Wake Up!

Jul1

I awoke this morning at 4:44 A.M.  I believe 4 means trouble.  We have trouble multiplied by 3 in the world today.  God’s government, as reflected in the Bible is 12, it is perfect government.  It is being challenged on every front.

I look at the clock and many times, more than just mere coincidence, I see 11:11.  To me this is man’s government in transition. 1 x 4 = 4…trouble.  Man’s government being touted as the means to peace has brought much trouble to our world.

The real battle is God’s government versus satan’s government; there is war in the heavenlies and earth reflects the battle.  There have been many challenges for rule of the earth since the beginning of time.  This time, I believe, it is for “all the marbles”.  The attitude seems to me to be:  “Go for broke!”  “No holds barred!”

Contrary to what you may believe at this point, I am not a numerologist, nor am I a reactionary,  but I believe God is speaking through every means possible to people who have ears to hear and eyes to see.

The message is:  WAKE UP! It’s later than you think.

Many are issuing warnings about the time we are living in now.  Some are trying to get the message of the gospel out and others are like ostriches with their heads buried in the sand hoping that this will all go away so they can get back to business as usual.

You cannot ignore this.  It will not go away.

There is no return to normal as we have known it.  There is only war on every hand right now.

Some have written about pastors who have sold their soul to the god of mammon  They think they are free and doing what is best; in time they will see and know the truth, but then it will be too late.

“Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, until all that remains is that which cannot be shaken.”  my version of Hebrews 12:27

God will have a people.  A people who are made in His image and His likeness.  A people who are set apart to do His will.  We are in the process of becoming that people.  But, it is a choice, a decision.  And, as I have said many times before, no decision is a decision.

This train is moving fast down the tracks,”Faster than a speeding bullet.”, and there will be no stops between” here” and “there it is”.  It will get nasty outside.  Keep your hands inside. If you mess with God’s plans you may get cut off.  There will come a great “falling away”.  Some of the people you love will not go with you.  Prepare your heart for it now while it is still today.

Dedicated, consecrated, set apart: “My heart is fixed oh Lord trusting in thee.” Psalm 112:7  It is the only place of safety.  Then it will not matter what man does.  Only God’s “will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”.  He will keep what you give to Him. Trust Him.

Some will fall during the time of persecution.  It will be used to serve God’s purpose. These martyrs know who they are.  Others will be kept safe in the secret place of the Most High.  Can we let God be God?

This will be the end of all things, as we know it, if the world chooses man’s government.

The world has been given a time of reprieve, it is our choice to take it or not.  If we do not take what God has given, we will very quickly go into the time of the end as recorded in Matthew 24.  This chapter is divided up into about 3 times.  The beginning of sorrows, persecution and great tribulation.  Reprieve is a time for making changes.  Matthew 24 will be fulfilled, just like every prophecy of scripture has been or will be, in its time.  Our choices can determine how quickly that happens.  God knows.

It is time to choose sides if you haven’t before.  Game on!

Seriously, consider your own personal life and times.  Open your eyes.  Are you ready for what lies just ahead?

God offers you His way of doing and being right.  It is by accepting the sacrifice of His Son, Yeshua, the man we call Jesus.  If you had been the only one who needed to be saved He would have died just for you.  That is LOVE!

So, today consider your ways, if you examine yourself and find that you fall short, then come to Jesus, humble yourself, repent and receive Him as your Lord and Savior.  He promises that He will receive you and adopt you into the Family of God.  You will have a new life and will be with Him and all who have believed and received Him down through the ages when all is said and all is done.

May the Lord bless you and keep you close to Him,  is my prayer.

Joy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tempus Fugit

May19

Time…a commodity we all possess. Each of us has an allotted time period given to us by God. We do not know how long or short our lifetime is. It is in the hands of God. The wicked stand in slippery places according to Psalm 73. At any moment their life may be taken away.

Now most of us have very little awareness of the transitory life we live. When confronted with death we are reminded that it is relatively short. The human soul cannot abide in that arena for long or it will get dragged down into the abyss of depression.

