Several months ago, I found GodTube. This place is awesome. There are so many good videos that it would be impossible to tell you about all of them. But there was this one video that I ran across during my first trip to GodTube that I posted on this blog some months ago because of how much it moved me. But, with all the newer posts, this one has more or less been buried. I cannot help but believe that if people would see this video they would see Salvation in a different light.
Most videos I watch are nice, good, hilarious or whatever else. They do not move me to tears but this one does. It is an awesome portrayal of what Jesus has done and will do for you if only you will accept Him for Who He is. Please take the time to watch this video..even if you have already seen it before. It moves me in ways I have not been moved before. Each time I watch it, it’s like I had never seen it prior to this time. It is a bit long but it is well worth the time. Enjoy the Lord!
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It is really necessary for us to find the time to pray for others. God tells us that the prayer of a righteous man avails much. Now, most people do not think of themselves as righteous. In fact they want to run from such titles. But as a born again Christian, you are that righteous person who can and should pray for others as they have prayed for you. God asks us to pray for those in need. At this time, these are the needs of others who want prayer:
1) Helen Stone- who is having brain surgery in the morning. Please pray for her full recovery and continuing health. Please also pray for her family as they go through this with her.
2) A woman who has been told by her doctor that she must now go into an assisted living facility. She has been on her own for a very long time.
3) Fred-who is suffering with cancer and is terminal. Please pray for his recovery and for his family, for his two daughters, one who is having to deal with his needs as they come up. The other is very young and will have trouble understanding the situation.
4) ADDING A NEW REQUEST: Debra-who has had news from the doctor that there are more problems since her surgery a while back.
5) ADDING ANOTHER NEW REQUEST: Nancy-an abnormal pap smear. Will have biopsy next week.
Father, we pray for each and every one of these pleas for Your help in healing. Please touch each of these folks in their hour of need. Give Your healing to them and please make it in a way that there is no doubt whatsoever that You are in charge. Thank You, my Lord! We pray this in the name of Jesus! Amen.
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Sometimes, it’s pretty tough believing that we are in the hand of God, isn’t it? With all the junk going on in the world right now, there are times when I have thought that I haven’t heard from God and that I had gone off the path. And that was true at times. But there were other times when God was right there, I wasn’t off the path a bit and He was guiding me just as He said He would.
Kris Kristofferson wrote a beautiful song called “Why Me, Lord?” that says everything I always wanted to ask the Lord. Why me? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings from You? God says that we are given a gift of eternal life. It wasn’t earned. It is not deserved. But He loves us so much that He gave it to us but it was paid with a price. Jesus went to the cross to give His life for ours. That answers the question. But the song also asks what I can do to give back to the Lord. And that is what we need to find out today. What can I do to give back to You, Lord? Show me the way.
Bob Cain has gone to be with the Lord but his legacy of songs are still here. Bob Cain singing “Why Me, Lord?” as only Bob Cain can:
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I wanted to publicly thank my Lord for the fact that I am an American. That does not mean that I am slamming any other place in the world. It simply means that God put me here, right now in the day and hour and I thank God for that. I think that it’s vitally important that we spend some time each day thanking God for those things that He has provided to us. In that area, I know that I fall very short. So, today, the day after the 4th of July, when all eyes are on the fireworks and giving thanks for the country we live in, I now give thanks for all that my Lord has given to me.
No, I do not intend to put the list here. Frankly, at this point you should be inserting your own list of thanks. I know that we spend more time wanting to thank God on Thanksgiving but we should be thanking Him each and every day. We should be giving Him all of our attention at some point in the day so that He can give us the boost we need to get past all the nasty things in the world.
So, take just a bit of time today, tomorrow and each day from now on to stop and talk to the Lord about those things that bother you, the things that you need to get a handle on, things that you worry about. Give it all to Him. He wants you to do that so that He can handle it for you. Take the time to get to know your Lord. He’s waiting right where you stopped talking to Him. He’s right where you left Him all those years ago.
