A Branch of the Vine Ministry

An Expression of Great Admiration

To think Christ left the GLORIES of heaven to come and do they will of the Father

I BELIEVE - WHY ??????

This is not a parrot fashion repetitive confession but an echo that comes from experiencing God in the most wonderful way.

When you have been in valleys and climbed mountains slipping and falling you somehow got to a place where in honesty you can say :
"""I BELIEVE"""

Let My Life be WORSHIP - In the midst of ALL our desires does this have a place???

FRIENDS IN OUR EGO, SELF GRATIFICATION AND SO MUCH OF WHO WE REALLY ARE AND WHAT WE PROJECT IS THERE THE SLIGHTEST INDICATION OF THE DESIRE THAT WE SAY "LET MT LIFE BE WORSHIP"??????

OH THAT OUR PASSION, LONGING and CRAVING will be that our LIVES truly Glorify Him!!

We can or should be looking to that place where God is so GREAT and so BIG that we will lose our selfish desires NEEDS and GREEDS and seek to be to the GLORY of His name

OUR WAY MAKING GOD - Yes Not only is God our Pusher and Catcher BUT also OUR God who makes a Way

The trials of man are A PLENTY A DAY and so many are feeling the crunch - Well let us consider this !!God knows about us - He CARES about us- He Loves us and He has pushed us into a circumstance and will catch us if we fall and IN IT He TEACHES us So MUCH about HIS working in our lives. Trust Him!!!

If EVER a TIME to see The Heavens Open it IS NOW

God is IN READINESS to LET THE HEAVENS OPEN!!!!

DANGEROUS WORDS are """ LET THE HEAVENS OPEN"""

Let the Heavens Open

By

Stan Almendro

We sometimes in OUR ignorance or misdirectected passion  make calls and wishes on God not thinking of the consequences.

What we need to remember is:

1.  God remembers it all!!

2.  Fortunately with His intimate knowledge of us He answers in GRACIOUS ways.

That ALL said let us KEEP our eyes on the horizon looking to see how and what God intends in LETTING the HEAVENS OPEN""

MASTER"""" MY STORM (HEART) IS RAGING""""

RIGHT now and many a day in the past you and I feel our RAGING STORMY hearts are not coping with our TROUBLED SEAS and sinking is eminent

Well LOOK out of your Boat (Life) peep over the TROUBLED waves because there the MASTER CALMER OF TROUBLED SEAS (Hearts and LIVES) is Standing right there

Yes Jesus knows and understands our hearts in EVERY sense of the word knows how and when to squeeze into our troubled minds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0oKMJW_ph0&t=92s

THE RAGING TERROR OF HEARTS IN A TURBULENT STORM

Over our HEADS in the storms of Life HOW we need to see the MASTER who CALMS every STORM and TROUBLED HEART

THE LOUD ROAR OF OUR TROUBLED HEARTS

THERE HAS BEEN A TIME WITH THOSE FILLED WITH FEAR WERE TREATED FOR SOME EMOTIONAL SICKNESS OR STRAIN

THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HOMES TO TREAT THOSE WITH FEAR IN THESE DAYS THE WORLD HAS BECOME A NIGHTMARE OF NEW STORMS EACH DAY INTENSIFYING BY THE HOUR AND HEARTS OF EVEN THE STRONG IS FULL OF OR BEGINNING TO FEAR STORMS THAT ARE NOT GOING AWAY

SO THE GREAT HEALER JESUS IS STANDING WITH US IN THE MIDST OF OUR STORMY HEARTS AND HE WILL BRING A STILLNESS LIKE NO OTHER CAN DO

Matthew 14:27 KJV. But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

Be NOT afraid It Is I

BE BLESSED AS HE(JESUS) QUIETENS YOUR HEART

June and Stan Almendro

Be NOT AFRAID

SHATTERED TRUST (Edition 2)

SHATTERED (Episode 2)

By

Stan Almendro

We saw in the first episode what SHATTERED and TRUST means

We also sat that there are THE CULPRITS shattering the trust in human hearts and THE VICTIMS who are shattered.

This is not to say that every CULPRIT is deliberate because it could be that VICTIMS are so already hurt and shattered in life that it does not take much to trigger a SHATTERING HURT.

In some cases, is can be OVERSENSITIVE hearts who feel and will (If not helped) always find themselves as a SHATTERED VICTIM. We are going out from the basis for VICTIMS who have grown up in DIRE circumstances among insensitive adults and family who all mix and socialize with likeminded people who join in the circle of abuse.

