LAWLESSNESS BY: JUST THINK ABOUT IT (VIDEO)

 One thing about me is I don't really believe in coincidences.  Too many little and insignificant things have happened in my life that had just one not happened, something of great importance wouldn't have happened.  Before I had any understanding of how the Holy Spirit speaks and guides us, I'd hear His small voice telling me to turn back or no, do this but when I didn't listen (and back then that was almost all the time), every single time something bad happened.  The few times I feel He wouldn't allow me to disobey, even when I tried, something amazing always occurred.  So, when I saw this video I knew I had to share it now.  Why?  About 30 minutes ago I heard the word "lawlessness" come to mind.  That's why I'm sharing this video as I know someone needs to hear this message.

GOD BLESS AND MUCH LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS!

THE VERY DISTURBING STORIES TOLD IN THE BOOK OF JUDGES GIVE A SOBERING EXPLANATION OF THE HUMAN CONDITION’

No matter where we are on the political spectrum, there is one point of agreement: We need good leaders. Whether in the church or government, good leaders can help a culture thrive or contribute to its downfall. Thankfully, God is sovereign over it all and His ultimate plan will not be thwarted. The Old Testament book of Judges displays a revolving door of Israelite leaders and God’s sustaining of the Israelite nation in the midst of it. The following video by the Bible Project provides an overview of this very relevant book.

One of the main themes of Judges tells of Israel’s failure to honor God by keeping His commandments. This Old Testament book is named after the tribal leaders that guided the Israelites between the death of Joshua and before their first king, Saul. Sadly, the book of tells a tale of spiritual and moral depravity among God’s people. Their sinfulness was so extensive that they were no different than the surrounding nations.

Chapters 1 and 2 of Judges describe the Israelite’s failure in driving out the Canaanites. Chapters 3 through 14 expose the foul corruption of the Israelite judges. Chapters 17 through 21 continue the disturbing news by describing the corruption of Israel as a whole. It can get downright depressing. The book does contain glimpses of hope, but really reminds us as readers and doers of God’s word that sin will always produce a personal and cultural disintegration. Watch the video for more details.

THE THREE STAGES OF JIHAD

Wake up, America.  Now, I do not believe every muslim believes this.  However, you have to realize they are raised much different than in the West.  They don't have a choice on what to believe.  You are taught Islam from birth.  They are not allowed to dare question their "religion," especially if you're a woman.  Know thy enemy.  Then as Jesus Christ said, pray for them.  Do good to them.  I'd be informed because ignorance is NOT bless.  

I'm curious, as a Christian do you ever, ever called the Koran "The Holy" Koran?  I've never heard a Christian call it Holy and I know I never have or will.  Have you?  Of course I don't expect an answer, just giving you something to think about.  Maybe we should be careful around those who do use that term.  But, just my POV.  

GOD YHWY BLESS YOU AND SHALOM!

HEBREW WORD OF THE DAY

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As a woman, this is a wee bit strange but I HATE TO...

SHABBOT SHALOM!

MUSIC IN CHURCH TODAY - MUST BE SOLA SCRIPTURA

A great rule of thumb...music should set the tone for worship and never be the worshiping our Lord God and Savior, Jesus Christ.  We must strive to grow in the Word and grace.  "Be ye not conformed to this world."

God bless and pray for our Churches Today!

MUSIC, EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION, SPIRITUAL ABUSE AND LOVE IN CHRIST JESUS!

I'm not very happy tonight in one way but in another, I'm on top of the world.  God is so good and to those He loves, He chastens.  I LOVE it when He corrects me.  If I weren't saved, He wouldn't stop me.

Let me try to explain.  I fell in love with today's CCM (Contemporary Christian Music).  Oh, how I loved Hillsong's "I Surrender," and Chris Tomlin's "Amazing Grace (My Chains are Gone)!"  I even learned to almost sign I Surrender in sign language.  I felt so awesome whenever I heard it and I wanted to go to Chris Tomlin's concert so bad but couldn't for financial reasons.  I was so disappointed.  I felt almost like I was Spiritually "high" when I  heard some (not all) of these songs.  Listen to the lyrics and the beat.  Listen to the repetitious words and at times, it doesn't sound the same.  And I've been one of these new CCM artists for years.  It's a style or fad, nothing more.  So was a hula hoop, you don't wear them to honor God!

