Family Structure Is Important For Your Children
The world today seems to be so hectic that families don’t seem to have the quality time to spend together. Family structure needs to be a priorty on our list. Children need the security and foundation of a loving and healthy family that they can depend on when they are needed the most. This is one of the best gifts that parents can give their children. Children should be provided the safety of a home in their family life that they feel secure in.
It’s not that difficult to provide a safe and happy environment for your children. You can start today, the following should be of some help. Let your children know that they can come to you with their problems and concerns. Make them feel at ease and not afraid to discuss any matter that they may need help with. When they do come to you, put them first, don’t make them feel that they are bothering you. This is one way that healthy families bond together.
Always be honest with each other in your family, it is the only way a family can operate smoothly. Family structure depends on trust. Your children need be taught how to communicate openly, this will also help them to talk about things to their teachers in school and many others that they come into contact later on in life.
Be a good listener to your children and stoop down to their level so that you are face to face with them. It’s important that you listen to them cheerfully and not like it is a bother. Always have compassion for your family members and help them through any dilemas that they may be burdened with. A solution can not be found if you are judging them.
Each family member should spend some quality time together whenever possible, even if it is only for a half hour each day. The whole family should sit down together and have a healthy dinner on a daily basis. It’s critical that you spend time with the family as a whole, even though parents these days have such a busy schedule.
Have a family meeting and talk about all the different things that you as a family can spend time doing together and then pick one to do each week. Make family life interesting and fun. Going on a picnic is much better than going to the movies. This way, you can play games together and everyone will be able to talk to one another instead of sitting in a movie theather being silent. Activities able the family to interact with each other. Make sure your activities are fun for everyone, this is what memories are made of.
Make sure that everyone has chores to do around the house. This is a good way for everyone to feel that they are team in keeping up with the things that need to be done. Don’t just tell them what to do, but explain to them why it needs to be done. Make up a schedule each week and post where everyone can see it. Congratulate them on a job well done so that they will get some satisfaction out of their duties.
Bringing a family together and bonding with each other will ensure a happy and well balanced family life for all. Find ways to make things fun so that no one feels obligated. There are many ways to build close family relationships, everyone can put their ideas in on what changes need to be made. Sometimes it’s not going to be easy or things aren’t going to go well, but you can work through it with an open mind and the willingness to see it through. Work for that strong family structure and you will be rewarded over and over again.
Don’t forget to make God a part of your family. There are many ways to include God into your family life. God loves family structure and He blesses a family with His love. Things a family can do together are, reading the bible, watching an inspirational movie, volunteering and prayer.
May God Bless You and Your Family.
Pride Feeds The Flesh While Humility Feeds The Soul
There are two parts to us, the flesh and the soul. For most, the flesh is the dominate factor in our lives until we die. The flesh wants nothing to do with the soul, it wants nothing to do with God, it only wants what the world has to offer.
The flesh is corrupt and it will always be corrupt until it’s last breath. This is what the deadly sin of pride is, self, ego, I, me, and myself. Pride is the main one of the seven deadly sins.
The soul wants eternal life with God. It wants everything that God has to offer. It wants to be humble, it wants to do good, be loving towards others and it wants no glory. It wants to do God’s will which in turn will help bring not only glory to God, but help steer others towards God so that they may find true peace and happiness with God.
The flesh wants what the world has to offer, whether it is pleasure, materialism, self-indulgence, lust, vanity and so on. Pride also brings about negative traits and problems such as, hate, anger, resentments, jealousy, greed, gluttony, envy, fornication, addiction, debt and others. Pride will always be in the pursuit of happiness.
Humility is totally the opposite. Humility brings a person kindness, love, joy, true happiness, peace, goodness, self-control, trustfulness and freedom from the bondages of the world.
The world can only offer temporary happiness and this causes the flesh to be in constant search of happiness. This happiness that it seeks is always attached to something and that something captures us and holds us until the happiness wears off. Then we’re off again seeking happiness in something else.
There is a low side to pride and also a high side to pride and what lies in the middle is humility. The middle is the best place to be, it is also known as equanimity. It is the place of total peacefulness and freedom from the bondages of the world. When one reaches this place, they have no care about materialism, they are not concerned about what they are going to eat, they only want to keep things as simple as possible.