Yes, I thank God I am an American but I also thank God that I am a Christian, a saved one, one who has asked Jesus to come into her life and be so blessed! I am so honored and blessed! Thank You, Lord Jesus, for going to the cross in my place! I am so blessed that I do not have to be without You! Praise God!
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Ordinarily, I would just write something here and be done with it. Give you a something from God and enjoy it myself. I intend to do just that. God is our beginning and our end. He knows the end from the beginning. He told us that in Isa. 46:10. (Isa 46:9-10 Remember former things from forever; for I am God, and no other is God, even none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past things which were not done, saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure;)
So, what does that mean for us today? It means that we can count on and trust in the fact that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son (John 3:16). He gave us that which He loved so much so that we could live instead of die spiritually. Since He knows us from the beginning, not of our lives but of our existence, He knows what we need and want before we even know this. Trust Him to guide us in those things that we are doing and should be doing.
Now, for your listening pleasure, and it is a pleasure for me, here are the Gaither Vocal Band guys singing The Alpha And Omega!
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Most of us have heard the song “Amazing Grace” sung somewhere, many in our churches. However, do you know the history of it? No? The author of the lyrics is a man named John Newton. Before he became a Christian, he was the captain of a slave ship. He had heard many old Negro spirituals sung below decks. The author of the music is unknown but John heard from the Lord to give us this awesome and amazing song that has lasted through the ages.
I had seen this some time ago but it was brought to my attention again today. I just had to post it. Here to give you a small history lesson and to sing the song from only the black keys of the piano like most Negro spirituals are done is Wintley Phipps. I do hope you enjoy this as much as I have:
This music gives me God’s goosebumps. I love it so much!
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I have come to the conclusion that most folks believe that God is this amazing Sugar Daddy up in heaven just sitting around waiting for someone to beg Him to point and say “Bam, you got it!” when they want something. In fact, I have seen people mad because God didn’t pony up what they wanted as soon as they demanded or begged for it. A few posts back, I was talking about using God like an ATM machine. That is still the case with the people who simply will only believe God if He does it right, the way THEY want it done.
Actually, that has absolutely nothing to do with the scripture they are expecting to use to get what they want. You know the one:
(Mat 7:7) Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.
People who expect God to simply move heaven and earth to give them anything they want are pretty delusional. God loves us. True. He is our Father and does not wish to hold anything from us. But the fact is that there are things that, if we had them, would actually make matters worse for us. Sometimes, I do not see that either but i do not have the vantage point that God has…seeing from beginning to end. I suspect that if we all were able to see our lives as God sees them, we would make incredibly different choices in our lives. But since we cannot, we must give the guidance job to God.
Just wanting, wanting, wanting does nothing to help either you or the people God intended for you to help in the world. The reality is that God isn’t a lottery, a bank, a Sugar Daddy and although He is extremely….the the largest extreme possible….rich, that does not mean that he needs you to be that too. The thing is that He will bestow that on people as He chooses. We must do our part. Our part is to be a good steward of what we are given. We are to get into the Word of God, study as much as possible, learn what God has to say and then go out and do as God has chosen you to do. Yes, you are chosen. He seeks you to seek Him. He loves you so much. Don’t sell God short with the begging and the pushing. God knows what is going on in your life.
Life is not always going to be the way you want it or like it. Things do happen. God will be with you through it all if you let Him. Take the time to be with your Lord and Savior today. It is well worth the effort.
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I have a confession to make. There was a time when I believed that I could spot the anti-christ in a heartbeat so I did not think I had to do as much studying or praying as I should. There were things I knew and it wasn’t going to be easy to deceive me, that’s for sure. What does that say about me? I was an arrogant, obnoxious individual when I thought that. Truly, we do not know these things unless we look into the scriptures and study. Then pray.
(Mat 24:4) And Jesus answered and said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
If Jesus did not think that you could be deceived, He would not have said it. In fact, He says things like that because we are too easily deceived by many people. How many times have you been unhappy or shocked to find out something about a close friend or spouse that you had no idea about even though you knew them quite well? It is especially easy to deceive family members who do not think you are capable of doing wrong things.
