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25 Dec 2007 07:31:07 AM |
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Endtime Indications - 12/25/07 |
Endtime Indications - 12/25/07
SAN FRANCISCO(AP) Americans are falling behind on their credit card
payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults
surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting
warnings of worse to come.
An Associated Press analysis of financial data from the country's
largest card issuers also found that the greatest rise was among
accounts more than 90 days in arrears.
Experts say these signs of the deterioration of finances of many
households are partly a byproduct of the subprime mortgage crisis and
could spell more trouble ahead for an already sputtering economy.
"Debt eventually leaks into other areas, whether it starts with the
mortgage and goes to the credit card or vice versa," said Cliff Tan, a
visiting scholar at Stanford University and an expert on credit risk.
"We're starting to see leaks now."
The value of credit card accounts at least 30 days late jumped 26
percent to $17.3 billion in October from a year earlier at 17 large
credit card trusts examined by the AP. That represented more than 4
percent of the total outstanding principal balances owed to the trusts
on credit cards that were issued by banks such as Bank of America and
Capital One and for retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart.
At the same time, defaults _ when lenders essentially give up hope of
ever being repaid and write off the debt _ rose 18 percent to almost
$961 million in October, according to filings made by the trusts with
the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Serious delinquencies also are up sharply: Some of the nation's
biggest lenders _ including Advanta, GE Money Bank and HSBC _ reported
increases of 50 percent or more in the value of accounts.
9-Selfish for a second or Joyful for Eternity
Nothing gives the Lord, greater pleasure then to help His children.
If you only knew the peace that comes with the conviction that you are
in the place and circumstances where God wants you to be... and that
you are doing the thing for which he created you. What a difference
it makes!
As soon as you try living this way, you will find that God's purpose
for your life is maximum creativity, achievement and responsibility-
not less.
But the truth is that our lives are made up of the sum of the small
things. If we do not let God into these everyday details, practically
speaking we are not letting Him in at all.
What is my plan of "letting Him in?"
Would you like to have God's guidance for your life?
If you would, first you have to believe that He is God and can guide
you.
But faith is not belief. Faith is belief plus what you do with that
belief.
Belief becomes faith only at the point of action. If you want to hear
God, you will have to face up squarely to the questions; "Am I willing
to do whatever He tells me to do?"
What is my plan of "doing?"
This is a decision that must be resolved before you can receive any
guidance from God, before your Christian adventure can begin.
"How hard it is for our proud wills to bow the neck and call Him
'Master and Lord'! Yet how we must; if we are to take even the first
step toward maturity, or fulfillment or greatness" (Peter Marshal-
Under Sealed Orders).
The action is ours... Are you willing to tell God now that you will
follow His plan wherever it may lead?
How can I guide others to act out God's plan for them?
This is important because God has given us free will, and this He will
never violate. He holds in a more profound respect than any of us
could the sanctity of every human personality.
Therefore He requires the complete consent of our wills before He will
enter our hearts and live.
We want to here God speaking to us... but we are afraid of what we
might hear.
We would follow Christ... but we don't want our friends to think us
odd.
We want God's way... but we also want our way.
But to solve this difficulty we must ask Him to take control of our
life. And if you truly mean it, He will. It may be that His plan for
you will not be revealed for sometime. You will have to follow His
lead, keep watching for His guidance.
His plan for you will be a gradual training process. He will send His
power into you gradually, to give you power to defeat temptations, to
chase away your fears, to give you a quiet heart, to make you joyous
and free.
What is "God's Wisdom" for me?
"Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust
destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for
yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy,
and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure
is, there your heart will be also."
How are people going to read the "Bible" through me?
This is a part of the Sermon on the Mount which Jesus has provided s
as part of the directions to reach His Kingdom. We can trade in our
Treasures here on earth for treasures in heaven. Why should we pay
attention to this message; well Jesus came down from heaven to our
earth, so he should know about how to get there. In this message He
tied our heart to our valued treasure. It is pointed out that if our
heart to our valued treasure. It is pointed out that if our heart is
tied to daily earthly cares, we are not building our treasures in
heaven; which we need to do while we are here on earth. Only that
which we give back to God is ours forever.
