Don’t Beat Yourself Up

When you have hurt someone you might be inclined to beat yourself up, agonize, and assume that the situation is irreparable. However hurting someone should not depress you. Instead, use it as an opportunity to transcend your past and come out stronger. (Obviously you should always try not to hurt other people but in the inevitably human event that you do, there is potential for transformation.) When you have hurt someone and you need to make amends: recognize your weaknesses and failings, assume responsibility, and rectify your errors.

Here are some specific ways to go about that:

Be Honest With Yourself

Do you blame the people you hurt and see yourself as the victim of the situation, justifying your hurting another person? Consider that your personal narrative is subjective, and therefore possibly biased toward your own interests. Depending on your subjective views can do more harm than good for yourself and others. Hurting someone is bad, but denying your culpability is even worse, because that closes the door to repair and healing.

What story are you telling yourself? Can you separate yourself from your personal narrative and see the situation from the other’s point of view – and even from a bird’s eye view? What’s the bigger picture? Where did you fail in the situation? What should you have done differently?

Assume Responsibility

What does it mean to assume responsibility when yo need to make amends? It means to act promptly: Do not wait. Immediately apologize to the person you hurt and find ways to correct the wrong done. Reaching out to the person you hurt to repair the rift and create harmony cannot wait until you reach a state of “readiness.” You may not be able to make amends perfectly, but it’s the effort that counts. Every effort bears fruit.

Rectify Your Errors

You, as all people, have been blessed with free will, and you always have the power to release the positive spark within yourself. Apologizing in words is not enough – you must act. When you refrain from doing more harm to others, you actively negate the harm you have done before. When you face a similar situation where you are tempted to hurt someone, you must summon all your strength not to succumb to temptation. Furthermore: rectifying an error means not just correction, but growth; using the opportunity to build an even stronger relationship.

Persecution And Suffering For Christ

No one wants to suffer, but in a fallen world it is unavoidable. Whether physical pain or mental anguish, suffering is part of the human condition for everyone. However, that is not the type of suffering I want to explore here. Instead, I want to look at the different kindle suffering because for our faith in and faithfulness in Christ.

Why take up an unpleasant subject ? Because if we understand the inevitability, purpose, and fruit of suffering for Christ – and the resources He gives us to face it – we will be better able to endure when it comes. Forewarned is for armed.

Those who suffer the same things from the same people for the same Person can scarcely not love each other.

C. S. Lewis

This is obvious to believers living under oppressive regimes. However, some today say, “Yes, but we aren’t facing that kind of persecution today.” It is true that for many centuries, followers of Jesus in Europe and America haven’t faced culture-wide persecution because of their faith in Christ. But that era has almost disappeared and a new era is upon us

Exactly what it will be like is not yet clear, but it seems unlikely that it will be favorable to those who follow Jesus Signs of opposition are already apparent.

John Scott has pointed out the “persecution is simply a clash between two irreconcilable value-systems.” That clash is what we are seeing now, and it is ultimately between those who believe, trust, and love the God of the Bible and those who do not. The changes afoot today represent a sea-change from the past, the wind is no longer on our back but it our face. This is creating a cultural climate in the West in which perseof Jesus’s followers, simply for their allegiance to Him, is no longer unthinkable, whether in family, community, or the workplace. This is confusing to some and frightening to others.

One of the greatest paradoxes in Christian history is that the church is most pure in times of cultural hostility. When things are easy and good, that is when the church goes astray. When Christianity seems identical with the culture and even when the church seems to be enjoying its greatest earthly success, then it is weakest. Conversely, when the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering… then it is closest to it’s crucified Lord, then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

Gene Edward Veith

Let’s look at the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and Peter about persecution and suffering, seeking to learn valuable lessons along the way.

Jesus’s Teaching And Example

What That used to say to us about persecution, and what resources does He provide in such times? We should begin by noting that Jesus was Steeped in Scripture and knew all about the persecution and suffering of the prophet and other godly people in the Bible, people like Daniel (Daniel 6) and his three friends and others. He knew that such evil ultimately resulted grows out of the spiritual darkness, blindness, error, and sin that dominates the hearts of fallen people and causes them to resist truth and righteousness.