We have over a long period of time had to do with so many folks who are in this group of REAL SHATTERED TRUST hearts and there is a similar sometimes identical thread in the hearts of everyone: Some points of a Background of these dear folk: •

Born into pathetic family circumstances (May not be poverty or struggle (There are people in this) where adults have children only because sex is available, They in themselves (Parents) have NO understanding of LOVE, CARING, and NURTURING A child (They struggle in survival for themselves)

• Neglect

• Rejection Big Time

• A slow POISON of LACK of Maturing MORALITY and ETHIC values and the only ROLE models is what they are born into.

• No understanding at all about the effect this poverty in character is having in a child or children.

• The adults JUST live a life from day to day NOT knowing or want to KNOW there is a higher and better life. From this so much happens in the lives of so many of a SHATTERED VICTIM and end up discovering and experiencing such hurt as:

• The ones they love, and trust (Starting with a dad and mom) abuse them bodily, molest them and expect favors of the SHATTERED VICTIM CHILD.

• Other family members and people see such children as opportunities to abuse and molest (So the TRUST starts a string of SHATTERDNESS)

• Nothing such victims do is good enough

• It all becomes a vicious circle going from abuse to abuse and the victim later believes this is LOVE and when not abused they are no longer loved.

• As teenagers and young adults, it happens time again by people thought to be trusted by the VICTIM

• Marry abusers divorce only to marry another abuser and so it goes on.

• NOW we have a CRIPPLED in EMOTION VICTIM looking for answers, love, and recognition. Even wanting to connect with the CULPRITS who inflicted all the hurt.

This is so sad and in episode 3 we will give some thought to the mindset of the SHATTERED VICTIMS

SHATTERED TRUST - IS THERE HEALING

Shattered

By

Stan Almendro

The SHATTERED series is not coming from an EXPERT or college graduate on HUMAN Behaviour but from a man (With his dear wife June) who has ministered to broken people for a period over fifty (50) years and seen so much sadness, suicide and families being broken up with SUCH HURT HEARTS AND EMOTIONS. He (the writer) has also firsthand experience from an INCREDIBLY young child learning to cope with TRUST (Who, When and Why to trust adults who for several reasons SHATTERED the TRUST of young Hearts!

At the age of eleven ran from home and not missed, neglected hungry always searching to find out what was and is “TRUE LOVE” YES SHATTERED TRUST was alive and WELL and there was just nobody to lift us out of this deep hole except himself and his will to be different and to be effective.

This topic (Shattered) is divided into four diverse ways we can be and are “SHATTERED” These Are:

1. Shattered Trust

2. Shattered Faith

3. Shattered Love

4. Shattered Joy

This first episode is on “”” Shattered Trust””” BUT Let us grasp what we are talking about!!!!!

A. What does feeling shattered mean?

B. If you are shattered by something, you are extremely shocked and upset about it. It is desperately sad news, and I am absolutely shattered to hear it. Synonyms: devastated, shocked, stunned, crushed

C. shattered (BROKEN)

D. 1. Battered

2. Beaten

3. Floored

4. RUINED is being “RUINED” 

BUT ENOUGH SAID ABOUT SHATTERD Now

A. What does TRUST mean?

B. Believe in the reliability, truth, or ability of. "I should never have trusted her or him"

C. Firm belief in the character, strength, or truth of someone or something

D. “To trust means to rely on another person because you feel safe with them and have confidence that they will not hurt or violate you.

WELL NOW ALSO ENOUGH ABOUR TRUST

So then “SHATTERED TRUST” IS being “RUINED” by the INABILITY of someone we have or had CONFIDENCE in to be REAL, TRUE and LOYAL!!!

We have in every lifestyle and in SHATTERED TRUST

a • CULPRIT who inflicts the hurt and Pain

b • VICTIM who will always feel the infliction and BETRAYED by “A CULPRIT”

CULPRITS can be through:

• Ignorance of what they are doing

• Deliberate in a need to hurt

• People with Agendas

VICTIMS feel they are TARGETED

• And it is often true

• BUT can be oversensitive

• SOME setting themselves up for hurt

• AND ARE OFTEN REAL VICTIMS OF CRUEL NATURED PEOPLE

CULPRITS (LIKE VICTIMS) are found in all levels of society!!! •

JUST in Life

• ARE Egotistical

• WORK with agendas

• ARE and can be wreckers of some weak or even strong hearted people.

