The Power of Silence

As crazy as this may SOUND, sometimes your greatest weapon in any argument is the WEAPON OF SILENCE!

I have learned that most people seek something other than a resolution in an argument. In fact, what they're looking for is a war of words. Maturity dictates that one learns to choose one's fights, and that can only happen by carefully deciding if an argument is worthy of participation.

Think about it for a second. Can you imagine how silly you would be arguing with someone paying no attention to you?

Let's look at the Bible's take on this, "Don't answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you will become as foolish as they are, Proverbs 26:4. Wow! Scripture says a foolish argument emits from fools, and if we respond to their foolishness, we are equivalent to them………….. IN OTHER WORDS, FOOLS LOVE FOOLISH COMPANY……………

Scripture further states that if we answer a fool according to his foolishness, he would appear right in his own eyes, Proverbs 26:5. HENCE, YOU CAN CONTROL ANY ARGUMENT WITH THE POWER OF SILENCE! Therefore, any argument's quality and tenure solely depend on your input or lack thereof……..

The Bible instructs us of the following, "He that keeps (guards) his mouth simultaneously keeps (guards) his life. Another translation says it this way, "The one who guards his mouth preserves his life; the one who DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO SHUT UP comes to ruin" Proverbs 13:3

The bottom line, my friend, is that the word preserve means to keep someone or something safe from harm or injury and protect or spare. That said, it is now clear that the senseless, pointless arguments you've engaged in have not and will not preserve your life. In fact, it's making you miserable, edgy, and completely unhappy. Silence at the appropriate times places you in control. It also limits the opposing party and causes them to see how foolish they are arguing with themselves. As the adage says, Silence is golden!

TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR ARGUMENTS BY EXERCISING THE POWER OF SILENCE!!

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

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Enforcing The Verdict of The Cross of Jesus Christ

"Our ancestors have sinned, but now they are dead, but we, the current generations, are left to bear their iniquities" Lamentations 5:7.

Many families are affected by generational curses due to the secrets and practices of their ancestors, such as involvement in witchcraft. This lack of knowledge can lead to hardships and difficulties for the current and future generations. Regardless of your religious beliefs, it is essential to address and break these evil covenants to overcome the effects of the generational curse.

It's crucial to acknowledge and break any evil covenants that may affect us, even after we've accepted the gift of salvation as Christians. Sometimes, people mistakenly assume that salvation automatically frees them from any curse they may be under, but this is not necessarily true. Therefore, it's essential to recognize any such covenants and focus on breaking them to live a life free from their adverse effects.

While Jesus Christ's crucifixion enables us to be free from whatever curses we would have been challenged with. We must now enforce the verdict that came about as a result of the cross by addressing those operating under any curse with the power of the cross. For example, sickness is a curse. With that said, why is it that when you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you were not delivered from the curse of cancer, even though Christ became a curse for you, which simply means that through Christ's crucifixion, He took on all curses that were meant for you.

Jesus Christ has now enabled us through him to break curses. Thus, we enforce the verdict of the cross of Jesus Christ by the following example. "Father, in the name of your son Jesus Christ, who has become a curse for me based on the events that resulted from his crucifixion. I exercise that authority by breaking the curse of cancer by enforcing the verdict of the cross that clearly says, "But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes, we are healed." Isaiah 53:5.

Stop allowing others to convince you that you do not have to break a curse because Christ has already broken it for you. You know just as well as I do that curses are still operating in your life even though you have accepted the gift of salvation for 5, 10-plus years! It is all because you're not enforcing the verdict of the cross. As I've mentioned, you execute the ruling of the cross by the word of God through Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for you.

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

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God Is Repeatedly Speaking To Us Through Our Dreams

We live in a time when God repeatedly speaks to us through our dreams!

Interestingly, God clarified that one way to identify a prophet is through a person's frequent dreams and visions. Here is what God said to Moses, Aaron, and their sister Miriam, "And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream" Numbers 12:6.

