If you have ever been so low, so far down until you just felt like giving up? I have. I remember a time when I had no food for my innocent small children; no money, no job and had no one to turn to. When I went to my door and opened it, I found a basket of food on my doorstep and to this day, I have no idea of where it came from. I knew no one in my neighborhood as I was a newcomer.
There have been many times God took my tears for prayers when I did not have the strength to pray. You may not believe there is a God. I can tell you for sure, that there is. He has blessed me time and time again when I felt that I least deserved it. I could have been dead and rotting in my grave and my soul forever lost but I’m still here to tell someone about JESUS, and I don’t mind telling you. Most people don’t understand this God I’m talking about. They think he’s a hard taskmaster who has a bone to pick with most of us. What you do not know is just how much God loves us. He has a bone to pick, but not with us. That is between him and the devil that loves to hate; the devil that loves to steal, kill and destroy the lives of people. We don’t have to worry. God can take care of all of that. He just want you to know the truth and to know his great mercy and love for you. He sent Jesus into this world to become one of us to show us who HE is. Everything God has done, has been to love what seems to be an unlovable world. He loves YOU!
I am so thankful today, so full of gratitude for my Lord. Tears comes into my eyes when I think about just how good he’s been to me. Did I deserve it? No. The many times he’s come when I needed him most, even when I didn’t know it, he was there. I just wanted to share this with someone. Is it you? If so, God is reaching out to you today. Why? Because he so loves you.
Blessings,
Gloria
January 12, 2009
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Then What?
When your car has no gas and the payments for both house and car are overdue and your bank account is dried up, then what?
When your pockets and your stomach are both empty and food is nowhere to be found; you’re thirsty with nothing clean to drink, can you still say, you’re alright? The only people interested in finding you are your bill collectors.
We are beginning to realize for the first time in our lives that this could very well be us at any given point and time if it’s not already.
When we get to the bottom of our barrell, or at the end of our rope, when we get down to our last dime, our last cigarette, our last joint, drink, stick or snort, and we find ourselves all alone, then what?
When we hit our keyboards to call a friend and can’t get an answer, when our families can’t bail us out, when all doors seem to be closed in our faces and the only answer we hear is…, sorry, then what?
Million dollar homes are going up in smoke as spot fires are raging out of control. Insurance companies are going broke. Jobs are dying out by the millions. Businesse’s are closing faster than we can keep up with. Floods are claiming our way of life in various places. tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamies, the threat of volcanoes awakening, massive winter storms of hail, ice, snow, dark clouds looming over the world to threaten our very existence. Not to mention the threat of having our food supply wiped out from all the many strains of diseases we are fighting. The list is endless.
We still have radical groups threatening to destroy our country and our way of life even while we are still at war. It’s taking untold amounts of money trying to secure our transportation system, cyber systems, utility systems, and put that all out there with the mounting frustrations of trying to make a multicultural society blend together and get along, from every part of the world’s spectrum and still call our nation America.
It’s as if we are all sitting on a boiling pot or a powder keg that has reached the limit while the heat is still rising.
I don’t know about you, but it’s time to get our heads out of the sand and take a real good look around. The sand is not making any of it go away. Anyone with just a small amount of intelligence should be able to see the world changing right before our eyes. Who knows when the next tragic catastrophic disaster will strike and where! Governments are running out of answers. Banks are running out of money and now, it’s rumor that a decision is being made to start injecting chips under the skin of every person on planet earth supposedly for ID purposes but this program is geared to replace all currency universally and all personal hard copy files and records.
Today many are waking up and lying down in fear. Many have responsibilities of caring for others who are not able to take care of themselves. There are all kinds of situations left hanging in the balance and wanting. Too many people have placed their trust in a system that has no sound support. The world has become a much smaller place all networked together and growing smaller day by day. What one nation experience now, stretches around the globe and in some way or another both ends meet in these modern times.
