23 November 2011

The Bigger Threat!

Hello Guys and Gals!

I usually try and not bring politics into my blog but you all know how passionately I feel about it. But this morning I am doing just that because I believe it has to be said.

Back when Rick Perry was leading the polls, out came people who said because he did this or that, they will never vote for him!

Then we had Herman Cain in the lead and the allegations of sexual assault. Again we hear the same thing!

Now that Newt Gingrich is leading, there is a push against his policies and history as well. Again we are hearing the same thing from voters on how they will never vote for him!

Now I am not telling anyone how to vote or how to hold their conscience in their voting. But I think, because of our morals on the right, that the Left uses our very morals against us by bringing up accusations and allegations of those things which violate our moral principles with the very people we have portraying our values as our prospective candidates! All they have to do is push forward an allegation, whether it is true or not, whether it is 15 years old or recent, and play on our moral values in order to get the candidates which we are currently looking hard at out of the lead! It is in this way that the Left is able to pick and choose which candidate they will have to face when it comes time for the actual election!

But there is a bigger threat! I say we should continue to vet our candidates and explore them very critically! And I say that we should vote our hearts and minds, especially our minds, when we nominate the candidate to run against Barach Obama! But Obama is the bigger threat! I would happily take any one of the candidates running for the Republican ticket over another 4 years of Barach Obama!

So stick to your convictions during the nomination process! Absolutely! But once the nominee has been chosen to run against Barach Obama, then we must all rally behind that one candidate in order to make sure that Barach Obama is a one term president!

United we stand, divided we fall!

Do you guys not remember what happened with Ross Perot splitting the Republican vote and ensuring that Bill Clinton wins with a 40% share of the vote? I say to you now that anything that the candidates for the Republican nominee have done in their past is nothing compared to what Obama is doing now and will do in the future! I believe that if Obama is elected, that it will be the last election held in America and that elections will be eliminated under his next term, if not before then!

I want you also to think about Ninevah in the book of Jonah! God had punishment in store for Ninevah. Yet the people of Ninevah, at the preaching of Jonah to repent, humbled themselves, repented and prayed! These were not Israelites but Gentiles who did this! God saw their repentance and relented in bringing the punishment of that nation until a later time! I believe that America is ripe for God's Anger and justifiably so! But I also believe that if we humble ourselves, repent, and pray; that God will hold off the punishment He is bringing against America for the sins we have allowed to corrupt our society!

We are One Nation Under God! That is not the God of Allah, or Buddha! That is YHWH, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob! We believe in YHWH as the one and only God! All other gods are false for they are not living gods! It is the beliefs and principles of the Christian Bible under which this great nation was founded and which we need to return to!

So pray about this and whatever candidate is nominated for Republican nominee, rally behind that candidate because I can most assuredly state that whoever this person will be, they will be a far better choice than Barach Obama as the leader of our nation, for Barach Obama is the bigger threat!

May God bless you all this day! Happy Thanksgiving!

30 October 2011

Whoever Said Life Was Fair?

Hello Guys and Gals!

I am asking you a question today. Whoever said life was fair? The reason I am asking this question is because I have been seeing many people saying 'that's not fair' or 'why me' lately. It seems like everyone is exhibiting an entitlement to fairness in their life. Why? Who said life was fair? Who said you get the rose garden with the little house and the white picket fence?

In my own life, I have come through a lot of adversity to say the least. I am addicted to methamphetamines! Yes I still claim it as an active addiction because I believe it will never go away! Do you know what that is like? Well, some of you do. Some, on the other hand, do not. It is the most addictive substance known to man! There is nothing more addictive in the eyes of the medical community today. Yes even compared to Heroine!

I am beating that addiction! I had no help doing it other than Jesus. Everyone seems to want these drug treatment programs and seem to say that this is the only cure. I didn't use one. But I can honestly say that without Jesus in my life, I would still be on that junk today! But He was the only one! Not my family! Not my friends! Not my co-workers! Not even my church! It was solely Jesus! I had no help whatsoever from anyone in beating this addiction except for Jesus!