VICTIMS (HAVE A TOTAL DISLIKE OR EVEN HATE THE CULPRITS)

• HAVE sensitive hearts at the best of times and often are people WHO give 100% trust in others. GOOD people expecting fairness and truth out of life

• CAN be hyper or SUPER sensitive and so easily hurt for the smallest of things even when it could be NO culprit trying to inflict hurt

SO NOW LEAVING TECHNICALITIES AND EXPLANATIONS (OFTEN VERY WEAK ANYWAY) AND STATING THE NITTY GRITTY OF THE LOT OF A VICTIM WITH SHATTERED TRUST. THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE EXTREMITIES OF SHATTERED TRUST BUT IT IS THERE ALIVE, WELL AND HAAVING CAUSED MASS DISTRUCTION CONTINUES TO DO SO IN THE MIND, SOUL, HEART, BODY, AND LIFE OF SO MANY (IN OUR EYES FAR TOO MANY PATIENTS/VICTIMS OF THIS HUMAN TRAGEDY)

A RECENT SESSION WE HAD WITH A DEAR PERSON STARTED A JOURNEY OF ‘’SHATTERED TRUST” as young as four years old: • At Home

• At School

• In the wider family

• In Religion

AND in believing in all and everybody was badly scorched but ill meaning people (Mostly Adults but also at school level) inflicting extreme cruelty a creating hurt that still exists today.

I know this to be real and true because I was involved in the exact environment and saw it all happening. This is a hell hole and victims start to search and dig into history trying to find the WHY and the WHEREFORE but just keep digging more and more feeding the hurt and TOTAL SHATTERING.

One must have EMPATHY and a DEEP compassion for a VICTIM like this who are often also abused by ill meaning therapist on the prowl.

UNDERSTANDING, TRYING TO IDENTIFY WITH YOU AS A VICTIM CAN AND WILL DO A LOT FOR YOU IF YOU ARE A VICTIM.

MOST PEOPLE MAYBE IN IGNORANCE OR AT THE ENORMITY OF THE MATTER COULD SAY “PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER” AND get ON WITH YOUR LIFE NOT REALISING THAT YOU WOULD IF YOU COULD.

In what follows we trust to give you (a victim) a safety valve, a hope, and a will to want to live be different and make a difference!!!

Fond regards June & Stan Almendro

CRACKED POTTERY MADE WHOLE (Edition 2)

CRACKED POTTERY

By

Stan Almendro

CAN WE SEE THIS AS A SERIES OF THREE (3) ARTICLES WITH THIS AS AN INTRODUCTION?

This episode is: THE PERFECT POT

Born again in 1957 by accepting Jesus as my Saviour I thought that I had now transcended into the world OF ANGELIC BLISS only to find out we are all just sinners SAVE by Grace living in human bodies with HUMAN weaknesses which needed a badly MAKE OVER BY GOD!!!!!!!!!!

The transformation in my life was not just real but DYNAMIC.

• Born again

• Baptized by Immersion

• Filled with the Holy Ghost

• THE total word of God dropped into my heart not possessing a bible the Holy Spirit brought the Word of God alive in my Heart at the right time and every occasion to meet a need of word or ministry (Yes at 13 I visited every township and places of safety for criminal children sharing His Word with NO BIBLE

• A Prophesy spoken over me by Carel Cronje (Senior) as I cam out of the water being baptized “” That I would be A VOICE IN THE WORLD”” and nothing or anyone must be allowed to silence me.

Because of this I wanted and needed more than secular religion, or a good feeling touched in my emotion for a stirring song or moment.

Having been disillusioned by THE CHURCH NOT BEING A HUDDLE OF ANGELIC BEINGS. (Things happening among the people and even among much older Christians puzzled me – Obvious sinful things and so much more)

. Friends this was at the age of thirteen. So, the search was on • Looking to God for answers

• Asking Questions Galore

• Exploring so much about Real and what was in the Mind of God about THE PERFECT POT (God says he is the potter, and we are the clay and God is not a CREATOR of the IMPERFECT) It was then that GOD started to show me that:

• The Church was not the building.

• It is His People SAVED by GRACE!!

• He is at work in every one of us according to His WILL that works in us.

