So many people are excited about "signs" of any kind, because they lack faith.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 "…6 Therefore we are always confident, although we know that while we are at home in the body, we are away from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, then, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.…"
Also many people want to be elevated in the eyes of others so they "dream up a dream" or have a real one and pretend it means something to be able to "Wow", others.
When we walk by faith we are delighted at what Christ does in us every day, there is no need for signs that make us excited. The joy of the Lord is enough and trusting Him for every day is always pleasing.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Over Population is a Hoax
Don't believe the lies about world over population.
Last night we heard a radio talk show on which a man called in to say that Clark Co, in the state of Washington, could hold the entire population of the world.
Of course the talk show host was biased against godly thinking so he diminished it as foolishness.
My husband is a math expert, not being able to resist a challenge he began to do the calculations that prove the caller correct.
Clark county in Washington state, the county next to ours, has 656 square miles in it. This is the land, not counting lakes and rivers.
There are about 7.5 billion people in the world. He figured out that each person in the world could fit in 18 X 18 squares, 332 square inches. Every person in the world, man woman child and even babies would fit in Clark County.
The point is that there is plenty of land in the world that could feed the world population without any trouble at all. The problem with hunger in the world is political not population overload as the environmentalists would have us believe.
Last night we heard a radio talk show on which a man called in to say that Clark Co, in the state of Washington, could hold the entire population of the world.
Of course the talk show host was biased against godly thinking so he diminished it as foolishness.
My husband is a math expert, not being able to resist a challenge he began to do the calculations that prove the caller correct.
Clark county in Washington state, the county next to ours, has 656 square miles in it. This is the land, not counting lakes and rivers.
There are about 7.5 billion people in the world. He figured out that each person in the world could fit in 18 X 18 squares, 332 square inches. Every person in the world, man woman child and even babies would fit in Clark County.
The point is that there is plenty of land in the world that could feed the world population without any trouble at all. The problem with hunger in the world is political not population overload as the environmentalists would have us believe.
Manipulators are Pretenders
"Manipulators pretend to be on your side while working against you."
They often have flying monkeys that believe everything they say and begin treating the target in destructive ways in allegiance to the manipulator.
Usually the flying monkeys have no real information about the target. Their evaluation of a person is based on the view the manipulator has planted in their minds. Always the information has smatterings of truth in it, but mostly added verbiage to make the target look bad.
The Bible calls this gossip, when someone believes what one or two people say without out any real evidence, merely because they choose to be accepted by the manipulator.
How do we keep from being a "flying monkey"? It is simple, never treat someone with contempt or develop a mean spirit toward them because of what others say.
If we think it is important to know the truth about someone, go to the targeted person to hear their side of things. In most cases though, we can simply choose not to believe the gossip and continue relationships with the target until we see for ourselves who they are as a person. If we make the choice to refuse to believe the gossip, then we might also consider removing the gossiper from our lives.
Manipulators need flying monkeys to carry out their mean spirited tactics for them. If they can get the flying monkeys to treat the target with contempt, they have managed to harm someone without ever being detected, while gathering an army to continually torment their target.
Bottom line: When we remove the manipulator from our life, we must also eliminate, the flying monkeys. The manipulator will never listen and once the flying monkeys have a wrong belief about us, they will hold on to it to keep the manipulator in their life.
It is a form of clique, if we do not measure up, based on the lies of the manipulator, then we will be battered regularly by cold stares, indifference and mocking in subtle ways to hurt us.
Love these people from afar, pray for them and keep your distance, they will never listen until the Lord breaks their heart over their sin.
Psalm 15:17 "17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."
2 Timothy 3:1-9
“Difficult Times Will Come”
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
Verse 5 in this passage tells us to avoid these people. We don't hate them, we care enough to remove ourselves so that our frustration with their antics does not turn into hate. They want us to hate them so we will sin in words and actions, it makes them feel justified. Removing ourselves helps us avoid becoming just like them.
