Love One Another
One of the biggest issues that plagues man is racism. Racism comes from man’s pride, same with any type of hate or sin. Pride is the darkness that lies within man. It is anchored in man like roots on a tree. Sin grows from pride just like the branches on a tree.
Mankind can destroy himself because of pride. Here are just some of the darkness that man can bring forth, using God’s name in vain, anger, lust, crime, greed, jealousy, wars, murder, violence, mockery, hate, and gossip. If we want to be righteous in the eyes of God, then we have to overcome the darkness that lies within us and “Love One Another”.
To love the way that God intended for us to love, we need to get rid of any and all hate. Why are we so prejudice when we see another person with different color skin? We seem to form an opinion about that person when we don’t even know who they are. Just because we see some people from one race do something that we don’t like, we label them all as being that way.
I takes a lot of work to overcome this, but it’s something that we must do. Once we change our ways and start to “Love One Another”, we can change others just by expressing our love towards them by being nice, kind, compassionate and by helping others out when we can. No one is perfect and we have to remember that.
Changing the way of the world begins with you. You can touch others around you just by expressing your love by just greeting someone with a smile, help someone instead of turning away because you can’t be bothered, encourage someone with kind words. What would the world be like if everyone looked out for each other? It would be one beautiful place and it would be minus the hate.
When a nation works together and it practices moral behavior and it is solid in family structure, God then will bless that nation with prosperity, just like He blessed the United States, England and Israel once. Countries once feared these three nations, but not anymore. Do you know why it is so hard for these nations to turn back to God? One word, “Pride”.
The United States is a nation with so many different cultures and races. The combination of people living together in one country is amazing, but it seems like there is a wedge that is driven in to split each race apart from each other. Why is this? Why can’t we live together in peace and harmony, especially when we have so much that we can share to each other.
One thing the United States has going for it and that is freedom of religion. It’s the one thing that makes this country great. Anyone that doesn’t respect another person’s belief is practicing hate. We do not have the right to put down, mock or persecute someone for their beliefs, unless of course they are breaking the law, but you know what I mean. Through out time people have killed others because they didn’t practice someone else’s belief. That is not what God teaches, God teaches us to “Love One Another”.
For many years people have tortured and killed others all in the name of God. From what I understand about God, did He not tell us not to kill? One of God’s commandments is that we are not to take His name in vain. Seems to me that there are a lot of people that don’t understand this commandment. Why would anyone want to worship a god that teaches it’s people to torture and kill others if they don’t practice their beliefs? The God I know doesn’t teach this.
Wouldn’t you think that if you want to tell others about God, then you would act like a loving, caring, kind and compassionate person? Don’t you think that this would be a better plan to bring people to God?
When a person sees another acting like a righteous person because that person is gentle, good, patient, joyful, peaceful and practices self-control, don’t you think that that would be enough to influence that person to find out what this God is all about? It should be enough for them to want to get to know this God so that they can be happy and free as well.
Unfortunately there are people who are attracted to evil. The ones that are self-indulgent and practice: sexual irresponsibility, fornication, sorcery, gross indecency, idolatry, drunkenness, factions, jealousy, greed and have bad tempers. Why do they do this? “Pride”
None of us are perfect, but we can get a good head start if only we would put aside our pride. Imagine the blessings that God would bestow upon us if we would just “Love One Another”. Why is it so hard?
God Bless You All
Love Your Neighbor
1John 2:9-11 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the dark. But anyone who loves his brother is living in the light and need not be afraid of stumbling; unlike the man who hates his brother and is in the darkness, not knowing where he is going, because it is to dark to see. 1John 4:20,21 Anyone who says, ‘ I love God,’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since a man who does not love the brother that he can see cannot love God, whom he has never seen. So this is the commandment He has given us, that anyone who loves God must also love his brother. Wouldn’t it be a beautiful world if everyone loved each other? Well, that’s the kind of world God has planned for those who can love each other. The question is, will you be apart of it?
It takes alot of patience to love your neighbor. ‘ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.’ It’s not about just loving people you know, it’s about loving everyone equally. We meet people every day that we have never seen before, it could be at the store, work, driving or on t.v. We don’t have to physically meet them to judge them. We are quick to judge just by the way they drive, perform at work, how they dress, talk, walk, eat, look or any of the things they do. We do have to remember that no two people are alike. God created us all and it’s not the things people say and do that we have to love, but it’s the fact that God loves them as He loves you. So if we expect to receive God’s love, then we need to love God and His creation.
Just because someone doesn’t like you doesn’t mean you have to hate them back. Love will conquer your enemy. We need to show people that no matter what they do to us, we still love them. Trust God, He’ll take care of them in one way or the other. Luke 17:1-3 He said to His disciples,’Obstacles are sure to come, but alas for the one who provides them! It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone put round his neck than that he should lead astray one of these little ones.
