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Calculate.......This..........
Absolutely amazing! Beauty of Math!
1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111
9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
Brilliant, isn't it?
And look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321
Now, take a look at this...
101%
From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:
What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?
Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?
We have all been in situations where someone wants you to GIVE OVER
100%.
How about ACHIEVING 101%?
What equals 100% in life?
Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these questions:
If:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Is represented as:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
If:
H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K
8+1+18+4+23+ 15+18+11 = 98%
And:
K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E
11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%
But:
A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E
1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%
THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:
L-O-V-E-O-F- G-O-D
12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%
Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:
While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, It's the Love of God that will put you over the top!
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Rants & Ramblings............
Vote....JESUS
Politically Correct Nonesense..........There is a Great Deal of Selling of Anti-Christian
Political correctness everywhere.
Yet JESUS is......
He is the Best Choice.........The ONLY.....Choice that will ever Really Matter.
We MUST not Allow This Anti-Religious...Terrorist Tactic...to GAIN...ANY More Ground !
They have had their gains, their Victory's,....& are becoming VERY BOLD.
There are all kinds of Atheism Groups attempting to GROW on the Internet & to Organize,
with more & more Force to wipe Churches of every kind right off the Map.
Any Force Against Jesus & God ...Are....[Antichrist].....they need to be weeded out of The Courts
Government & where ever You Find These WEEDS !
Be a Good Gardener, Farming for the Lord... a Good Crop & Harvest.....Part of that is to Deal
with the Weeds & Parasites etc.,....this is part of Farming for His Harvest.
They MUST Be Pushed Back.
I AM sick of their Bully Tactics........Stand up to These Bullies....GOD [is] Your Body Guard !!
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How far can We Intercede for Others Protection?
or are We just Hindering His Proper Judgement ?
His Tough LOVE....Toward Sin ?
What jumps out here is That We are to absolutely intercede for others sins not just Our own.
We Restore, We also Redeem, We Make Restitution with God Regarding Their sin's.
We Plead to God to Honor Our Faith [Our Right-Standings] and ask Him to not be Harsh in Dealing with a Person's sin's, on their behalf.
But also like Jesus Prayed Let This cup Pass, [God's Decisions] But His Will Be done.
There are times where We can Insolate & Cushion & intervene for Other's, But Not always.
Moses Here Pleaded with God....Yet God's Decision was Severe [tough love] was immediately
administered to the Israelites [judgement] for their sin.
Moses ...what He asked for was not granted....then God proceeded to [judge] His will.
Basically Telling Moses or any Person Praying [NO].....Here is what [WE] will do about this or that.
We need to Hear & Know what God's Final Answer is.
Then act on God's Behalf in administering His Judgements or His Decisions re: any Matters.
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Transition, Transformation From Sinner to Saint.....
God accepts Us Just as We are !! A-Men !
Men [preachers].....in their zeal like Saul before becoming Paul think that they are serving God
& may at times become the abusive parent.
This is a Pride in Self & Worldly & in The Flesh ....& Not The Spirit.
Yet [all] of these have the potential to become [Paul's] also.
He Adopted Us ! In That Adoption Process ....just as in the World...There is a Legal Change of
[Name].
He Never Un-Adopts His Kid's...He rather Fills the Promise to Us, of Completely Developing Us.
& Loving Us every inch of the Way. Finishing His Work In His Kid's.
We are Stuck with His Good Name....But We really Love that He Adopted Us.
We Love that We are No Longer ......Orphan's...& Without a Loving Family that took Us in.
If We Fall ....He is still Dad....& We are still Son & Daughter.
If You were adopted at five years old.....He is still DAD a 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,....
88,89,90,91,92,......108, years old.
As The Perfect Model of a Loving Father He continues to Be There as DAD.
He Never Lord's over Us....He is Gentle & Yet [Firm] with us, all along the way through-out life.
Not Abusive EVER !! He is Not a Abusive Parent.
When He says...Yes, He Loves Us.....& When He Gives Us a.....Big ....[NO]...He still Loves Us.
He is always just Perfect toward Us......He is just exactly what We Need at all times.
Whether Gentle or [Firm].
He is...[ Doing ] exactly at every moment what His Will is for Us ....at Every Moment.
The LAW is For The Transgressors of the Law. For The Un-Godly, Those that would deliberately Resist
[His will for Mankind].
The Law is ...[His Will] for People.
The Church is not under the Law because we voluntarily Surrender & Submit to His Perfect Will or
[law] or Rules, because we have found Value & Worth in Him & His Rules for Us, an appreciation of
Law that maintains Godly Order.
This puts the meaning of...CIVIL ...into civilizations.
So they are no longer LAWS in the sense of being forced upon Us Because We Love HIM, the Law
Giver, The One Who Knows Best for our well Being.
Father Know Best.
Thanks DAD for Being there Always & Loving Us.
Love Your Son & Daughter......insert your Names [_____________________________________] !!!
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Status Quo ?
The Entire Church World MUST !! ...do Better than all of the Best that we have been seeing,
on the TUBE.
The True Church MUST....ARISE...to this call to the Occasion, & Produce Something far
more accurately representing a True GOD.
We can no longer accept this luke warm Bubble Gum Religious Stuff that is Fed via the Tube,
& accept these Big Christian Networks Food alone that they Feed.
There is....Far more Spiritual Nutrition for those Seeking Him & They can find Him.
The Internet..... Right Here & Right Now [IS] More Powerful.....than the Tube !!
The Motives of Most here dialoguing is not...$$$..Driven.
The Real & The True Church Will Grow Together & become a Much more Powerful Force
that will no longer settle for all the Fake....& Junk Food that does not Build His Kingdom.
I have found that there is a Great dissatisfaction & observance to all the Fake Stuff,... & People
want Real Spiritual FOOD.
It will be GOD that Arises in His Selection of Men to Lead People to Educate them.
This is a True Merger....God & Man...Really coming together in a Oneness of Spirit & Being.
This will be the True Shepherding of His People.
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We are to be about our Father's Business & Learn Everything that is part of that Business.
Learning always as much as We can.
He Desires that we should seek in the Depths & Heights of Him.
To Stretch Our Be-Ing, To Become always More of Him.
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They The Pharisee's Spun Their interpretations of existing Laws to be Defined in such a Way as to Justify
Their Abusive Parenting of a Spiritual Leader.
Jesus is the Law ....Jesus is The Word ...The Word Contains ALL the Laws.
He is God The Word In the Flesh.
Nobody can do away with the Word ...or the Law.
He said I AM not Come to take away ...one letter of the Law or a Dotting of a Letter [i] or a crossing of a
letter [t] from the Law.
But have come to Fulfill the Law.
Fulfilling the Law by [ INFORMING ] Us where Our Interpreting is either Right or Wrong in Reading The Word.
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& STOP The American
HALOCAUST of
ABORTION !!
Killiing Babies for $$$$$$$$
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The Tree of LIFE !!!