He also knew that as God’s Suffering Servant (Isaiah 53). He would experience the full assault of men and devils against His earthly ministry and would ultimately die by crucifixion. He understood as well the opposition that His followers would face from their families, communities, the world, and the devil, and He sought to prepare them. Jesus frequently warned His followers that they would face persecution and suffering.

The first instance comes at the beginning of His ministry, when Jesus taught the Sermon on the Mount. This teaching was and still is basic training about life in God’s kingdom and how to be a disciple of Jesus. He began with the Beatitudes, which is a profile of a disciples Christian and includes a readiness to suffer.

Blessed are those who have been persecuted for righteousness’ sake, or theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophet who were before you (Matthew 5:10-12

How did Jesus expect his disciples to react under persecution? Be glad and rejoice! We are not to retaliate like an unbeliever, nor like a child nor lick our wounds in self-pity like a dog nor just grin and Bear like I a Stoic, still less pretend we enjoy it like a masochist. What then? We are to rejoice as a Christian should and even “ leap for joy.”

Matthew 5:12; Luke 6:23

Jesus also said, “Love your enemies and pray for also persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). Clearly, persecution was a real possibility for anyone who followed Jesus, and He taught them the vital lesson that Joy, love, and forgiveness were the way to respond . This is a fundamental lesson for us today.

Later in His ministry Jesus taught more broadly about what was required to follow Him, and suffering looms large there, too.

And calling to the crowd to Him with His disciple, He said to them, “ if anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, for whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel will save it. For what does a man profit to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul? For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in his adulterous and sinful generation, of him will be the Son of Man also be ashamed when it comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.

Mark 8:34-38

The first condition, Jesus gives if you deny oneself. This means that would be disciples must say a radical to know your self-centered life and center there lives on Christ. Doing this prepares away for the second condition, to take up the cross, the dreaded Roman instrument of execution. This made a willingness to die for Jesus is faithfulness requires it. These two conditions clear the way to actually follow Jesus -Hid teaching and example in daily life.

Jesus was a suffering Servant on His way to Jerusalem and the cross. Those who would beHis followers might experience the same fate and need to take that into account.

Jesus’s final warnings about persecution and suffering came at the end of His earthly ministry. In the Upper Room, He told His disciples, “Remember the word that I said to you: A servant is not greater than his master.” If they persecute me, they will also persecute you” (John 15:20) Then He elaborated

I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues (churches). Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you with think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have known not the Father, nor me. But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you.

John 16:1-4).

This warning was specifically intended to keep His followers from losing their faith in the fires of persecution that they would soon encounter. The lesson remains valuable today: we are likely to experience persecution at some point because of our allegiance to Christ and the gospel and should prepare for it. Being reminded of the possibility helps us to get ready.

Soon after Jesus ascended to heaven, persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem because of their preaching about Him and His resurrection (Acts 7). Following that, a great persecution was directed against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles left for other places, preaching the gospel as they went (Acts 8:1). Herod then killed James, the brother of John, and arrested Peter with the intention of executing him as well (Acts 12:1-3). These are just a few examples of life in the early days of the Spirit-filled church presented in Acts

One Nation Under God Without Law

The Bible clearly teaches that society will degenerate in the end times, becoming as evil as it was in the days of Noah! We live in a country where MoMs are terrorists, but the Government Gifts The Taliban with weapons; where hundreds die daily from fentanyl, but monkeypox is an emergency; where a political rivals Home (Mar-a-Lago) is raided, but the son of a president- who filmed a crime -is free.

Lawlessness and These Prophesied events are setting the stage for the Lords imminent return! The Apostle Paul, speaking as a prophet, says that society will descend into a black pit of immortality, homosexuality, violence, and paganism (2 Timothy 3:1-5). He asserts that men will be “lovers of self, lovers of money, and lovers of pleasure.“ People will be “boastful, arrogant, and unholy, and children will be disobedient to parents.”

Sounds like then evening news, doesn’t it? In short we have arrived.