Watch yourselves! Not only do you have to watch out for them, but also don’t provide an obstacle for your brother. If we choose to love our enemy and not expect anything in return, then we will be loving God. By praying for the enemy and not stooping to their level, we will be following Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 13: 34, 35 ‘ I give you a new commandment: love one another; just as I have loved you, you also must love one another. By this love you have for one another, everyone will know that you are one of my disciples.’ So how can one say that they follow Jesus but at the same time hate their neighbor?
This is where we bring God into contempt and use His name in vain. In order to love God and our neighbor, we need to acquire virtues. John 15:8 ‘ It is to the glory of my Father that you should bear much fruit, and then you will be my disciples. Good fruit: read Galatians 5:22, Bad fruit: read Galatians 5:19-21. Humility and pride are enemies. They are completely opposite. Pride is all about self and the one thing that destroys pride is humility. Luke 3:9 ‘ Yes, even now the axe is laid to the roots of the trees, so that any tree which fails to produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown on the fire.’ We are the trees and the roots are pride. From pride all sin is born.
Humility is when one doesn’t think about pleasing one’s self. It cares more about pleasing God, so that one can truely love God and our neighbors. If you can love God with all your mind, soul, heart and strength, then you will also be able to love your neighbors. Once you acquire this unspeakable love from God, you won’t even see the evil in your neighbor, you will only have compassion for them. You will feel for them just as Jesus did when He was on the cross,’ Father forgive them for they know not what they do.’ Also Luke 17:4 ‘ If your brother does something wrong, reprove him and, if he is sorry, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says,” I am sorry”, you must forgive him’.
Remember not to judge others or you will be judged for your sins(evil and wickedness). You cannot judge one sin to be greater than another. The reason I am saying this is because we have a mind that will deceive us. It will tell us,’ Hey, that’s not all that bad’. We cannot think like this. In God’s eyes, love is love and hate is hate. Any wrong doing to your neighbor is hate, plain and simple. We have such a big vocabulary of words that mean the same thing. We did this to make harsh sounding words sound softer, like being “unkind”. That doesn’t sound as bad as “hate”, does it?
Instead of saying to someone, ” Why do you talk bad about that person?” Why don’t you just say, ” Why do you hate that person?” And usually their response will be, ” I don’t hate them.” So, the next time someone does or says something to you that’s hateful (and all bad things done to us can become hateful) pray for them, turn the situation around to a positive. Don’t let it bother you, because if you do, your pride is working and it will harm your soul. Read Revelations 21:8. It is God you must worship, not yourself. When you injure a neighbor with hate, you injure God and when you injure God, you injure your soul. When you injure God, you hate God, and those that hate God love death.
Proverbs11:2 Pride comes first, disgrace comes after; with the humble is wisdom found.
Proverbs 13:10 Whosoever speak ill of anything, bind himself for the time to come: but he that fear the commandment, shall dwell in peace.
Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the fool is the rod of pride: but the lips of the wise preserve them.
Proverbs 29:23 A man’s pride brings him humiliation, he who humbles himself will bring honor.
The Rapture
What Is This Rapture Theory?
Definition of “Rapture” in English: ecstatic delight: overwhelming joy. great pleasure or enthusiasm or the expression of it. In Latin: exstasis, exstasia, extasia, ecstastia, exstasiae: rapture, ecstasty, trance. The definition of rapture in English or Latin does not mean “caught up”. They say that the word “Rapture” comes from the Latin translation of the Greek word “harpazo” in this verse (1Thessalonians 4:17) and is accurately translated into English by “caught up”. The word “Rapture” did not mean to be caught up or taken away in Greek until the term raptured came into existence in the 1800’s. Before then, nobody taught about Christians flying away in pre-tribulation.
In the Strong’s concordance, if you take the word caught and look it up in the Greek dictionary in the back of the concordance it is going to give you the proper definition which is the Greek word: harpazo: to seize, catch (away, up) pluck, pull, take (by force). So where is the word “rapture”? It doesn’t belong here. Now if you were talking about experiencing the Holy Spirit in your soul then I would use the word “Rapture”.
They also say that, “The Latin translators of the bible used the word “rapere”, the root of the English term “rapture”. Let’s see what the Latin Vulgate says. 1Thessalonians 4:17 deinde nos qui vivmus qui relinquimur simul “rapiemur” cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera et sic semper cum Domino erimus. The word “Rapiemur”, translated into English means, (also rapio, rapere, rapui, raptus.) drag off; snatch; destroy; seize; carry off; pillage and hurry. There’s a word missing from this definition, “rapture”, why? Because it doesn’t belong here. The Latin words for “Rapture” are: exstasis, exstasia, extasia, ecstastia, exstasiae, which mean rapture, ecstasy, trance. It seems that someone has decided to change the meaning of the word “rapture” to conform to some strange doctrine they developed. Now, there are millions of people who think they’re going to fly away and escape the tribulation. Let’s take a look at what the bible says.
