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Dear saints and beloved brethren,



May these prophecies provoke you to keep in remembrance the holy Oath of Jesus Christ for your redemption, that through the legacy of the New Covenant Priesthood He has left for your daily participation, you might be an overcomer, WINNING CHRIST.



"The comfort of the flesh leaves the soul famished of the comfort of the Spirit, for one cannot dine from the table of the world and the table of the Lord, therefore, may your heart be consoled by the power of grace during times of afflictions, as you observe only His wisdom, to direct your heart to the grace of God for your overcoming."



"The trials of faith bring suffering, but suffering coupled with your obedience to grace is of sufficiency for you to not only triumph in Christ, but be made conformable to Christ."



"Testing by the Fatherhood of God upon the souls of the righteous is not in vain, but through their yielding to His power of persuasion for strength is able to bring the increase of the hope of glory within the soul into the reality of fruit, virute and the praise of His glory."



"The soul that perceives suffering as that which needs to be cast off is the soul that knows not God nor His ways of righteousness, for God chastises His sons with the lashes of truth for their increase in the eternal riches of Christ."



"In the lust of wanderings to languishing to perishing are they who seek to change suffering to self exaltation, for God only rewards they who walk in meekness, bearing all things of the Hand of His craftsmanship with faith and patience."



"The sufferings of the righteous are according to the foreknowledge of God, for He authorizes all things that bring many sons to glory after the pattern of the Firstborn."



"Suffering outside of the covenant of Christ is suffering in vain, but sufferings inside the covenant are according to the pleasure of God, by which He fathers His children in the ways of His righteousness; these shall know not only His provision of mercy, but His ways of grace, which are hidden in the Son."



"Afflictions to the righteous bring the chastisement of truth and the reward of grace, both of which are evidence of one's faith being pleasing to God."



"Sons of God are not without sufferings or chastisement, for by these things their faith increases through their response of obedience to labor with the inspiration of grace, proving they know the perfect will of God."



"Profitable is the testing of the faith of those who are priests of God, for therein does their diligence in divine service of prayer and prophecy continue to reveal they are workman not ashamed nor heeding the voice of condemnation, but workman heeding the Spirit and the voice of justification, which is the voice of grace through the Son."



May you continue to abound in the ABUNDANT LIFE of Christ through your sufferings with grace and truth.



Apostle JoAnne Cremer

Dear brethren,



I wanted to encourage you with the following exhortation from Apostle James and my own confirmation as well, that your hearts would be nourished with the good words of faith and the love that follows the pattern of Jesus Christ for your growth and edification.



Jam 1:2-4 ¶ My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing [this], that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have [her] perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.



Amen. Letâs take a closer look this:



Wanting nothing: The Lord has provided liberally for our sustainment in this world, which speaks to how His Spirit provides a power to our soul that brings about a divine influence for the will to work with, to be continually separated from the world, needing none of its philosophies or validations. When the will works with this power of persuasion, which is called âgraceâ, we are rewarded by God with more of Him, more His power, more of His substance, more of His wisdom, more of His perspective, all which increases our soul with the fruits of godliness. When our soul is being daily revived, quickened, nourished, clothed, and increased with what comes from Jesus Christ, we will indeed be living the abundant spiritual life, and therefore, we will âlack nothing.â Our hope is not in the gain of this world, but in the gain of Christ, for the goal is to WIN CHRIST, not win the acclaim and riches of the world.



Be perfect and entire: Again, the Lord has provided for our perfection, for our "rest", for the soul to be âentireâ or âentirely completeâ in the nature and image of Jesus Christ. This speaks not of the perfection of the flesh, or the circumstances of our lives, but the perfection of our faith so that we can continue to labor lawfully by the pattern of the New Covenant for the perfecting (increasing) of the fruits of godliness in our soul. Again, for our goal is not to gain in the increase of perishable riches or aspirational dreams for our destiny in this life, but for the gain of our soul in the riches of the life of Christ, which do not perish or dimish, but increase in the brighteness of Godâs glory forever and ever.



The perfect work of patience: This speaks again of the divine influence of grace that is as a powerful virtue within the fruit of patience. Patience, as a fruit born inside your soul through your cooperative labor with God by the New Covneant priesthood tools, settles your soul in a contentment and hope with God, wherein you are not aspiring for God, but walking in meekness, humility and piety, bearing all things, enduring all things, hope all things and believing all things concerning Godâs promises coming to pass in your soul, and no matter how much suffering you experience, you are willing to continue on in your walk of faith, not feinting, but continually yielding with perseverance and loyalty to God and His purpose of circumcising and regenerating your soul. This is the perfect work of patience. It carries a powerful influence born of God that works with Godâs peace to keep you steadfast at the Altar.



