1 Peter 5:7 (KJV) ⁷ Casting all your care upon him;
for he careth for you.

1 John 2:6 (NKJV) ~⁶ He who says he abides in Him ought himself
also to walk just as He walked.

Greetings to all my World In Focus International Ministries (WIFI Ministries),  family and friends…  This morning, I was awakened with a question pondering on my mind: “Do you really care?”  As I began to ponder over the question, the reality of the question became more  intense in my mind… Do we really care what other people think about us? Our egos tell us NO… I really don’t care, and Heck with what the rest of the world really thinks– I know whats right … Is that the attitude we should possess? Just stop, and ask yourself the question that was asked to me on this morning…. “Do you really care?”

Alright, here’s my answer… Yes, I really do care.. Why? Because it goes back to the basic answer of loving one another…  If you say you Love a person like Jesus love us, then we should care…  In my 46 years of living, I’ve found out that in this world there are people that will love us to death… Then are people that will like you, then finally, there are people that will plain old hate you for no reason at all…. Now, that part right there is where the answer can change… Do you really value to opinion more of those we love or the ones that tend to persecute us?   Of course, the right answer would be the one’s we Love…. But then again, if you

Love the way God has commanded us to Love, can you omit from loving your haters?   The right answer is No!  We must love everyone because God is Love… Our Holy bible is filled with truths on Love which keepsme going and so intrigued.

I’m reminded of the story in the book of Mark the 4:38 when the disciples was on the boat and a great storm beat upon the ship, and the Disciples woke up Jesus who was asleep on the hinder part of the ship on a pillow… They said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?”  woke him up and asked him, “Teacher, don’t you care that we’re going to die?” What they were saying to him is, “Our Master, do you not care that we are perishing?!”  And he awoke and rebuked the wind and said to the sea, “Peace! Be still!” And the wind ceased, and there was a  great calm. He said to them, “Why are you so afraid? Have you still no faith?”  And they were filled with great fear and said to one another, “Who then is this, that even  the wind and the sea obey him?”

This story gives me chills down my spine when I read it… So when we have faith, we care… We do care what other’s think and must learn to do good in spite of any situation.. If I had time on today, I  could go on and on regarding the matter on caring .  I have decided to let you know that we should focus more on Love and caring like Jesus Loves us… You can’t ever go wrong…

When we are no more…  Will you leave your great legacy and mark behind, and will you really be remembered for the person you really were….  Leave your mark on the world by being positive and Loving like Christ did….   I truly believe it’s an easy road to travel… ON  that note, I want each and every one of you who reads this piece to Know that : “I really do Care, and Jesus does too”

In the book of  ROMANS 12:17

Recompense to no man evil for evil” and for good measure

they will throw in, “We are to love our neighbours as ourselves.”

 

Scriptures on Caring:

  I have enclosed the view of a great commentary that I really enjoyed reading…

1 John 2 – IVP New Testament Commentaries

• Obedience to God’s Commands

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned the words, “Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate” (1959:47). Cheap grace means living as though God ignores or condones our sins. But forgiveness means that sin is real, and must be dealt with. We cannot ignore it, because God does not ignore it. The denial of sin is not grace: it is a lie. Cheap grace means living without the demand of obedience upon us.

And where there is no call for obedience, then all things are tolerated. “Do your own thing” becomes the motto. And so nothing can be labeled as “sinful.” No act is clearly right or wrong. Thus, there is no need of forgiveness. But because John insists that God calls us to obey the com mands that have been given, he also reminds us that when we fall short of keeping them, there is forgiveness in Christ. And, to come at it from the other angle, where there is forgiveness available, it follows that cer tain actions–whether thoughts, words or deeds–can be dealt with only when one confesses and is forgiven. In short, the call to confession and the offer of forgiveness go hand in hand with the call to obedience. Cheap grace is grace without obedience, and the Elder knows no such grace. It is not the grace given to us in Jesus Christ.Obedience: The Basis for Assurance (2:3)

 

Even before we come to the question, What does God want of me? many of us may begin with another question, How can I be sure that I know God? Many faithful Christians struggle with this question. How do I know I’m a Christian? How can I be sure that I do indeed know God? How can I know that I’m not mistaken? The Elder assures his readers that they can have con fidence before God. The confidence that he promises is not a subjective feeling or emotion. It is not necessarily equivalent to feeling good about ourselves. Confidence comes from knowing what God asks of us, and knowing that our aim is to live in conformity with God’s standard. Now surely this sounds like a recipe to trouble souls, rather than for calming the troubled soul. And yet John speaks with encouragement and assur ance as he promises we know that we have come to know him. Where does he derive such assurance?

The statement we know that we have come to know him is the first of many such statements offering assurance to the readers of the epistle (2:5; 3:19, 24; 5:2, 15; compare 2:18, 21, 29; 3:21; 4:13; 5:14, 18-20). Here the author is surely casting a glance at those who have left the church, for they undoubtedly claimed to know God. How does one decide between such personal and conflicting claims? Anyone can claim to know God. Is there a way to begin to assess that claim?

The Elder offers the “test” of obedience as the basis of having assur ance of knowing God. Those who know God are obedient to the com mands of God. And yet such a test scarcely seems calculated to offer the needed assurance to the readers! After all, John has just finished writing of the sinfulness of all people (1:8–2:2). Can one really depend, then, on one’s obedience to God’s commands to give assurance of right re lationship to God? This idea is so central to 1 John that we must examine it more closely.Obedience and Knowledge of God (2:4)

 

It is important at the outset to put knowledge and obedience in the proper order. Obeying the commands of God is not a test we must pass in order to gain knowledge of God, a prerequisite of knowing God or a condition that must be fulfilled in order to come to know God. Rather, obedience is the manifestation or evidence of knowledge of God.

In light of what the Elder has written about human sinfulness and the need for confession, we can conclude that obeying God’s commands does not require perfect obedience, if by perfect obedience we mean living without sinning. But obedience to God’s commands should be more than an interesting addendum or occasional accompaniment to our lives. “Obeying God’s commands” points to the shape of the Chris tian life as a whole, to the consistency of our discipleship, and not to individual acts taken in isolation. What is not in view is hollow adher ence to a check list of rules or directions to be followed, as one follows a map to a destination or a recipe in a cookbook. If we try to map out obedience to God down to the last detail, then the life of faith loses its character as pilgrimage. Discipleship becomes an obstacle course to see whether we can negotiate each successive obstruction on our own. Obe dience ceases to be response to a living God, and becomes instead a check list of rules. This is a dry and sterile view of Christian discipleship. I am reminded of the student who once asked, “Do you want us just to memorize this, or do we need to understand it?” Some Christians seem to live their lives with the grim intent to “just memorize it,” enjoying none of the fullness and mystery that comes with wholehearted response to the God of our faith.

Some readers may be frustrated to think that all we get by way of answer to the question, What does God want of us? is the response, Obedience to God’s commands. But this is deliberate. We are not given directions, but direction. That direction can be summarized as “walking in the light,” as striving to conform our character to that of God. What C. S. Lewis wrote in another context fits here: “We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules; whereas He really wants people of a particular sort” (1952:77). And the sort of people that God wants are those who hope to conform themselves to the very character of God.

Anyone who has had a hand in raising children knows about the process of shaping people of “a particular sort.” When my daughter throws her food on the floor and I tell her not to do it, I am giving her a command that I would like to be obeyed. But in the end I do not want her to stop dropping her cereal on the floor just because I say so, but because she too recognizes the mess and waste it creates. Rules are given to guide behavior, but they are meant to be appropriated as internal guiding norms, not as external sanctions and prohibitions.

And yet we recognize that the words obey his commands direct the reader toward the concrete and practical. In the Elder’s view, it is inev itable that what is interior must express itself in external and concrete action. “Knowledge of God” is not a sort of vague, unformed, abstract or indefinable private experience, although it may be extremely person al. “Knowledge of God” may express itself in various ways–through love and service to others, in prayer and worship of God, and so on. Here John is concerned to remind his readers that knowledge of God ex presses itself in obedience, and obedience is always measured by con crete actions. After all, Jesus’ obedience was made manifest in the ulti mate sacrifice of his life on the cross.

Thus knowledge of and obedience to God are not entirely equivalent, nor are they unrelated to each other. We may best speak of “keeping God’s commands” as characteristic of knowing God. ” `Keeping the commandments’ (like fellowship with one another, 1:7) is not the con dition, but rather the characteristic of the knowledge of God. There is no knowledge of God which as such would not also be `keeping the commandments’ ” (Bultmann 1973:25). We might say that the question behind these verses is not, How do I get knowledge of God? but, What does knowledge of God look like? How does it express itself? So too the child who knows her parents well also knows their expectations well. And the child who loves and respects her parents, honors their expec tations.

The idea that knowledge of God expresses itself in obedience has its roots in the Old Testament. The prophets especially spoke of knowing God, though more often they rebuked the people for not knowing God (Job 36:12; Jer 9:6; Is 1:3; 5:13; 1 Sam 2:12). The lack of knowledge of God does not imply intellectual inadequacy in comprehending God. Rather it points to a moral failure, to a lack of faithfulness and obedience. Those who know God live according to the way that God prescribes. “Knowing God” is understood in personal, intimate and relational terms.

To claim to love and know God without acknowledging God’s claim upon us is simply hollow. Worse, it is a blatant contradiction in terms. Such a claim manifests a lack of relationship with God, a lack of being in him (v. 5). This phrase calls to mind a sphere in which we live our lives, a realm in which our decisions, choices, behavior and character are shaped. Those who are “in God” are those whose character and behavior are shaped by God’s truth, righteousness and love (Kysar 1986:46). In fact, God’s truth is viewed as something that is active, indwelling and powerful, something that shapes the person in whom it dwells. Obvious ly, then, those who have God’s truth within them, and who know God, will manifest God’s character.