1 Corinthians 15:33
"33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
They often have flying monkeys that believe everything they say and begin treating the target in destructive ways in allegiance to the manipulator.
Usually the flying monkeys have no real information about the target. Their evaluation of a person is based on the view the manipulator has planted in their minds. Always the information has smatterings of truth in it, but mostly added verbiage to make the target look bad.
The Bible calls this gossip, when someone believes what one or two people say without out any real evidence, merely because they choose to be accepted by the manipulator.
How do we keep from being a "flying monkey"? It is simple, never treat someone with contempt or develop a mean spirit toward them because of what others say.
If we think it is important to know the truth about someone, go to the targeted person to hear their side of things. In most cases though, we can simply choose not to believe the gossip and continue relationships with the target until we see for ourselves who they are as a person. If we make the choice to refuse to believe the gossip, then we might also consider removing the gossiper from our lives.
Manipulators need flying monkeys to carry out their mean spirited tactics for them. If they can get the flying monkeys to treat the target with contempt, they have managed to harm someone without ever being detected, while gathering an army to continually torment their target.
Bottom line: When we remove the manipulator from our life, we must also eliminate, the flying monkeys. The manipulator will never listen and once the flying monkeys have a wrong belief about us, they will hold on to it to keep the manipulator in their life.
It is a form of clique, if we do not measure up, based on the lies of the manipulator, then we will be battered regularly by cold stares, indifference and mocking in subtle ways to hurt us.
Love these people from afar, pray for them and keep your distance, they will never listen until the Lord breaks their heart over their sin.
Psalm 15:17 "17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise."
2 Timothy 3:1-9
“Difficult Times Will Come”
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
Verse 5 in this passage tells us to avoid these people. We don't hate them, we care enough to remove ourselves so that our frustration with their antics does not turn into hate. They want us to hate them so we will sin in words and actions, it makes them feel justified. Removing ourselves helps us avoid becoming just like them.
1 Corinthians 15:33
"33 Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good morals.”
Christ Controlled
There are so many people in the world who are too weak to call things what they really are, living in fear of "feeling bad."
When we know Christ is in control of this world, and the end times prophesy as given to us by God in the Bible, nothing surprises us. The only thing that makes us sit up and take notice is that we are in the generation when all the prophetic events are being fulfilled.
Why do I see the missing love as the most dramatic, even with all the world events going on? The reason is very simple, the absence of love affects our lives every single day.
Either we are living a fantasy or days gone by had far more kindness, politeness and love it them than we see today. Many had hard childhoods, but the culture as a whole seemed more caring and giving than in our generation and our children's generation.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
I have known people over the years who had much knowledge about God in their heads, but little to no love in their hearts. These people live to appear special, above others, loving praise and adulation but deeply angry when someone points out a flaw in them.
The loving humble person hates that they have a flaw, desiring to fix it and move on toward holiness. The narcissist only hates that someone points out a flaw in them. There is no desire to improve, only the desire to appear perfect, without flaws entirely.
Newsflash: "no one is perfect", as the car insurance commercial says. When we know we are not perfect we quickly apologize when we so much as bump into someone at the store. The narcissist never apologizes, everything is someone else's fault.
If the narcissist isn't watching where they are going and bumps into someone, they will blame the one they bumped into for being "in the way." Or they will ignore that they bumped into them without a word, never an apology or a word to make the person feel loved.
This is the world we live in, know it, admit it and go on to obey Christ no matter what anyone else is doing.
John 13:34-35
"34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
What does love look like? Love never diminishes another person in favor of elevated status.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
The love is missing in the world as a whole, even in the church gatherings, however, it does not have to be missing in us. Narcissists will even mock us for doing good, attempting to make us feel stupid for doing it. Ignore the silliness of the narcissist, as we continue to obey God, doing what is right in His eyes.
Refuse to be intimidated by the silly narcissists. When we see their tactics to demean, mock and diminish us, do a little laughing under the breath, knowing it is just the devil using them to intimidate us into silence and inaction.
