Jumping the shark is a metaphor that was originally used to denote the tipping point at which a TV series is deemed by a viewer to have passed its peak, or has introduced plot twists that are logically inconsistent in terms of everything that has preceded them. Once a show has "jumped the shark," the viewer
senses a noticeable decline in quality or feels the show has undergone too many changes to retain its original charm. The
term has also evolved to describe other areas of pop culture, including movie series, music, acting celebrities, or authors for whom a drastic change was seen as the beginning of the end. Some have broadened its use to simply describe any decline
in appeal for the subject in question, without requiring a significant "jump the shark" moment.[1] The term derives from an episode of Happy Days in which Fonzie jumped over a shark while on water skis.
For all Christian purposes, I have chosen this theme for those that are groaning and travailing in their life.
Those that are stagnant and need a jump start and a faith builder. We can apply the concept to Gospel communication
too. Many people, (and also society as a whole), can reach a tipping point in their own perception of Christianity,
through a range of factors. Hypocritical actions or statements by Christians in the public eye. Unlovely pronouncements
on public issues. Using weak arguments as if they are strong ones, to back up an apologetic position. Presenting personal
opinions as if they are unchangeable Christian principles. Failing to understand the concerns and needs of not-yet-Christians.
Appearing to exclude, rather than include. Not being spoken to when visiting a church for the first time. By anyone.
Or being deeply hurt and dwelling in the valley rather than on a mountaintop. We will reason together here.
Rom 8:20-23
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected
thesame in hope, Because the creature itself also shall
be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole
creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.
Luk 13:34OJerusalem,Jerusalem,which killesttheprophets,andstonestthem that are sentuntothee;how oftenwouldIhavegathered thy children together,asahendothgatherherbroodunderherwings,andyewouldnot!
The time will come, little one, that I shall no longer woo you. I have
sent servant after servant to you. I have sent minister unto minister to you. I have even sent My prophets unto you. I have
humbled Myself before you as I have begged you to listen. And ye would not.
How is it that you make Me weep and break My heart? How is it that you
make Me endure your sins that are unrepentant? Why is it you seek another Christ who will not make you look upon the cross?
Have you grown weary of Me, child? I have not grown weary of you, but I say soon the door will be shut. Even if you seek to
answer that knock, the Bridegroom may not open unto you.
I have longed to gather you under My wings. I have longed to shelter
you from the upcoming storms. I have longed to speak gentle and tender words to you, but you sought another. You would not
walk the tried and true paths of those I have sent to you. Yes, that Godly one in your family that you only now pay heed because
they have passed on. That Godly Christian that was an influence in your life, but lo, you looked and they were gone. And now,
that Godly servant I have displayed to you, yet you do not want the humble and meek way of Christ as they do. What more can
I say or do? The choice is yours and soon there will be no choice left for you if you are not watching and praying.
Will you heed My voice, beloved child and return unto Me? You did
know Me long before you knew the way of the world. I long to gather you unto Me for My mission is to gather and not scatter.
What is the mission you have done for Me? You have not gathered with Me. Begin to gather with Me as I draw you once
again under My wings. I love you so much, but will you dare to put Me off once more? Return to Me and repent. You will rejoice
as you hear angels in heaven rejoicing at your repentance. Fear not to commit to Me.
You belong to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Should not your language befit Royalty?
Here is what happened when I spoke only the Father's Word's: Luk 11:53 And as he said these things
unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently,
and to provoke him to speak of many things: Luk 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch
something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
You speak much, but your speech is of no value when the words I hear from you are vehement.
These are not My words. These are not words of comfort and encouragement. Do not call them exhortation. These come from within
you and are fleshly lust. They are counter-productive to the Kingdom of God and they are unspent non-productive in the ministry
of reconciliation that I urged My own to be dedicated and committed too. Why do you seek to scatter, rather than gather? Why
are you puffed with pride and selfish ambition when I have come to you time and time again in meekness and humility? Have
You failed to see My nature because it is repulsive to you? Have you failed to love that one that I sent to you because their
character resembles Me too closely? When will you learn to tame the tongue? I shall answer that for you. When your inside
is cleansed, instead of the outside.
Child, I have entrusted you with the secrets of the Kingdom of God. To alter them, to abuse them,
to erroneously teach them is a great discredit you do to the cause. Set aside your activities and come apart with Me to a
quiet place where I might minister salve to your soul and heal that long standing rage you have. I can heal. I can remove
the offence that you received as a young child and now treat others in that manner. I can make you a new creature so that
you no longer want to control others and exert authority. Trust in my gentleness to restore you to favor as I teach you to
prefer others in the Kingdom above yourself. Let he that is least come first. Yield to Me so that I might make you well and
whole and enabled to handle the Word of Truth to serve Me with. Seek My peace. I love you with an everlasting love. Come apart
now so that I might heal you.