Dan I am not a Galatians's...Christian... LOL.....Extreme far from That .
That Going to the Law or Back to the Law & Legalism is what You have issue with not Me.
In Genesis You must Die & pass a Angel with a waving sword to get back to THE TREE of LIFE.
Because They ate of the other Tree....Forbidden Knowledge You Might say the Knowledge of Good & Evil
is The LAW.
I clearly state as a Christian We are Set FREE of The [Law of SIN & Death] so why do Christians
still [Sin & DIE] ??? If they are FREE ?? Free from That Curse ??
It is Because they do not let go of the Chains of the....... Knowledge of GOOD & EVIL !!!!!
Dan You seem to attempt to lump me in with a Pentecostal stone throwing Preachers.
You have had what ever kind of issue with them.....I am not THEM....I am not George Bush.
So_______ Tree of Life_________________ONLY___or________Forbidden TREE ???
How about in The Justice System [Courts] ....a Christian the that Professes JESUS was found in the act
CAUGHT red handed ....Rape, Murder, Theft, etc., etc.
Should He be off the Hook of the Law ??
& Set Free ???
Or if He is caught violating the Law outlawing RAPE....is He Not a [ Christian Really ] even that He Professes JESUS.....Because The Sin or The Rape is a Transgression of the LAW. ????
So a Christian thats [ Sins ] is violating Law & not a Christian?
You are going back & forth to TWO Extremes.
Do we Need to just do away with Police Departments Army, Air Force ETC ??
If I convert somebody & they stop CRIMES they were committing....I am making Your neighborhood
More CIVIL & Better to Live in.
Now This Conversion....The Change of Heart of a Person....is Now a Christian & stops Stealing because
in this new Heart He Knows God is not for Stealing.......He was not FORCED it upon Him.
He voluntary surrendered, submitted to God......Not a Law Forcing Yet inward the charge of Heart.
That ...Which Converted Your Hero Saul who became Paul......What Force did that ???
Saul stopped KILLING.....& now becomes Paul a Non Killer.....what Law Made Him Change?
The ISSUE is not Law........It Is OBEYING GOD & His Commands !!!
Notice The Word Force in Air Force........Forcing to..... ENFORCING not to Rape or pay a severe
punishment.
If everyone would Die to The Tree of knowledge of Good & Evil They would not Be committing any Sin
Transgressing any Law.
If You Eat Only The Fruit of the TREE of LIFE then & only Then You are no Longer Sick & Dying,
committing SIN or performing any CRIMES.
You are Now Become FREE like Adam & Eve in The Garden.... BEFORE the CURSE.
This is the Curse that JESUS ...BROKE.....But re-establishing Paradise will manifest only when
people surrender Holy to what Jesus instructed Us to Be Like.....What kind of BE-ING is One BE-ING.
This is.............The Messiah the Jews are Still Looking for & waiting for.
This is.............The Jesus the Christians are waiting for to do the same thing The Jews are waiting for.
They [want ] it all done for them.....they do not [want] the responsibility of cleaning Adam's Mess.
They would say I did not do it......Original Sin is what Jesus is Telling Us to Clean it Up !!!!
But Messiah did do it .....He Finished it....but People Love ....The Tree of Good & Evil MORE.
Messiah is waiting for Us to Love Him MORE....He is The Tree of Life.
He Will Not Come ....UNTIL He Finds....FAITH with works Like ....
Saul Becoming Paul in ALL !!
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B3N wrote :
What do you mean by the 'spirit of prophesy?'
God is Desribed as a Spirit of this & that...as a Spirit of adoption for example.
Spirit of Prophecy is written in Revelation as the Testimony of Jesus...Meaning when Jesus,
becomes very close & Personal in Your Relationship with Him.
You can Speak as a Ambassador for Him acurately as far as Gods Opinions, Because He
Pesonally told You ...You had first hand witness...knowing what God Meant on any
topic Because He God Disclosed His Opinion directly to You.
You Ask God His Opinion....& You do not get a Busy signal ...You Get His Answer.
People ask God Too Much ...But Never Hear His answer....Because They are not Listening.
Do Not bother asking if You are Not Going to Listen.
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When You Join ...Christianity it is The Call of God that called You All....It was One Call !
The Same Thing Contained in That Call to ALL & We that are Saved All Responded to the Call.
Some More so than others in their Obedience to The Entirety of what is Exactly & All Contained in
That Call.
In That Call was essentially a Call to Join This Priesthood to Be a PRIEST [A Bridge] between,
God & Men.
The Gift [one gift] ..is the.. [Call] ..To [Join] ..He God Invited Us...We were not Left Out.
All The Many Gifts, what We would call Gifts are the Pieces of the Whole Pie.
Let's say God called TEN Men To Dinner would He have cut into ONE Pie to make available One Piece [a very small piece] to each of the BIG Ten Men?
Or Have Supply of TWENTY PIES so as IF YOU are Hungry ENOUGH for Pie or God There Is More Than
Enough Pie ALL the Pie You could Eat to Be STUFFED with.
GOD Supplies Abundantly !! & BEYOND.
He Does not want any Under fed....rather FILLED & over Flowing.
So.......What Exactly Kind of Priest are You ?? A [BRIDGE] a weak & rickety thing that if somebody
was trying to cross you to acquire GOD access they would easily FALL off because the Bridge
is unsafe & dangerous?
Or are You a Golden Gate Bridge for God....That is able to hold & support Great Weights, & massive
Volumes...That at a High number of People are coming to God Frequently crossing Your Bridge.
We are all to become Great Priests...[Bridges]........so if You are not a Great Priest or That Great Bridge,
that is........OK......You Learn & should Be part of a Great Bridge [ find a Great Bridge] which is
a Great Church to Support & Help to Maintain & Keep That Bridge STRONG.
The weaker with Their small amount of their strengths add to the Larger Body.
& Every other Member of the Priesthood [The Entire Body] carries each others Loads.
This is the Law of Nature...that if Two Men Pull a Load they have Ten Times the Strength of a Single
Man.
Church is... & should Teach... Bridge Building Design & to Copy a Proven Design, which Jesus Left
His Trained Men with...The Plan...The Great...Co-Mission.....To Bridge the Gap.
So again the Church is a Corporate Body made up of Many Members which should be the Whole Pie.
The Corporate Body is To Replicate, & Duplicate Making more & more Bridges...They will always be a Corporate Body.
Yet...When We in Our Daily Lives... outside of the Church BUILDING...Monday - Saturday, WE are to be
STRONG Smaller Bridges [Priests] that can Witness with Power & be Effectively Doing God's
Work 24/7 when there are no others around .....that have all The OTHER Gifts.
Kinda of like Driving across The Country in You Car...without a Spare Tire in the Trunk,
No Tool Box, No Map, No Flash Light, No Jack.....OOPS ?
The Gifts.....are the TOOLS in the Trunk....Well I guess They should be There??
But You do Make a List to not Forget [ANYTHING] You EACH check it Twice before hitting the Road.
