Eddie James Ministries

Instead of misquoting scriptures.. I’ve copied them word for word. theres enough there to weed out all the people that aren’t hungry for the Word. Please, take time & read them. It will help you understand where this blog’s roots lie, not in my personal opinion but in the rock solid truth of God’s own holy Word. If the Bible, even through different languages & translations, isn’t the infallible Word of God. Then there is no foundation, and nothing solid to build anything on, & every thing is opinion. Let’s be honest, just like parachute pants & the Macarena, outside of antique novelties, our opinions don’t stand the test of time. I thank God for not changing. Way before electricity, sliced bread and the wheel, God was jealously defending pure Love (1 Corinthians13, John 14:15-15:13)

There it was–the true Light [was then] coming into the world [the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light] that illumines every person. He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him [did not know Him]. He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own--His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him. But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His name– Who owe their birth neither to bloods nor to the will of the flesh [that of physical impulse] nor to the will of man [that of a natural father], but to God. [They are born of God!] (John 1:9-13 AMP)

“NOW THERE was a certain man among the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler (a leader, an authority) among the Jews, Who came to Jesus at night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know and are certain that You have come from God [as] a Teacher; for no one can do these signs (these wonderworks, these miracles–and produce the proofs) that You do unless God is with him. Jesus answered him, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, that unless a person is born again (anew, from above), he cannot ever see (know, be acquainted with, and experience) the kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter his mother’s womb again and be born? Jesus answered, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, unless a man is born of water and [even] the Spirit, he cannot [ever] enter the kingdom of God. What is born of [from] the flesh is flesh [of the physical is physical]; and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.” (John 3:1-6 AMP)

“And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert [on a pole], so must [so it is necessary that] the Son of Man be lifted up [on the cross], In order that everyone who believes in Him [who cleaves to Him, trusts Him, and relies on Him] may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever! For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him. He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.] The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved. But he who practices truth [who does what is right] comes out into the Light; so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are–wrought with God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence upon Him]“. (John 3:14-21 AMP)

These scriptures show us a portion of what “Salvation” is, in a very practical way. Before I get too far into this, I just wanna acknowledge how cliche and diluted words like “Christian” “freedom” “Salvation” “born again” “new creation” and other buzzwords have become. I pray this brings a new vibrancy to these key words, and brings a fresh breath to our new life in Christ. Now after laying out the Scripture references clearly, I would like to speak to you from the Word (Jesus) that lives inside of me.
In the first scripture John talks about Jesus being the light. And everyone who receives The Light (namely Himself) He gives the privilege of becoming the Sons of God. That is, when we truly begin to rely on His name we can be sure that we are not born of the will of the flesh (because God knows when I followed my fleshly impulses, there is no way I would be writing this. If I was still “born of,” that is following, the flesh I would be with a woman & smoking crack right now.) Im sure not born of the will of men. (If it was up to let’s say, my parents, they had good plans for my life. Go through school maybe join the military, or go to college.) but being born of Gods will. (The will inside the will. The perfect will of God) I’ve been taken captive by the wonderful Love of Jesus. And I never wanna be set free.

In the second scripture I referenced, Jesus is talking to Nicodemus. Jesus tells him “no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are “born again.” Nicodemus asks Jesus “how can an old person be born? Crawl back into his mother womb?” I love that he doesn’t pretend to know what Jesus is talking about. He was willing to ask. I’m learning to do this. To ask the Holy Spirit questions, ask the One who will teach us all things (1John 2:20) Then Jesus tells him ” You can be sure, unless you are born of water and of the Spirit you will not be able to inter the kingdom of heaven” From this passage you could talk about being born of water being the broken water from a mothers womb or baptism. Being born of the Spirit; speaking in other tongues or being slain in the Spirit (falling out under the power of the Holy Ghost) you could say being born of the Spirit happens in full measure when you accept Jesus. This is a side note that I wanna add.. If we accept Jesus we are saved, being saved, and will be saved. Our Spirits were “saved” on the day we accept Jesus. Our souls (our own will, thought-life, & emotions) are being saved (Hebrews 7:25) through sanctification and regeneration (the process of transforming our minds Romans 12) Our bodies will be saved @ the second coming of Christ.(Mathew 24:13) When all the dead in him will arise. Just because we’re on the topic of Salvation.
I would say being you can be assured you are “born of the Spirit” when there is a vibrant encounter (inner witness) when you call to mind (recollect) the attributes of God (how faithful He’s been, how He loves mercy, how He never changes, how awesome, powerful and mighty he is, how when you look up at the sky and ask “who am I that You are even mindful of me?” His majesty and good leadership) AMEN, HALLELUYAH!

