“IF My people who are called by My Name will humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” II Chronicles 7:14
Stain glass windows surround the chapels and cathedrals of the world. Pious parishioners faithfully line the halls each sabbath morn, reclining on padded pews in indifference and ambiguity. With hardened hearts they watch the clock, anxiously awaiting the stroke of twelve.
From the pulpit springs forth messages of encouragement and hope, peace, prosperity and love:
“God wants His people successful in all areas of their lives. God wants to increase you financially, he promises prosperity so stand on the promise, do not confess doubt of unbelief. Go further – get rid of the small-minded thinking and start thinking as God thinks. Think Big! Think Increase.”
Discontentment grows alongside dissatisfaction and disillusionment yet – they press on, continuing to believe:
“God wants this to be the best time of their life. Experience His goodness in physical, material and social ways – here and now. Attempting to focus on all they have heard, struggling to teach their mind to think proper ‘success producing’ thoughts, being taught the desire for material blessing is pleasing to God, they seek more.
Yet, a closer reading of The Word will show that God cares little if one lives in a cave or a condo – His desire is that those called by His Name obey His Word and be conformed to the Image of His Son. His desire is that His children bring glory and honor to His Name and that the true gospel be taught to others making disciplined disciples and conscious converts of many:
“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, let not the mighty man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I AM – LORD, exercising loving kindness, judgment and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight, says the LORD.” Jeremiah 9:23-24
In his book: The Knowledge of the Holy, A.W. Tozer stated:
“What you think, when you think of God, is the most telling thing about you. Your concept of God will do more to shape your thoughts and actions than any other single concept in your life. It is no wonder God used so much of the Bible to emphasize His attributes. He wants us to know what He is like so that we may live a proper life. If our view of God is flawed, it will necessarily lead to a life that is also flawed.”
“The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, you whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness! Matthew 6:22-23
Reaching out in an attempt to feel better about themselves, their circumstances or life choices, desiring to have ears tickled and egos stroked parishioners hang onto words of comfort coming forth from the "man of God" admonishing them to try harder, aim higher, give more.
The Bible teaches that a Christian is to separate from the world, from false teachers and disobedient brothers. Yet many within the church promote tolerance and love, failing to warn against false teachers or denounce false teachings. Refusing to discern the truth from the lie, the church of today compromises the fundamentals of the faith – the Word is watered-down, altered and bent to conform to individual circumstances. Scripture interprets scripture, scripture means what it says yet scripture continues to be misrepresented, twisted, tweeked in order to fit man-made theologies until now the Word of God is unrecognizable to those who do not seek to know the truth, choosing instead to sit in contented ease amidst the error.
“If anyone teaches otherwise and does not consent to wholesome words, even the words of our LORD Jesus the Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, he is proud, knowing nothing, but is obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which comes envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions, useless wrangling of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain, From such withdraw yourself.” I Timothy 6:3-5
...and you shall know the TRUTH, and The Truth shall set you free.
Monday, July 9, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
Between 1945 and 1950 [after WWII] ~ Europe witnessed the largest episode of forced migration, and perhaps the single greatest movement of population, in human history.
Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians—the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16—were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland. Deposited among the ruins of Allied Germany to fend for themselves, thousands died as a result of starvation, disease, beatings, or outright execution. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people lost their lives in the course of the operation.
This took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet Union, nearly two years after the declaration of peace.
Now, some sixty [60] years later we read:
Homeland Security's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism categorizes a racist hate group as part of the "Christian Identity Movement."
Extreme Right Wing terrorist groups are defined as those who "believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or participation in survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty. "Christian Reconstructionists" (politically active Christians) and "Islamists" are listed as the same religious terrorist threat. Groups opposing abortion are also considered a terrorist threat.
Are true Bible believing Christians next in line to experience expulsion, extermination, execution or…. at the hands of ‘Allied forces’?
"...they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations [perhaps even our own] for My name’s sake." Matthew 24:9
Credit goes to R.M. Douglas, associate professor of history at Colgate University and Bill Wilson, Daily Jot for this most important information.
Between 12 million and 14 million German-speaking civilians—the overwhelming majority of whom were women, old people, and children under 16—were forcibly ejected from their places of birth in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and what are today the western districts of Poland. Deposited among the ruins of Allied Germany to fend for themselves, thousands died as a result of starvation, disease, beatings, or outright execution. Conservative estimates suggest that at least 500,000 people lost their lives in the course of the operation.
