How many of you think these "cease fires" between Gaza and Israel are working?
Israel is the only one with brains. All the other powers that be are insisting on these cease fires but they never happen, or at least not for long. Albert Einstein said this: "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result."
Friday, August 22, 2014
I Can No Longer Stand The Lies
I wrote this on another post today, I don't normally like to get into politics much because there is something far more important than our leadership and that is the gospel. However sometimes I can no longer quench the practical side of myself as I watch all the lies and manipulations coming out of our government.
The devil introduced lying to the first couple, Adam and Eve. Lying has been the foundational brick that leads into all other sins.
When I think of our president, I become greatly agitated at the continual lying that goes on in every news cast.
Sometimes I can hardly stand looking at his pre-possessing face!!!!! When he speaks I turn it off, I feel like I am listening to the lies of demons.
There is no compassion, empathy or any other kind of emotion, because he doesn't care about anyone but himself. I do believe he is the epitome of narcissistic personality disorder. Every thought and action is calculated to spin public perception.
And, to top it all off, he is Islamic, meaning he can lie without conscience to the infidel, which is all of us and the United States in general.
The poor little weasel doesn't even know how many states we have.....Uh....this seems like a clue as to his country of origin.
Sorry to go off like that, but I despise the company of people who lie continually without one shred of conscience over it. Demons control him!
If I hear one more "Christian" tell me that we should pray for his salvation I think I will feel ill. I am more likely to pray a imprecatory prayer for this leader than a prayer of salvation. In order for "O" to become born again one would have to cast out the demons, and they would only go if he wanted them to.
The prayer would be that the enemies of God's people will not be allowed to triumph, and I speak mainly Israel as I write this and believers especially. Our president is against Israel and all believers in Jesus Christ.
If he becomes born again in the process of being punished then I would rejoice that he became saved, but I don't feel led to pray for his salvation, I believe he is an instrument in these last day as we are in the throws of prophesy.
My desire is that many people become born again during this time in spite of our presidents efforts to thwart the Word of God.
Rebuke me if you like, I will take it like a "man"! LOL
The devil introduced lying to the first couple, Adam and Eve. Lying has been the foundational brick that leads into all other sins.
When I think of our president, I become greatly agitated at the continual lying that goes on in every news cast.
Sometimes I can hardly stand looking at his pre-possessing face!!!!! When he speaks I turn it off, I feel like I am listening to the lies of demons.
There is no compassion, empathy or any other kind of emotion, because he doesn't care about anyone but himself. I do believe he is the epitome of narcissistic personality disorder. Every thought and action is calculated to spin public perception.
And, to top it all off, he is Islamic, meaning he can lie without conscience to the infidel, which is all of us and the United States in general.
The poor little weasel doesn't even know how many states we have.....Uh....this seems like a clue as to his country of origin.
Sorry to go off like that, but I despise the company of people who lie continually without one shred of conscience over it. Demons control him!
If I hear one more "Christian" tell me that we should pray for his salvation I think I will feel ill. I am more likely to pray a imprecatory prayer for this leader than a prayer of salvation. In order for "O" to become born again one would have to cast out the demons, and they would only go if he wanted them to.
The prayer would be that the enemies of God's people will not be allowed to triumph, and I speak mainly Israel as I write this and believers especially. Our president is against Israel and all believers in Jesus Christ.
If he becomes born again in the process of being punished then I would rejoice that he became saved, but I don't feel led to pray for his salvation, I believe he is an instrument in these last day as we are in the throws of prophesy.
My desire is that many people become born again during this time in spite of our presidents efforts to thwart the Word of God.
Rebuke me if you like, I will take it like a "man"! LOL
Forced Captivity, What does God say we are to do in these circumstances?
Jeremiah 29:4-8
"4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses an dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Two important things God told the people who have been exiled from their country to another country:
1. "I (God) have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon" and 2. "seek peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive."
Where ever God takes us no matter how we get there, it is God's will if we have no control over it and we must follow the two principles that He gave to the nation of Israel. We may not be told specifically to build houses and to marry, but the highest principles of all were clearly given as mandates to follow.
