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Archive for November 24th, 2008

As I look back over my life and remember the presidents I’ve lived under I remember many of them having private church services in the White House, sometimes with Billy Graham conducting the services and other times with other men of God preaching.

I remember President Clinton carrying a study Bible so thick it looked as though it would give him a hernia as he came out of a church for his photo op and then went to the Oval Office for a dalliance with “that woman, Ms. Lewinski”.

I recall hearing of President Bush attending services in Texas a few times but I have never seen him leave the church. I know he professes Christ to be his Savior and he seems outwardly to live that life.

Now comes word that President-elect Obama has decided to skip church and go to the gym instead.

I’ve been having trouble in my prayer life because as a Christian I am commanded to pray for the leaders of our country that our lives will be easier. I don’t know whether or not to ask God’s blessings on Mr. Obama, as I don’t know his feelings about God. I pray that God will give him wisdom and if he does not know Jesus something will happen that will move his heart to accept Jesus as his personal Lord and Savior. I pray that he will be successful for our country’s sake, but I don’t know how to pray for him.

I guess I have lived too sheltered a life as I am just learning in the past few years how many people in this world and indeed this country are rejecting the message of the Gospel.

I am amazed at how people can blaspheme God and dare to do it. They mock Him and say He doesn’t exist. I even have a family member who says he believes in the Great Spirit but he doesn’t have a Son named Jesus Christ. This hurts my heart because I know what the destination is of the soul of this loved-one if he doesn’t go back to his childhood teachings and ask Jesus to be Lord of his life.

I am amazed at how people think God changes. Those people protesting the gay marriage proposal in California and across the country seem to think as long as the are “good” they will go to heaven and because it’s 2008 God has changed His mind on homosexuality. He never changes. I just give you the message…He gave the rules.

People try so hard to make God completely human, when He is a Spirit and created humans. He can out think the greatest mind ever imagined on this earth. He can step into space and time and exists outside of both because He made the laws of physics and can break them at His will.

We are also spirits. What do you think your soul is if it isn’t a spirit? When we die our vessels for our physical selves (our bodies) rot in the ground while the soul, our spirit, immediately steps out of this plane and into a spiritual plane. Whether it be the spiritual plane of Heaven or the spiritual plane of hell is our decision in this lifetime. When we are dead it is too late for anyone else to do anything to get us out of Hell.

People may joke and say they’ll join their friends in hell, but it won’t be a joking matter when they find themselves in there. Their friends will be in the same torment they are in and won’t have the time to search them out even if there is light to see. I believe hell will be a dark place where souls will wander forever with no hope of ever having their pain relieved. They will acknowledge God has a Son named Jesus Christ, but it will be too late for them. I don’t wish that fate on my worst enemy.

I’m far from the perfect Christian. I will humble myself before God at the Great Throne and be ever so thankful that He provided a way for me to have fellowship with Him forever. I will probably try to be a wallflower and not be noticed, but I’ll have to answer for what I did for Him after I got saved. This is why I talk about Him so much. My mission is to tell others about the saving grace of the blood of Jesus Christ, who died that we all might live eternally.

We don’t just cease to exist as an animal without a soul does. I wish that were true for those who are lost, but it isn’t.

I was told last week by someone I love, “I’m glad I don’t have to worry about all that.” Well, one day this person will have to worry about that and will wish he had listened and it will be too late. That breaks my heart.

I don’t even know if my own son is saved and I pray every day for his salvation or his return to the Lord like the Prodigal Son if he was indeed saved at age eight, when he asked if he could be baptized and we questioned him on his faith and beliefs.

This is a terrible burden for any parent to carry. But the Lord has told us in Proverbs to “train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” I hang onto this promise for the two I have mentioned here. I know both were trained up in the way they should go and I believe God’s promise that when they are old they will not depart from it.