Approximately a year ago, my husband and I got into an argument and he made fun of me signing and I stopped when he was home.  However, at around the same time, I stopped wanting to.  I'd listen to a few songs but I'd go listen to Dallas Holm or the older but pure golden hymns of worship and praise.  I didn't feel "high" or what the Pentacostals told me was the Holy Spirit moving in me, but I felt so good.  I knew the words and I felt "right" about it but honestly, I didn't ever feel "right" about the others.  I loved them but I started listening to them and at times wondered who the song was originally written for.  I wanted to blame it on David because I was afraid I was losing my love for Jesus Christ and worshiping Him in music.  We can talk ourselves into anything to justify sins or doing things things that may not be "sin" but not worshiping Him rightfully.  Maybe God used that argument to tell me some areas where I may not be glorifying and honoring Him.

Not to go on a rant here about the UPC but even as a teen, a wild child (but oh so tame by today's standards), I truly believed that you were to enter into His House of Worship with respect, humility, dignity and grace.  Falling on the floor, yelling out unintelligible words, convulsing, barking/howling like dogs, laughing hysterically just doesn't feel right to me and I'm not talking about my petty emotional feelings but by what the Word of God says.  Do I believe the Holy Spirit can bring you to your knees?  Without a doubt.  He's done it to me but it was gentle and I knew I was going down by Him, not of myself or because someone pushed me.  Also, please tell me the book/chapter and verse where the Bible is clear and tells us to speak in a "secret prayer language."  I've read the Bible completely twice and the NT too many times to count and I do not remember reading anything close to that in my Bibles.  Did mine leave them off?  What is it?  Is it speaking in tongues?  I can't.  I don't have that gift but if I want to talk unintelligibly and claim it's tongues, I can do that but I won't pretend I have an ability given to me by God when I don't.  

I've been asked by many Pentacostal women do I think they're  more Spirit-filled (or Spiritual); more mature in the Word; have more of this, better at that, more fruits of the Spirit, etc. than some others in the Church.  We are ONE BODY and when one succeeds, we all do and if there's a problem in the Body, we ALL suffer.  None is greater or less than another.  God tells you that many times.  "God is not a respecter of persons."  "The greatest shall be the least and the least shall be the greatest."   What about Romans 13?  You can talk in tongues, heal, prophecy, discern all manners of spirits, cast out demons, have all wisdom and if you do not LOVE, you're nothing but a bunch of useless noise.   

Spiritual abuse is very real and are we not told that boasters, the haughy, proud, braggarts, gossips, etc. will not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven?  Do you know what one UPC woman did to me?  My beloved grandmother who I feel led me to love Jesus Cross and the Cross but also was my port in the storm on earth. Without her, I'm not sure where I'd be, especially in the Body of Christ.  I attended at first to be near her but I chose to go to be close to Jesus Christ.  We didn't believe in speaking in tongues.  I questioned this doctrine because it's new, just began around 1904-6 so I asked if that was a requirement for salvation, what was going to happen to the ones who weren't taught this.  I mentioned my grandmother and that woman told me she was going to hell.  No hope.  I didn't believe it then and said well, I guess that's 5,000 centuries of true Christians going to hell.  I never went back.  How cruel.  My gramma was THE epitome of a Christian.  

Next, even though I'd been badly physically abused, if I went anywhere, dozens of women encircled me and put their hands all over me.  I can't handle that and I felt scared, confused and threatened.  I was expected to fall down and did not because I don't want to fall.  God has never hurt me and this being "slain in the Spirit" seems pretty dangerous to me.  Is this the new and true Church?  I don't think so.  God changes not.

Please, for yours and others safety, don't lay your hands on people without their permission. I don't recall Jesus doing that but He did on those who asked.  Let's all do what we should and in all things, follow Jesus Christ, pick up your cross and die to yourself everyday.  Pray for everyone, love everyone and love God beyond measure.  Grow in grace!  Be careful what you hear and see.  It DOES matter!

GOD BLESS, BE SPIRIT-FILLED, LOVE MUCH AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IN CHRIST JESUS, OUR GOD AND SAVIOR!

First Corinthians 15:1-11

CCM - NOW THIS IS WORSHIPING CHRIST JESUS!

Three of my favorite CCM songs and no doubt who he is worshiping.  He has a fantastic ministry.  Google or search "Dallas Holm."