There are among us on planet earth those who have chosen to use their lifetime to further the end of evil. Seeing themselves as superior to the rest of us, the love of money rules their lives and they use it to gain power over the masses. Some of them are visible, names we know from hearing about them on the nighttime news, others of them we would never know, these are the ones with the greatest power for evil. But God!

Nefarious Power. Political agendas. Puppet governments. Conspiracy or reality?

Perspective? Good versus evil.

Think for yourself!
Who do you trust?
Sheep or goat nation.
Wheat or weed?

“According to what you have done, it will be done unto you.” Payday.

Plans for evil, they work their plan.

Demonic Tactic: “Accuse someone of what you are doing yourself”

They deny the truth and they lie so many times that they believe the lie themselves and can stand before you and tell the lie with a straight face. Hidden agenda!

God gives them up to a reprobate mind. They are insane, not in their right mind. There is no “common sense” among them.

Who are you following?
What are they saying?
When you hear, what do you do?
Where do you put your trust?
Why do you doubt God?

Foundations?

Only one that will stand. God’s foundation is Jesus Christ, the Living Word of God.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Clinton Foundation
The Ford Foundation
Eugenics? Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood. “Racial Hygiene, Strategic Breeding to improve mankind” [Adolph Hitler] Francis Galton, “The American Eugenics Society””

Surplus population? Thomas Malthuss…”[the poor] “draining the worlds resources.”

Global warming: Myth or fact?

The Supreme Court

Goals, agendas, plans, organizations with one end in mind. “Dominate to eliminate”.

Warren Buffet
George Soros
Bill Gates
Etal.

Vaccinations
Food sources
Genome management

Think for yourself. Examine, study. It’s getting late. Sheeple no more!

VOTE!

Wine and Spirits

Feb13

Have you ever walked into a store and asked the question:  “Where are the spirits, I would like to buy some spirits.”

There is a controversy concerning the use of alcohol.  My definition of alcohol, the kind that people consume, is beer, wine, whiskey, bourbon, champagne etc. etc. etc.

Wine and Spirits; I don’t know what the definition of Spirits is there, but I do know a spirit is something that can be Holy or it can be unholy.  The Holy Spirit is sent to and for the benefit of a person who believes is Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord.   A spirit can also be from the dark side.  Spirits must possess a  body to operate in the earth realm.

My parents divorced as a result of alcoholism, a process that began when my Dad was a teen-ager.  It happened that during prohibition, my Dad’s mom died and his father married a woman who had been his school teacher.  She did not like my Dad and made life miserable for him.  The result was that she told him to get out.  He was 16.

There was a neighbor who made “bathtub gin” and he needed runners for it.  My Dad and his friend were hired.  That is where the road to death by alcohol began.  It ended with my Dad dying of cancer, a dry drunk.  The good news is that at the very end he received Jesus as his Savior.

There is a beginning for everything as well as an end.  Nothing is static.  Nothing!

No one is my family was a “teetotaler”.  My grandmother kept blackberry brandy on hand for times when we would get sick.  I recall one time when I was very sick.  She gave me some brandy, I recall it burned in my throat, she heaped blankets on me and said to “sweat it out”.

My uncle and aunt, my mother’s sister, began their process with alcohol with beer.  My uncles first job was driving a beer truck.  From there he had jobs that always involved alcohol in some fashion.  His last job was managing the city liquor store.  At their home alcohol was served before, with, and after a meal.  The end of the story is that, while at first the use of alcohol was controllable, in the end it controlled them.  My aunt became a hopeless alcoholic, dying from cirrhosis of the liver.  My uncle died penniless and sick.

They had lived the high life.  They had no children, by their choice, and their incomes were always spent on being happy.  There was a small house that was their sanctuary.  They had a lot of things, they loved being at the lake fishing, their boat was their pride and joy and there were always fine cars and friends to party with.  But in the end, alcoholism impoverished them and claimed their lives.

My observation is that with alcohol as with many other things such as nicotine and illegal drugs, there is no such thing as just a little.   I believe there is a process that begins when you take the first taste, the first hit.

