Isaiah 62:6

Homosexuality being taught in the Public School System is on the rise at an alarming rate. Right now it is camouflaged under the name of Diverse Sex Education.  This article will address Parents who are daring to look the other way while their children are being taught demonic thoughts and ways.  We are living in a Post Modern nation.  We are doing what we see as right in our own eyes (Judges 21:25 "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes".)

We have been called to be watchmen:

Isaiah 62:6 - I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence.

The Church has been silent for the most part about Abortion and Diverse Sex Education.  Woe unto us!  To stay silent is to agree!!  What can parents do?  Whatever the cost, pull your children out of the system before they are brain washed and indoctrinated so deep that you will literally have to "snatch" them from hell (Jude 1:23 "save others by snatching them out of the fire...")

Azusa Street

The year was 1906 on a street called Azusa, located in Los Angeles, California.  It was the birth of the pentecostal movement.  What very few people know is that a twelve year old girl in that first meeting stood up and spoke in tongues.  Thus the Pentecostal movement began.  I'm not going to even think of tackling the subject of "tongues", but I wanted to write about this because like me, maybe there are lots of people who did not know it's beginning.  This movement revolves around this little girl who spoke in tongues!

Did the Church dwell on tongues and the like before 1906?  

Some believe "speaking in tongues" and "holy jumping" have occurred for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Founded in 1747 in England the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing practiced “singing and dancing, shaking and shouting, speaking with new tongues and prophesying" — some migrated to the United States in 1774 where they met similar faiths. Charismatic religions existed in Europe nearly a century before Prygunyreported their outpouring of the Holy Spirit in 1833 in Novorossiya (South Ukraine). Holiness jumping was reported in Los Angeles in April 1904, months before the Pryguny began to arrive in numbers in January 1905. How and whether these diverse faiths around the world are connected is continually researched and discussed by scholars.

You be the judge.

Glow Worm

What if we, as Christians, turned green every time we told a lie?  That's a thought I heard from a sermon a few years ago and I thought it was funny.  Got to thinking though, we would really be on our guard if that did happen!  God says in His Word that we should guard our hearts (Proverbs 4:23).

Had a friend who once told me that someone who tells a lie will always try to prove it out to be the truth.  It's easy to convince man, but not the Lord because He sees our hearts. How is it that telling a lie is so harmful if it saves the feelings of someone?  We can always justify our lies with one thing or another, but God is keeping the records.  Guarding our hearts against evil is not as easy as we think.  Life gets caught up in this thing.  Situations that puts us between a rock and a hard place.  

So, how do we guard our hearts?  When we are tempted to lie, tell the truth even if it hurts.  Oh, come on!  My job depends on this lie, my marriage depends on it, my Church depends on it etc.  Now, it is not so easy is it?  It is very hard to tell the truth because we have learned from childhood to look out for number one.  We have learned how to "escape" anything that would harm us if we told the truth.  It takes hard work to "Guard our hearts". 

Now, don't you wish we could just turn green?  

A Gay Man

I loved him so much!  My brother, James, turned to homosexuality when he was twenty-six years old.  Before that he was deeply in love with a woman who chose someone else. He "chose" to turn.  He was so handsome, he could have been a movie star!  He lived in Kansas City, Mo and attended a Gay Church.  I witnessed to him every chance God gave me, but to no avail.

When I found out that he was dying of AIDS at the age of forty-nine my heart was broken. I called him immediately.  He told me not to preach to him.  He died two weeks later in his living room surrounded by his gay men friends.  God gave me grace over his death.

He is in eternity today and it is "forever".  When I think about being separated from God FOREVER I cannot bear the thought!  Eternity never ends!  I thank the Lord for going to the Cross to save those who would come to HIm.  My name is written in the Lamb's book of life and the struggles here cannot compare with the glory to come in heaven!  Just sharing my personal thoughts today.

I have decided!

My daughter said to me the other day, "Some people have a relationship with God and then there are those who have a relationship with Religion".  It was such a deep statement that I had to write something about it.  I'm on the internet a lot and sometimes I meet people who have never been born again.  I have some very precious friends online that are real in their lives about the Lord and I thank God for each one.  

How can we know if someone is really born again or not?  There have been tons of books written on the subject, so who am I to write one more thing about it?  For me it is the test of time and watching their lives that reveals the truth.  We are commanded in the Word to test "every" spirit to see whether or not they are of God. (I John 4:1).  Lay hands on no man suddenly (I Timothy 5:22).  Christians are not perfect, but the striving to be obedient to God must be there.

Only God knows the heart of a person, but testing the spirit is so important to the Body of Christ.  I have decided that if God has instructed us to do it, then we must and for those who belong to the Lord it would behoove us to examine even ourselves to see if we be in the faith. (2 Corinthians 13:5).  That's how essential it is to "test" every spirit!

Laura

About three years ago I met Laura.  She was holding a cardboard sign asking for help outside of Walmart.  When I was driving by the Holy Spirit gave me instruction to do something concerning her.  I was to make a sign and write John 3:16 on it and go to where Laura was standing the next morning at 10:00 am.  After I had been there for about five minutes she came over to stand with me.  As we talked she confided in me that she was the daughter of a Baptist minister.  She also told me that she lived with a man who had several girls working "the beat" for him in exchange for food and shelter.

I told her that God had told me to come and see her.  She said her father was too strict and she wanted to be out on her own.  She worked part time at McDonald's and then in the mornings she worked for this man.  She had no car so he took her to work and the place where she was to stand.  I told her that she must be very special if God wanted me to come and see her.  About an hour later the "man" showed up to get her and she told him she wasn't going with him.  He was very upset and gave me a hateful look as he drove off that I will never forget.

I don't know what became of Laura, but I know God did something in that young girl! I hope that she went back home to her parents.  Oh, the power of the Holy Spirit!

Character

Why are sweet memories so important?  I'm old now and they keep me warm on a cold winter's night.  Good memories build character.  Combining God's Word and sweet memories result in a child of God who will someday know that his Heavenly Father is loving. So many today find it difficult to relate to Him as loving.  This is a real dilemma for the Christian.  It hinders his walk in the faith and stunts his growth in his relation to God as his Heavenly Father.  How can we pass down the Father's love and power if we cannot relate to Him ourselves?

Most of us had fathers who were not loving and some of us had no father at all our lives. How can we get to know our Father in heaven?  Jesus said if we had seen him we had seen the Father in Heaven.  (John 14:7)  When we study the character of Jesus we see a compassionate Lord toward His people.  Our Heavenly Father is compassionate to His own and even in this life to those who will never know Him.  He is a compass of compassion. He is even loving in His discipline toward His children.

The Cross of Calvary is spelled "Compassionate".  This is how I see my Heavenly Father.