I'll Rise Again

Bloodline

I Saw the Lord

I Saw the Lord

We Have Overcome

ANOTHER GOOD VIDEO (IN MY OPINION BETTER) ON WHAT CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN MUSIC "MAY" BE BAD

Not all CCM songs are bad but test the spirits of them too.  I admit, it hurts cos I really love many of these songs but I was singing along once and didn't know all the lyrics and when I looked them up, I was a wee bit shocked by what it really said.  I love Amazing Grace and I demand reverence in my worship, yes, I will give up my music so I can worship my God YHWH, Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit with all honor due Them.  In all things, give Him the glory!

GOD BLESS AND MAKE A JOYFUL NOISE UNTO THE LORD ALL YE LANDS!

SEVEN notes on the musical scale!

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HATE SPEECH AND THE CHURCH

Very good sermon...and trust me, it's already started!

GOD BLESS AND PRAY FOR OUR CHURCHES AND MEN OF GOD!

ARE YOU HAVING DREAMS?

I'd like to know if you are getting dreams that may not be prophetic but you're somehow to interpret the dream even if was (or is) not particularly Spiritual.  I have had quite a few plus I've actually had some encounters with something (or some people) not of this world.  I'm very interested in hearing your dreams, what you think the message was and who/what it was for.  Don't worry, this doesn't make you a false prophet or anything like that but I'm hearing a similar theme even if the presentation is different.  I don't care how long ago you had them but I have always been good at interpreting Spiritual dreams.  I'd love share mine.  PLEASE send me yours at WorthyistheLamb737@aol.com.

A DISCIPLE'S GATHERING PLACE - CHATROOM FOR THIS BLOG ONLY

I am working on creating a blog that is only to have a chatroom on it as a gathering place or disciples only of Jesus Christ.  Nonbelievers who are seeking answers are welcome, of course, but this is mainly for believers and true seekers only.  Trolling, persecuting, mocking or vulgar, filthy, unGodly posts will get you banned.  However, I need help.  If anyone is willing to do a one time only or ongoing group session that deals with unique struggles within the body of Christ (like addiction, lying, cheating, homosexuality, anything at all) to help our brothers and sisters.  Correction using God's Word is fine, judgmentalness and condemnation is not.  We are to lead them to Jesus Christ, not to turn them away.  Please help support this, not with money but prayers and sharing.  Let's take this Gospel of Salvation to the WORLD with love, grace, mercy, humility and gentleness. In other words, the fruits of the Spirit.  No trolls, vulgarity, filth, anti-Christ or other anti-Bible posts/comments allowed.  We stand for God.  Political posts only as it relates in truth to end times.  If willing to help in anyway, contact me ONLY at. . . 

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HEBREW WORD OF THE DAY

Cooktop (on a stove)....

I'd sure love to have one like this...

God Bless, Much Love in Christ Jesus and Shalom!

First Corinthians 15:1-11

Ephesians 2:8-9

John 3:16-17

TODAY GOD IS FIRST DAILY DEVOTIONAL

Josiah, God's Leader

June 28

"Neither before nor after Josiah was there a king like him who turned to the LORD as he did - with all his heart and with all his soul and with all his strength, in accordance with all the Law of Moses" (2 Kings 23:25).

What type of person does God raise up when a nation becomes synonymous with idol worship and sin? God raised up a leader that had the courage to destroy the evil and bring the nation back to God. His name was Josiah. "The nation of Israel had been led away from God by Manasseh who reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. He did evil in the eyes of the LORD, following the detestable practices of the nations the LORD had driven out before the Israelites" (2 Kings 21:1,2).

Manasseh's son Amon reigned for twenty-two years after him and was also wicked. However, Amon's son was named Josiah and became king at eight years old after his father was assassinated.

"Josiah did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David, not turning aside to the right or to the left" (2 Kings 23:8). He was a courageous leader. "Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke him to anger. So the LORD said, 'I will remove Judah also from my presence as I removed Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose, and this temple, about which I said, 'There shall my Name be'" (2 Kings 22:13).

God responded to the Godly reforms that Josiah brought to his nation. "Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD . . . Therefore I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be buried in peace. Your eyes will not see all the disaster I am going to bring on this place'" (2 Kings 22:19-20). Judgment always follows the sin of a nation. If there were ever a time we needed God to raise up Josiahs in our cities and nations, it is now. Pray that God brings forth Godly leaders into your city and nation.

DEFUNDING PLANNED PARENTHOOD - CHOOSE LIFE!

