In our day young people are often so sensitive, even the mildest suggestion is seen as a threat, even when we are right.
It is impossible to maintain a relationship with narcissistic children and children in law when just being ourselves in friendly terms is a balancing egg shell walking act, all the time.
Sadly young people these days do not accept anyone who doesn't think just like they do. What kind of relationship is it when one person says and does everything they want while the other walks in fear of doing or saying anything.
I can't live that way. I am not so desperate to have my children that I am willing to act like a non-entity to keep them around.
I spend much of my prayer time asking the Lord to save the children, if they become born again they will understand the nature of respect and God's kind of love.
Those who are confident within themselves don't feel the need to dominate, control and intimidate others. They allow others to be themselves, while speaking their mind respectfully.
Snappishness and rolling eyes are not respect, they are an attitude of superiority with undertones of intimidation and contempt. There is no love in these responses.
Love does not seek to dominate and demean another brother or sister, love cares deeply to understand others. When there are superficial judgments based on little information, there is no love. When we seek to understand someone, we ask questions to learn, not to intimidate or belittle, but to learn about them. And, we ask the one we want to understand, not someone else.
Gossip in an attempt to destroy relationships for self glory are wicked and NOT LOVE. Keep in mind, all gossip only tells half truth, the whole truth is never expressed while untruths are added to embellish.
1 Peter 1:21-23 "21 Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth, so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.…"
Romans 12:9-11 "9 Love must be sincere. Detest what is evil; cling to what is good. 10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Outdo yourselves in honoring one another. 11 Do not let your zeal subside; keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.…"
There is a saying I have seen on the internet that hits home for many people, it goes like this;
"Some people pretend we are bad because it makes them feel better about how badly they have treated us."
Sunday, August 6, 2017
Saturday, August 5, 2017
Why Does the Holocaust Continue?
My question; "Why has there not been a "emancipation proclamation" declaring babies as human beings, while outlawing their murders?
Trump claims to be pro-life, but I see nothing dramatic ending the killing. Lincoln came right out and fought against slavery as the major and main evil of this country.
Why have the baby murder mills not been shut down? I see what is going on in this country just as, if not more heinous, than the Jewish holocaust because it involves many more millions than were killed in World War II.
This holocaust, the murder of 60 million babies, in our country is NO different from the one against the Jews at the time of Hitler. So why does it continue?
Trump claims to be pro-life, but I see nothing dramatic ending the killing. Lincoln came right out and fought against slavery as the major and main evil of this country.
Why have the baby murder mills not been shut down? I see what is going on in this country just as, if not more heinous, than the Jewish holocaust because it involves many more millions than were killed in World War II.
This holocaust, the murder of 60 million babies, in our country is NO different from the one against the Jews at the time of Hitler. So why does it continue?
Is Your Love Authentic?
Yes, I know many people who have lots of head knowledge about the Bible, but lack the one thing Christ told us to have, that is love. Many people pride themselves on their own self righteousness, but lack the righteousness of Christ, the reason we do not see the deep love of Christ demonstrated in their lives. They have good deeds, but they do not love those they serve, the deeds are to elevate self rather than obey Christ and love others.
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and [a]foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Peter 1:21-23 "21 Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth, so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.…"
Matthew 22:36-40
36 “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” 37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and [a]foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”
John 13:34-35
"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
1 Peter 1:21-23 "21 Through Him you believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and glorified Him; and so your faith and hope are in God. 22 Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth, so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart. 23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.…"
Friday, August 4, 2017
Ignore the Pokes of the Devil
The devil's favored tactic is to poke at us until we do something sinful, then he is full of glee. Don't let his pokes cause sin in us, speak the Word of God openly and stand firm, he will then lose his power.
The devil's favored tactic is to poke at us until we do something sinful, then he is full of glee. Don't let his pokes cause sin in us, speak the Word of God openly and stand firm, he will then lose his power.