Again, from my observation, some people take to alcohol instantly, they love it from the first taste.  Some people don’t care for the taste of it but because it is the culture they move in, they learn to like it.  Other people hate the taste and cannot imagine why anyone would want to drink it.  But, this is not the controversy.

The things above are only matters of preference.

Here is the controversy…

There is a group of people who call themselves Christian, who see no problem with alcohol consumption, as long as it is wine.  This is not a matter of taste, they simply believe that the Bible shows that it is acceptable and they have their own vineyards where they grow the grapes to make the wine.  They believe this makes it holy, and thus makes it acceptable.

There are other believers who see the warnings in the Bible concerning alcohol and the resulting bondage that comes with it, and they want nothing to do with it.  Maybe, like me, they have seen what the process has done to their family.

I come from a broken home.  My mother and father’s marriage was destroyed by alcohol abuse.  Because beer controlled my Dad, in the end he could not hold down a job.  My grandmother tried to help as best she could, but with six children to support the county welfare system was asked to help.  In the end they refused to continue support as long as my Dad was in the house.

Every one of my siblings used alcohol when they were young, even though they had the example of what it could do to a person’s life.  Only when they met Jesus and received Him as their Savior and Lord did they forsake that lifestyle and only then did they end the downward spiral caused by alcohol.  To this day, each of us hate alcohol use and abuse.

I don’t know what your stand is friend, but I know that a decision must be made and we will be responsible to God for that decision.  So consider carefully the things I have laid out here.  Ask yourself this question:  When I stand before God to give an account for my life will it have pleased the Lord?  Will He say to me, “Well done, good and faithful servant enter in to the joy of the Lord.”  God and you are the only ones who can answer that question.

My favorite verse from the Bible is this:  “As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Sharing the messages God puts on my heart in this forum is done mostsly out of obedience, but also, part of it is my desire to get you to thinking.  God is the judge and the Bible says that He tests and tries the “sons of men”.  That being the case, I suggest that you seriously consider what pleases Him.  From that vantage point make your decision.

May the Lord bless you today with His love.  May His love fill every vacancy in your soul.

Joy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tests and Trying Times

Feb2

Life is not easy.  I am sure that most of you would agree with that statement.  The Bible says:  “Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers him out of them all.” Psalm 34:19

Trying times prove what is inside of us.  My mentor used the example of a tube of toothpaste when squeezed…what is inside comes out.  Trying times squeeze us and we say and do things we would not during better days.

“This is a test, this Is only a test!” In my youth, many times, I heard this statement on the radio.  When times of testing come to us, and they do to us all, they cause us to stop and consider our course in life or they cause us to react to the circumstances.

If we are believers in Jesus and have chosen to enter into the walk of faith, we have been prepared for the tests that inevitably will come.  God has given us His armor, His name and His blood that was shed on the cross.  We are armed with prayer as a weapon.  All of this is available to whoever will take it up.

Somehow many of us like to believe that a loving God would never let us go through anything hard or difficult.  And yet if we are honest with ourselves, we know that is not a reality of life on planet earth.  Life as a Christian is not only peaceful and pleasant, but also hard and difficult.  We are spiritual people living in a carnal world where the god of this world hates us.  There is persecution because of the Spirit of God who lives within us.  But there is also comfort because of the Spirit of God who lives within us.

I an struck with the reality that most of us do not take the Bible seriously or we sadly misinterpret it.  My cousin said the Bible has a lot of killing; his perspective of God was that He is a hateful God who likes to kill people.  If he had read on further he would have seen that God is love and everything that He does is because of His love.  Sometimes the most loving thing that can happen is to remove evil from the world.  Think capital punishment.  A life for a life under the law.  Only the gospel offers pardon when there is repentance.

God dealt with the nation of Israel through the law and the prophets as recorded in the Old Testament .  God dealt with the Gentiles through the apostles as recorded in the New Testament.  He has dealt with all in His love.  All of it was recorded for our benefit.  But none of it was recorded so that we may pick and choose what we want to accept and what we don’t.  We must accept the whole counsel of God.