Revelation 6:11, ‘Each of them were given a white robe, and they were told to be patient a little longer, until the roll was complete and their fellow servants and brothers had been killed just as they had been.’ This scripture is after the fifth seal is broken, so, God’s people are still on the earth.
Next, in Revelation 7:2, There’s an angel in the east carrying the seal of the living God. In Deuteronomy 6: 6 & 8, ‘You shall love God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength. Let these words I urge on you today be written on your heart.’ Verse 8, ‘You shall fasten them on your hand as a sign and on your forehead as a circlet.’ What seal or mark are you wearing? Spiritual or worldly? Isaiah 44: 5, One shall say,”I am the Lord’s and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob, and another shall subscribe with his hand, to the Lord, and surname himself by the name of Israel”.
Ezekiel 9: 3, 4, ‘And the Glory of the Lord of Israel, went up from the cherub, upon which He was, to the threshold of the house: and He called to the man that was clothed with linen, and had a writers ink horn at his loins. And the Lord said to him,’ Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem and mark thau (Hebrew for mark or sign) upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the abominations that are committed in the midst thereof.
Revelation 7: 3, ‘Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea or to the trees, until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.’ Revelation 9: 3, 4, ‘And out of the smoke dropped locusts which were given the powers that scorpions have on earth: they were forbidden to harm any fields or crops or trees and told only to attack any men who were without God’s seal on their foreheads.’ If the Christians are supposed to be “raptured” out of here, then why is God going to protect His servants with the seal? Apparently, we are going to go through the tribulation.
Let’s look at Ezekiel 14: 12-20, The word of God was addressed to me as follows, ‘Son of man, if a country were to sin against Me by faithlessness, and if I were to stretch out my hand against it and destroy its stock of bread and send famine to it to kill its men and beasts, and if in that country there were these three men, Noah, Danel and Job, these men would have their lives spared because of their integrity – it is the Lord God who speaks.
Were I to unleash wild animals on that country to rob it of its children and reduce it to such a desert that no one would dare to cross it because of the animals, and if these three men were in that country, then, as I live – it is the Lord God who speaks – they would not be able to save either son or daughter; they alone would be saved, and the country would become a desert.
If I were to bring the sword into that country and say: Let the sword pass through the country; I will strike down men and beasts with it, and if these three men were in that country, then, as I live – it is the Lord God who speaks – they would not be able to save either son or daughter; they alone would be saved. If I were to send the plague into that country and satisfy my anger with them by bloodshed, cutting off men and beasts, if Noah, Danel, and Job were in the country, as I live – it is the Lord God who speaks – they would not be able to save either son or daughter, though they would save their own lives because of their integrity’. God truly explains here that anyone who is His servant will be taken care of in any kind of crisis that may occur. Is your faith going to be strong enough to endure the tribulation?
Jesus warns us in Matthew 24: 6-8, ‘You will hear of wars and rumors of wars; do not be alarmed for this is something that must happen, but the end will not be yet. For nation will fight against nation and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes here and there. All this is only the beginning of the birth pangs. In Matthew 24:9, ‘Then they will hand you over to be tortured and put to death; and you will be hated by all the nations on account of my name.’ Mark 13:9-11, ‘But take heed to yourselves’ for they shall deliver you up to councils, and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten,and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them. (Read Acts 26: 1-29, it will be similar to this) But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought before hand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate, but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye. For it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Spirit. How can we be handed over to be tortured if we are gone? Matthew 24: 13 ‘But the man who stands firm to the end will be saved’.
Mark 13: 13 ‘You will be hated by all men on account of my name; but the man who stands firm to the end will be saved’. In these two scriptures, Jesus is telling us to keep the faith and trust in God, if we don’t we will never make it through any tests or trials. Let’s look at Mark 13:24-27, ‘But in those days, after that “time of distress”, the sun will be darkened, the moon will lose its brightness, the stars will come falling from heaven and the powers in heaven will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds with great power and glory; then too He will send the angels to gather His chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the world to the ends of heaven. There are too many scriptures that say we are going to be here during the tribulation. You can believe what you want to, I’m not trying to change anybody’s belief. I just want to put the information out there for you to investigate for yourself what’s truth and what’s not truth. I know that whatever happens, I am going to be prepared for it. If I have to go through the tribulation period for the Glory of God ,then I know that I will be ready, will You?