When one is humble, they do not seek honor, they pass the glory onto God and thank Him for giving them the opportunity to help their fellowman. When they do something good, they try to attract as little attention as possible. They are usually quiet and refrain from idle chit-chat and laughter, they do not place themselves above others, they are patient, respectful to authority and constantly watchful of trying not to do wrong.
There is a difference between walking in the flesh and walking in the spirit. When one is in the flesh, they don’t see spiritual things, they see worldly things. They think they are good because they can’t see or understand what they are doing wrong. The flesh deceives itself in such away that the things that it does seems normal to itself because it is a standard among the world.
The bodily senses play a major role in the corruption of the flesh. The senses are always looking to be pleased. Whether it comes from the taste of foods, or things that are pleasing to the eyes which can generate lust, the senses have their way of keeping man disconnected from God through the use of distractions.
When a person is walking in the spirit, they don’t care about things like the taste of food or spending a lot of time preparing food, listening to music (they find God in silence), they are not distracted by smells like food cooking or perfumes (they actually find perfume repulsive), jewelry, clothing, hairdos, makeup, materialism, paintings, things that make the body feel good and so on. They really don’t like wasting time with things that please the flesh. They will, most of the time put other’s needs first before their own.
The more you live by the flesh, the more you are anchored to this world and all its troubles. Find protection, freedom and peace in God and don’t let this world rule you.
Travel the road with Jesus Christ and learn to walk upright in the spirit instead of bent towards the world like the flesh. You will soon see just how invaluable the things of the world are and just how corrupt the flesh really is. The light of faith is like darkness to the flesh.
God Bless You
The United States And England Are Destined To Fall As The Roman Empire Did
What The United States And England Have In Common With The Roman Empire
What Caused The Fall Of The Roman Empire?
According to the History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire which was written by Edward Gibbons, he found five primary causes that were being practiced in the Roman Empire. These primary causes eventually led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Let’s look at these causes one by one and compare them to what is going on today in the United States and England.
Loss Of Family Structure
The backbone of a country is its strong family structure. It’s what the United States And England were built upon, just the same as the Roman Empire.
Family structure seems to be a thing of the past. With so many single mothers out there today either from having children out of wedlock or they are divorced. So, what happened to family structure? Have people become so self-centered that they can’t love their spouse for a long period of time? Is fornication a major cause in failed marriages? Are people willing to give up their life for their partner?
A couple that are not married yet, should not engage in a sexual relationship until they are married. They should get to know one another first and find out if they are meant for each other. God is against fornication, it’s mentioned in the Old and New Testament. If both parties are mutual about giving up their lives for one another then they should have an undying relationship for life with each other.
When two people are looking out for each other’s needs, than there will be no wants or needs. Did not Jesus say that ‘What greater love can there be than for one to give up their life for a friend.’ Isn’t your spouse your best friend? If you truely love your spouse, than you will make sure that all their needs are met. After all, if we are going to be in union with God, then we need to do the same for Him, He already does His part for us.
When you have children, you need to do the same for them. This is how they grow, by being nurtured in a loving environment with both parents. Quality time together is also a must. You have to put away all the tech stuff and pay attention to each other. Doing things together like, eating meals, playing games, prayer, bible reading and family outtings.
One parent should be home taking care of the household chores, making sure that everyone is eating healthy meals and being there for the children when they come home from school. Sticking them in a daycare center day after day is wrong, how can you possibly nurture and bond with your children that way? Things are so out of balance these days when it comes to family structure.
Increased Taxation
The governments in this country, whether it is city, county, state or federal seem to have this unstoppable urge to tax everything in sight. You can see this just by looking at your bills. They start all these tax programs thinking that it will help pay for this that and the other thing, when in the long run, they don’t fix the problem that is causing them to start a new tax program. They end up putting the burden on the consumer again and again, which leaves the consumer with less money to put back into the economy.