Many of you reading this note right now are frequent dreamers. Even more surprising is that most of you frequent dreamers are not Christians. The reality is that your regular dreaming or seeing visions are clear-cut signs that you possess the gift of prophecy, whether you're a Christian or not. God has chosen this arm of prophecy to communicate about past, current, and, more importantly, future events. Clarity and accuracy of what God is speaking to you and through you will be predicated on you feeding your human Spirit via hearing and reading the word of God. "I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your statutes. I have more understanding than the elders, for I obey your precepts" Psalm 119:99,100.

The word of God opens our spiritual eyes and understanding of the things of the spirit world. This explains why, when folks attempt to interpret their dreams from a realistic perspective, their dreams fail to make sense. God reveals the revelations of life's mysteries via our dreams, including pending future events in our dreams via His Spirit! Thus, if your continued approach to understanding your dreams is not from a spiritual position, you will consistently fail at the spiritual aspect of what is yet to be revealed physically that is being displayed in your dream spiritually. Again, let's review scripture to achieve a better understanding of this. Scripture says, "Eyes hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God has revealed them (spiritual things) unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God" 1 Corinthians 2:9-10.

Therefore, a person lacking spiritual understanding or insight is labeled or categorized as a natural man. Still, spiritual things or things of the spirit world are nonsense to them because they are not spiritual in their approach and understanding of such things!. Again, the scriptures confirm this in the following passage: "But the natural man receives not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" 1 Corinthians 2:14.

Our dreams are challenging to understand, not because they are spiritual but because there is a disconnect between our Spirit and the Spirit of God, attempting to reveal things of the Spirit world through our dreams. Of course, our spirits are spiritually malnourished due to a lack of spiritual food, which only comes through God's word!

Sometimes, when I interpret a dream for someone, they give me this puzzled look. This puzzled look is an evident expression of trying to comprehend spiritual things with a natural mindset. Thus, their conclusion of my interpretation is foolishness. As a reminder, the scripture clearly explained that such things could only be discerned by those who are SPIRITUAL! 1 Corinthians 2:15 brings it all together by concluding that the spiritual person judges ALL things, yet no man (natural) can judge him. In other words, the spiritual one assesses all matters from their origin, which is spiritual; thus, his judgment discernment will always be correct.

Again, God is speaking to many of you through the consistency of your dreams. Still, due to your commitment to what is seen or that which only relates to your five senses, you automatically dismiss the unseen (spiritual world). Scriptures warn us of this in the following, "While we look not at the things which are seen (our natural world), but at the things which are not seen (the spiritual world): for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal" 2 Corinthians 4:18.

I advise you to understand your dreams/visions and to saturate yourself with reading the word of God. Begin feeding your spirit man with sound teaching of the scriptures. I promise you and speak from experience that interpreting your dreams will almost be automatic whenever you experience them.

"For God speaks once, yea twice, yet man perceives it not. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, slumbering upon the bed; then he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction" Job 33:14-16.

Written By:  Kevin L A Ewing

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The Importance Of Approving and Disapproving Our Dreams

Our dreams are our spiritual monitors, revealing to us excerpts of what's pending for or against our

lives in the spirit realm.

The spirit world is where everything happens before its manifestation on earth. In fact, God said that he would not allow anything to occur on the planet unless he revealed his secret to his servants, the prophets, Amos 3:7.

While we may not have much control over what is conceived in the spirit realm/spirit world, we do have the authority in most cases to either approve or reject its request for entry into the earth and, by extension, our lives.

One of the most common ways approval is granted is by our conscious and unconscious declarations. The scriptural laws dictate that death and life reside in the power of our tongues, and we declare most often or not at all what will be granted or denied on the earth, Proverbs 18:21.

Another scriptural law that supports Proverbs 18:21 would be Job 22:28, and here is what it says, "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee." A decree is an edict, law, etc., made by someone in authority or someone with authority giving a command.

Now, to bring all of this together. The spirit world, the origin of all things or where all things are conceived spiritually, consistently seeks a human's direct or indirect approval to manifest its will, purpose, or desire in the earthly realm. For the most part, their approvals are achieved during our dreams. In essence, approval means we as human beings directly or indirectly agree with whatever the spirit realm's spirits present to us in our dreams. Accepting whatever is given to us in our dreams constitutes what is known as a covenant. The covenants established in our dreams produce good or bad in our lives physically, which is only the result of what was conceived or manufactured spiritually. This is why it is so, so, so important to speak or make declarations AGAINST bad or uncomfortable dreams.

