Posted on 10/01/2008 10:23:18 AM PDT by Joya
Throughout Scripture, when crises hit the people of God, they turned their hearts to Him, and He heard and took action.
Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:1213
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I completely agree. Pray for this nation, and pray that we will have a GODLY leader in the White House.
Amen and amen, thanks. So be it.
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Ping.
Also, stock up on water, food, emergency supplies, medecines, ammo, and gasoline. Just in case. Seriously.
I agree. But God is telling me to build an ARK. So i am working on a sailboat and heading to the out islands.A super secret escape plan for a base from where to plot the resistance to this monster.
The worse the trauma the more it becomes clear to me that God asks or maybe exhorts up to live by faith. At least this is his reminder to me in the last year.
Can I tag along? I promise I’ll only eat crumbs ...
I agree, it’s important that whatever each person does or chooses not to do, must be done according to his faith.
Whatever is not of faith is sin. God bless.
Ping.
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For those who have wells, maybe get a generator to run it if water will someday cost more than oil as this article purports. Or at least an old fashioned hand pump!
If Obama comes into office, this is what America will reap.
WHY IS THE STORM COMING? This storm is coming because the Church (the Body of Christ) is no longer the backbone of this nation. From our inception, the Christian faith has been the plumb line of decisions made at all levels of life. The Christian founding of this nation is what makes it different from every other nation, other than perhaps Israel. Other nations may have become Christian in their focus, but none were initially formed with Christianity as the core of its DNA.
The Church is to make known Gods manifold wisdom to the world and the powers of the air (Ephesians 2:2). This demonstration to the heavens is not accomplished by speaking to those powers but through righteous living. How we live opens or closes doors for Satan to legally afflict us and even rule over us via leaders who do not know the ways of God. From Adam and Eve through today, the actions of humankind have given room for the enemy to strike and attack us. The only legal way the enemy has access to us is when the hand of God lifts from us, resulting in a space between Him and us. This space increases as we distance ourselves from Him and His ways.
Anytime there is an increased distance between God and humanity, it leaves room for attack to come and for principalities and powers of the air (rulers of darkness) to take up residence. The longer dark powers reside over an area, the more the people begin to call right wrong and wrong right. Here in the United States, leaders arise from the people; in other words, as the people believe and think, so do the leaders who rise from their ranks. Eventually, the lines between right and wrong, as well as the holy and profane, become blurred. The way to God through Jesus and the Cross is no longer seen as an absolute. In fact, absolutes become touted as intolerance first in the world and then even within the Church. Yes, there are exceptions to this thinking within the Church, but through compromise, the absolutes of Heaven and eternity are clearly evaporating.
FOUR THINGS THE CHURCH MUST DO First, the Church must return to knowing God and His ways rather than just knowing about God. We have replaced power with programs, revelation with administration and the Fathers heart with organizational skills.
Second, the Church must learn how to contend for the faith again. We are weak, and we fall away so easily when crisis is not at hand. We have not been tested, and we have lost our resolve. We understand little of the adversarys plans. We do not know how to debate our faith without becoming angry, and thus we have so few strong, clear, godly voices in political arenas. We have lost our witness the witness that convicts others and strongly testifies that God is still God and is very, very real. We have lost the witness that demonstrates that God is a personal God in a very impersonal world, the witness that says, What I do proves God exists.
Third, the Church must return to the love of Gods Word and the belief that it is infallible and inerrant. This would include the conviction, understanding and knowledge that God is absolute, and there is only one way to know Him: through Jesus the Messiah. We need a new revelation that Gods power is unlimited, His knowledge is unending, His presence is with us always and He never changes. We have made God far too small, and our lives prove it.
Fourth, we will need to declare sacred and solemn assemblies of repentance and corporate fasting in many parts of this nation a time set aside for rending our hearts before God.
Now, therefore, says the LORD, Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning. So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the LORD your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. Who knows if He will turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind Him A grain offering and a drink offering For the LORD your God?
Blow the trumpet in Zion, Consecrate a fast, Call a sacred assembly; Gather the people, Sanctify the congregation, Assemble the elders, Gather the children and nursing babes; Let the bridegroom go out from his chamber, And the bride from her dressing room. Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, Spare Your people, O LORD. Joel 2:1217
CRISIS IS THE FRUIT OF FOLLOWING THE WRONG GOD God allows calamities to happen in order to draw us to Himself. What does that mean? It means that God allows us to reap the fruit of that which we serve. Walking in Gods ways brings blessings and fullness of life, while walking in the ways of the god of this world will bring the fruit of the god of this world: decay, destruction, deterioration and death. We make our choice, then the choice makes us. Sadly, we are developing a history of wrong choices.
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Thanks for the ping!
Mixed case and multicolor fonts just aren’t enough here. You definitely need to add some blinking text. That’ll kick the impact up to eleven.
PING to post #11 and to original post too.
Dearest Quix,
Thanks so much for daring to be who you are.
You yourself admit to being a bird of rare plumage, and you are a delight.
Carry on.
With love and admiration,
Joya
Some folks see the colors or my screen name and page down quickly.
Not sure what hope there is for folks who refuse to play that game.
Yeah, welllllll . . . what can I say . . .
some folks know that better, more intensely and at closer range than others.
LOL.
BTW, on another matter . . .
The Dine expert here says to insist on seeing a leaflet or booklet commemorating the person who died.
Sadly, I do not see any Godly leader nominated.
A choice of the lesser of two evils.
Pray for our nation to make it through the darkness to come.
Thank you for the ping. May the Lord hear our prayers and heal this land, and may His name be lifted up and glorified.
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