I’m sure that most of you are familiar with doing your taxes at the end of the year. This has absolutely turned into a nightmare for everyone, including the IRS. Why does it have to be so complicated? Why not just have a flat 10% tax on everyone’s income? People would have plenty of money to fuel the economy and there would be plenty of jobs for everyone. The governments would even have enough money to sustain themselves.
Unsustainable Buildup of Armaments
We used to have countries that feared us, but not anymore. Over the years some of these countries have tested the United States and England. Iran, Russia and North Korea to name a few. What did we do? Nothing. Once these two nations show that their will is broken, these other countries can proceed doing the very things that will put everyone in danger without any fear of retaliation.
The United States is about to reduce thier armaments hoping that others will follow, this is going to be a fatal mistake for the U.S. This will only give the other countries an edge build up their armaments use them against the countries we once protected, including our own. Also, Obama in other words is telling other nations that we will not use nuclear weapons against them if they attack us with biological or chemical weapons. So, what is going to keep them from attacking the United States now that they have nothing to fear? God Help Us.
Unsatiable Craving for Pleasure
We are always seeking ways to please the flesh. We will even go into debt and in some cases, heavy debt just to satisfy the cravings of the flesh through self pleasure. This world is flooded with things that distract us away from God, only to please ourselves.
We have things like the computer. When used in moderation, it can be a useful tool, but there are many people that become addicted to it. With the social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and others, they can waste some serious time when it comes to idol socializing. What I mean is chit-chat that has no value to it.
There are other dangerous places as well like gaming sites, pornographic sites and online casinos. Some people become obsessed with these sites to the point of addiction. They spend all their time on these sites to accomplish what? The overwhelming desire to please the flesh.
Food is another one. Look at the millions and millions of recipes that people made up. How many different ways do we need to prepare food? And for what, 10 – 15 minutes of satisfying the taste buds? People will spend hours preparing and cooking a meal. We even have television channels and tons of web sites all surrounding the subject of food.
Television and cell phones are also items that get abused on a regular basis. Just look at what some of things are doing to our youth. Texting is out of control and it has even cost people their lives. Parents need to take control of their kids lives and get them active into things with value, instead of handing their kids every tech gadget that comes out on the market.
The Decay of Religion
In God’s eyes, true religion is helping each other out and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world. This is the biggest problem that we face in today’s world. We are having a rough time with the economy these days, but what got us here? Greed and the desire of want.
People abusing their credit and going into debt for what? One word, “Want.” We need to be more responsible in our spending habits and our wants.
Nobody saves money anymore, this also hurts the economy. It doesn’t give the banks enough money to loan out to businesses or use to make more investments. This causes your local banks to close their doors and it paves the way for these bigger banks to grow and have more control over your finances. They in turn become greedier and nickle and dime you to death. Without the smaller, local banks, we are at the mercy of the big banks.
How about helping each other out or simply “Loving One Another”. The hate has got to stop, this country is so divided amongst itself. Hate is nothing more than a dark force of destruction.
The moral values of the United States and England just keeps getting worse and worse as each decade passes by. All you have to do is look back through time and you can see how we have become more and de-sensitized to immoral behavior that the shock of it alone has worn off.
As more and more immoral practices develop, the more we anger God. This in turn causes God to remove His blessings from us and send us curses. God is being very fair and patient with these two nations. It’s a shame that many do not see this and as a result, things are only going to get worse.
This is just a few examples of what the “Decay of Religion” is about. It’s not about going to church or belonging to some religious organization. It’s about being moral, upright people in the eyes of a loving God. A God that wants nothing but the best for us. He wants to shower us with His blessings and save us from ourselves.
Mark my word, we are heading for destruction. Man is going to have to go through some tough times in the near future, unlike anything man has ever seen.
Here is a link to the book I mentioned at the beginning in case you are interested in reading it: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Putting Our Trust In God Requires A Lot Of Faith
Putting our trust in God requires a lot of faith. First, we have to believe that there is a God. Some have been taught about God when they were young. As they grow up they know in their hearts that there is a God, creator of all.
Others were drawn to God either by miracles or something that happened in their life, whether it be some type of trauma or an amazing event. There is a feeling inside us that knows there is more to life than living and dying.