The only reason Jesus has not yet returned is because “God does not wish that any should perish, but that all might come to repentance” ( 2 Peter 3:9). The redeemed who are called by His Name are looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ (Titus 2:12-13). For the world that has rejected Him this event will catch them as a “Thief In The Night” (1 Thessalonians 5:2), with His arms outstretched the invitation is open” – call upon the Name of the Lord and you shall be saved.”

Make No Excuses

I’ve often thought why am I writing a blog. I seem to put my thoughts down. I hope some of these writings will encourage or even help someone. The time is drawing near, the world is getting messier and messier these days. And we will be out from under the Almighty God’s cover of protection at some point. While people don’t seem to understand or even care. I’m sure that with time, they will.

You were made for such a time as this. But the fact is people need to stop making excuses and get to work for God, before it’s to late.

The following is written with the context of the book of Jeremiah in mind.

Make No Excuses

God may assign you a demanding task, but His call keeps us going when we don’t want to go and are ready to quit,

We are skillful at the art of making excuses, aren’t we? “I don’t know how.” “I didn’t understand.” “I couldn’t find the right tools.” “The voices told me to clean all the guns today.” “I threw out my back exercising today.” “I have a Doctors appointment.” “There’s been a death in the family.” Or maybe “When I got up this morning I accidentally took two Ex-lax in addition to my blood pressure pill. I can’t get off the john, but I feel good about it.

In the Christian world, we can find all sorts of excuses not to obey God’s voice. It’s the preacher’s job. “It’s not my gift.” I’ve already served, let someone else do it.” “I’m too busy or too tired or too old or too young.”

It’s been said. “Excuses are tools of the incompetent, and those who specialize in then seldom go far.” Ben Franklin wrote, “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

Jeremiah had every excuse ready when God called him to be a prophet. His excuses are often our excuses for not heeding God’s voice when He calls. Countering each excuse was a promise from God.

1. The excuse: The Task Is Demanding

Jeremiah was called to be “a prophet to the nations” (Jeremiah 1:5), not a priest like his father and grandfather. A prophet was a chosen authorized spokesperson for God who deflated God’s word to the people. We often think of prophets as people who can tell the future. But a prophet speaks messages to the present that had future ramifications. They were forthtellers more than they were foretellers, exposing the people’s sins and calling them back to their covenant responsibilities before God.

Being a prophet was more demanding than serving as a priest. The priests duties were predictable. Everything was written down in the law. The prophet never knew from one day to the next what the Lord would call him to say or do. The priest worked primarily to preserve the past. The prophet labored to change the present so the nation would have a future. Priests dealt with external – rituals, sacrifices, offerings, services – whereas the prophet tried to reach and change hearts. Priests ministered primarily to individuals with various needs. Prophets on the other hand, addressed whole nations, and usually the people they addressed didn’t want to hear the message. Priests belonged to a special tribe and therefore had authority and respect, but a prophet could come from any tribe and had to prove his divine call. Priests were supported from the sacrifices and offerings of the people, but prophets had no guaranteed income.

Jesus, too, was called to be a prophet. He traveled from place to place challenging the people to change so that their future in heaven would be guaranteed. Jesus spoke to the hearts of people. Most did not accept his message of repentance, because they didn’t want to change.

The Promise

God may assign you a demanding task, but his call keeps us going when we don’t want to go and are ready to quit. We have the promise of God’s purpose. “ I chose you before I formed you in the womb; I set you apart before you were born” (Jeremiah 1:5). The verb know has much more meaning than simply being aware of. It carries the idea of recognition of the worth and purpose of him who is known. God knew Jeremiah, chose Jeremiah, and appointed Jeremiah. He was known by name, hand-picked by God, and commissioned to serve. Those acts give one great sense of purpose. The promise of God’s purpose allows us to let go of our own plans and receive God’s plan without fear. Like Jeremiah and Jesus, we need to accept that our future is not our own. We are God’s. He has a distinct plan and purpose for our lives.

2.The Excuse: My Talent Is Inadequate

“But, I protested, Oh no, Lord, God! Look, I don’t know how to speak since I am only a youth” (Jeremiah 1:6). Jeremiah felt inadequate as a public speaker. By the way, this excuse was also shared by Moses (Exodus 4:10).