How has the "Bible" marked us?
How did the message bring out this explanation; well let us look at
the passage. Moths are not a big problem for me along with rust.
Eastern areas where Jesus came from. treasures, consisted partly in
costly clothes stored up. Well; moths were a big problem for them.
"Rust" (to their metal coins) added to "moths" can be translated into
being "consumed" and "used up." Our Lord is teaching us how
perishable are earthly treasures, in heaven are treasures that are
imperishable and can not be taken from you. Then Jesus points out
"that" which our heart values most will be our god. Martin Luther
puts it this way; "What a man loves, that is his god. For he carries
it in his heart, he goes about with it night and day, he sleeps and
wakes with it." Having earthly treasures are not wrong; bu many
flatter themselves that all is right between them and God, while their
closest attention, anxiety, work, and time are exhausted upon these
earthly pursuits.
The Resurrection
The Resurrection of Christ from the Dead is ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT
items in the whole fund of human knowledge: the grand event of the
ages toward which all previous history moved, and which all
subsequent history finds its meaning.
List two specifics which you need to improve in, within each of the
five areas: physical, mental, emotional, social, and spiritual.
Is it a Fact? Did he really rise from the dead? If he did not, what
became of his body? If enemies stole it, they surly would have
produced it, for they stopped short of nothing to discredit the story,
even to murdering of those who told it. If friends stole it, they
would have known they were believing a lie, but men do not become
martyrs to what they know to be false. The Roman soldiers guarding
the tomb would not have put their careers, lives and future on the
line for a lie.
Then provide some ideas on how you can act to provide improvements
sought in above question?
Even many of the Jews, the enemy would not have put themselves in line
for death by being involved, if it was a lie. An example is Josephus,
a Jewish historian of that time, born and educated in Jerusalem, a
general in the Jewish army stated: "There was about this time Jesus, a
wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of
wonderful works. He was Christ. Pilate, at the suggestion of the
principal men among us condemned him to the cross. He appeared to his
followers alive again the third day."
One thing is Certain: those who were involved at that time an
published their involvement in Jesus rising from the dead BELIEVED IT
TO BE A FACT. They rested their faith and lives not only on the empty
tomb, but on the fact that they had SEEN Jesus A LIVE after his
burial; not once, not twice, but at least ten recorded times; and not
singly, nor alone, but in groups of two, seven, ten, eleven, five
hundred.
An Hallucination? Could it not have been an ecstasy? a dream? a
fantasy of an excited imagination? an apparition? Different groups of
people do not keep on seeing the same hallucination. 500 people in a
crowd would not all dream the same dream at the same time. More
over, they were not expecting it and did not want to believe it until
it happened. They considered it an "idle tale" at first (Luke
24:11). They did not believe it until it was proven and they had to.
Only in a Coma? Could it not be that Jesus was not really dead when
they buried him, and that he came to again? In the first place, the
professional executioners - the Roman Soldiers (who pierce his side
and drained his heart fluids and blood) along with the Jewish leaders
present would have had to be in cahoots or fooled. Either possibility
would be unthinkable. Also in that case, weak and exhausted from the
beatings AND the crucifixion, he could hardly have removed the heavy
stone door and gotten out of the tomb and past the Roman guards.
Besides he had new powers that he had never manifested before - to
appear and disappear through locked rooms. The eleven (or 120), in a
group, personally saw him slowly rise from the earth, and disappear
behind the clouds.
The Records Tampered With? Could it not be that the resurrection was
a later addition to the story of Christ invented years later to
glorify a dead hero? It is known, from historical records outside
Christian approved records, that the sect known as Christians came
into existence in the reign of Tiberius, and that the thing that
brought them into existence was their belief that Jesus had risen from
the dead. The resurrection was not a later addition to the Christian
faith, but the very cause and start of it. They rested their faith
not on records, but what they had seen with their own eyes. The
records were the result of their faith, not the cause of it. Had
there been no resurrection there would have been no New Testament,
Christianity, and no Church.
What are your plans to work on the "Brokenness in your Life?"
