Giving Honor and Glory To My Lord & Savior Jesus Christ: August 2, 2009
"THE SPIRIT of the Lord is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek, the poor, and afflicted: He hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison and of the eyes to them that are bound." ISAIAH 61:1 (AMP)
On Saturday, August 1, 2009, we had our first Street Ministry, sponsored by The Call To Mission Evangelistic Ministry of Burke County. Gloria Jean Sullivan is the Founder of this Ministry. We have a "Good Report." Twenty one (21) Souls gave their lives to the Lord. We had three ministers that rededicated their lives back to the Lord. We know that the Angels in Heaven are rejoicing, just as we are rejoicing.
Also, we had a BBQ Dinners, good Gospel Music, singing, Savation, Testimonies, Praying for the needs of people, the Word of God. Our main Mission was to "Win One Soul" at a time. The youngest person was 14 years old and the oldest person was 72 years old. What a time of Rejoicing!
I thank the Lord for all of the people that came out to work with us to make "The Lord's Day" a day of rejoicing! We plan to go to another neighborhood in September, 2009. We are so thankful for each soul. We pray and encouraged each person to study their Bibles, and get into a good Word-Bible believing Church. We give all of the Honor & Glory to the Lord!
"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the Name of the Lord shall be Saved." Acts 2:21.
John 3: 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
"Standing on the Scripture: ISAIAH 61:1
Education: Master Degree/Working on my 4th Degree
Call to Market Place Ministry
Ministries: Nursing Home/Hospital;Prison Ministry-Women; Steet Ministry;Telephone Ministry;Prayer Counselor at TV-Christian Station;Bible. com prayer line/internet Ministry;Home Bible Study; Super Markets; Community Advocate for the voiceless.
Gloria Jean Sullivan-Founder of CTMEM/Chaplain/Evangelist/Biblical Counselor/ Family Service Worker/Last Year Clinical Psychology Student. "Winning One Soul At A Time."
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We are thankful to all of our Veterans. We thank you for your service and all of your sacrifices. We have to be prayerful at all time. I am learning to be more reserve in the days to come. I do know that Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. Jesus came that you might have life, and have it more abundantly.
ReplyDeleteThis is the reason witnessing is so important. Winning one Soul at a time. Let God get the glory out of it all. Thank God for miracles. Let's make sure that all of our Veterans have a place to stay when they come home from war. Let's make sure that their families are being taken care of. It is dificult when the Veterans comes home from war. They are trying to heal and we need programs in place to him them. Jesus Loves You!
I have made up my mine to devote my time to answering prayer requests on line. I know that we are living in the evil days. I do have over 50 good friens that I can depend on. They are spirit-filled men and women and youths of God.God hears and answer prayers. We just need to work together with a pure heart. I know the Lord got all of the plans He has for my life under control. I will be watchful at all time, and prayerful. I am trying the spirit by the spirit and to see if it is of God.
ReplyDeleteThis is my week of fasting and praying for the issues the Lord put upon my heart. I thank the Lord for the break through all ready, how He is speaking to me, showing me visions, and the best is yet to come. Jesus Loves You!
Have you lead someone to the Lord today? This Year? Why do people hate Christians? Do you know that we have a mandate upon our lives to fulfill the Great Commission? Do you have a hunger for God? Do you seek wisdom of God? Are you turning to the Bible for your answers? We only have one living God, and His name is Jesus.
ReplyDeleteThere are evil and uncleaned spirits. Jesus was here He came against those spirits. It is time to be free from those demonic powers. Be touch by Jesus, and be healed. Come to Jesus, because He died for you. Come into our lives,Lord Jesus, and set us free from the works of Satan. Save us Lord and we thank you.
Father God, let the Anointing of God come upon them, and me.We give you all of the praise! Satan, loosed these people that they may be free. Satan, your powers are bind right now in the Mighty Name of Jesus. The people of God are free now, and they will not be in bondage any more. Give your heart to Jesus today! What ever situation that you are going through, Jesus is with you. Jesus Christ Loves you.
Pray for all of those who has esophagus spasm, we come against those spasm, and command it to line up with the Word of God. I command the fire of God to burn out any infection, that may cause these problems. Infection has to bow, cancer has to bow, right now in Jesus Name! Jesus sent His Word to heal you of all of your sickness and disease. By His stripes your are healed. Stand on the Word of God. Pray for the sick. Jesus Loves You!