The trying of your faith: It is impossible to increase in the fruit, virtue, image and nature of Christ without faith being tested. Therefore be encouraged that your trials are ordered and authorized by God. No matter how severe the testing, God knows what you are experiencing, and nothing will be beyond your ability to endure if you keep your response during the trial a response of faith. This means that no matter what you are faced with, your trust in God is continually demonstrated by your running to the Altar and offering your prayers, petitions, prophecies and labor at that location with His holy tools. This is the faith of the saints that pleases God. This is the faith that will increase once the trial is over because God will approve of your response, observing that your response was kept within the boundaries of the New Covneant, and you did not try to âchange your circumstancesâ but you yielded to His inspiration for your overcoming, which is yielding to grace. This is how we are being saved each day, by our faith responding to His grace.



Fall into diverse temptations: We are not âfallingâ as in being victimized through ignorance and oversight. God is actually allowing these scenarios to âformâ for us, and each scenario is perfectly orchestrated to test our faith. Sinners âfall intoâ temptation by working with their instincts with sin. The righteous âexperienceâ temptations, but do not âfall intoâ them as though they are happening to us as a surprise, or without our understanding the nature of the temptation. Because of training in the Foundation of Truth from living covenant apostles, the righteous can âtry the spiritsâ and not fall prey to their tempations to us to resource our imaginations as a response in the trial, nor trick us into resourcing our signature as a power for overcoming the trial. The children of Christâs Vine who are truly eating His bread and drinking His cup of grace are able to discern all things that present themselves, and can cognitively make a choice to resist the temptation to sin, rather choosing to work with the inspiration of grace for their response of faith, to âovercomeâ.



Count it all joy: This is why the apostle says this here. It is a joy to increase in God. It is a joy to build with God. It is a joy to know God and be a son of His kingdom and benefit by His spiritual blessings. So then, if the process of being tempting and overcoming by the power of grace results in the rewards of the soul being conformed to Christ, then of course, the joy of the Lord is our reward. Just as a woman knows that the suffering of child birth brings the joy of the child into her arms, we count the sufferings of our testings as a joy, for it brings no sorrow, but it brings the ACTUAL SUBSTANCE of the increase of our hope of Christ in us, the hope of glory.



My brethren, keep your perspective according to grace, according to truth which is according to the Apostles' Doctrine and no other pattern, no other gospel, no other teaching. Let nothing overtake you as a surprise, but be on the alert, soberminded and singleminded, knowing that God delights to reward you for your submission to grace and overcoming by grace, for therein He is the Shephered and Bishop of your soul and the Author and Finisher of your faith.



In these days ahead as we continue to see the Beginnings of Sorrows and the judgements of God impact our economies, continue to keep your eyes affixed upon the hope of Christ, for as you do, you WILL LACK NOTHING, being abundantly clothed in the eternal fruits of righteousness.



Amen... and amen. Let this word of truth nourish you and strengthen you to continuance in the Faith.



Apostle JoAnne Cremer



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Dear friends,



I have received alot of letters and inquiries on the 8-08-08 "new beginnings" preaching slogan that was going around in August of 2008. In particular, we see how Rod Parsley took this and paired it with the words "Great Transition" (the very phrase I have been using for almost a year & half now concerning a true move of God) and is using this as a new means to repackage old promises and to swindle you out of your money (as many others are doing the same).



What is the promise? It never changes friends. It's the same old merchandising technique to get you to give your money. "God wants to bless every area of your life and set you on new paths of greatness, new beginnings, new annointings, new financial breakthroughs, new relationships coming into your life to bring you into new land of plenty."



My dear friends, this is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. God's promises for NEWNESS are to be experienced EACH DAY through your daily priesthood communion with the Father at the Altar of Christ.



Why aren't Christians experiencing this newness? Why do they "claim" these heretical slogans and vain janglings, and teachings as though God is "about to" bless you if you will send in your best seed offering? Why are these Antichrist gospels so popular? Why are Christians falling victim to the wiles of the devil? Why can they not see that their thirst is never being quenched and they keep journeying and being victimized and spiritually abused over and over?



Because faith is no longer centered in Christ for the spiritual transformation of the soul; rather it has become centered on the transformation of the themes and issues of your life, how to correct them, improve them and change them to your liking. Because we all have issues to deal with, and a life as human beings to live, these "enticing words" appeal to those who cannot test the spirits, to those who've never been properly trained by covenant apostles; it appeals to those whose senses have been trained by another gospel, another Christ, another spirit, producing a faith that is not a response to the inspiration of grace but an expression of faith that is by the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life.



