Everyone has been given a measure of faith!

God has given every human being a measure of faith to be able to ask God Who He is. We know this because of the following passage.

Romans 1:19-21 "…19 For what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood from His workmanship, so that men are without excuse. 21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.…"

The DNA of the Mother is Stronger than the DNA of the Father

"We inherit more genes from our maternal side. That's because it's the egg, not the sperm, that hands down all of the mitochondrial DNA. In addition, the W chromosome has more genes."

Allison Aubrey (Weekly Dose of Wonder)

Does anyone else find this interesting? I sure do as I ponder that Mary the mother of Jesus Christ was chosen to give birth, coming from the line of David.

I find it interesting that in our culture often the Father is preferred over the Mother merely for being the Father when it is the Mother who supplies most of what the child needs.

I am a big fan of loving both parents, just because one is the leader does not make him better or even best, it is his function in the family a different role from the mother but neither role is superior to the other, they both matter and they both count.

When mother and father obey the roles given them by God in the Bible the family is full of love, respect and dedication to the cause of raising up a godly seed.

Malachi 2:15 "

"But not one has done so who has a remnant of the Spirit. And why the one? He was seeking a godly offspring. Be careful then about your spirit, and see that none of you deals treacherously against the wife of your youth."

A culture that deals disrespectfully toward the mother is a pagan culture orchestrated by the devil himself.

1 Peter 3:7 "You husbands in the same way, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with someone weaker, since she is a woman; and show her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered."

I know this may be a hard pill to swallow but we live in a paganistic culture now in which men disrespect women, mistreat them, use them and abuse them. A man may say; "but the women are acting badly too," yes, however as the leader of the home the men are expected to be the example, they lead by their own example. They are to obey God and leave their wives to God to judge.

If a man acts as he should toward his wife according to the Bible he may find her acting differently merely because of the love she feels emanating from him. We can always blame the other one but it is best to look at ourselves and our own responses evaluating them to see if we are doing what God said to do. Most men and women are not obeying God, they are following their feelings and it has become a disaster for marriages.

Look to Christ and His Word for instructions not what the rest of the culture is doing and especially not in over-the-top reactions to things. We ought never to "react" we are to respond in a godly way.

We can only know what that way is if we are seeking Christ and reading His Word. Ask God to use the Word to change you and it might surprise you what will happen.

Sin is Sin no Matter how Big

1 Corinthians 5:11
"11 But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is a sexually immoral person, or a greedy person, or an idolater, or is verbally abusive, or habitually drunk, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a person."
Many people think if someone is not doing the "big" sins of adultery or drunkenness they are not sinning. What we often forget is that a sinful attitude without all these blatant actions is just as sinful.

 
Treating people disrespectfully because they disagree or won't follow what the narcissist wants is as sinful as all those other sins. A controller is self-focused and greedy for attention and superiority. They judge and become angry rashly based on their own desires rather than truth, these people are acting just as sinful as the ones who commit adultery or steal from their neighbors.

 
Attitudes can be more damaging even than blatant outward acts of sin. Jealousy all by itself is a sin against God and against the people we are envious of as well as a form of murder and hatred.

 
Envy is hatred and that hatred is murder. Boasting is a form of abuse that creates envy and jealousy in others.

 
1 John 3:15 "
"Everyone who hates his brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him."

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
"4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

We have known many people who do not commit the big blatant sins openly but hold in their hearts envy, strife, rudeness, and disrespect. Equally abhorrent is the sin of gossiping about people when we have not seen what we hear against them, but take the word and opinion of others to evaluate and judge someone else while passing it on to others.

 
Many relationships have been ruined by envious jealous people who are full of their own pride.

 
Envy is wanting what others have and jealousy is feeling threatened by what others have. Our culture tends to make these two traits synonymous but they are different in their function.

 
With envy, someone might want to try to acquire what someone else has to feel equal to them.

 
With jealousy comes the desire to ruin what someone else has because we cannot have it.

 
When we see these covert attitudes that can easily be denied by those who wish to hide them, we know it will be impossible to have a quality relationship with them until they confess to be cleansed of them.

 
All of us over the years have experienced a twinge of envy or jealousy but if we are born-again we quickly dismiss it and pray to avoid anything that would harm another human being.

 
Disrespect and lack of love is at the root of all of these devilish traits. Satan was envious of God wanting what He had and because of this, he became jealous to destroy God entirely.

 
Once someone repents from their envy and jealousy the peace of God rolls over them like a cleansing wind. What a wonderful feeling it is to enjoy the blessings of others without any desire to have it or harm them. It becomes a delight to engage in their joy with them.

 
As my husband has said many times; "Grief shared is half a grief and a joy shared is twice the joy."

 
When we indulge in the happiness of others or the pain of others we share their life and give them the gift of companionship as believers are meant to do with one another.

 
Romans 12:15
"15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."
What a blessed life we live when we give to others what we would like to see them give to us.

 
Matthew 7:12
The Golden Rule
12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets."

Hallelujah!!!!

The False Church Dominates the Cultural Christianity

I knew of a woman raised in the Catholic church her entire life who placed Mary above Christ. She never once spoke of Jesus Christ in my presence but continually admired and spoke of Mary as the Queen of Heaven.

This woman was full of pride and admiration for someone she thought she should emulate. Sadly she followed this false Mary to her death as she rejected Jesus Christ. Many people are in this condition, worshiping and admiring someone who does not exist, but in their minds rules heaven.

After the Lord saved my soul from false religion all these lies were exposed and I freely, openly and with great joy rejected all that I had been taught. I had the experience of the Catholic church as well as a protestant upbringing that was more cultural than Spiritual. Thank the Lord my eyes were opened to all the lies in both these "religious" systems that had a form of religion but denied Jesus Christ in practice.

The Bible does speak of the "Queen of Heaven", it refers to the harlot who worships the beast.

Revelation 17:5-8

5 and on her forehead a name was written, a mystery: “BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.”

6 And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered greatly.

7 And the angel said to me, “Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.

8 “The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to come up out of the abyss and go to destruction. And those who live on the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will wonder when they see the beast, that he was, and is not, and will come."

Religious rituals were dominant and superficial in the protestant system as well as the Catholic system. The devil was very clever to make people believe lies under the guise of "religion" but negated Christ by their traditions.

Mark 7:7-9

"7 And in vain do they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8 Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.”

9 He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition."

In order to be free from false religion and the practices men have made mandate we must ask God to show us truth and be willing to reject anything we were taught that was man-made dishonoring the Word of God. There is far more than you realize that God never commanded and other things He did command that the churches are not obeying.

Follow Christ authentically by seeking Him instead of men.