Invented Holiday
Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.
If I invented a holiday it would be a community gardening day. Where we could all help build a community garden and plant some food.
With what’s happening in our society today, there should be a day set aside to put differences away and enjoy each other’s company and plant something that would better the entire community. What this world needs is more love no hate.
Everything God Creates Satan Counterfeits
The more valuable something is, the more likely it is, should be counterfeited. This explains why a fake Rolex watches, make Gucci handbags, and fake Jordan sneakers, along with counterfeit currency are so proliferous.
The other night I was watching a show on television it was called “How To Catch A Smuggler.” I never really thought about how much counterfeit merchandise is smuggled over the borders until I watched this show. It got me thinking about how Satan is a smuggler.
God creates, Satan counterfeits. The simple idea help unlock a lot of the Bible. Satan is a counterfeit of God. Demons are the counterfeit of angels. The world is the counterfeit of the kingdom. Lies are the Kounterfeit of truth. Demon possession is the Kounterfeit of being spirit filled. I want to look at the gospel of John, it’s shows us more counterfeits as Jesus approaches the cross.
First, there is a counterfeit high priest, who seek to condemn Jesus the real high priest for being guilty of sin -John 18:19-24. Second, there is a counterfeit judge who wrongly participate in the arrest, trial, and execution of Jesus, the real Judge -John 18:28-32. Third, there is a counterfeit king, who demands allegiance over Jesus, the real king -John 18:33-38.
Working behind all of this religious, legal, and political evil was Satan and demonic forces. If we look at today’s demons, we learn that “the rulers of this age crucified, “the Lord of Glory” – 1 Corinthians 2:8. After failing to destroy and overthrow Jesus, in heaven, they repeat their efforts on the earth. At the Passover meal, Satan has already entered Judas Iscariot, the counterfeit disciple. “after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him.” Satan also sought to turn Peter into a counterfeit disciple, and nearly succeeded. “Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like flour, but I have prayed for you, that you were faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers” – John 22:31-32.
The power in a counterfeit is that it deceives someone into wrongly, leaving that what they have is real, and valuable When it is in fact, fake false and worthless. For this reason, it is vital that God’s people learn to distinguish that which is created by God versus that which is counterfeited by Satan.
I remember thinking at age 12 that my neighbor who was a respiratory therapist that I ran every night with at 6:00 was a good person who just cared about what I went through every day. Was not so, he was a child molester who only befriended me to take advantage of me. He was a counterfeit parental figure that cared for my wellbeing, that had only his own sexual desires in mind.
What things come to mind in your life where you have been fooled by a counterfeit?
Why Did God Give Us The Ten Commandments?
Sometimes I’m amazed about how few people know about and commandments. Polls have shown that only 49% of Christians 44% of Catholics could name only four of the Ten Commandments.
The 10 Commandments are just as Porten to you today as they were centuries ago because commandments are God’s method for liberating us to experience blessings we could never imagine possible.
God gave the ten commandments for the personal well-being of his people. In Exodus 29:2, God said, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.” God had already redeemed his people and brought them out of slavery. And now that they were out on their own, he was getting in the rules that would govern their lives.
Many people believe the Old Testament teaches. The law saves us in the New Testament teaches us we are saved by grace. that is not true. In the New Testament, there is law as well as grace. When you become a true believer, it doesn’t mean you have no law it means you serve under the new law that God gives. In the old testament, he can law did not say people. That was impossible. No man could be saved by keeping the law, because no man could keep the law. You find Grace in the pages of the Old Testament. You find God’s grace in Genesis 3 after Adam and Eve sinned, when God killed an animal, and took the skin and covered Adam and Eve. You see grace and faith in Genesis 115:6 when Abraham “believed in the Lord and he reckoned it to him as righteous.” We are saying the same way whether in the Old Testament or the New Testament. Every person is saved by grace, which is appropriated through faith. God gave a law, not you save his people, but you teach them how to live.