In verse 6 the author speaks of this relationship with God with a new phrase, live in him. Live is the same word that older versions translated “abide”; other modern translations use “remain,” or other variations. “Live” or “remain” strike those of us familiar with the old “abide” as colorless and flat. But the ordinary live serves well for “ordinary people.” First, the term describes “the way in which a human life is determined by a fundamental relationship” (Kysar 1986:46; compare Marshall 1978:127). One lives either in the sphere of light or in the sphere of darkness. Our lives, our daily “walking,” are shaped by the sphere in which we live. Second, in Johannine literature, live regularly connotes faithfulness, steadfastness, perseverance or continuing in allegiance to someone (Jn 8:31). It speaks to ordinary people of the consistency and faithfulness that is required of us. In short, the author’s concept of “abid ing” points to steadfast faithfulness. This is what God wants of us.Obedience and Love for God (2:5)

 

We come then to the asser tion that if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. Two important items should be noted. First, obedience and love of God are inseparably linked. Love of God, like knowledge of God, is expressed through “keeping God’s word,” through our allegiance to God. Second, note what the author does not say. He does not say that the more we obey, the more we show that we love God. In other words, the Elder is not criticizing Christians for failing to “do enough.” Rather, his statement is directed at those who had left the church and who may have denied the need for obedience in the Christian life. John contends that it is simply impossible to claim to love or to know God without also living in obedience to God. In obedience to the commands, our love for God is truly made complete, that is, not made morally perfect or without flaw, but lived out as it should be.Obedience and the Example of Jesus (2:6)

 

The perfect expres sion of love for God is found in Jesus’ own example. And so the Elder writes,whoever claims to live in [God] must walk as Jesus did. This statement seems to raise the stakes to an impossible level. Who can live like Jesus did? All of Jesus’ life demonstrated obedience to God, and that obedience was manifested above all in his death on the cross (see Jn 5:19-20; 10:15, 17-18). Again, the point is not that we must manifest perfect obedience in all that we do. Rather we are to reflect on our lives, asking whether our thoughts, words and deeds show that our primary allegiance is to the God who is light.

The point of the admonitions to be obedient, to live righteously or to follow the example of Jesus is not to get us to start doing a number of things simply for the sake of doing them. Rather such admonitions remind us that we have already charted a course for ourselves. As we walk in that course we are reminded to ask ourselves, do these actions belong in the circle of light? The key here is reflection. We are not to be made anxious, but are rather prodded to reflect on what we say and do, how we think, pray, spend our time and money, raise our children, treat our coworkers, spouses and neighbors. Our aim is to live for one master, God alone, in and with all that we do. That is walking as Jesus walked.

So can we ever be sure that we know God? Some people have deep inner peace in their relationship with God. Others seem continually plagued by confusion and doubts. In seeking peace it is wise to keep the ends and means in proper order. Those who seek God are granted a sense of God’s love and acceptance of them. This is the bedrock to which they return in times of crisis, discouragement and anxiety. Those who chase desperately for feelings of assurance usually do not find what they are looking for. If we focus on God and what God has done for us, we are oriented within the circle and guided by its fixed centerpoint. If we focus on ourselves or our own feelings, even with good intentions, we drift without direction or anchor.

Hello to all my World In Focus International Subscribers (WIFI Ministries)…

As I awake this morning, I can hear the Lord say that He is coming back soon….  I do believe in my heart that  he will return soon… I ran across this article from “Bible Prophecy” that I enclosed in the piece for you to review and ponder over…   I really did not see any reason to re-invent the wheel when he has it all spelled out for us already… I pray someone is blessed by the article like I was…. 

 

 

 

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No one can tell us with certainty what tomorrow’s weather will be except the one who causes it – God – but by listening to the weather report or looking at the sky, people use their eyes and their brains to at least make an educated guess about tomorrow’s weather. Likewise, no one can tell us with certainly when the exact timing of Jesus’ return will be except the one who will cause it to happen – God the Father (Mt. 12:36) – but by listening to the right world news sources, people can use their eyes and their brains to at least make an educated guess about how close we are to the return of Jesus Christ. Jesus said that when you see certain things begin to happen,“look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near,” and “when you see them happen the kingdom of God is near” (Luke 21:28,31). Jesus and Paul both taught that the proper way to wait for His return is to therefore be watchful, ready and sober (Matthew 24:42-44,25:13; 1 Th. 5:6).The apostle John wrote that when Jesus appears we who believe in Him shall become like him, and everyone having this hope in Him purifies himself (1 John 3:2,3). He also wrote that the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy (Revelation 19:10). So two benefits of studying Bible prophecy and comparing it to world events are personal purification and a betterunderstanding of Jesus. Besides, in 1 Th. 4:18 Christians are commanded to encourage each other with words about the return of Christ. Hebrews 10:24,25 says that as we should regularly meet to encourage one another, especially as we see the Day of Jesus’ return approaching.Although we cannot say with certainty how today’s events are related to Bible prophecy, it is unwise to ignore them. Following are 10 for your consideration:

1. Wars and rumors of wars
“And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.”(Matthew 24:6,7a) Since World War II, many countries have been building up massive arsenals of conventional and nuclear weapons. The potential for war grows day by day. In addition to potential nuclear war, we have war on terror, water wars, weather wars, Albert Pike’s Three World Wars,angel wars, and transhuman wars.

2. Famines, Pestilence, Earthquakes
“And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.” (Matthew 24:7b,8). Due to flooding and droughts, world food supplies are running very low. Many people are expecting a global food shortage and famines in many places.

In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning that infectious diseases are emerging more quickly and spreading faster around the globe than ever before, and they are becoming increasingly difficult to treat. The UN said in its 2007 annual world health report that an outbreak or epidemic in one part of the world can easily threaten billions of people in other parts due to large numbers of modern day air travelers.

Regarding earthquakes, scientific data does show that we have been seeing a large increase in seismic activity. According to a number of scientists, another star or large planet is affecting the sun’s magnetic field, which is also affecting the earth’s magnetic field – both the core and the ionosphere. The north pole is shifting at an accelerated pace, and the earth seems to be expanding. Thus, we should see a continual increase in earthquakes and volcanic activity in coming years. Stan Deyo followsearth changes very closely. He’s a scientist and has written a lot on the subject. His web site covers numerous topics related to changes in the world today.

3. Deceivers who claim to follow Jesus
And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name saying that I am the Christ and will deceive many.”  Mt. 24:4,5

At the end of the Church Age many people will be claiming that Jesus is the Christ, yet their teaching will deceive many. They will teach ideas that are contrary to the Bible. Perhaps the majority of professing Christian teachers in the world today fall into this camp, as most have fallen away from sound Biblical teachings and instead place traditions of men and/or the goal of increasing church attendance figures above the authority of the Bible. Some are subtle, and some are blatant. Sincere followers of Jesus should come out of these wayward institutional churches and seek to fellowship with people who follow and teach what Jesus and His apostles did. If you are unsure about your current church or fellowship, see Should I stay in my church or leave? 

(If you are wondering why three additional commas were not included in the Scripture above, see Note on commas in the text of Mt. 24:4,5.)

4. People of Israel return to their land
“Thus says the Lord GOD: ‘Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel.’ ” (Ezekiel 37:21,22).

• During the last 126 years Jews from 108 nations have migrated to the land of Israel.

• In 1882 the first wave of modern immigration to Israel started as Jews fled persecution, or followed the Socialist Zionist ideas of Moses Hess. From 1882 to 1919 around 75,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, mostly from Russia. They bought land from Ottoman and individual Arab landholders and established agricultural settlements. During this period the Hebrews language was revived, newspapers and literature were published in Hebrew and political parties and workers organizations were established.

• In 1917 during World War I, the British government in its Balfour Declaration supported plans for a ‘national home’ for the Jews in their promised land. Later, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey) lost control of the Middle East. This made it possible for hundreds of thousands more immigrants to arrive from Europe. Anti-Semitism drove most there. Many more would have come had it not been for Arab protest and resulting British restrictions on immigration.

• During World War II, the Nazis killed around 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, so it became clear to the Jews that they needed a homeland. Many Holocaust survivors immigrated illegally to Palestine. When the British pulled out of Palestine in May 1948, the state of Israel formally declared its independence. It was immediately recognized by the USA, followed by Guatemala, Nicaragua & Uruguay. A few days later, the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and South Africa did the same. No Arab states have ever recognized Israel, but several have attacked them. However, Israel has successfully defended itself against numerous Arab attacks. As a result, Jews throughout the Middle East have also been forced to immigrate to Israel, and the nation has grown strong. It has turned a desert into an agricultural success, and it’s technology industry exports cutting edge innovations.

• Today, Israel’s population is over 7 million, including around 267,000 who live in Judea and Samaria (sometimes called the West Bank) and 180,000 in East Jerusalem. In 2008, Israel will celebrate it’s 60 anniversary in the face of Arabs who hate it and want to ‘wipe it off the map’. It is still mostly a secular state, but it has a growing percentage of Orthodox Jews.· Today, the Aliyah immigration movement continues to embrace Jewish newcomers, help them become a part of communities and help them learn Hebrew.

• Tough US Economy is Promoting Aliyah (Prophecy Today, July 9, 2008
   

5. Increased wickedness & loss of love
“And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.”(Matthew 24:12) Today, more and more people are living primarily for themselves and their own happiness. The idea of denying themselves, taking up their crosses daily and following Jesus (Luke 9:23) is a foreign concept. What TV and movies show as ‘normal’ has affected the values of those who indulge in them. At the same time, couples are divorcing, and children are growing up with deep unmet needs as a result. Many couples are not even marrying but living together in fornication (any form of sex not sanctioned by God). The result has been the blood sacrifice (murder) of hundreds of millions of innocent, helpless children through abortion and the birthing of even more children who lack a healthy home where they can receive love and training from their own father and mother.