"Remove yourself from all ungodly relationships so you can walk in victory over sin." Karen Puff Rosenkrantz
The devil's favored tactic is to poke at us until we do something sinful, then he is full of glee. Don't let his pokes cause sin in us, speak the Word of God openly and stand firm, he will then lose his power.
"Remove yourself from all ungodly relationships so you can walk in victory over sin." Karen Puff Rosenkrantz
Pitchin and Rollin
I have a dear friend whom I was with in the back seat of her car when I was visiting her. The car went over a bump in the road as we lifted out of our seat a little, while swaying back and forth.
The words out of my friends mouth were; "pitchin and rollin." We laughed together at that silly little encounter.
Later as I pondered the phrase "pitchin and rollin", it reminded me of life. Life is almost nothing but pitchin and rollin, we might as well do our pitchin and rollin with joy in our hearts and a flexible spirit. Cry if you must but just keep going.
Today might be calm and steady, even tomorrow, maybe even an entire week, but never fear the pitchin and rollin will come, it always does.
That's why I call this life "boot camp", we are not here to be comfortable, we are here to learn, learn about everything all the time. The most valuable lessons God takes us through are not out of books except His Book. Life explains His Book, it validates what He tells us. If we are not reading His Book while asking for the understanding, then we will not learn from the lessons of life.
The saddest day of anyone's life is the day they stop learning. Not the learning that comes from books, anyone can do that, but the learning that comes from facing the truth head on and obeying God through it.
The words out of my friends mouth were; "pitchin and rollin." We laughed together at that silly little encounter.
Later as I pondered the phrase "pitchin and rollin", it reminded me of life. Life is almost nothing but pitchin and rollin, we might as well do our pitchin and rollin with joy in our hearts and a flexible spirit. Cry if you must but just keep going.
Today might be calm and steady, even tomorrow, maybe even an entire week, but never fear the pitchin and rollin will come, it always does.
That's why I call this life "boot camp", we are not here to be comfortable, we are here to learn, learn about everything all the time. The most valuable lessons God takes us through are not out of books except His Book. Life explains His Book, it validates what He tells us. If we are not reading His Book while asking for the understanding, then we will not learn from the lessons of life.
The saddest day of anyone's life is the day they stop learning. Not the learning that comes from books, anyone can do that, but the learning that comes from facing the truth head on and obeying God through it.
Emotions Stress Reliever
Narcissists hate emotion, they think it means someone is weak.
There is weakness in one who has to pretend in order to feel whole and safe. The narcissist cannot admit what is right in front of them if it will make them sense emotion. I have lived with people like this all my life, when emotion is shown they seem to disappear as though something is wrong with tears or crying out. I even had a woman tell me she refused to scream when she was in labor. I asked her why, her answer was "I don't know, I'm just not going to scream." My reply was that "I did scream and I didn't care who heard it." LOL Perhaps pride is what keeps people from admitting truth, they just hate to look weak. But they mistake honesty with weakness, sad to say the least.
Often believers are doing their obedience in the flesh rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. Facing the truth and telling the truth does not stress me at all. My joy is not diminished by looking at truth any more than a doctor's joy or skill is diminished by diagnosing a problem in someone who needs an operation.
So many people cannot face truth because it affects their mood, that is not the case with me. Someone who must have "positive" as defined by them, continually in their life, will never be able to face hard things. When an expert runs into a problem, he looks for solutions, he does not sit down and cry because there is a problem, he gets busy and solves it or admits it cannot be solved.
It is the difference between seeing the world as it is or sucking it into your soul. As believers we should be able to look at anything and see the good or bad, call it what it is and feel little or no devastation in our hearts. As one doctor once said, "we ought to be able to observe without absorbing."
I have cried many times over things I see, but it doesn't make me depressed or despondent. In fact the tears bring relief while accompanied by my trust in Christ that He has all the answers.