2Peter 3: 15-17, ‘Think of our Lord’s patience as your opportunity to be saved: our brother Paul, who is so dear to us, told you this when he wrote to you with the wisdom that is his special gift. He always writes like this when he deals with this sort of subject, and this makes some points in his letter hard to understand; these are the points that uneducated and unbalanced people distort, in the same way as they distort the rest of scripture – a fatal thing for them to do. You have been warned about this, my friends; be careful not to get carried away by the errors of unprincipled people, from the firm ground that you are standing on.’ In other words, don’t trust what is being taught to you. Keep an open mind and listen, but always seek and prove the teachings that comes from the mouth of man. The truth lies within you, it’s up to you to find it.
Look around, do you think we are in the tribulation period now? There’s terrible famine in Asia and Africa. How about our food resources in the U.S.? We let the atheist stop prayer in the schools. This country was founded by our faith and trust in God. Now that we’re pushing God out, our country is falling apart. 8 & 9 year old’s committing rape, teens totally out of control, people not obeying the law, no matter how small it may seem. The economy is in shambles. We’ve sold out to other countries. The greed in this country is enormous. So many people are self-absorbed. How about global warming? Animals are dying by the thousands. We have wild fires, earthquakes, storms, massive hurricanes, typhoons, and crazy weather patterns. So find the love of God in your soul and look for the love of your fellowman, it’s in them, you need to help bring it out.
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.
We lost the spiritual ways of God and God’s image when Adam and Eve sinned, or in other words gave into pride. They disobeyed God and lost their spiritual connection to Him. You know yourself better than anybody, but Jesus knows you better than you do. What causes us not to yield our lives with Jesus Christ? “PRIDE”
We know that when we give up our lives to Jesus, we will have to conform to the life He wants us to live, which means giving up living for the flesh and the world. I can understand why people don’t want to do this, I used to be in the same way, but when you feel your life is still missing something, when no matter what you do and you feel that loneliness and emptiness within. There’s only one place to turn to “Jesus”.
We constantly look for ways to amuse ourselves, do things to make us happy and bring pleasure to our lives, but if you notice it’s only temporary, no matter what you do, it’s only temporary. The flesh is very powerful, so powerful that we do not even know that it is deceiving us and preparing us for death.
Luke 18:19 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone.” James 1:26, 27 ‘Nobody must imagine that he is religious (pious, devout) while he still goes on deceiving himself and not keeping control over his tongue; anyone who does this has the wrong idea of religion. Pure, unspoilt religion, in the eyes of God our Father is this: coming to the help of orphans and widows when they need it and keeping oneself uncontaminated by the world.’
We can be so selfish, because we think about ourselves first and that is why we are powerless over ourselves. We see things that we can do to help others, but it seems like we come first. Jesus is the way, the truth and life. The world and everyone living for the world and for themselves hates THE TRUTH. Sad thing is, is that they will never be shown the true way, because their way is of themselves and of the world.
Everyday our lives are lived by our choice in how we think and see things that happen moment by moment. How do you see things and how do you let these things affect you? If we walk in the flesh then we are guided by pride (darkness), but if we walk in spirit then we are guided by the light.
God’s law is so vast that the carnal self cannot even begin to comprehend the things that are evil. We see things that are minor in our eyes but they are evil and wicked in the eyes of God. Because we choose not to see the evil and wickedness that we do on a daily basis, keeps our spiritual lives empty.
The things we do corrupt the soul and the heart. No one would jump into an open septic tank filled with waste, so why would you expect God, Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit to come into heart or soul when it is filled with waste? Where there is darkness there is no light.
Ask Jesus with a contrite and sincere heart to show you the way to clean yourself up and ask Him with all your heart to walk with you and show you how to overcome the flesh and the world, so that your life can be made full in the eyes of God. Tell Jesus you want to live and to live the way God intended us to live when He created us in His image. By accepting Jesus and giving ones life to Jesus doesn’t mean that you’re life is over and it’s going to be boring and you’re going to have to go to church all the time.
If you call on Jesus and put your trust in Him and learn to listen to Him, your life will be anything but boring. Your choice: Be a slave of a world that promises death or be a slave of Jesus Christ who can give you everlasting eternal life, true life,true joy, true happiness and most of all true LOVE.
May God Bless You Dearly
What Happened To The United States?
Everything about this country was perfect. So, what happened?
What happened to this country? We were once the greatest nation in the world. Now, we’re on the verge of bankruptcy. It wouldn’t take much to cause a financial collapse. We could even become a third world country by the way we’re heading.
This country has it all. Good soil to grow just about any crop you want to plant. Our land is full of precious minerals that we could mine. Everything about this country was perfect. So, what happened? Why have we become so dependent on other countries for the things we have right here in our own backyard? Why do we import everything these days?
It is so important for a country to be self-sufficient. For example: When we entered World War I & II, we were able to produce everything needed to sustain ourselves. We can’t do that these days, a lot of contracts have been given to foreign countries. We also rely too much on imports. What if we went to war with one or two or more of these countries? What would happen if our enemy took over the country(ies) that we rely on for minerals or parts for our jets or basically anything that is not mined or manufactured here? We lost our self-sufficiency. We have no one to blame but ourselves.