Planned Parenthood abortionists in St. Paul, Minnesota would “break the baby’s neck” if the child was born alive, according to a new video just released by Pro-Life Action Ministries. This would be a violation of both federal and Minnesota law In the video, a former Planned Parenthood client says that when she went to Planned Parenthood earlier this year for a late-term abortion (at 22 weeks, 1 day), she asked the two abortionists, “If you guys were to take him out right now while he’s still, his heart rate is still, you know, going, what would you guys do?”

According to the woman, one of the abortionists looked at the other one, then looked back at the client, “and she told me that we don’t tell women this, and a lot of women don’t even ask this question, but if we was to proceed with the abortion and the baby was to come out still alive and active, most likely we would break the baby’s neck.”

This would be a clear violation of Minnesota’s “Born Alive Infants Protection Act,” which, similar to federal law, requires that, “All reasonable measures consistent with good medical practice . . .   shall be taken . . . . to preserve the life and health of the born alive infant.”

The video also describes how on the first day of this two-day abortion procedure, the abortionist searched for the baby with a long needle to inject digoxin and how the baby survived that injection. The woman had started to have a change of heart following this injection, after reading the information given to her by Pro-Life Action Ministries’ sidewalk counselors on her way into Planned Parenthood. That information included the story of another woman who changed her mind, stopped a late-term abortion and gave birth to a healthy baby.

In the new video, the woman said she requested an ultrasound on the second day to see if her baby was still alive and when it revealed that he was and she learned what PP abortionists would do if aborted alive, the woman demanded that the dilators be removed so that she could go home and keep her baby.

“The more I was telling them no,” the woman said, “it was more like they were trying to sell me something, like a seller that pushes you and pushes you until you buy their item or their product. That’s how it felt, as if they were trying to sell me this abortion.”

SIGN THE PETITION! Congress Must De-Fund Planned Parenthood Immediately

Since the video was recorded, the baby has been born at full-term. He is doing very well. The woman’s identity has been concealed so that she will not be subject to retaliation from Planned Parenthood.

“Planned Parenthood in Minnesota must be investigated,” said Brian Gibson, Executive Director of Pro-Life Action Ministries.  “How many other laws are they willing to, and most likely, violating?  We have no idea since there are no inspections, no compliance checks and no investigations when these ugly realities come to light.”

Gibson continued, “This video adds to the considerable evidence that Planned Parenthood must be defunded.”

These St. Paul abortionists are not the only Planned Parenthood abortionists willing to kill born-alive infants.

In a recent release by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP)  another PP abortionist strongly implies that she would kill a baby born alive if she could get away with it. DeShawn Taylor, former Planned Parenthood Arizona Medical Director, was asked by CMP undercover investigators, “Is there any standard procedure for verifying signs of life?”

Taylor responded, “Well the thing is, I mean the key is, you need to pay attention to who’s in the room, right? And like, you know, because the thing is the law states that you’re not supposed to do any maneuvers after the fact to try to cause [fetal] demise. So it’s really tricky. It’s really tricky, so most of the time we do dig [digoxin], and it usually works. And then we don’t have to worry about that because Arizona state law says if any, if there’s signs of life, then we’re supposed to transport them. To the hospital.”

THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEA OF PRAYING TO THE FATHER

Quote of the Day

"In a way, persecution will separate the real from the false, the genuine from the fake."
~Greg Laurie (from "Polycarp: Our Example in Persecution?") 

Today's Answer

The Revolutionary Idea of Praying to the "Father"?
Jack Graham

When Jesus told his disciples to pray to their Father in heaven, it was a revolutionary idea to them as Jewish men.

Because up until then, the disciples knew God by other names like Adoni and Jehovah. And they knew God as Yahweh, which was his personal, covenant, and most holy name.

But now Jesus was saying to these men, "When you pray to this almighty God, start by saying, ‘Our Father in heaven.'" Jesus wanted them to grasp the intimate relationship they could have with God... a relationship much like an earthly father has with his children.

Jesus could have taught us to pray, "Our Creator who art in heaven" as God is our creator. But no, Jesus said, "The secret to connecting with God starts by talking to God your Father"!

As God's child, you can be sure that he is listening for you to call his name in prayer. He is your Father who lives in heaven, you are his child, and he loves you.

Taken from "Connecting with God" by PowerPoint Ministries (used by permission).

Today's Video

Why Didn't Jesus Come to Call the Righteous?
Answered by Stephen Davey 

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