ReplyDeleteRemember somone during this Thanksgiving Holiday Season. Give someone a warm meal for Thanksgiving! There are those that are less fortunate, and we can make a difference! FEED THE HUNGARY! Jesus Loves you!
ReplyDeleteBow you head and ask Jesus to come into your heart. Surrender to the Lord! Repent of your sins! Ask Jesus to come into your heart and save you. Rom. 10:9-10. Jesus Loves you.
ReplyDeleteJESUS SAVES!
Christ has redeemed us from Sin, Sickness, and Disease! God's will is total Healing, Body, Soul and Spirit!
ReplyDeleteWhen the Leper said to Jesus, Lord, if You're willing to, You can make me whole, he recognized that Jesus had the power to heal him but was not clear about His willingness to do it. Jesus said, I am willing.
How simple it should be for the people who have this confidence and faith in Jesus Christ and His salvation, to add faith to the body, as well as the spirit.
May God help us to get our eyes off the conditions and symptoms, no matter how bad they may be, and get them on Jesus.
ReplyDeleteDON'T RELY ON FEELINGS! RELY ON GOD'S WORD!
ReplyDeleteMANY PEOPLE MISS THE WAY OF HEALING BECAUSE THEY RELY ON THEIR FEELINGS. IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO RELY ON GOD'S WORD THAN ON ANYTHING ELSE. NOTHING BUT THE WORD CAN GIVE LIFE, AND THE WORD IS JESUS. THY WORD HAVE I HID IN MINE HEART (PSALMS 119:11).
ALL DARKNESS, SIN, AND AFFLICTION MUST GO! THE WORD OF GOD IS AGAINST THEM. YOU CANNOT HAVE THEM AND THE WORD OF GOD.
TO BELIEVE IS TO BE SAVED, TO BE HEALED, AND TO BE FREED. UNBELIEF IS NEITHER SALVATION, NOR HEALING, NOR FREEDOM. IF THOU CANST BELIEVE, ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE TO HIM THAT BELIEVETH (MARK 9:23). THIS TRUTH IS ESTABLISHED FOREVER!JESUS LOVES YOU.
TRUST
ReplyDeleteMY TRUST IS IN MY LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST. THERE ARE TIMES IN LIFE WHEN WE HAVE TO TRUST OTHERS. IT COMES A TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN IT IS JUST BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. I AM GOING THROUGH THIS SPIRITUAL BATTLE NOW, AND I REALIZE THAT IT IS JUST GOD AND I. I KNOW GOD IS WORKING OUT ALL OF THE KINKS IN MY LIFE. I LOVE LIFE AND THANKFUL FOR MY LIFE, HEALTH, AND STRENGTH. I AM THANKFUL FOR THE LORD WAKING ME UP THIS MORNING. I LOVE YOU FATHER GOD. THANK YOU FOR SENDING YOUR SON JESUS! THANK YOU JESUS FOR SENDING THE COMFORTER. JESUS LOVES YOU.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GLORY! THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING FOR ME, AND MY FAMILY. I AM THANKFUL FOR MY CHILDREN, GRANDKIDS, AND MY SONS IN-LAW. THANK YOU FOR MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS. LORD I PRAY FOR MY NEIGHBORS, AND FOR THOSE WHO PURPOSELY TRY TO USE ME, AND I PRAY FOR MY ENEMIES. JESUS LOVES YOU!
ReplyDeleteWhen we think of Martin Luther King Jr., we often think of him as a man with a vision, a dream. For most of us, King's dream comes vividly to life in the words of his most famous speech:
ReplyDelete"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream…
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. …"
Martin Luther King's dream came to life in those eloquent words. Others recorded their personal dreams in other forms. For example, in his series of paintings called "Migration" the artist Jacob Lawrence vividly portrayed the dreams of African Americans who escaped poverty and oppression in the South to follow their dream of freedom and a good job in the North. Other artists put their messages into their music. And poet Langston Hughes often shared his dreams -- his vision for what America could be -- in the poetry he wrote.
