joy and pleasure manifested by God in their life.
 
GRACE does NOT mean unmerited favor because you believe WITHOUT exhibiting the divine influence on the heart that changes a person. Grace doesn’t leave them enslaved to sin, ungrateful, unthankful, unholy and God won’t demonstrate His joy and pleasure in such a person that doesn’t exhibit the divine influence on their heart that produces change and gratitude toward Him.
 
God said, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased” after Jesus was water and Holy Spirit baptized. That was God showing His grace or acceptance, pleasure, joy and favor on Jesus for His submission and obedience to the Father through faith.
 
WHAT GRACE GRANTS OR GIVES
 
Grace grants people Charisma which is translated deliverance from danger or fleshly passions, spiritual endowment, spiritual qualifications, miraculous faculty or giftings. Devine power! Enduement of special favor resulting in kindness, pardon, deliverance, rescue from harm and forgiveness.
 
WHAT GRACE TEACHES
 
To live godly in this present world! If you don’t see evidence of godly living, biblical grace has not influenced the heart of that person and they, therefore, will not receive what grace grants.
 
GOD IS GRACIOUS
 
Translated God will supply that which is needed. Sending a Devine oracle. To be employed or used by God! To lite upon or anoint! To entreat or use.
 
Years ago God taught me about true grace which is not the grace the church teaches. I was sound asleep and the Lord woke me up saying my name, Joanne! Yet I knew I’m my spirit He was wanting me to get up and look up the Hebrew translation of Joanne. It is the feminine form of John. It is translated “God is gracious or I will supply that which is needed when it is needed. God will anoint and employ or use one He sends to speak. God will lite upon someone He sends to speak"!
 
That is the translation of Joanne and He wanted me to know it! It is also the translation of the name of the Johns you see in the Bible. My name is my calling and He named me! He formed mein my mother’s womb for such a time as this. I didn’t choose it! I would have picked the beautiful singing voice to proclaim worship for the one who is holy and deserving of all praise. Anyone used in this way has gone through a lot of pain and hard knocks and quite frankly I should be dead and much of my life I wished I was! We are forged in the fire until all the dross has been ladled out and we know we are nothing without His graciousness or Him supplying that which is needed! You can’t be fully used of God until you have been fully emptied of self!
 
Living in the times we are living in, it is apparent to me the deception and sin in the end time church is staggering because of the false definition of grace that keeps people enslaved to sin because it is defined as unmerited favor by simply believing. That is not the biblical definition of grace. Grace influences the heart to change and as a result, He displays His favor, deliverance, liberty from slavery to sin, power and kindness toward the one demonstrating that divine influence in their life. Grace by definition means the person will exhibit that divine influence with gratitude toward God, Holy living, and thankfulness! If you don’t see that, the person has not received or been influenced by the biblical definition of grace. They are deceived and most will not receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. God cannot bring judgment without first warning and teaching, and thus He sends His messengers (translated angels which John was called) to supply that which is needed, which is truth. Once truth has been given, the person is now accountable to God for what he did with what God supplied. Thus He sends the Johns and Joannes to make straight the path for His return. Don’t be deceived! Jesus warned the  most about deception in these end times!
 
GRACE WITHOUT TRUTH IS LICENSE TO SIN. TRUTH WITHOUT GRACE IS JUDGMENT. CHRIST IS BOTH GRACE AND TRUTH.

IN ORDER TO GROW IN HIS IMAGE WE MUST EXPERIENCE CHRIST AS BOTH. TRUTH SHOULD ALWAYS LEAD TO GRACE UNLESS IT IS SHORT CIRCUITED BY DENIAL.  You cannot receive the grace without confession and repentance.

YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT GRACE AND FORGIVENESS UNTIL YOU HAVE FIRST TALKED ABOUT AND EXPOSED SIN AND CALLED SINNERS TO REPENTANCE, WHICH IS HOW JOHN THE BAPTIST AND JESUS STARTED THEIR MINISTRY.  THIS IS IN ORDER THAT THE KINGDOM OF GOD CAN BE MANIFESTED AND RECEIVED.  TODAY, IF YOU CALL PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE AND CALL SIN WHAT GOD CALLS SIN, YOU ARE LABELED "LEAGALISTIC".  This comes from the pit of hell so that satan can stop the KINGDOM OF GOD from being manifested and received on the earth.  Jesus declared that the Kingdom of God is at hand, or present to be received, but repentance is required because God will not empower you to not sin if you want to keep sinning, right? 