Time is flying by you as you reflect on what accomplishments you have had in your life. You are
disappointed that great strides have not been made and your major dreams and visions and goals never materialized. You have
grown weary and have thought that if it has not happened thus far in your life, it never will. Once someone even suggested
this to you and you took it to heart. Your thoughts and your opinions have delayed your fulfillment. Your thoughts are not
My thoughts and your ways are not My ways. Mine are higher than yours and with the intent that you achieve peace first, peace
that surpasses all understanding. Have you achieved this peace yet that I have promised My followers? This is what I want
you to acquire first. This is what I want others to see when they gaze upon you. You want them to see success. How opposite
of My will for you on this journey of life.
Beloved, rise up! I have ordained a season for you and if you do not faint nor grow weary
you will enter in. Who do you think has placed that desire within you? Why do you let it fade? Why do you not believe the
testimony of the patriarchs who with long suffering waited for my personal covenant with them to come to pass?
Isa 40:28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? thereis no searching
of his understanding. Isa 40:29 He giveth power to the faint; and to
themthathave no might he increaseth strength. Isa 40:30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: Isa 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;
and they shall walk, and not faint.
You do not understand My ways, My will or My reason for prolonging your journey before you achieve that destination
that was birthed within your inner being so many, many years ago. You do not see My Spirit within you quickening that desire
with foretastes of the glory to come. You think I dash your hope, but I have never quenched that vision. Your own expectations
of how and when it should come to pass have hindered you on this journey. If it is not My will or way, I have firmly shut
a door. But I then opened another opportunity for you to serve Me and you looked away in disdain and refused it. How can this
be if you desire your vision and do not stop along the way to fulfill My vision of you of greatness in the Kingdom by being
a servant of all? You must desire and achieve this command first. You must seek Me above all before I fulfill your desire.
Otherwise you will have set your goal as an idol in your life above Me, your Creator.
Beloved, rise up! Be of good courage. Don't let My whispered words to your inner being fade.
Await My time for you to blossom. Occupy until I come.
My very precious child, this is not a rebuke
from Me, but a question from Me. You keep on continually looking for solace, comfort, understanding and relief from your common
everyday problems. You do not give people relief from theirs because your petty complaints consume you. When was it I promised
you a rose garden? If you can site that to me then you are indeed above Me. You possess a magic ingredient for sojourning
on this earth that I never promised anyone. Because you will not give, you will not receive. Did I not say through My servant,
Act 20:35, I have
showed you all things, how that so laboring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how
he said, Itismoreblessedtogivethantoreceive.
Why doyou persist that I prove My love to you? Forgetting the prayers of others
surrounding your life to meet what you want? Answering your immediate when you do not know the meaning of the word patient?
Ignore My will be done in heaven as it is on earth so that you might be right, and I wrong? Demanding that you keep on receiving
without giving? Where do I fit in above your needs?
Child, little one, I love you so deeply, but in not fulfilling the royal
law ( James 2:8) you cannot advance in the Kingdom of God. It is impossible that I appease your desires while you ignore Mine
and others. Will you research what I just said and let Me teach you? You will have to forget the past and how you were
raised by others. You will have to let Me instruct you. Can you do that and learn of My humble heart which is proven by My
asking your permission this very day? I should by rights be commanding you, but then I would not be God Almighty. I give free-will.
I love you without bounds, but I desire for your best in My Kingdom, and you have not yet found it
Give me this acknowledgment of who you are in Christ and I will soon commune
with you further. Mar 12:30AndthoushaltlovetheLordthyGodwithallthyheart,andwithallthysoul,andwithallthymind,andwithallthystrength:thisisthefirstcommandment.Mar
12:31Andthesecondislike,namelythis,Thoushaltlovethyneighborasthyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. If you fulfill the greatest commands,
then we need not commune further today. Please Me as I examine you for I discipline those that I love. Do you choose
not to be loved by Me, yet gratified by man? Come to Me and I can resole those issues you have when you fulfill the royal
law.
You find yourself quite frustrated at serving and serving and serving and seeing no good results.
You are tired of putting forth the effort to volunteer when you are never recognized or have feedback. You see no power go
forth, and you see no results come in. I say to you this is because you have been doing your good works and not My works.
You are serving, but you are not ministering. You extend yourself to an organization or an idealism, but you do not extend
yourself to doing Kingdom works.
