Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
All children need a father and a mother.
We do well to not ignore or intentionally try to alter that fact.
All children have a father and a mother.
We cannot change that fact.
Any attempt to change what God did and what God said, doesn’t work and brings pain and destruction and disaster.
God had the first Word.
God has the last Word.
Don’t get caught in the middle against His Word.
Truth may be disputed, but it cannot be refuted.
The Roman Governor, Pilate, asked Jesus, “What is truth?”
Good question.
Pilate did not have the answer.
The answer was standing in front of him.
Jesus had already said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life.”
Not only did Jesus create everything.
Not only does Jesus own everything.
Jesus is everything—the Way, the Truth, the Life.
Then He said, “No one comes to the Father except by Me.”
And that is how we get everything, including the Truth.
JESUS = TRUTH
Don’t try to refute it.
Don’t try to debate it.
Don’t try to invent it.
Don’t ignore it.
Accept it.
Accept Him.
Parents?
Siblings?
Elders?
Peers?
Posterity?
Employers?
Spouse?
Church Leaders?
Readers?
God?
Yourself?
In my lifetime I’ve tried to impress all of the above. I suppose each has its time and place for us to please. Then, we find that pleasing others is not as fulfilling as expected. Even pleasing ourselves does not satisfy.
Surely trying to impress God is right. Well, the truth is that we can’t impress Him—at least not favorably. People through all history have tried, doing every imaginable thing to please the gods of their imagination. It doesn’t do a bit of good.
The brightest spot in all human history is that the true God did something about this for us. He did the pleasing—He did the impressing—so we don’t have to. Now we can be free to please Him because we want to, not because we have to.
We weren’t fit to please God, so Jesus pleased Him for us while He was here on earth. When the job of pleasing God for us was done, He said, “It is finished.” He defeated death for us, came back to life, and went back to heaven.
He gives us power—He gives us His Spirit—He gives us the choice to accept His finished work—He gives us abundant life—and He is pleased with us. And that is how we impress God. And that is how we are free to serve others, not impress them.
This weekend, starting today, and the next three days, will you remember what Jesus did for you, and accept it, and invite Jesus into your heart and in charge of your life?
Wouldn’t it be great to please God for the first time?
Now that would be impressive!
I’m sharing a letter here that I sent today to the pastor of a solid Bible church where I went for nineteen years.
Today, as the Supreme Court reviews DOMA and PROP 8, I think of your message about 4 1/2 years ago on persecution. You spoke of people you ministered to around the world who lived with severe, direct persecution and who lost loved ones. You made it very real, at least to me.
You also said we did not have persecution in our country. Yes, we had a lot to be thankful for. But while you were speaking that Sunday morning, I was thinking of Jim Garlow and many others in California who were experiencing persecution first-hand, because they were publicly defending Biblical marriage (PROP 8). I cannot see God calling Christian leaders to anything less.
I do not know what is happening next, but one of my greatest concerns is that pastors are not preparing Christians for persecution. If we are not wrestling with the issues that burdened Bonhoeffer, we may have people asking us questions we can’t answer.
If you will, turn to AWordforThought.com and read 3-9-13, then do a search for all articles on “persecution.” I just re-read them myself, for the first time.
In case you get involved reading, there are two articles on the “remnant.”
It is my goal that something I say or write may save one or two of the remnant from falling away when persecution comes.
God Bless You. Stand.
Larry Michalk
What the European Union needs is a dictator to take charge (take over) and equalize all the member nations—and their economies.
Just look at the USA, and what dictator BHOB* has done to take control (incrementally—BIG increments) and get us back on recovery road. Just listen to how great we’re doing.
Also remember this: When he often says we still have a long way to go, he’s not being sympathetic to Americans who are not experiencing ‘recovery’ (although that is the intended appeasement effect). He is clearly telegraphing his intentions for more of his government controls. Rest assured, they are coming.
EQUALIZING THE NATIONS WORLDWIDE
Sometimes the EU is ahead. Sometimes the US is ahead. Both are on schedule.