We let too many things happen to this country. We let athiests tell us we can’t pray here or there. They tell us we have to remove God from this country. This country was built on God by faith and trust in Him. This country cannot survive without God, as you will see. It’s already falling apart. We let the immorals of homosexuality have it’s way. We all hate child molesters, yet we let people manufacture and sell costumes that makes a woman look like a little girl. Look at our prisons, filled to the max. Sex is totally out of control, there’s nothing sacred about it anymore, by the way things are going, kids will be having sex before they’re 10 years old.
Families are almost non-existent. Kids are out of control. Our youth are not getting properly educated. Too much reliability on technology(we don’t have to use our mind anymore). Both parents have to work to keep up with the wants. God will take care of our needs, provided we love Him. This is why both parents have to get a job these days. God doesn’t want to see broken homes or families that are apart even though they live together. I remember when the Father would go to work and the mother would be at home for the family. It was nice to get up in the morning to a good breakfast, come home from school and mom would be there waiting. In the evening we would all have a good wholesome dinner together, not fast food garbage or frozen dinners. This was a great time for the family to interact with each other.
Everyone seems to be so self-absorbed these days. Instead of how can I help, it’s what can I do for me. There is a great lack of consideration for one another. Instead of people being considerate, it seems like they want to make others angry. If you need an example, just take drive somewhere, it won’t be long before you see what I’m talking about. Inconsideration, purposely doing things to annoy others, or just plain being ignorant is nothing more than Hate. It’s all in your attitude. If you want to have a pleasant day, then be pleasant. If you want to be miserable, then keep it to yourself.
From time to time, things go wrong, mistakes happen, as well as accidents. Nobody’s perfect, we need to remember this. When someone makes a mistake we need to help them through it, not make it worse for them. This is called compassion, a form of love. Be grateful for what you have, there’s always someone worse off than you.
Greed has many different forms. It already has caused this country to be on the verge of a depression. The world itself is close to a global economic colapse. Things are happening all over the world that we need to be concerned about. Natural disasters, famine, disease, terrorism, a new super power on the rise (which will be a big threat to us & I don’t think we’re going to win this one).
What happened to this country? What happened to the world? Why are we putting up with terrorism? Why do we even negotiate with these people? You can’t negotiate with hate. Israel has been trying for years. They keep giving away land in exchange for a peace deal and the U. S. even coaxed them into it. They have given away land that rightfully belonged to them. They’re almost out of land. The land they’ve traded for peace, still hasn’t brought them any peace, only more terrorists. They almost have Israel completely surrounded. Egypt is the only one left and they’re hooking up with Iran and going to break ties with Isreal. Israel right now wants to give up half of Jerusalem. Israel, the United States and England seem to be wimping out these days. Not having God as head of a nation is a big mistake.
Back when Israel had faith in God, they were strong, the ultimate warriors, just as they were in the Old Testament days. Look at the Six Day War, it was an impossible feat for any country to accomplish what they did in six days. God was certainly with them then. History repeats itself, great nations come and go like the wind. With God, nothing is impossible. When we start pushing God away disaster happens. These things are happening right now to Israel, the United States and England.
It’s not going to get better until we get better, in other words Wake Up! Man seems to always want to do things his way. Why? Because of pride. God created this planet and He created us. One other of man’s downfalls is teaching evolution. God knows better than anyone about how things are supposed to be done, whether it’s farming, or how to set up a community so there isn’t people living on top of people causing diseases and how to punish criminals so crimes will cease, even how to pay taxes (one tax – 10%). We have more taxes than we know what to do with. God gives us all the instructions we need to be healthy, properous and so no one goes without. We could be free from all misery, so why are we so stupid? We wouldn’t let someone operate on us without knowing that that person was properly instructed on how to perform an operation would we? How about work on our car or build a house for us or teach our kids in school?
There’s a perfect instruction manual available to us on everything we need to know about life and how to live it. This manual is called the Bible. It was given to us by our ever so loving God. If we all would follow His Instructions, we could all live together in perfect harmony. We would be able to live our lives in total peace and freedom without fear. God wants to bless us so much, He dosen’t want us to suffer. All God is asking is that we love Him back. Why is that so hard? Such a small price to pay for peace and happiness.
May God Bless You and Your Family
Choose Life
Who are we to destroy what God has formed in the womb?
Since when did God give us the right to decide whether a baby lives or dies? From what I can tell, scripture repeatedly states that God forms us while we are in the womb. Isaiah 44: 2, “Thus says God who made you, who formed you from the womb.” Isaiah 44: 24, “Thus says God, your redeemer, He who formed you in the womb; I, Myself, God, made all things.”
So who are we to destroy what God has formed in the womb? Have we become so de-sensitized that women are even using abortion as a form of birth control? Let’s look at some statistics on abortions.
