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The Nation Life Cycle

19 Oct

Many have seen this, but how can you ever get tired of such a truth you can visually witness and see for yourself. 

Nations all seem to go through the same life cycle: “from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependency; from dependence back again into bondage.”  – Alexander Tyler, 1750

We are flying through apathy rather quickly and in the strong beginning of dependency.  If we go as quickly through dependency as we did apathy, we’ll see bondage real soon again.

 The one world government groups have been doing their best to push us towards dependency.  What they don’t realize is their world leaders are going to push the whole world back into bondage.

Who will save that world from him (antichrist) and that bondage?  The same One who has your sins covered now if you accept His sacrifice.

Thy Kingdom Come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven!

Our Lord Jesus will be ruling and reigning for 1,000 years after the end of the Tribulation.

 
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When Do We Sink?

18 Oct

Matthew 14:25- 25During the fourth watch of the night Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. 26When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. 27But Jesus immediately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” 28“Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” 29“Come,” he said.   Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Jesus. 30But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me!” 31Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. “You of little faith,” he said, “why did you doubt?”

When do we sink in life? 

I have an answer built on experience and even more what I have seen other’s experience in their lives.

We sink when we take our eyes off of the Lord.  When we think it is our strength and our doing that is making our world go round smoothly, that’s we are in danger of slowly going under.

Jesus asks, “Why did you doubt?”

Peter saw the waves and the storm and took his eyes off the only One who could get him through the situation.

How did our world, our country, get into the situation it’s in?  It took its eyes off the only One who could help them.

If you want to live for the Lord you need to keep your eyes on Him.  If you don’t want to live for the Lord, the storm is only going to get worse.

 
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Quote – Billy Graham

16 Oct

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.
Billy Graham

Have you ever heard anyone say this? 

This individual is not looking around to see what they can do for God or anybody else.  They are looking for someone or something to entertain them.

Children are notorious for this quote.  Makes sense as most children have the attitude that life revolves around me or worse there’s no guardian around to pay attention to them and off to trouble they go.

Produce fruit for the Lord.  This requires study and reaching out to the others.  This will keep you as busy as you want to be.

 
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He Who Dies With The Most Toys…..

15 Oct

STILL DIES!

An oldie, but a goody.  Still very appropriate for this generation. 

You will take NOTHING with you accept what you have or haven’t done for the Lord.

 
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Absent From the Body Is To Be Present With The Lord

14 Oct

It’s a scripture many have heard but it helps put to rest the idea that we go into a place unconscious sleep upon death until the rapture or some set time.

2 Corinthians 5:8 – 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. (NKJV)

Paul says it here in 2 Corinthians and then also has this to say in 1 Thessalonians 5:10.

1 Thessalonians 5:10 – 10He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him. (NIV)

Regardless of rather we sleep, which is another term for this body dying on earth, we live together with Him.

What does Jesus say on the subject?

Luke 23:39-43 – 39One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”

 40But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”

 42Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

 43Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise.”

Here’s a thief on a cross and he recognized Jesus as the person He said He was.  He acknowledged Jesus as Lord.

Jesus said, “Today you will be with me in paradise.”

You can bet that the greatest place you can come up with on earth will fall a thousand times short of paradise with the Lord.

 
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We Love Him, Because He First Loved Us

13 Oct

1 John 4:19 – 19We love him, because he first loved us.  (King James)

God is love so much that he sent His Son to die for us.

Romans 5:8 – But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

I can tell you that I love God, because he first loved me.  I’m a fallen creature and I would have better things to do than serve an un-personable, selfish, punishing and unloving creator.

We don’t have to worry about that though.  You’re not so great that the Lord couldn’t resist coming back for you.  He does it, because that’s how wonderful our God is.

For years I would do my own thing and sometimes rarely think of God during the day.  The less you think of Him the more sinning your doing.  Was He there?

He was there to pick me up from my ignorance when I came crying my eyes out.

We can’t, and I mean can’t begin to understand how much God loves us.  I just know when I now talk to Him throughout the whole day, pray for the smallest of need in my life, praise His glorious name whenever I get the chance, my life is more blessed as I go through it.

My Best Friend is your Best Friend.  Some of you may not look at Him as that yet.  Start treating Him like He is and watch your life change for the better.

 
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He’s Strongest In Our Weakness

11 Oct

2 Corinthians 12:9 – 9But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

Paul lets us know that when we are strong and macho in ourselves, Christ has a hard time working with that.