I have seen in my own life how long in man’s terms it can take God to answer a prayer. I prayed for over forty years to meet my biological father. I should say forty years before I met him I prayed for a couple of years to meet him and then just forgot about it. But, when the time was right, God dropped the information into my lap and made my biological father accepting of meeting me. We had a wonderful 26 months of knowing one another until he died.

I would have been satisfied with just the first meeting, but God had more in store for me. What a loving relationship we had and I still feel it in my stomach some nearly five years after he died.

God didn’t say no and He didn’t grant my prayer immediately because He knew neither my father nor I was ready, but instead He said, “Wait, my child” and when the time was right, He arranged it all.

Who else can love me so much He will grant my most urgent wish and at the right time in my life? He can do that for you too. If you’ve lost a child you know that child will not come back in this life, but if that child was old enough to know right from wrong and was saved he or she is waiting for you in Heaven. If that child rejected Christ he or she wouldn’t want you to be in hell, but would want you to be in Heaven to escape what he or she is experiencing right now. He or she knows you won’t meet up in hell because the torture will be so great you will only be concerned with yourself.

Just as the President of the United States has the authority to pardon any federal criminal, Jesus holds in His hand a pardon offered to you. It will pardon all your past, present and future sins, regardless of what they are. All you have to do to accept that pardon is invite Him into your life as your Lord and Savior and He will come in and sup with you and you with Him. The angels in Heaven will rejoice at your salvation. Give it a try. The alternative is too awful to even think about.

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I figure with all the money we have loaned out over the years without repayment my husband and I should start a bank so we can get some bailout money to help us out since all our retirement funds are in mutual funds. That should make us whole again and we’ll promise Congress we’ll be sure to give more money away to people who don’t need it.

Or we could start an auto manufacturing plant. We already have three vehicles off the assembly line and sitting in the driveway. We won’t give rebates or zero percent interest, but then again we won’t buy several corporate jets and we’ll tell Congress we have no plan. We’ll just beg for the money with our tin cups out and explain how all the people down the line from the cafe next door to the steel workers and rubber workers will all be out of jobs if we don’t get enough money to last another month. We’ll be back next month again with the same story.

We’ll be sure to let the unions strip us of all money we get and we won’t bother to try to design a vehicle the public would want to buy with the quality they want. All we need to do is scare everyone and they’ll give us the money.

Never mind that our government is having to borrow the money from China and other countries or just print money to pay for the bailouts of failed businesses. That’s their concern and right now they don’t seem too concerned. We’ll all start eating rice and drinking contaminated milk before this is over.

I was always taught not to borrow money to invest it. If you don’t have it you can’t invest. Now we live in an upside-down Alice in Wonderland world of economics. We borrow to lend and the people we lend to keep borrowing and not paying it back.

I’m not an economist and don’t pretend to be one, but I’m tired of all the panic I hear on the news. What did the people in Adam’s day do for money? They traded goods and services, right? I guess I could plant a garden and get a few goats and cows to trade for services if I had to. It might be nice to get back to a simple life.

All I know is Jesus said if God takes care of the birds in the air who do nothing for a living how much more will He take care of us. It’s in God’s hands in our household, even as we watch a couple of years of retirement money disappear in one month. Pretty soon we’ll have to pay the companies to hold their stock.

This is such a temporary situation when compared to eternity. This is a time to try men’s souls and faith. Ours is strong and we know God will provide for us. We will continue to tithe our money each month and if the money runs out and we have to go to livestock we’ll tithe that too by selling off the livestock.

The point is, quit worrying. It isn’t going to make anything better anyway. Thank God for your blessings. Count them up and you’ll be surprised. We have shelter, food, clothing, health, family, friends, a church we can count on for moral support and financial too, if need be. We are rich! Compare it to the people in third world countries or even in poorer parts of our own country.

Our God is sufficient for all our needs. That’s all that matters.

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Will the New York City government take responsibility when someone freezes to death due to their ridiculous rules?

Sure they will. Right?

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