When we do realize that there is a God, we begin to learn all we can about Him. One source that has a lot of information about God is the Bible. You can find things in the Bible like an account of when God created the earth and all that is on it. The Bible also talks about what God wants us to do to obey Him so that He can bless us with the things we need. He gave us many promises including eternal life.
All we have to do is follow His teachings, believe in God through faith and not rebel against Him. Sounds pretty easy doesn’t it? By all means it can be a tough life following God. God never promised us that life was going to be walk in the park. The ones that have turned their backs on the world and gave up their bondage to it, will be the ones that go through many tests and trials.
Tests and trials are made up of many different scenarios. Each one that you go through will require strength, faith, hope, love and other virtues to make it through them. These are like tools that we acquire as grow spiritually. These tests and trials are learning periods that we go through to overcome our flesh, evil and the world. They build up our faith and we get to know God, Jesus Christ and The Holy Spirit as we walk away from our old life and strive for that new creation so that we will be in union with God once again.
For many, they go through these periods and they don’t even recognize what is happening or should I say the main reason behind them. Let me explain, when we are faced with a hardship, what do we usually see? We see the negative side to this hardship and we are suddenly experiencing the stress or anxiety of this hardship. Why do we bring this extra burden upon ourselves? It’s because we lack Faith.
When we first enter into a test or trial, we need to look for a positive outcome and also try to learn what we can from it as we travel through it. All too often we don’t do this, we begin to worry or bring fear upon us. This is not what makes us stronger, this stops us in our tracks from growing spiritually. This is a lack of faith and it tells God that we do not trust Him or that we doubt that He will guide us through it.
Nothing kills faith faster than worries, fears and doubts. This is the sole reason that people never get to experience or truly understand the truth behind many of the scriptures that are written in the Bible. They never progress because they won’t let go of their fear. They always picture a different outcome than the one that God has waiting for them.
How are you going to understand faith if you have no works? How are you going to explain the existence of God if you have no proof? You can’t prove what is written in the Bible unless you experience it and it takes faith to make it come true.
There is no time period set for these tests and trials, some may last 5 minutes, while others can last more than a year. That’s why it is important to be on constant gaurd. Always pay attention to what’s going on and don’t be to hasty to jump right into a situation.
Some of this may be obscure to you, but it won’t be once you understand about faith. Show God that you love Him by trusting in Him. Show Him that you can handle these tests and trials in a humble way. Don’t let your pride get the best of you. Pride is the downfall and destruction of man.
Look forward to tests and trials and welcome them. They can be so dynamic that there are no words to describe them when you walk through them without worries, fears and doubts. You become so accustomed to them and your faith is so strong that these three words no longer exist in your life.
Jesus said, ‘Pick up your cross and follow me.’ Surely, you cannot follow Him if you don’t trust Him. You will only be either going off to the left or to the right. You will constantly be getting lost within yourself. Man can’t lead you back to God, but Jesus can, if you let Him and believe in Him.
Hope Can Be Practiced In Two Different Ways
The Bible is full of times when people or a community of people had hope when they were met with despair, hope for a better day, a day when things were not so bad. They had the same hope when they were waiting for the coming of a Messiah. The Messiah finally came and His name was Jesus Christ. Those that realized He was the true Messiah, turned their hope into joy. A Savior has arrived who is going to save them from their iniquities and bring them a New Covenant with God that promises everlasting eternal life.
Some use hope in the wrong way. They use it to dream about things that will please themselves. This is a false hope, one that is geared towards selfishness. Hope leads to faith and faith leads to works that prove God’s promises. God did give us promises with stipulations attached to them. We need to practice faith in order to get to know God, Jesus Christ and receive The Holy Spirit.
Many people for years have been hoping for the day that Jesus Christ returns. They know that when He does return, a new world will follow that is filled with peace, love and all the good fruits that the Spirit brings (Galatians 5: 22). Heaven and earth will be filled with so much joy, a joy that can’t even be comprehended. No more evil, hate and corruption, only love for one another.