Today I am thankful.  I am thankful that I met Jesus as a young person and have been getting more intimately acquainted with Him as I age.  I have experienced some very difficult things in my 81 years but I can truly say that God has been faithful and delivered me out of all my troubles.  His Word is true and He alone is faithful and to be worshipped and praised.  I commend Him to you.

“O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusts in Him.” Psalm 34:8

I pray that you will find Him faithful in all of the circumstances of your life, and if for the moment you are experiencing a difficult time, a test, I pray that you will turn to Him with all your heart and let His love soothe the hurt and wounds you have.  I love you with the love of the Lord and I pray that somehow these feeble words of mine have helped you along the way.

Joy

 

 

 

Rant

Jan28

It is 2:00 A.M. and I am angry.

I hate the enemy.  He is the enemy of man.  He was Lucifer, the light bearer, but his pride and rebellion got him kicked out of Heaven.  He can’t get at God so he attacks the one that God loves, that would be you and me.

You may know him as the father of lies, a murderer from the beginning, the devil, satan, the dragon, the accuser of the brethren, the god of this world and more.

Lucifer had it all and he lost it all. His hate for God is strong but he cannot touch Him. Because of the fall in Eden and the earth lease he stole from Adam, he is now the god of this world system and he has the legal right to try to gain control of it all through unregenerate man. His way to do that is to deceive with lies.

He has been defeated by Jesus. The only authority he has is what humans give him and that he steals through lies.

He is legalistic, then let the law be stated: The BLOOD OF JESUS has satisfied the laws demands that when a man sins he must die. “If a man will believe in his heart and confess with his mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord he will be saved.”

If a man receives what Jesus did on the cross, the sacrifice of His life as the sinless lamb of God, he is free from the law of sin and death.

Jesus speaking: The thief has come to kill, steal and destroy; I have come that you might have life and have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

Who is the thief then but the one who comes on mission to kill you, to steal everything you have and ultimately destroy your life and take you to hell, where there is torment forever.

Why would anyone in their “right mind” choose to believe that there is no God, that there is no devil, no Heaven or Hell.

It is obvious that they are not in their right mind. For if they were,
they would see and know that all of the above is evident reality, if they but had eyes to see and ears to hear.

“Having eyes they do not see and having ears they do not hear.”

What then do we do? What then can we think or say to all of this when we see a loved one go down this path?

Pray! Speak up! Fear saying something because they might get mad? Maybe they won’t “like” you? Maybe they will cut you off? Have you not heard this said about salvation? “I was mad, then I was sad and then I was glad.”

A stand must be taken. Satan must be addressed! This is not a simple matter of giving a bunch of pills to a person that already has spirits that travel with them, constantly speaking in their ears.

And while I am at it, how can a person who doesn’t know God, though they have a degree in psychology, give help or direction to a demon possessed person?

Why do we in America think that demon possession does not happen here? Ask anyone from Africa or Haiti if demons are real, they know they are.

Why would an otherwise normal, healthy person lose interest in life and interaction with others. Why would they choose instead to spend hours with a computer or TV on the couch or in the bed?

Why would they choose to be alone or with those who are just like them struggling to find meaning in life? The answer: demons and evil spirits because of choices they made that opened the door to them.

Progression:

My aunt started out as a pretty little farm girl and she ended up hopelessly addicted to alcohol, dying of cirrhosis of the liver. Her husband started out driving a beer truck and ended up dying an alcoholic and alone.

They were young once, very much alive and enjoying life, but choices made the difference. You see, it isn’t how you start your life that matters the most, it is how you end it. It’s always the finish line.

“Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be, the end for which the first was made.” Progression is what I am talking to you about. You are going somewhere. What is your destination?

The person contemplating suicide does not start out thinking they would end up where they are. They made some bad decisions, they chose the wrong friends, they read some lies and believed them to be truth. Now they find their life not worth living. They see no hope and no help. Nothing left to do but to end it all.

Suicide takes the lives of seven young people out of a thousand. Seven who thought life was not worth living, when in fact they had everything going for them.