A Christian should be Prepared for This Much more important Journey than that Road Trip.
Serious Preparation because You are Going to Run into all kinds of People Daily & You should be
MUCH More Committed to Fix THEM......[THEY] are much more of Value to the Lord than
You Preparing for Your Vacation & making Sure that You can Fix a Flat Tire.
That is Why The individual member by Himself should be Strong & as Best Equipped during the
rest of the week ...that is where The People That Need a Bridge the Most They Are.. OUTSIDE of The Church Body ...Un-Saved....They Need a Priest to Seek for Them The Lost Sheep.
I have Given Endless Scripture References to to Support both camps
The Paradox is....that if:
Each Member on any Team is Strong You have a Strong Team for Sure.
Compared to A Greater in Number Army Made up of Members without Solid Training [they can not Fight well] & You would be at Risk & in Danger if You were in that Army.
Results in Battles would be SAD, & POOR, & Impotent.
I would rather be with the Small Trained Man Army.....That can Fight Well.
& WIN !! Battles.
12:31 But [covet] [earnestly the best gifts]: !!!!!!!!!
and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.
1Cr 14:12 So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual {gifts,} seek to abound for the edification of the church.
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stuff we work so hard to accumulate, store, maintain, build, preserve, collect, protect, care for, display, enhance, etc.
The American Stuff or The Lord's Stuff what Stuff are We made of ??
The American Pursuit of Happy Happy Fun Fun Toys Toys Childishness = Success ??
Or The Lord's Treasures, Heavenly Treasures Stored up in Heaven ??
GOD stuff ??
That we Should work so hard to:
accumulate .... Knowledge & Wisdom & Understanding of HIS WORD.
store ..............True Lasting Treasure ONLY Contained in The WORD...The Book of LIFE, The WORD.
maintain..........Cling to, Cleave to, Hang onto, Pressing into, as Close as You can to, HIM The WORD.
build................Your Relationship With HIM & Others in His Body, The Church Who Uphold His WORDS.
preserve...........At ALL Costs Preserve His Word, Spreading His Way, Truth & Life Only In His WORDS.
collect.............Men, Be Fisher's of Men, Feed My Sheep, If You LOVE Me You Will Do My WORDS.
protect ........... Defend The Church, All Men With The Power of The WORD, ONLY contained in My WORD.
care for............My Sheep, ALL Lost Sheep, All Creation, Take CARE of ALL Things, Obeying MY WORD.
display.............SAME LOVE I Displayed toward You, Love Your Enemy, Yet in Their Sins, FORGIVE !!
enhance...........Great Co-Mission, Don't Just catch Men, Train Them as I Trained Men, You Read That in
MY WORD.
etc.................Well That would Be a Trip to Andromeda & Back.
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I have Seven Children....My Youngest [the only one remaining at home] He just turned 11 Years old.
I Know the Putting the Kid's to Bed Thing & The Noise.
I wonder if that's kinda like how God listens to us?.......
Yep.. He is so well aware of it all... way before we ever, even mention any of our needs to Him.
The Entire Issue is to slow down, Quiet Ourselves, Stop Breath & Take Him in .
The Children do all the Talking & Very Little Listening.
& it is Perfectly Fine those talkative kid's to have that Childlike quality different from [childishness].
The Zeal of Youth....is a quality to cling onto, but also developing a fine tuned EAR to Hear DAD also.
When Our Children Listen to Us & with Respect, & adopt our... around the block wisdom....
a Parents short cut Advise ...been there done that so... You do not stumble there also.
Then What occurs is....the Parent... is Well Pleased & has Assurance...in Us, a sense of comfort & joy removing discomfort & worry of the child possibly getting into trouble.
Two favorite verses are: [He Wept] & [He Rejoiced] .....to opposite end Emotions.
So.........What is it ....that We do to Make the Lord [WEEP], or [REJOICE] ??? ..
Do We Even CARE ??
Are We too Busy Talking ??
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GOD has Feelings & Emotions.
Just Where do You Think You Got Feelings & Emotions From ??....We are Created in His Image & Exactly.
So Imagine for just a moment......How We Must make Him FEEL ??
Do You Think that He is More...or...Less Sensitive than Us All ?? I Say Far More.
To Weep is to Suffer the Hurt ....Where Does this Hurt come from that the Lord Suffers ?
It is the .....Lack of Listening to ....that which He would like to ......advise us.
It is Just like this....Example: You a Parent.. Warned Your Child [Teen] let's say.... to Not Drink & Drive,
or Even Get into a Car that the Driver had been Drinking......& You Tell Them 1000 times warning them.
Then to Loose a Loved one [like that] ...that did not listen....& NOW is DEAD... Killed in a Drunk Driving
Auto accident.........Now Multiply That Times 1000000000000000000000 ....this is How We ...[each of Us]
Make Him Suffer, Hurt Our Lord,....... That We say We Love so much.
When We [SIN] again The Bible Says...We Kill Him ALL OVER AGAIN, [CRUCIFY] Him all over again.
What did He FEEL getting Crucified ?
So The [sin] issue ??....Keep Sinning ??..... or How Well can one Rid SIN from Their Life ??
Can they, should they ? Impossible ? They SIN Nature ??
Why is this Mentioned in the Word that We Crucify Him again?
This Speaks to The... [Our] Emotion .....to Imagine [ The Agony ]....He went through for Us
Notice the Word [ E-MOTION ] Our Responses to All Stimulus has to be put into CHECK in order
that Feelings do not Rule Us also.
Yet.....
We are .....at the other extreme NOT to Be NUMB.... to those Stimulus.
Our Motion Needs the Logic & Balance of Sensitivity...in order to help Check the Movement of the Direction
we are going in.
To Rationalize away... how when We ...[Sin]....How We Hurt the Lord is without sensitivity & is NUMB not Balanced, & also without Logic or Reasoning !
God does not worry....but He is so well pleased when we listen & move in His Directives, His
Guidance.
This is when He Rejoices .....when we Repent of Sin, Hear & Obey etc. Then He [God] succeeds in having
well behaved Children that He is Well Pleased [the well done] & Proud of carrying His NAME.
Correctly Reflecting His Name [character] His Nature....not [sin] nature.
Identify with Jesus....&....Not Adam .....any longer. That New Name that He gave Us All... [JESUS].
To do all things in His NAME?....Is to do all Things in His very Exact Nature of Be-ING.
He has Great concerns for Us to be well ....But most run away from Home [from God] to try things on
their own & fall & fail in areas, that IF We had Listened & Sought & Found God's Will, that could have all
been avoided
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This post is about WHO we get our life-changing teachings from, just WHO do we allow to influence the way we live. I get a little nervous when I consider the gravity of my words at times. I do weigh what I say very carefully against scripture, and certainly hope that I inspire friends, hearers and readers, to look for and verify their answers in the bible and with teachers they know and trust. I’m am fallible after all. In fact, I know of NO writer online who isn’t fallible!