We all go through bad times, it could be from an illness, a bad traffic accident, a job loss, losing your house to a disaster, or whatever it is that brings us hardships. Some people get lost in the darkness of self-pity, while others have hope for a better outcome. These ones are strong and know that God will see them through their difficult times. Why? Because they have Faith. If hope is targeted in the right way, it will build the foundation for faith and faith will bring results. Faith builds strength for those who who work it the right way.
It’s so much easier to complain and wallow in self-pity because there is no work involved in going this route. It’s like time after time you buy a lottery ticket and sit there for days hoping to win the lottery. Like winning the lottery will solve all your problems. There is no gain in this type of hope, it builds nothing. If you did eventually win, you would have nothing that is everlasting, only temporary.
One of the ways that hope will work for a good cause is when people visualize their fellow man turning towards God and accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior. This is a positive attitude that flows out all over the world, filled with love that touches our fellowman and God. Through hope, we can make a major change in the world, provided that we back it with faith and love. This is how we are filled with God’s love, by thinking of God and the welfare of our fellowman and forgetting about ourselves.
12 Ways To Grow Spiritually
Cleanse Yourself and Grow Spiritually
Are You Spiritually Dehydrated?
These 12 ways will help you to cleanse yourself and grow spiritually. Jesus will help you to do each one of these, so make sure you pray to Him and ask Him for guidance. If you should have any questions about any of these lessons, please don’t hesitate to contact me at: thetruth@itrustgodonly.com – in the subject line please put “12 Ways”.
Thank you.
1. Powerless Over Ourselves
“How Can I Be Powerless Over Myself?” Our ways are different than God’s way. We are governed by our pride. We want things that will please our bodies and make our lives pleasant. We want the things of the world. This is our human nature, it’s the way our minds work.
2. Sanity or Insanity?
Most of us like to think we are sane people right? We don’t act bizarre or we’re not in an institution, so we must be sane, right? Wrong. There’s a kind of insanity that, as we look through our carnal eyes we just don’t see. We usually look at insanity as people who lost touch with reality.
3. Your Will and Your Life
You Did Accept Jesus As Your Personal Savior? When we accepted Jesus as our personal Savior, did we not do this to save ourselves from damnation? Some of us chose Jesus because our life was a mess from trying to live it our way.
4. Take An Inventory Of Ourselves
Our Behavior Is Pretty Much Ruled By Our Pride. Our emotions and our actions are of self-will. We want our lives to be in perfect order as WE would like them. We do not care about what others want or need or even if we do, so long as it doesn’t interrupt our way of life, the life WE want.
5. Acknowledge Your Sins
Pray For Forgiveness. 1John 1:8,9 – If we say we have no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves and refusing to admit the truth; but if we acknowledge our sins, then God who is faithful and just will forgive our sins and purify us from everything that is wrong.
6. Remove Character Defects
Now that we have taken a look at ourselves by making a list of things we did wrong and told them to another individual, it’s time to work on removing these defects for good. Remember to always talk to Jesus about these things we need removed and let Him help us to overcome these defects.
7. Humility and Pride
Humility Is The Opposite Of Pride. Luke 2:7 And she gave birth to a son, her first-born. She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger because there was no room for them at the inn. This is a true act of humility. God could have provided all the comforts of home for Joseph, Mary and Jesus, but He didn’t.
8. List Of Wrongs
Made A List Of Our Wrongs and Any Resentments. When we did something wrong to someone did we do it intentionally or did we do it out of ignorance? Sometimes we aim to harm people and some of the reasons we do this is for personal gain, that we don’t like the individual, or because we like to stir things up between others.
9. Making Amends
Make Amends To The People You Have Harmed. Now that you have made your lists, it’s time to make amends. First, you have to understand that sometimes it’s not good to open up old wounds. We don’t want to harm others again, but this doesn’t mean that we’re off the hook from making amends.
10. Daily Evaluation
We Need To Evaluate Ourselves Daily. Now that we have made amends, it’s time to keep from doing the same things that we had to make amends for over again. We can do this by overcoming our pride. It begins by the way we think and how we bring into ourselves the actions of others.
11. God’s Will
About God’s Will For Us. The bible is a great book, it’s God’s word. It’s full of instructions for us. It has God’s promises that He gives us. Each promise has a stipulation attached to it. God will keep His promise provided we do our part.
