The True Meaning...

As you begin to steadily read your Bible, you might come across what you consider to be your favorite verse. This verse might appear very inspirational to you. It could quite possibly define your relationship with God. Maybe it seems to resemble goals or characteristic traits that you have, or want to have. Whatever the reason, you have picked it as "your favorite verse."

Now, as you continue to read your Bible and grow in your relationship with God, you may realize a totally different meaning to your verse. A new meaning that makes it even more significant to you... That goes into deeper depths of truth.

For example... My favorite verse is:

"Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good." -Romans 12:21

Ever since I began reading the Bible, this has been my favorite verse. (I know it by heart... I don't even have to look it up). However, just the other day, I realized it's true meaning, and how it is meant to be lived out.

I was being tempted to do something against God... Something I do not want to write. I almost fell into the pit of temptation, when, suddenly, I shoved the idea right back into Satan's face! I proclaimed victoriously, "Get behind me! Don't try to make me do that again! Just because you suggested the idea of doing something evil, I am going to instead read my Bible." Then I went and read a few chapters. I knew I had just savagely stomped on the devil in Jesus' name, and that probably knocked him away from me for a while... Then I realized my verse. I had just lived it out. I refused to be overcome with evil, and instead, I overcame it with Chuck Norris!... Uh... I mean... Good! At that revolutionary moment, I had realized the true meaning of my verse. And now that verse will always be there to aid me when I fight the good fight. In a sense, it has added to my armor of God. (Well, I guess the Bible would be considered the sword, because the word is the sword, but in Ephesians the sword is also the spirit... So... I guess it works either way).

Now that you see my example, you can look forward to finding the true meaning to your favorite verse, or literally every verse in the Bible. It's funny how you can read the whole Bible, but never fully understand what you are reading until a little while after. I believe that if we unlock the true meaning of the Holy Scriptures, they will come alive to us in new ways that were never thought imaginable.

Just keep reading, and have endurance.

God bless you all. Peace be with you. Keep your eyes on Jesus.

Your servant, RC Hammer

"My Alliance Consists of:"

3. Mr. T

2. Chuck Norris

1. Jesus

I'm Back!!! Part 1.

I'm back... I'll sum up my trip for you:

1. I drove through Chicago. "Let's go inhale some nice toxic fumes!"
2. I stayed at the Wisconsen Dells for a little while. That place is like theme park land! Carnival rides and waterparks are everywhere!... Nobody really comes out at day, everyone wonders around and goes to there great novilty stores at night!
3. I drove through Minnesota. I saw the Mississippi river. Lots of corn.
4. I drove through many miles of South Dakota... Flat, flat, South Dakota. But, once I got to the end of it, I realized it was a very mountanous region. I went to the Badlands... Very Awesome. I also saw Mount Rushmore.
5. I went through Wyoming... All the way to Yellowstone National park! Yellowstone is a very beautiful place... with great natural sights. It's also teaming with abudant wildlife... I'll show some abudant wildlife in a little bit...
5 1/2. I went to Montana and Idaho... while staying in Yellow Stone. Idaho looks a lot like Napoleon Dynamite's homeland... So I have no doubt that they didn't film it in California.
6. I went down a little ways, to the Tetons. Very beautiful place, but I didn't get to see much... Because our car broke... (kind of), and we had to fix it. Our car broke... Haha.
7. We stayed there a little while, and then we drove home through a few different states. They were: Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa... and of course, Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Many things to see in all of those states.

In total, I went through 13 states... Indiana, Illinois, Wesconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Michigan.

It feels very good to get back. While I was gone, I took over 1,000 pictures. I will only share some of my highlights with you (I will do a few more "parts", with pictures).

I actually thought I would be home sooner, but we had to stop for a little while in Indiana. GOD actually told me that we were going to have to stop for a little bit during my trip, I just didn't realize it. I asked my Dad when we would be home (on one of the last days of our trip). I remebered his answer... and I believed it. I then kept heaing James 4:13-15 in different places... I didn't realize this was what GOD was saying to me:

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

James 4:13-15

A little be later, our car's radiator broke, and we had to stop for a little while... Yes, I could have been home much sooner. My message is: If you have faith, GOD will speak to you. Maybe not in words, but in acts, HE will make HIMSELF known. (HE sometimes speaks to you, too).

In the next few posts, I will try to post pictures... GOD bless you all! Peace be with you!

RC Hammer

In Your Heart

Christians sometimes sin in the presence of no others, but they forget that they are always being watched by GOD. They sin, and then they think that nobody will find out. But they failed to remember that ever since they accpeted CHRIST, they had the HOLY SPIRIT come inside them to dwell in their heart. They don't realize that no matter where they go, GOD will always be with them, and watching them.