Actually, I could say whatever I wanted, and if I were confident enough in my assertions, no matter how ridiculous, they could come across very much like the truth. Especially if I mixed in a little fact and some unquestioned truth. False teachings packaged this way tend to be very convincing.
I really wish we could say the universal church was free of errors and false teaching. I also wish I could turn my kids loose on any Christian website, comfortable they would encounter only pure truth, straight from God’s word. But this isn’t reality, unfortunately. Doctrinal errors just aren’t that hard to find online. Most are simply clumsy misstatements, the result of exuberance running ahead of careful study. On the other hand, pride mixed with error can be dangerous. Satan has done a lot of damage to the Body using the deceived to deceive others!
Given that anyone online can say anything, and convincingly, shouldn’t we place greater faith in the veracity of folks we know personally, like our parents who raised us, our local pastors, Sunday school teachers, youth leaders, and other reputable teachers we’ve known personally? And more than just their words, maybe we should also be carefully considering the way our teachers live. Paul seemed to advocate this to his young protégé, Timothy.
3:13 while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it
2 Timothy 3:13-14 NIV
When we hear something new, prudence, and the apostle Paul, would suggest we consult someone we know personally and look up to spiritually, in addition to praying for discernment and checking scripture. Anyone can tell us anything, and they probably will. We need to be extremely careful about what we “learn” from others, especially folks online. Error can be dangerous, yet extremely appealing.
But then, please don’t just take my word for it!!!
Great & True !!......The Big Part of the Mainstream of Christianity...[problem] is.........
about 80% of Preachers Preaching do not even Believe in The Bible Basics at all !
Error in Teaching ???....well just go to almost any Denomination.
How can that Possibly [ INSPIRE ] to [ MAKE ] Men Disciples.
[Making] [Men] is ...The Great Co-Mission.
Men Train The Boys to Become Men !
Puberty is ....When one reaches The Level of Maturity ....That Now Marks
Conception is Possible.
So it is .....Not Possible that Those NOT Mature in Faith ...
Can Seed Others to Conceive or Birth Men.
Having a Form of Godly-Ness...Denying The Power ?
Wide Leads to the Path to Destruction.
&
Narrow is The Path that Leads to Life.
SO ??
Are You Going to Be SAFE in Numbers ??
That is....a BIG...Huge part of the Problem.
That Christians just become part of That Big Crowd.
Which Chances are.... The Message is...Non-Effective.
The Jacuzzi Church I Always Talk about...The Day Care Nursery Church.
Child-Like............ & NOT .............Childish !
Never Maturing & Becoming Men.....A FORCE That HAS Impact of Change For The
Better on Everything We Lay Ours Hands To.
Sanctify Everything that ...a Trail of Where We have Been,
Our Footprints Do Start Show in the Sand also.
& We also carry others...We are are Brothers Keeper.
We are Responsible to Mend & Love Our Surroundings back to
Life Abundantly.
So....a Mark of ones life for Jesus ?
Power to do Great works....Signs Shall Follow...
Touching others lives to improve & advance ....this all Builds His Kingdom.
You SHALL Know Them by their Fruit they bear......Effective Impacting for the Improving.
Of Others...Brothers & Sisters.....Loving Each Other
1st John ........This is How You Will know Them...
The Children of God ...& ...The Children of The Devil.
If You haven't Noticed Satan Evangelizes His Message &
He has Been Too Effective at it.
1st John 3:8 addresses That also....To Destroy His Message.
But it is when Good Men Do Nothing or Very Little or Ineffective...
That His Works of His Dark Kingdom advance.
We are [Called].... to Tear That DOWN ..His Kingdom !
The Harvest is There.....The Laborers Need to Be TOLD what exactly it is to do.
We are to Build God's Kingdom & Tear Down Satan's Kingdom.
Pretty Simple.
Be about Your Fathers Business ...Like Jesus IS.
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As You may know those two Words...Restitution & Restoration....are Two Words I often use.
They are verbs.....action Words......Man can do NOTHING...He can not Make Restoration, or
Restitution...He can not ...Even...Really Repent.
Only....GOD...does any of these.........[BUT] IT IS...HIM & HIS Desire to Live in US...& do These
Works of His......We are...His Hand's & Feet !!
Repenting is when We Fall....He picks Us Up......
Well Just How Well ...& How High can He Raise You Up ??
The Great ...[ Co-Mission ]..... is [Not] merely about saving Souls....it is God in Us...& that We
should be ...[MAKING Men Disciples].....in order to equip those Men to do the Fathers......
Business......of.......Restoring Creation, Re-creation.
God so Loved the World...& everything in it....His Masterpiece.
So...His Business is To Make ...& Set Everything .....[ RIGHT AGAIN ]...Restitution.
But...The Voluntary Basis....of Those that are [Willing]....to DO...HIS...WILL ?
Will The Church...pick up this Great Task.....Co-Mission ?
Plan, Execute & Review The Results......
How Well has the Church Been Taking care of The Fathers Business?
False Teachings...That are like Planned obsolescence....The invention of the Light Bulb
was ...a Light Bulb.....That does NOT Burn Out !!!
Men Spin & Twist the invention of the light bulb into something that has a very [Short Life]
burns out Quickly.
All....for The Love of $$$$$
The Church Through The Dark ages has Kept Men Sinners...That were completely un-able
to be Effective at Restoring Creation.
The Light bulb That does not Burn out.... works...& so Does The Bulb with the Short life...it
works also...just different.
The Great Co-Mission...Making Men ....That Never Burn OUT...
If ...I AM correct...would not Creation be Much Better if The Church Manufactured True [Disciples] ?
That were..truly, truly....just like the ....Uni-Form...Design & Example.....That Jesus Set?
He was showing us The WAY....To Undo...what Adam Messed up.
Jesus said, "If You Loose Your Saltiness...You Are Good For Nothing"....So We are to Be Salty
in order to be Good for Something.
Fulfilling the Great Co-Mission.....is All The Restitution work assigned to the Church, This Became
the Churches Responsibility.
He gave Adam, & All Men Freedom to Choose......
We must Choose to Be Just Like Jesus....
Be-Cause... He Desires Us to Be Just Like [HIM] & NOTHING short of That Standard [uni-form]
His Example was attainable something He set ...That WE are to ARRIVE at...Here & Now.
& if We do not ....We are NOT Salty & Our Light Just Very DIM & NON-Effectual.
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This is something I wrote about 15 years ago that Ties in to this..........
If every Christian would go up a notch higher in there service & dedication to Jesus & His Teachings
what might happen to All of Creation ?
Rapturing....
Devil is Defeated.......& You are Catching Up !
1st John 3:8 - - DUST OFF YOUR BIBLE !
Excited ?
Read it
Gospels = 10%
Letters = 10%
Doing it 110%
Don't Marvel over the things you see me doing,
Be-Cause You Shall Do Greater Things!
Get caught up - by catching up with the
instructions!