Resurrection is based not on trickery, but on historic fact. To think
otherwise would be to think that a Carpenter, a group of fishermen,
and other poorly educated individuals conned billions of intelligent
individuals over almost two thousand years. They would have completed
the greatest scam that ever was performed, even to the extent that
millions of individuals died for. That the most talented individuals
in the world, could not stop or effectively uncover. This places the
belief that the Resurrection was a fake a scientific impossibility and
instead the most important fact of all time.
The best proof of the Resurrection will be found in your heart. But
how can we relate our heart to God?
Can you and I really be friends with God as we would earthly friends?
Can we relate personally that same Jesus Christ whose words we written
two thousand years ago?
Will these words and Christ be really alive to us?
Can we actually meet Him, talk with Him, as His help for our everyday
affairs? Yes!
Millions of men and women down the ages say, "Yes".
Why do we have problems with this personal relationship? Maybe it is
because we say that we believe in god, yet we doubt Gods promises?
We say that in God we trust, yet we worry and try to manage our own
affairs.
We say that we love Thee, O Lord, and yet we do not obey Thee.
We believe that thou has the answers to all our problems, and yet we
do not commit to His solutions.
I realize that to you, it is quite unbelievable, that God would guide
your life; arrange the details of your everyday life.
To say that you, can directly, and in full possession of your
faculties; get into communication with God sounds almost fantastic.
But that is precisely what is possible.
Do you realize what this tremendous fact's significance is to you?
It means that no single event of your life will ever have to be faced
alone -
Neither sorrow nor bereavement
pain nor loneliness
joy nor laughter.
It means that you need never make any decision with out His help and
His guidance.
It means help for every part of your life.
But let us be honest - do we really want to find, this personal
relationship with Him?
This relationship that was established through his Resurrection.
Why do I believe God is my Father in Heaven?
One of God's most important promises for you is "If with all your
heart ye shall truly seek me, ye shall ever surely find me."
Ah, there perhaps is our first clue of difficulty - "if with all your
heart..."
Ask yourself, am I after all seeking God with my whole heart?
Or must I say in all honesty, "I want God, and yet I don't yet trust
Him. I want to commit to Him, and yet I don't, for I would be afraid
to..."
I wonder if you are brave enough to face the truth?
Perhaps there are times, when we flirt with this trust and commitment
- to help us over some difficult problem; but what about that everyday
life?
We can't treat God that way!
Do you really want to deal with God?
Why do I want to join him in Heaven?
Are there not some things you love better than Him - maybe it is that
neat compromises we have made whereby our religion will not interfere
with our life... maybe it is the secret gods which we indulge and
commit to...
Do we love them more then we love Him?
Do we want Him, but on our terms?
We want His way, but we want our way to be in control.
We pray, "Thy will be done," as long as it does not conflict with our
will.
We want to be Christians, but we don't want our friends to think we
are strange.
We want to be "OK" with both sides.
We want to be friends with everybody.
We do not want to make that choice, "Earth's Child or God's Child."
What must I do, to turn my life over to him?
How am I going to keep from being "Selfish?"
Therefore we try to play the middle. We are willing to go to His
Church for an hour a week but the minister better no interfere with
our lives.
We will support the church financially, but not as much as we should,
for we must also support "Earth's Way."
We will state we are a member of some church, but we will also state
the right to live as we please.
Then we wonder why we cannot have a real meaningful relationship with
God.
The truth is there whether we accept it or not - God is not hiding -
but we are!
God is not pretending - look at His Son's Cross and Resurrection!
But are we pretending?
Look into your own heart and see.
What will I do to change my purpose in life?
It is possible for you to live in this world as "God's Child" -
to have no fear at all
to be able to anticipate tomorrow with a thrill of delight
to have no fear of anything -
neither of sickness
nor unemployment
nor loneliness
nor death
nor anything at all.
But there is a price to be paid. We must be ready to give up
something's, and that is always had to do.
And your heart might ask: "Is it worth all that?"
Yes, it is worth any price, but you must be willing to pay any price.
Won't you think now of His love and commitment to you, will you try to
return equal love and commitment.
Won't you close your eyes now, and with all the love you have, tell
Him that you love Him and commit to Him.
Tell Him that you want and need Him, and that He take control of your
life completely and guide you.
For if you are willing to release your will to his control, then you
will receive that very personal relationship, that indescribable
peace, and escape from the Earth's Child" bondage.