6. Return of the Fallen Angels and Hybrid Heroes
The Nephilim were on the earth in those days–and also afterward–when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. The were the heroes of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:4

The Nephilim are most likely the fallen angels, since Nephilim comes from the Hebrew word naphal, which means ‘to fall’. Some have mated with human women to produce hybrid offspring, and they were giants who had the ability to lead millions of people away from the true God. Heroes of oldcomes from the Hebrew word gibbowr, which means a ‘mighty man’. Before the flood they corrupted the whole earth. After the flood, they were perhaps not as large, but still powerful. The Bible mentions some of their tribal names: the Rephaim, the Emim, the Anakim, the Horim, and Zamsummim. (See Num 13:33; Deuteronomy 3:11, 12:10-12; Joshua 4:15, 13:12, 1 Samuel 17:4-7; 2 Samuel 17:16-22.) Ancient texts and pictures from Egyptian, Greek and other cultures also talk of giants or men who were offspring of supernatural beings. When these hybrid beings died, their spirits probably became demons, or the evil or unclean spirits that inhabit men. These are probably what Jesus and His followers are commanded to cast out or exercise (Mt. 10:1; Mk. 16:17; Lk. 10:17-24). (Note: the Bible is a bit ambiguous on whether the Nephilim were the fallen angels or their hybrid offspring and whether demons are fallen angels or the spirits of their hybrid offspring, but history and modern eyewitness accounts testify to the reality of both, so semantics should not be an excuse for unbelief.) 

Jesus said, “as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man” (Luke 17:26). Thus, we can also expect the Nephilim as well as hybrid mighty beings to here before Jesus’ return. In fact, they are already here, but they are not publicly disclosed through most official channels. However, a number of Christians have researched them, and eyewitnesses have testified of seeing them. The various types of sighted aliens are actually materialized fallen angels, and some men and women with great physical and/or persuasive powers are hybrid offspring. For more information see UFOs, Aliens and Alien Abductions and How To Overcome Their Evil Influence Khanokh theh Sky-Tripper (1 Enoch),Genesis Giants, Aliens and Angels, Mischievous Angels or Sethites?,Angel Wars, Alien Resistance and End Times Radio Network.

7. Strong delusion
And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie. (2 Th. 2:11 NKJV)

The primary focus of the deception is use of the media by the Prince of the Power of the Air.  TV, radio, Internet, cell phones, PDAs, etc. keep people completely preoccupied and oblivious to the fate that awaits unbelievers. The goal is also to prevent people from hearing the Gospel of Jesus, and if they do hear it to forget about it and be entertained constantly.  Most people in developed countries are now in a fog due to the impact of these mediums that lull them into a false sense of security and into a false sense of right and wrong.  This delusion can be seen in three areas:

• Spiritually, the Emerging Church has become so pervasive that most churches in developed countries will tolerate abortion (murder), fornication (premarital sex, adultery, homosexuality) and almost any other violation of God’s law.  Just think: how many churches will excommunicate a person for involvement in these sins?

• Financially, manyt people are unaware that government / banking cartel partnership is stealing their wealth and using the funds to control the world.  (See How Some Rich Bankers Tricked the American People and Gained Control of the World’s Economic, Political, Legal and Educational Systems and 19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At the Heart of Our Economic Problems, 20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over.)  The stealing is done through the printing of fiat money (money not based on gold or silver but on debt), through interest on money that does not exist (due to fractional reserve banking laws) and through the saw tooth effect of markets that draws people into bad investments over a long period of time and then makes them lose large portions of their life savings when the markets drop.  (See 200 Year Dow/Gold Ratio, and note how it became much more dramatic after the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913.)

• Politically, most people are also unaware that the international banking cartel has taken over all governments and is quietly re-organizing borders and power centers throughout the world.  Evidence of this can be seen in the 911 deception.  Most Americans and those sympathetic to the US government think that airplanes caused three steel-frame buildings to fall down into their footprints at almost freefall speed, when this has never happened in all of known history. People who study the facts realize it was a very successful psyop, since jet fuel is not hot enough to do the job. It had to be done by controlled demolitions.  This was probably part of a plan to cause a second Pearl Harbor and justify the US military getting a foothold in the Middle East and justify the US government in taking away many constitutional rights of the US people.  (For more information, seehttp://www.question911.com/, http://911truthseekers.org andhttp://www.brasschecktv.com/.)

8. One world government

“And the fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything: and like iron that crushes, that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all the others.” (Daniel 2:40 NKJV)See also Revelation 13 and the following links:

• Possible false flag alien invasion at time of chaos to motivate acceptance of NWO (April 9, 2012)  

• Illuminati Behind Global Government (Feb. 7, 2012)

• VAN ROMPUY New EU president confirms Global Governance Began in 2009 with G20

• Ron Paul: They’re Working On A One World Government!  (Glen Beck Show,YouTube Feb. 26, 2009)

• Sarkozy, Merkel, Blair call for “New World Order” (January 8, 2009)

• Brown says time to build global society (Reuters, Nov. 10, 2008)

9. One world ruler and an assistant emerge
I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name. Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon [Satan, or the devil] gave him his power, his throne, and great authority. And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast. So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?” (Revelation 13:1-4)

It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.(Revelation 13:7,8)

Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thessalonians 2:3,4,9-12)

Most religions expect a savior or a man who will bring world peace, justice and unity. Here are three examples:

• Muslims are waiting for the Mahdi or the 12th Imam. Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has stated that his mandate is to pave the way for the coming of this Islamic messiah. A new Islamic film is out about this: The Coming Is Upon Us. An interview with Ken Timmerman about this in April 2011 reveals the current hope.

• Buddhists are waiting for the Buddha of compassion, Maitreya, or a world teacher and unifier, the 5th and coming Buddha of the present era.

• Hindus are waiting for their completer and savior, Kalki, the name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar.  According to the Usborne Encyclopedia of World Religions, “The tenth and last avatar has not yet appeared.  It is said that at the end of the present age, Vishnu will come to Earth as Kalki, riding a white horse, to destroy the wicked and re-establish order.”  Have you seen the cartoon about the last avatar called Avatar: The Last Airbender? In this show, a boy named Aang shows how he is good and “can save the world.”  See also, Maitreya Rising

A false prophet emerges to assist the world ruler and savior. “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. And he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence, and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. He performs great signs, so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed.” (Revelation 13:11-15)

Muslims are waiting for Isa Bin Jesus to appear with the Mahdi, praying behind him …Jews are still waiting for their Messiah, Emmanuel.  Christians are waiting for the second coming of Jesus, but most no longer believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible, so many will be deceived.

10. Technology to control the world
“He [the second beast] causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666.”  (Revelation 13:16-18) 

Today, smart cards are popular, but they can be lost or stolen. It is likely that the eventual solution will be an implantable RFID chip or some form of high tech tatoo on the right hand or forehead. Already, 99% of commercial transactions in many countries are done without cash. Most paper money is not even backed by gold or silver anymore, so it’s value is purely psychological. When the current monetary system crashes, technology is available to redefine currency and commerce in a seamless way that people will want as a solution to their need for quick spending.

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Further study:

• How to be saved

• Tribulation Contingency Plan (Some possible scenarios to consider and plan for)

• Timing of the Rapture

• Preparing for the tribulation persecution by Shannon Ray Davis (short mp3 audio)

• 10 Dangerous Assumptions Christians Make

• Dumitru Duduman’s Vision of America’s Sudden Destruction  (video with testimony)

• The Power Behind the NWO (2 hr. 23 min.)

• Getting chipped & biometrics (archived articles from Neaiga)

• RFID Verichip Commercial (1 min.)

• 25 Signs That America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany(2012)

• 32 Signs That The Entire World Is Being Transformed Into A Futuristic Big Brother Prison Grid (May 26, 2011)

• 20 Signs That The United States Is Rapidly Becoming A Totalitarian Big Brother Police State

• A Cashless Society May Be Closer Than Most People Would Ever Dare To Imagine

• Microchip Implant Controversy: a Mark of the Beast or the Coming “Singularity”? (Oct. 9, 2009)

• The cover charge at this club? An RFID implant (June 29, 2009)

• CNBC Analyst: Global Bank, Global Currency Within 15 Years (Feb. 27, 2009)

• Humans ‘will be implanted with microchips’ (Jan. 30, 2009)

• NBC News clip (2 min.)

• Verichip is being implanted in humans (4 min. video)

• 666 prophecy Mark of the Beast (8 min. video)

• 666: The Mark of the Beast (evidence that the technology is ready)

• Mandatory chips in animals, humans next

• Microsoft wants to get under your skin

• Rich Mexicans chip themselves in case they are kidnapped

• RFID – Watching You (from a 2002 movie)

• Iron Mountain Report and the Rise of the Antichrist (2 hr, 21min video) 

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Should I stay in my church or leave?

The choice of whom you fellowship with is an important matter that requires prayer and a sound Biblical basis. It should not be based simply on social or emotional concerns. If your church does not teach the following Bible truths, then it might be becoming part of the apostate church, and you may need to find another group of believers to fellowship with:

• All men are sinners and deserving to go to hell to burn forever.

• Only repentance and faith in Jesus will save a person from going to hell and provide a way for him or her to enter heaven.

• Only the blood Jesus shed on the cross is sufficient to forgive sin and save a person from hell, demons and the sinful nature.

• The Bible is infallible and the highest authority on truth and reality.

• Jesus’ followers must follow all of Jesus’ commands.

• Jesus is coming back bodily to judge the world after a period of great deception and tribulation.

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Note on commas in the text of Matthew 24:4,5:

Most modern English Bibles add three commas to Matthew 24:4,5, and this narrows the meaning of Jesus’ warning: And Jesus answered and said to them: “Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.”

However, since the original Greek New Testament was probably written without punctuation, the addition of the three commas may be incorrect, because it is actually more common for false teachers to claim to be followers of Christ than to be the Christ themselves. Paul affirmed this in 2 Cor. 11:13-15, “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.”

Besides, Jesus warned of false Christs in Mt. 24:23,24. Perhaps most Bible translators could not imagine the extent to which the institutional church would stray from Jesus and sound Biblical truth, so perhaps they inserted three extra commas to make the meaning fit with their view of Christianity. Even if the insertion of the three commas is correct, and Mt. 24:23,24 is just a further elaboration of Mt. 24:4,5, then the narrower warning is still applicable regarding people who are openly claiming to be Christ, such as the following:

• A woman in China who claims that she is Christ and has gathered a large following called Eastern Lightning.