From a Department of Health study, reported by the Daily Mail that dozens of girls at the age of 12 and 13, are having abortions regularly. In England, girls under 14 that were having abortions rose 21 percent from 2006 to 2007. At the same time, girls under 16 that were having abortions rose 10 percent. Also in England, repeat abortions were on the rise dramatically.
The Daily Mail said that there were over 64,000 repeat abortions just in the last year. In this same year, over 40 women terminated over 8 pregnancies each. Girls, below the age of 18, terminated four or more pregnancies between 2005 and 2008. The number of abortions performed on teenage girls since 1991 has risen 70 percent, stunning isn’t it?
Parents are turning away from their duties and they are causing irreparable harm to their children. If you notice these days, so many of our children are insecure, lonely, unhealthy, emotionally immature, unruly, disrespectful to their elders and rebellious toward authority.
Are parents that blind that they can’t even see the signs that there is something wrong with their own child that they could commit suicide right in their own house or plot out to kill others? It seems like every time a situation arises, we mask it with something worse thinking that the problem will go away.
Women were a lot more refined years ago. It took a while just to get a kiss from a girl that you were dating. These days you usually find yourself in bed on the first date. Sex has lost it’s meaning, it’s supposed to be a sacred thing between a man and a woman who truely love each other and are joined together by marriage. This is another reason why divorce rates are so high.
It seems that our morality has declined dramatically. Fornication is a dominating factor these days, along with adultery. It is a deadly sin, 1Corinthians 10: 8, “We must never fall into sexual immorality.”
We have distanced ourselves from God so much that we can’t even see the destruction that we are bringing upon ourselves. It’s become a world of the self – absorbed. God gave us free will which means that we can choose to live by His law or man’s way of life (the way of the flesh). One way will bring eternal life, the other way will only bring death, eternal death in the lake of fire. This death is total separation from God.
Because of our moral decline and self destructive ways, the United States and England are going to fall, and fall hard they will. We are so close right now, many people can’t even see it. They don’t even want to be bothered with it. God’s wrath is going to rain down on England and the U.S. in the very near future. If you don’t think so, this is what God tells us in Deuteronomy 28. God says that He will bless a nation with prosperity (like it used to for both nations) as long as they adhere to His ways, otherwise He will curse any nation that doesn’t follow His law.
There is no way to stop prophecy which is unfolding right before your very eyes. It’s important to see what’s going on globally as well as within your own nation. You can protect yourself from the upcoming disasters that have been foretold. Follow God, be obedient to Him, have faith and He will help you.
May God Bless You
Be Pleased O God
From The Psalms
“Be Pleased O God To Deliver Us, O Lord Make Haste To Help Us”
This is a nice, little, but powerful prayer. Use this prayer to call on the Lord to help you fast. Like when Satan and his buddies are attacking you. This prayer, repeated as many times as you need, will help send them away.
Before you begin to pray, repeat this prayer over and over for a little while, it will help clear your mind of distractions.
Have faith and God will deliver us from death, if we are not rebellious. It’s up to us to change our ways. Help is there waiting on you to ask. There’s no excuse. Jesus is waiting on you. He’s ready, are you?
May God Bless You Dearly
Are You A Christian?
Are You A Christian?
Many people will not call on Jesus, but you know having found Jesus is a beautiful thing. Your life seems to have meaning. You’ve seem to have found something that brings you great joy and happiness. If you were coping with loneliness, then you know now, to overcome loneliness it takes Jesus Christ to fill your heart with His Love. Praise the Lord.
Anyone that has accepted Jesus into their heart is considered to be a follower of Jesus Christ. So, when anyone asks you, “Are you a Christian?”, certainly you’re going to reply “Yes, I am”. Now there is a big responsibility in calling yourself a Christian. One needs to know that in calling yourself a Christian, you are representing the ministry that Jesus started. Not any of the churches that exist, but the ministry of Jesus Christ. The danger of this is, is that by not living up to the standards of what Jesus laid out for us to follow, we could very well bring God into contempt.
People are going to be people, and if they see the opportunity to make themselves feel good about themselves, they will. What it is, is that people like to point fingers. And when it comes to religion, they will convince themselves of things like Christians are a bunch of hypocrites and why would I want to become one of them or look at the Catholic priests that are molesting little boys. What about the Muslims? Certainly they’re not all terrorists, yet have one come around and people begin to judge them without even getting to know them. Understand what I’m trying to get at. People love dirty laundry.
It seems that the worse it is, the better for them. I’m definitely not denying that I haven’t been there myself pointing fingers. It seems like we need to do this, so that we can feel a little better about ourselves and not have to really see who we really are. We can be quick to judge others, but when it comes to ourselves, forget it. You have to remember that people are always watching you. Not so much as to be in waiting for you to slip up, but your conduct. If they see a mild mannered, polite, easy going person that is kind and considerate then that’s what they’re going to see. But if they see a rude, nasty, foul mouthed, angry person then that is what they are going to see. It’s not so much as to be concerned about you calling yourself a Christian, but it would be better that they call you a Christian. That is what brings Glory to God.