The part in the 3rd piece of scripture I would like to highlight states that whoever “believes” in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. Later in the excerpt it says that Jesus didn’t come to condemn the world but to redeem it, and to those who confide in Him there is no judgement ; But the ones who don’t believe are judged already by the fact that the Light has come and they loved the darkness rather than light. Every one who loves darkness hates light because when the lite of truth comes it corrects & changes the darkness. So If you wanna keep your dirt you hide it under the rug. When we learn to practice truth (tattling on ourself) we can (even before we are out of sin physically) begin to appose it by exposing it. Expose it to the light of the Word, to the throne of grace in prayer, as expose it to Spiritual Authority (pastor, elder, mom & dad) in your life. I find no chasm fixed between belief in Jesus and “practicing truth.” It is showing us practically how to walk out our belief. You wanna appose it expose it. Not revealing is hiding and hiding is agreeing. What we don’t kill will continue and what continues will grow until it consumes us.
You wanna win the war with sin?
The secret weapon is confession.
The reason we have to be “Born Again” is because were dead in our sin. (Col. 2:13) it’s time for Ressurection
When we’re born of God his DNA spreads like an infection.
We’ll call this the Inception.

I would like to start by saying I’m not perfect. I have a fatally flawed soul, and like everyone else, I’m trapped In this flesh suit. I’m damaged goods, fragile, and desperately in need of being saved from my opinion daily. I know where I got me. (grossly perverse, addicted to crack, deceived into thinking I was doing alright “saved”) The Grace and Mercy of God is the only good thing that has ever happened to me. With out the grace of God I know what I’m capable of still, without it. Just like everyone else, I am one decision away. The decision can go both ways. One bad choice can ruin the rest of our vapor here on this earth. Everyone believes in God when they have no where else to turn. Lets put Him as the first choice. If you take the first moments you have when you wake up before the busyness & responsibility to worship God (Thank Him, to admire His work in your life) – the timing of your whole day will be offset. The positive possibilities are endless when you devote time to God, it changes everything. (Luke13:20&21) Again He said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God to? It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of flour until it spread through the entire mixture.” If we take the time to read His word and pray everyday that little consistent commitment to God will rearrange our entire life. lets say 25 minutes daily, that will add up to almost 3 hours a week. If we could truly acknowledge God IN all our ways he would order every step that we take. Imagine how much time we will accumulate. The big things to us aren’t big to God. It’s the consistent everyday stuff. When you ask God to help you find something you misplaced, the small stuff touches His heart. Not asking him about the big investment, that’s good to do that too, but everyone does that. One choice can alter the course of life from this moment forward. Leave every failure and triumph behind. It’s way too hard for us to let go of our plans. Even our success rate can hinder what God wants to do in a moment. It’s too hard for us to trust God. We trust our methods instead of our Creator. If we could place all we are on the blazing altar of God’s loving, jealous heart, we might find that like us, God is Looking for something to pour everything He is into. We’re made in His image. Instead of looking at Him we focus on how we look to everyone else, and pinpoint everyone else’s failures. We look to receive from each other what God would give to us if we could quit filling our “belly” (soul or seat of desire, bowels, the deep inward parts) with temporal “junk food” (pacifiers, appetite suppressants) and get hungry. Jesus, You alone satisfy my soul. I used to inhale gasoline to get high. It was always there. I believe the only reason I really loved smoking crack so much was what I had to do to get it. The journey, the process, the chase. It’s in my nature to seek. I would scheme up something to get one more. My DNA is to crave, to breach the gap between want and have. We can only want what we don’t have. So when we have it we have to want something else. That’s why if we knew we had the fullness of God we wouldn’t be able to want Him. We have so much, but there is still so much more that God wants to do in & through us. If we weren’t content with what we have we would be wiling to reach for more. We have to be disgusted with where we are to be able to let the old die and get something new. We don’t have any room. Value is determined by the price you’re willing to pay for something. If you like what you have why would you pay for anything new? you may say “But I’ve been saved by grace through faith, it was a gift from God”. I fully agree with the Bible & the gift of salvation. The Bible also says I build yourself up in your most holy faith by praying in the Spirit. It’s like if some one gives you a vehicle you still have to change the oil you have to maintain it. Pump the tires up. Or let’s say we’re the tire & God goes to fill us up with the breathe of his Holy Spirit. We cry “God there’s too much pressure!” When that is what it will take to keep the load your carrying from damaging the rims. How about the pressure that forms coal into diamonds. Without that pressure we form it into charcoal briquettes Kings ford & watch it burn. The very same substance, after I goes through the right process is used to show off our marriage covenant, with the right amount of pressure. The thing we run from is what increases our value. Strengthens us makes us transparent able to refract the light and allow others to see the vibrant color spectrum. But we live in the day of pansy “Christianity” charismatic comfort and coffee shop church. The day where children select where their parents go to churches based on programs and “McDonald type” play places & cheap happy meal toy gimmicks. The sign of the bride (body) of Christ is love. Real love in its greatest form abandons everything for the benefit of someone else. Our worship has become leisure & our God is our self. “Keep us from deception Father, show us your truth. Teach us the fear of The Lord. Help us to be teachable and not pretend that we have something You’re trying to give us. Increase your precious Spirit in our lives, just one moment in your courts Jesus, is better than a thousand anywhere else. Amen”