• Jose Luis De Jesus Miranda, a leader in North and South America, who says he is greater than Jesus of Nazareth; he teaches there is no sin, no devil, and no hell, and he has followers in 20 countries. (2 min. video)

• Lord Ra-El 

 

Hello World in Focus International (WIFI)subscribers, family and friends.. As I was studying today I realize that when you are in Love with Jesus beyond a shadow of a doubt, everyday you should become  hungry to learn more  about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and his precious Holy Word..

Today I will be focusing on wanting more from God instead of man..  Also, I won’t expound on overeating, but  have enclosed some interesting scriptures below to ponder over…   I’ve often heard people say that it’s a sin to overeat… On that note, I must say that from time to time I find myself overeating the things I love the most…  Sweets, Carbohydrates, etc.. Let’s just round it off to all the stuff that taste so good, but is not necessarily good for the human body if you over do it… I believe anything that is done in excess can deem harmful to the body, so let try and do  everything  in moderation…

When I was younger, I was surrounded by  women where I lived in a community in the suburbs of  Long Beach, and there was this burning desire that these women and men of God had to spread the good news of Jesus Christ.  I did not quite  understand just yet why they were so excited about this man called Jesus… I knew him, but I did not know him on a level to recognize that he was my everything…  In accepting him into my life at the tender age of 12-years-old, not only accepting him but was certain that God had called and chosen me as one of his great chosen vessels to do the work of the Lord.  I had a burning desire to work for the Lord, but the detours of life had a way of taking you on some journey’s that you or God never intended…  I’m just thankful that after many of years of seeking I was delayed but not denied…

The scales began to release from my eyes, day-by-day as I learned more about our Lord and Savior… Being young and driven was not easy being who I was and who I was called to be..  I always knew what the voice of the Lord sounded and felt like.  Although, being young in the city was hard because not everyone had the same ideals, and on that note I began to see things and hear things in the air that were not like God, but I still had the people to look up to that were walking upright before God…  For I understood the scripture in the book of
2 Corinthians 10:3 :For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.  “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God…. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.” Romans 12:2, 9

I’m reminded of the scripture in the book of  James 1:27 : ” Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.”

 

Revelation 7:16-17  (NKJV) 16 They shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any heat; 17 for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will shepherd them and lead them to living fountains of waters.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.”

Kirk Franklin – Revolution

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”  Revelation 21:4 (ESV) 

 

Bible Verses about being Hungry…

 Romans 12:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

To the contrary, “if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink; for by so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”

Proverbs 25:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes

If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,

James 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Romans 13:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God’s wrath but also for the sake of conscience. …

Romans 3:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Psalm 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein,

Genesis 1:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Romans 10:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Romans 5:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 1:26-27 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Leviticus 20:13 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

Bible Verses about Overeating…

 

 

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Revelation 21:4 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

1 John 1:9 ESV / 5 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 5:18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,

 

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 Corinthians 10:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

Proverbs 25:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

It is not good to eat much honey, nor is it glorious to seek one’s own glory.

Proverbs 23:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And put a knife to your throat if you are given to appetite.

Proverbs 20:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Exodus 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”

1 Timothy 5:23 ESV / 3 helpful votes

(No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.)

Philippians 4:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand;

John 2:1-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited tothe wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” …

John 1:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …

Luke 10:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set him on his own animal and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

Luke 1:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

Proverbs 31:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Proverbs 23:20-21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Be not among drunkards or among gluttonous eaters of meat, for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.

Psalm 104:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And wine to gladden the heart of man, oil to make his face shine and bread to strengthen man’s heart.

Judges 9:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But the vine said to them, ‘Shall I leave my wine that cheers God and men and go hold sway over the trees?’

Leviticus 11:1-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them, “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, These are the living things that you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth. Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven-footed and chews the cud, among the animals, you may eat. Nevertheless, among those that chew the cud or part the hoof, you shall not eat these: The camel, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. And the rock badger, because it chews the cud but does not part the hoof, is unclean to you. …

Leviticus 3:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.”

Exodus 20:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Genesis 1:29-30 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

Revelation 22:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 21:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

Revelation 21:1-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”

Revelation 21:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

Revelation 20:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

With whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.”

Revelation 16:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.

Revelation 14:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He also will drink the wine of God’s wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

2 Peter 3:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

2 Peter 3:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

1 Peter 2:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For it stands in Scripture: “Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a cornerstone chosen and precious, and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

James 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

Hebrews 9:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Titus 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.

1 Thessalonians 2:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ephesians 5:25-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

2 Corinthians 8:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you—see that you excel in this act of grace also.

1 Corinthians 15:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

1 Corinthians 15:1-58 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. …

1 Corinthians 11:20-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When you come together, it is not the Lord’s supper that you eat. For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk. What! Do you not have houses to eat and drink in? Or do you despise the church of God and humiliate those who have nothing? What shall I say to you? Shall I commend you in this? No, I will not. For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” …

1 Corinthians 11:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

1 Corinthians 7:1-40 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …

1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But, as it is written, “What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him”—

Romans 14:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is good not to eat meat or drink wine or do anything that causes your brother to stumble.

Romans 10:14-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

Romans 10:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Romans 8:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

That the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

Romans 8:20-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Romans 5:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Acts 5:29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 3:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.

Acts 2:13-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But others mocking said, “They are filled with new wine.” But Peter, standing with the eleven, lifted up his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and give ear to my words. For these people are not drunk, as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

John 14:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

John 14:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,

John 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

John 8:1-59 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” …

John 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

John 2:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” …

John 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Mark 7:7-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.” And he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

Mark 6:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.

Matthew 19:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.

Matthew 15:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Matthew 5:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 4:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.

Malachi 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O children of Jacob, are not consumed.

Zechariah 10:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Ephraim shall become like a mighty warrior, and their hearts shall be glad as with wine. Their children shall see it and be glad; their hearts shall rejoice in the Lord.

Amos 9:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

Ezekiel 38:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.

Ezekiel 22:31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 13:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord God: I will make a stormy wind break out in my wrath, and there shall be a deluge of rain in my anger, and great hailstones in wrath to make a full end.

Jeremiah 23:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with bitter food and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Jeremiah 17:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved, for you are my praise.

Jeremiah 15:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will make you serve your enemies in a land that you do not know, for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

Jeremiah 9:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.

Jeremiah 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Why do we sit still? Gather together; let us go into the fortified cities and perish there, for the Lord our God has doomed us to perish and has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Isaiah 59:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

Isaiah 55:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Isaiah 30:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher.

Isaiah 25:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wine, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wine well refined.

Ecclesiastes 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Ecclesiastes 9:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do.

Proverbs 31:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

She looks well to the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 31:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink,

Proverbs 28:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.

Proverbs 20:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward his mouth will be full of gravel.

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Psalm 105:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he brought out Israel with silver and gold, and there was none among his tribes who stumbled.

Psalm 30:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

O Lord my God, I cried to you for help, and you have healed me.

Psalm 21:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You will make them as a blazing oven when you appear. The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath, and fire will consume them.

2 Chronicles 18:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And say, ‘Thus says the king, Put this fellow in prison and feed him with meager rations of bread and water until I return in peace.’”

1 Kings 22:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in prison and feed him meager rations of bread and water, until I come in peace.”’”

1 Samuel 25:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

Ruth 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And at mealtime Boaz said to her, “Come here and eat some bread and dip your morsel in the wine.” So she sat beside the reapers, and he passed to her roasted grain. And she ate until she was satisfied, and she had some left over.

Deuteronomy 32:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deuteronomy 29:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

All the nations will say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What caused the heat of this great anger?’

Deuteronomy 16:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 14:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You are the sons of the Lord your God. You shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead. For you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. “You shall not eat any abomination. These are the animals you may eat: the ox, the sheep, the goat, the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, and the mountain sheep. …

Numbers 19:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“If the man who is unclean does not cleanse himself, that person shall be cut off from the midst of the assembly, since he has defiled the sanctuary of the Lord. Because the water for impurity has not been thrown on him, he is unclean. And it shall be a statute forever for them. The one who sprinkles the water for impurity shall wash his clothes, and the one who touches the water for impurity shall be unclean until evening.

Numbers 19:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whoever touches a dead person, the body of anyone who has died, and does not cleanse himself, defiles the tabernacle of the Lord, and that person shall be cut off from Israel; because the water for impurity was not thrown on him, he shall be unclean. His uncleanness is still on him.

Numbers 19:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And a man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place. And they shall be kept for the water for impurity for the congregation of the people of Israel; it is a sin offering.

Numbers 6:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink. He shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.

Leviticus 11:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the pig, because it parts the hoof and is cloven-footed but does not chew the cud, is unclean to you. You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

Exodus 23:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

You shall serve the Lord your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 10:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the Lord turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

Exodus 3:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

Genesis 19:32-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose. The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Genesis 14:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine. (He was priest of God Most High.)

Genesis 9:21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.

Genesis 7:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And the waters prevailed so mightily on the earth that all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

Genesis 7:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

Genesis 7:8-9 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Of clean animals, and of animals that are not clean, and of birds, and of everything that creeps on the ground, two and two, male and female, went into the ark with Noah, as God had commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 6:14-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch. This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits. Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks. For behold, I will bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life under heaven. Everything that is on the earth shall die. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your sons’ wives with you. …

Genesis 6:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said to Noah, “I have determined to make an end of all flesh, for the earth is filled with violence through them. Behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

Genesis 6:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God saw the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth.