• THAT THROUGH HIS DEATH, OUR ACCEPTANCE of HIM we are MADE WORTHY to be called SONS of GOD I began to see the WORLD of GOD (HIS CHURCH) in a Different LIGHT and understood more clearly day by day that we His People SAVED by grace was THE PERFECT POT He created not for what we did or was doing or even who we or but BECAUSE OF HIM.

So, I could look at people in the Diverse Church Movements see and recognise that each group was unique in their focus and understanding (Albeit limited in some senses) sowing a PASSION for

• Souls to be saved with HUGE focus on the Gospel. I was born again in such an environment

• Praise & Worship • Holiness (Sometimes a wrong slant on outer appearance rather than pure living to the Glory of God)

• AND so many other slants that was followed with much ZEST and seriousness and it worked well for the time we were in.

• A well-balanced English Pentecostal group with steadfast teaching of The Word of God, Bible Studies, Prayer Meetings, Braking of Bread was something incredibly Special so too the flow of the Holy Spirit in Gifts and THE SPIRIT of CARING was alive and well at that time (We discovered this in about 1968 and it WAS WELL WITH OUR SOULS.

THIS was all part of my SEARCHING discovering that THE PERFECT POT was the HANDWORK of God (And still is even though CHURCH is now in a lost state).

Not because of the people or instruments BUT because of His knowing what He has created and what HE has in mind about the PERFECT pot

Be Blessed and the next edition will touch on THE OBVIOUS CRACKS and DETECTING these Cracks in The Pot

Be Blessed

June and Stan Almendro

CRACKED POTTERY

CRACKED POTTERY(Edition 1)

By

Stan Almendro

CAN WE SEE THIS AS A SERIES OF THREE (3) ARTICLES WITH THIS AS AN INTRODUCTION?

THE THREE IF GIVEN SUBTITLES UNDER CRACKED POTTERY WILL BE

1. THE PERFECT POT

2. OBVIOUS CRACKS AND OUR IGNORING IT

3. THE GOLDEN FILLER OF GOD God is not a God of double standards, and He deals and will deal the same measure or measure in His will for us with stubborn disobedience continue in and with evil hearts GOD is speaking to Israel through Jerimiah in these verses and like never before He is speaking to His Spiritual Israel (People of God) through OBEDIENT Prophets Hear Him

BELOW IS A VERSE FROM JERIMIAH 18 Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel and if that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will relent and not inflict on it the disaster I had planned. and if it does evil in my sight and does not obey me, then I will reconsider the good I had intended to do for it.

Jerimiah 18 vs 1 to 10(If you are serious about God and want to see how God dislikes and detests evil then PLEASE READ THESE 10 VERSES AT YOUR LEISURE) IT WILL HELP US UNDERSTAND THE THREE ARTICLES TO FOLLOW WHICH IS GOING TO BE BASED ON A REAL LIFE EXAMPLE OF A MODERN CHURCH LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA WHO IGNORED OR WHO REFUSED TO SEE THE CRACKS THREE ARTICLES TO FOLLOW ARE

1.THE PERFECT POT

2. OBVIOUS CRACKS

3. THE GOLD FILLER Do let us prepare our hearts to receive this It might help us to detect yes see obvious cracks in our life with God

Be Blessed June and Stan Almendro

Just A Closer Walk With Him

BY COURTESY OF THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE

Psalm 2:12 AMP“12 Kiss the Son, so that He does not become angry, and you perish in the way, For His wrath may soon be kindled and set aflame.

How blessed [fortunate, prosperous, and favoured by God] are all those who take refuge in Him!”

Psalms 103:3 TPT You kissed my heart with forgiveness, in spite of all I’ve done.

You’ve healed me inside and out from every disease.

To kiss The Son is to honour Him with prayer, worship, praise and thanksgiving.

It is to show kindness to those around you and forgive as He has forgiven you.

He kisses us with forgiveness, by loving us enough to die for us. His kisses are better than the sweetest of wine.

Our lips are lovely to Him when we speak mercy and grace.

The Living Word is a kiss from our Heavenly King. We kiss our Saviour-King by loving Him with all our hearts and honouring Him with our lives.

Kissing The Son is an absolute joy, something we long for.