It’s not enough to wonder how income can be made to meet the rising needs but wondering if we will be able to hold on to what we still have that’s paid for. When times like these surface, with it comes rising crime at every level. Then there are those who feel
they just can’t face another day. Someone falls into the trap of thinking suicide is their answer. If suicide is better than living regardless of whatever state is present, why wait until the going has gone to choose to go along. We all come to a point in life when we find ourselves at low points
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There is a saying that only the strong survive. There might be a ring of truth to that statement. It depends on where we are getting our strength from. Some like to take the escape route. That can mean using tools such as denial, fraud, drugs, alcohol, depression, stealing, gambling, and many other deceptions. All these choices do is complicate to self destruction. They have never proven to be a way to solve problems but quite the opposite.
The worst thing anyone can do is try to get around the truth or move in any other direction they think will work other than face the truth. That might bring a little relief for a period of time but inadvertently they will find themselves back to square one. Nothing has the quality of the genuine
but the genuine. Substitutes won’t do. Escape routes will not do. Just ask yourself, what can give you the strength, the hope, the peace to believe you can make it? Those attributes does not come with fear, or scapegoats such as anything that will stand in the place of honest confidence.
If you are thinking death is the answer to all of these problems and those that have not even been mentioned here, you couldn’t be more wrong. The only thing death is—is a separation of the flesh or the body from the spirit and soul. When a person dies they become disembodied, detached from flesh and time. Eternity then replaces time. The body decays back to the earth from which we were originally created. This is why the phrase, “Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,” is used at most funerals.
The same people that would disagree with this will try to find ways to communicate with their loved ones who have passed on into eternity. Once they have departed from their bodies, they most likely will not re-enter those dead bodies and return to us except God reunite them to their flesh through their DNA and resurrects them, such as what happened in the days of Jesus.
Speaking of God, when nothing else works, why not try God? He’s able to do the impossible. What’s not possible with man,
is possible with God. Why not trade all of the little false gods we are used to trusting in for the Real God! If that’s your last resort, don’t pass it up. Give it a try. What do you have to lose? You can either try him out here and now or if you think death is your only option, what will you do if you find that death only propelled you into the presence of the one you refused to acknowlege while living here on earth.
What then? 
January 9, 2009
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Dear Readers,
This letter was written to a personal person of interest,
I removed thier name to protect their privacy and edited out personal parts to make it suited to share with a broader spectrum of viewers. I hope you will take the time to read it and pass it on. Many thanks and may God bless you.
I feel such a call to share with you some things about myself.
I am not one of those pushy people that will impose myself upon you. I simply want to tell you how I came to know the Lord in such a powerful, personal and precious way.
I found myself searching for answers to my life at a very young age. I had many questions but could not seem to find the answers I needed to satisfy my mind or the void in my life. I think we all come to a place and time when we want to know who we are and why we are here as well as where we are going. Death is a mystery in it’s own right and life seems to be so short and full of sorrow.
This world can be a very intimidating place. I have come in contact with people of all walks of life as most of us have and all kinds of religions and beliefs. I wondered which one was right for me.
I went to church and closely observed the lives of others around me seeking answers in others. That did not work for me. I was only left more perplexed and confused. Finally the day came when I picked up a bible and began to read for myself. I had been warned from my own family that when people read the bible, “They can go crazy.” Another one was, and I quote, “The bible contradicts itself.” Yet, another one was, “Nobody can understand the bible.” Yet, everytime I was in their presence, they bombarded me with questions that I felt I should have been asking them.
All of those things just served to intensify my interest that much more. So, I began to read which actually led to study and thus I embarked on my own personal journey. I found that the bible is not just any ordinary book. The more I read, the more I wanted to read. It truly is the Word Of a living and very Real God. I prayed to God to help me understand what I needed to understand and He did just that as I sensed his presence around me. It was as if I had entered his home and he made me feel so very welcome. I met Him there and He met me there.
When I met my husband, we started attending crusades and I witnessed many wonderful miracles. I began to realize things about this life and this world that I had never known before. I read about Jesus performing miracles in the bible but I had no clue that he still did the same mighty works today. My bible said, “GOD NEVER CHANGES.” God still works Miracles, real miracles. Not only have I seen them, I have been privileged to receive them.
