Vote

While my hope is certainly that each of you will vote McCain, my deep desire is that everyone participates in the process.  The right to vote, to participate in the process is precious. Government for the people, by the people will make no differance when the people dont care.  I have heard the 1 out of every 2 people who are eligable to vote will fail to go out and do it.   When we ignore our freedoms, they will be taken away.  Also, I would like to encourage you to vote your convictions, not your race or your party.

Personal Responsibility

Mike Huckabee spoke of wanting to do more than continue to be poor while waiting for the government to come rescue him. I could not agree more. Having a spirit of entitlement can do nothing for this country except to hurt it.   Early in our history, it was a spirit of entitlement that caused men to believe that they had the right to force other men to work for them as slaves.   When abolitionists demanded the end of slavery, how many men said “  but, how will I run my farm without my slaves?” it is the same spirit that says “how will I have the things I want if the government doesn’t step in and help”.  Charity is important, we must help those who can not help themselves, but while we have the right to pursue any path that we would choose, while we are free from a caste system that says you can never rise above your station, we do not have the right to have everything provided for us from the government. We have the right to work, to produce, to achieve the best that we can with what we have been given.  We have the right to be treated equally, but not the right to own things we didn’t earn ourselves.  The American economy will not completely recover to be all that it can be until we understand that in the words of Thomas Jefferson, “we can not be a truly free nation, unless we are a truly moral nation”. Each person must learn a lesson from our history, and take personal responsibilty for the choices that we make.  This simple step, if taken by all Anerican’s would rectigy much of the problems that this nation faces. Health care for example, if people would take responsibility for the choices and stop trying to blame cigarette manufacturers for lung cancer, or McDonald’s for weight problems, if we would realize that these things are preventable and make better choices fewer people would need to be treated for these diseases and money could be diverted elsewhere. If Dr,’s did not fear frivolous law suits then they would not need as much insurance, and with out paying all that insurance, the Dr. could charge less in fees. We must realize that we are responsible for our own choices, and that everything we do affects those around us.  None of us live in a bubble. We are all connected and must live as such.

rnc

I am a little disappointed that McCain did not choose Huck, but think that we have a good chance with Palin. I am learning more about her and think I can support her. Huck made such a wonderful speech that for the first time since Huck has been out, I am ready to move forward. I really liked the speech given by McCain as well, he was sober minded and well spoken.  His stance on some issues are not as strong as I would have them be, ie: life, marriage, and the economy, but I think that he will bring strong leadership to the Whitehouse.  Please pray that God would give the American voters wisdom to vote for the best leadership for our country and that they would not get lost in the emotion of the speeches given by rock star Obama.

river of life

I remember as a child singing ” i have a river of life flowing out of me that makes the lame to walk and the blind to see”  I thought of Jesus living within me, of how He would work directly through me, but now I see it is so much more than that.  Oswald Chambers talks about how a rivers end touches places that the beggining knows nothing of. God gave me this vision of something that I did for someone that showed no real fruit that I could see, but later in passing that person mentions the words I said thinking little of them and the next person was touched.  This is not to say that I have done anything, only that God’s word never returns void, that even when we can not see the work He has done, when we draw near to Him a river that flows through us, goes to places we know nothing of.  He works in ways that we do not know, and our concentration must simply be on knowing Him, drawing to him, and speaking His words. There is so much that we can not see, we miss the forest for the trees often. Draw to Him and trust.

He is always there

I have been somewhat remiss in keeping up with all that God is doing. There are a few major things that God is doing for me. first, recently, there was a very horrible crime against a young lady very near my home. My heart breaks for this young girl, who was taken against her will into a vacant home and held there for at least three hours. Thankfully, she was able to escape by tying sheets together and climbing out a second story window.  With this happening so close to my home, my concern turned to my own children. My daughter will no longer have her big brother to walk to school with, as he will be in the middle school. I fell on my face before the Lord, I needed a job that would allow me take my daughter to school, and the market is so bad that this just didn’t seem possible. the Lord provided me with a part-time job that would allow me to focus on work while I am there and be able to be home more often. he did it in such a miraculous way, that I know that He was in it. God is never late! He is always on time and rarely early. He is watching over us and active with every part of life. Going from full time plus to part time is a little daunting financially, but I know that Jehovah Jirah will provide.