Three young pastors, each in their thirties, each with a family, each viewed as successful, recently took their own lives. No doubt, they had the thought (not their own by the way, always produced by a demon) that life was not worth living, they had to end their suffering. There was no thought of the suffering that they would inflict upon those who loved them. Suicide is the ultimate act of selfishness.

“In this world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.”

Please hear me on this…suicide is not about you. It is about taking another soul from God. You see, God so loved the world that He gave His Son that if anyone believes and receives Him will have eternal life with God in Heaven.

The alternative to Heaven is Hell. Who was it that said there is an equal and opposite for everything? There is good and there is evil. To deny it is to live in lalaland.

Where can I go from your Spirit? The Bible answers, no where!

“There is a Heaven to gain and a Hell to shun.”

Everything in this world will end. Everything but one thing, people. Human beings are given life by God, they are spirit and soul for whom he makes a body. Psalm 139.

Romans 8:28
What the enemy meant for evil God will take and use for good!

There is hope for the hopeless, it is found in God and His plan for your life. He says, “I know the plans I have for you, plans for good and not for evil to give you hope and a future.”

It is God’s will that “all be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.”

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except by me.”

If God be God then serve Him! Do not bow the knee to the enemy!
Hell was “prepared for the devil and his angels.” God does not send anyone to Hell, it was never intended for people, they go there by their own choice.

Hell is a place of torment because it is permanent, there is no getting out. It is a place of no light, Jesus said, “I am the light of the world, whoever follows me will not walk in darkness.” There is light and there is dark.

Why are bars dark? “Who named it a bar, named it well for ‘tis a bar to Heaven and a gate to Hell.”

Hell is a place of separation. The only god in Hell is satan, God’s enemy and yours and he is the ultimate dictator.

When you arrive in Hell, then you will know that satan lied and deceived you, because he will tell you “what a fool you are to have believed him.”

You will face eternity with no reprieve, no comfort, only terror and torment forever.

If you don’t believe it, read the books that people have written who went there and were told to tell what they saw, felt and heard. They were told to warn those of us still alive on planet earth about this awful place, so we would not believe the enemy’s lies that he does not exist and that Hell does not exist.

Go online and watch as Bill Wiese tells of the twenty three minutes that he spent in Hell. These people are eyewitnesses.

Don’t be a fool!

It is written:
“A fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God!’”

I have had enough of the lies, enough of the saving face, enough of the pretense. Let the truth be told. Let is be known far and wide. Heaven is real, God is real and so is the devil and Hell.

Raise up the voices long silent, Hell is a real place and so is Heaven. You cannot pick one to believe in and not the other.

I have heard all of the arguments, I am not interested. Make a choice today, is it Heaven or Hell for you?

Isn’t it time, past time, for the church of Jesus Christ to wake up and be the church? Isn’t it time for each person who says they are a Christian to act like the Messiah did when He walked this earth?

Are we afraid of being crucified? When will we stop walking in fear of man and walk in the fear of God; that is, the holy, reverent fear of God…because He is so awesome, so powerful, so loving.

The accuser is not on par with God. He is not God’s equal. He has been defeated by Jesus death on the cross. God is God and there is no other, there is none like Him.

I received Jesus as my Savior when I was fifteen years of age, I began to know Him as Lord when I was in my thirties, I am now in my eighties and looking at the second half of my life. I can tell you that He has been faithful; He has been my God, my life all of these years.

I have traveled to Europe and Scandinavia, I’ve been to Israel twice and I have been to every state in the United States at least once; and I have lived in five states. I have “been a lot of places and I’ve seen a lot of faces”…and I can tell you there is no one like Him, He is a friend “that sticketh closer than a brother”.

I highly recommend that you believe and receive the truth. It will change your life.

Pray for those who struggle with depression. It is a spirit and can be overcome by the Holy Spirit, the power of God. God has given authority to His people. We can rise up and take our place in this generation. It is time for the world to see the people of God loving them to life. And, sometimes telling them the truth, even if it is painful, is the most loving thing we can do.