I have seen and heard things that is kept secret from the everyday hum and drum of life because there are forces in place to prevent the work and power of God from being exposed but we are living in a new day when all of that is about to change because there is coming a kingdom. This is why the Lord tells us to seek him with our whole hearts and in doing so, we will find him because he knew this world would reject him and influence people on private and personal levels to do the same, even to this day.
This world is dying and a new world is about to be born. I have learned much over the years and I can tell you, there is no question in my mind that what I am sharing with you is only the truth.
There are so many false religions in the world but there is truly only one that is right. It’s sort of like, needing the right kind of medicine to make us well if we are sick but rather than to go to the doctor and get what we really need, we will buy over the counter stuff and try to fix the problem ourselves, (the band-aid method), if you please. It might work for a while and sometimes it might take care of the problem until something worse comes along. But when we get hit with something generics can’t fix and the only solution is to see a real physician, the choice is simple. We keep that appointment or we could die. In so many ways, so it is with the Real God. All of these false religions is only a temporary fix but the Real is eternal. Jesus made it plain when he said he came to help those that realize their sinful conditions, not those who think they will go to heaven and deny hell without a Savior and without Repentance. The bible declares that we are all sinners and in need of a Savior.
We know out of Budda, Hindu, Islam, Moslem, on down to Catholicism, Baptist, and so on, that is doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that they can’t all be right when they are all so diverse. My purpose is not to offend but to share my heart asking that the readers have an open mind. Some of them even have their own (man-made) bibles. The word here is, Man-made. The Holy Bible is not a man-made bible nor is it a man-made religion. Doctrines and titles is only descriptive of it’s contents. The HOLY BIBLE stands alone. In getting acquainted with God I found that God has three ways to minister to us.
- Through the Holy Bible itself
- Through the Holy Spirit, and
- Through Jesus, his only Son.
The bible is said to be the given to us by the Spirit of God that worked through man to reveal to us who God is and what his plan is for our lives. Through his word he reveals the truth of life and death and what it means for ever person ever born in this world. It points to the cross of Calvary which symbolizes our redemption from sin.
I must say, not everybody will go to heaven. Not everybody will inherit God’s Kingdom.
All of the false religions will try to discredit Jesus and blaspheme him and his holiness. This is a serious offense to God. This can cause one to lose thier soul since Jesus is the one and only way to God’s Kingdom.
He came, he lived, he died and he rose again and now is with his eternal Father. Because he lived a Holy Life and showed us the eternal Father through himself, he has promised to return some day and gather all who will dare to believe in his gospel and give us God’s Kingdom. Because it took his suffering and his death on the cross to redeem us from our sins, the way is not always easy. That took great love on the part of God and his Son. Redeemption had to come through a sinless sacrifice for our sins; one who needed no forgiveness but stood in our place taking upon himself the sins of the whole world to offer to those who will receive it.
Only the Son of God, himself could fill that need. His name is Jesus. We must understand that Jesus’ father was not a man of flesh and blood. His Father is Jehovah God which is where Jehovah Witness believers got their name but rejected the Son and the Holy Bible which a witness amd a testimony of him. And in doing so, they came up with their own bible’s which is only a false authority. The Holy Bible, is God’s Supreme Authority, not man’s and to change it or reject it is to condemn ones own self. Nothing can be more dangerous than that. Still, since Jesus is the divine Son of Jehovah, the two are One.
We cannot deny Jesus and proclaim Jehovah. Jesus is our only link to the Father. We are all sinners; every single one of us as our father is of the earth, Adam. The Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, the mother of the living Christ, who was a virgin. She was not impregnated with the seed of a man, like the rest of us.
The way we became sinners was when we fell from God’s grace by disobedince. God created a man and a woman to populate his earth and he warned them to never disobey him and if they did, they would lose their right to his Kingdom. God is the ultimate authority. Out of his love, he gave them a free will of choice to love him in return enough to trust and obey him, and they disobeyed, thereby causeing a curse to fall on all mankind and the earth.