Questioning science

 It seems to be that when it comes to certain scientific issues that studies are entered into with the idea of what the outcome should be.  I question closed minded science. Science that would silence those that would disagree.  This is america. I am forced to sit back while people with foul messages speak their mind, in the name of freedom of speech, but those who speak a positive message of God and of life, they are silenced. When those who are proponants of ID would come foward with their questions, they are silenced. It is not that I think their science is better, or that I simply want to believe them. Faith is about believing what you do not see.  I don’t need science or anything else to tell me that their is a God. the thing that I take issue with is that they are not heard, that when photos are shown of what appears to be ploystrate fossils they are ignored or called something else. when we are told that polystrate trees are found all over the world, science says no that is just something made up by ID proponants. when i ask what caused the big bang, no one knows, but are strongly against saying the uncaused cause is God.  If we go back to before man, before earth, before big bang, what was the cause? Nothing can come from nothing. if there were gasses, what caused those?  I am told that the world wide flood theory has been debunked, by what, when, where, by who?  by those who would would not believe it if God reached down and told them Himself.

Love

Are we loving God and our neighbor? There is so much more to that than just not judging them. It means that we must put others ahead of ourselves. There needs and wants. Jesus says when you feed and clothe the least of these you have done it for me. Sometimes, our greatest ministry can just be to love the unlovable. Now, I have had a great deal of trouble with this and I never even knew it. I had heard a story about loving a homeless man in a restaurant and was told that we should love the unlovable. I guess I always thought that was not a problem for me because to me the homeless man was not unlovable.  When I went through the period of judgement that I shared, I learned that I did have a problem loving the unlovable because they were to me, unlovable.  How could I love people who had hurt me so badly?  God couldn’t want that? right? yes, He did. He meant for me to serve and love those who had hurt me. What group is the unlovable for you? People guilty of a certain sin? Fat people? Thin people? Dirty People? search your heart and then find some one that falls into that category and love them.

Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design

The Bible says that God created the world in six days. I believe that.  It is important to understand that we can not pick and choose what parts of the Bible we will believe.  We can not say, ” oh, well I really like this verse about God loving us, but not this other one”. God is God, we must accept everything about him or nothing.

There are many scientist who are starting to say that we must have been the product of intelligent design. They feel that the more they know about life the more unlikely the idea of evolution is to be true. The problem is you will never hear the message that they have because the scientific community has shut them up. The scientist are “black balled” so to speak. They are unable to get published when they come out and say that there are scientific holes in Darwin’s theory.

Did you know that Darwin’s theory is racist?  He believed that certain races evolved first and that other evolved last.  He felt the races that evolved earlier were less developed and more “ape like”. I believe that being told that is why people allowed atrocities like slavery. There was one case that was discussed in answers in Genesis that stated one man was dragged to the US about 100 years ago, who was placed in the Bronx zoo to study him! His name was Ota Benga.  The zoo keepers stated that the “angry little black man” seemed to be somewhat ape like. I must say, if I was placed in the zoo for study, I would be quite angry as well!!

 http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/OneBlood/chapter10.asp 

we are all God’s children, created equal, and we are all desended from Adam and Eve. Therefore, we are all related!  The human race one big family, it is time we understood this and behaved that way.  Darwin taught us that life was an accident, that we have no real value and that some of us have greater value than others. This is not true! We were created with a purpose, by a God who loves us!