This took place by order of the United States and Britain as well as the Soviet Union, nearly two years after the declaration of peace.
Now, some sixty [60] years later we read:
Homeland Security's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism categorizes a racist hate group as part of the "Christian Identity Movement."
Extreme Right Wing terrorist groups are defined as those who "believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or participation in survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty. "Christian Reconstructionists" (politically active Christians) and "Islamists" are listed as the same religious terrorist threat. Groups opposing abortion are also considered a terrorist threat.
Are true Bible believing Christians next in line to experience expulsion, extermination, execution or…. at the hands of ‘Allied forces’?
"...they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations [perhaps even our own] for My name’s sake." Matthew 24:9
Credit goes to R.M. Douglas, associate professor of history at Colgate University and Bill Wilson, Daily Jot for this most important information.
Sunday, July 1, 2012
God bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her and guide her,
Through the night,
with YOUR Light from Above……
Words written almost one hundred ago... a prayer, set to music, asking God to bless to guide and to protect this great nation. Words that seem shallow now as we stand back and honestly access all that we the people have allowed to happen in this nation since Irving Berlin penned those words back in 1918.
We have elect politicians that tickled our ears, accepted unbiblical teachings from liberal pastors and televangelist. Accepted homosexuality within our military and within the clergy, condoned abortion and joined hands with non-believers in the quest for ecumenicalism.
We the people have turned our back on God.
*American’s spend $2.8 billion per year on Internet pornography.
*American’s divorce rate is higher than any other nation in the world.
*American's consume more than one-half of all illegal drugs produced in the world.
*American’s spend hours in front of the television laughing as God’s Name, His Word, His Son and His people are belittled and blasphemed in the media.
[stats provided by Dr. Dave Reagan, Lamb/Lion Ministries]
We stand proudly proclaiming: “America is a Christian nation.”
While 85% of Americans claim to be Christian there is little if any evidence of Biblical Christianity in our families, our communities or our nation.
Born into a Christian home, raised going to church, these 'professing christians' rarely attend church, read the Bible or spend time in prayer. Their time is spent pursuing the American dream, a better this, a bigger that. They purchase lottery tickets in hopes of a big win to make the dream a little sweeter, frequent R-rated movies, watch trash TV and laugh at vulgar comedians. A few go to church on Sunday morning, put a dollar in the collection plate, and leave proud of themselves for having done their duty.
God is patient, but His patience is wearing thin. Our hearts have become hard against our God, we have turned our back on Him.
Nahum reminds us:
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
American's have become like Eve, believing the lie.
Will we the people persist in our rebellion? Two roads face the people of America ~ one leads to repentence, restoration and our return to God, the other to deception, destruction and to our doom as a people and a nation.
Land that I love.
Stand beside her and guide her,
Through the night,
with YOUR Light from Above……
Words written almost one hundred ago... a prayer, set to music, asking God to bless to guide and to protect this great nation. Words that seem shallow now as we stand back and honestly access all that we the people have allowed to happen in this nation since Irving Berlin penned those words back in 1918.
We have elect politicians that tickled our ears, accepted unbiblical teachings from liberal pastors and televangelist. Accepted homosexuality within our military and within the clergy, condoned abortion and joined hands with non-believers in the quest for ecumenicalism.
We the people have turned our back on God.
*American’s spend $2.8 billion per year on Internet pornography.
*American’s divorce rate is higher than any other nation in the world.
*American's consume more than one-half of all illegal drugs produced in the world.
*American’s spend hours in front of the television laughing as God’s Name, His Word, His Son and His people are belittled and blasphemed in the media.
[stats provided by Dr. Dave Reagan, Lamb/Lion Ministries]
We stand proudly proclaiming: “America is a Christian nation.”
While 85% of Americans claim to be Christian there is little if any evidence of Biblical Christianity in our families, our communities or our nation.
Born into a Christian home, raised going to church, these 'professing christians' rarely attend church, read the Bible or spend time in prayer. Their time is spent pursuing the American dream, a better this, a bigger that. They purchase lottery tickets in hopes of a big win to make the dream a little sweeter, frequent R-rated movies, watch trash TV and laugh at vulgar comedians. A few go to church on Sunday morning, put a dollar in the collection plate, and leave proud of themselves for having done their duty.
