David and Donald

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Reading Psalm 78 this morning, the reader is reminded of all the great wonders and works of the LORD. Yet, Israel continued to sin against the LORD after all He had done TO them and FOR them. As I consider what we Americans are dealing with under the Biden administration, it’s pretty evident that the LORD is angry and has allowed the wicked to have a time of getting their way – to show us that which is blessed by God and cursed by God.

What puzzles me, is why the LORD put Donald Trump as president four years between Obama’s reign and now Biden’s with ‘leftist anti-Americans’ dictating how Biden is to govern. Was it to show us the BIG difference in how policies affect every part of our lives?
I believe we just saw the very worst of Pres. Joe Biden, with his recent apology to a murderer who was in America ILLEGALLY, having other crimes on his record and free to go on with his crimes. Pres. Biden was shamed by his media into taking back having called this murderer an “illegal alien.” Then to top it off, Joe Biden said that his ‘technical mistake of words’ was wrong because it didn’t show any respect to this murderer! I think most of us understand why this is totally INSANE!
We have all seen who and what is controlling Joe Biden. We are also seeing how this has affected livelihoods and caused the numbers to quickly rise of those who have HAD ENOUGH.  

As I read in Psalm 78, God turns away from the nation Israel to let her national enemies (domestic as well) triumph over her, until His people have HAD ENOUGH and repent of having turned their backs on doing what God expects of them for the peace and good-will of the nation. America is not any different than Israel, when you consider ‘the truth’ in how America got her start, how our Constitution was formed and established, and why God continued to bless our nation.
What we have now in powerful seats of our government are people who have no relationship at all with the LORD GOD. They may ‘claim’ to be Christians, but clearly are not. They have no idea of what God calls ‘righteous’ and what He calls ‘wicked.’ In fact, they have it all reversed: right is wrong, and truth and is lie. They are so very self-deceived that they can’t see how wrong and wicked they are.
But, I know that God has allowed this ‘time’ to show us each our own ignorant and compromising ways. I have a wall hanging my daughter made me that says: Our lives end the day we remain silent about the things that matter most. SO TRUE! The life that God planned for Americans could NEVER be we are experiencing now! We were to be and remain, ‘God’s light’ in this dark world of ever-increasing evil, with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But over the decades God’s people have compromised the truth and let ‘religions’ take the place of a ‘personal relationship’ with the LORD JESUS CHRIST, walking with HIM in how to live and govern a nation.

“But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep His laws and principles…They angered Him with their high places (of man-made religions); they aroused His jealousy with their idols (worship of men, possessions, self-appointed positions of power over the people)…. In HIS anger, He gave His people over to His enemies.” Then the psalmist shows God’s sovereignty, “God beat back His enemies; He put them to everlasting shame…. He chose David His servant [taking him out of his sheep-herding job] to be the shepherd of the nation Israel, God’s inheritance. And David shepherded them with INTEGRITY OF HEART; with SKILLFUL HANDS he led them.” (Psalm 78:56-72 in part)
King David was not in any way a perfect man; what man is? David did things he was very ashamed of, and then suffered the consequences for, just as we are seeing happen with Donald Trump. And like David, we are also seeing false accusations that Donald Trump is NOT guilty of, as far as GOD considers ‘guilty.’
What we are seeing today are ungodly men/women making up their own reasons and policies for deeming a man/woman guilty, as well as deeming ‘lawlessness’ as being lawful - by those in power (i.e. as in their “open borders” with illegals flooding in causing destruction of communities, and as in working to end our God-given rights to legal law-abiding Americans). We have a two-tiered justice system that has been so very destructive.

What I love about our CREATOR GOD, is how HE sees the motives and secrets of the heart and knows exactly how to bring about ‘a change’ of a man’s heart. David had a heart-change by all he went through before and after taking office as Israel’s leader. Man can’t see what God sees. Man doesn’t know what God knows. Man’s understanding of right and wrong is not always the same as God’s definition. God is the one who raises up and takes down kings and presidents. Man may think he has this power, but he does not. God has a good and lasting purpose in all that He does. God has put into effect for us all, the natural and spiritual consequences of breaking HIS LAWS.