*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
What if there was one ingredient that could make the difference in turning this country around and saving America?
What if there was one group of people that held the secret for success in returning the U.S. to her former glory?
What if there was one thing this group of people could change, to change the direction of the country?
What if God had something to say about this?
What if God already wrote down this one ingredient, specifically?
What if no one is telling what it is?
What if that one group doesn’t want to hear it?
What if that one group won’t change?
What if history shows this article is correct?
What if it is too late very soon?
What is the “WHAT IF?”
God said, to His people (and He wrote it down, word for word):
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”
“You cannot serve God and mammon.”
“Do not lay up treasures on earth, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break in and steal.”
“Do lay up treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not corrupt, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
“Seek first (seek only) the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.”
“Therefore, take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow will take thought for the things of itself. Each day’s troubles are sufficient for that day.”
“You are the salt of the earth. You are the light of the world.”
Because America’s church people have their money stashed in this world, they cannot lead the culture out of decay (salt) and darkness (light).
America will change if God’s people change. If they take their money out of the world’s kingdom and put it into God’s Kingdom—only then will their hearts be in the right place to influence change.
Related articles 3-17-13, 3-4-13, 2-6-13
When Newton observed gravity, he did not invent gravity or create it. He “thought of” gravity, not “thought up” gravity.
When science describes the world, it cannot explain everything it describes. Science discovers new stuff in this phenomenal world all the time, and science explains how some of it works. But one thing is constant about scientific advancement—ever-increasing complexity observed, ever-increasingly unexplainable.
Science describes. Science cannot explain.
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As knowledge and technology multiply by leaps and bounds, we vainly imagine that we can come up with answers to everything. And we have seven billion different answers.
Something is missing. But no, it is not missing. It is just ignored.
Instead of continuing the futile search for the missing link to prove evolution (biggest failure of “science”), we have the Missing Link clearly written in three places for all to see, regardless of intelligence, fame, or fortune.
God explained everything we need to know—written in the grandeur of the universe, written in the heart of every human, and written in the Bible.
First, God is thrilled when man discovers all kinds of amazing new stuff, with more guaranteed to be found. He put it all together with just enough secrecy to keep us searching—from the gold prospector to the psychiatrist to the physicist.
To put the second in human terms, God has a clear conscience because He put into our conscience a clear awareness of right and wrong and His sovereignty.
Third, the Bible explains very clearly how this whole world got made, how it got messed up, how it gets fixed, and how it ends.
Check it out—now, while you have time.
The title refers to BHOB’s* trip to Israel, and more significantly, Israel’s warm reception in spite of his cold shoulder toward their country.
Now the rest of the title:
PLAY PRACTICE – – – OR DRESS REHEARSAL – – – FOR THE ANTICHRIST?
It seems there is usually a candidate for the antichrist on the world scene, and the Bible says there will be many. Then finally there will be the one antichrist close to the end. That explains the two alternatives in the title, with the question mark.
When Israel rolled out the red carpet for BHOB* this week, and both leaders spoke with glowing words about support and cooperation, a huge red flag went up for many. When the real antichrist comes, Israel will supposedly sign a peace treaty with him that actually works for several years. Then truth comes out and all hell breaks loose when the treaty is broken, and this world leader brings anything but peace.
Beware of peace, peace, where there can be no peace.
*Barack Hussein OBama—Say BHHHOB aloud and it sounds like the warning for Christians in the 2008 election: “Beware of sheep’s clothing.”
I want to encourage you to look at my friend’s site StrongStableLives.com
You will be glad you did.
Solid encouragement, commitment, and truth, from a life of sacrifice, testing, and miracles.
Plenty to say—Plenty to write.
I’ll start with this:
“What God ordains is always good;
His Will abideth holy.
As He directs my life for me,
I follow meek and lowly.
My God, indeed,
In ev’ry need
Does well know how to shield me;
To Him then I will yield me.”
I want to encourage you to look at my friend’s site StrongStableLives.com
You will be glad you did. Solid encouragement, commitment, and truth, from a life of sacrifice, testing, and miracles.
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