As a reminder, God, in one of many laws regarding planet Earth, found in Genesis 1:26, 28, gave man (human beings) and not spirits dominion and authority over the planet. Thus, a spirit needs man's approval to manifest its will on earth. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to master this understanding related to our dreams and daily confessions because we could inadvertently be allowing things from the spirit realm that are working against us to enter our lives.

Kevin L A Ewing

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Destroying The Evil Covenants Of Our Ancestors

"Our ancestors have sinned, but now they're dead, but we, the current generation, are left to bear their iniquities" Lamentations 5:7

When observed from the surface, the above scripture may not seem to be a significant passage. However, when we analytically review this particular scripture and measure it up to the quality of our lives, Surprisingly, there seems to be a realistic comparison. For example, you were disciplined in your studies to attain a master's degree. However, you now realize that even while being equipped with such a prestigious degree. It was not sufficient to prevent you from

being a victim of the negative pattern of divorce prevalent in your family. Aside from the above example, you were considered for a well-deserved promotion only to learn that someone less qualified was given the promotion. To make matters worse, your doctor's report just came back confirming that you have been diagnosed with Cancer. Again, while you may have been the only one in your family to break the ceiling of education to achieve a master's degree, it did not stop the all too common negative patterns that are synonymous with your family lineage, such as Cancer, divorce, anti-promotion, etc.

Many of us have observed these vicious, ruthless, evil patterns playing themselves out in our lives and the lives of our loved ones. We've reasoned with these occurrences and chalked it up by concluding that such things happen daily to everyone. Many of you, likely reading this article, have had men and women of God speak into your lives or even prophesy about things changing, such as a future promotion, a new home, etc. Nevertheless, because such prophecies have not panned out, we can quickly label the prophets as false prophets. Now, while I agree that there are many false prophets, I also know that from a biblical perspective, an underlying, undiagnosed spiritual issue could prevent certain things from happening in your life.

The scripture mentioned above, a spiritual law, exposes the evil patterns that manifest in our lives. By extension, the lives of our fellow family members do have an origin! In other words, the cycles of negative patterns in our lives are not happening because they could happen or they're happening by chance. Instead, there were certain forbidden practices that our ancestors engaged in that automatically levied these consistent evil patterns on us. This prohibited practice of which I speak is known from a biblical perspective as idol worship, which we learn to be witchcraft, Voodoo, Obeah, Santeria, etc.

In the book of Exodus 20:2-5, it reads as follows:

"I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt and the land of slavery. You shall have no other "gods" before me. You shall not make an image (idol) for yourself in the form of anything in heaven above, on the earth beneath, or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."

The above scripture has made it clear as it relates to God's position on serving and worshiping other gods and that the punishment of such behavior would be where God (not Satan) will punish the present children of those that practice such forbidden acts and extend it all the way up to their third and fourth generation. As a result of this law now explains why you are either not achieving or not able to go past a certain point or even living a life of negative evil patterns that have literally disabled and crippled you and your family.

With the above understanding in mind, we must also realize that when our ancestors from the fourth generation decided to seek solutions or wanted to place a "fix, hex, spell or curse" on someone through the assistance of witchcraft workers. They unknowingly were causing curses to be levied on us who weren't even born yet, which would have spiritually set restrictions and limitations on us as soon as we were born. So, in essence, those evil covenants established with evil spirits for whatever reason are affecting us to this day simply because they were never confessed or recognized and broken, renounced, etc.

You might say, "Well, Kevin, my parents and grandparents were men and women of God, so what you're saying certainly does not apply to my family and me. You may be correct, but let's look at it differently. Do you recall your parents, grandparents, or any family member mopping their floor with turpentine, Florida Water? What about sprinkling salt around the home, sprinkling ammonia inside the house, or placing garlic on their person to ward off spirits? What about tying black strings around the child's wrist or leg when they become irritable and find it difficult to sleep? Let's take it a step further. What about the specific candles your parents, etc., would burn over a particular piece of paper or place a piece with someone's name written on it on the inside of their shoes? What was that big evil-looking book that your parents or grandparents always seem to be able to retrieve and recite specific stuff from when someone did them or any other family wrong?