Be the RAPTURE!
In the clouds = the perfect works of the Saints.
He gave You Power of Attorney to Redeem,
Restore, To Pay The Restitution
of the Curse.
Acts the 3rd Chapter :
HEAVEN Must Retain Him until the
Restoration of ALL things paid for
by the Saints with the Winnings.
Jesus won the Lottery - the Jackpot and
gives it to You.
He has ALL POWER & now gives it ALL
to YOU !
He Gave You All The POWER
to Have HUGE Results.
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The Meat of .......(The Word of God!!!)
Current mood: thankful
AUTHENTIC - SON'S OF GOD!
Primary Creative Force.
Master Perpetrator.
Worthy to Conform To.
Accomplish.
Acceptance of Belief.
Fact, Reality, Trust-Worthy.
Not Imaginary, Conforming to a Original,
So as to Reproduce Essential Features.
Not False, or Imitation.
Genuine, Bona Fide,
Being Actually and Exactly what is Claimed.
In Accord-ance with an Original.
Not Counterfeit, Admixture, Adulterated.
(like soda with no fizz, where the ice-melted,
tastes yuck)
Stress-Sincerity, True Existence or Actual-
Identity.
(Offspring)
Asserts Proper, Suitabe Intention.
Proof, Confirmation.
Promoter, Originator, Increaser,
Giving Existence.
Official, Entitled, Conclusive,
Credit of Acceptance.
Dictatorial Peremptory.
Exact Decision, Power and Opinion,
Expert Testimony.
Power to Influence, Command Thought!
Precedent.
Command Opinion & Behavior,
Right to Govern & Administer.
Convincing Force by Performance.
Establish, Sanction,
INVEST, INHERIT, GROUNDS FOR!
Empowered, Just-Like!
Act of Creating, or Causing.
Professional.
ORDAINED!
(only By GOD!)
Well just a Thought
Thanks
Bless the Lord!
& God of Israel!
In Everything You Do!
Love,
Michael
Hope to Give some Preacher's, Rabbi's,
something to talk about.......
or TEACH.
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What Condition are You in ?? Sermon-et.
Current mood: jubilant
I would really like to Know.
There are Three Basic area's in one's Life as far as Conditioning.
1.) SPIRITUAL (The most important)
2.) PHYSICAL
3.) FINANCIAL
1.) SPIRITUAL ....A Real Relation, with a Real God Who is able to
speak to You, and reach You where You are at. He would very much
like to talk with You ( a dialog ) a very intimate union of Being.
If I was Your Father and left a Will that You should inherit $1,000,000,000.00 - I AM sure You would care to Read it.
So.........You read it and come to find some particular condition's to
meet before You can access the $$$. Such as becoming a Priest,
Minister, Living a Life that is for the improving of Mankind's
Condition. That Your Life must always display Joy, Peace, Faith,
Hope (is not wishful thinking) (is the EARNEST Expectatation of
the Precious Promises of God the Father in His Will) & LOVE - -
(is all the action, the doing, the BEING, Restoring, Healing, Repairing,
Fixing, Finding, where LOVE is needed)
NOW - use all I have given You for this cause & do Likewise as I have
shown You to do.
2.) Physical - I have been for over 43 years a fitness nut, I LOVE to
go to & be in the Gym, (bike, run, swim, lift weights) I became a
Christian in 1973 after a DEATH experience (Out of Body) saw Hell,
Met Jesus & made a Deal with Him to serve Him.
The Spirit of Prophecy is ......the Testimony of HIM.
He showed Me so much that Words could never contain.
I AM telling You this because I was a Ghost a Vapor & HE put
Me back together again (in a Physical Body) Was Born Again!
But that He was right there with Me in that Physical Body also.
So The BODY is the TEMPLE. If You are expecting a important
guest to your Home don't You make preparation's, making things
presentable?
Meditate on these word's ( Diet, Exercise, Relax, Enjoy!)
Nutrition is very important, Rest also, (not lazy).
BEWARE -of the practicing of Medicine, Doctors which give out far to many Presciption Drugs, in which have SIDE EFFECTS.
So many - largely the Elderly are Given Cocktails of Prescription Drugs,
All having different Side Effects.
These Doctors are largely indoctrinated by the BIG Drug Companies.
Which Govern the Hospitals & so on.
They for the most part are not Trained in PREVENTION & Rehabilitating.
By the way the Average Life expectancy of a American Doctor is......
57 Years of Age !! What does that tell You???
GOD does not want anyone (Sick, Poor or Stupid) but Healthy, Wealthy
& WISE !!
Some of the Biggest Lie's in Medicine - There Are No Known Cures!
Pharmacy - root word being witchcraft.
CANCER - which at best is defined as a over-worked immune system.
Sort of like the forestry dept. having a controlled burn, burning the
underbrush to Prevent a forest fire - when all of a sudden the Wind kicks up and starts the forrest ablaze.
People Eat & abuse their health, (it's their life, you are going to die anyway attitude) they over induldge in Drinking, Drug's, smoking etc.
You don't put water into a gas tank of a car, or gasoline into the radiator.
(My wife Linda might hahaha)
AID'S - (auto immune deficiency) or.......................
AIE'S - (auto immune efficiency) Jewish pronounced Ouy .. Yeh
Efficient because there is No Darkness in the Light.
No germs on a block of Salt, & that is What You are to Be here,
SALT & LIGHT.......JESUS said if You lose Your Saltiness the You are
Good for NOTHING!
3.) FINANCIAL - JESUS said if You can't Manage a little thing such as Money or Your Own Family How can You be FIT to Run the more
Important Matters of The Kingdom of GOD.
God wishes that You Absolutely Prosper in every area of Your Life
& that out of Your Abundance - You could be a BLESSING to
others in need, and willing and able to fill the needs of others.
We are now living in a Age of Technologies electronic Banking,
soon to be a cash less, check less system (BEAST 666 Anti-Christ)
Jesus said just like in the Days of Noah. Well Noah went though
the Tribulation but not Really - because He was prepared, Building
a Boat when it had never Rained. He survived Tribulation because
He LISTENED to God & was Caught up in the Spirit & Obeyed
instruction to Build something Tribulation Proof. Did not Listen to
Men. THE EXODUS is only the fore-shadow of a soon coming
BIGGER EXODUS of leaving behind the Rat Racing to the Rats
only !! To persue a Quality of Better LIFE
When You take away the Salt & the Light the Rats Parish &
become EXTINCT.
So the Meek Shall inherit the Earth, & Thy Kingdom Come on EARTH
as it is in HEAVEN Because Heaven & Earth shall pass away but
MY Word will make Heaven & Earth NEW & ONE in the Same!
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Living a Disciplined Life
No one can be successful in ministry who is undisciplined. There are too many undisciplined pastors, too many undisciplined evangelists, too many undisciplined ministers of the gospel. To be successful, one must be disciplined!