Yet, you do not hear me complaining about why did I have to be tempted with Meth. You do not hear me complaining about why did I not have anyone help me through this like a drug treatment program. I don't complain because I am running the race set before me! 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 states:

24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may win. 25 Everyone who competes in the games exercises self-control in all things. They then do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 Therefore I run in such a way, as not without aim; I box in such a way, as not beating the air; 27 but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.

Now the race that I run and the the race that you run are not the same race! Every single one of us runs a different race! There is a different race set before each one of us! Yet our goal is that imperishable wreath! The one given by Jesus alone! So what that my race is different from your race! Run the race set before you to win it!

Is your race easier than mine? Is your race harder than mine? I do not know the answer to that question. I only know that they are different races. It does not matter if the race set before you is easier or harder than the race set before someone else! What matters is that you strive for that wreath! What matters is that you run the race before you to win! What matters is that when you fall down, and you will fall down, that you get back up and continue on toward the goal! That is your race! This is my race! They are different and fair does not even enter into it! You have what you have and I have what I have! Both are challenging to the runners! Will you overcome your challenge? I am sure striving to overcome mine!

May God bless you all this day!

13 October 2011

Adhere Yourself To The Truth!

Hello Guys and Gals!

When Jesus spoke the truth to people, often times they did not want to hear the truth and went away as we see in Matthew 19:21-22,

21 Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be complete, go and sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me." 22 But when the young man heard this statement, he went away grieving; for he was one who owned much property.

As you see here, Jesus did not chase after him saying, 'Wait, maybe you did not understand. Maybe I should try explaining it yet another way!' No, Jesus did not chase after him but simply let him go! Yet Jesus is willing to be there for when that man came to the full knowledge of the truth and was willing to come back to Jesus. Did this man ever do that? I don't know! But I do know that we must all struggle with the truth before we come to a full acceptance of it!

But what if the person who walks away is family? Then let them walk away! But what if I love them? Then let them walk away! If you have told them the truth, meaning the Gospel or possibly something else that has happened in your life that has brought strife, then the truth will do your speaking for you. You do not have to try and convince them of more truth by more talking!

Do not throw your pearls before swine who will trod on them and grind them into the mud! In other words, if they are not receptive of the truth you are speaking, then let them walk away and let them be as a Gentile to you! This means you let them, by their choice, walk out of your life! Do not go and chase after them begging them to stay in your life!

Why not? Because this puts them in a position of authority over you! Do not let this happen! Do not let them think within their minds that they are the one who has the truth because you have come back to them! Stand firm in the truth as God has revealed it to you and as you know it! Adhere yourself to it even if it means that they are cut off and out of your life!

I have had to do this because certain people would not hear the truth. I have cut off these people and let them live in their lies until they come to the full knowledge of the truth! I have to adhere to this because if I do not, then they will think that I am somehow less than the liar! I will not have that! You should not have that! You should have your firm conviction the the truth which God has shown to you! Stand up for it! Speak it in love! And when they walk away, do not chase after them! Let them face the truth and come to terms with it! Even if it takes years and years! Even if they never come to terms with it! Stand firm in the truth and adhere yourself and your life to it!

May God bless you all this day!

11 October 2011

Not Peace, But A Sword

Hello Guys and Gals,

I have been thinking about this topic for a while now. With this mornings devotions though, I feel I must speak about this. Jesus said this in Matthew 10:34-36,

34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.35 For I came to SET A MAN AGAINST HIS FATHER, AND A DAUGHTER AGAINST HER MOTHER, AND A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW AGAINST HER MOTHER-IN-LAW;36 and A MAN'S ENEMIES WILL BE THE MEMBERS OF HIS HOUSEHOLD.

Jesus draws a clear line through all of humanity! That line separates those who accept His salvation and those who do not accept it! Which side are you on? Are you saved? Or have you rejected His Grace?

Do you not realize that once you have heard the Gospel, that it either looses or binds you by the strength of itself? The loosening comes through Salvation and the binding comes through the rejection of that Salvation!

Matthew 16:19 says,

19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; and whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

Matthew 18:18 says it again,

18 Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven.