Over the years we have seen men and women voted into powerful offices who have absolutely no understanding of who God is let alone how to govern a nation so that the nation is able to remain blessed/prospered and protected by God. Is it any wonder we have seen America fall into the pit she’s in now!

King David also had enemies who tried to remove him from remaining in power, as we also have seen, still seeing, with President Trump’s enemies; politicians afraid he will undo all they’ve done within Biden’s time in the White House – as God has allowed.
So, I ask God, “How long will You be angry with us?” I’m sure we will see the answer this November election!

The Light

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I woke up the other morning, feeling very discouraged about all the darkness in the world. I begin to think of how many dark times there has been in the world. Such a time was when Israel was removed off the land, and how dark that must have been for the nation of Israel. 
So, what is darkness and what is light? Darkness is the absence of light, and this absence brings fear and confusion into one’s life. Light removes darkness (in both the natural world and the spiritual realm) and revels what darkness has done while it was in control. God's light is healing and brings a sense of security to those who live in His light, the light of His love and truth. 
Today we have a younger generation who are trapped in darkness, allowing darkness in. They feel that they are the ones with all the light (truth and understanding). Yet, look at what they say and do that is all about their fears and emotions. 
Jesus said, “I am the light of the world.” His truth and love (the light) has the power to reveal and expose darkness in our world, but one must first live in His light to see what having lived in darkness did to one's self.  There is no darkness that can contain light.
This light only needs one strong flame to reveal what is in darkness. The light will always remove darkness, but darkness will never be able to remove the light. 
When you listen to the various medias, politicians and advertisements, everything they say is to bring fear into your life. Fear only comes when darkness prevails. When lies are believed, darkness has prevailed to deceive and destroy. We have been seeing this progressive evil far too long with our young people.  
Light reveals truth, and truth brings hope, confidence, security, and well-being.The key to knowing truth is to study and meditate on the words of God. Time does not change truth, nor can man alter truth. Truth is able to give us God's perfect peace, and will smooth out the path ahead of us. 
So, is your life full of darkness or light? 
Psalm 139:11-12 "I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night- but even in darkness I cannot hide from You Oh God. To You the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to You."
Psalm 119:105 "Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path."
Matthew 5:14-15 "You are the light of the world-like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.”

God is All in All

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“Because God lives in an everlasting now, He has no past and no future. When time-words occur in the Scriptures they refer to OUR time, not to His. When the four living creatures before the throne cry day and night, ‘Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come,’ they are identifying God with the flow of creature-life with its familiar three tenses; and this is right and good, for God has sovereignly willed so to IDENTIFY Himself. But since God is uncreated, He is not Himself affected by that succession of consecutive changes we call time……God dwells in eternity but time dwells in God. HE HAS ALREADY LIVED ALL OUR TOMORROWS AS HE HAS LIVED ALL OUR YESTERDAYS.” (A.W. Tozer quote)

God has made Himself KNOWN to every generation since Adam and Eve, so that no one has any kind of excuse (in the judgment) of NOT KNOWING there is God, and that He gave us His SON as our only Savior, and that He has purposely worked through HIS SPIRIT to draw each person into a personal relationship with Himself in truth and love. Nothing about each of us – is hidden to God; not a thought, not a word, not an idea, not a motive, not an action, not a desire, etc. Yet, He loves each one of us. Whether or not each person takes hold of the truth and wholeheartedly believes it all, as written for us in the Holy Scriptures, is up to each person.

What a GREAT BIG MERCIFUL POWERFULLY ALL-KNOWING COMMITTED CREATOR-FATHER HE IS! And I’m THANKFUL to be His favored child; how about you?

Answered Prayer!