Genesis 3:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—”

Genesis 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

Genesis 3:14-19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.” To the woman he said, “I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.” And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. …

Genesis 3:1-7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden, but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” …

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Genesis 1:24-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds—livestock and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” …

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …

 

 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – May 16, 2012

Reference Scriptures from:  http://www.openbible.info/topics/hungry_ http://www.openbible.info/topics/overeat

 

 

Byron Cage – Royalty

In Him, Hope Abounds

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my HOPE comes from him. [Psalm 62:5]

Greetings to everyone, my subscribers, Facebook friends, family and friends alike…  Today, I’m focusing on the word “Rest”, being that resting has become a life long struggle for me…  As I went to bed early this morning after awakening  at midnight, I realized that not many have the ability to stay awake at the darkest hours of the night… I began to pray last night around midnight concerning some things that have been rattling my mind…  The more I prayed, the more God began to reveal to me concerning each situation… My final words would be, I’m laying down once more and please allow me to rest in you dear Jesus.

It worked… I stopped and I prayed sincerely from the bottom of my heart, and my prayers were answered, and through it all, I was able to get some needed rest.  My body actually slept until 6:30 a.m. pst. which is rather late for me being that I’m up everyday at 3:30 a.m. or before talking to God, and working on the things God has set before me..

I do realize that rest is truly needed to function properly throughout the day.  When the body is rested, the mind is able to function at a higher capacity and able to see things more clearly than it would without the proper amount of rest that is prescribed for our daily regimens…. ~ Minister Evelyn Diane~

Sleep: how much do children and teens need?

I did some research and found that the amount of sleep we need each day varies from one individual to another. However, there are some recommended guidelines for specific developmental stages: most adults need 8 hours of sleep; newborns, 16-18 hours; 3 months, 15 hours; 6 to 9 months, 14-15 hours; 1 year, 13-14 hours; 2 to 3 years, 12-13 hours; 3 to 4 years, 11-12 hours; 5 to 9 years, 10-12 hours; 10 to 13 years, 9-10 hours. Sleep-deprived children tend to achieve less in school, be cranky during the day and have more behavior problems.

Adolescents are nocturnal creatures. They have a natural tendency to stay up late — 11:00p.m. or later — and to awaken late in the morning. But there’s one problem with this arrangement: School! Classes usually begin between 7:00 and 8:00am. As a result, only one-fourth of adolescents get the recommended 8.5 to 9.25 hours of sleep each night. Twenty-six percent get 6.5 hours or less each school night. Lack of sleep often translates into poor school performance, negative moods (anger, sadness, etc.), increased use of stimulants and risk of unintentional injuries and death. One study found that young drivers age 25 or under (peak age was 20) cause more than one-half of fall-asleep car crashes.

The National Sleep Foundation has some practical advice for sleepy teens: 1) Get into bright light as soon as possible in the morning. 2) On weekends and other mornings when you sleep in late, awaken within 2 hours of your regular schedule. 3) Limit stimulating activities during the hour before bedtime. 4) Remember that sleep is food for the brain. Lack of sleep can make you look tired and feel depressed. Sufficient sleep helps you think more clearly, complete complex tasks better and enjoy everyday life more fully.

(RECOMMENDED WEB SITES ARE LISTED BELOW)

Are you and your children getting enough sleep? According to recent statistics, the majority of Americans are not getting the recommended amount of sleep for good health and optimum performance. One group that is especially sleep deprived is parents. A National Sleep Foundation poll showed that “sleep problems are more prevalent in households with children 18 and younger.”
Visit these Web sites for more information:

National Sleep Foundation Web site. Information about children and sleep, sleep disorders, tips on better sleep:
http://www.sleepfoundation.org

National Center on Sleep Disorders Research 

http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/ncsdr/

Adolescent Sleep Needs and Patterns:
http://www.sleepfoundation.org/publications/sleep_and_teens_report1.pdf

<< Psalm 62:5 >>

Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.

Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him. For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him. My soul, wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.   My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.   My soul looks for God, from whom is my salvation.   Wait calmly for God alone, my soul, because my hope comes from him. My soul, wait you only upon God; for my expectation is from him.   My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him. My soul, wait thou in silence for God only; For my expectation is from him.   But be thou, O my soul, subject to God: for from him is my patience.   Upon God alone, O my soul, rest peacefully; for my expectation is from him.   My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.   My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.   My soul, wait in silence for God alone, for my expectation is from him.   Only — for God, be silent, O my soul, For from Him is my hope.   Barnes’ Notes on the Bible:  My soul, wait thou only upon God – See the notes at Psalm 62:1. There is, in the word used here, and rendered wait, the same idea of rest or repose which occurs in Psalm 62:1. The meaning is, that he would commit the whole cause to God, and that his soul would thus be calm and without apprehension. For my expectation is from him – In Psalm 62:1, this is salvation. The idea here is, that all that he expected or hoped for must come from God. He did not rely on his fellow men; he did not rely on himself. God alone could deliver him, and he confidently believed that God would do it. Often are we in such circumstances that we feel that our only “expectation” – our only hope – is in God. All our strength fails; all our resources are exhausted; our fellow-men cannot or will not aid us; our own efforts seem to be vain; our plans are frustrated, and we are shut up to the conclusion that God alone can help us. How often is this felt by a Christian parent in regard to the conversion of his children. All his own efforts seem to be vain; all that he says is powerless; his hopes, long-cherished, are disappointed; his very prayers seem not to be heard; and he is made to feel that his only hope is in God – a sovereign God – and that the whole case must be left in His hands. This state of mind, when it is fully reached, is often all that is needful in order that our desires may be granted. It is desirable that this state of mind should be produced; and when it is produced, the prayer is answered. Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible:   Wait thou only upon God – There is none but him in whom thou canst safely trust; and to get his help, resign thyself into his hands; be subject to him, and be silent before him; thou hast what thou hast deserved. See on Psalm 62:1. Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible:  My soul, wait thou only upon God,…. Be silent and subject to him, acquiesce in his providences, rest in him patiently and quietly, wait for his salvation; See Gill on Psalm 62:1; perhaps some new temptation might arise, and David’s soul began to be uneasy and impatient; for frames are very changeable things; and therefore he encourages it to be still and quiet, and patiently wait on the Lord, and on him only: for my expectation is from him; or “my hope”, as the Targum; the grace of hope is from the Lord, and the thing hoped for is from him; he is the author and the object of it; and his word of promise encourages to the exercise of it; or “my patience”; as the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, and Arabic versions. The grace of patience is from the Lord; the means of it is his word; and it is exercised, tried, and increased by afflictions sent and sanctified by him; and “expectation” is nothing else than these graces in exercise, a waiting patiently for things hoped for Old Testament saints expected the first coming of Christ; New Testament saints expect his second coming; and all expect good things from him in time and eternity; nor shall their expectation fail and perish; and therefore is a reason why their souls should wait only on the Lord. The Treasury of David 5 My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. 6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. Psalm 62:5 “My soul, wait thou only upon God.” When we have already practised a virtue, it is yet needful that we bind ourselves to a continuance in it. The soul is apt to be dragged away from its anchorage, or is readily tempted to add a second confidence to the one sole and sure ground of reliance; we must, therefore, stir ourselves up to maintain the holy position which we were at first able to assume. Be still silent, O my soul! submit thyself completely, trust immovably, wait patiently. Let none of thy enemies’ imaginings, consultings, flatteries, or maledictions cause thee to break the King’s peace. Be like the sheep before her shearers, and like thy Lord, conquer by the passive resistance of victorious patience: thou canst only achieve this as thou shalt be inwardly persuaded of God’s presence, and as thou waitest solely and alone on him. Unmingled faith is undismayed. Faith with a single eye sees herself secure, but if her eye be darkened by two confidences, she is blind and useless. “For my expectation is from him.” We expect from God because we believe in him. Expectation is the child of prayer and faith, and is owned of the Lord as an acceptable grace. We should desire nothing but what it would be right for God to give, then our expectation would be all from God; and concerning truly good things we should not look to second causes, but to the Lord alone, and so again our expectation would be all from him. The vain expectations of worldly men come not; they promise, but there is no performance; our expectations are on the way, and in due season will arrive to satisfy our hopes. Happy is the man who feels that all he has, all he wants, and all he expects are to be found in his God. Psalm 62:6 “He only is my rock and my salvation.” Alone, and without other help, God is the foundation and completion of my safety. We cannot too often hear the toll of that great bell only; let it ring the death-knell of all carnal reliances, and lead us to cast ourselves on the bare arm of God. “He is my defence.” Not my defender only, but my actual protection. I am secure, because he is faithful. “I shall not be moved” – not even in the least degree. See how his confidence grows. In the Psalm 62:2 an adverb qualified his quiet; here, however, it is absolute; he altogether defies the rage of his adversaries, he will not stir an inch, nor be made to fear even in the smallest degree. A living faith grows; experience develops the spiritual muscles of the saint, and gives a manly force which our religious childhood has not yet reached. Psalm 62:7 In God is my salvation and my glory. Wherein should we glory but in him who saves us? Our honour may well be left with him who secures our souls. To find all in God, and to glory that it is so, is one of the sure, marks of an enlightened soul. “The rock of my strength, and my refuge is in God.” He multiplies titles, for he would render much honour to the Lord, whom he had tried, and proved to be a faithful God under so many aspects; Ignorance needs but few words, but when experience brings a wealth of knowledge, we need varied expressions to serve as coffers for our treasure. God who is our rock when we flee for shelter, is also our strong rock when we stand firm and defy the foe; he is to be praised under both characters. Observe how the Psalmist brands his own initials upon every name which he rejoicingly gives to his God – my expectation, my rock, my salvation, my glory, my strength, my refuge; he is not content to know that the Lord is all these things; he acts faith towards him, and lays claim to him under every character. What are the mines of Peru or Golconda to me if I have no inheritance in them? It is the word my which puts the honey into the comb. If our experience has not yet enabled us to realise the Lord under any of these consoling titles, we must seek grace that we may yet be partakers of their sweetness. The bees in some way or other penetrate the flowers and collect their juices; it must be hard for them to enter the closed cups and mouthless bags of some of the favourites of the garden, yet the honey-gatherers find or make a passage; and in this they are our instructors, for into each delightful name, character, and office of our covenant God our persevering faith must find an entrance, and from each it must draw delight. “Trust in him at all times.” Faith is an abiding duty, a perpetual privilege. We should trust when we can see, as well as when we are utterly in the dark. Adversity is a fit season for faith; but prosperity is not less so. God at all times deserves our confidence. We at all times need to place our confidence in him. A day without trust in God is a day of wrath, even if it be a day of mirth. Lean ever, ye saints, on him, on whom the world leans. “Ye people, pour out flour heart before him.” Ye to whom his love is revealed, reveal yourselves to him. His heart is set on you, lay bare your hearts to him. Turn the vessel of your soul upside down in his secret presence, and let your inmost thoughts, desires, sorrows, and sins be poured out like water. Hide nothing from him, for you can hide nothing. To the Lord unburden your soul – let him be your only father-confessor, for he only can absolve you when he has heard your confession. To keep our griefs to ourselves is to hoard up wretchedness. The stream will swell and rage if you dam it up: give it a clear course, and it leaps along and creates no alarm. Sympathy we need, and if we unload our hearts at Jesus’ feet, we shall obtain a sympathy as practical as it is sincere, as consolatory as it is ennobling. The writer in the Westminster Assembly’s Annotations well observes that it is the tendency of our wicked nature to bite on the bridle, and hide our grief in sullenness; but the gracious soul will overcome this propensity, and utter its sorrow before the Lord. “God is a refuge for us.” Whatever he may be to others, his own people have a peculiar heritage in him; “for us” he is undoubtedly a refuge; here then is the best of reasons for resorting to him whenever sorrows weigh upon our bosoms. Prayer is peculiarly the duty of those to whom the Lord has specially revealed himself as their defence. “Selah.” Precious pause! Timely silence! Sheep may well lie down when such pasture is before them. Psalm 9:18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish. Psalm 27:14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 37:7 Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes. Psalm 62:1 For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. Psalm 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope.