The law was given to serve as a foundation for the nation of Israel. There are three essentials for any nation. A nation has to have a common people, a common land, and a common law or constitution. God had already given the Israelites, a common people when he called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans. They were headed to the common land, the land of Canaan. But what they needed to find them together what is the constitution, a law. That’s what we find in the beginning of Exodus 20.
And last, but not least, God gave the law to remind the people of their own sinfulness. Did God believe the Israelites were actually going to keep the law? Of course not. That’s why God instituted a sacrificial system with the understanding that they would need forgiveness. The book of James says the law is like a mirror that shows us how dirty our lives really are. In the book of Galatians, Paul refutes, the.Judaizers, who thought the law was what saved them. Paul said no. He explained, “ The law have to come our tutor to lead us to christ, so that we may become justified by faith” -Galatians 3:24. A tutor, and Paul’s day was a slave who would walk the child to school. And Paul is saying that the law is like a tutor and attendant, who leads us to Jesus Christ.
The law doesn’t save us. It reminds us of how much we need God’s forgiveness and salvation.
The Consequences Of Anger
Holding onto anger does not accomplish God’s will; instead it destroys us and poisons others.
When was the last time you were angry, and how did you respond? We all get agitated at one time or another -even God Himself feels anger. However, because we are human we, don’t always respond in the best way. Ephesians 4:26 tells us, “Be angry, and yet do not sin.”
We can look at any social media platform and see anger, and sin firsthand. People being angry because of the way others views differ from theirs. America along with the rest of the world is a perfect picture of “hate,” hate for the ‘other president’, hate for the other political party, hate for religion, hate because one has a different color of skin.
Human’s hold on to anger, and when resentment takes up residence in our hearts, it twists our thinking and emotions and robs us of peace. That hate spills over into our families, then the family deteriorates.
We might speak hurtful words, even to those who aren’t the cause of our rage. We begin to harbor anger, unresolved bitterness takes over. Our bodies cling to negativity that is destructive.
Slowly Satan creeps into our lives, our families, our hearts, and our minds.
The War in the realm Heaven and Hell is getting intense. So much so we are seeing in its effects here on earth. It’s plain to see Satan hates us and we are falling right into his plan for us to hate too.
The Consequences Of Anger
My Favorite Websites
What are your favorite websites?
My favorite websites are walkingkabbalah.com it’s a website that shows the meanings of the Hebrew alphabet.
I go to six sister stuff their recipes are always good it’s found with a search or you-tube.
Another one I enjoy, just because it’s site with all the Bible versions. I use this when I’m doing a deep bible study. BibleGateway.com.
Age re-lived
Is there an age or year of your life you would re-live?
What age would I want to do over. I would definitely want to live my 20’s over. Because that’s when one really decides who they are and who they are going to be.
Of course, I would want to take the wisdom and knowledge that I have right now about life with me.
I would choose a career instead of a job. And would have moved out of this rural area that I now live. I probably would have decided not to have kids until later, and work on just being me for awhile.
The Nations Rebel
Psalm 2
- The Reign of The Lord’s Anointed
- When God Laughs
The theme of the Psalm 2 Emphasize in a final verse. We can defy God and perish, or we can surrender to God, and be blessed.
The rage of the nations, and the laugh of God.
“Why did the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The king of the Earth set themselves, and the rulers, take counsel together, Against the Lord, and against His anointed saying, Let us break their bonds in pieces Their records from us -Psalm 2.
Why did the nations rage: David seems to be generally mystified. The nations have no reason to rage against God, and they have no benefit in raging against Him. opposition against God is nothing but a vain thing.
The rulers take counsel together: Since the time of Babel, men have continued to band himself together against God. They are mistaken. belief is that two or more man united against God they would have a better chance than one man against God.
Against the Lord, and against His Anointed: They oppose both the Lord and His anointed. Anointed speaks of Christ, and the Anointed One. Since Jesus is the perfect representation of the Father (John 10:30; 14:9), opposing God the Father, is to oppose Jesus. If you are against Jesus, you are against God the Father.
