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THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF FIRST CORINTHIANS G. LACOSTE MUNN  |   SOUTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF THEOLOGY VOL. 3 - FALL 1960 An understanding of historical background is essential in the interpretation of any document, biblical or otherwise. The degree of significance is determined by the extent to which the document deals with the specific problems of a particular situation. Consequently, this factor plays a larger role in the interpretation of some books of the New Testament than it does in others. Romans is one of those books where an understanding of historical background is essential, but not to the extent that it is in others. In Romans Paul is writing to a church which he did not establish and which he had not visited at the time of writing. As a result, the teaching here is the closest thing that Paul ever wrote to a summary of Christian doctrine, and there is less reference to local problems. However, Paul was intimately involved with the church in Corinth. He had led...

  Are you “familiar” with familiar spirits?  Jesus spent at least a third of His time on earth healing and casting out demons. Spirits can gain access to people, affecting their personalities, words or actions. When there are spirits that go from generation to generation, manifesting on a piece of land, or in an actual family or bloodline, those spirits are called familiar spirits. So where should you start ? Ask yourself these questions and receive the authority you have in Christ:  1. “What generational patterns are at work in my life?”  What kind of spiritual forces have been in your lineage, family, and bloodline for many years? The Bible speaks about familial or familiar spirits.  There are spirits that are familiar with your life journey, perhaps from generation to generation.  Many believe that trauma can induce the transfer of spirits from parent to child. Addictions, poverty, and divorce are examples of patterns that can pass from generation to gen...

 As I have been praying for someone, I was lead to pray for their fallow ground to be unearthed. Why? This person needs to be restored, and only God can do it. This person has fallen prey to the enemy scheme unaware. No one corrects this person and when confronted, no one is let in or believed. So thoroughly deceived by the enemy's tactics.  These are days of much deception, we need to be grounded in the simple Gospel of Jesus Christ.   We need to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness. We need to be in fellowship and we need a pastor who will guide us and speak truth into our lives.  We need correction. We should realize that we need to be planted in a church and grow. One problem I had was when the enemy hit me, I did not have a pastor, just leadership, in my church.  This person in leadership,  kick me off church property, I was not acting right, I was being weird.  I got no help, and because of that I left. Because of that, I was separated ou...

Centuries ago it was said that the world was flat but was it? The consensus of the time was that the world was flat. So it goes with man and their reasoning. Life as we know it is changing. It's not the world I grew up in. Are we walking around asleep? The rhetoric can lull us to sleep, and we think this is life, nothings new, its the same from the beginning of time. Oh really? Wake up from your slumber. As humans we choose how to live our life. The question is who's standard are we living your life from? In this blog, I might be speaking to Christian and non-Christian alike. I don't think it really matters, because it's God who will cause you to hear the message. Some of the things I share will go over peoples heads. Christian and non-Christian alike. But I hope that God will minister the truth to your heart. Because it's worth sharing and hearing. I want to share some posts that people posted on Facebook. What is relevant will be to each individual. But I hope y...

 This was a delusion, the enemy set me up. He's the accuser of the brothern. I thought for 2 1/2 years that 2 wonderful people at church were attacking me. Do I praying for them, I thought these were people were hurting me spiritually. There was a story line playing in my mind day and night, I prayed all the time for these people. But it was a delusion. It was the enemy, he  was hurting, through witchcraft.  I offered to give a woman a ride home from church she she approached me stating she had a need, so I said ok. When we got to her place, she said oh by the way I'm a witch, that house over there where I live is a witches coven. I was naïve. I said to her in response, you come to church to get to know Jesus,  do you want to accept him as your Lord and Savior she said yeah, so we said the prayer, we talked for a few minutes then I went home not thinking anymore about it.  Another thing I had forgotten was,  three years before that God gave me a warning dre...

I love this, I have been judged just like this, It is no wonder I learn so much from Kris Vallotton, he is one of my hero's in the faith. His teachings make my world make sense. I have received from God as most christians have gifting's and anointing's.  I was told from a prophet, I am very prophetic.  Kris Vallotton, gives scriptural explanation to what God tells me and shows me. He pastors me in my gifting's and anointing's as well as teaches me, What is correct, what is what isn't It's all based on the word of God. He gives me my standard so I am able to operate in my gifts correctly and function correctly in the body of Christ .  As a christian it is vital to have someone in your life that is your teacher and mentor to disciple you in this way. I don't know him personally, other. than he is one of the leaders of my church. I also am connected through his ministry, receiving emails and teachings.  I also read his books.  This is something he posted on...

All battles aren't the same, When I was in my 40's I got hit really hard and  I had to fight my way through. I knew nothing about spiritual warfare and trusted God completely to help me through what was assailing me, God quietly whispered to me He will heal me that is what I had to go by.  I knew nothing of God's healing back then I had to wait 7 1/2 years, He was true to his word and healed me. But I wasn't completely healed , because what I had went through was so devastating it nearly took my life.  It took years to recover. And again at 62 I was hit, this battle has been going on for five years so far. Same type of battle and yet different. At one point I thought I'd never make it out, kinda reminds me of the other battle in my 40s.  So now that I'm 67, I'm starting with hope, and strength .  I still am wondering can God use me again.? I feel too broken.  Can I fully recover this time to do what I want to? I feel I can and I am on my way. Pastor Kris V,...