You see, my friend, it was these acts, and so many other things that our ancestors and even living relatives (who also claim to be men and women of God) were and are engaging in that has caused us to be limited physically, all due to what they did spiritually. You cannot allow this to continue now that your understanding has been enlightened. In fact, you must not enter into 2017 with these same spiritual restrictions as a result of evil covenants established between your ancestors and evil spirits when participating in witchcraft. If you are a Christian, then you were given power by our Lord Jesus Christ to destroy all evil covenants and evil ordinances that have been unknowingly set up against you, according to Luke 10:19

Please, either now or at the beginning of next year, enter a three-day fast to expressly renounce, reject, and break all evil covenants that have covertly or overtly been speaking against your destiny as a result of the spiritual ignorance of your parents or ancestors which has caused you not to progress in life. Begin by asking God to forgive the iniquities of your ancestors and your own sins, according to Leviticus 26:40-41. Then retrieve scriptures relative to what Christ has done for you on the cross, according to Galatians 3, and include such scriptures in your prayers during your fast, all to break the spiritual shackles that have held you back for so many years. You have asked the Lord why your life has turned out the way it did; nowhere is your answer. "Through knowledge shall the just be delivered" Proverbs 11:9. What happens for you physically next year will depend on what you have broken and renounce spiritually either now or at the beginning of next year!

Kevin L A Ewing

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Get Your Life Together Before Your Appointment With Death

Death is the permanent transition from our physical world to the spirit world. Death also ends all earthly matters, whether their purposes were fulfilled or not.

More importantly, however, death is the only way in which the real you, which is your spirit, can be extracted from your physical body to join the billions of souls that have gone ahead of you in the spirit world to either eternal rest or eternal damnation.

The reality is, it really isn't important how we meet our demise, meaning whether it was by a motor vehicle accident, a heart attack, sickness a plane crash etc. These means of death are just the process by which our spirits are permanently extracted from our physical bodies. This also means that there will be no further interaction between the departed and those alive. The scriptures make it very clear to us when it says, "For the living know that they will die, but the dead knows nothing, neither have they any more reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also, their love, hatred, and envy have now perished; neither have they any interaction forever in anything that is done under the sun" Eccl. 9:5-6

Unfortunately, folks are more challenged by the extraction process of death, and that is how a person died, which, of course, is entirely irrelevant as opposed to what happens after the extraction process. Many of us take our brief time here on earth for granted by convincing ourselves that we are guaranteed another day of existence. This is primarily due to such events as a good health report from the Doctor, a job promotion, a new marriage, a new baby, a new relationship, a new home, or a recently purchased car, etc. unfortunately, these things and the temporal joy that accompanies them, cannot extend our allotted time on earth.

I am sure you would agree with me in that you either know of or have heard of the above instances where death unexpectedly showed up to perform the extraction process in spite of a recent marriage, a new baby, a recent job promotion, etc.?

My question to you this morning is simply this, during the course of your daily preparation for everything else that is of importance to you, have you seriously given thought as to what will really happen to you when your appointment with the extraction process presents itself to you? What is your position and relationship with God? Death is no respect of person. Death did not show up to strike a deal with you to extend your time. Many of us are exposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ on a daily basis. Many of us grew up in Christian homes but somehow allowed our college education, job promotion, or wealth to question the authenticity of the God that not only delivered the biblical characters such as Abraham, Moses, and Joseph along with our parents and ourselves, but we have become our own god. My friends, your college degree, job status, wealth, or popularity are of zero value in the spirit world. Instead, did you secure or meet the qualification to spend eternity with Jesus Christ? Trust me when I say to you that you will never have a true appreciation for life until your unplanned appointment with death finds you unprepared. More importantly, you're not prepared to meet the God who has made every provision and opportunity available while you existed among the living to GET IT RIGHT!