Yep first time my pastor asked me to speak in front of the church. I answered him with an abrupt No. I was terrified he even had asked me, he knew my life story, what I had endured in my childhood. I told God, “how could he ask such a thing? There was no way, I could even imagine doing such a thing, I barely spoke to the people who were in regular contects. How could I stand up in front that many people and talk? He had asked me on a Sunday after church, and 3 days later a phoned him and told him, I would. After I prayed for 3 days about it, I knew I needed to get out of the boat and walk on water you might say. It was time to take that step.

God has a way to overcome weaknesses and our inefficiencies. I have learned over the years, however, that the person most aware of their own inadequacy is usually the person most dependant on God’s all-sufficiency. My inadequacy has caused me to rely upon God. His strength is made perfect in my weakness. His glory is manifested through my flaws.

The Promise

Our talent may seem inadequate, but God always equips those he calls. We have the promise of God’s provision. “Then the Lord reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and told me:: I have now filled your mouth with my words” (Jeremiah 1:9). The touch was not so much to purify as it was to inspire and empower. It was symbolic of the gift of prophecy bestowed on Jeremiah.”

Jesus experienced this touch in a visible, yet profound way. Following His baptism, immediately coming out of the water, the heavens opened and the Spirit of God descended on Him like a dove. And God spoke, “This is my beloved Son, I take delight in Him (Matthew 3:17).

God blesses not the silver-tongued orator, but the one whose tongue has been touched with coals from the alter. God uses not the most gifted and talented person, but the one touched by the hand of God. God uses the most unlikely persons to shake a church or a community or a nation. Never underestimate the power of the touch; especially when God does the touching.

3. The Excuse: The Times Not Right

Jeremiah said. God, “I am only a youth” (Jeremiah 1:6). The World youth – unfortunately, rendered child in some versions of the Bible – ordinarily denotes a young, unmarried man in his teens or early 20’s. His reply is not so much revealing his age as much as a deep sense of immaturity. He felt inferior, inexperienced, and intimidated by the size of the task to which God was summoning him.

The Promise

God’s call may come at an inopportune time, but He never sends forth His servant alone. We have the promise of God’s presence, “Then the Lord said to me: Do not say. “I am only a youth, for you will go to everyone I send you to and speak whatever I tell you. Do not be afraid of anyone, for I will be with you to deliver you. This is the Lord’s declaration “ (Jeremiah 1:7-8).

Note the condition to this promise. Before Jeremiah could experience God’s presence he had to go where God sent him, speak what God told him, and reject fear. Someone once said that when God calls us to a task, he does not give us a road map to follow and then leaves us to our resources. God walks with us. His presence gives us the strength to stand in the face of every assault.

Jesus felt that same presence. He and the Father we’re one. He could go on because God walked with Him.

What a difference it makes knowing that when we are being sent, someone is going with us. We know we do not have to walk the lonesome road alone, that we always have a traveling companion.

4. The Excuse: The Teaching Is Dangerous

The Lord did not give Jeremiah a joyful message of deliverance to announce, but a tragic message of judgment. Consequently, Jeremiah would be misunderstood, persecuted, arrested, and imprisoned. More than once his life was threatened. The people did not wan to hear the truth. Jeremiah told them plainly they were disobeying the law and destined for judgment.

God used the image of a boiling pot to communicate His coming wrath. “Again the word of the Lord came to me inquiring, what do you see? And I replied, I see a boiling pot, it’s lip tilted from the north to the south (Jeremiah 1:13). Jewish homes would have a fairly large wide-mouthed washing or cooking pot. The unusual thing about the pot Jeremiah saw was that it was not level. It was tilted away from the north. This pot could at ant moment spew it’s boiling content towards the south, scalding the people of Judah. The pot represented the nation of Babylon that would invade and conquer Isreal. The reason for the judgment was Isreal’s Idolatry and rebellion against God’s righteous will.

Jesus’ teaching contained mercy and judgment, grace and punishment. Jesus’ teachings were dangerous, too. In fact, it was his teachings that cost Him His life.

