Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
If local law enforcement officers tell distraught mothers that a man has the right to sit naked in their daughters’ swim team dressing room,
THEN
Nobody better complain about God having the right to do anything He chooses to anybody who supports this dangerous fist in His face.
There are a lot of opportunities these days to develop outlandish ideas of what will happen next in this uncertain world.
But I have seen a definite shift in people’s reaction to the subject coming up.
Most people are not laughing anymore about making preparations for dramatic changes.
Most people acknowledge that normal life as we know it cannot continue much longer.
I am starting to see the most over-used word change from “absolutely” to “I don’t know.”
It is becoming more difficult to live the dual track of normal going to work every day, and preparing for the day when the tracks diverge and we can’t.
We Americans have trouble comprehending that our prosperity and luxury and ease are the tiny exception to the rule of human history—and to the rest of the world today.
The looming potential of that wonderful life coming to an end is simply too much, to spend time thinking about it.
But people are thinking about it—unless entertainment and biased news keep them drugged a little longer—and that will be the suicidal cool-aid.
Since the beginning of 2016 I have considered making predictions for this year.
For the better part of a year I have felt very strongly that we cannot make it past the summer of 2016 without the intruding evil making a move that dramatically disrupts our lives in America.
Today, I am reviewing this Bible verse over and over, because I have to:
“Cast your burden on the Lord, and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.”
On Good Friday morning I heard this story twice in one hour on American Family Radio—first by Robert Jeffres, then by Sandy Rios.
A well-known theologian named Barnhouse experienced the devastating loss of his wife.
He was struggling and asking God for something to say to their three small children, now without their mother.
As they were riding in the hearse on the way to the cemetery, a large truck passed, momentarily casting its shadow on them.
God answered the father’s prayer.
He asked his oldest child whether she would rather have them hit by the shadow of the truck or by the truck.
She answered, “The shadow, because it can’t hurt us.”
So there, “the shadow of death” cannot hurt us, if the Lord is our Shepherd.
I believe Ted Cruz is the best offer we’ve had in my lifetime.
He is the one true statesman since Ronald Reagan.
Real Americans understand what it means to “bring America back” to what our founders created with great sacrifice and dependence on the Creator.
It costs a lot to gain freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion.
It costs a lot to keep freedom—sacrifice, blood, lives, passion, and vigilance (the hardest during prosperity).
It costs a lot more to lose freedom—trading a “mess of porridge” for promises of security—plus the futile sacrifices of blood, lives, and passion after it is too late.
Ted Cruz clearly understands all this.
We need American voters who understand this now.
Turn this statement of infamy into a meaningful word for thought.
What difference does it make to follow Jesus?
One, you don’t have to lie.
Two, the problems of life are not pointless.
I’m going to leave it at that, for you to think and make your own applications.
Following Jesus does make a difference—all the difference in the world, and then some—more, much more.
Urgent message to my children, your spouses, and my grandchildren:
Be sure that your names are written, or get written, in the Book of Life in heaven.
That is the absolute requirement for heaven.
“BE THERE”
If you want a special blessing, go to afr.net and listen to Sandy Rios In The Morning for Good Friday.
It took all hell breaking loose to defeat all hell and make that Friday “GOOD.”
It took all heaven breaking loose to defeat death and break loose the grave and make that Sunday even “BETTER.”
AND, ALL GLORY TO GOD WILL BUST LOOSE FOR ALL TO SEE, WHEN THE “HELL DEFEATER,” THE “GRAVE DEFEATER,” THE “SIN DEFEATER” RETURNS ON THE “VERY BEST SOMEDAY” ! ! !
“Do we really trust God, or do we just say we do?”
—–Larry Burkett
One day years ago my pastor started his message at church in the park with the following words of Jesus,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
Then he walked around the picnic tables under the open pavilion, and spoke a little slower,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
In silence, he walked around the picnic tables under the open pavilion, and then spoke a little slower than before,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
Again, silence, then even slower,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
Again,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
And again,
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father Who is in heaven.”
So, any wonder why I remember that day?
Sometimes we need to be still (long enough), and know that He is God, so we are ready to hear clearly, and then go and do the will of our Father Who is in heaven.
Brace yourself, to be uncomfortable.
If this message does not make you uncomfortable, you may be in a dangerous place.*
Do you feel at home, here in America?
Thankful to live in America, yes—at home in America, dangerous.
American Christians:
What Is Your Focus?
Where Is Your Time Spent?
Where Is Your Energy Spent?
Where Is Your Money Spent?
Where Is Your Money Saved?
Where Is Your Love Given?
Do you know that money equals love, according to Jesus?
“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
And what about your stuff?
When Jesus asks you to give it all away, would you go away very sad because you have “great possessions”?
Enter, the most foreign term to Americans—REFUGEE.
Jesus asked a rich, eager, influential, young man to voluntarily give it all away, and follow Him, if he wanted to complete his goal of entering heaven.
Refugees have to give up everything involuntarily, without choice, without warning, without time, just to maybe save their lives.
Could that happen to Americans?
Could that happen to American Christians?
Could that determine who are true Christians—who do not just say, “Lord, Lord”?
Can we prepare to be refugees, in America?
Should we prepare to be refugees?
There is no other “America” for American refugees to flee to.
So what are Christians supposed to do, now, and when crisis comes here?
Answer: Get closer to Jesus, for real, and start listening and following exactly what His Book tells us, even what is contrary to American culture and American finance.
And that may call for very drastic, practical changes in our daily lives, before such changes are thrust upon us by others.
“We are strangers and pilgrims in this world.”
“Do not love the world, or the things in the world.”
“Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.”
This world is not my home,
I’m just a passing through.
My treasures are laid up
Somewhere beyond the blue.
The angels beckon me
From heaven’s open door;
And I won’t feel at home
In this world anymore.
The more you feel at home in this world, the less likely you would feel at home in heaven.
If you want to change that, read more here; but especially read more in His Book—it will make a difference in the parts that are for keeps, starting now.
*If the enemy of our souls, the devil, has not tried to attack you lately, perhaps it is because he does not need to.
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