12. Growing Spiritually
Face Life One Day At A Time With God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. After following Jesus and working the past 11 lessons, one should have gained a lot of knowledge about oneself. Such things as the way you think and act, how you treat people and the way you treat them.
Why Having A Government Is So Wrong
Over 4000 years ago, God warned us about government. Yet, man still hasn’t learned about the dangers of having a government rule over us. God explained to Israel exactly what would happen if they chose to go this route.
So far, as you can see, man has not learned his lesson. What exactly are the benefits of having a government, a king, a dictator, or some type of ruler to run a nation, rather then have God lead us? I, myself can not see why we need someone or some form of government to tell us what to do.
Read this that is taken from 1 Samuel 8: 1 – 20.
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his two sons as judges over Israel. The name of the firstborn was Joel, that of the younger Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba. But his sons did not follow his ways; they wanted money, taking bribes and perverting justice.
Then all the Elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah. Look, they said to him,’you are old, and your sons do not follow your ways. So give us a king to rule over us, like the other nations’.
It displeased Samuel that they should say,’let us have a king to rule us’ , so he prayed to God. But god said to Samuel, ‘Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for it is not you they have rejected; they have rejected me from ruling over them.
All they have done to me from the day I brought them out of Egypt until now, they deserted me and served other gods, they are doing now to you. Well then, obey their voice; only, you must warn them solemnly and instruct them in the rights of the king who is to reign over them.
The disadvantages of the monarchy
All that God had said Samuel repeated to the people who were asking him for a king. He said,’these will be of rights of the king who is to reign over you. He will take your sons and assign them to his chariotry and calvary, and they will run in front of his chariot. He will use them as leaders of a thousand and leaders of fifty; he will make them plough his ploughland and harvest his harvest and make his weapons of war and the gear for his chariots.
You will also take your daughters as perfumers, cooks and bakers. He will then take the best of your fields, of your vineyards and olive groves and give them to his officials. He will take the best of your man servants and maid servants, of your cattle and your donkeys and make them work for him. He will tithe your flocks and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out on account of the king you have chosen for yourselves, but on that day god will not answer you.
The people refused to listen to the words of Samuel. They said,’No! We want a king’, so that we in our turn can be like the other nations; our king shall rule us and be our leader and fight our battles.’
After all these years of having some form of government rule over nation’s like the United States, England and Israel that just can’t seem to get it right, do the people put up with it? These nations have seen so many troubled times, whether it would be with war, economic troubles, corruption, or just out right bad decisions.
It seems like people just don’t want to be bothered with making decisions, it’s like they would rather put it on someone else. Is this some type of fear? Would most of the people rather be followers, so that they can feel more secure by putting all the burden on someone else? Do the people actually have a right to place the blame on the ones that they elected for any trouble that follows?
From what we’ve seen with man’s plan, we have a never ending battle for peace, fighting crime, corruption, diseases, famine, poverty, injustice and so on. As you can see, man’s plan has never worked. So, I have to ask, what is so wrong with the plan that God has laid out for us?
With God’s plan, there would be peace, prosperity, security, no unemployment, nobody homeless, protection, no diseases, no abortions, no immorality, no neighbor fighting with neighbor, no famine, no poverty, no corruption, no birth defects, no hate, very little crime that would be dealt with harshly and many other things.
Would it really be that bad to have God as our supreme leader over our nation? God gave us the right to choose, unfortunately man hasn’t been making very good choices, have they?
Hosea – Prophecy For The United States and England
In the book of Hosea, it is talking about a nation that God had blessed and then the people turned their back on God and so, God slowly started removing His blessings from these nations. Even though it is written in the Old Testament and at the time when God was talking to Israel and His wife who He refers to is Jerusalem. The United States and England has to understand that they are sister nations of Israel and that God has blessed them.
Since these two nations have “whored” around and committed adultery against God, God will remove His blessings from these nations unless they turn back to them. When God talks about stripping her to expose her nakedness, he is talking about the corruption, immorality and all the things that are an abomination to God. God will expose all these things to all the other nations and it will cause great embarrassment to these two nations.