In order for man to regain his inheritance, he needed someone that had not broked God’s law, to pay the price for all of us. That man was Jesus. Jesus is eternal. He existed before the world was created and God sent him into this world, through a woman and in the form of a man, clothed in human flesh to take us back from the hands of our enemy who is, you guessed it, Satan.
Satan caused the first man and woman to disobey God and fall because he wanted to steal what did not belong to him. He’s a thief, a liar and a deceiver. He and God are the two supernatural forces that rule and reign in the Spirit realm. This is why we have evil in the world. God said, he would only allow the evil to exist for a certain period of time before he would destroy the evil one and all those who would choose to continue to follow him. For the ones who would choose to follow Christ, he would give them the keys to the Kingdom and eternal life.
Hell is a real place. It truly does exist. It is very real. God does not send us there. We choose to go or not to go there. All the grave is, is a place to hold our dead bodies until the day of judgement and until God calls time at the end of his grace and thus the end of this world.
We very well might be that generation to witness the closing of time.
This is why we are seeing nature revolt on a scale not known to man before. People have no moral compass anymore and corruption is on every side. There is evil in the world and where there is evil, there is a source. Satan is real. He is depicted in all of the horror films and etc. He is not a figment of our imagination. He haunts houses, he possesses people and all kinds of evil works and he loves to be worshipped. He is an imposter and the opposite of the real Christ. There are Satan worshippers, Occultist, Astrologers, Saunces, Demonology, and more to support this truth. One day, God has promised to destroy his influence out of this world.
If you go to Israel where Jesus was born, lived and died, you will find all kinds of historic sites there, where tourist have visited and many of them have never come back the same. One of those sites is the place where Jesus was born and another is the place where he was crucified and yet another is the tomb in which he was buried. It was hewn out of the side of rock and is empty. His body has never been found. Why, because there are many witnessed that saw him after his resurrection and spoke with him and became endued with the power of faith to believe his gospel even from that time to this present day. He’s alive. He lives to show us the hope God offers beyond this life and this world.
There is no such leader in any false religion with such power, authority or testimony. They are all false because Satan is a deceiver. It takes faith to believe the truth.
There is more to life than just coming in to this world and living for a few short years, leaving a legacy as it is with some, and then die. Jesus came to give us hope and a future and eternal life where we will never die. Death is a crossing over point to either one place or the other, meaning heaven or hell. For those who cannot seem to embrace this faith and hope the kind of death the bible talks about is the same kind of death that will destroy The devil which will be in eternity spent in hell because we are created to be eternal beings with a soul that cannot die as it came from an eternal God. The Spirit thta gives our bodies life is the eternal breath of God that he breathed into the first man Adam after he created his body. That Spirit departs but does not die.The body, our flesh must die. It’s the temporary temple we all live in. God stores it until the day of judgement and then it will either be changed to immortality or damnation in a place that was prepared for only the devil until mankind came under the curse of Satan by disobeying God. Even if our bodies have been cremated, cut into a thousand pieced, etc. we all have a DNA that is the components to the identity of our flesh and through that we can supernaturally be reconstructed. In heaven we will be given immortal bodies that cannot be destroyed. In hell our old bodies will be eternally plagued with fire, and torment and all manner of curses as there will be different levels of affictions. In heaven our bodies will not be subject to pain, etc.
Still, God loves us and has a plan for all of us. We have to have the faith to believe him for this hope. The evidence has been passed down throughout time. It speaks for itself. He even has angels to witness to the world his message of love and hope. Angels are ministering spirits sent to minister to us from God’s dwelling place. I pray that you can receive this. If nothing else seek the Lord in prayer.
If you took the time to read this in it’s entirety as I took the time to write it, with my whole heart, I thank you. I hope to see you in heaven.
Blessings,
January 8, 2009
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January 5, 2009
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