If you are among the blessed ones to read this post, then know for sure it is not by accident. Instead, it is another opportunity being afforded you by God to get your life in order and to make Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior. I am certain that, just like myself, you have noticed the great pace at which time is accelerating. The days, weeks, months, and years are quickly flying by. What is even more interesting is the fact that each day is escorting us a little closer to our unchangeable appointment with death.

"You have no idea what tomorrow will bring. For what is your life? Is it not like a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away?" James 4:14

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

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Symbols Are The Language Of Our Dreams

About ninety-five percent of our dreams are saturated with symbols. It is these symbols, when understood that speak to a greater reality or provide a more distinct meaning or understanding of the hidden messages that our dreams are attempting to convey.

What is a symbol? Well, in laymen's terms, a symbol is the use of something to represent something else. A symbol can also be defined as an object, person, idea, etc., employed in an illustration or presentation, dream, or vision to stand for or suggest something else with which it is associated, either explicitly or subtly.

Thus, the symbols in our dreams literally become the language of our dreams to reveal the coded messages embedded in our dreams. Our dreams in and of themselves are a mystery. However, once the dream is interpreted, the interpretation is now known as the revelation of what was once a mystery concerning our dreams. Therefore, Dream interpreters translate our dreams' language (symbols) to reveal the hidden spiritual messages incorporated into our dreams.

Our dreams are displayed chiefly in symbols because the reality of the spirit realm, in which the dream is created, is far too complicated for ordinary human understanding. Therefore, signs in our dreams point to real-life situations and matters. Nevertheless, symbols are not just limited to dreams and visions. In fact, throughout the scriptures, symbols are depicted in parables to convey messages from God or compare or contrast spiritual and physical things.

Case and point, in Isaiah 5:1-7, a story of "The parable of the vineyard" is narrated by the prophet Isaiah. This parable reveals that a farmer loved his vineyard to the extent that he had fenced it, removed all the stones, and planted a choice vine. The story says that the Farmer built a tower in the middle of the vineyard and built a wine press. However, to the Farmer's surprise, his well-loved vineyard brought forth wild grapes! The Farmer nurtured his vineyard and provided it with the best of everything to expect that the vineyard would bring forth the best grapes.

In Isaiah 5:3, the Farmer makes a statement and asks a question to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the men of Judah. "Judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard," "what more could I have done to the vineyard that I have not done in it"? "Because when I expected grapes, it brought forth wild grapes."

"Because of this, I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge I had in place to protect it, and now it will be eaten up and exposed to everything that the hedge once protected it from. Then I will allow it to lay waste, and it shall not be pruned nor plowed. Instead, I will let thorns and wild bush spring among it. I will also command the clouds not to rain upon it.

However, the revelation of this parable is revealed in Isaiah 5:7, where the symbol of the vineyard is revealed as the house of Israel, and the men of Judah were the Farmer's pleasant plants. The Farmer was the Lord God himself. The Lord expected they would display righteous judgments after his provision and protection of Israel. Instead, they became lords of oppression. The parable further revealed in verse 5 that God would eventually remove his protection from Israel, and other nations would come in and oppress them. In verse 6, however, He promised that he would no longer provide for Israel and that they would become desolate and poverty and hardship would now be their portion.

So as you would have read in the above parable, the symbols indicated the past, current and pending state of the inhabitants of Israel just because they failed to produce what they were empowered by God to produce.

Another example of the spiritual implications of symbols is revealed in Matthew 12:43-44. In this illustration, Jesus told a very profound revelation of how evil spirits classify human beings. Jesus said that when a person is delivered from an unclean spirit, the unclean spirit walks through dry places seeking rest and finds none. The unclean spirit then says to himself, let me return to my "HOUSE" from where I came out. The symbol of a house in this parable represents the life of a human being. Therefore, for the most part, when a home is presented in a dream, it symbolizes a person's life; if it is a huge house or apartment complex, it expresses a family or a group!

Therefore, we must learn the language of our dreams by understanding the symbols presented in our dreams. This, my friend, can only happen via the assistance of the Holy Spirit, who has been assigned to us primarily to lead us into all truth.

Written By: Kevin L A Ewing

ewinglakevin@icloud.com

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