Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
It seems like one after another of my friends have been complaining of being tired lately.
Then I understood that it’s a coordinated spiritual oppression—a prelude to persecution.
The enemy of our souls tries to make us feel alone, weak, to divide and then to conquer.
The antidote, our response is to share and declare opposition.
Take a stand in advance against the unseen evil forces working on us—in advance of visible spiritual warfare.
Rock bottom failure is a better place to build a foundation than successful sand.
I would love to write such a moving piece from my heart about the wonder of America, that millions would read it and rally around American exceptionalism and drown out the naysayers.
I’ve had enough of those trying to trash America and take us backward to bad times, or plunge us headlong into certain disaster with reckless abandonment of everything that made us great.
Like the writers in the American Revolution, I want to inspire everyone who loves this country to rise up and be heard, loudly, now.
We have so very much to be thankful for in this country right now, that criticisms of America itself have to be manufactured, with lies repeated over and over to get people to believe them.
Enough, already!
Tell everybody you know that America is great again—let’s celebrate America.
We can work on any problems that remain, but don’t throw away America—the very best thing that ever happened to any people in all of human history.
If this resonates with anyone reading or hearing it, don’t be silent anymore, don’t be apologetic, don’t be afraid of intimidation or criticism, don’t let another day go by without influencing someone to keep America what it was meant to be.
Don’t Mess With America!
America—243 years unparalleled.
America’s foundation cannot be improved upon.
America gave us freedom.
America gave us opportunity.
America gave the world relief from disaster and oppression, unselfishly.
America is on target today, right where we need to be—proven by the intensified attacks on the very things that are right with America.
Stand up and defeat those attacks anywhere you see or hear them.
Let’s keep America.
Let’s defend America.
Let’s thank God for America.
! ! ! L E T ‘ S C E L E B R A T E A M E R I C A ! ! !
Be the kind of Christian that others can confide in—sharing the good, bad, and ugly in their lives.
Be willing to do the same with them.
Then you can have an open door to share Jesus with those who don’t know Him.
Then you can practice giving and receiving encouragement with those who do know Jesus.
We all need reminders to practice what we already know about the promises in the Bible.
And, observing the rapid increase of hostility toward Christians around the world and in America, we will need the support of each other more than ever.
It is going to be harder to be a Christian, but it will be clearer to tell who is a Christian.
Let us each decide now to draw the line clearly for authentic Christianity, personally.
Intentionally build close relationships with other Christians, to not live in fear about the future, to not despair when it comes.
Do you depend on God before you have trouble?
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Do you declare trust in God as soon as trouble comes?
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Or:
Do you worry until you can see how things are going to work out?
Desperate prayers are legitimate.
But fast faith does not put God in a rush.
God often takes His time—and then He does things quickly.
And other times He chooses, “Before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.”
Many times when I need wisdom for writing, I will pray for wisdom after He obviously gave the right words to write.
Isn’t it great to have a God not bound by time, or worry, or us!
Are there any possible virtues to worry? Hardly
Are there any possible virtues to procrastination? Possibly
What do you get when you combine procrastination and worry?
You get a Bible verse: “Worry, tomorrow.”
“Take no thought (don’t worry) about tomorrow—tomorrow has enough worries of its own.”
So, don’t worry about tomorrow—worry tomorrow—and that would be a virtue of procrastination.
The secrets of a blessed marriage make IQ irrelevant to success in the marriage.
For married happiness, the ground is level across all IQ lines.
People with successful marriages and families throughout history, and today, do not necessarily have more brains, or more education, or more expertise or techniques.
We have become so accustomed to more and more “new ideas” on how to do marriage, that we might think we’ll get it right if we’re smart enough and read enough and do everything the smart marriage advisors tell us.
Those who make it—really make it for the long haul—usually do not attribute their track record to the new stuff or the smart stuff.
For one thing, if you have a good, lasting marriage, you started with something that works, long before the onset of all the new, abundant advice.
There’s a saying, “Before we knew it all, how did we do it all, and get it right at all?”
Or, “Does every generation really know more?”
And, before we had all the labor-saving appliances, etc., how did we do all the work—and still have time for good marriage and family?
Maybe—just maybe—we can learn from older generations, and those gone by, that simple, ordinary folks who really care, and take the time to show they care, in person, face to face, anywhere it’s needed—that they have the secrets (timeless secrets) for all relationships including marriage.
And we don’t need to add anything new to that!
And, further food for thought on a parallel, you could insert “money” along with IQ and find that a couple’s economic level has little to do directly with success in their relationship.
We mistakenly think that more money makes everything better, including marriage.
Couples with higher IQ, and those who make more money, also have to rely on something other than IQ and money for meaning and satisfaction in life and in marriage.
How smart do you have to be to show you care?
How rich do you have to be to show you care?
“Godliness with contentment is real success [across the board].”—–His Book
Sunday, June 2, is a nationwide day of prayer for President Donald Trump.
Please pray.
Please encourage your family to pray.
Please encourage your friends to pray.
Please encourage your church to pray.
Some Fun—Some Play on Words—Some Truth.
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Today is the first time I’m running late today.
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I wasn’t late until it got late before I got there on time.
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Figured out why my tummy hurts—it’s tired of taking the blame when I always say my tummy made me late.
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Tombstone on the subject of late—“E. T. A. – ON TIME”
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Another tombstone—“ALL CAUGHT UP”
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“We are here to pay last respects to our late friend, Larry—always challenged with late, even to late in life, but now late no more.”
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I want to learn to live without worrying about running late, before it’s too late.
I already can’t run anymore, so going faster isn’t an option.
‘Hurry Up’ is an oxymoron now.
People like it when I say I’m thankful for slow.
Do I dare say I’m thankful for late?
I must tell you a Church in the Park story on 4-4-19, late Sunday afternoon.
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I couldn’t make it to Church in the Park in the morning, because I was helping my son load a car on a trailer, to donate to God’s Garage*.
I got to the park about four in the afternoon, instead of eleven in the morning.
Minutes later Bob shows up—the old original homeless by choice, friend for decades—he had walked several miles from Scott and White Hospital, where he was just released after several days as a patient (would have missed him, on time, in the morning).
Then, when I finished singing “Because He Lives,” two people told me what happened during verse two.
In a car close by, a mother was yelling with profanity at her daughter, who must have been pregnant, apparently saying she should have an abortion.
During the song, the yelling suddenly stopped.
Here are the words of verse two:
“How sweet to hold a newborn baby
And feel the pride and joy he gives;
But greater still the calm assurance
This child can face uncertain days
Because He lives.
Because He lives, they can face tomorrow.
Because He lives, all fear is gone.
Because we know He holds their future.
Their life is worth the living
Just because He lives.”
Please say a prayer now, for that baby’s future.
*Look up God’s Garage in Montgomery, Texas, and read the testimony—you’ll be touched, as I was to be a small part of what is very close to God’s heart.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
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