In I Corinthians 9:27, Paul says:
But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
Notice what Paul tells us here: But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.... The "I" that Paul is talking about is the spirit man on the inside. "I" is the real you. "I" is the you that has been born again. Your body is not you. You are not flesh and blood.
Have you ever heard someone say, "Well, what do you expect? I am only flesh and blood. What do you want me to do, be an angel or something? I'm just flesh and blood."
You are not flesh and blood. You are a spirit! You have a flesh and blood body, but you are not flesh and blood. Flesh and blood is where you live. You are a spirit made in the image of God.
The great Apostle Paul said that he kept his body under and brought it into subjection. That tells me that the body is out of subjection, and if I do not bring my body in line, it will stay out of subjection.
Notice what Paul did not say: He did not say, "I put my body under." If he had said that, he would only have to do it one time. But he said, "I keep my body under." The reason he had to keep it under was because it wanted to get out from under--the same way your body does. And if you do not keep that sucker under, it will get out from under and do something it is not supposed to do. Unfortunately, we hear about it getting out from under all the time in the ministry fraternity.
A minister of God has to be disciplined, and it starts with the flesh. If you cannot discipline your body, you will not discipline your spirit. You cannot! It is impossible! You cannot see your spirit, yet you are looking at your body every day, and it will get out of control if you let it. How are you going to control something you cannot even see?
You have a body that you are looking at all the time, you haul it around, you push it in and out of cars, you feed it, you are stuffing it, undershirt it, you shave it, you spray cologne on it, you deodorize it, you bathe it; and sometimes it gets out of control--while you are looking at it every five minutes! How are you going to control your spirit that you have not even seen?
Paul said, but I keep under my body and bring it screaming and hollering into subject, because screaming and hollering is what it will do. It does not want to conform to God's Word. It is not subject to the laws of God. You have to bring it into submission and keep it there.
If you want to be successful, you have to discipline yourself. And it starts with your body. If God cannot trust you with the house you live in, why would He give you 5,000 church members?
It costs something to be disciplined. It will make you scream sometimes. It will make you holler sometimes, because your body does not want to conform, but you have to make it conform and bring it into subjection. Subjection to what? To the Word of God and to your own recreated spirit. It does not work automatically; you have to stay with it all the time.
I like to eat. I love good food. I particularly enjoy ice cream. Sometimes I will get a craving for it just as they say some women who are pregnant have a craving for some particular food item. Sometimes when I get that craving, just to let the devil know that I am in control, I will deny myself, and I will refuse to eat it. I tell my body, "I am in control--me, the spirit man. The man on the inside is in control. Body, you do not control me!" No ice cream is going to have me crawling the walls at midnight trying to find a fix, like some preachers do with cigarettes.
I will say it again, because it bears repetition: A disciplined life is what you have to have in order to be successful in your Christian life, as well as in the ministry!
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Can You Loose Your Salvation?
The Bible states in Colossians 1:19-23: "For it pleased the Father that in Him [Jesus] all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all the things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross. And you, who once were alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you [to the Father] holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight - if indeed you continue in the faith, grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, became a minister."
These verses tell us that Jesus, through His sacrificial blood, has reconciled the Christian to the Father. Now, the Father sees the Christian holy, separate from the world and without sin, because Jesus paid the price for the Christian to be free from blame and reproof before God. However, we need to find out what "if we continue in the faith" is all about.
The very fact that Paul said, "if you continue in the faith" means it is possible that you might not. In other words, there is eternal security in Christ, as long as you stay in Christ. No one can steal your salvation. God will not let you go. However, I believe the Word teaches that it is possible for a Christian to give up the gift of grace--his salvation.
Receiving Jesus as Savior and Lord saves an individual by faith. Jesus is a gift from God to the world. Therefore, salvation is a gift. There is only one way to obtain a gift, and that is to receive it. You cannot buy it, you cannot earn it, and there is nothing you can do to become worthy of it. The moment you buy something, earn something, or work hard to be good enough to receive it, it ceases to be a gift. To do so becomes a reward for works, such as a salary, which is compensation for work, done.
Because you did not earn your salvation by works, then you cannot lose it by works. The blood of Jesus is powerful enough to save us and to keep us. Many people mistakenly believe that we can lose salvation through works!
Works are irrelevant and immaterial. You do not go to hell because of your evil works, any more than you go to heaven because of your good works. Your destination is hell if; you refuse to receive the gift of salvation. In other words, your eternal destination is dependent on one thing: what you choose to do with Jesus, your gift from the Heavenly Father.
There are two things you can do with a gift - receive it or give it back, repudiate it. If you repudiate Jesus knowing exactly what you are doing, that is "the sin leading to death." However, certain qualifications must be met in order to commit this sin.
If anyone sees his brother sinning a sin, which does not, led to death, he will ask, and He will give him life for those who commit sin not leading to death. There is sin leading to death. I do not say that he should pray about that (1 John 5:16).
There is nothing you can do for a person who has committed the sin leading to death. The Bible tells us not to pray for such a person. The sin leading to death is committed when someone uses the same mouth that once confessed Jesus as Savior and now rejects Him. This person says, "I don't want anything to do with this Man Jesus any more. I repudiate Him. He is not my Savior and Lord. I want nothing to do with Him ever again."
The person held guilty of this sin is a mature and spiritually experienced Christian. When you know much spiritually, you are held accountable for what you know. Hebrews 6:1-6 lists the criteria for committing the sin leading to death.
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You Have the Mind of Christ
For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ. I Corinthians 2:16
Guess what? Christ is not Jesus' last name. Christ means the Anointed One and His Anointing. So you have the mind of the Anointed One and His Anointing. That's right. That's the kind of mind you possess: a peaceful, anointed mind.
When the Holy Ghost anoints your mind, you acquire His view and His solution for every situation. I don't know about you, but that's what I want-- God's solution and not my mind's solution.
You may say, "I solve my own problems." Yeah, but how many people get hurt in the process? You? Your spouse? Your family, or friends? Your mind has to be renewed enough to say, "I have the mind of Christ. I'm doing this God's way." God can fix things so that we all win. Then God will get the glory and the world will say, 'I want what you have.'
II Corinthians 10:5 tells us to cast down imaginations. Imaginations are images of the mind. The image of the mind seeks revenge. It says, "I'm going to get back at them." It's only after what it wants and always opposes what God wants. That's why the Word tells you to cast them down.
Here's an example I think most of you have experienced. The other day, I was driving my brand new car, and one of those big four wheelers cut me off. I could have been a goner. Well, the image of my mind was to retaliate! I wanted to chase him down, cut him off, and do him some bodily harm.
But, I had to cast those images down. Of course, God wouldn't tell us to do this if we couldn't do it. Right? So you and I have the ability to cast down all carnal images from the devil. Just say, "I don't think thoughts like that any more. I cast you down." Then pray in Jesus' name , and ask God to save and bless that person.
Don't allow your mind to be shaken when you are following after the Word of God. Having the mind of Christ is having a life of victory!