Explain to students that today you're going
A Dream Deferred
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Langston Hughes homepage
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
Source: Voices from the Gaps: LH
ReplyDeleteDeeply committed to the Black struggle for equality and human rights, Lorraine Hansberry's brilliant career as a writer was cut short by her death when she was only 35. A Raisin in the Sun was the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award - Hansberry was the youngest and the first black writer to receive this award. Hansberry's purpose was to show "the many gradations in even one Negro family." The characters suffer, hope, dream, and triumph over the enormous barriers erected by the dominant culture. Celebrated drama critic Brook Atkinson wrote: "She has told the inner as well as the outer truths about a Negro family in Chicago. The play has vigor as well as veracity and is likely to destroy the complacency of anyone who sees it." The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window is concerned with the moral problems of a Jewish intellectual in Greenwich Village. In discussing the play, Hansberry wrote: "The silhouette of the Western intellectual poised in hesitation before the flames of involvement was an accurate symbolism of my closest friends."
Primary Works
A Dream Deferred
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Langston Hughes homepage
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
I Died For Beauty
ReplyDeleteI died for beauty, but was scarce
Adjusted in the tomb,
When one who died for truth was lain
In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed?
"For beauty," I replied.
"And I for truth - the two are one;
We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a-night,
We talked between the rooms,
Until the moss had reached our lips,
And covered up our names.
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility – (466)by Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteI dwell in Possibility –
A fairer House than Prose –
More numerous of Windows –
Superior – for Doors –
Of Chambers as the Cedars –
Impregnable of eye –
And for an everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky –
Of Visitors – the fairest –
For Occupation – This –
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise –
Reprinted
I heard a Fly buzz (465)
ReplyDeleteby Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air –
Between the Heaves of Storm –
The Eyes around – had wrung them dry –
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset – when the King
Be witnessed – in the Room –
I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away
What portions of me be
Assignable – and then it was
There interposed a Fly –
With Blue – uncertain stumbling Buzz –
Between the light – and me –
And then the Windows failed – and then
I could not see to see
I reckon - when I count
ReplyDeleteAt all -
First - Poets - Then the Sun -
Then Summer - Then the
Heaven of God -
And then - the List is done-
But - looking back - the
First so seems
To Comprehend the Whole -
The Others look a needless Show -
So I write - Poets - All -
Their Summer - lasts a Solid
Year -
They can afford a Sun
The East - would deem
Extravagant -
And if the Further Heaven -
Be Beautiful as they prepare
For Those who worship Them -
It is too difficult a Grace -
To justify the Dream -
Poem by Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
ReplyDeleteEmily Dickinson
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant---
Success in Cirrcuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightening to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind---
Emily Dickinson
ReplyDeleteThis was a Poet — It is That
Distills amazing sense
From ordinary Meanings —
And Attar so immense
From the familiar species
That perished by the Door —
We wonder it was not Ourselves
Arrested it — before —
Of Pictures, the Discloser —
The Poet — it is He —
Entitles Us — by Contrast —
To ceaseless Poverty —
Of portion — so unconscious —
The Robbing — could not harm —
Himself — to Him — a Fortune —
Exterior — to Time —
The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (Magill Book Reviews)
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At a glance:
Author: Stephen Crane
First Published: 1898
Type of Work: Short Story
Genres: Short fiction, Parody, Western fiction
Subjects: Marriage, Trains, Frontier or pioneer life, Shooting
Locales: Yellow Sky, TX
The “bride” of Crane’s title plays a rather minor role in this story, in which her arrival in the jerkwater town of Yellow Sky is treated in a decidedly ironic manner. An extraordinarily plain woman from San Antonio, she has recently married the town’s sheriff, Potter, a man as ignorant of Pullman car etiquette as he is of the marital state and, more especially, of how Yellow Sky, which has pretensions to Eastern respectability, will respond to the fact of his marriage, about which the townspeople have not been forewarned.
Crane compounds the general ignorance and its attendant uncertainty in the next two of the story’s four parts, in which he introduces a drummer (traveling salesman) from the East, who knows nothing of the wild West, and Scratchy Wilson, the drunken desperado who is in fact an old man dressed as a kid dressed as an outlaw. The actual confrontation between Wilson, hurling challenges at Potter’s empty house, and Potter, slinking along the streets, hoping no one will see him and his bride, is funnier still.