Let Us Break Their Bonds In Peace’s: Those who oppose the Lord and His Anointed think of God as a bondage bringer. This attitude is evidence of spiritual insanity, because God is a bondage breaker, not a bondage bringer.
To a gracious neck, the yoke of Christ is intolerable, but to the saved sinner it is easy and light. We may judge ourselves by this, do we love that yolk, or do we wish to cast it from us?
Henry Spurgeon
The Lords Laugh From Heaven: “He who sits in the heaven, shall laugh; The Lord shall hold them in the derision. Then he will speak to them in His wrath, and distress him in His deep displeasure. Yet I have set My King (Jesus) on My holy hill of Zion” -Psalm 2:4-6
He who sits in the heavens, shall laugh: God looks at the way man plot against Him, and He laughs. God isn’t afraid or confused or depressed about the opposition of man. God laughs at it.
God laughs because He sits in the heavens. He sits as the great King on a glorious throne. He isn’t pacing back-and-forth in his throne room of heaven, wondering what He should do next. God sits in perfect peace and assurance.
God laughs because He sits in the heavens. It isn’t an earthly throne He occupies; it is the throne of heaven with authority over all creation. What does heaven have to fear from earth.
God does not Tremble . He does not hide behind a vast celestial rampart, counting the enemy and calculating whether or not He has sufficient force to counter this new challenge to His kingdom. He does not even rise from where He is sitting. He simply laughs at these great imbeciles.
The Lord shall hold them in derision. Through the centuries, many have opposed God and His kingdom. Each one of these opponents shall frustrated and crashed.
A famous example of an opponent Christianity was the Roman emperor Diocletian who reigned from A.D. 284-305. He was such an determined enemy of Christians that he persecuted the church mercilessly, and fancied that he had defeated Christianity. He ordered the making of metal with this inscription “The name of Christianity being extinguished The name of Christianity being extinguished.”
Diocletian is dead and gone, a footnote on the pages of history. The theme in glory of Jesus Christ is spread over all the earth. The Lord hold them in derision.
He should speak to them in his wrath: God laughs in heaven, but He doesn’t remain inactive. He laughs, but He doesn’t only laugh. Before He acts against defiant mankind. He first speaks to rebellious humanity.
This shows the great mercy of God. He has every reason, and every right to simply act against defiant men. Love and mercy compel God to speak a word of warning before He acts..
I have set My King on My holy hill of Zion. God wants defiant mankind to know what He has established a King. Defiant mean, closest in view in the Psalms are kings and rulers, and God wants them .to know there is a King greater than they are. God’s King is established in Jerusalem.
God’s decree to the nations (Psalm 2:7-9. The decree to Son.”I will declare and decree: The Lord has said to Me, you are My Son, Day, I have begotten You. The nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the Earth for your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron; You have a dash into pieces like a potters vessel.
“I will declare and decree: The following passage indicates that this is the Lord’s Anointed Himself speaking. He will declare that decree that God the Father spoke to Him.
You are My Son, today I have you gotten you: The Lord’s anointed recalls with God, the Father spoke to Him, identifying Him as a Son of the Father, and emphasizing His Son standing as begotten of the Father.
Begotten is an important idea, as a contrast to created. Jesus was not created.; Rather He created everything that was created – Colossians 1:16-17. Begotten described our relationship between two beams of the same essential nature and being, but we create the end of a different essential beings in nature than ourselves. A man creates a statue, but begets a child.
I will give Your the nations for Your inheritance: The Lord‘s anointed holds the nation as His inheritance. He will rule over the nations, and all judgment is committed to Him -John 5:22.
Revelation 11:15 Describe an exciting consummation of this inheritance. Then the seventh angel sounded: and there was a loud voice in heaven, saying, “The kingdoms of our world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.”
You shall break them with the rod of iron: The Lord’s Anointed has such power over the nations that they are like clay pots that He can shatter with a blow on the rod of iron. This shows why it is so full for the nations to defy the Lord and His Anointed. There is no reason and no benefit to their defiant opposition.
