Have you ever asked yourself, "Why am I here?" or "What will happen to me when I die"? I hope you come closer to finding the answer to your questions by reading this blog.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 King James 2000 Bible I was meditating on this verse of scripture. lI looked up to the sky and trying to envision the Lord Jesus' return. I want to hear his voice. Now, I do not like thunder, especially loud thunder. I find myself being frightened in a bad storm with loud thunder as it echos in the forest around my house. As a child of God, trusting in Jesus death on the cross in my place for my sin and his resurrection, I do not think I will be fearful when He returns. There were times mentioned in the Bible where individuals heard the voice of God and others thought it was just thunder. Matthew 3:17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear you him. John 12:27-33 Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.Father, glorify Your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
The crowd standing there heard it and said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to Him.
In response, Jesus said, “This voice was not for My benefit, but yours. Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”He said this to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.
Acts 9:1-7 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he went on his way, he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven shone around him. And falling to the ground, he heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?”And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.”The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one.
So how will it be when Jesus returns to Earth at the end? Will you hear His voice and understand Him calling you, or will you hear thunder? Jesus said, "My sheep hear my voice, I know them, and follow Me". John 10:27 <linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/cookieconsent@3/build/cookieconsent.min.css" /><scriptsrc="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/cookieconsent@3/build/cookieconsent.min.js"></script><script>window.addEventListener("load", function(){
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Someone posted an article on FaceBook comparing Donald Trump to King Herod the Great in the Bible.
He wrote, "Herod, like his modern day counterpart The Donald, had a endless supply of money, power, and personal will. Herod never met a problem or a challenge he couldn’t solve…or so it seems. Imagine his demands". Who Donald Trump Reminds Me Of In pondering his observations, I remembered Donald Trump telling Senator Ted Cruz that no one likes him and his peers in the Senate have not endorsed him for President. Considering that statement, I thought of Jesus cleansing the Temple in Jerusalem. He turned over the money tables and drove out those who had given themselves over to corruption. Senator Ted Cruz mentions in his book, " Ted Cruz, A Time For Truth, Reigniting the Promise of America", instances where members of the Senate tried to pass bills that would be for their best interests and at the same time conceal what they were doing from their constituents. He exposed them and fought for what was right. I am sure some resent him for this, especially for disclosing these things in his book for all to read. Jesus Christ did not make many friends when he threw out those who were involved in corruption inside the temple. In fact, the Jewish leaders wanted to have him arrested and killed. Senator Ted Cruz stands for truth, both in the Word of God and our Constitution of the United States. He loves the Constitution and lives his life to protect it and defend it. He memorized the Constitution when he was in school and I am sure knows it inside and out. I formed my decision to support Senator Ted Cruz for President after reading his book where he lays out his life as a young man and his convictions as a Christian and his political career.
Personally I want a leader who will not be bought and persuaded to compromise his/her principles.
I find myself remembering my mother today. The things she tried to teach me when I was younger seemed so meaningless and "old fashioned". After
all, "times have changed", I would tell her.
Have they? I think
not. Life has a way of repeating
circumstances. The only changes are
different people, different surroundings, and a different calendar year.
Choices are the same. Do what the "world"
or "everyone else" does, or do what God's Word tells us to do. At the
end of life that is what each of us will have to give an account to God for.
HIS way or our way.
Do we follow the straight and narrow path that
leads to LIFE or the wide path we choose to live for our own wants and
pleasures?
So many of my choices that led to emotional pain
could have been avoided if I had listened to my mother (and dad). You see, they had been there too, choices they
made or had seen others make.
I thank God for giving me to parents that loved Him
and raised me to go to church and serve God. Not just attend church but be
involved in church. Thank you Father God for both my parents. Take good care of
them for me.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
THE FUNCTION
OF THE PANCREAS IN THE BODY IN RELATION
TO MINISTERS OF THE GOSPEL BEING ATTACKED WITH PANCREATIC CANCER.
I
am hearing of so many ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ being diagnosed
with Pancreatic Cancer today. Others
are also, but it seems like a large amount of ministers are. To me, it seems like an attack of Satan on
the minister and also to the church to weaken the Body of Christ. The main leadership roles in the church is to teach, build
up and strengthen the believers in the Word of God and encourage them to do good works. Below are my ponderings on ministers' Spiritual Gifts in the church in relation to the function of the
pancreas in the physical body.