Ben Stein has produced a documentary that reveals the scientists that would be heard if they were allowed. It is called ” Exiled – no intelligence allowed” I would challenge those who are christian and unchristian alike to see the film. He discusses the need for science to look into all aspects of evolution and is an “eye opening film” about the science of evolution.
 
 http://answersingenesis.org/articles/2008/03/13/meeting-of-minds
 
or for more information you can go to – it is called expelled – no intelligence allowed
 
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/playground.php
 

Wow! This is such an incredible thought. The last time I prayed really hard about whether or not something was God’s will, I can honestly, and unfortunatley, say that I wanted the thing i was praying about more than I wanted God. We must want God and his Spirit more. More than whatever the other thing we are praying about it. I hope that this blesses you as much as it has me and that it causes you to choose to want Him more. Have a great day and God bless! 

My Utmost for His Highest – March 20

Title: Friendship With God

Key Verse: Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do?

Click link below to study this verse: Genesis 18:17
        http://www.studylight.org/desk/?query=ge+18:17

Its Delights. This chapter brings out the delight of real friendship with
God as compared with occasional feelings of His presence in prayer. To be
so much in contact with God that you never need to ask Him to show you His
will, is to be nearing the final stage of your discipline in the life of
faith. When you are rightly related to God, it is a life of freedom and
liberty and delight, you are God’s will, and all your common-sense
decisions are His will for you unless He checks. You decide things in
perfect delightful friendship with God, knowing that if your decisions are
wrong He will always check; when He checks, stop at once.

 Its Difficulties. Why did Abraham stop praying when he did? He was not
intimate enough yet to go boldly on until God granted his desire, there
was something yet to be desired in his relationship to God. Whenever we
stop short in prayer and say – “Well, I don’t know; perhaps it is not
God’s will,” there is still another stage to go. We are not so intimately
acquainted with God as Jesus was, and as He wants us to be – “That they
may be one even as we are one.” Think of the last thing you prayed about -
were you devoted to your desire or to God? Determined to get some gift of
the Spirit or to get at God? “Your Heavenly Father knoweth what things ye
have need of before ye ask Him.” The point of asking is that you may get
to know God better. “Delight thyself also in the Lord; and He shall give
thee the desires of thine heart.” Keep praying in order to get a perfect
understanding of God Himself.

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Taken from ‘My Utmost for His Highest’, by Oswald Chambers. © l935 by Dodd
Mead & Co., renewed © 1963 by the Oswald Chambers Publications Assn.,
Ltd., and is used by permission of Barbour Publishing, Uhrichsville, Ohio.
All rights reserved.

a few more thoughts on the law

When our eyes are on the law, our tendency is to keep score. How many times I have found myself thinking that I was good because I was keeping all of the rules. We are told in the Bible that there are none good no not one. Also, that the heart is deceitful above all things. Jesus said that these two commandments Love the the Lord and Love your neighbor summed up the law. We are to allow obedience to God and Love Rule our lives. It is not until we realize that whatever is good in us, is from Him, that we can truly love people.

Let love be the rule when disagreeing with our brothers and sisters. When disagreements, must take place, especially in regard to doctrine, focus on the majors. I remember, a time that I attended a church where homeschooling was the rule. I am a proponent of homeschooling in the right situation; however, my husband felt pretty strong that he didn’t want to home-school. Then, my son was diagnosed with dyslexia and we agreed he would be better served in the public school. He would be taught by people who specialize in children with such problems.  I was ostracized at church and all but told I was not a good mother. How could I entrust my children to the public school system?  Other things that I was criticized as a mother for included, not baking enough, allowing my kids to eat happy meals sometimes, and letting them drink soda with their pizza. Apparently, good moms don’t do these things. I ended up feeling like I could not trust a church family who seemed to be constantly judging me. Whether or not I raise my kids to understand our faith is a major. Whether or not I make the personal choice to allow my children to drink soda is not.  My children are healthy, fit and active. I look back on how guilty I felt and laugh. It has been nearly ten years since then. My children are active in church, healthy and fit. They have all made personal commitments to Christ. They have learned balance and moderation. I have learned from this experience, that we are all different and that most of us are doing what we feel is best for our children. My initial desire was to run. To avoid people, and at that time that meant especially Christian people, because  I found more love and acceptance from the world. We are the body of Christ, we should be reaching out and loving people. Not judging them for not sharing our opinions.