Restoration Ministries International

• To mutually establish a biblically-based way of life free from slanted Bible interpretations and heresy, read:   

“General Rules of Biblical Interpretation.”

• To remain free of the bitter hatred of contemporary politics and have the heart of our Lord Jesus, read:   

“True Patriots Are Bible-based Constitutionalists.”

July 14, 2025

Experiencing God’s Love Enables The Genuine To Share It

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus, our Lord,

Please click on Our Father’s Emotions Are Embedded In His Character to download our next Prophetic Nugget. Numerous studies reveal that the vast majority of Christians (even those who are reading this Nugget!) may not even realize they've been harmfully influenced by brazen theologians who logically "analyzed God" centuries ago. These educated religious experts downplayed and even completely disregarded the strongly expressed emotions of our Father, our Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit despite the overwhelming biblical evidence of their presence in the Godhead. The demonic presumption that God is emotionless is called “divine impassibility.” In this Nugget we provide further insight into this deception and its far-reaching impact on people who blindly believe what various theologians have arrogantly pushed about an "aloof and unfeeling" God. If you’ve been taught the Bible with divine impassibility lurking in the backdrop, then you have a very deficient understanding of the mighty and limitless heart of our God!

The theological analysis of God which diminished or even eliminated the crucial importance of His emotions has detrimentally affected how He is presented by those who are in a position of teaching others. Certainly the emotions of our God aren't tainted by our human tendency to change them to suit our needs and desires, or to manipulate others by giving or withholding them. But people who presume to teach the Bible and haven’t experienced His emotions, especially His love, forgiveness and compassion, skew their instruction toward an academic emphasis. The Bible is little more than historical information to be learned. 

By contrast, those few Spirit-led instructors who have really experienced the love, forgiveness, compassion, and other emotions of our God offer gripping testimonies which enlighten the spirit and fan the love of those who are eager to put God's Word into practice. Love is caught from those who love. Authentic love can't be taught; it's role modeled and then put into practice by those who are eager to please their Father and lift up their Lord and Savior Jesus. So ask yourself this. As many times as we are commanded in Scripture to love God and to love others, how can an instructor of Scripture impart what he or she hasn’t experienced themselves?

Benevolent acts don't necessarily equate with fulfilling Father's purposes for your life. Many throughout nominal Christianity are doing "Christian work" because it's the "biblical thing to do" and "somebody has to do it." But too often when the Holy Spirit hasn't directed them or empowered them for a specific work, duty-bound "Christians" don't experience Father’s love, forgiveness and compassion for others. They can do “Christian” actions without love, but what they do without love is for nothing as Paul warned us about in 1Corinthians 13: “I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” (v.1); “I am nothing” (v.2); “I gain nothing” (v.3). “Christian” acts that are done without the heart motivation of divine love may make you look good to others, but in heaven your actions are meaningless. And God gets no glory when you are given credit and praise by others for what you've done by your own choosing and effort.

💠We sincerely want to encourage the genuinely born again that our God does have deep emotions which the indwelling Holy Spirit enables us to experience as well. Again Paul gives us insight into the righteous emotions of our God which He wants us to sincerely pursue and walk in. After all, His purpose is that the image of Christ be formed in us as we walk in obedient trust as His own:

“May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ” (2Thessalonians 3:5).

“That according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God” (Ephesians 3:16-19).

Our Father, Abba, is not a distant Deity Who needs ritual or liturgy for you to approach Him, nor do you need prayers to saints to intercede on your behalf. Think of the incomparable privilege of talking with our Father through His Son Jesus Who ever lives to intercede for you! (Savor Romans 8:34 and Hebrews 7:25 for this glorious reality.) Our Lord Jesus made possible the amazing spiritual intimacy that you can experience in the Spirit through the New Covenant. If you’re genuine but have spent time in nominal Christianity, we encourage you to break free of all vestiges of divine impassibility. Enter by His amazing grace into all the emotions our God wants you to experience as His beloved son or daughter.

Mike & Sue

July 7, 2025

Nuggets Of Prophetic Wisdom

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Please click on What The Genuine Must Be Aware Of As Father Chastises to download the first in our newest series we call “Prophetic Nuggets”. We hope to regularly send out these short articles especially to help the genuinely born again form and nurture a home fellowship family of the communally righteous who authentically love and serve our Lord Jesus and one another.