We may, at some point in our country, face the horror of being overtaken by another entity, no longer having the privilege of voting to choose our leaders. When this happens, we are told by God not to fight.
Picking up arms against a ruling authority, that we think is unjust, has been indelibly etched in our brains since childhood, it is not Biblical.
I believe in our second amendment rights to bear arms for use in hunting and protection from home intruders who are breaking the law. However the provision of our constitution for the redress of grievances was not the provision for fighting our own government. IF we as a country were being invaded and the government told us to take up arms to protect us, then that is a different matter. If we have been conquered the Jeremiah 29 passage applies to believers.
Also, not everything written in our constitution is Biblical, we must see the difference between the constitution created by man and the Bible written by God, through the apostles.
Jeremiah 29:11 "11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
God has a purpose in all things, even the things we don't like or that remove us from our comfort zone.
God recognized those who refused to go into exile, who fought and hid to avoid it and told them that there would be no protection for them if they refused to go, but they stayed anyway.
Jeremiah 29:17 "17 thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad."
The protection God had for His people was while they were in exile. He does not always give us what we want, but always gives us that which is within His plan. If we trust Him in all situations, then we can willingly walk into captivity knowing that God controls even this.
When we fight against God's declarations we will be cursed and in a worse situation than if we had just taken our punishment, while trusting Him.
It takes faith to be willing to submit to God when it doesn't feel good, when things are not going the way we think we would like. It is not faith to fight like an animal who is frightened. That is a natural human instinct. Faith is accepting God's will, moving forward in His instruction knowing that His purposes are greater than our desires.
We can find peace in every circumstance. Even Paul said this:
8 Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,
9 for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
"11 This is a faithful saying:
For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.
12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself."
Acts 16:25-34 "25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.
28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.”
29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household"
We never know how God is going to work and what blessing awaits us in the future when we obey God. Even if we are beheaded for our faith, we have great reward in heaven for our faithfulness to Him.
Remember too, that if we have to endure terrible things, God can give us the strength necessary to remain faithful to Him.
May those who love Christ dwell more on their faithfulness to Him than on their personal physical comfort, that when the day comes that they have to lose everything they have including the love of their families, they will be able to continue to experience great joy even during loss.
"4 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all who were carried away captive, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon:
5 Build houses an dwell in them; plant gardens and eat their fruit.
6 Take wives and beget sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters—that you may be increased there, and not diminished.
7 And seek the peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray to the Lord for it; for in its peace you will have peace.
8 For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst deceive you, nor listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
Two important things God told the people who have been exiled from their country to another country:
1. "I (God) have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem to Babylon" and 2. "seek peace of the city where I have caused you to be carried away captive."
Where ever God takes us no matter how we get there, it is God's will if we have no control over it and we must follow the two principles that He gave to the nation of Israel. We may not be told specifically to build houses and to marry, but the highest principles of all were clearly given as mandates to follow.
We may, at some point in our country, face the horror of being overtaken by another entity, no longer having the privilege of voting to choose our leaders. When this happens, we are told by God not to fight.
Picking up arms against a ruling authority, that we think is unjust, has been indelibly etched in our brains since childhood, it is not Biblical.
I believe in our second amendment rights to bear arms for use in hunting and protection from home intruders who are breaking the law. However the provision of our constitution for the redress of grievances was not the provision for fighting our own government. IF we as a country were being invaded and the government told us to take up arms to protect us, then that is a different matter. If we have been conquered the Jeremiah 29 passage applies to believers.
Also, not everything written in our constitution is Biblical, we must see the difference between the constitution created by man and the Bible written by God, through the apostles.
Jeremiah 29:11 "11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."
God has a purpose in all things, even the things we don't like or that remove us from our comfort zone.
God recognized those who refused to go into exile, who fought and hid to avoid it and told them that there would be no protection for them if they refused to go, but they stayed anyway.
Jeremiah 29:17 "17 thus says the Lord of hosts: Behold, I will send on them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like rotten figs that cannot be eaten, they are so bad."