Choices matter. They have consequences. Tell the young people.

America has given itself to materialism, aberrant sexuality, and abortion. The end of that is death to America. If you want to see America returned to God, mother and country, then you need to pray and you need to vote in the upcoming election.

Stop living out of your mind and emotions. Start seeing with the eyes of the Spirit. God has a plan. Seek His plan and not your own.

Keep it simple sweetie. Those who are led by the Spirit, they are the sons of God.

God of Heaven and earth, you are good, there is no one like you, I know not any. I pray for anyone who may read this to be convicted by your Holy Spirit if they are not walking according to your will and plan for their lives. Have mercy upon us in America and wake us up to Truth. Keep us from falling for the lies of the enemy. Give us eyes to see and ears to hear what you are saying to us.

I pray for those who struggle with depression to see that the focus is on themselves and not on you or others. God, deliver them out of the mind-bending brain fog that envelopes their soul and fill them with your light. May they know the joy of the Lord which gives strength to overcome all obstacles.

Help us, your people, to prioritize our lives. To know the joy of the Lord is to put Jesus first, Others next, and Yourself last. Lord teach us to pray, teach us to worship and praise you, because “praise stills the avenger.” and you “inhabit the praises of your people.”

“May the Lord bless you and keep you, may the Lord make His face to shine upon you and give you His peace. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen!”

Selah!

Manifesto

Jan12

“They sat at the table across from each other, the bear and her cubs, the butcher and his followers.  They lied to each other, they promised to support each other in their quest to destroy volition of the masses.  And so the plan began to be implemented.“

Social:  “Involving allies or confederates; marked by or passed in pleasant companionship with friends or associates; of or relating to human society, the interaction of the individual and the group, or the welfare of human beings as members of society; tending to form cooperative and interdependent relationships with others; of, relating to, or based on rank or status in a particular society. Merriam-Webster.com

Social:  Relating to society or its organization; needing companionship and therefore suited to living in communities.   Google.com

Progress:  A royal journey marked by pomp and pageant; a state procession; a tour or circuit made by an official (such as a judge); an expedition, a journey, or march through a region; a forward or onward movement ( as to an objective or to a goal): ADVANCE; a gradual betterment; the progressive development of mankind. Merriam-Webster.com

Progress:  Forward or onward movement toward a destination; move forward in space and time.  Google.com

Liberal:  Of relating to, or based on the liberal arts; of or benefitting a man of free birth; marked by generosity OPENHANDED; given or provided in a generous and openhanded way; lacking moral restraint: LICENTIOUS; not literal or strict: LOOSE; BROAD-MINDED.  Merriam-Webster.com

Liberal:  Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values; concerned mainly with broadening a person’s general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training.  Google.com

Framework:  The basic structure of something: a set of ideas or facts that provide support for something; a supporting structure. FRAME OF REFERENCE.  Merriam-Webster.com

Viewpoint;  A way of looking at or thinking about something. Merriam-Webster.com

We were taught to be social, to be outgoing and caring about others, we were taught to be kind and generous to others, to give liberally of our time and talents to others,  in this way we progressed as individual members of society that made life pleasant for all.  “God, mother and country“ said it all.

It is an evil day when, “If I don’t take care of me, who will?”,  is the common attitude, where it’s “Me, myself and I, and maybe you, if you agree with me and make me look good.”.  Self-centered.

The new is the same old destructive path.  The frame has changed and the picture in it has been skewed.  A generation of people have bought “the crocheted dishpan,”. Truth has fallen in the streets.

It is a big frame, a world-wide frame.  It is diabolical.  Diablos: Spanish. The goal is world-wide domination.

Free-will:  The ability to choose how to act; the ability to make choices that are not controlled by fate or God.   Merriam-Webster.com

Control:  To direct the behavior of (a person or animal): to cause them to do what you want: to have power over (something).  Merriam-Webster.com

”If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.  The lie can be maintained only for such a time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.  It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension is the greatest enemy of the State,”.   Joseph Goebbels: “On the Jewish question”

”I am the way, the truth and the life!”  Yeshua of Nazareth

The day will come when the attack to destroy comes against the only two nations on earth who hold the truth.  It will be a simultaneous action.  There will be a time, times and half a time when Diablos is permitted his reign of terror and then the end of all things will come.