The best thing that you want people to see in you is the good. No one wants to be considered evil, but who and what you are in God’s eyes is what is really going to matter. Here’s an example: I do a lot of driving everyday at work. I see people with the fish sign on their car.To me they’re advertising the fact that they are a Christian. What gets me is the way they drive. Speeding, cutting people off and so on. Now I’m sure that there’s people that don’t know the Lord yet, saying things like “look at that maniac and he’s supposed to be a Christian?” Whoops, there goes another black eye for God. I just basically want you to see what harm can be done.
We really need to be cautious about how we represent ourselves. If you want to be humble and someone asks you if you are a Christian, just tell them that your faith is in Jesus Christ, He is our Savior and that you try to follow Him as best as you can, but you are not without fault. Then when you do mess up, no one gets hurt. A Christian is a follower of Christ,a disciple. If you want to see what Jesus requires of one to be a disciple of His, look up these scriptures. Luke 6:46 – 49, Luke 14:26, 27 & 33, John 8:31 -34, John 13:34, 35, John 15:8.
Looking Inward
Looking Inward To See Ourselves – Time To Take Out The Garbage
None of us wants to look inward at ourselves and see the bad fruits we have stored up. We like to believe that we are good people. We convince ourselves that because we do not commit criminal acts that we are good people. We also say things like, ” I’m not perfect, I make mistakes”. What’s wrong with us? We convince ourselves that we are good, yet on the other hand we are bad too.
So have we convinced ourselves that we are blameless for our actions? Do we figure we are not bad because we’re not in jail? We like to think that since we are not perfect that it’s ok to continue living the way we do. We all know that the flesh is corrupt. All the flesh thinks about is itself. It doesn’t want anything to do with the soul or the spirit (our intellect). The carnal mind is going to keep on telling us lies as long as it can get what it wants. And as long as the flesh is dominate over our spiritual side, we will keep on deceiving ourselves.
The flesh is mans downfall, it wants what the world has to offer, not what God has to offer. As long as we obey the flesh we will be bent towards the world, not walking upright like God created us. To receive what God has to offer one needs to start by denying ones self and that is like death to the flesh. So in a carnal, fleshly way we pursue sensual pleasures, or things that gratify our appetites. Problem is that something is missing: “God”. You could go to church all week, volunteer, study your bible, etc., etc., but as long as your flesh is dominate you have no life in Christ. Mark 8: 34 – 37.
Who do you worship, God or the world and the things that belong to it? You can’t have both. Although many people think they can. One of the problems is, is that as long as we can’t see any wrong in what we are doing than it must be ok, right? Wrong. We are completely blind to these things because we are still carnal. We have not awakened the soul and spirit yet. The only way to awaken our spiritual side is by denying ourselves and following Jesus to the tomb (this is not the baptism of water).
The water baptism is a baptism that is a pledge made to God from a good conscience. After we die in Christ we then can be reborn to our true spiritual selves. This is the spiritual revolution that begins to take place. The flesh doesn’t understand what’s going on. The light of faith is darkness to the flesh. The flesh no longer has control of its normal faculties. This is where the battle begins.
In order to help reach this point we need to look inward. We need to acknowledge our sins. 1John 1: 8, 9 ‘If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all iniquity’. In order to acknowledge our sins we need to turn to Jesus for His help. Remember, we need to first deny ourselves, which means we need to want to give up our old ways of living, all of it,a nd pick up our cross. We will need it to nail the flesh upon it.
Jesus is the way, follow Him. This is what He meant when He said,’ The road is long and narrow and few find it’. It’s not a matter of finding it, it’s right in front of you. You need to be willing to get on this road at all costs, no matter what tests and trials come up. It’s not a road for the lazy ones or the ones of the world. It’s for people who want to be known as a child of God.
If you can turn your eyes inward and with all sincerity and honesty and willingness to clean yourself up, Jesus will be there to help you. He will even bring forth the sins you forgot. It is a deep and serious cleansing. The sins we remember and the ones shown to us by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we need to write them down. You can put them in categories like: greed, lusts, sloth, impatience, anger, resentments, envy, gluttony and jealousy. It’s going to take some time to do this, so don’t rush it. It’s a wonderful learning experience as well.
After you have written all this down, you need to take it someone who is experienced in this type of confession. So that you two can talk about what you have written and pray together for your forgiveness. In James 5: 16 it says, ‘ So confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another and this will cure you’. No denying this scripture. I’ve been in alot of different churches and I don’t know why they don’t teach this. Could be because we’re lacking in spiritual teachers and preachers. Too many taught by man and not by the Lord. Also this is not a subject that would tickle people’s ears.