And John 20:23 goes on to say,

23 If you forgive the sins of any, their sins have been forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they have been retained."

Therefore, if you show others how to have their sins forgiven through Jesus Christ, then their sins will be forgiven upon their acceptance of His salvation. But if they reject that salvation, their sins are bound to them by the very power of the gospel.

This is why we are divided and why our very family members turn upon us with violence! They will see that you have been saved through Jesus Christ and they do not want to give up their independence and sin! By not giving up and giving in to His will, they reject, of their own will, the very same salvation that you have received. In that rejection, they have their sins bound to them for all time and having tasted and rejected the gospel are then to be considered as Gentiles or Unbelievers and considered not a member of the church! They see that they do not have the same blessings as you and it results in envy being born in them and that envy turns to hate and anger and violence! This happens every single time in some fashion or another! Do not mistake me, it will happen again and again!

This is why we need to present the gospel in a loving way, but also to make sure those we present the gospel to know the consequences of rejecting the gospel! You must tell them that by rejection of the gospel, they sentence themselves to eternal damnation and hellfire such as they will experience in the Lake of Fire, also known as Gehenna! But the most torturous of all those punishments, and make no mistake, they are punishments from God for the rejection of His Son, is that God will withdraw His presence from them! Do you not know that the Lake of Fire is nothing compared to the withdrawal of God's presence? Even Hitler and Pol Pot and Stalin and every other evil person that has ever lived knew the presence of God throughout their whole life! There was only one who knew the absence of God's presence here on Earth and that is Jesus as he died on the Cross when he said in Matthew 27:46,

"ELI, ELI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?" that is, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"

This was when God withdrew His presence from Jesus so that the full punishment and wrath of God was paid in full by His Son so that our sins through His sacrifice could be forgiven and we be restored to a loving relationship with God Almighty, the Creator of all that was, is, and will be! There is nothing that exists that did not come from Him!

I have often said that you should always speak the truth, for it is like a surgeon's scalpel and while it may hurt when it is heard, it heals through the pain it brings! So you must speak the truth in love about the gospel! And part of the gospel is Gehenna and Separation from God! It is the truth and unbelievers deserve to know the whole truth!

But remember this, when you are attacked, and you will be attacked, it is because you have gained salvation and they have not! They are envious of your salvation but they want that salvation their way and not God's way! They think they have the power to control their own lives and when they see you have given that power to God, as if he never had it all along, they begin to hate you for your surrender of yourself to Him and that is why they attack you! So pray a simple prayer. Pray that God draws near to them! If their heart will be changed, then salvation will come from it. If their heart will not be changed, then His presence will drive them far from you!

May God bless you all this day!

05 October 2011

If Not You, Then Who?

Hello Guys and Gals!

I would like to talk about our attitude of careless disregard today. I don't know how or why, when someone speaks the truth about any situation, they can be dismissed out of hand by uncaring people because what they speak about 'does not really matter'!

I do not know if I am a considered a 'prophet' by any stretch of the imagination. I am not saying that I am. What I am saying is that History repeats itself and we can look to the actions of those in the past to predict the actions of those who are doing the same things in the present!

Yet we have seen 'prophets' rejected even back before the time of Jesus! In Matthew 23:34-36 we see Jesus speaking about how the prophets He has sent have been rejected time and again:

34 ``Therefore, behold, I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes; some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city,35 so that upon you may fall the guilt of all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.36 Truly I say to you, all these things will come upon this generation.

So when people speak the truth, whether it be from God directly, or whether it be from knowing the where the actions of those leading us will lead if we continue to let them go down that path, why is it that so many do not take it to heart? Why do so many dismiss it out of hand? Why do so many think that the person who is speaking this truth is a 'Kook'?

Is it because your hearts have hardened so much that you no longer recognize truth when you see it?

Today, of all the times in the world to have the privilege of living, we can research the facts given so easily! Just twenty years ago we did not have this ability. If someone did research, they had to go to actual libraries and spend hours researching facts to come to the truth behind what someone was saying. They had to go to the archives of newspapers and seek through microfilm to find the reference that would allow you to pull up the actual newspaper and read what it actually said back at that time! Today we have the internet and search engines! We have the ability to type in key words and pull up tons of information that has been written about those key words!