Kiss the Son: This primarily has in mind, the kiss of submission, where a dignitary receives a humble kiss of an inferior. Also hints at the affection God wants in relationship to Him. God wants us to recognize our proper place before Him, but also rejoice in Him, and be affectionate in our relationship.
Kissing was a token of subjugation and friendship.
If the kings and judges of the Earth are commanded to humble them selves before the Lord’s Anointed, recognizing His total superiority, then what of the rest of us? Speaking to the kings, in judgment, therefore includes all of humanity.
Blessed are those who put their trust in Him: Go to big five God are broken, but those who depend on Him are blessed. David leaves the tours with everyone broken or Blessed?
The war in Israel is the physical manifestation of “The war in the Heavenlies” being fought over America right now.
The prayer movement God is raising up to pray for America and now Israel for the times the church and our nations are ‘right now.’
What Historical Event Fascinates Me
What historical event fascinates you the most?
The anticipatory lead-up to Christmas involves checking off shopping list, stuffing stockings, and brainstorming recipes. But those who believe in Christ our field with the holiness of the holiday. After all, Christmas has great significance to followers of God.
In a time of rampant, commercialism and distraction, the message of the manger stand out in stark contrast. Although the month of December 10 to fly by quickly, for those who believe in God is the time to take a breath, and reflect on what the religious celebration is really about. From the stable to salvation, the Christmas story is centered on the birth of Jesus Christ, and what His is coming to earth has meant, and still means, for all of humanity.
And while as nice as it is to give and receive gifts as part of our annual festivities, the ultimate gift was given to the world through God the Father sending His Son.
Believers around the world rejoice over the miraculous good news and Christmas.
“The brightest Christmas ever has lit by a single star and swaddled in the most drab colors, being offered mankind the greatest gift of all true and lasting love“ – Toni Sorenson
Trials And Tribulations
Have you ever felt like you were under attack or that the devil was trying to wage warfare against you?
God tells us he will test us, Jeremiah 17:10 says “I the Lord, search the heart, I test the mind. Even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the results of his deeds.
But I want to talk about all we can do to keep every door shut to the devil so he is unable to find easy access into our lives.
I can personally testify to the many attacks that have come against me and my family because we have opened doors to the devil. A long term protection plan against the devil is possible to keep the devil from creeping in that making our lives hell on earth.
Believe me when I tell you the devil is trying to find a way to sabotage everything good -so we don’t need to be,o him by leaving a door open for him.
I would bet everyone locks their doors at night so no one uninvited comes into your home. So,why don’t we let the devil walk around in our lives uninvited? We not only need to safeguard our homes but also ourselves.
This may seem like a simplistic example, but an “open door” is exactly what the devil is looking for in each of our lives. If we are diligent to keep the doors of our lives locked it makes it much harder for the devil to find access to us.LLL
Ephesians 4:27 gives us insight about how the devil operates, and it explicitly tells us what our part is in keep the devil from finding a way into our lives.
Paul wrote, “Neither give place to the devil,” this was not a suggestion, it was a command. If you’ve ever come under a spiritual assault and found the devil in the middle of your affairs, you know that it’s much easier to try and stop the enemy at the doorway than try to find a way to get him out once he had found a access point to worm his way into a area of our lives.
That’s why Paul so urgently warned you to give the devil no “place.” In other words, stay alert so he can’t freely access your life. The devil is just like a person at your home trying to gain access. They moment you let your guard down, they will try and sneak in.
The word “place” is the Greek word topos. It describes a specific, Mark-off location. But rather than a physical location that we use a map to identify a “place“ may refer to a rough spot in our relationships, our finances, our thoughts, or our habits or to Lingering areas of disobedience. Whatever it is, it’s an identifiable location that the devil seeks to find and use as an open door into our lives.
If the door is closed, you’re already in good condition. If it’s locked because you’re living a life of holiness and obedience, you’re in a even better condition. But if you are living loosely, you need to know that the door is not only unlocked -it is likely standing wide open, literally inviting the devil to come and wreak havoc in your life.