Many people have feelings of rejection, loneliness and abandonment. Here I’m going to help shed some light on the situation, through my personal experience and the Word of God.

Galatians 4:5-6, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son born of a woman born under the law, to redeem those who might receive the adoption as sons.”

Matthew 28:20, “Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo I Am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

Now I would like to talk to those of you who feel like you are unloved. Maybe your parents have been absent in your life, whether it has been physically or emotionally. I want to let you know that God does love you. I myself grew up without the love of a mother or a father. Since I’ve accepted Him, He has shown me His love countless times; when I became desperate and realized that I couldn’t make it on my own. After losing everyone and everything I cried out, begging for the love of Father God. He answered me. He completely changed my life and gave me the affirmation, acceptance, love, peace, joy and comfort I was longing for. He removed the grief and loneliness that I had and He can do the same for you. In John 14:27, He says: “Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” You’re not alone, and you don’t have to be. God is with you, He has already accepted you. You have a Father, and when you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior you will see. If you already have, then remember, He is the comforter, and is better than a brother or a best friend. He’s waiting on you to say yes. Psalms 68:5 says, “A Father of the fatherless and defender of the widows is God in his holy habitation.” And John 14:18 says, “I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.” Look at John 14:26, “but the Helper the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in My name He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.” We are His children. You’re not alone, I promise, just call on His name – Jesus Christ. He’s waiting and He will lead you to His father. He’s The Son.

We’re just like a chameleon. We look like what ever we get around. We blend in and hide when our destiny is to stick out. It’s so easy for us to inadvertently portray a certain image when we’re around certain people. For example; Having a conversation with a Spanish speaking individual.. We automatically change our dialect. We think that making up words and trying to sound how we think they sound makes it easier for them to understand us. When really people don’t need us to act or look like them to help them change. Now compare that to the false grace movement. (False grace = God is ok with us living in communion with sin) God isn’t a whore – we can’t just act like He’s ok with your affections being all over the place. Who would consider marrying (cutting eternal covenant with) someone like that. We treat all out devotion to God is legalistic when in every other relationship it is expected. We act like Yahweh Elohim, creator of everything can’t have a standard. The same God who didn’t spare His own Son when He took upon himself all of our sin. (We take it right off His back.) This is the same God that broke His own covenant people off of His family tree due to the hardness of their heart & disobedience, then, ingrafted us into the inheritance of His legacy. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; whatever a man sows that shall he also reap. Sow according to the flesh of the flesh, reap corruption. Sow to the Spirit of the Spirit, reap eternal life. Reaping and sowing is like this; everything you do is a seed, your harvest can only be in accordance with what you are doing. No farmer is surprised by their harvest, they planted it.. Yet we wanna act like there is a chasm between our actions now and eternity. If eternity by definition is “infinite or unending time” that means it’s already here. Man, we gotta get this. The only way we will change is if we get disgusted with where we are. So sick of the truth of who we are that we change. Call sin, sin. Quit hiding and face yourself. It seems easier in the moment to push issues to the side but in the long run it’s gonna be harder to keep burying them, then to just dig them out. The enemy wants us to think that somehow our sin is worse than everyone else’s. When really there is no temptation that is not common to man.
“No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it. “(1 Corinthians 10:13 NASB) One reason we don’t take the escape is because we don’t sit still long enough for God to answer our prayer. We settle for our opinion instead of the Word of God. We still think we know everything. We would rather fake it and fail internally and look right before people, then humble ourselves and ask for help. It’s the difference between Saul and David. Saul prayer was “I have sinned; but please honor me in front of the people”(1st Samuel 15) David’s prayer “Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.”(Psalms 51) “Jesus help us not to live our lives before people. Help us to find our place at Your feet. Help us to seek Your heart. Show us that our failure will never change Your love. That we could find sonship and stop trying to prove ourselves. That You would find pleasure in revealing Yourself to us. Teach us to value You more than everything.” I just encourage you to be you. You are a piece of God’s puzzle. There is a place in Him where you fit. Even you, yeah you, with your weird shape:) It feels like you have tried so many places before. Trust me, you’re fitted for a specific position, you’re part of a bigger picture. I’ll leave you all with some scriptures. (Puzzles would be a lot easier with out all the different ins and outs, but they would never stick together)

Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands; [O Zion] your walls are continually before Me. (Isaiah 49:16 AMP)

For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His. You have acted foolishly in this. Indeed, from now on you will surely have wars.” (2 Chronicles 16:9 NASB)

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30 ESV)

First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean (Matthew 23:26-28 ESV)

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life [in the eternal kingdom of God]? (Mark 8:36 AMP)

Everyone has a sphere of influence. No matter how old or young a person is, people are basing decisions in there life on what they see you do. What kind of an example are you setting? If you were to die today, what do you want written on your tombstone? I’ve heard it said our whole life is summed up by the dash in-between our our birth year and death year (1991-2013) If your life were to be summed up in a short sentence, what would it read? (Not just a sentimental cliché because your dead) What are you living for? People see passion. People notice what our hearts truly burn for.

As Christians we automatically have a spot light on our lives. As soon as we speak out for the gospel, people begin to attempt to write off Christianity because of our flaws & failures. “It is written the Name of God blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you” (Romans 2:24). We are the representation of Yahweh Elohim on the earth. You just might be the only image of God a person may ever see. As image bearers we must walk worthy. So many people discredit God because of our actions. Through manipulation, the enemy will use the people around us to attempt to get us to compromise. Then he will use that same compromise against us. He even uses the name of “love and grace” to get us off track. He wants us to manipulate people into the gospel, then for them to get let down because we couldn’t maintain the original front we portrayed. What it takes to win them, it will take to keep them. Be ernest & sincere. The false grace movement will scratch their itchy ears for a moment, but the fruit will never be a lasting relationship with the real Jesus(Yeshua Ha-Mashiach) There is no grace in the Spirit realm, only law (absolute & indisputable). If we say there is no longer any law there is no authority. Without law nothing is established, there is no measuring line. There is no possible way for people to be delivered with out authority. Justice has two sides, for the most part we have only noticed the bad. Without judgement sin has full reign over our lives. The sin in our lives will be judged an if we don’t let go of it, we will be judged. We’re living in a day where everyone knows “Jesus”. Delusional, through lack of word depth, and Sunday morning face paint, pansy “Christianity” Everyone is saved, especially in the “Bible Belt” but nobody walks or looks like Jesus. (myself included) We have to recognize an entire generation is following us. We are here because the last generation got us here. The glorious and the grievous. What we don’t appose we accept. What we allow will continue. What we tolerate the next generation will accept. Where are we leading them? “Have mercy on us Lord for not having enough backbone to abase fallacy. To shut down false teaching and manipulation of the grace of the gospel of our Savior.” We have to be the example. We wanna hurry up and look like we have it all together. We would rather fake it then humble ourself before God. God’s not wanting you to be perfect yet, He’s wanting you to be real. People need to see you struggle. They need to see you fight & cry out to God. I was when I was desperate & completely dependent on Him, He fell in love with me. Not when I thought I had something to offer him, or had my sin under control. That’s sin management not deliverance. And the truth is if we could have done it in our own strength, we would have a long time ago. All the works of the flesh melt like wax before the vehement flame of Yah. We must purchase gold refined by withstanding the testing & the pressure by the Grace of God. Cause if it wasn’t for that I would have stopped a long time ago. We have to live past ourself. Live for the people we’re called to. We still value our life, we still haven’t died yet. The enemy wants us focused on the mess he put in our life. As soon as we get a burden for other people Somebody can cary ours. (The law of the harvest reaping and sowing) This is the fight of your life, literally. You and everyone attached to your calling hang in the balance. You are influencing people now in one direction or the other. You can be an example or make an example out of your self..