Imagine a mother driving her child to kindergarden. While she was driving, a different car cut her off while she was turning. If she was by herself, she would probably say bad things to the driver that cut her off, but since her child was in the car with her, she restrained from cursing the other driver. She did not want to do something bad in front of her child.

The same thing should go to us Christians. Before we had GOD inside us, we would do many bad and sinful things with out caring about what we were doing. But now that we have GOD in us, we should try to keep ourselves from doing evil and wicked things (even if we are alone) because GOD is with us, always watching what we do. Realize GOD's spirit in you.

Ephesians 2:19-22

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

GOD bless you all. Peace be with you. Keep your faith limitless and keep fighting the good fight.

Your servant, RC Hammer

Victory Family Church's New Billboard Sign...!

Victory Family Church has recently put up this billboard sign that says: "I hate Victory Family Church- Satan." It's catchy, it's witty, and it's controversial. I like it! I saw this sign on the news, and they said that religious leaders find it sac- religious. That's stupid. Satan's goal in his miserable life is to devour people... I mean... He does everything in his power to try and keep people from going to heaven... He wants to separate people from GOD! If VFC is helping people to get a relationship with GOD, then they are his enemy. And since Satan doesn't live by GOD's law, (he twists it) then he isn't going to follow GOD's law and love his enemies, he is going to hate them... And that's why the sign says: "I hate Victory Family Church!" It's really quite simple.

But, we can both agree that this sign is really quite different. That is exactly what we need right now: Something different. It is now time for the church to go out and do things that they have never done before, things that will bring new believers to GOD. I'm not talking about a building, I'm talking about the full body of JESUS CHRIST! I commission you to go out into the world and try something you have never done before to bring about the good news of JESUS CHRIST. I pray that in GOD's name, all of your fears of what people will think, say, or do will leave, and that you will have courage to go out and represent GOD. Do something different to reach out!... That's my message.

GOD bless you all. Peace be with you. Keep your faith limitless.

Your servant, RC Hammer

DC Talk | What If I Stumble

DC Talk

What If I Stumble

"The greatest single cause of atheism in the world todayIs Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lipsThen walk out the door and deny him by their lifestyle.That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable."

Is this one for the people? Is this one for the Lord?Or do I simply serenade for things I must afford?You can jumble them together, my conflict still remainsHoliness is calling, in the midst of courting fameCause I see the trust in their eyesThough the sky is fallingThey need Your love in their livesCompromise is calling

What if I stumble, what if I fall?What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all?Will the love continue when my walk becomes a crawl?What if I stumble, and what if I fall?

What if I stumble, what if I fall?You never turn in the heat of it allWhat if I stumble, what if I fall?

Father please forgive me for I can not composeThe fear that lives within meOr the rate at which it growsIf struggle has a purpose on the narrow road you've carvedWhy do I dread my trespasses will leave a deadly scarDo they see the fear in my eyes? Are they so revealing?This time I cannot disguise all the doubt I'm feeling

What if I stumble, what if I fall?What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all?Will the love continue when my walk becomes a crawl?What if I stumble, and what if I fall?

What if I stumble?Everyone's got to crawl when you know thatYou're up against a wall, it's about to fallEveryone's got to crawl when you know that

I hear You whispering my name [You say]"My love for You will never change" [never change]

What if I stumble, what if I fall?What if I lose my step and I make fools of us all?Will the love continue when my walk becomes a crawl?What if I stumble, and what if I fall?

What if I stumble, what if I fall?You never turn in the heat of it allWhat if I stumble, what if I fall?You are my comfort, and my God

Is this one for the people, is this one for the Lord?

Message(s) of Hope

Psalm 62

1Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation.
2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.
5My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.
6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
7In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
8Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
11God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
12Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.

GOD bless you all.

Peace be with you.

May your cup runneth over.

If you need prayers, please ask.

Keep your faith limitless.

Your servant, RC Hammer

गोद ब्लेस यू

Invisible

He must increase, but I must decrease.
John 3:30
"My GOD, make me invisible;
May all the glory I get go to you.
Use me for YOUR causes,
because YOU know what is best.
Become number #1 in my life LORD JESUS,
so I won't think of myself as the best.
Please, decrease me,
so YOU will increase,
and so will your love that lasts forever.
Amen"
GOD bless you. May GOD shine HIS face upon you. May you live forever in HIS holy presence. Peace be with you all.
Your servant, RC Hammer