JESUS IS THE WAY, OR THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN AND ACCESS TO GOD THE FATHER.  THAT IS THE SALVATION MESSAGE AND MANY CHURCHES JUST STOP THERE.  People never grow to spiritual maturity and the gifts of the spirit are only manifested in the spiritually mature "sons of God".  The inheritance is saved for the "sons of God" and kept or held from the "children of God" until they mature.  If we want  to see the miracles and gifts of the spirit manifested, the church needs to mature past salvation only.  Satan has darkened our eyes to who Jesus is and what He has done because we will take back what he has stolen from us if we mature and were empowered with the gifts of the spirit, walking in the ministry God has called us to. Your pastor and the five fold ministry are to equip you for your ministry.  Today, church is just another form of entertainment as we have churches that have a form of Godliness but deny (reject) the power with their "grace is a license to sin, God is love only" doctrine while neglecting the rest.

JESUS IS ALSO THE TRUTH WHICH PULLS DOWN OUR STONGHOLDS OF WRONG THINKING.  IT IS THE TRUTH THAT WASHES US IN THE WATER OF THE WORD SO THAT WE ARE WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE.  TO REJECT ANY TRUTH THAT JESUS BRINGS INTO OUR LIFE IS TO REJECT JESUS.  WE MUST BE HUMBLE AND TEACHABLE BECAUSE MUCH OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT IN THE CHURCH IS WRONG AND HE IS COMING TO RESTORE HIS CHURCH.  WE  MUST KNOW HIM AS THE TRUTH.  THIS IS NOT WHAT JESUS DOES BUT WHO HE IS.  As Jesus said to Peter when He knelt to wash Peter's feet, "If you do not allow me to wash you, you have no part with me."  No part means "no part", so it is important that we allow the Lord to tear down our mental strongholds of false teaching we have been fed.  Be teachable.

JESUS IS ALSO THE LIFE.  WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO GIVE OUR LIFE TO CHRIST.  WE DON'T GIVE OUR LIFE TO JESUS, WE GET OUR LIFE FROM JESUS.  GRACE MEANS "I WILL PROVIDE THAT WHICH IS NEEDED OR I WILL EMPOWER YOU."  IT ISN'T THE LICENSE TO SIN BUT THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO YOU NOT TO SIN.  IT IS THIS LIFE THAT IS THE LIGHT IN MAN.  WE HAVE A CHURCH BELIEVING THAT GRACE IS A LICENSE TO SIN INSTEAD OF THE POWER OF GOD GIVEN TO YOU NOT TO SIN, WHICH UNBELIEVERS DO NOT HAVE.  YOUR FREEDOM IN CHRIST COMES FROM SIN HAVING NO MORE POWER OVER YOU AND YOU ARE NO LONGER A SLAVE TO IT.  YOU HAVE BEEN EMPOWERED TO NOT SIN.  JESUS DIDN'T DO AWAY WITH THE LAW.  HE FULFILLED IT.  WATER BAPTISM IS FOR THE REMISSION OF PAST SIN AND BAPTISM IN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE EMPOWERMENT TO NOT SIN, WHICH WAS NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL CHRIST'S RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD AND SENDING THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST.  JESUS WAS BAPTISED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT IMMEDIATELY AFTER BEING WATER BAPTISED BY JOHN THE BAPTIST.  IF IT WAS SOMETHING JESUS FOUND NECESSARY TO DO, WHY DO WE TAKE IT SO CASUALLY.  IF  YOU WONDER WHY MORE BELIEVERS ARE NOT BEING BAPTISED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, DO FIRST THINGS FIRST AND WATER BAPTISE THEM IMMEDIATELY IF THEY HAVE CONFESSED AND REPENTED.  REPENTANCE IS THE KEY TO RECEIVING THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND WHAT JESUS DIED TO PROVIDE US WITH.   BAPTISMS (plural) ARE FOUNDATIONAL TEACHINGS IN THE CHURCH AND NOT OPTIONAL.  WHEN PHILLIP PREACHED THE GOSPEL TO THE ENUICH, HE SPOKE OF WATER BAPTISM BECAUSE HE ASKED PHILLIP WHAT WAS PREVENTING HIM FROM BEING BAPTISED AND PHILLIP TOLD HIM NOTHING.  PHILLIP IMMEDIATELY BAPTISTED HIM IN THE RIVER.  WATER BAPTISM IS PART OF THE EVANGELICAL MESSAGE IN WITNESSING TO OTHERS.  WE MUST ALSO COME TO KNOW JESUS AS THE LIFE.  THIS IS ALSO WHO HE IS, NOT WHAT HE DOES.

TO REJECT THE WAY, THE TRUTH OR THE LIFE IN YOUR LIFE IS TO REJECT JESUS.  LET US ENTER IN TO ALL HE HAS DIED TO PROVIDE US WITH.

Jesus said that judgment starts in the house of the Lord or the church first.  The Lord will judge His church before He judges the world.  That is why the Book of Revelation starts with the Lord judging the churches first and calling them to repentance before judgment and wrath are poured out on the children of disobedience and unbelievers. 

 

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