The sheriff does indeed vanquish the desperado, not with his sixgun but with his bride. Wilson, no longer having Potter to play with anymore, shuffles off into the distance of history and obscurity. Potter, however, is vanquished too, by Crane’s deadly irony and by his own delusions about his bride, whom he mistakenly associates with the ersatz grandeur of his one Pullman-car experience.
Because it concerns the sudden juxtaposition of ideas, myths, and regions, it is appropriate that the story have a fragmented narrative structure and focus on no one single character, for Crane’s subject is not Potter or Wilson or the bride but, instead, the question of point of view, one which has cultural as well as aesthetic implications. Crane is concerned with the ways in which man perceives--or more often misperceives--his world and himself. He presents each character’s perceptions only to undercut them by presenting or implying a more realistic frame of reference. Crane clearly understood that there was a reality, but he also recognized that man’s understanding of that reality was often based upon a kind of optical illusion, as he suggests in the story’s opening sentence: “The great Pullman was whirling onward with such dignity of motion that a glance from the wit window seemed simply to prove that the plains of Texas were pouring eastward.”
Girl
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Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday school?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don't sing benna in Sunday school; you mustn't speak to wharbfflies will follow you; but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school; this is how to sew on a button; this is how to make a button-hole for the button you have just sewed on; this is how to hem a dress when you see the hem coming down and so to prevent yourself from looking like the slut I know you are so bent on becoming; this is how you iron your father's khaki shirt so that it doesn't have a crease; this is how you iron your father's khaki pants so that they don't have a crease; this is how you grow okrbafar from the house, because okra tree harbors red ants; when you are growing dasheen, make sure it gets plenty of water or else it makes your throat itch when you are eating it; this is how you sweep a corner; this is how you sweep a whole house; this is how you sweep a yard; this is how you smile to someone you don't like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don't like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this is how you set a table for tea; this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set a table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for lunch; this is how you set a table for breakfast; this is how to behave in the presence of men who don't know you very well, and this way they won't recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming; be sure to wash every day, even if it is with your own spit; don't squat down to play marblebsyou are not a boy, you know; don't pick people's flowerbsyou might catch something; don't throw stones at blackbirds, because it might not be a blackbird at all; this is how to make a bread pudding; this is how to make doukona; this is how to make pepper pot; this is how to make a good medicine for a cold; this is how to make a good medicine to throw away a child before it even becomes a child; this is how to catch a fish; this is how to throw back a fish you don't like, and that way something bad won't fall on you; this is how to bully a man; this is how a man bullies you; this is how to love a man; and if this doesn't work there are other ways, and if they don't work don't feel too bad about giving up; this is how to spit up in the air if you feel like it, and this is how to move quick so that it doesn't fall on you; this is how to make ends meet; always squeeze bread to make sure it's fresh; but what if the baker won't let me feel the bread?; you mean to say that after all you are really going to be the kind of woman who the baker won't let near the bread?
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Notes on The Lesson by Toni Cade Bambara
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Sylvia: the narrator and protagonist, a sassy, defiant African-American girl who resists the educational overtures of Miss Moore. The story's plot centers on a "teaching moment" or pedagogical breakthrough, where Sylvia is disturbed out of her complacency, having been exposed to the other side of the social ladder.
Sugar: one of Sylvia's better friends, a sidekick if you will. Sugar noticeably picks up on Miss Moore's lesson faster than Sylvia, and she even defies Sylvia's authority in the process, which contributes to Sylvia's feelings of disruption.
Flyboy, Fat Butt, Mercedes, Rosie, Junebug, Q.T.: other children who accompany Miss Moore on the field trip to F.A.O. Schwartz
Miss Moore: college educated woman who "gives back" to her community by volunteering to assist with the children's education. Ostensibly, or at least viewed from the narrator's perspective, Miss Moore is the antagonist of the story. She is preventing the children from having fun on their own terms, saddling them with boring, pointless instruction. When we step back with the understanding that Sylvia's point of view is limited and unreliable, we recognize that Miss Moore is an actual ally to the children; her mission is to raise their consciousness, to teach them to recognize the social inequality endemic to America. She adopts techniques reminiscent of Paulo Freire's problem posing methods, as discussed in Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Instead of teaching the children knowledge in the abstract, e.g. arithmetic, Miss Moore forces them to apply their math skills to real world, practical situations: paying a cab fare and calculating the 10% tip, pricing the items in the toy store, which serves as the basis for a larger life lesson about equal opportunity, thus making the children understand their disadvantaged position on the social scale. Her toughest sell is Sylvia. At the end of the story, Miss Moore has triumphed, in that Sylvia is determined to think the problem through and moreover do something about it.