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – May 15, 2012Cited that: reference material came from:  http://bible.cc/psalms/62-5.htmRecommended sleep advice came from: http://www.kidtips.com/parenting_topics/Sleep.htm

Psalm 34:17 – The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Hello to all of my WIFI subscribers, family and friends… I pray that all the mother’s had wonderful mother’s day….  I just wanted to take the time to stop and meditate on how good God is… On today I’m just thankful for everything that has and will take place in my life…  I do feel that I’m headed in the right direction, and no turning back now… It may seem that we go through different trials and tribulations in our lives, nevertheless God is always there… Just began to call on his name “JESUS” there is no way  you can wrong… God will never steer you in the wrong direction…   Just whatever you do, hold on to God’s unchanging hand.. Please know that God will never be like man… He will never leave you or forsake you, no matter what…

I’m willing to pay the price, no matter what other’s do… 

I’m Going Through – Bishop G. E. Patterson, “Singing The Old Time Way
Vol 2”, released Mar 28, 2006

Pray for me while times are going well with you…  That the Lord will carry me through.. That the will of the Lord be done…. 

Pray For Me – Bishop G. E. Patterson, “Singing The Old Time Way Vol 2”, released Mar 28, 2006

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Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – May 14, 2012

**Worship and Sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas /
Notes are verbatim, unedited and uncut… 9:30 a.m. Worship notes…

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  Song Selections:  “Trouble don’t last always” ‘He’s worthy, come on let’s praise the Lord!” “How great is though God” – “Your everything to me!”

  Give God Praise if you know God is worthy… Clap your hands all ye people… Serve the Lord with gladness…. Celebrate all the wonderful mother’s that are in the room…

  Give a shout out the 2012 Graduating Class.

  Opening prayer:  Dr. Jamal Bryant –

  All the Great Grandmother’s make your way to the alter…. – Bless the Lord.. I ask that all the grandmother’s will come… Give God glory for all the grandmother’s….

  Any expectant mother’s, I want all the expectant mother to come to the alter….. Push your way in…. Thank you so much… Don’t they look beautiful…

  Before I pray over the mother’s, I want all of the mother’s and grandmother’s to stretch your hands towards the expectant mother’s… Pray that God gives them strength… I want you to pray that they don’t make the mistakes you made or your children made.. Pray that the Lord give them an easy delivery… Pray that their body remains strong and they will live a long life..  That God will give them the desires of their heart… The fetus will be strong…

   Pray that the Lord give them an easy delivery… Pray that their body remains strong and they will live a long life.. That God will give them the desires of their heart… The fetus will be strong…

  I pray that God will give the Mother’s permissions to rest and be at ease,… Give them uninterrupted sleep… I pray you give them their own ideal… While their hands are lifted they are taking their own matters out of their hands and they are putting their children’s matters in God’s hands… I pray that not one mother around this alter die with a broken heart… Say the Joy of the Lord is your strength… .Tell a mother ‘You did an incredible job!”

  Praying for those who’s mother is no longer alive… but on this mother’s day you found the strength to come to church… Meet me on this alter right now… ‘How Great is our God!” – Take your neighbor.. I speak over your spirit that today is not a day of depression, sorrow or sadness… Your mother did a good job raising you… She raised you to go to church.. Your life is your mother’s legacy…. Her life will not fade… Speak your mother’s name out loud ______________________. Lord I thank you for____________ .. Insert your mother’s name… I pray the lord flood you with fresh memories where you remember significant times and vibrancy with life.. Knowing that God hand selected your mother to be your mother.. .I did not even bring them to the alter for them… I brought them to the alter for those who’s mother is still living… Those people who have to reconciled… Do you guys know how much these people at these alter would love to be with their mother… Stop tripping, and go find your mother whenever she is… I pray against depression… I pray the be in perfect peace.. I pray that they be at lease 50% of what their mother was… They are Livingston testimonies… Even after the funeral their hearts still have not been fully mended…. Embrace the person next to you and tell them” “Your mother would be so proud of you!”

  Pastor Bryant thanked the Lord for his Grandmother: “Pauline Lucas Williams” and His mother:  Cecelia Williams Bryant

  Dr. Bryant honored and  saluted a mother of his congregation  that has been free from drugs for the past 12 years.. Her son just graduated from college last week… We thank God for her… 

  Announcements:
  There are 735,000 blacks incarcerated… There are a large number of mother’s behind bars… If you have a relative in jail that is a mother….  This represent the forgotten segment of our community… Stretch your hand toward the people who are standing.. I pray that God do something for the life of their children…  The enemy meant it for evil but God meant it for good… It’s going to work out….   Give praise for our cyber saints on the internet…

  Next Sunday wear pastel colors…. God always sends a rainbow to let you know that the storm is over!!!   Stand with the superman women of Empowerment Temple… Trayvon Martin’s mother will be at Empowerment Temple on next week…

  Dr. Jamal even saluted the Father’s that have custody of their children… Only at Empowerment Temple…

  Sermon Title: “It’ll never be the same!”  Empowerment Temple

  Scripture Reading: Numbers 10:1-7 (NIV)

  The Silver Trumpets – 10 The Lord said to Moses: ² “Make two trumpets of hammered silver, and use them for calling the community together and for having the camps set out. ³ When both are sounded, the whole community is to assemble before you at the entrance to the tent of meeting. ⁴ If only one is sounded, the leaders—the heads of the clans of Israel—are to assemble before you. ⁵ When a trumpet blast is sounded, the tribes camping on the east are to set out.⁶ At the sounding of a second blast, the camps on the south are to set out. The blast will be the signal for setting out. ⁷ To gather the assembly, blow the trumpets, but not with the signal for setting out.

  Tribute from Dr. Jamal to his mom:  “I would like express my gratitude for my mother: ” Dr. Cecelia Williams-Bryant” that is watching with us today by way of streaming faith internet.”

  
  

  Sermon notes:

  After today, things will never be the same.. Early childhood development administers an elementary exercise  test to see if they can identify different objects… To gauge their maturity, is to see if they can identify the difference.. Many of us have not grown to realize what is different… At this juncture of spiritual growth, you she be able to notice and recognize what is not biblical and what is out of order… You cognition is off…   You should be able to exact what is different..

  
  

  Whenever God is about to do something significant or remarkable he always use something different.. .He only uses polar —- to distinguish the difference…  If everyone is the same, that is not a healthy church… There should be something in the sanctuary you cannot identify with… God always does the incredible and does not do the things that are the same…

  
  

  God always does stuff incredible… God restored a man sight by using spit and mud to restore the mans eyes.. Why did God use mud and dirt that has nothing in common… He uses to polar opposites to restore sight.. .He used the dust of the ground because we were made from the dust of the ground…   So he goes back and scoop up dust so the man can see so he could go back to his original intent…

  
  

  God is getting ready to see you operate and function in the optimum position God has you in … Marvin Sapp sang a song “He saw the  best in me”   

  
  

  Spit had dismal —-…. God used his own resource….. Can I tell you that you are not going to be healed from outside sources.. You are gong to be healed from the resources of God… Whatever comes out of my mouth will come from him… Those that are believing God by faith…. I believe that everything God has spoken about me is going to come to pass….    

  
  

  Whenever God does something significant he does not use two of the same substances…  The God that we tell Gideon… We tell them to give them a torch and a trumpet… In order to have victory over the enemy, you need sound and light…

  
  

  The truth is light…. The church is in a place where we have a lot of sound, but not a lot of revelation… Woe unto the church that has a lot of sound but it’s not producing any evidence of your light… When we come into a place of light.. Whenever I make a sound of light God gives me a further dream and vision….   The reason I’m crying out is because I need light to happen…

  
  

  He uses a torch for light and a trumpet for sound…

  
  

  Jesus was crucified int he middle…    On the left side he has thief and on the right he has a robber… A thief comes in and steal when you are not looking… A robber will rob you right in your place…  A thief will wait until you are not home… The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy…. Sometimes the enemy take stuff when you are not looking and other steal right in your face… 

  
  

  In spite of what was taken from me, I still have my joy….  I’m still standing… He won’t be able to take my peace, or my joy because God has put an hedge of protection around me..