I said, John 14:12 "Verily,
verily, I say unto
you, He that believeth on me,
the works that I
do shall he do also; and
greater works than
these shall he do;
because I go unto
my Father." I did not say he that believeth on good works, but he that
believeth on Me. Do you not yet believe that I will tell you where to serve and to what the service should be? Do you not
yet believe that you should do the works that I did? Do you not yet believe I said greater works because My earthly ministry
was limited by my length of stay upon the earth. This is why I have called you to be an extension of Me.
There are good works and their are Kingdom works. The good works are commanded for all to do
in this injunction, "For the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law." Even non-believers have this law written
on their heart and they do obey it with good works toward one another. How shall I commend you then? Of what could I say that
men has not already said to men? There will always be thanks abounding for kind and helpful hands, but those are not My hands
come to set the captive free. Or My feet to walk where the Good News might be proclaimed. Or My voice, which
only spoke the words My Father gave Me. You must do acts of kindness, but those are not all there is in life to serving in
the Kingdom of God.
I have chosen you to do My works, and until you begin to do that, you will continue to feel unappreciated
and unfulfilled. I have called many, but I have chosen you. Will you serve Me and do the works I desire? It is
false pride if you do not feel capable or worthy. I must receive all the glory, therefore it is My works through your yielded
vessel. Will you yield to Me and allow Me to present new opportunities to you where you can minister in power? Will you pray
about opportunities and say yes when I ask? Be alert to the possibilities I send your way. I say watch and pray.
You advance and you retreat. You say I have you in the wilderness and trying times. You say My
promises are put on hold for you. Yet, you do not consider I gave you free-will and you are a blocked conduit by choice. You
do not advance because you are clinging to the familiar, not Jesus.
You do not let Me reveal Myself to you to tell others of the Good News because you are speaking
of yourself. You are not speaking of Me. You like being in what you call your comfort zone, yet this is not really comfort
from the Comforter is it? Others don't hear you because you are not speaking of Me.
God is to be exalted and glorified, yet you chose to say your ministry is this or that. You have
labeled your works as extending to others and outreach, yet you do not reach the little ones for Me because you are too busy
absorbed with self. You refuse and grieve the Holy Spirit because you think your thoughts are My thoughts.
Loved one, you have much to learn about the Kingdom of God and about surrendering your will
to Me. Before you step out to teach or minister to another person, I want you to minister to Me by saying you will spend time
each day learning not only who I AM, but what My desires are. You must come apart and listen to Me. I have listened to your
wants and needs long enough. Enough of this. Come apart with Me into that quiet place and learn of Me. If I was driven by
the Spirit into the desert for 40 days and nights to be tempted and tried, why is it you do not feel led to do the same before
the power falls upon you?
Put me off no longer and cease your fruitless activities in pursuit of the revelation I have
promised you. Do not be one of the foolish virgins for I tell you if you do not trim your lamp now with Oil, the door will
be shut unto you. The Holy Sprit is the Anointing Oil you need.
If you were not familiar with Me, dear one, I could not be giving you this holy warning. Come
now, and grow up into the full stature of Christ. You cannot minister in power when you are scattering instead. Come and gather
with Me. Why are you gathering thorns and thistles? For Me to burn up? You will hear Me say, I knew you not, if you know Me
not. If you know My Word that is what you will speak. Cease to talk if they are your words. Please Me in this, My child, that
you will begin to speak My words to others and cease your endless chatter. Hold not back the Holy Spirit, for if you so choose
to continue in your ways, then you have grieved Us indeed.
You restrict My love, little one, to only the world
in general, and not to you individually. You are My child and My love for you sent Me to the cross. Yes, for the world indeed,
but for you, my beloved, I would have gone for that alone. You restrict Me when You spread Me thin and do not cover your individuality
with My love.
I know many harsh and intolerable things have caused
you to think this way. I know of your hurts from childhood onward. But these were not meant to give you excuse to not understand
and grasp the passion I have for just you. I want you to be willing to draw near to Me that I might display My love freely
to you, without restriction. That I might flood you with agape love which you have not really experienced personally. Yes,
you know of the value of that word agape that only refers to Me, your Lord, but I desire to have your innermost being
receive it, not from the head upward, but fixed within the center of your being.
Let me recreate
in you what has been lost early in your life--awareness of My great love and application of it upon you. Trust Me fully as
I make you willing to accept My love for you. That will bring you the joy unspeakable that you crave, and that will remove
the undesired state you now dwell in. As always, I plead, come unto Me. This is My will for you and it is necessary You must
receive this love before this flows on to the others you desire to reach for Me. Be My vessel, but be filled first, for I
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"Learn to do well; seek judgment,
relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
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