The plot of the story takes the form of a journey from the Harlem ghetto to downtown Manhattan (F.A.O. Schwartz) and back. The cab ride to the store helps to build the dramatic tension (can Sylvia calculate the tip?, will the children behave?). The crux of the action takes place at the store, from the outside looking in, and then inside the store proper. We see the children taken out of their comfort zone. They experience an alienation effect. What are these poor kids doing in a store with toys that they could never afford? Bambara evokes their growing awareness primarily through dialogue and descriptions of their reactions.
Bambara leaves little doubt as to the meaning of the lesson, and some critics might accuse her of being overly dogmatic; however, what rescues the story from heavy-handedness is the telling of the story. Putting it in the saucy words of the stubborn, bossy Sylvia, we get to share in an intimate way the sea change occuring within her. Imagining the story told in the third person would likely result in a pedantic exercise. Told in the first, the lesson feels like the beginning of a personal transformation.
Bambara makes effective use of imagery, especially in the toy store. The microscope, paper weight, and sail boat all have lessons to teach. The microscope has symbolic value, for in its ability to reveal what cannot be seen with the naked eye, the microscope objectifies what Miss Moore would have the children discover in themselves, their unseen, unnoticed, blindness to their own oppression. The paper weight helps them to realize that they have no papers worth holding down. And the $1000 sailboat makes them acutely aware of their economic deficits. "Where we are is who we are," the teacher says. And now the children realize what she means.
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YOU JUST CAN’T SEE HOW MIGHTY
ReplyDeleteTHE ANGELS OF THE LORD ARE,
BUT LOOK CLOSER!
For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
(Psalm 91:11)
In the Garden of Gethsemane , when Jesus was about to be taken captive, one of his disciples pulled out a sword and swung it, cutting off the ear of the servant of the High Priest. The writer, Matthew, heard Jesus say, “Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.” Jesus continued, “Do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than TWELVE legions of angels?” (Matthew 26:52-53)
A typical Roman Legion consisted of between 6,000 and 12,000 fighting men. If ONE angel could do so much, think about the “twelve legions” Jesus spoke about! It’s wonderful to know that beings so powerful are protecting YOU right this minute!
These are the same powerful, wonderful
servants of the Lord protecting YOU!
My friend, angels provide assistance and safety to us, as we can see in today’s Scripture: “He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.” (Psalm 91:11) Those angels can “see” us; otherwise they could not respond to the call of God, to either help or otherwise intervene for your safety. When your world is dark and you believe that you’re all alone – you’re not! The angelic realm usually operates through something like a one-way mirror. They always see us, but God’s will for the most part is that we do not see them.
They are “invisible”. That’s hard for you to conceive or accept, because invisibility is thought to be only in the realm of science fiction or fantasy. We can write books about invisibility, but we can’t do it, and what we can’t do is generally thought to be impossible. Since angels are so seldom seen, many do not believe in them. Many decide that, “If you can’t see, touch, or hear something, it doesn’t exist.” Isn’t that amazing? We were taught to not believe in something or someone we cannot see! It is a belief system that stifles our creativity and it leaves us open to the danger of not believing in that which is real. Sometimes plain old seeing is not believing.
Seeing is not always believing!
I want you to know that your angels are real and they are sent from the Lord to serve you. In this season, God has summoned your angels to perform miraculous works that will bring you step after step closer to your Divine Success. This is your season to know that just because you cannot see your angels doesn’t mean you cannot feel their very power and see the results in your life everyday!
Are you ready for a miracle? Are you ready for supernatural, inexplicable occurrences to take place in your life? Well, my friend, God is ready to release His Divine Favor and wisdom in your life! Say goodbye to heartache! Say goodbye to pain! Say goodbye to lack! Say goodbye to disappointment! Say goodbye to fear! Say goodbye to want! Welcome abundance, success and joy!
Can you hear your Angels rejoicing in your victory?