Why?  Because we’re dealing with a problem of humility, selfishness, and a me, not He attitude.

We have pride as humans.  I got this Lord.  I’ve got this all handled and figured out.  I don’t have to bother you with this because I am the Man (or Woman if you’re female)!

God didn’t make you to act alone for yourself and by yourself.  He wants to be hooked into you as your Father.  Jesus realizes that without Him, you’re a mess.  In this case He didn’t want Paul to become conceited.

So with that how can we be of service best to the Kingdom of God?

In weakness!

We need to die to ourselves, our wants, our desires.  If they’re ours instead of the Lords, the ideas are nothing but sin and temporary dead ends anyway.

His power is perfect in our weakness.  Wow can I vouch for that.  Not only what I have experienced in my own life, but what I see in others.  Oh yeah, be observant.  It can save you a lot of heartache and save you a lot of time on not having to make the same mistakes.

How does someone end up as a missionary and trying to reach people while living in harsh conditions to where most people wouldn’t even think of attending?  Their love for the Lord.  The pushing aside of their lives because of their love for Jesus and because they want others to know Him also.

We got it backwards in life.  We think the guy who makes millions and dares to be rich should be admired and the guy who chooses to live in a third world country and forgo the American Dream has a screw loose.  You think God looks at it that way?

When we die, is anything else but what God thinks or cares about going to matter?

Today we need to submit, so He can become strong in our lives!

That requires us to do what He wants and not what we want.

 
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Quote – C. S. Lewis

09 Oct

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis

You’re not a body!  You live forever! 

We are eternal beings and will be spending it somewhere.

This life is short and if you read the Bible, which is God’s Word, you realize we need to die to ourselves and seek Him.

One mega short earthly lifetime serving oneself will be the biggest mistake many will make for eternity.

 
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Persecution Is All Around The World And Soon Will Be Strong Here

08 Oct

Many nations already outlaw Christianity.  In China communism and Christianity don’t mix.  Many Islamic Countries don’t allow it in their borders.  America is becoming tolerant of almost every other religion besides Christianity. 

Panic? 

We don’t need to panic, we need to put our faith where it is supposed to be all the time and that is in God.  

 Matthew 5:10-12 – 10Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  11“Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. 12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

The Beatitudes end with these three scriptures. 

You can be persecuted for a lot of things in life.  None of them besides your love for Jesus and the true God will lead to a blessing. 

Don’t underestimate the word blessing.  Jesus says “Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven,” 

Your love for Jesus and the Father does not go unnoticed ever.  If it wasn’t worth saying, Jesus wouldn’t have emphasized it. 

John 15:20 – Remember the words I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also. If they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours also. 

Prepare for that day so you can be strong, and when discouraged realize that the One truly in charge is always looking over you.  How much greater if the reason He has to take extra care of you is because you’re standing up for the Kingdom of Heaven and the Glorious King, Jesus Christ Himself!

 
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Throw Off Everything That Hinders Us

07 Oct

Hebrews 12:1 – 1Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.

We have been raised in a country that has allowed us to have the Word of God available at all times.  Wonderful teachers are available and easily accessed to study God’s Word.  It is our lifeline of understanding God.  You can know God more and more.  There are people out there who are humble servants trying to get this message to you.

On the flip side there are others out there to tell you exactly what you want to hear, especially if you are meeting their needs.

We need to quit running all over the course blindly.

Picture this:  You step up to the starting line and bang you’re off on your journey for God.

You’re running along for about a half mile and wow, look at that nice car!  It won’t take long to look that over.  The salesman looks at you and says I can get you into that no time.  Let’s talk about what kind of payment you can afford.  You say, “I really need to get back to my race keep my attention on the real prize, but they convince you that there is plenty of time to finish your race. 

You walk out and you think wow that was a little more than I was expecting, but I’ll do alright.  Back on the run and get down the road about another 2 miles.  Hey that’s a really nice house.  All the people around me are getting into these kinds of houses.  You only live once right?! (Wrong)

Back to that race, you know for not much more I could go on that killer vacation I wanted to always go on.  I can afford it.  While you’re there you love it so much they talk you into buying a condo.

What were we doing earlier?  Oh yeah, back to the race.  You know what it’s really getting hard to have time to run.  I’m finding that I have to work more for debts.  Hey why should I have to wait till I get older to have these great things? 

If we’re chasing after these things on the earth, are we chasing after the things of God?  Are we running the race that is marked out for us?

Or are we running our own race?

 
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