1.The
pancreas produces insulin. Sugar
metabolism is the process of turning the energy from the foods youeat into fuel your body's cells need to grow and
function.
o Insulin is one of many hormones that
helps the body turn the food we eat into
energy. Also, insulin helps us store energy that we
can use later. After we eat, insulin
works by causing sugar to go from the blood into our body's cells to make fat,
sugar, and protein. When we need more energy between meals, insulin will help us
use the fat, sugar, and protein that we have stored.
o
A
minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to teach and help the Body of Christ
to understand and put into practice the Word of God in their lives, motivating
them to do good works for the Lord.
From
him the whole body, joined and held together by
every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its
work.
Paul’s
Prayer for Spiritual Growth
14 When
I think of all this, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,[e]15 the Creator of everything in heaven and on earth.[f]16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower
you with inner strength through his Spirit. 17 Then Christ will make
his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into
God’s love and keep you strong. 18 And may you have the power to
understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how
deep his love is. 19 May you experiencethe love of Christ, though it is too
great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness
of life and power that comes from God.
4.I
believe the pastor could be the “Pancreas” to the Body of Christ. The Word of God is our Spiritual Food, but it
is the Pastor that builds the church up
in the Holy Faith, as the pancreas, in the physical body, produces insulin to
build or fuel cells in the Body of Christ to grow and
function.
5.1
Thessalonians 5:10-12 Christ
died for us so that, whether we are dead or alive when he returns, we can live
with him forever. So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing. [
Paul’s Final Advice ] Dear brothers and sisters, honor those who are your
leaders in the Lord’s work. They work hard among you and give you spiritual
guidance.
6.Pastors
motivate us to live for Jesus Christ, build our faith and do good
works for the Lord.
Just
as the body is dead without breath, so also faith is dead without good works.
9.The
account of Job in the Old Testament shows how Satan wanted to attack Job because
of his relationship of obedience to God.
Job
1
New
International Version (NIV)
1 In
the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and
upright; he feared God and shunned evil. 2 He had seven sons and
three daughters, 3 and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand
camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large
number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the
East.
6 One day the angels[a]
came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan[b]
also came with them.7 The
Lord said to
Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the
Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth,
going back and forth on it.”
8 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered
my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright,
a man who fears God and shuns evil.”
Job
2:4
“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has for
his own life.5 But now
stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse
you to your face.”
6The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he
is in your hands; but you must spare his life.”
Job
42:10,12
After Job had prayed
for his friends, the Lord restored his
fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had
before.
12 The Lord blessed the latter
part of Job’s life more than the former part.
10.In
all of the sufferings Satan put Job through, he did not curse
God.
13.One
tactic is to divide the Body of Christ and to scatter them. By attacking the minister, leader of the
church, there will be those that become discouraged for various reasons and
leave. Some will become angry with God
if the minister of a growing church is not healed and will lose faith regarding
prayer. Some will not like a new
minister’s leadership or message delivery.
Mature Christians will accept God’s will and will not allow the enemy to
shake their faith. 14. My pastor has been fighting pancreatic cancer for 2 years now. This is truly a miracle of God. Most people that have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer do not live more than a few weeks to a few months. My pastor has been lifted up in prayer worldwide daily. God said that "Nothing, absolutely nothing is impossible for Him". I heard some say in the church, they did not believe my pastor would live long. I heard some say they did not have faith to believe God would heal him. Some related his cancer to their husband or wife that died shortly after being diagnosed. There were many who voiced doubt instead of claiming God's Word and promises. I personally believe this is an attack of Satan against my pastor. We had just moved into our new sanctuary around the time pastor was diagnosed. He had surgery, but the surgeon could not help him. He was told he had a short time to live. Yes, that was two years ago. He started preaching again just seven months after his surgery and has preached every Sunday since then, unless he was away. He is looking healthy and feeling well except for a few days after he has chemo. I believe that, like Job, God will restore everything to my pastor that the enemy has stolen from him. 15. If you know someone fighting pancreatic cancer or any other type of cancer, speak words of life to them. Pray the Word of God over them and remind God of His Promises. Do not give in to doubt, no matter how bad the situation looks. Jesus Christ bore our sicknesses and diseases when He was scourged and nailed to the cross. By His stripes we ARE healed. Present tense. Put on the whole armor of God in prayer and come against Satan from inflicting the person you are praying for and bind Satan in Jesus Name for doing any more harm to them. Praise God and thank God for the healing He provided for them through His Son Jesus Christ. Ask God to let them live according to the time He ordained for them and to do the good works He prepared for them to do before He created the world.