This is the hour of temptation for the Church: to set aside these sinful tools, these fleshly aspirations, these vain imaginations, and come forward to receive the holy knowledge of the New Covenant, that you might be liberated from the ever shifting sands of the antichrist Gospels and come into the fullness, purity, and simplicity of serving God through the invisible, spiritual tools of Jessus Christ. This is where your soul is brought into the power of Jesus Christ for daily renewing and regeneration; this is where you obtain the joy of your salvation and know the Father with the intimacy that produces spiritual fruit in the soul for the increase of His kingdom.



8-08-08 is a date of occultic importance, where rituals are performed to receive power from the kingdom of darkness. These types of plays on days, weeks, months and seasons, are the "rudiments" of the occultic world, and the apostles all warned to not allow these things into your expression of faith. God is willing to RENEW YOUR SPIRIT AND SOUL each day if you will stop trying to provoke Him and tempt Him with the things of the flesh, imagination, etc. and learn to please Him by fellowshipping/worshipping Him by the New Covenant terms & tools for faith.



May the Lord pour out strong grace in this hour of temptation upon the Church, so that her ears can hear by the Spirit and her eyes can see by the perspective of the throne of God.



Today is the day of newness if you will join your faith to the New Covenant and receive a true education to Christ by the stewardship of living, covenant apostles.



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In Christ,

Apostle JoAnne Cremer

Phl 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.



As the true covenant apostles of Christ take the Church through the Great Transition back to the New Covenant, a key point of distinction can be seen here this scripture, through 3 things:



1. The means by which we obtain the prize: The means is through the "high calling." The high calling is the New Covneant priesthood, which is the 'vocation' we are called to labor in, in order to give to God our acceptable service as royal priests. Our priesthood is not after the Aaronic order with physical tools, but after the order of Melchezedec, through the handling and reciprocation of the knowledge of Christ. It is only as our service to God is by the tools of the New Covenant that we are rewarded with fruit in our soul, which is how God gives the reality to our hope of Christ in us the hope of glory.



2. "In Christ": The prize we are laboring toward is not "In Moses" or "through Moses." This means that we do not obtain the prize by resourcing anything from the Covenant of Moses, rather only through resourcing the power of God's grace through the Record and Witness of CHRIST, which is "IN CHRIST" solely through the Covenant of Christ.



Gal 5:4

Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.



Those who seek to please God by the tithe, the Sabbath, the Feast Days, the ritual washings, or ANY OTHER THING of the Covenant of Moses, then Christ's grace is of no effect for the salvation of their soul, for they are FALLEN from it, being that they seek to touch God by "Moses" (the worship tools of Moses' Covenant). We are commanded to love God by the BETTER COVENANT, the New Covenant, and it is the BLUEPRINT of the Covenant of Christ that has been lost to the Church that is now being restored.



3. The Prize: The prize is not "God blessing every area of our lives" or making us all fulfilled in our imaginations and aspirations. The prize is that we might WIN CHRIST. We shall become Co-heirs with Christ on the throne of God if we humble ourselves now to the grace of God and allow Him to transform our souls by our participation in the Priesthood of Christ. All that the fleshly gospels today promote as "God's blessings" are actually enticements of the flesh whereby Satan pulls in the Deut. 28 blessings to natural Israel, and mixes them together with the covenant of Christ to produce the hybrid doctrine called the "Doctrine of the Nicolatines" which Jesus hates and which destroys the Church. Those who embrace these hybrid gospels tempt Christ, but those who have been trained by living apostles with the one doctrine of Christ testify of Christ and shall WIN the prizze, if they endure with faith and patience to the end, overcoming themselves, sin, the devil and the world.



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Apostolic Precision: Testing the spirits



Dear friends,



I hope to bless you today with an example of how to âtest the spiritsâ. May the Lord grant strong grace to bring understanding to your hearts.



Televangelistâs message: âThe Currency of the Kingdom: Relationshipsâ



One televangelist recently said that ârelationshipsâ are the currency of the kingdom. They went on to say that when you are connected to the right people, those people can help you âfulfill your assignment.â



While this sounds âspiritualâ, the question we must ask: Is this the gospel the apostles delivered? Where in the New Covenant did the apostles record that relationships are the currency of the kingdom?



The apostle John gave a New Covenant commandment when he said âtry the spiritsâ.



1Jo 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.



Apostle Paul confirms this when he says:



1Ti 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;



If we do not try the spirits, then it is possible to give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, whose purpose is to lead Christians to depart from the Faith.