Now it is true that you have to use reason and logic and follow sources listed and check them out to find out if they're true or not in order to disseminate whether what you pull up is accurate or not. But you can do that in record time today! Why do people not do this? It is so easy!

The simple answer is that, because it is so easy, we have become lazy! We do not see if someone is lying or telling the truth! We simply render a judgment on what we already perceive to be the truth and either judge it to be accurate or false on our perception! What ever happened to doing your homework?

What if what someone says is actually from God in His effort to put a stop to what is happening today through the warnings of the past? What if you have dismissed what this person has said without doing the research? What if it comes true? What if, had you listened to the person previously, you could have been instrumental in stopping it from happening? What if you had that opportunity and you failed in it? What if millions of people were killed because of your inaction?

Personally, I'm not willing to be one of these people who are indifferent to the truth! I do my research! I do my fact checking! I do compare everything I have to God's Word and see whether it lines up with His truth or not!

Mostly, and most important to me, I do not want to stand before the Throne of God and have no excuse for me not doing everything I can do to help other people come to a saving knowledge of Him in my lifetime! I do not want to stand before my Lord and my God and have Him be disappointed in what He gave me to work with and not having done all I can with it for His glory! Even though I am already afraid I have failed Him for the past I have lived.

So what about you today? Will you stand idly by and dismiss what is the truth because you didn't do your homework? Will you stand before the Throne of God and have no excuse because you stayed silent when you could have spoken out?

All it takes for Evil to succeed is for Good Men to do nothing!

May God bless you all this day!

27 September 2011

Take Up Your Cross

Hello Guys and Gals!

I have been pondering the question of what does it mean to take up your cross and follow Jesus. Matthew 16:24-27 reads,

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, ``If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. 25 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul? 27 For the Son of Man is going to come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and WILL THEN REPAY EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS DEEDS.

But what does this truly mean? I have been thinking about it and this is the conclusion I have come to!

Will you be in such stress during prayer that you sweat blood?
Will you be willing to have one you love dearly betray you completely?
Will you be willing to have the rest of the people who should be supporting you in your time of need turn their backs upon you and abandon you?
Will you be willing to stand before a court where they are lying to bring charges against you and not say a word in your defense?
Will you be willing to be whipped and scoured?
Will you be willing to be beaten so badly that you are no longer recognized as a man?
Will you be willing to carry your cross through a crowd of people who are beating and spitting on you as you pass, cursing you through it all?
Will you be willing to be stripped naked and nailed to that cross with spikes piercing your wrists and feet?
Will you be willing to hang from that cross, being made a curse, having to life your body with your arms and legs in order to take a breath?
Will you be willing to hang there, naked and bleeding, before your own mother and loved ones?
Will you be willing to be ridiculed by those who are being tortured similarly as you are?
Will you be willing to speak the truth even during all this so that you can say to someone that you love them and forgive them?
Will you be willing to have your side pierced with a spear to prove that you are truly dead?
Will you be willing to have people hate you, even after you are dead, because of the truth you speak?
Will you be willing to do all of this just so that you can speak the truth of God's love to those who are lost?

This is what it means to take up your cross and follow after Jesus! I do not know if you will face any of the above things I have listed, or if you will face some newly devised torture in the minds of those that hate Jesus Christ. But I do know that you will face something of the sort if you are to truly take up your cross and follow Jesus Christ!

Pretty scary stuff huh? But do you not also know that Jesus has already done this for us? Do you not also know that He will be there with us as we go through what we are to go through? Do you not also know that great will be your reward in Heaven?

Lord Jesus Christ, I will take up my cross and follow You no matter what I have to face!

May God, the Lord of all creation, bless you all this day!

21 September 2011

Israel as a Nation

Hello Guys and Gals!

This is a history of the re-establishment of Israel that I put together as a response to a debate I was having and I thought I'd share it here!

