Chronicles of a Watchman by Dr. James P. Norman Jr.

What do Angels know? Where do Angels get their knowledge from?  Directly from God himself. They know him personally, They have a vital, intimate relationship with the creator of all things. We have already seen time and time again in the lives of saints, Angels dwelling in God’s presence, surrounding his throne, and  worshiping  him. When we consider further that true knowledge of God requires obedience to his commandments (see I John 2:3-5), we can better appreciate the ability of the holy angels to know God. Because they obey his commandments, they can more fully know him.  Our minds were darkened by the fall of the Garden of Eden, but those angels remained loyal to God in the rebellion of Lucifer have had no such shades drawn over their understanding. 1 John 2:3-5 King James Version (KJV) 3  And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4  He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and ...

Today before we enter into this new kind of ministry, there is a matter that needs consideration because a shortcoming here can mean failure elsewhere. I refer to a minister’s capacity to understand people, to work with them, and to get along with them, this ability is necessarily in the realm of the ministry as in any other profession. A warning not to allow yourself to be trained by political correct speech. This will make you common in your effectiveness. To get along with people does not mean that a person has to compromise his principles. Indeed, if he does that, in the end he will probably lose favor with both God and man. But he must be able to win people’s confidence before he can help them. You must always be open to use unusual faith for real miracles, and by no means allow yourself to fail in sins that are accepted by the norm. There is a success by mans standards and one that is accepted by the working of God’s word. The gospel is good news, the greatest story ...

The Lord of the Harvest Who controls the harvest?  For churches who will wage the war and garner the harvest, there will be colossal growth. We must come to expect churches of ten thousand plus. There will be colossal growth.  Yet, many Christians have been so beat down that they find it difficult to believe God for such a harvest More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.  This earth and its inhabitants by judicial right belongs to God. Although, the devil is the Prince of the Power of the Air, this planet does not belong to him. This earth and it’s inhabitants by judicial right belongs to God. “The earth is the Lords and all its fullness.” Psalms 24:1              Humanity does not belong to Satan but to God. If smart ideas could get the job done, then our seminaries should be lighthouses of evangelistic genius, with no unevangelized people for miles around.  No, Satan is not in...

Col. 4: 2-4. 5 Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving; With all praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of the utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let my speech be, always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man. Jesus Christ is preeminent in the church as its creator and savior. He is its life and leader, and to him alone may the church submit. The whole body must remain rooted and grounded in him. Rather than become enchanted with empty speculation and traditions. Jesus Christ is supreme in salvation. Man and church doctrine have become the real savior as if God just supplies the words and the atmosphere. In him (Jesus) all man-made distinctions fade and barriers fall. Man is deciding what is truth for the day. The barriers ...

Forerunner for Antichrist Dear Saints: Eph. 6:12 For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against persons without bodies – the evil rulers of the unseen world, those mighty satanic beings and queens evil princes of darkness who rule this world; And against huge numbers of wicked spirits in the spirit world. As a follower of Jesus Christ, we find ourselves caught up in a conflict that spans both Heaven and Earth. The forces that confront us are “persons without bodies” – evil spiritual powers in the unseen realm that oppose all true righteousness and seek to establish Satan’s dominion over the whole world. Our responsibility in this conflict is unique, because Christ has committed to us alone the spiritual insight and weapons that can give us victory. The governments and the armies of this world, operating solely on the natural plane, have no understanding of conflict and no power to deal with the satanic forces in the heavenlies. On the contrary...

The Holy Spirit is God himself personally present in the believer. "If" "Spirit of God" no more implies deity than does the Angel of God, why is not the Holy Spirit called simply the angel or messenger of God? The Spirit and the incarnation the Holy Spirit is God in his innermost being or essence, the principle of life of both the Father and the Son; that in which God, both as Father and Son, does everything, and in which he comes to us and is in us increasingly through his manifestations.  Through the working and indwelling of this Holy Spirit, God in his person of Son was fully incarnate in Christ (I Corinthians 2:11). This analogy must not be pushed to far, as if the Spirit of God and God were co-extensive terms, as the corresponding terms are, substantially, in man.  The point of the analogy is evidently self-knowledge, and in both cases the contrast is between the spirit within and anything outside.  We must not expect always to feel the power of the Spirit...

I have read and pondered Ezekiel 28. As pastors, preachers, ministers, or teachers of the God's word, this text reminds me there is a responsibility.  The position as an expositor of God's word requires accountability to the task and function.  The text speaks of guiding, leading, and directing a flock as a shepherd.  The persons shepherded are likening to sheep.  The leader is to feed the flock the Word of God.  Feeding is important to the maintenance, development, and sustenance of sheep.  God has entrusted the leader with the care of the flock.  The leader -- pastor, preacher, minister, or teacher -- is subordinate to God as the under-shepherd.  An under-shepherd has three responsibilities: one to lead, second, to guide; and third, to feed.  We are to do all three responsibly and not haphazardly.  We are not to lord our position over the sheep.  We are to be examples of what it means to be God inside minded.  We set the...