The protection God had for His people was while they were in exile. He does not always give us what we want, but always gives us that which is within His plan. If we trust Him in all situations, then we can willingly walk into captivity knowing that God controls even this.
When we fight against God's declarations we will be cursed and in a worse situation than if we had just taken our punishment, while trusting Him.
It takes faith to be willing to submit to God when it doesn't feel good, when things are not going the way we think we would like. It is not faith to fight like an animal who is frightened. That is a natural human instinct. Faith is accepting God's will, moving forward in His instruction knowing that His purposes are greater than our desires.
We can find peace in every circumstance. Even Paul said this:
8 Remember that Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, was raised from the dead according to my gospel,
9 for which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
10 Therefore I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
"11 This is a faithful saying:
For if we died with Him, We shall also live with Him.
12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself."
Acts 16:25-34 "25 But at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
26 Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed. 27 And the keeper of the prison, awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, supposing the prisoners had fled, drew his sword and was about to kill himself.
28 But Paul called with a loud voice, saying, “Do yourself no harm, for we are all here.”
29 Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.
30 And he brought them out and said, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
31 So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” 32 Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. 33 And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes. And immediately he and all his family were baptized. 34 Now when he had brought them into his house, he set food before them; and he rejoiced, having believed in God with all his household"
We never know how God is going to work and what blessing awaits us in the future when we obey God. Even if we are beheaded for our faith, we have great reward in heaven for our faithfulness to Him.
Remember too, that if we have to endure terrible things, God can give us the strength necessary to remain faithful to Him.
May those who love Christ dwell more on their faithfulness to Him than on their personal physical comfort, that when the day comes that they have to lose everything they have including the love of their families, they will be able to continue to experience great joy even during loss.
Pressure Makes Diamonds
"Diamonds are crystals of pure carbon that form under
crushing pressures and intense heat. They mostly form in the Earth's mantle,
the layer beneath the crust or surface layer, at a depth of about
150km." Natural History
Museum
Rose Perfume is made by pressing the peddles of the roses to
extract the fragrance.
To refine gold it must be heated so that the dross rises to
the surface to be removed.
Everything that is beautiful, must begin with raw materials
that are not very desirable in their crude form, pressing them, chipping away
at them and heating them to produce the beauty that is in them. They become
changed into a new form never to return to the old again.
2 Corinthians 5:17 "Therefore if any man be in Christ,
he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become
new."
Romans 5:1-5 "5 Therefore, having been justified by
faith, we have[a] peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom
also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in
hope of the GLORY OF GOD. 3 And not only that, but we also glory in
tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; 4 and
perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 Now hope does not disappoint,
because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit
who was given to us."
Philippians 4:6-7 Do
not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God,
which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in
Christ Jesus."
When we are pressured to admit our dross, our response will
dictate our future. Those who readily admit they have dross to be removed will
grow and prosper spiritually while those who refuse to admit their dross when
confronted will not only not grow, but will regress and become harder than they
were before.
Each time we admit and ask the Lord to remove the dross, we
will grow stronger in the Lord. Each time that we refuse to admit our failings,
we will become a little harder than the last time we were confronted.
As in the story of the Egyptian leader who was confronted
with the plagues, God says "Pharaoh hardened his own heart" and in
the same passages God said "God
hardened Pharos heart." Both
were true, God merely did what He knew would cause Pharaoh to harden his own
heart, that being pressure to expose him.
When we are told to confront the sin of our brothers and
sisters in Christ, it is for their spiritual growth and betterment. When we
refuse to do this to avoid conflict we think only of ourselves. Our duty is not to make happy relationships
but to make quality relationships, fostering holiness and loyalty to God in our
brothers and sisters. Do we love them enough to help them grow, or are we
concerned only about friendliness for a moment?
Proverbs 27:6 "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, But
deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
Psalm 141;5 "Let the righteous smite me in kindness and
reprove me; It is oil upon the head; Do not let my head refuse it, For still my
prayer is against their wicked deeds."
1 Thessalonians 5:14 "We urge you, brethren, admonish
the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with
everyone."
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