Our emotions do not guide us nor do they diminish us, they just "are." They are the bodies response to stress, a God given release mechanism that should never be repressed. Only weak and beggarly people are fearful of appearing weak through the expression of emotion. It is not strength to pretend one does not have emotion, it is weakness.
The devil is very clever, he loves to watch people implode from heart attacks brought on by unreleased emotion, the stress that keeps us in bondage. Releasing our emotion through tears allows our body to heal, the emotions and the physical are deeply connected. There are no Scripture verses that tell us that weeping is wrong or weakness.
The more we hold in the more the stress builds, even if we don't think we are stressed. God meant for things to be dealt with, solutions that heal are confession, expressed emotion and trusting Christ for the outcome.
Psalm 56:8
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"
Psalm 126:5
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!"
Revelation 7:17
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Psalm 42:3
"My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”"
Isaiah 38:5
“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life."
There is weakness in one who has to pretend in order to feel whole and safe. The narcissist cannot admit what is right in front of them if it will make them sense emotion. I have lived with people like this all my life, when emotion is shown they seem to disappear as though something is wrong with tears or crying out. I even had a woman tell me she refused to scream when she was in labor. I asked her why, her answer was "I don't know, I'm just not going to scream." My reply was that "I did scream and I didn't care who heard it." LOL Perhaps pride is what keeps people from admitting truth, they just hate to look weak. But they mistake honesty with weakness, sad to say the least.
Often believers are doing their obedience in the flesh rather than the power of the Holy Spirit. Facing the truth and telling the truth does not stress me at all. My joy is not diminished by looking at truth any more than a doctor's joy or skill is diminished by diagnosing a problem in someone who needs an operation.
So many people cannot face truth because it affects their mood, that is not the case with me. Someone who must have "positive" as defined by them, continually in their life, will never be able to face hard things. When an expert runs into a problem, he looks for solutions, he does not sit down and cry because there is a problem, he gets busy and solves it or admits it cannot be solved.
It is the difference between seeing the world as it is or sucking it into your soul. As believers we should be able to look at anything and see the good or bad, call it what it is and feel little or no devastation in our hearts. As one doctor once said, "we ought to be able to observe without absorbing."
I have cried many times over things I see, but it doesn't make me depressed or despondent. In fact the tears bring relief while accompanied by my trust in Christ that He has all the answers.
Our emotions do not guide us nor do they diminish us, they just "are." They are the bodies response to stress, a God given release mechanism that should never be repressed. Only weak and beggarly people are fearful of appearing weak through the expression of emotion. It is not strength to pretend one does not have emotion, it is weakness.
The devil is very clever, he loves to watch people implode from heart attacks brought on by unreleased emotion, the stress that keeps us in bondage. Releasing our emotion through tears allows our body to heal, the emotions and the physical are deeply connected. There are no Scripture verses that tell us that weeping is wrong or weakness.
The more we hold in the more the stress builds, even if we don't think we are stressed. God meant for things to be dealt with, solutions that heal are confession, expressed emotion and trusting Christ for the outcome.
Psalm 56:8
"You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?"
Psalm 126:5
"Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!"
Revelation 7:17
"For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”
Psalm 42:3
"My tears have been my food day and night, while they say to me all the day long, “Where is your God?”"
Isaiah 38:5
“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life."
Society Benefits When Christ Rules
In reading another post about teen suicide today, I felt led to say more than I felt I could in a comment on someone else's thread. It is astonishing how many teens are committing suicide today. This was not happening when we were teens, at least we never heard about it.
Teen suicide, I believe is due to our culture of self. The self esteem teaching, family split up and overindulgence has brought about a hopelessness in young people.
When parents and teachers praises a child too much, they become arrogant, while at the same time knowing they really aren't that great. They spend their lives attempting to "appear" superior, but in their heart of hearts they feel condemned because there is a war going on in their heads, the war between knowing what they really are and attempting to pretend to be what their parents think they are.
