I don’t have much,
but
I choose to say:
I want to use it all,
Not just store it up.
No more compromise
(enough of that in the past)
No more wasted days
(enough of that in the past)
WORRY—OR—PRAY—TODAY
October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
When we are up against the wall— a paraphrase from His Book:
Not anxious.
Pray, in all this.
Plead with God.
Thanks, in this.
Tell God what we want.
He made today.
He gave today to all of us.
We know the beginning of today.
We don’t know the end of today.
Jesus knows.
Jesus loves us.
Jesus holds us.
Joy today.
Gladness today, in Him.
(from the beginning of the day of my sister-in-law’s cancer surgery)
“Be anxious for nothing,
But in everything by prayer
And supplication
With thanksgiving
Let your requests be made known to God.”
“The God of peace will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
“This is the day the Lord has made;
We will rejoice and be glad in it.” —–His Book
MONEY—TO THE GLORY OF GOD
October 22, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Put in the form of hard questions:
Do our finances bring glory to God when they look hopeless in advance?
And then, God has to do something miraculous, or else?
Put another way:
Is a Christian who is seeking to serve God in everything, supposed to always have money to spare in the bank?
Best answer:
God does not call us to be successful in the eyes of the world; He calls us to be faithful servants, stewards of what belongs to Him—and it all belongs to Him.
The only thing that counts in the end is whether I hear Him say to me, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”
COUNT IT ALL LOSS—COUNT IT ALL JOY
October 14, 2014 By Leave a Comment
If you think this is something spiritual coming up, you’re right.
But it is also everyday real life practical, just as surely as the sun came up today and you need to eat.
After you get past the attempted complaints of contradictions in the Bible, and you buy into the truth of Jesus’ words, you still have to face numerous oxymorons in life and in the Bible.
The title above is prompted by two such oxymorons that fly in the face of typical human reasoning and effort.
I have come to believe that God lays out principles which contradict our thinking, so that all success in life is not to our credit, and even all failure in life is for His glory. Perhaps the hardest place to learn this is in America.
COUNT IT ALL LOSS:
“The former things I counted as gain to me; those I count as loss for Christ.”
“Indeed, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.”
Sounds like we have to choose:
—Success according to the world
or
—Follow Jesus, and give up success according to the world
Oh, by the way, the Bible also says not many smart people, not many powerful people, not many respected in the world, are called and respond, but God chooses the foolish according to the world to confound the worldly wise.
Jesus said it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
And Jesus said not many people, period, will enter the kingdom of heaven.
COUNT IT ALL JOY:
“My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into all kinds of trouble; know that the trying of your faith works patience. But let patience have her perfect work, so you will be perfectly complete and lack nothing.”
I agree, this doesn’t make sense—until we follow Jesus and give Him control of everything.
And even then we often ask “Why?”—until we get to heaven and find out it was all much more that worth it all.
Until then we have His promises in the Bible that guarantee both our outcome and our strength for today.
HOME-GROWN TERRORIST
October 10, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Who will speak out and deal with the greatest home-grown terrorist threat,
residing in the White House,
working for our enemies,
openly,
with impunity?
CHRISTIANS AND PERSECUTION
October 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“They can scare me, hurt me, kill me;
but they cannot separate me from
the love of God which is mine
through Christ Jesus.”
—–my godly wife
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CHRISTIANS
October 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
If you are experiencing increased attacks from the enemy, let’s claim all this is because we are on the right side of the war, on Jesus’ side.
The most dangerous place is where a Christian avoids the battle.
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE (revised edition)
October 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
coming soon—working on it
BEST MUSLIM AWARD GOES TO . . .
October 7, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Hands down, The Best Muslim Award goes to BHOB*!!!
No one in the world has done more to advance the cause of Islam and work to destroy its enemies.
And he has done this through the Muslim trademark of LYING.
*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
POROUS . . .
October 6, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Porous—with holes, that something can get through.
Porous Borders—mostly holes, that most anything (or anyone) can get through.
Porous Law Enforcement—Eric Holder knows when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em (laws, that is).
Porous White House—or did they stage the unthinkables (“just distractions”)?
Porous Medical System—can’t stop the most obvious risk person with disease.
Porous Airports—we will not stop anyone bringing medical disease, just like we have not stopped anyone bringing ideological disease (both are weapons of mass destruction).
Porous Administration—can see daylight right through their unwavering devotion to Islam and the enemy.
Porous Politicians—following, not leading, like a puppy dog on a leash to give the bad guys anything they want.
Porous Brains—what in the world are people thinking—leaders, followers, voters, non-voters, Americans, Christians?
Porous Morality—anything goes, anything comes through, and now the rotten fruit is falling everywhere.
Porous Spirituality—removed the seal of God’s protection—opened the dam to erosion by every evil eager to destroy this nation under God.
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”
“The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”