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I'm PRAISING God this morning for what He has done in restoring another marriage. Eight years ago I started praying with my friend about her marriage, having only been married for under two years. As it always goes with two married people who become disappointed with who they married, they want to blame the other one, instead of working on their self. 
As I met with my friend last night and heard how they EACH had come to terms with their own 'strongholds,' repenting and asking forgiveness of each other, I was soooo thankful to God for HIS faithfulness to answer 8 years of prayer for these two to become one - remaining faithful to their vows - and being thankful to God for it. 
Only God can bring us to see the light/truth about ourselves in the way that can only bring true love and even restoration in a grievous marriage or in any relationship. AND, the same is true in everyone's need to have a real and fulfilled relationship with Jesus Christ; to see ourselves humbly in God's light and truth and love. The Bible gives it ALL! 
Matthew 6:22-23, Jesus says about how we SEE people and situations: "The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!" 
We need to SEE how God wants us to see, HEAR what we need to hear and accept, UNDERSTAND what we need to humbly understand, so that we can live how we should live and do what we should do - that brings glory to our Father God. 
Mark 9:23, Jesus says to those who have lost hope and to those who doubt, “Everything is possible for one who believes.” Believes? Believes in what though? You can get help, but make sure that 'help' is rooted in their faith in the LORD and their lived out trust in His principles for life. 
Mark 10:2-9 "Some Pharisees came and tried to trap him with this question: 'Should a man be allowed to divorce his wife?' Jesus answered them with a question: 'What did Moses say in the law about divorce?' Well, he permitted it, they replied. He said a man can give his wife a written notice of divorce and send her away. But Jesus responded, 'He wrote this commandment only as a concession to your HARD hearts. But God made them male and female from the beginning of creation. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one. Since they are no longer two but one, let no one split apart what God has joined together.'”
As I look at our society and the culture of unfaithfulness, lawlessness, sexual immorality and gender alteration - it's so very clear how FAR from the truth and light of God - people are. To reject God and His Word is the WORSE thing in life because it not only ruins our earthly life but denies eternal life with our Father God.

Do You Have Hope?

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Ephesians 2:12 "You lived in this world without God and without hope."
What do people do when they have no hope? They imagine and set their own hope, but this type of hope is nothing more than fantasy and promises never kept. Sounds like our politicians today that make promises but are never able to fulfill any them or never planned on doing so. Actually what this type of politican ends up doing is taking away our freedom to make us slaves. 
Do you feel hopeless with all that is going on in America like never before? How do you feel about the inflation, wars and our enemies gaining access by our open borders, high interest rates, crime on the rise in our cities, District attorneys that release criminals the next day so they can keep preying on society, and the family unit as God designed - being destroyed?
The only hope that is real and dependable is to put your trust in the One who loves you and has a great plan for your life NO MATTER HOW BAD IT GETS IN THIS WORLD. Put your hope in what HE SAYS in HIS WORD, and the true hope we all need will come to fruition. God is faithful to do all that He has said He will do. He is the only one that can be trusted fully in this world.  Without faith in God - there is no hope.

Building a Strong Family

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To me raising of a child is similar to building a building. Since I am a builder, I use what I know to compare with. 
In a building there are three phases of a building: the foundation, the shell, and the interior. I see mothers as laying the foundation of the child, and fathers building the shell. Once the foundation and shell is completed it will be the responsibility of the child to install the finishes of the building that will complete the purpose of the building.
Today when families live outside their circle of finance this requires mothers to work outside the home, and if a mother is at work - who is laying the foundation for their young children? There is an evil movement going on, and that is in order to take over a society they must start with the children, the next generation. THEY must be the ones who lay this foundation in children and not the parents. Parents are beginning to see what this foundation laid by others is doing to the family. 
Fathers build the shell of the child, and if it is shabby workmanship then you will have issues when the child is installing the finishes for their life. If the windows are not installed correctly then you have leaks that could cause disease (mold). If exterior is not sealed correctly then the building will have a lot of energy lost. What is even worse are fathers who are not around, and others build this shell for their children. 
Interior of the building is the responsibility of the child. If the foundation is strong and the exterior is built correctly then the interior of the building will also be installed correctly. I did not say that their would not be mistakes in installing the finishes, but if the foundation and the shell are strong and correct - then the finish mistakes are obvious and can be easily corrected. 
But, if the foundation is weak, or the exterior of the building is never completed or done right; no matter what type of finishes they put in - it will never reach its potential. 
Psalm 78:4-7 "We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD, about his power and his mighty wonders. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, so the next generation might know them- even the children not yet born- and they in turn will teach their own children. So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting his glorious miracles and obeying his commands.“
"There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues are created, strengthened and maintained.” Winston Churchill
THE BIGGEST THREAT TO AMERICA IS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY UNIT AS DESIGNED BY GOD!