Then, you will never doubt again that fellowship with God is possible,
but you will discover that it is the most truthful fact in our whole
world.
Let us have less talking, and more commitment, less work and more
love, less pressure and more relationship.
What difference has it made to you when, you have consciously
acknowledged God's control of your life?
And you, too, may have that fellowship with the risen Christ. Indeed,
you will not believe the fact of the Resurrection for yourself until
the living Christ lives in your own heart. When you have in your own
life that sense of His nearness and His power - ah, then, you too,
will know!
Your life may be guided by Christ... Your problems may be solved by
His wisdom... Your weakness may be burned into strength by His help...
Your struggles may become - victories by His grace... Your sorrows may
be turned into joy by His comfort.
To you there may come the same wonderful changes that have come to
other men and women all down through the years.
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in
you, and through you. God iis ready and waiting and able. What about
you? Are you yielded to him; that is willingly, and completely
surrendered. We will make you his disciple according to the plan "for
which" in His love, He designed for you.
GOD BE IN MY HEAD
(Sarum Primer)
God be in my head,
and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes,
and in my looking;
God be in my mouth,
and in my speaking;
God be in my heart,
and in my thinking;
God be at my end,
and my departing.
If you are with me so far, you are ready for a series of important
questions.
Do you believe God is your Father in Heaven?
Do you want to join him in heaven as His Child because this is your
purpose for existence?
Are you ready to turn your life over to Him?
Now the hardest question! Will you be able to give up being selfish
(to gain the benefits of earth) and will you become unselfish
(completely committed to the training and preparation program God has
set up for you)?
"'Thy Kingdom come.' there is energy, drive, purpose in these words;
an intensity of desire for the coming of perfection into life. Not
the limp resignation that lies devoutly in the road and waits for the
steam roller; but a total concentration on the total interests of God,
which must be expressed in action. It is useless to utter - fervent
petitions for that kingdom to be established and His will be done,
unless we are willing to do something about it ourselves." (Evelyn
Underhill, The Spiritual Life).
If you have answered yes to the above questions, you now have to start
working on accomplishing your part of this plan. The Kingdom of
Heaven is more valuable than anything else we can have, and a person
must be willing to give up everything to obtain it.
(Matthew 13:44)
"The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure
hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he
goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that
field."
How valuable is the kingdom to you and why?
The most important step you must take at this moment, is to start
orientating your mind to a new basic purpose.
(Matthew 13:45)
"Also, the Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man is looking for fine
pearls, and when he finds one that is unusually fine, he goes and
sells everything he has, and buys that pearl."
What does it mean to "sell everything" for the kingdom?
You are no longer working toward the purpose of satisfying your
personal needs or wants. This has to become third in line of your
priorities. Jesus, taught that the kingdom is now, Christ brought it,
and it is relevant to today.
(Matthew 13:52)
So he replied, "This means, then, that every teacher of the Law who
becomes a disciple in the Kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who
takes new and old things out of his storage room."
What relation does our faith have to Jesus' ability to be at work?
Why does he look for faith?
Let us rise with Christ from the bondage of Earth, and into the Love
of God's family.
You will feel it's warmth...
its influence...
love that is tender and sweet.
Nothing that has been said, nothing that could be said, or ever will
be said will replace what God will say to you when you graduate: "I
love you, and you love me, come to me so that we may share Love."
So I shall make my plea, to those who will respond to God's call.
There never has been a time when there was a greater need for "God's
Children."
If the morals fail, the country is doomed. The breakdown of morals
and ethics will mark the breakdown of the nation.
This country's morals when started were based on Christianity and it
will need to continue any future success with Christianity. Much of
the world is finding this out. And they are changing, will we?
We should not worry about it or anything else, we should have faith.
If you are a Christian, if you are a child of God then your worrying
is sinful.
It is nothing, more or less than lack of trust in God. The only way
to deal with worry is the way of faith.
faith in the presence of God.
faith in the purposes of God.
faith in the promises of God.
When we resist things we cannot change, then we have strain - inner
tension - and that is wrong.
Worrying about it fearing it, does not help. Life must go on, and so
must we.