Friday, December 30, 2011
When I opened my homepage this morning on the computer, I read an article about the New Madrid earthquake fault . I did a Google search, as I have seen several maps should this scenario come to pass. I thought I would post it here as I think it is Food for Thought.
Is the New Madrid Fault about to Split the USA?
2011-11-02 21:26
People from St. Louis all across Missouri to the western edge of that state reported an unusual odor recently. Mrs. Prophecy Dude did some research and even after dispelling all the anti-government conspiracy theories, there was sufficient information to make this interesting and worth sharing. Here are a couple of articles describing the incident that took place 2011-10-26:
Then there is a lady in Oklahoma, originally from earthquake-riddled California, who believes she can predict them by certain characteristic odors she says are released before an earthquake strikes.
Some simple Internet research readily uncovers other historic testimonies purporting certain odors before earthquakes strike. Witnesses of the great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 reported odors days before the devastating quake hit. These are all odors similar to what is being described in Missouri.
If an earthquake is about to shake again the Mississippi River area along the New Madrid fault, it could be devastating. Here’s a brief description from the City New Madrid’s website:
The New Madrid earthquakes were the biggest earthquakes in American history. They occurred in the central Mississippi Valley, but were felt as far away as New York City, Boston, Montreal, and Washington D. C. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt them in the White House. Church bells rang in Boston. From December 16, 1811 through March of 1812 there were over 2,000 earthquakes in the central Midwest, and between 6,000-10,000 earthquakes in the Bootheel of Missouri where New Madrid is located near the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
In the known history of the world, no other earthquakes have lasted so long or produced so much evidence of damage as the New Madrid earthquakes. Three of the earthquakes are on the list of America’s top earthquakes: the first one on December 16, 1811, a magnitude of 8.1 on the Richter scale; the second on January 23, 1812, at 7.8; and the third on February 7, 1812, at as much as 8.8 magnitude.
Even something remotely similar to the force of these earthquakes would incredibly devastate the region and affect the United States tremendously, especially with the current situation of a precarious economy. Think about how much more the area has developed since the first of these series of quakes struck exactly two centuries ago this coming December 16, 2011.
More powerful earthquakes are striking the earth. In 2010, there were 120 quakes magnitude 6 or greater, but so far in 2011 the earth has experienced over 180 of them. What would it be like if the next New Madrid quake was greater than 8.8 in magnitude? Some predict the United States would virtually split in two. There are even map scenarios floating around with just such a picture.
There are serious scientific explanations for how such an event could occur, but there is a much more important cause and it relates directly to Israel. The immortal covenant promise of God to Abraham that describes how national relationships to Israel will be rewarded falls into place. Genesis 12:3 says that nations who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. Essential in all of this is Jerusalem, the jewel of Israel. If the United States supports a divided Jerusalem, it may be that the result of that action could result in a divided United States—a literal division. The United States is conspicuously absent in end time prophecy. There are several scenarios that can place the United States incapable of reacting to an attack on Israel (Ezekiel 38 and 39), all have to do with the economy for sure, but a major upheaval such as another New Madrid earthquake could be one of those scenarios.
Such gloom and doom from Prophecy Dude! It’s Mrs. Prophecy Dude’s fault for taking Prophecy Dude down this trail! It’s all speculation. Don’t sell your season passes to Six Flags Over St. Louis yet.
Here is what you should do. Draw close to God. He wants to know you in an intimate way and He will provide you supernatural experiences as you press in to know Him more and more. This will get you ready for anything that might come along.
Another end time sign is that the gospel will be preached and we believe related to that will be the last great awakening—a revival of tremendous proportions just before the harvest of the ages. For those who are whole-heartedly serving the Lord Jesus, His promises will be more real than ever. He will provide—even supernaturally. Remember, He’s not coming for a weak, emaciated church, but one that is without spot or wrinkle, standing strong in faith with victory. The greatest time for the church is just ahead of us. Let’s do our best to boldly please the Lion of Judah before He calls us home!