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

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We are called the United States of America, but we are not united! The question is why?
Our inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as citizens are trying to be removed by people with power who think they know better than our founders. To 'pursue' means to go after, and to be willing to personally accept any consequence of a bad choice you've made. It also means to reap the benefits of your good choices and hard work of pursuing whatever. Most people do not go after something honorable or meaningful to them because to do so would require personal sacrifice and persistent hard work. 
There is a new generation in America that feels it is the responsibility of the government to give them everything they want. They have been taught to think this way by our government and by their care-givers. So, when they are not happy or in need, they form groups to rebel in the streets with their  demands instead of working and sacrificing for it like most Americans have, and who end up paying with ever increasing taxes to support this 'give me,' and 'you owe me' generation. They do not acknowledge the rights of others, nor do they obey the laws of the land; they simply expect others to sacrifice for their self-centered ways and foolish ideas. 
This new generation 'pursues' a life of sexual immorality, but the result is harming society as well as themselves with their homosexuality, transmitted diseases, aborted babies, divorce and adultery, and their children grow up even worse, left to themselves, defenseless and feeling confused and alone. Is this what it means to be happy? 
In the later part of Jefferson's writing it says that it is "the people's right" to remove any government, or part of government, that would take our foundational rights from its citizens. If these unAmerican government leaders continue to lead on this destructive path of siding against legal, law-abiding, hard-working, self-sufficient citizens - then it is 'our legal right' to remove them.  But, to do so, we need to be 'civil' about it. 
To bring unity to this country it must start with true believers in God and His principles for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness; to agree on how God instructs us to live and govern. God will be pleased to work with us then. We must unite and stand up against anyone who would work against our faith in God and how we live it out according to God's Scriptures. 
The real question is: What is stopping us from doing so? Could it be that we are just too busy to meet with God each morning, and to pray and then do what He says? Are we so busy acquiring worldly possessions as the means of happiness that we are not willing to sacrifice in any way for the good of society? What are we accountable to God to 'defend?' What does God mean 'liberty?'  Is our own 'happiness' all our life is about? 
When we, God's people, agree and actively unite - there can only be a good result; one that is good for a healthy and prospering society. God's people have the means and ways to bring this about, and the evil forces within our government and communities will do everything they can to stop it in any way they can.   
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with inherent and inalienable rights; that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness." -- Declaration of Independence as originally written by Thomas Jefferson, 1776.ME 1:29, Papers 1:315

Which Sanctuary are You Living In?

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Do you feel the same, grieved over what is progressively happening to our nation under this current WH administration's "open border" and no true consequence for anyone breaking our laws. I'm grieved over what this WH administration is trying to do to Israel by siding with Iran, knowing what God says: "I will curse those that curse Israel (do not stand with her), but I will bless those who bless her (by supporting her presence in our world)." 
So many wicked things happening under this WH adminstration that are NOT RIGHT, NOT JUST, NOT WISE in any way at all. Then I read this morning: "When I tried to understand all this, it troubled me deeply...till I entered the SANCTUARY of GOD, then I understood their final destiny. Surely you place them on slippery ground, you cast them down to RUIN." Psalm 73
What came to me was the GREAT difference between "sanctuary" cities/states breaking ALL our laws (even God's laws), and the SANCTUARY OF GOD where we find truth, righteousness and justice (according to God's definition and purpose). 
Both this WH administration and those coming over our borders illegally from all over the world and most with wicked intent against our law-abiding citizens and our national security - are those that God DESPISES. 
As the psalmist concurred: "I understood their final destiny!" "Those who are far from You Lord, they will perish; You destroy all who are unfaithful to You." (Psalm 73)
But for now, I (we) must endure this EVIL day in America and throughout this world - as our Lord told us. How?" But as for me, IT IS GOOD TO BE NEAR GOD. I have made the SOVEREIGN LORD MY REFUGE; I will tell of all Your wonderful deeds. You guide me with Your counsel (from His Word and Spirit), and afterward You will take me into glory." (still in Psalm 73)
Which "sanctuary" are you living in?