ONE ANGEL SENT FROM THE LORD CAN SMITE ALL YOUR ENEMIES!
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smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand:
and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses. (II Kings 19:35)
A thin line between the world and the church!
ReplyDeleteWhy people have such hate in their hearts that they hack your accounts, and send a virus? Why do they pretend to be Christians, and have such hate and jealousy in their hearts? There is a lot of love to spread around and we don't have to be hating on one another! Nothing will stop me from getting the gospel out! I am called of God, and I greatly enjoy doing the will of my Father! "I always bounce back up!" There is an inner strength in me that the Lord put there! I don't have to fight the battles, because the battle is the Lord! I give the situation to the Lord! Jesus is Lord!!!!
ReplyDeleteRomans 8:35-39
ReplyDeleteWho shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Five times here in Romans 8 the apostle Paul has asked questions to draw out the amazing privileges of belonging to Jesus Christ. Verse 31: "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Verse 32: "How will he not also with him graciously give us all things?" Verse 33: "Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect?" Verse 34: "Who is to condemn?" And now today verse 35: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?"
The answers are so plain and so wonderful, Paul lets us supply them and rejoice in them. Verse 31: No one can be successfully against us - not even terrorists. Verse 32: God will supply everything we need, even when all seems lost. Verse 33: No one can make a charge stick against us in the court of heaven, no matter who accuses us. Verse 34: No one can condemn us. And today in verse 35: No one and no-thing can separate us from the love of Christ.
And what makes this text so relevant near the anniversary of 9/11 is that Paul spells out the kinds of things that cannot separate us from the love of Christ, and they are the sort of things that happened that day: "Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?" The reason Paul chose to mention so many terrible things is to make sure we knew he was not saying: Well, there are some things so horrible that they really could separate us from the love of Christ. No. Nothing can separate us from Christ’s love.
Matthew 24
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1Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. 2"Do you see all these things?" he asked. "I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down."
3As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. "Tell us," they said, "when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?"
4Jesus answered: "Watch out that no one deceives you. 5For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the Christ,[a]' and will deceive many. 6You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. 7Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. 8All these are the beginning of birth pains.
9"Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me. 10At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, 11and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people. 12Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold, 13but he who stands firm to the end will be saved. 14And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
15"So when you see standing in the holy place 'the abomination that causes desolation,'[b] spoken of through the prophet Daniel—let the reader understand— 16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. 17Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. 18Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. 19How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! 20Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. 21For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now—and never to be equaled again. 22If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened. 23At that time if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'There he is!' do not believe it. 24For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible. 25See, I have told you ahead of time.
26"So if anyone tells you, 'There he is, out in the desert,' do not go out; or, 'Here he is, in the inner rooms,' do not believe it. 27For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. 28Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
John 3:16 (NIV)
ReplyDelete16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life
Fourth Grader Asks Obama, "Why Do People Hate You"
ReplyDeleteOctober 15, 2009 4:49 PM
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: President Obama, like any other President, has his fair share of critics. Even fourth-graders have noticed.
"Why do people hate you?", a fourth-grade boy asked Obama at a town hall event in New Orleans today. "They're supposed to love you. And God is love."
"That's what I'm talking about," replied the President.
"First of all, I did get elected president, so not everybody hates me," Obama noted, before adding, "What is true is if you were watching TV lately, it seems like everybody's just getting mad all the time. And I -- you know, I think that you've got to take it with a grain of salt. Some of it is just what's called politics where, you know, once one party wins, then the other party kind of gets -- feels like it needs to poke you a little bit to keep you on your toes."
"And so you shouldn't take it too seriously," Obama told the boy. "And then, sometimes, as I said before, people just -- I think they're worried about their own lives. A lot of people are losing their jobs right now. A lot of people are losing their health care or they've lost their homes to foreclosure, and they're feeling frustrated. And when you're president of the United States, you know, you've got to deal with all of that."
"You get some of the credit when things go good. And when things are going tough, then, you know, you're going to get some of the blame, and that's part of the job," he continued. "But, you know, I'm a pretty tough guy."
"You've just got to keep on going, even when folks are criticizing you, because -- as long as you know that you're doing it for other people, all right?" Obama concluded.
The boy's question was the last one the President fielded at his event at the University of New Orleans.