These are perilous times. I have said that quite a lot lately. Let me mention it again. These are perilous times. Not only do we need to be in God’s Word, our Bibles every day, we need to be in prayer and talking to God for fellowship, a relationship and information. That one is very important to us. We NEED to know what to do in situations that will come up especially in these times. Those situations might be something you have never encountered before. As I has stated before, things are going to get steadily much worse before they will ever get better.
We are approaching the end of the age. The signs are there. Much Biblical prophecy is finished. Since Jesus died on the cross, the enemy has known that his time on earth was limited. He has stepped up his actions. We must learn to protect ourselves from the attacks that are here and those that are coming. Despite doing everything you know to do, are you having more and more problems financially, physically, emotionally? That should be a real red flag concerning the activities of the enemy in your life. Did you think that it was just “your bad luck” hanging around? This may be tough to swallow but there is no such thing as luck bad or otherwise.
God is in control. Yes, I know. It does not appear to be that way. You can safely say that you have prayed and you were not answered or were answered wrong. Yes, I get it. You wanted something and God didn’t jump and do it for you. And when people die that is not because He wasn’t watching or helping. His ways are not our ways. He has a plan for each of us. The problem is that we cannot usually hear Him enough to get that plan and work on it.
Once again, these are perilous times. It is imperative that you see this. We are heading into the last days of the age. No, I am not going to say that the end of the world is coming. Frankly, that rumor has been going around for a lot of years. It is not accurate. At the end of this particular age, there will be one thousand years of peace with no enemy to bug us. He will be locked up and unable to do his nastiness during that time. But in order to get to that point, we are going to see some rather impressive nastiness in the meanwhile…should we survive, that is.
So, can you be deceived? Yes, of course you can. Do you have any idea who should be President of the U.S.? If you can hear the Lord, He will tell you who needs to be in that position. Now, for those who think they hear the Lord but miss it, they have been deceived. Does that make sense? The problem here is that many Christians are going to say that they have heard from the Lord and want one of the candidates over the other. BUT, Christians are going to vote for both candidates. Who is right and who is wrong? Good question. The ones that are wrong are deceived. The ones that are right are not. Which is which?
The only way that you can answer that question is to be in prayer, seek God’s face and understand what He tells you. Then do what He says. But because we live in a sin-natured world, sometimes it’s pretty hard to hear God over a person’s own thoughts and the interference from the enemy as well. Trust me, I understand that. When I pray, I get some pretty strange things coming through my mind. But things that are not of God are going to be confusing and different from what God’s Word has to say about it.
If what you hear is negative in any way, is going against God, is simply not something that you feel you can do, then it is probably not from God. Oh, there is one thing. Be SURE you don’t feel you can do that something. Often, God will require you to do things that take you out of your comfort zone pretty far. But if the things you are hearing are strange, negative or possibly fit very neatly into a plan you had going anyway, it is highly likely that you are being deceived if you are still willing to do it.
How can we know for certain that we are not being deceived? By going to God for everything in your life. He wants to be part of all of your life, to be your Guide. But He cannot be that if you take back portions of your self so that you are making decisions and He is sitting on the sidelines watching you put yourself into bad situations after bad situations. Take the time to be with the Lord, pray and study. Open that dusty Bible every day and seek what He has to say. You will be amazed at the things you will no longer be deceived by. And enjoy. God is so good. And He loves you!
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So many people these days are looking for and likely dreading the end of the world. Some are trying to set dates on when this or that thing will occur as according to the scriptures. The latest person in the news to do so was a man named Hawkins who predicted that the beginning of the end would come on a Thursday this month. That beginning was to include war and destruction. He was wrong. Why is that so important to note?
In Mathew 24, one of my favorite chapters in the Bible, it says that no man shall know the day or the hour. Only the Father knows this for certain, not even Jesus has this information.
(Mat 24:36) But of that day and hour no one knows, no, not the angels of Heaven, but only My Father.