God is patient, but His patience is wearing thin. Our hearts have become hard against our God, we have turned our back on Him.
Nahum reminds us:
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies. The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.
American's have become like Eve, believing the lie.
Will we the people persist in our rebellion? Two roads face the people of America ~ one leads to repentence, restoration and our return to God, the other to deception, destruction and to our doom as a people and a nation.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Health law to add $1.15 trillion to national debt.
Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., June 28, 2012) --
A disastrous, appalling decision was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court today.
The Court upheld the individual mandate and socialized medicine, saying both are constitutional, despite the fact that a recent poll found 68% of Americans want all or part of the law repealed. The federal government can now force us to buy what we don't want. Washington politicians and bureaucrats will become the final arbiter of our most personal medical decisions, rationing care for many and denying care to some who are not deemed worthy of receiving it, especially if the care is expensive.
The "Affordable Care Act" (nicknamed "Obamacare") nationalizes 1/7th of our economy, imposes one of the largest tax increases in American history on an economy already struggling, massively increases government spending, and will increase the national debt by $1.15 trillion, according to a recent study. This, despite the fact that we already have a crushing federal debt of more than $15 trillion, and another $65 trillion in unfunded liabilities related to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid coming at us with breakneck speed.
Our ship of state is hurtling towards massive debt icebergs, yet rather than slow down or change direction, we are accelerating our deficit spending.
Bottom line: the implosion of the American economy has just become more likely.
Joel C. Rosenberg
(Washington, D.C., June 28, 2012) --
A disastrous, appalling decision was handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court today.
The Court upheld the individual mandate and socialized medicine, saying both are constitutional, despite the fact that a recent poll found 68% of Americans want all or part of the law repealed. The federal government can now force us to buy what we don't want. Washington politicians and bureaucrats will become the final arbiter of our most personal medical decisions, rationing care for many and denying care to some who are not deemed worthy of receiving it, especially if the care is expensive.
The "Affordable Care Act" (nicknamed "Obamacare") nationalizes 1/7th of our economy, imposes one of the largest tax increases in American history on an economy already struggling, massively increases government spending, and will increase the national debt by $1.15 trillion, according to a recent study. This, despite the fact that we already have a crushing federal debt of more than $15 trillion, and another $65 trillion in unfunded liabilities related to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid coming at us with breakneck speed.
Our ship of state is hurtling towards massive debt icebergs, yet rather than slow down or change direction, we are accelerating our deficit spending.
Bottom line: the implosion of the American economy has just become more likely.
Obamacare has been upheld as Constitutional. The real issue for Americans is whether or not we are considered free. According to this ruling, we are not. This is just demonstrating more and more that America is becoming more and more enslaved when the federal government can demand that you purchase a product.
This is a very sad day in America.
This is a very sad day in America.
Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Unlike Disney’s 1937 cartoon fantasy, today’s bewitching Snow White movie features real-life characters who popularize the occult through shocking thrills and unforgettable suggestions.
The setting for this movie is medieval Europe with its pagan beliefs and Renaissance magic. It also resembles the dark practices of ancient Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece and early Rome. They all worshipped their regional “gods” and idols who “sold” their favors through heartless sorcerers.
Through the ages, biblical faith has been the greatest obstacle to the occult. But today, as God’s Word and values fade from America’s consciousness, the darkness is spreading fast. Mystical games and movies feed the growing appetite for magical thrills.
And this timeless warning is almost forgotten:
“There shall not be found among you anyone who… practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord…” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
Berit Kjos ~ Kjos Ministries
http://crossroad.to/
The setting for this movie is medieval Europe with its pagan beliefs and Renaissance magic. It also resembles the dark practices of ancient Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece and early Rome. They all worshipped their regional “gods” and idols who “sold” their favors through heartless sorcerers.
Through the ages, biblical faith has been the greatest obstacle to the occult. But today, as God’s Word and values fade from America’s consciousness, the darkness is spreading fast. Mystical games and movies feed the growing appetite for magical thrills.
And this timeless warning is almost forgotten:
“There shall not be found among you anyone who… practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord…” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
Berit Kjos ~ Kjos Ministries
http://crossroad.to/
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