Teens are not stupid, they know whether or not they earned the praise they receive. When they receive too much praise and adulation, they begin to realize their parents want them to be as wonderful as the parents claim. But when they don't measure up on the inside, they feel unloved.
Children who are not corrected enough, or given little encouragement to be better, know their parents are being phony and thinking only of themselves.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
Proverbs 12:1 “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”
Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
The teen feels unloved because their parents false idea of them is pressure to keep up pretense. Instead of being what they really are, growing and learning through life, falling, picking themselves up continually, they are not learning, they are floundering while never able to progress past the "ideas" and "fantasies", they know are not real.
We know our parents love us no matter how many times we fall because they work to help us learn the right way that will be good for us.
Far too many parents are not raising their children, they are allowing them to go which ever way they want without discipline or instruction, it is proof the parent does not love them, and the children know it.
Children these days are undisciplined, lacking parental instruction, while little attention is paid to their welfare. Placing a child in front of the television, sending them off to school for others to train, while leaving them alone at home often, while two parents work, sends the message to the child that money is more important to their parent than they are.
Children need interaction, instruction, redirecting, correcting, from their own parents, when these things do not happen they become heart sick, lonely sensing intense rejection.
Children don't like discipline, but they know it is right and later as they mature they realize and appreciate it, unless the parents were negated by the institutions that taught different values than the parents.
In our day, many parents tried to raise their children properly, but the children were sent off to schools that brought a different and ungodly psychological standard, it worked against what the parents were doing. Up until about 25 years ago home schooling was illegal, but as the Christians began to push back, it became legal, by that time many children were ruined by the public school indoctrination
Now we have teen suicide as common, cyber bullying, sexting, filthy mouths and disrespect all around.
Hebrews 12:11 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
When we do things God's way, all of society benefits!
Teen suicide, I believe is due to our culture of self. The self esteem teaching, family split up and overindulgence has brought about a hopelessness in young people.
When parents and teachers praises a child too much, they become arrogant, while at the same time knowing they really aren't that great. They spend their lives attempting to "appear" superior, but in their heart of hearts they feel condemned because there is a war going on in their heads, the war between knowing what they really are and attempting to pretend to be what their parents think they are.
Teens are not stupid, they know whether or not they earned the praise they receive. When they receive too much praise and adulation, they begin to realize their parents want them to be as wonderful as the parents claim. But when they don't measure up on the inside, they feel unloved.
Children who are not corrected enough, or given little encouragement to be better, know their parents are being phony and thinking only of themselves.
Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
Proverbs 12:1 “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.”
Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.”
The teen feels unloved because their parents false idea of them is pressure to keep up pretense. Instead of being what they really are, growing and learning through life, falling, picking themselves up continually, they are not learning, they are floundering while never able to progress past the "ideas" and "fantasies", they know are not real.
We know our parents love us no matter how many times we fall because they work to help us learn the right way that will be good for us.
Far too many parents are not raising their children, they are allowing them to go which ever way they want without discipline or instruction, it is proof the parent does not love them, and the children know it.
Children these days are undisciplined, lacking parental instruction, while little attention is paid to their welfare. Placing a child in front of the television, sending them off to school for others to train, while leaving them alone at home often, while two parents work, sends the message to the child that money is more important to their parent than they are.
Children need interaction, instruction, redirecting, correcting, from their own parents, when these things do not happen they become heart sick, lonely sensing intense rejection.
Children don't like discipline, but they know it is right and later as they mature they realize and appreciate it, unless the parents were negated by the institutions that taught different values than the parents.
In our day, many parents tried to raise their children properly, but the children were sent off to schools that brought a different and ungodly psychological standard, it worked against what the parents were doing. Up until about 25 years ago home schooling was illegal, but as the Christians began to push back, it became legal, by that time many children were ruined by the public school indoctrination
Now we have teen suicide as common, cyber bullying, sexting, filthy mouths and disrespect all around.
Hebrews 12:11 “For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.”
When we do things God's way, all of society benefits!
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