The re-establishment of Israel as a nation has been a promise of God for many centuries now! Here take a look at what Isaiah 66:7-17 says:

7 "Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy. 8 "Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons. 9 "Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?" says the LORD. "Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb? " says your God. 10 "Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her, 11 That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom." 12 For thus says the LORD, "Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you will be nursed, you will be carried on the hip and fondled on the knees. 13 "As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem." 14 Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies. 15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. 16 For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many. 17 "Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, Following one in the center, Who eat swine's flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an end altogether," declares the LORD.

Not only does this passage call for the Israel Nation being born in one day, but also that God will be indignant toward His enemies and punish them with His fury!

UN Resolution 181:

The Balfour Declaration of 1917 formalized British policy preferring the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people! The Ottoman Empire ended by the end of World War I! Britain who ruled the area sent Sir Herbert Samuel to facilitate the establishment of a Jewish State. In 1937, the British recommended dividing the country into 2 separate states; one Jewish and one Arab. This plan was accepted by leaders of the Jewish movement but flatly rejected by the Arabs. The Arabs did not want to recognize Israel or give Israelis a homeland at all. Their top priority was the destruction of Israel and not obtaining a National State for their people.

In May 1948, President Harry Truman announced his support for UN Resolution 181. Un Resolution was the partition plan to divide the land between Jews and Arabs. This was seen by Israel as the beginning of the United States support of Israel and Israel and the USA have been strong allies up until the Obama Administration! Israel became a nation on May 14, 1948!

On May 15, 1948, one day after its independence, Israel was attacked in what is known as the Arab-Israeli War. The fighting continued until January 1949. In this war Israel was invaded by 6 Arab armies. Egypt, Iraq, Arab Legion of Trans Jordan were all part of the armies invading Jerusalem. So Israel occupied the Western Section of Jerusalem and Jordan occupied the Eastern Section of Jerusalem, which included the Old City and most religious shrines. Even though the UN had committed itself to protect Jerusalem as an internationalized city, they didn’t lift a finger to protect them against the Arab invasion. It was the Israel defense forces that held back the attack of those Arab armies. During this Arab invasion, they expelled Jews who had lived in the Old City for generations and destroyed 50 synagogues and many study halls including the one where the Talmud was studied. So from 1948 – 1967, Jews were banned from the heart of Jerusalem and could not approach the Western Wall.

We also have the fact that Jordan occupied the West Bank, and many still do, which is a portion of the previous Palestine. Yet there is no Palestinian outcry of Jordan’s occupation.

In 1964, in Cairo, the Palestinian Liberation Organization was born. The stated goal of the PLO in their charter states “The destruction of the State of Israel through the arms struggle and replacing it with an independent Palestinian State between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean!”

In 1967, Egypt had joined forces with Jordan and Syria, and received significant military support from Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, and Algeria. In June 1967 was the Six Day War. Israel had ousted the Jordan occupation of the land and seized the Gaza Strip, the West Bank of the Jordan River, and Jerusalem. Israel even gave back the Sinai Peninsula in an attempt to keep the peace.

Yom Kippur War:

In 1973, we have the Yom Kippur War which was fought by a coalition led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. It was Egypt and Syria who started this war when their forced crossed the cease fire line and the Golan Heights. They attacked during Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days of the year for Israel, in an attempt to catch Israel off guard. 180 Israeli tanks faced an onslaught of 1400 Syrian tanks. Along the Suez Canal, 436 Israelis were attacked by 80,000 Egyptians. Their strategy was simple: remove Israel from the map! The US, under President Nixon, after an appeal from Golda Meier, stepped in to help Israel and replaced all they had lost under the Arab aggression.

This created tension and led to an oil embargo against the US. Peace talks continued for 6 years until the Camp David Accords of 1979 in which Israel, in an attempt to reach lasting peace, agreed to rezone and reallocate the Holy Land.

Yet instead of peace, Israel keeps a vigilant eye over their land against state sponsored terrorism and nuclear threat from the nations surrounding it.