“Let him that has an ear hear what the Spirit is saying to the church!”

Prepare!  Occupy with Kingdom business, the King is coming!

TIME

Jan8

Today, while it is today….

How much time do you have left on earth?  Do you think your age is the determining factor?

She walked into the doctor’s office to have a routine yearly exam.  When she left the office and walked to her car, she was in shock.  The diagnoses…Cancer!  She was a mother of 5 under the age of 10.

Just beginning to live.  An unexpected car accident on his way home in the early morning hours took his life.  He was 18.

An older couple, on their way home from a restaurant, he had a seizure and lost control of the car, it hit an abutment and she went into eternity.

Time.  Every human being is given an allotment.  What are you doing with yours?

Words matter.  Words can change circumstances.  Words can change you.

Are you ”wasting time”?  Maybe you are ”killing time” or maybe you are “having the time of your life”.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 The Amplified Bible:  “To everything there is a season, and a time for every matter or purpose under heaven.”

Words matter.  Words can change a situation.  Words can change you.

Perspective, viewpoint, angle, context, aspect, appearance.

”Don’t believe anything of what you hear and only half of what you see!”

”You are what you eat.”

”You get back what you give out.”

Are these statements truth, lie or half-truth ?

There is only One absolute:  The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

There is only One Word that can change your life, alter your perspective and give you a life full to overflowing : Jesus, the Word become flesh.

“As it is written, things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, And which have not entered into the heart of man of all that God has prepared for those who love Him.”  I Corinthians 2:9 NASB

Time.  How are you spending it?  “Awake thou that sleepest !”  Ephesians 5:14 KJV

”It’s time to smell the flowers!”

 

Thoughts – Christmas 2019

Dec20

Merry Christmas! 🎄

All of my life I have heard the phrase “Merry Christmas” in December.  We were so happy that Christmas time had come at last.  Preparations began the first week of December at our house.  Grandma baked.  She made the traditional Norwegian treats, lefse , sandbakkels, spritz cookies, kringle, rosettes, fatiman, fruit cake, and many other cookies. These were all stored in tins and put in the basement where it was cool until the big day arrived.

The 24th of December the family would gather together at Grandma’s house.  My uncle Everett would bring Mom and the kids to the farm, Dad didn’t come in the later years.  My aunt and uncle also came from a nearby town.  I was always excited for us to be together as a family because It did not happen often.  it was late that evening when everyone would leave to go home, well satisfied that it was good.

Christmas Day grandma and grandpa and I went to church.  It was tradition.  Church was a big part of our lives.  I loved every thing having to do with church.

Life happened, changes came and Christmas came around every year, but it was not the same.  Never the same.  When I had my own family, and became part of my husband’s large extended family, I tried to recapture the feeling, the essence of what I felt as a child.  It didn’t happen, so I adjusted to the new normal.

With time, Christmas began to be not only about family coming together, it became about presents, bigger and better, the latest fad, and spending more, charging it on your credit card and “pay later”.  Presents under the tree, piled high and deep, that was a good Christmas.

As I grew in faith and began to search, I learned that Christmas as celebrated on December 25th was not the birth of the Christ child but rather a holiday concocted by the Roman emperor, Constantine, to make new converts to Christianity able to celebrate their pagan holiday.  Christmas was a man-made tradition.

At this stage of my life, Christmas is once more about family.  I know that it is a tradition and not the birthday of Yeshua, Jesus my Savior, I know that He did not ask us to remember His birth;  He told us to remember His death until He came back,  nevertheless, I have come full circle, Christmas is now family time.

We look forward to spending time with children and grand children over the Christmas holiday this year.  Our years here on planet earth are coming close to the end and we realize that it is time to make the most of the remaining moments.  Who better to spend them with than family.

May your Christmas be Merry and Bright!

Joy