I’m going to give you a testimony if I may of my experience of this type of confession. I’m only telling this to show you truth in the scriptures of the importance of a true, all out confession and to glorify God bless His heart and soul. When I learned of this type of confession and decided to do it because I was willing to do anything and everything in my walk with Jesus to grow spiritually and learn to do what’s right in the eyes of God.
When I took all my papers that I had written all my sins on to a minister that was familiar with this type of confession, we talked about everything and he even asked questions about things he didn’t see on the papers. Then we prayed. After we were done, I felt so renewed and pure inside I cannot even begin to explain how beautiful it was.
After I had left, I ran into some people I knew and they asked me what was going on. I said,” What do you mean?”. They said that I had this glow about me. I told them what I had just done. I could see in their faces that they were just in awe by seeing this radiance of light glowing from my body. From my head to my toes I was in such a wonderful state of overwhelming… I’m sorry but I just can’t find the words to describe it. I don’t think there are any.
This is what the baptism of the Holy Spirit is about, I know that for sure. After your confession there is one more thing for you to do. Make amends to the people you have resentments towards and people you have hurt and done wrong to. If you would like a suggestion on how to find out who would be a good person to do a confession with please e-mail me at: thetruth@itrustgodonly.com. May God Bless You Dearly.
Life and Death
About Life and Death
When Adam and Eve sinned, their carnal eyes opened. Sin had caused them to lose that spiritual bond they had with God. When they were living a spiritual life, death had no hold on them. It wasn’t until they sinned that death would come upon them. God allows death to the flesh so man won’t live forever in the misery of sin.
Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden so they would not partake of the Tree of Life and live for ever in their sins. We all know that one day we are going to die, it’s inevitable. The one thing we don’t know is “when”. Many people are afraid of death, but why? Could it be that this life is all that they have going for them? Could be that this is where they set their hearts, on the world, instead of Jesus Christ. If you don’t know Jesus, you should be afraid to die. Revelations 3: 3 ‘Repent. If you do not wake up, I shall come to you like a thief, without telling you at what hour to expect me.’
Satan is the author of death. He tries anything and everything to keep us apart from God. By living the ways of the world, you will see death. 1 Corinthians 15: 56, 57 ‘Now the sting of death is sin, and sin gets its power from the Law. So let us thank God for us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. ‘So by living in sin, one will be living under the Law of God, in which you will be judged by. (Read Romans about the Law) It’s similar to commiting a crime and going before a judge to be sentenced. That is why it is so important to purify ourselves through the blood of Jesus Christ.
One of the things we need to do to purify ourselves is to make a confession. Please read “Confession”. His blood which represents life, was shed as a sacrifice so that we can be cleansed of our sins. That is why He is the way, the truth and the life. Without accepting Jesus and following Him to the cross, The way He has already laid out for you, you will see death. 1 John 5:11, 12 ‘This is the testimony: God has given eternal life and this life is in His Son; anyone who has the Son has life, anyone who does not have the Son does not have eternal life.’ Jesus will lead us to eternal life, but it is you who has to desire it by giving up your life and this passing world.
As we travel the road with Christ, we will have to go through suffering and tests and trials. We will suffer as He did. 1 Peter 4:1, 2 ‘Think of what Christ suffered in this life, and then arm yourselves with the same resolution that He had: anyone who in this life has bodily suffering has broken with sin, because for the rest of his life on earth he is not ruled by human passions but only by the will of God.’ 1 Peter 5: 10 ‘You will have to suffer only for a little while: the God of all grace who called you to eternal glory in Christ will see that all is well again: He will confirm, strengthen and support you.’ It will make us strong, so that we can overcome our flesh and purify ourselves. In this way we can receive the Spirit of Truth, and be connected to God forever. This is life that Jesus will give us.
(John 14:15-17) If you are still living for the world and by the world and the ways of the world, then you are still of the world. Romans 8:6 ‘It is death to limit oneself to what is unspiritual: life and peace can only come with concern for the spiritual. So, basically to be carnally minded is death. God did not create us for us to die. He created us for companionship and to be able to share His glory and everything He has including His love. All we have to do is His will and we will have life after death. We will eat from the Tree of Life.
It’s hard to fathom that someone would reject His love and all He is offering for the misery of this temporary life and world. Jesus came here to teach and preach the word of God. He also came here for other reasons, but one of the things that He said that He would do for us is written in John 14:1-4 ‘Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God still, and trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house; if there were not, I should have told you. I am going now to prepare a place for you, and after I have gone and prepared you a place, I shall return to take you with me; so that where I am you may be too.’ Jesus has prepared a place for those who believe (be and live) in Him. Anyone can say they believe in Jesus, but can they prove it?
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