  
  

  He sent the disciples ahead, and he said when you come to that place, you will find a goat and an ass…. God was testing them to see if they would leave the ass alone… God wanted to see if the would bring them the colt…   Some of you guys need to leave some stuff alone…

  
  

  Make sure you choose somebody that is built for you and can handle your ways….  Whenever I am getting ready to do something different…. I bring two different things..

  
  

  The greatest accomplishment is bringing a child into the world… It’s not what you drive…. Your greatest legacy will be what did you do with your children?  Whenever God is getting ready to do something significant…. When he brings birthing… He does not bring a male and male together…. He does not bring a female and female together… 

  
  

  I don’t care if the President the Mayor is endorsing… I serve God and I don’t’ care… .We are not to be intimidated by sale out pastors, bloggers…. We are not of the world…..  You want to know why they are jealous?  God selected you to be different… I’m different from the people in my family… I’m different than who I use to be… I’m different and the devil don’t like it!!!!

  
  

  many times the churches are guilty of not practicing what we preach…  We have blood on are hands….   We have gay people in the choir on the dance ministry…… That does not mean we are to support them.. .We don’t have a support group for fornicators….   We are suppose to make sinners feel uncomfortable in their sins..

  
  

  Homosexuality is a sin… I wish there was a church not filled with cowards… I don’t care if it’s Michael Dyson… If God be for me, who can be against me… A coward is someone who don’t speak what they believe…

  
  

  When you have courage, you may loose some friends… If I perish, let me perish… I’m going to see the King…  Things will never be the same since our President did what he did… It’s not always  ethically correct… .  When Nathan confronted the King, they did not want to kick it with him… The president is black and out of order!!!

  
  

  Where is the prophetic voice that speaks truth to power… Woe unto us… We live in a time where black preachers are so impressed to being seeing… Prophets will change the city.. You have to be ready to change the environment you are in….

  
  

   Less I go out on a political tangent… Let me tell the one’s that have ears to hear:   Things will never be the same… Those of you  that have been in rut and stuck… Those that have been faithful over a few things, he is getting ready to make you ruler of many… Things are about to change..  Hallelujabh…. Be seated please!!!

  
  

  If God be God… if things are going to be change, he cannot connect you to things that are like you… He have to connect you to somethihng oppostit… Let the wheat seperates….  If you are poor, God is going to make you rich….. God is going to give you the impossible..

  
  

  In Numbers Chapter 10 – He tell Moses to make two trumpets and make them out of the same material… It is a substance that will not be effected by the weather.. It will be able to hold up in inclement conditions… I need you to blow the trumpet twice… When you blow the trumpet once… You are blowing it to call the people back to order… The 2nd time you blow it to send the people back to Holiness… .Blow the trumpet until America get back on its knees  Blow the trumpet until the White House is back in order….      When you hear my shout this time, you will understand that the people who are called by my name would humble themselves…

  
  

  Lift up your voice…. Lift up your voice for our children to stop dyeing from HIV and aids… Shout for our President to come back to God…..    I need you to lift up your voice… God is getting ready to save this nation… I need you to lift up your voice like God is getting ready to change nations… Lift up your voice, lift up your hands and cry out for this nation…

  
  

  I need you to lift up your hands right where you are….    I understand that some of you may be upset, aggravated and unnerved… My job as a Prophet is not to be your friend… It’s to be a friend of God… You have been  called to be different.. You are not to fit in… You being a outcast is a call to your confirmation… You are different…  You have a lot of  people in your space that are associates, but you cannot call them friends…

  
  

  How you got to God in the first place… God called you to be different… This sermon is different, but you have come to a different kind of church… I wish I could have given you the Ruth and Naomi sermon on today….   There ought to be a different signal that comes from  you … Different than anybody else…  I pray God gives you a new job…. It’s time for you to do something different… I pray that God gives a new level of creativity…. When it comes to pass, you will say that this is absolutely nothing but God…. 

  
  

  I want you to stand to your feet….   God brought you to a different kind of church.. He knew you would need a different kind of message… You know God has pulled you from a different kind of circle and circumstance… God brought you to a place that you can see  you own uniqueness…. Every-time they put you in the box, you break out of the box and come out as a new creature…

  
  

  There is something different about you….  You are a self starter…  You can break out on your own….  Give God some Praise!!!   On this mother’s day… Give God some praise for this young man…

  
  

  Some people are not prepared for something different…..  Give them something different just one time…. Some of us have not been to church in years, but you know that God has something different on my life…  Turn to you neighbor right where you are that look a little different, or unknown to you…. Ask them: “Are they saved?”‘  No better time than now..

  
  

  You are in the right place at the right time, serving the right God… I know that’s right… 

  
  

  Empowerment Temple give God some Glory…..

  
  

  Celebrate our God… How many of us believe that things will never be the same…

  
  

  What I want you to do different on today… I want you to tithe….  Get your seed in your hand!!

  
  

  Those on line, I know you have saved Gas money… Give your seed on line….   Give an odd offering.. God is going to do something odd in this season… Give a child next to you an odd off erring…  $3.00 – God is getting ready to take a special needs child and do something extraordinary with them.. He is going to take the spirit of rebellion off of them…

  
  

  I pray that you plant a seed into this house…

  
  

  “Lord thank you for what  you did yesterday, what you did last month, what you did last year… The seed that is in my hand is a  gift of my mother that birthed me….”  Dr.  Jamal Bryant…

  
  

  •  Preached by:  Dr. Jamal H. Bryant…

    Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas 5/13/2012

**Worship and Sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas /
Notes are verbatim, unedited and uncut…

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  Opening prayer:  Dr. Jamal Bryant – “There is no sorrow that heaven cannot heal…. No matter what the enemy tries to put into your mind… Today is going to be a day of Peace… Speak your mother’s name out loud ________…  Then say “Lord, I thank God for her” – I pray that God give you a peace that passes all understanding.. I pray you are flooded with good memories… Thank you for the time that we had, and we do not take it for granted.. Praying for those that have a dysfunctional relationship with their mother’s…. We are stronger than you could ever imagine…  Today we woke up with a sigh of relief knowing that you are still on the throne and you are in charge… In Jesus Name we pray…  You are going to make it through the day… ” Pastor Jamal Bryant

  Sermon Title: “”  Empowerment Temple

  Song Selection:  “Your Everything to me!”

  Scripture Reading: Isaiah 49:14-15¹⁵  “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast  and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget,   I will not forget you!
  ¹⁶ See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;  your walls are ever before me.

  Sermon Notes: I know what that feels like…. In a rare moment of transparency my own Pastor Frank Reid III  is not preaching in his pulpit right now because the doctors have called him home to St. Lois to let him know that his mother is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s… I’m praying for him…. The person that’s been a care giver for you, you now have to be a caregiver for them..  His mother is getting weaker, but my love for her is getting stronger.

  Dr. Jamal tells a story about a boy and Uncle Charles the  farmer.  The new family moved in next door, and they had a little boy…   The man was battling with Alzheimer’s….  The farmer asked the boy:  What was the name of the flower that had a long stem , thorns and a red thing on the end… The boy told him it was a rose, and the man then started to call out “Rose” which was his wife’s name…

  The woman in the bible that committed adultery, she will never forget the condition she was in… She had 5 husbands and the one that she was with is not hers…So she had 6 husbands…    God said…”you thirst”, but Jesus said you will never thirst again”…. She will never forget the bad unhealthy, disconnected relationship God rescued her from…

  In Mark Chapter 5, there was a man that would never forget….This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain.  For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him.  Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones.  When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him.  He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!”  For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!” He was practicing self sabotage… .The text said every night he was crying…. This demoniac man was calling out because nobody could restrain him… Then the Lord speaks peace into his life… As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him.  Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.”  So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.

  I know you are puffed up on today and got on your game face… You will never forget the night that you were loosing your mind… The night you were feeling unglued… It was not necessarily what others did to you… You felt like you were sleeping in a cemetery…  You knew if you stayed in that path you were headed in the wrong direction… God broke into your dark face…. Let this mind be in you… There was one particular day that you did not know whether you will live to see day break …. God said, you shall live and not die….   You wake up early because you knew how dark the night use to be…

  The woman will never forget the condition she was in … She was caught in adultry… She was attacked for her moral failure… The church brings the woman to trial   God brings us from shame to sanctified… You cannot afford to be aroggant in worship, because you know where you came from… Some of us should be careful when we talk about other people… I have not always been where I am… If you knew who I was running with….   When nothing else could help, Love lifted me..

  I want you to remember the time that brought you the greatest level of embaracemetn…. I want you to be reminded about the people that persucuted you the most… Lord thank you for saving me…

  The man in Luke chpater 23 will never forget the mess he was in…. He was a thief, he was caught and gone through due process… He was convicted and found in crucifiction…. Peoopel think because you were being crucifed because of your past… God said today you will live in paradise… Some of us are able to slip through because they don’t know whether you did it or not… But some of can say we did it….. But Father thank you for forgiving me…

  It was not the day we got the car or graduated, but it was the day we got saved… SOme of us just need to thank God the day we got saved… Somebody needs to remember the day they were crying at the alter, and somebody was rubbing you on the back…

  Isaih, is called the Shakespear of scipture… Can the mother forget the child that was at her breast?  How can a mother forget her own child?   The Lord arrested me in my spiritual arrogance… Have you forgot that church is always in the feminine tense?…  Ask the church… Have we forgotten our children, while I am yet preaching to you mother’s?… There are 95% of our children incarcarated and we don’t have prison ministries….  We have girls having babies at a high rate… Have we forgot to teach abstinence…  Have we forgot the times when we had to sit down, and get out the choir when got preganant out of wed lock in church?..

  Have we forgotten about the childrenc that have special needs & ADD, and have to take meds, etc…. I’m glad you are listening… Have we forgotten our children that are gay?   We keep sweeping it under the rug and act like it don’t exisist… As if it’s not in pews, and in many of our pulpits….  Have we forgotten that these are our children… Then he asked the question:  Where is your compassion?  My compassion is not condoning… My repsonspibility is to love them… My responsibility is to turn them around… It’s not the parents responsibilty to the be the friend to their child….   What happens when we don’t have a memory?  What happens when we act like it dont’ exist…   The black church has had a tubu in church like we are not getting none… In the church, we don’t address insest, date rape, etc… It seems as though the church has forgotten..