Now I suspect that if the Father is not telling Jesus then it is probable that we humans aren’t going to have a clue until right before it actually occurs. So, date setting seems to be the wrong thing to do. See, if a person is all focused on the one date, their whole life revolves around that date. When it comes and goes and nothing happens, what happens to their faith…in God, in themselves, in what they believe? It is imperative that we live our lives as though Jesus is coming back today but plan for the future as if He may not come back for another hundred years. Do you see this?
We live in perilous times, of that there is no doubt whatsoever. If you do not believe it, look around you. Gas prices are at an all time high and people are struggling to put fuel in their tanks just to go to work. Sometimes, it pays to stay home because the price of gas plus the cost of child daycare exceeds the paycheck. The housing market is reeling from the unwise lending and the loss of so many homes to foreclosure. Security is an issue in this country now that we have been vulnerable to attack on our home ground. Crime is at an all time high. Natural disasters are increasing and intensifying all over the world. For those who say that we have had all this before, do not be hiding your heads in that. This is more and worse than ever before and it is unlikely to change for the better any time soon. That small relief at the pump is going to be gone in a few days. Count on it.
Once again, in Mathew 24, Jesus was clear that all these things do need to come to pass but that we would see an increase in intensity. This is that time.
(Mat 24:6-8) And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must occur; but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in different places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Did you see that? All these things are the BEGINNING of sorrows. That does not mean the end of all things. It means that this too is a sign for what is about to come.
In the past, when people thought the end was near, not all of the conditions were met for that to happen. Could Jesus have come back in those days? Of course, He could have. The conditions will be there when it is necessary for them to be there. Remember, God is in control here. He is co-ordinating everything. Yes, we do have sorrow and pain. That’s because we live in this sin natured world and as long as it is that way, we will have that. The future must play out in the way intended.
(Mat 24:14) And this gospel of the kingdom shall be proclaimed in all the world as a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come.
One of those signposts to what will come is this scripture. Only through the system of satellites can we now see that this particular prophecy could come to pass. And it is. With all the television ministries plus the Christian networks we are in the days of the whole world seeing the Gospel preached to all the world. One thing that has really made me a bit mad is all the griping and complaining about the television ministries. There are countless news stories about how they are ripping people off and having lots of wealth. Sigh. Has anyone at all thought about the fact that Solomon was the wealthiest person in the world and that only through God was he so blessed? Now, I do not say that all of them are like that but many honorable and honest ministries are doing the things we cannot or won’t do; feeding the hungry, spreading the Gospel.
I suggest that each of you read Mathew 24 over and over again. This is not to be a stand alone chapter but it does give amazing insight to what is about to occur. No, it has not yet happened. But look at the things that have. Read that chapter and try to deny that things are happening as if they were reading that chapter.
Folks, now is the time to get back to the Lord, seek His face, gather together in one accord. Believe and have faith in the Lord Jesus and the Word of God because there is where your answers lie, not in preachers who are human and can get things wrong. Go to the Source of all things and seek Him. Read your Bible, pray and listen to Him. He will tell you the path He has for you in these very perilous times. Now more than ever, we must get in line with God’s Word and live the life He has set for us.
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Once again, we have a couple of prayer requests that need to be given to all who can pray over these things:
1) Tom who is in the hospital. The doctors do not know why his blood pressure bottoms or why he has an elevated white blood cell count. Please pray that they find the problem.
2) Harold-at the ER tonight for headaches and dizziness. Headed home with probable elevated blood sugar. He is diabetic.
3) Fred who is still in the hospital for throat cancer. Please pray that he will come to know the Lord or if he knows Him to strengthen him in this time of need.
Father, we pray for these prayer needs tonight and that each person sees You in all things. Thank You, Father, for being there for us when in time of urgent needs. Please help each of these folks to learn to walk in Your ways, Your word. We thank You for each of the blessings we have received from You each and every day of our lives. We pray this and thank you for it in Jesus’ Name, Amen.
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