Next, God will cause economic troubles for these two whores. He will cause them to be no longer self sufficient which makes any nation vulnerable to the nation’s they are dependent upon. Any nation that is not self sufficient as it once was, is doomed to fall. Any nation that rebels against God will feel His wrath.
When God refers to not loving her children (her = Jerusalem in this time period), He is talking about the people of these nations. The people who have turned their backs on Him. Gods then states that the nations will no longer acknowledge that all the blessings that were bestowed upon them came from God.
Man seems to get carried away with prosperity like it’s always going to always be there. So, then man will take advantage of God’s blessings and engage in self indulgence, sometimes to the extreme of total drunkeness. This is where man then practices insanity and becomes a slave to the world, material things, worshiping many gods (gods = material things, money, the flesh, etc., etc.) or idols.
Since these nations have become an abomination to God, he then starts two withdrawal His blessings to expose their debaucheries, corruption and immorality that these once mighty nations practice. The shame of these nations will be displayed to their lovers and they will turn their backs on them. These nations that are so drunk from the fruit of the vine, the nations that had forgotten God, the nations that became corrupt from their greed are falling down.
So blind they are from their pride, that they can’t even see the destruction and doom that awaits them. The nations that chose to court their lovers over God, so ungrateful for the many blessings that God had bestowed upon them. That is why God is punishing these two nations economically, with terror and terror that isn’t even there, weather and so on. There are things that these two nations have not yet seen, but are sure to come. And until these nations are cleansed of their impurities and until the evil and wickedness have vanished will God return and bring prosperity with him.
If one looks hard enough and does a little research, they will see these things unfold before their eyes. These two nations, the United States and England have entered the “point of no return”. If you want protection from the curses that are going to be, then turn to God before its too late. God doesn’t speak just one time, history does repeat itself. God will not abandon those that love Him.
How to Trust God With Faith
Worries, Fears & Doubts Will Kill Faith
If we are going to believe that God will help us, then we need to trust God. We can’t sit around worrying about our situation. We can’t let our problem cause us to fear the unknown. We can’t doubt that God will not help us get through our problem. In order for God to help us, He wants to see that we trust Him and have faith that He will be there for us.
Nothing worse then worrying about something that hasn’t even happened. There may be a dark cloud hanging over our heads, but it is not going to go away until the conclusion. We need to take our problem and look for something positive that could come out of it. God will be the Light at the end of the tunnel.
Worrying is also bad for your health. It can cause stress and other illnesses. Not just physical, but psychological problems too. It will also damage us spiritually. Worrying will bring us misery, it will disrupt our lives to the point where we can’t think straight or function properly.
Fear is a very damaging emotion, probably the worst one out of the three. They say that most people that are in institutions are there because of of fear. Fear brought them to the point of mental instability. Seriously, what is there to fear? Most of the time when fear first sets in, you know what is going to happen before it actually happens. Most of the time it doesn’t even happen.
A lot of fear we bring upon ourselves. We always look at negative side of fear. Sometimes fear is a good emotion, it brings out our common sense. In some people, it helps them to react to danger properly and in others it causes them to panic in which the outcome could be deadly for them or others.
Why do we doubt that everything will work out? It seems that we tend to lean more to the negative side then the positive. We always seem to want to draw the worse conclusions in our mind. Is this the way that we want the outcome to be?
Worries, Fears and Doubts are not something that we need in our life if we are going to live a happy life. That is why we must turn all our problems over to God. We need to trust God with our heart, soul and mind. After all. isn’t God our Father? Don’t you think that He wants nothing but the best for us?
If we are going to make God a part of our life, then we need to trust God. Think about how you would react to someone if they felt that you were incompetent to perform a task that you knew you could handle. Life is not a bowl of cherries, we are going to go through tests and trials. These tests and trials build our strength and faith in God. God knows that we are going to fail from time to time, it’s how we learn from our mistakes.
When we include God in our life, we need to include Him in everything and not just our problems. When we pray to Him and ask for His help with a problem or situation that we have, then we need to place it in His hands and seek His guidance. We need to believe that He will handle it and no matter what the outcome is, look for the positive. So, drop the worrying, the fears and the doubts and trust God. Look and you will see. Believe, Believe and Believe!