Israel liberated the Old City of Jerusalem only after it was attacked and today Jerusalem is a different Jerusalem that is an open city to everyone. The only way Jerusalem stays protected for all faiths is under a free, democratic Israeli leadership. If Jerusalem were to be re-divided and half given to the administration of the Palestinian Authority, then religious freedom under that rule would come to an end!



Some of my references include:

The video of the History of Israel: http://web.gbtv.com/shared/flash/mediaplayer/v4.2/R11/MP4.jsp?calendar_event_id=187-13903&content_id=19290175&media_id=&view_key=&media_type=video&source=GBTV&sponsor=GBTV&clickOrigin=&affiliateId=

GBTV Glenn Beck Show air date of 9/13/2011: http://web.gbtv.com/shared/flash/mediaplayer/v4.2/R11/MP4.jsp?calendar_event_id=187-13521&content_id=18834543&media_id=&view_key=&media_type=video&source=GBTV&sponsor=GBTV&clickOrigin=&affiliateId=

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May God bless you all this day!

20 September 2011

Sexual Purity

Hello Guys and Gals!

I recently faced a challenge to my life that I truly did not think I would face to such a degree. The challenge was whether or not I would agree to have sex with someone who was interested in me before marriage!

Years ago I made the promise to God to not have sex with anyone other than my future wife and that would only happen AFTER I married her! I believe in sexual purity. True that I am not a virgin. True that I have gone to the extreme when I have had sex in my past, even taking drugs to enhance the sex so that I could FEEL it all the more! I indulged and I am ashamed of it! I never had real satisfaction from any of those sexual encounters. I never found fulfillment in my life from all those sexual conquests. And if you think you have gone as far as I have, I have a few friends who can tell you that you surely have not!

Let me tell you a truth: there is no fulfillment or satisfaction in sex before a true commitment in marriage with the blessing of God upon it! You will not find it! You will never find it until you seek God first and a Godly wife second!

This challenge was very tough on me because it has been years since I felt attractive in a woman's sight. It has been years since I faced this kind of challenge! And before that I always had the aide of drugs to help entice those I would desire to sleep with! Yes the drugs I used are sexual enhancement aids! And with all that, I found NO satisfaction whatsoever!

I implore each and every one of you to re-examine your life like I have done! I ask that if there is anything in your life that goes against God's laws, that you take it to Him and repent. This means you ask His forgiveness for it and turn away from it and go the other direction! Repent means to never want to do it again, even though the desire may still be there! Please do this, not for me, but for yourselves because you will find true joy and happiness if you do this! For true fulfillment and satisfaction, sexual and otherwise, can only be found in Godly relationships through God Himself!

May God bless you all this day!

11 September 2011

Remembering 9/11

Hello Guys and Gals,

This morning, as we remember those who were lost in that horrible attack 10 years ago, I think Psalm 18:4-15 is appropriate:

4 The cords of death encompassed me, And the torrents of ungodliness terrified me.5 The cords of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried to my God for help; He heard my voice out of His temple, And my cry for help before Him came into His ears.

7 Then the earth shook and quaked; And the foundations of the mountains were trembling And were shaken, because He was angry.8 Smoke went up out of His nostrils, And fire from His mouth devoured; Coals were kindled by it.9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down With thick darkness under His feet.10 He rode upon a cherub and flew; And He sped upon the wings of the wind.11 He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.12 From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.13 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High uttered His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.14 He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and routed them.15 Then the channels of water appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare At Your rebuke, O LORD, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

We will have troubles and distress! Yet the Lord God Almighty loves us so much that He folds over the very heavens in his efforts to reach down to save us from these troubles and distresses! So great and awesome is the Lord God that He reaches through time and space, which cannot bar Him for He is the One who created them, in order to save us! In order to bring us comfort! In order that we can have peace in Him!

Today, as you remember, know that God is there with you this day and even that day!

Grace and peace of Jesus Christ be with you all today!

02 September 2011

Where I've Been

Hello Guys and Gals!

I know I haven't written lately. Bear with me please. I have had a lot of things going on with moving into my new place, the sprained ankle, and many other things. I will resume soon!

God bless you all this day!