The Power of Thankfulness

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I do believe that we should check ourselves continually. The Lord says we are to judge our sinful selves truthfully confessing to Him, and instead of judging others - we pray and love them, or we pray and leave them alone. 
God has a day when HE will judge us all. But I have found a real power in sincere continual 'thankfulness' to my Lord God, acknowledging Him for all He has done for me, done for me even before I ever repented of my sins and asked Him to live in me. 
Romans 6:19-23 "And now, just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow Him. Let your roots grow down into Him, and let your lives be built on Him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with THANKFULNESS." Thankfulness! 
Jesus will open the books; for He is the only One worthy to open the seals. (Revelation 5:9) And as He has said, my name is not listed any longer in the "book" of all my sins. My name IS listed in the "LAMB's book of Life" by my faith in who HE IS. He has covered all my sins with His own blood. Hallelujah! 
Lord JESUS, finish in me what YOU so graciously started with Your Word and Spirit! You have ALL the power to make me holy as You are holy. I thank You that You do not hold my sins against me. 
I have found that my sin-nature is overcome by my sincere love for Jesus Christ, thanking Him and giving my 'imperfect' self to Him each morning, to use me any way He wants. It's all about Him!

When I Get Angry

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What JOY feels my heart, when I remind myself of the future that God says I have IN Christ Jesus. I get so angry at what our leaders are doing to our natiion. I get so angry at what self-deceived people are doing to the Jews living in America. I get so angry at all the babies aborted, AND EVEN up to the time of birth. I get so angry to see the lies and deception taught to children about their natural God-given bodies. I get so angry to see our nation being so easily invaded and destroyed from within. I get so angry to see what our tax-dollars are going to. I get so angry at how RICH our land is in resources and yet not being allowed to thrive and prosper. I get so angry at being told by our tyrannical rulers what we are allowed to do, allowed to have, and not allowed to have or do anymore - because of their false beliefs and hunger for power. 
As I continue to read through the Old Testament books of the prophets, there is a repeating message about the future of mankind; about Israel's future and the future of all those who love the Lord Jesus Christ. And, there is a clear message to those who deny Jesus Christ and continue to resist God's Spirit when He comes to convict people and reveal to them who the Son of God is so that they will believe and live forever with Him. 
Each prophetic book of the Bible refers to "THE DAY OF THE LORD," and all that happens leading up to the LORD's return, and all that will be on earth with His thousand year reign to conquer and renew all things that God once called "good." 
Jesus told us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN." So when I get angry or worried about all that is happening in the world and coming at us personally - I remember the WORD OF GOD. 
Man will continue to make a mess of everything LEFT TO HIMSELF - as he thinks he has the ALL wisdom and power. So as I continue to watch America's expiry, I rest in the peace, hope and joy of what my Father God has laid out in His Word as to His 'redemptive plan' and 'renewing work' for the awesome future of those called by His Name, those He has given the RIGHT to be called His children. 
Oh how arrogant and ignorant people are who refuse to believe in God's truths and promises that He has so perfectly laid out to us in the Holy Bible. And no, the Bible is not a man-made book that people feel they have the right to ignore, pick a part, or judge God for. 
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was WITH God, and the Word WAS God. HE was with God in the beginning. Through HIM all things were made; without HIM nothing was made that has been made. In HIM was life, and that life was the light of ALL mankind. HIS light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has NOT overcome it... HE was in the world, and though the world was made through HIM, the world did not recognize HIM. HE came to that which was HIS own (Israel's leaders), but HIS own did not receive HIM. Yet to ALL who did receive HIM, to those who believed in HIS Name, HE gave the RIGHT to become children of God—children born NOT of natural descent, NOR of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God. The Word became FLESH and made HIS dwelling among us. We have seen HIS glory, the glory of the one and only SON, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."
They can keep trying to rewrite any part of history, but they can't change any of it. God has all the records of everything throughout the history of man since the Garden of Eden, and records on everybody - all that we've each done and said good or bad. Nothing is hidden in His sight! 
"The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt; their acts are vile. There is no one who does good. The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God." Psalm 14:1-2
"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14