The Promise

What God says through us may be dangerous, but God gives us the strength to endure. We have the promise of God’s prevailing. “Today I am the One who had made you a fortified city an iron killer, and bronze walls against the whole land – against the kings of Judah , it’s officials, it’s priests, and the population. They will fight against you but never prevail over you, since I am with you to rescue you” (Jeremiah 1:18-19).

Notice the architectural terms: a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls. They are solid and unshakable like the God who conceived them, and the prophet whom they would come to characterize. God reassured Jeremiah: Attack you they will; overcome you they can’t.

The person who stands with God will prevail. Someone once said: “One with God is a majority.” Aline we are helpless. With God we prevail.

5. The Excuse: Do I Have To Go Now?

God was expecting immediate action from Jeremiah. God said, “Now. get ready. Stand up and tell them everything I con and you” (Jeremiah 1:17). In Jeremiah’s day the men had to tie their loose robes together with a belt in order to run or to work. Jeremiahwasin for a struggle. He had a fight on his hands. So the phrase “dress yourself for work” or “grid up your loins” was a metaphor that meant “Get ready for action!” Today we would say, “ Roll up your sleeves!”

God called Jeremiah to act. He was called to move out among people. He was called to deliver an offensive message. He would not be welcomed, nor would he be excepted. He would anger his hearers.

The Promise

God expects obedience, immediately, if we don’t, we are in danger of God’s wrath. We have the promise of God’s power. “Do not be intimidated by them or I will call you you cower before them“ (Jeremiah 1:17). Immediate obedience is the only appropriate response when God calls.

Jesus obeyed. Whatever you think of Jesus remember this, His heart was a willing and obedient heart. He always did what His Father directed. There was no hesitation, no questioning, no circumventing. Only immediate action.

We have become so lax in obedience to God in our world day. It’s no wonder our world is in such shambles. We all need to ask God for forgiveness and start being who we are meant to be. Who God wants us to be.

Has God called you? Then He will fulfilled His purpose in you. He will equip you, He will enable you, He will protect you, He will accompany you. Are you obeying His commands? Then He is with you to protect you. Are you sharing the word? Then He will accomplish His purpose no matter how the people respond.

I urge to read or re-read The book of Jeremiah in the Bible.

God Bless You

Signs Of The Times – What To Watch For

Wars, Violence, Lawlessness

Watch for wars – big wars, little wars, ethnic wars, wars of all sorts, a,one with escalating violence and increasing lawlessness- with increasingly affect all over the world, Especially English speaking nations (Matthew 24:6-7).

Drought And Famine

Lack of rain and lack of food – will stalk the earth on a massive scale never seen before. Yes, these things will become much much worse.

When there is drought you also have wildfires. After the fires have burned the brush, there is always the danger of flooding when it resumes raining because there is no vegetation. These catastrophes of drought, famine, fire, flooding naturally tend to go together (Matthew 24:7).

Earthquakes And Other Natural Catastrophes

God prophesies that earthquakes and other natural catastrophes will increase as we approach the end of this age ( Mark 13:8; Matthew 27:7).

Disease Epidemics

A plague of disease epidemic and pandemic is beginning to worry public health officials all around the world. And many old scourges of humanity (Malaria and tuberculosis to name two) are re-emerging as super, drug resistant diseases that ignore medicine which was formerly used to combat them. ( Revelation 6:8). Some of the worse plagues of humanity have been animal borne. Diseases will become much worse. (Deuteronomy 28:15, 22, 27-28).

The Rise Of An Aggressive Fundamentalist Islamic Power

In the time of the end, the Bible predicts that there will arise, in North Africa or the Middle East, a charismatic personality who will be able to unify, harness, and lead a powerful block of nations in which Egypt will have a key role. (Daniel 11:31-40; 42-43).

An Ascendant European Union Seeks Global Primacy

Watch Europe! Revelation 13 describes the revival of a great military power. The symbolic language that Apostle John used about a fantastic beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns depicts a recurring, evil political system which has greatly oppressed and heavily influenced the people in Western civilization, and through them, the entire world. (Revelation 13:7; 17:12-14; Revelation 18:3; Daniel 11;36).