Letâs test the spirit behind the inspiration that says ârelationships are the currency of the kingdom.â



1. "Currency": Currency is a means of exchange. Through the means of exchange, you obtain the thing you desired. So here we have our first clue of which kingdom is supplying this inspiration. Vague preaching, using terms such as âcurrencyâ brings the value of the gospel down to the human reasoning, the human logic, the human need, or in other words, what is âcommonâ to man. This then opens the door for âprivate interpretationâ as we view from our individual human perspectives what the value of these âwordsâ might mean to us. In all the epistles we never hear the apostles defining the âthings of Christâ as âcurrencyâ to âfulfill your assignment.â In fact we hear warnings from the apostles to beware of those who bring words that are absent of the value Christ originally intended.



Col 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.



1Ti 1:6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

1Ti 1:7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.



Vain jangling speaks of empty talk, or talk that is void of the value of Christ, or words that do not carry the virtue of Godâs power of grace. When ministers use words of ambiguity they are engaging in vain jangling. They are speaking, but they are âspeaking of their ownâ, affirming the wrong kingdom, the wrong covenant, and their words carry no power from the throne of God to bring a divine transformation of the soul. The apostles were never ambiguous in their instruction of the Covenant of Christ and how we prosper in our souls through grace. They never set the context of Christ into the context of what is common to man.



2. "Relationships": In this context relationships were spoken of as to a human to human exchange of power and influence that will aid you in âfulfilling your assignment.â Here again is another key to identifying the spirit behind the inspiration. The context of âwhom to receive fromâ has been reset to your perception, whom you think is of value to promote your own agenda. If the âassignmentâ you have set for yourself is in connection to âfinancial prosperityâ then you will set the value of relationships according to those who have influence, wealth and financial advice to help you with your âassignment.â This then requires you to discriminate against those who do not meet this criteria as they donât âhave what it takesâ to promote you to the ânext levelâ of achieving your âassignment.â



Jam 2:1-6 My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, [the Lord] of glory, with respect of persons. For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?



The apostle James here is rebuking Christians who measure by the scales of oneâs wealth and influence. The false doctrine of the âlaw of attractionâ says that you attract to you what you value. If you value wealth, you will supposedly attract wealthy people into your life. This is how Christians sin against God, by holding their faith in partiality, respecting persons and their possessions, valuing these individuals as a currency to get them to the next level in their imagination of what they have assigned to themselves to seek. Those of wealth are esteemed as the âones to hearken toâ, the ones to âlisten toâ and âdraw fromâ for knowledge and direction. This then, removes the value of the stewardship of living apostles, who are to deliver the knowledge of the truth of the New Covenant, and resets the value of âwhom we listen toâ to whomever might advance you in the means to achieve your aspirations.



3. "Your assignment": Again, it is easy to see the seducing spirit behind this inspiration. The apostles never spoke of âthe will of Godâ in ambiguous terms, such as âyour assignmentâ but always spoke and taught the will of God with specificity and precision. They never set the context of the will of God into âyour lifeâ or âyour dreamsâ or âyour signature talentsâ or âyour financesâ. They always set the will of God into the context of the sanctification of your soul, which is a daily experience of being washed from the stain and fruit of sin. The apostles taught that this experience of sanctification brings also a daily separation from the philosophies and traditions and aspirations of the world and sets you apart as holy unto the Lord for service. The apostles always taught the will of God was always in connection to you serving God on a daily basis at the altar of Christ, with the (invisible) tools of Christ (the tools of the Spirit, of the New Covenant). This is the service that sanctifies the soul, washes the soul, regenerates the soul, renews the mind, and engrafts the fruit of Christ into the soul, by the power of grace and the power of the Spirit. Therefore we always see how the context of âassignmentâ was always in direct connection to making the soul conformable to the image of Christ, not to the fulfilling of oneâs ambitions and aspirations in oneâs âlife.â



Summary: In âtrying the spiritsâ behind this televangelists doctrine, we see that it is not confirming the plan of God for mankindâs redemption, nor does it confirm the means by which redemption is experienced, which is through the New Covenant terms, tools and commandments. It confirms manâs imagination, manâs lusts, and manâs aspirations. Therefore we know that the spirit that inspired this doctrine is a seducing spirit and we ought to âflee fromâ those who work by seducing spirits.



I hope I have given you a snapshot of how Christianity has become a âjourneyâ where believers are made merchandise of and spiritually abused by the false scales of gospels that measure Godâs favor and blessings, that measure spirituality, Christ and faith to the vain, temporal and perishing things of this earth and "one's life".



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Apostle JoAnne Cremer

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