Scripture Reading: Philippians 4:13; St. John 17:22-23
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Caring Means Confronting!
"An honest answer is a sign of true friendship." Proverbs 24:26 (TEV)
It's much easier to remain silent when others around us are messing up, but it's not the loving thing to do. Most people have no one in their lives that love them enough to tell them the truth, so they continue going the wrong way. Usually we know what needs to be said but fear keeps us from saying it. "An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." Sometimes caring means confronting!
Paul writes, "If someone in your group does something wrong, you who are spiritual should go to that person and gently make him right again" (Gal 6:1 NCV). That's what 'spiritual' people do! The trouble is when an issue pops up that might cause tension, it's immediately glossed over in order to preserve peace. Mr. 'Don't-rock-the-boat' jumps in and tries to smooth everyone's ruffled feathers, the issue is never resolved and everyone lives with an underlying feeling of frustration. "No more pretense. Tell...the truth. In Christ's body we're all connected to each other...When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself" (Eph 4:25 TM).
Now frankness is not a license to be rude and say anything you please. Thoughtless words wound people. "Never use harsh words when you correct an older man, but talk to him as if he were your father. Talk to younger men as if they were your brothers, older women as if they were your mothers, and younger women as if they were your sisters" (1Ti 5:1-2 GWT). Bottom line: whether in a marriage, a friendship, a church or a business, until we care enough to confront and resolve the underlying barriers, we'll never grow close to each other!
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Listening to the Greater Witness
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 1 John 5:9 (KJV)
All right, which way will it be? Shall we listen to men, or shall we listen to God? That's easy. We will listen to God because His witness is greater than men's witness. God's witness or God's word says "that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us... And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." (1 John 5:14-15)
Now if you don not know, that does not apply to you. Some people wonder why God is not answering their prayers. It could be that it is not a prayer of belief. It is a hope prayer. They just kind of threw something out there and hoped that something good would happen. Thank God for His mercy, however. There are times that the mercy of God will get involved in your life. The situation turned out for your good, but you could not duplicate it if you wanted to, because you don't know how it was done. It was God's mercy.
God is merciful. But He requires that we grow up in Him. There are some things we have to know. And there is a voice, the voice of the word of God, we must listen to. "If we know that he hears us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." (1 John 5:15)
Now when you know that you have asked someone for something, and you know that they have given it to you, what do you say to them? You thank. Giving thanks to God is a direct link to your faith in God. So if you are in a tough spot and you find your deliverance in the Word, then pray for that deliverance and thank the Father that you have it, you will see Him manifest Himself in your behalf.
The only thing left to do after that is to thank God. I t should not be asking God to deliver you today. Then tomorrow, ask again, then the next day ask again, because you do not see a change. It should not matter whether you see a change or not. You have confidence that God is taking care of it, and the change is bound to appear.
The word of God is a higher witness than the witness that you can see. His word is the ultimate witness. Faith in the name of Jesus, faith in His blood and faith in the word will cause the manifestation of God in your life.
Finally, the question is: Which witness will you listen to? Listen to the witness of the word of God, for it tells of His provision for you. When men say it ca not be done, God says it can. When men say you are finished, God says you can do all things through Christ. Which witness will you listen to, men or God?
Scripture References: Hebrews 11:1, 6; 1 John 5:14-15
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Listening to the Greater Witness
If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son. 1 John 5:9 (KJV)
All right, which way will it be? Shall we listen to men, or shall we listen to God? That's easy. We will listen to God because His witness is greater than men's witness. God's witness or God's word says "that if we ask anything according to His will He hears us... And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him." (1 John 5:14-15)
Now if you don not know, that does not apply to you. Some people wonder why God is not answering their prayers. It could be that it is not a prayer of belief. It is a hope prayer. They just kind of threw something out there and hoped that something good would happen. Thank God for His mercy, however. There are times that the mercy of God will get involved in your life. The situation turned out for your good, but you could not duplicate it if you wanted to, because you don't know how it was done. It was God's mercy.
God is merciful. But He requires that we grow up in Him. There are some things we have to know. And there is a voice, the voice of the word of God, we must listen to. "If we know that he hears us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." (1 John 5:15)
Now when you know that you have asked someone for something, and you know that they have given it to you, what do you say to them? You thank. Giving thanks to God is a direct link to your faith in God. So if you are in a tough spot and you find your deliverance in the Word, then pray for that deliverance and thank the Father that you have it, you will see Him manifest Himself in your behalf.
The only thing left to do after that is to thank God. I t should not be asking God to deliver you today. Then tomorrow, ask again, then the next day ask again, because you do not see a change. It should not matter whether you see a change or not. You have confidence that God is taking care of it, and the change is bound to appear.
The word of God is a higher witness than the witness that you can see. His word is the ultimate witness. Faith in the name of Jesus, faith in His blood and faith in the word will cause the manifestation of God in your life.
Finally, the question is: Which witness will you listen to? Listen to the witness of the word of God, for it tells of His provision for you. When men say it ca not be done, God says it can. When men say you are finished, God says you can do all things through Christ. Which witness will you listen to, men or God?
Scripture References: Hebrews 11:1, 6; 1 John 5:14-15
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Tell Them
"I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ." 1 CORINTHIANS 9:22 TLB
Josh McDowell writes "An executive 'head hunter' who goes out and hires corporate executives for other firms once told me, 'When I get an executive I'm trying to hire for someone else, I like to disarm him. I offer him a drink, take my coat off, then my vest, undo my tie, throw up my feet and talk about baseball, football, family, whatever, until he's all relaxed. Then when I think I've got him relaxed I lean over, look him square in the eye and say - what's the purpose in your life?' It's amazing how top executives fall apart on that question.' Well, I was interviewing this fellow the other day, had him all disarmed with my feet up on my desk talking about football. Then I leaned over and said - what's the purpose in your life, Bob? Without blinking an eye he said 'To go to heaven and take as many people with me as I can.' For the first time in my career I was speechless."
There are basically five reasons why we don't share our faith more often, and not one of them will hold up when we stand before Christ:
(1) We think it's the preacher's job.
(2) We aren't sure of our salvation.
(3) We fear being rejected.
(4) We've never taken responsibility for learning how.
(5) Our love for Christ has grown cold.
But not Paul: he said, "Whatever a person is like, I try to find common ground with him so that he will let me tell him about Christ and let Christ save him."
Can you say that?
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Posted by Christians Against the New World Order
The Purpose of the Economic Meltdown
Carolyn Harris
Infowars. com
December 16, 2008
We all know economic depression here, and some of us have an inkling about what is coming. The governments vacillate between spewing gloom and doom and ridiculous ‘happy fun clown time’ gibberish at the great unwashed masses depending upon whether they want fools to buy into the stock market at that particular time to make certain fat cats even richer, or they want those fools to sell and lose almost everything.