  From outside appearance, maybe the black church is in the last stages of alzhemiers… Maybe our mental capacities have desenegrated…. Maybe we have been shouting and turning to our neighbor to much… We need to hold a standard where we know what spiritual authority is… Maybe President Obabma had gotten a memory loss… Maybe he will realize that he needs the black church….  Don’t take the black church for granted…..  Come November 6…  The homosexual are only 3.5 and and the black church is 7—%….   There is a memory loss… You have no ideal how sleepless I’ve been this week… I was the only black preacher to stand on the front line and stand for what is right… It don’t make me a gay basher, but it makes me a Jesus freak… There should be a standard, and I’m tired of the black church compromising… We should be preaching to please our God.. .If the church fail to address issues then we are just a social club… .If you agree with everything I say… The God in me should ruffle your feathers… The God in me should speak power..

  Some of the elected officicals have forgot… They forgot they put their hands on the bible… Pastor Bryant, you are not suppope to speak your opinion….  But we are suppose to stand on the princiapals… It’s not just Christians that beleive in Man and WOman are suppose to married…  Muselims, Jews dont’ beleive in same sex marriage… If we are approving same sex  marriage then should we approve paligomy?

  I am unphased by lobbyist, and people coming to protest… For me Homosexuality is Sin!!!… So is adultery, and so is fornication…. Homosexuality is  Sin… Sin is sin and we must all repent…. How can you forget the one that was at your breast?  Even if your mother forgets, or your mother forget her responsibility to you, it’s the responsibility of the church..

  Whenever I look at your name,  your name is already written in his hands…  When Thomas streteched out his hands, he saw his hands was already piereced…. When you stretch out your hands you shuld be reminded  about the sin you should have died in…

  Your name is etched in my hands.. Everything that is connected to me is In God’s hands…   You should thank God that everythign the enemy meant for evil, God is working it out for my good…..   Maybe somebody have lost their way with their children or can’t pay your bills… Just know that it’s all in his hands… Maybe you have a medical condition is stopping you from breathing right… Please know that it’s in God’s hand…

  When God get around the walls, things are gettting ready to come down…. When they marched around Jericho 7 times, the walls began to come down…. When he called on God, and said God do you remember when I was faithful… I came to tell ever woman that has been faithful… Those that are called by my name would humble themeselves and turn from your wicked ways…. Turn to your neighbor and say the walls are coming down…..

  Some of yawl are gettting ready to hit a wall….   If Ihave some bonafied praiser… For God I live, and for God I die…. His praise shall forever be in my mouth… The road has been rough and the going has been tough…. I started out a long time ago, and I’ve deciced to follow Jesus a long time ago…..  I told that wall, you don’t klnow who you are messing with because the gates of hell shall not prevail against me….  No weapon formed against me shall prosper…

  Every wall is coming down and be shattered when I give God praise…. Let the redeem of the Lord Praise him… When you shout and give him glory, walls are coming down….

  I can’t hear nobody…. Walls are coming down…

  Right where you are… Face your walls… Walls are getting ready to crumble and collapse… Whatever has been a strong tower or strong hold is getting ready to fall… I need you to put in your mind, what is your greatest obstacle or greatest level of pain… That wall is getting ready to fall…. I don’t know who these impostors are but I need my church to show up… Every wall is getting ready to come down…

  He asked a critical question:  How can you forget that you have fed off of….  I can’t insist on what you should shout about, but I want you to give God glory for you most outstanding season  or episode you will never forget and God has brought you out of…. You will never forget!!!!

  Stand to your feet… There are some people who are going to get their memory back… Not by might or by my power, but by his spirit… Somebody prayed for you… Can you remember one significant thing God has done for you…..

  If you can’t forget what he has done for you, how can you forget?  I cannot forget what God has done…. Today I want to get saved, and remember what God has done…

  Can you remember how bad you needed him?  Do you remember how significant the church was in your life?   Ask someone are they saved and have a church home?   If they don’t remember their Pastor’s name where they go to church, they need a church home…. Don’t let this moment pass you by…. This is your moment and your season…  Even at the risk of getting on somebody’s nerve… Ask them when is the last time you experienced God on this level…

  You are in the right place, at the right time, serving the right God…

  Some of us rembmer right until it’s time to give… Then we don’t remember nobody in the room – Pastor Jamal Bryant”

  Give a seed today for $49.00 – God is getting ready to restore your memory…. God is going to help you remember!!!

   Preached by:  Dr. Jamal H. Bryant…

  Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas

Psalm 37:25 (American Standard Version) 25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.

Blessing to each of you all around the world…   This is Mother’s day weekend her in the  USA…    We salute each mother and pray blessings over each of your lives…  As the scripture states above that “I have been young, and now I am old, but I yet have seen the righteous forsaken.. Nor his seed begging bread…  With that said, continue to trust in God with all your heart and never lean to your own understanding because above every name, the name of  Jesus has all power to turn any situation around…

For those that are in perfect peace, I pray you take the time to pray for someone who is in need spiritually, physically, mentally or financial…. Or just some mother of father out there doing their job to the best of their ability but  still can’t seem to get things to add up in there life… I intercede on that family’s behalf and pray change takes place and God’s glory rain on their lives and lives of every family they have….

I do  understand in the economy we live in, and most of us have so many desires outside of everyday living… I have a desire to travel the world and preach the Good News of Jesus Christ……  I pray that my desires come to past and God make room for my gifts and doors be open in the mighty name of Jesus….

 

If I could be of encourage to  just one person on today,  I dare you to began to talk to God about all of your circumstances with all sincerity knowing that he can and will turn things around in your life that are not like God…

Knowing your O.G. source = Only God can do the impossible and turn stones into bread, take 2 fish and 5 loaves of barely bread and feed over 5,000 men women and children and then there was left overs…. That’s the kind of God we serve…  I dare you to just jump on board and begin right where you are… God is a loving and a forgiving God and has no respect of person… He just ask that you acknowledge him and let him into your heart..  Just believe in him, and receive him confessing his death, burial and Resurrection… It’s not as hard as man makes it out to be…  ” Just open up your heart and love on him… His love is reciprocal, and you will feel his presence and he will love on you back…  Trust me, I’m a living witness…

You all be  blessed, and remember to be a blessing to someone else…

“Here is A tribute to all the mother’s that are still here and the on’e that have passed away… This song really blessed my heart and there is a message for all of us enclosed…  Just listen to Mr. PreZ Blackmon II break it down and minister to our soul….
 

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY 2012! The SONG! Tribute to MOMS that have passed away! PreZ Blackmon II

 

 

Bishop G. E. Patterson – At The Name Jesus

Donald Lawrence & Tri-City Singers – Never Seen The Righteous Forsaken

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Happy Friday to each of you…  Today I’ve come to the conclusion that when everything else in life has failed, “LOVE” is all we have left to keep us alive…  It took me a long  time to understand the term “LOVE HURTS”….  Sometimes, “LOVE is not getting what you want but is sometimes getting what you need.
“If you LOVE me, you will do what I want…  No, If you love me, we will do what’s right!!!!
I’m learning that “LOVE” comes in all forms….

Fred Hammond – No Greater Love~!

 

 

 

~”LOVE”~

“There is only one happiness in life.  to LOVE and be LOVED” – George Sand

 

“LOVE” comes in all forms – “God is Love”

 

Greek words for love: affection, friendship, eros, and charity

 

The Four Loves

1)Storge – affection

2)Philia – friendship

3)Eros – romance

4) Agape – unconditional love

 

In a classic book titled Colors of Love (1973),  J. A. Lee defined six varieties of relationship that might be labeled love.

What six different types of love did J. A. Lee define?

Eros is romantic, passionate, love—what Tennov labeled limerence. In this type of relationship, love is life’s most important thing. Lee said a search for physical beauty or an ideal type also typifies this type of love.

Ludus is a game-playing or uncommitted love. Lying is part of the game. A person who pursues ludic love may have many conquests but remains uncommitted.

Storge (STORE-gay) is a slow developing, friendship-based loved. People with this type of relationship like to participate in activities together. Often storge results in a long-term relationship in which sex might not be very intense or passionate.

Pragma is a pragmatic, practical, mutually beneficial relationship. It may be somewhat unromantic. A person who leans toward this type of relationship may look for a partner at work or where the person is spending time. Sex is likely to be seen as a technical matter needed for producing children, if they are desired.

Mania is an obsessive or possessive love, jealous and extreme. A person in love this way is likely to do something crazy or silly, such as stalking. The movie Fatal Attraction was about this type.

Agape (a-GOP-aye) is a gentle, caring, giving type of love, brotherly love, not concerned with the self. It is relatively rare. Mother Theresa showed this kind of love for impoverished people.

 

Bible Versus about: Love Is

 

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 355 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 160 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 13:34 ESV / 110 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 82 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 81 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …

John 3:16 ESV / 60 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 59 helpful votes

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? …

1 John 4:19 ESV / 54 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 39 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

John 15:13 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14:15 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 31 helpful votes

The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. …

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 29 helpful votes

In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Mark 12:31 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 23 helpful votes

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 23 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Mark 12:30 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

1 John 4:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

John 14:23 ESV / 22 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 21 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

John 14:21 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 13:34-35 ESV / 21 helpful votes

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

John 13:35 ESV / 20 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 17 helpful votes

The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. …

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 17 helpful votes

Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

1 John 5:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

John 15:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …

Luke 12:35-40 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. …

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 21:15-17 ESV / 12 helpful votes

When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 12 helpful votes

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …

1 John 4:18 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Luke 5:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

Luke 24:1-7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? …

Luke 15:11-24 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. …

 

 

Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas

Scriptures from: Open bible – http://www.openbible.info/topics/love_is

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