In this Nugget we reveal particular diabolical influences we've observed over the decades through which Satan has infiltrated nominal Christianity in this nation, especially since World War II. These influences have only deepened over time to become part of the national fabric. We have no doubt that the devil will attempt to infiltrate your home fellowship with nominal Christians in whom he has instilled these unbiblical influences so that vibrant testimonies of answered prayer find no place among you as your way of life.

We believe that it’s important that you recognize that it’s the nominal Christians who are bringing about Father’s chastisement in their unrepentance and worldly goals and values. But it's we who are the genuine who will be persecuted for our intolerance for sin as we love and obey our only Lord and Savior Jesus. So we want to help your fellowship family to be intimately united with our Lord Jesus and our heavenly Father — as deeply intimate as the indwelling Holy Spirit and His grace can enable you to be.

Speaking of the Holy Spirit, our Lord Jesus together with our heavenly Father has given the Holy Spirit to the genuine so that we may experience intimacy and receive specific and direct guidance in fulfilling Father's will both individually and collectively. This reality must be cherished by all of us who are genuine.

We fervently hope that our purpose in sending you these Nuggets will bring glory to our Father as you fulfill His purposes as one of Christ's own.

Mike & Sue

June 27, 2025

Offering the right hand of fellowship requires discernment

Dear Friends in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Please click on the title, To Whom Do You Give The Right Hand Of Fellowship, to download our next Abide. In this segment we highlight the way of life, which by understanding the purpose and terms of the New Covenant in union with our Lord Jesus, is prescribed for the genuinely born again. It is a transforming kind of understanding which leads to a biblically-grounded way of life that's completely different than what various often-contradictory theologies have infused into nominal Christianity. 

Our goal is to assist home fellowships to serve our Father‘s purposes out of grateful love and full availability through His indwelling Holy Spirit. The extended spiritual family of a home fellowship is not just “church“ on a sofa, as you'll see in this Abide. For discussion we section Christianity's participants into three broad divisions: •the genuinely born again, •the "born again" who've been termed that by nominal religious leaders, and •people who were declared "Christian" in infancy through a religious rite.

Our hope in all the messages the Spirit gives us to share is to help the genuine to live as our Lord's redemptive ambassadors. Getting bogged down by the increasing darkness in our nation and throughout the world certainly isn't what our Father wants for the genuine. Nor, because He IS Sovereign over every event and power and government, is there any place for anxiety or fear among His children. We've noted before that there is no political solution for this nation, nor is our Father going to raise up a "political messiah" to save it. We are as a nation going to experience the consequences of our own tolerated sin, and the sorry repercussions of the widespread cowardice among Christian men. 

Throughout Protestantism and Catholicism you don’t hear a resounding call for repentance. Not this pope nor those in the recent past have called for repentance. Institutional Christianity is entangled in the deceiving clutches of Satan, blinded to how spiritually impotent the enemy of our souls has made of what should have been a spiritually powerful body for the salvation of mankind.

We'd like to close this email by sharing with you a warning we voiced in 2015. It's earmarked for those of you who don’t comprehend the redemptive qualities in embracing the New Covenant, a glorious Covenant which none of us deserves. But when we were lost in our own sinful darkness, Father graciously held out the Light of Life to all who repent and trust in the completed work of His resurrected Son. Don't allow Satan to fill you with supposedly "righteous indignation" when you see the encompassing darkness in this society. The devil would like nothing more than to have you camp out on arrogant (un)righteous indignation by pointing a disdaining finger or directing disparaging words especially against people who are without the Holy Spirit and are as hopelessly mired in sin as YOU were before Father graciously sought you. 

Our Lord Jesus would prefer that you respond redemptively to the darkness and anger and injustice in this nation, even if that means just praying for the person or the situation that comes to your attention. Resist Satan's trap to entice you into deriding another person. If our Lord Jesus could shed His blood and die for that person, who gave YOU the right to be a scorner? No one!

We do earnestly hope that this Abide will reaffirm the necessity of love for you, which is the core character quality of our Father and our Lord Jesus, and undergirds the New Covenant that's offered to you. Prayerfully discuss and take action on what the Holy Spirit shows you.

Mike & Sue