A Powerful Religious Figure Leads A Religious Revival

One of the definite signs of the end times, which will herald the close of this present evil age, is a arrival on the scene of a great false religious leader (Revelation 19:19-21). This religious leader will possess great charisma and will receive a very powerful influence over a political power. ( Revelation 13, 17, 19) He will be the long-prophesied, influential head of a great militant church in Europe. It will have an enormous effect on the future of nations of the Western world. A great religiopolitical trading system (Revelation 18:3).

A Great False Religious Leader

He will rise up very soon now. He will deceive many people. Hundreds of millions of people will be deceived. That is exactly what will occur before Christ’s coming (2 Thessalonians 2:1) This man will have supernatural power to deceive. He will have the ability to perform great miracles such as causing fire to come down out of the sky (Revelation 13:13; Matthew 24:4; Acts 8:9-11).

If you know God’s word and obey it you will not be one of those many millions who will be deceived by the soon-coming great “false prophet.”

The Gospel Of The Kingdom Of God Preached To All Nations

This is not the time when God is trying to convert everyone, as many ministers, who are trying to save the world right now would have you believe. God is not going around like a lonely hound dog wagging his tail and hoping someone will pay attention to him. Through his sins, man has cut himself off from God ( Isaiah 59:1-2). Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day (John 6:44).

Faith Again Becomes A Matter Of Life Or Death

Persecution of the Christians (Revelations 12:17; 14:12). Jesus said, “Then they will deliver you up to kill you” (Matthew 24:9). He is speaking to His people, His genuine disciples. The Apostle John gave the church and anyone who reads the Bible a test that can be used to determine who is a bona side Christian and who only masquerades as one. “Now by this, we know them Him, if we keep His commandments He who says, I know Him and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him ( 1 John 2:3-4). It is these commandments keeping Christians who will be persecuted (Matthew 25:9)

A Crisis Strikes a Jerusalem

Watch! The modern nation of “Isreal,” populated by the descendants of the biblical tribe of Judah (plus significant remnants of Levi and Benjamin ) will suffer military loses with part of its territory occupied by enemies just before the Second Coming of Christ (Zechariah 14;1-2).

“For behold, in those days and at that time, when I bring back the captives of Judah and Jerusalem. I will gather all nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into my judgment with them there on the account of My people. My heritage Isreal, whom they have scattered among the nations; they have also divided up my land. (Joel 3:1-3).

The Abomination Of Desolation

When the city of Jerusalem is attacked and conquered, the foreign occupying power will begin what the Bible called the “Abomination of Desolation (Matthew 24:15-20).

A prophecy foretells that Jerusalem is again to be surrounded by armies and an idol will be set up in the Holy Place (Zechariah 12:2). Jesus warns those who are faithful to escape quickly when this desecration takes place.

The Great Tribulation -The Collapse Of The English-Speaking Nations

Before the glorious Second Coming of Christ to establish His Kingdom, watch for the decline and eventual conquest of the English -Speaking nations by their enemies – The great tribulation.

The Bible reveals that the worst, most indescribably terrifying time in the entire history of this planet is soon to occur. (Jeremiah 30:7). It will be such an awful time that the destruction and genocide of World War 2 will seem like a picnic in comparison.

The Pivotal Old Testament Prophecy

The pivotal scripture of understanding the end time prophecy is found in the Old Testament, in Leviticus 26. When we rightly understand our national identity this prophetic chapter takes on new, urgent meaning.

In Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 are powerful prophetic warning for us today, because God does not change. God promised that if we obey Him, He would set us ‘High above all nations of the earth” (Deuteronomy 28:1). However, if we do not obey His commandments. “ Cursed shall be in the city” (Deuteronomy 28:16). Are we cursed in our cities? Think about it. Millions of Americans are afraid to go out of their own homes. Elderly people and others all over this land are afraid to venture out at night in this “land of the free, and of the brave.” We are locked in our homes like prisoners,! No, we are not blessed in our towns and cities anymore.

Out disobedience will bring curses in our food supply, causes In sexual relations and curses in whatever policies or programs that we nationally attempt because we have turned way from our Great God.