BE Blessed

KINDNESS IS NOT NEVER WAS AND MUST NEVER BE AN ACT OR EXCERCISE. BE PASSION DRIVEN TOWARDS PEOPLE AND YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT THE JOY YOU CREATE

WE ARE EITHER KIND; DISINTERESTED; HARD OF HEART OR TOTALLY UNKIND- THE CHOICE IS OURS. THE ONE GREAT GIFT HAS GIVEN ME (STAN ALMENDRO IS A VERY KIND FAMILY
KINDNESS IS NOT NEVER WAS AND MUST NEVER BE AN ACT OR EXERCISE. BE PASSION DRIVEN TOWARDS PEOPLE AND YOU WILL BE AMAZED AT THE JOY YOU CREATE

You ARE THE AIR I BREATHE -IS HE?????? FOLKS WITH SO MUCH ATTRACTION AROUND US AND YES EVEN OUR CURCHES WITH ENTERTAINMENT LURES US TO A LIFE WHERE WE TEND TO IGNORE GOD

Experience God and Jesus in such a way the Jesus will be "" THE AIR WE BREATHE""

God is not a God of Confusion NOR will He create Confusion in our Hearts and minds

Many are the men and people in scripture who did not ALWAYS understand the paths of God or how He leads and where He is leading to.

Know this that OUR TIMES ARE IN HIS HANDS and He faileth not.

Yes as the song below says "FARHER ALONG WE'LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT

"FARTHER ALONG WE'LL UNDERSTAND ALL

Keep walk and you will Hear His voice saying "This is the way walk in It"

Be Blessed

June & Stan

Straight to the Heart - God has a way of meeting us where He finds our Hearts

Dear friend today and each day we need to be aware of Him, His Presence and His never ending Love.
Are you at a place today where you FEEL you have lost your heart???
Do not despair because HE (God) is right at that place with you and HE has something for you that HE will bring straight to you.

FULNESS OF LIFE

Life in ALL its FULNESS

THESE WORDS REALLY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION """THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE LIFE IN ALL ITS FULNESS"""

It is surely the present life being spoken about and to think"""IN ALL ITS FULNESS""" Let us not slide into that mode of ""TOTAL STRUGGLE AND SURVIVAL"" God has?us by His hand and the tug of His hand is to raise us to that plane of"" LIFE IN ALL ITS FULLNESS""

SEE OURSELVES AS COMPLETE IN HIM AND IN HIM IS THE FULNESS OF GOD Be Blessed June and Stan Almendro I have come in order that you might have life in all its fulness

Be Blessed

June and Stan Almendro 

THE VINE NOT THE BRANCHES

John 15 verse 5

I am the vine you are the branches. 

Our FRUIT shows the type of tree that we are

He who guides His children is looking to guide you

Psalm 27 verses 11 to 14

27:11 Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.

27:12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.

27:13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

27:14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. 

Lives outside of God might be glamorouss to some but it is a path to destruction but the way of God is to eternal life

They Lord our Comforter

If ever you have needed the comforting of God you will know of a truth the measure of which He COMFORTS

We are never too strong and too proud to call on God for Him to comfort us

Wherever you are right now you do not need feel ashamed to acknowledge your need off God

Is the attraction ALL THINGS??_

Do we think there were moments in the life for Paul that he had the ""BAD"" things happening because he had so much sin and also because he lacked faith He boldly says whatever state I find myself therewith to be content It is in the context of this that he says ""I CAN DO ALL THINGS"" No He had and inner knowledge and acceptance of the WILL and PURPOSE of God He fully lived under the WORKING hand of God The KEY WORD and KEY to life is CONTENTMENT Let us enrol for this class and see what and how we can learn about contentment June and Stan Almendro

Are you armed with your WEAPON of REST ???

W are encouraged to COME APART AND REST AWHILE

Being stressed out and often in panic mode makes us lose sight of God and who He wants to be in our love

R = Return to God

E = Engage God in the affairs of our lives

S = Sit at His feet as often as we can

T = Touch Him when we are tempted to have UNREST in our hearts

Be Blessed

June and Stan Almendro

Spirit led annointed and inspired moments to bless you encourage you and motivate you to a higher plane with God

Acknowledge Our Need of God

This video expresses our Need of God
Not a bad place to start
Friends it is not a weakness to need God
If we as a ministry team can do anything for us it will be for us to come to a place of realizing our NEED of God
Relying on our own strength and our own strength denies God of His hearts desire

Serving Jesus Such Joy

Yes Jesus is The Joy of Living and In Him is FULLNESS of Joy
A JOY that brings with it GREAT and much needed strength
Oh if only we would search out the depth of the FULLNESS of God, who He is and WHO He wants to be to us.

Let us reach that place to say
Ive got the JOY OF JESUS deep in my HEART