The more we know of their tactics and foolishness, the less we are impacted by them.
Another bit of advice, choose not to NEED the narcissist. When we "need" anyone, we are placing our emotions and convictions in their hands. We can love others, but we should need only Christ.
Our life should not be dependent on the approval of someone other than Christ. Narcissists love to keep us in bondage to them, that's why they play games to draw us in to reject us later. When we don't need them, they have no power to draw us back in, while we have the power to walk away, even joyful that we can do so.
Love the narcissist from afar through prayer for them. God can do better than we in reaching a stubborn and self glorified human being who continually causes trouble in the lives of their targets.
The narcissist will attempt to control us through our emotions, they will lie against us, make up stories to others about us to win others to their lies. All the apostles and Christ Himself endured these kind of people and some were the religious leaders of His day.
Praise the Lord we are free! The Spirit in us should be the One controlling us, that Spirit is Jesus Christ the crucified One, the One Who died for us, only He should have the preeminence.
When we know Christ is in control of this world, and the end times prophesy as given to us by God in the Bible, nothing surprises us. The only thing that makes us sit up and take notice is that we are in the generation when all the prophetic events are being fulfilled.
Why do I see the missing love as the most dramatic, even with all the world events going on? The reason is very simple, the absence of love affects our lives every single day.
Either we are living a fantasy or days gone by had far more kindness, politeness and love it them than we see today. Many had hard childhoods, but the culture as a whole seemed more caring and giving than in our generation and our children's generation.
2 Timothy 3:1-9
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
I have known people over the years who had much knowledge about God in their heads, but little to no love in their hearts. These people live to appear special, above others, loving praise and adulation but deeply angry when someone points out a flaw in them.
The loving humble person hates that they have a flaw, desiring to fix it and move on toward holiness. The narcissist only hates that someone points out a flaw in them. There is no desire to improve, only the desire to appear perfect, without flaws entirely.
Newsflash: "no one is perfect", as the car insurance commercial says. When we know we are not perfect we quickly apologize when we so much as bump into someone at the store. The narcissist never apologizes, everything is someone else's fault.
If the narcissist isn't watching where they are going and bumps into someone, they will blame the one they bumped into for being "in the way." Or they will ignore that they bumped into them without a word, never an apology or a word to make the person feel loved.
This is the world we live in, know it, admit it and go on to obey Christ no matter what anyone else is doing.
John 13:34-35
"34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
What does love look like? Love never diminishes another person in favor of elevated status.
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
"4 Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
The love is missing in the world as a whole, even in the church gatherings, however, it does not have to be missing in us. Narcissists will even mock us for doing good, attempting to make us feel stupid for doing it. Ignore the silliness of the narcissist, as we continue to obey God, doing what is right in His eyes.
Refuse to be intimidated by the silly narcissists. When we see their tactics to demean, mock and diminish us, do a little laughing under the breath, knowing it is just the devil using them to intimidate us into silence and inaction.
The more we know of their tactics and foolishness, the less we are impacted by them.
Another bit of advice, choose not to NEED the narcissist. When we "need" anyone, we are placing our emotions and convictions in their hands. We can love others, but we should need only Christ.
Our life should not be dependent on the approval of someone other than Christ. Narcissists love to keep us in bondage to them, that's why they play games to draw us in to reject us later. When we don't need them, they have no power to draw us back in, while we have the power to walk away, even joyful that we can do so.
Love the narcissist from afar through prayer for them. God can do better than we in reaching a stubborn and self glorified human being who continually causes trouble in the lives of their targets.
The narcissist will attempt to control us through our emotions, they will lie against us, make up stories to others about us to win others to their lies. All the apostles and Christ Himself endured these kind of people and some were the religious leaders of His day.
Praise the Lord we are free! The Spirit in us should be the One controlling us, that Spirit is Jesus Christ the crucified One, the One Who died for us, only He should have the preeminence.
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