The devil knows his time is short on earth. If we look around the world we can see he’s pulling out all the stops on his evil plans. To do as much damage as possible.
This is the time we need to be serious about our lives because the devil is looking for a door, a window, or a crack -an entry point through which he can access us. We must take the time to circumspectly look at our lives to see if there is any area we have left open or unguarded that has allowed the devil to find a way to attack us.
The devil is more committed than ever to attack than most of us are to withstand him. That’s why he wages against us. And that is why Paul commands us to give him no place.
Since we know the devil is going to find a way to Gail entry into our lives, we must use the weapons of warfare God has given us to resist him in Ephesians 6:10-18. But it is almost essential that we diligently and continually keep watch over our lives on a sustained and continual bases, looking for any open doors we may have left open that would make it easier for the devil to find entrance.
Times are getting tougher everyday. Before we take authority over the devil in the Name of Jesus, we all need to do what we can to stop the devil at the door.
If your under attack, I urge you to stand strong in the Lord, being confident that the weapons of warfare given to you in God’s Word will be enable you to successfully repel the devil.
Spiritually close the door and keep it locked so no attack from the devil will find it’s way into your life,
Every trial I endure I always ask God what He wants me to learn from it. God had un endure trials and tribulations, but by sinning we open the door for the devil to enter to wreak havoc in our lives.
Everyone Should Know This
What’s something you believe everyone should know.
You are stronger than you think because God is nearer than you know
You are never alone.
I lived many years in emotional agony thinking that I was alone. The years of my life dwindling away. Everyone I put my trust in seemed to betray that trust.
But then God changed my perspective. He showed me that I was never truly alone. If I would trust in the miracle of His presence and power.
We are never alone because:
Jesus walks with us and lift us up out of every storm.
We dwell in the grace of the cross, the miracle of the empty tomb, and the assurance of God has restoration power.
God is our ever present source of help.
We are never without hope or strength because we are never alone.
Hebrews 4:16 tells us, “God is there to provide mercy and grace to help in times of need.”
Hebrews 13:5 states, “For He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.”
1 Peter 5:7 tells us to, “ Cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
John14: 16-17, “And I will pray to the Father, and He will give you another advocate to help you and be with you forever; the spirit of truth which the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him, but you know Him, for He dwell with you and will be in you.”
The Overlooked Principle Of Cause And Effect
In a world of freedom of choice, some choices inevitably lead to bad results.
Actions yield consequences. We know we reap what we sow, but many don’t realize the source of the saying is in the Bible. Thousands of years ago one of Job’s friends, who was no stranger to suffering observed that “those who plow iniquity and sow trouble reap the same” -Job 4:8.
Centuries later the Hebrew Prophet Hosea looked at the sad spiritual condition of the kingdom of Isreal. Idolatry, violence and immortality were commonplace (Hosea 2:1-23; 4:1-19). Within a few years a mighty Assyrian empire would sweep in from the east and lay waste, slaughtering thousands of its inhabitants and enslaving its survivors. God revealed to Hosea what was coming and why. “They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7), “You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped iniquity” You have eaten the fruit of lies…” -Hosea 10:13.
When thousands die in natural disasters, hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, and droughts -people blame God. Yet, as God told the ancient Israelites. He would bless them with favorable weather only if they obeyed Him -Leviticus 26:3-4;Deuteronomy 28:12. Most chose not no obey. That decision affected not only their own lives but the lives of their children, who fell victim to their parents foolish choices. The innocent often suffer for the sins of others. That is one of the tragic consequences of wrong choices.
When we analyze suffering, we can learn a great deal if we will only trace the circumstances back to their cause. Proverbs 22:3 warns us to consider the long term consequences of our choices. “A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; but the simple pass on and are punished.”
When we look for the major causes of suffering, we don’t need to look any further than ourselves. In one way or another sin is the underlying cause of most suffering.
From Pity to Praise 