The housing bubble has been popped, the stock market is crashing and pensions are being siphoned off minute by minute. It’s clear that gold is being manipulated at the same time the dollar is going down. The contortionate “credit instruments” and exotic book-keeping (what an oxymoron that is) methods of investment houses, bankers and large businesses have all happened in a top-down way on purpose. The more they ripped off the little guy the bigger their commission and bonus; it is a system that thrives, indeed lives off of insatiable greed. And the monsters near the top aren’t sweating one bit. They know what is happening and they know what is coming next.
The fiat currency house of cards is tumbling down because the international bankers just exhaled a puff of the expensive smoke from their Cuban Cohiba Behike cigar and blew on it. In other words, it was planned. It is time now for the next phase of their plan.
It’s high time someone put it all together, without focusing on individual trees. There is a reason that the system was set up this way; there is a reason why home loans were offered to folks who couldn’t possibly pay them back and there is a reason why this all happening.
Put succinctly, this is all part of the Agenda 21 plan. Look closely at the map and notice just how much land area are “little or no human activity” zones. Notice how the small towns have disappeared and there are only major cities with specific travel corridors between them. That’s right, losing your job, your house, your land is part of their plan. NAFTA, CAFTA and GATT were part of this plan were enacted to get rid of the American manufacturing base and all the associated jobs. Without a home (or any viable housing options), a job and food, you have no other choice but to go where those necessities are located: the city.
The massive migration to the cities. The documents state in no uncertain terms that they “predict” (read: plan) class warfare (.pdf) as the middle class disappears and most will be reduced to abject poverty in said swelling cities. The documents and articles explain that the “bio-fuel” scam will wreak havoc with the world’s food supply, that GMO crops lead to less yield and that the uber rich are going to have to hide for a while to escape the hordes of angry, hungry and dirty people.
Realize that when one takes out a home loan, the bank actually owns the house until it’s completely paid off. If a mortgage isn’t paid, possession reverts to the banks. Only the wealthy are able to buy property at this time, and they certainly don’t want your three bedroom 2.5 bath brick rambler.This begs the question - what will be done with all these vacant houses?
Logic dictates that they must be rendered unusable. Most likely they will be stripped of copper and condemned and later bulldozed. They can’t have any “non-cooperative human subjects” fleeing the stinking cesspit cities for the fresh air of the country, now can they? They will have to render all repossessed houses unlivable in the “little or no human activity” zones.
Concomitant to the orchestrated mortgage meltdown, there is the Orwellian-sounding planned “credit crunch” - meaning that businesses who operated on the knife-edge and had to use credit to continue operating day-to-day are no longer able to get the credit they require. No more ships bringing in goods, truckers able to deliver goods, employers able to pay employees. The domino effect which we have begun to see will enlarge to horrific corporations, rendering those crappy burger-flipping jobs an enviable situation, except that people won’t even be able to afford those crappy burgers. Grocery stores run completely out of stock in three days; without stock being brought to them by trucks, it makes for a desperate situation and desperate people.
Without jobs, no one can consume, without consumption the entire US economy collapses.The US government is in the process of defaulting on it’s debts - SmartMoney. com said, “short-term Treasury yields actually turned negative.” The US Dollar will have to be demonetized at some point in 2009 which will instantly render all paper currency worldwide totally valueless. With empty grocery stores and no means of exchange, there will be food riots very quickly. Be assured that power companies, television and cable will still be working at that time, even though other business will not be. This is important to the plan because everyone will be glued to their “tee-vee” waiting for Mother Government to tell them what is going on and what they should do. And the New World Order plan will shift into high gear at that point.
Local representatives of Mother Government will announce that all hungry, desperate people should all go quietly and calmly to the nearest school, community center or some other large place and Mother Government will “help” them, feed them and their children. This, of course, will be the pick up points to transport people to FEMA camps (all 1400 of them) so they can be ‘taken care of’ and provided with the things they need. Here is the document that says exactly how people will be processed in. Here is the list of Executive Orders allowing the President to nix the Constitution, suspend the Congress and institute Martial Law, separate families, remove entire communities, take possession of all communication, food sources, water supplies and so on. And woe unto you if you have a skill that would be helpful to Mother Government! You can be conscripted, without remuneration and they don’t have to return you.How is that for an employer from hell?
After most hungry and scared sheeple obey the talking head on the “tee-vee” and go willingly to the camps, there will be some who have heeded the advice and taken steps necessary to provide emergency food, buy guns and ammunition and safety gear for themselves and their families. These hold-outs will be problematic for Mother Government and the New World Order plan. Rest assured that as people are processed into the camps and their information entered into the IRIS system, it will be checked against the consolidated databases and the hold-out’s names will be noted. Remember, once Martial Law is declared due to the emergency of dollar demonetization, there is no more Constitution, there are no more rights. Hold-outs will be considered enemies of the State.
When most Americans are ’safely’ within the clutches of FEMA, the squalid conditions, lack of medication, forced vaccinations, and sub-standard, irradiated and non-nutritive food will cause many deaths, but that’s fine because it is further depopulation. More people dead = less slaves to manage. Some will be assigned to work crews to demolish the abandoned and repossessed houses in the “no human activity zones,” others will be working on the cities for the massive influx of slaves [EO 1104], once the work is done and the controllers are ready to repopulate the cities.
Mother Government has an electronic dossier on each person containing any and all information obtainable - that given willingly to Mother Government and that gleaned from extensive data-mining operations, legal and illegal. It contains not only school and medical records, travel, employment and purchasing history, social network, communications, your political leanings and everything else they can get their hands on, and it all adds up to your “data double” for which they run algorithms to figure out your personality, and mental and emotional state. It contains everything there is to know about you that they can obtain, and they think they know you. With this information, they run simulations to determine what your reaction will be to any given stimulus, and the reaction of others with a similar profile, to determine the best way to eliminate you.
With extensive satellite and land-based surveillance, smart dust and other technologies, they will be able to determine where the hold-outs are, and with the results of their simulations, the best way to mitigate the trouble a hold-out may cause. This will include massive aerial spraying in order to sicken hold-outs, ruin crops and kill livestock not already in the hands of Mother Government. There will be no mercy, as those who think for themselves and truly value freedom are the most dangerous to their plan.
But do no forget that more people are waking up every day due to the dedicated and dynamic efforts of Patriots everywhere; and there are many, many more of us than there are of them. If we redouble our efforts at education (especially of law enforcement and military) and preparation, we have a real chance at not only slowing down the nefarious New World Order plan, but stopping it. Only five per cent of the population fought the British in the Revolutionary war - the colonists were out-gunned, out-manned and out-spent, but their determination to be free outweighed everything that was thrown at them. What we face is a much greater tyranny and truly diabolical people who are bent on the near destruction of the human race.
This is a hellish, nightmarish scenario, but if one reads the documents the plan is laid bare for all to see. Time is very, very short, and those who understand must do everything in their power to educate others and prepare for what is coming. If you don’t take care of yourself, Mother Government will.
http://www. infowars. com/?p=6580
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