God Bless You and Love One Another
God Is Love
There are people out there that think God is a cruel God. That just isn’t so. Some like to refer back to the days of Noah and Noah’s Ark, when God flooded the world. Because children had perished in this flood and God did not save them, they say God is a murderer. How can this be? Did not God tell Noah what to do to be spared from the flood? Did not Noah warn the people for many years of a coming flood?
All these people did was laugh at him and mock him. These people failed to take heed to his warning. They were acting foolishly out of their own pride. Many of these people had families, yet they chose not to secure the safety of their family.
Look at it this way, if you came across someone that was building a huge boat in a place that never gets any rain or maybe very little and this boat was being built far away from the closet body of water, would you think that this guy, Noah was a lunatic or would you think that this guy just might be right? What about when they saw him loading two animals, male and female of different kinds onto this huge ship?
So, who’s at fault that even the children perished in the flood? Certainly not God’s. The people had been warned for years and they chose to be ignorant. Noah could not go around and kidnap all the children and put them on board, they would’ve killed him on the spot. These people had plenty of opportunities to save themselves and their children, but they chose not to.
God has been warning people all the way back to Adam and Eve. Some will say that God set them up by putting a forbidden tree in the Garden of Eden and telling them not to partake of this tree. We have to remember that God gave us a “Free Will”, free to chose whatever we want. We have a choice to chose life or death. God does not want to force people to love Him, that wouldn’t be real love.
God loves us so much, so why is it so hard to love Him back? Why do we choose the world with it’s temporary happiness and death over life with God? Our pride seems to stop us from receiving the many blessings that God would bestow upon us if only we would love Him.
Read in the Old Testament about what happened when man fell away from God and God brought curses on them. Did God have a right to do this? Sure He did, after all He gave them the land on which they lived on. He blessed them with prosperity, but man took advantaged of it and became corrupt. It wasn’t like God hadn’t warn them over and over again. Before He gave them a nation, He gave them commandments and laws to live by. You can read about it in Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26, it talks about the blessings and curses that God will bring upon a nation.
History always seems to repeat itself when it comes to God and nations. Man seems to think that he doesn’t need God and that man always has a better plan. I guess man proved to God that man’s plan is better. Just look around at how well things are going these days, massive unemployed, a failed economy that is still on the verge of collapsing, over 1.5 million people losing their homes and still climbing, poverty, violence, murder, abortions, rape, sexual perversion, overcrowded prisons, corrupt and confused government, greedy banks and corporations, people with massive debts, diseases, terror without the terrorism (we don’t even have terrorism and look at the stronghold it has over us) and the list goes on and on.
Look at all the children that are born with birth defects, that are suffering with cancer and other diseases and I suppose that this is God’s fault? When is man ever going to take the blame and put it upon himself for his actions?
God’s plan is about love, it’s about people living in harmony without all the hate and destruction that comes with it. God’s plan is about prosperity, where the crops grow abundantly and people have no wants or needs and suffering is eliminated. So, what is wrong with this plan? Why does man continue to reject God? Man’s suffering and hardships would vanish if only man would put away his pride and humble himself before God.
The United States, do you want your country back? England, do you want your country back? Israel, do you want your land back and never to have to fear your enemies again? All it would take is to call on God and repent. Is that so hard? God can stop the downfall of these nations, but man is too stubborn to turn from his wickedness.
God is being very patient with us, His curses have come upon us slowly, but they are getting stronger. He’s giving us plenty of time to see how we are destroying ourselves, but we are too blind to see. Unfortunately, as history repeats itself, these nations are going to fall and fall hard they will. Just look back into the Old Testament and see what happened to Jerusalem when the people fell away from God.
We are God’s children, He punishes us because He loves us and only wants the best for us. Do you not punish your children when they do wrong? Do you not do this because you love them and want them to grow up doing the right things so they could live a good life?
Turn away from the world and seek protection in the loving arms of God before it’s too late. You can’t say that you haven’t been warned.
God Bless You and Love One Another
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