Worrying is rejecting God's control. If not God's control, Who? To
what else will you cling? What would you substitute for Christian
faith?
With this faith and with your commitment, it is time to act.
Can you honestly say that God and not money, is your master? One test
is to ask which one occupies more of your thoughts, time and efforts.
(Matthew 6:24-34)
"No one can be a slave of two masters, he will hate one and love the
other, he will be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot
serve both God and money.
"This is why I tell you: do not be worried about the food and drink
you need to order to stay alive, or about clothes for your body.
After all, isn't the body worth more than clothes? Look at the birds:
they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet
your Father in heaven takes care of them! Aren't you worth much more
than birds? Can any of you live a bit longer by worrying about it?
"And why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow: they do
not work or make clothes for themselves. But I tell you that not even
King Solomon with all his wealth had clothes the wild grass - grass
that is here today and gone tomorrow, burned up in the oven. Won't he
be all the more sure to clothe you? What little faith you have!
"So do not start worrying. Where will my food come from? or my drink?
or my clothes? (These are the things the pagans are always concerned
about.) Your Father in heaven knows that you need all these things.
Instead, be concerned about everything else with the Kingdom of God
and what he requires of you, and he will provide you with all these
other things. So do not worry about tomorrow; it will have enough
worries of its own. There is no need to add to the troubles each day
brings."
What do you do to counteract anxiety in order to concentrate on the
kingdom?
In order to join God in Heaven, the most important thing in your life,
mind, emotions and whole being must become your Love of your Father in
Heaven and your desire to join him there. God wants us to seek
healthy thoughts and motives, not just healthy food and exercise.
(Matthew 15:10)
"For from his heart come the evil ideas which lead him to kill, commit
adultery and do other immoral things; to rob, lie, and slander
others."
What would stimulate your memory of God's mercy?
We must root out these evil ideas and replace them with holy ideas.
This means that you must work as hard as you can to develop this Love
and desire. It means that you must change your basic desires, needs,
thoughts, and actions to reflect this highest priority. It means that
you must adjust your life from Now and Me; to the Future and Him along
with His Family.
If we change our orientation to joining Good in Heaven; we will want
to do every thing that will help us get there, and stop doing things
that will hinder us. Failing to follow the training rules God has
provided us, will hinder us. Therefore we must follow his training
rules just as an athlete or a person on a diet? These rules are their
to help us, not to restrict us; they provide the guidance to perform
within the training plan. These same rules also guide us to be better
human family members and therefore people who are interesting and
happy individuals who other people would like to know. We become
"models" for others to follow. Others will want to know how we do it
and how they can become the same, "God's light to the world."
Failure to follow the training rules (better know as "Sins") hurt us
and can cause us to not make our objective, These failures hurt God
because he loves us and wants to see us join him. God is a proud
father, of his creation, wit special emphasis on "His Children." The
pain we cause our Father's pride, cannot be measured in earth's terms,
when we do something that does not add to our "Glory" as his Child.
God is such like a "Coach" who we hurt by not following his plan;
therefore we must tell him we are sorry and we are going to try hard
to follow his plan.
The Golden Rule is laid down as the summary of the whole teaching of
the Law. It involves complete self-giving. It is pointed out that it
is not what we say about our loyalty to God that counts, but doing his
will and that alone (Matt. 7:15-28). We should concentrate on all we
can do to show our love for God and others. We also see it in the
following quote.
(Matt. 22:36-40)
"Teacher," he asked, "which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
"Jesus answered, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, and with all your mind.' This is the greatest and the most
important commandment. The second most important commandment is like
it: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.' The whole Law of Moses
and the teachings of the prophets depend on these two commandments."
By Jesus, definition, what kind of "Lover" are you?
(Luke 14:25-35) provides us a parable which illustrates that the
service of God is costly and demands sacrifice. All the quests who
were invited had good reasons for staying away, but none of them was
prepared to put the obedience of God before his own private concerns.
It is this lesson which our Lord reinforces on the cost of being a
Child of God and the necessity for self-renunciation.
Now is the time to trust Him. Give Him your life. He will love you
like you have never been loved before.
You would like to feel that there is a God who is interested in you of
course, You don't want to make any big mistakes that will mess-up your
life.
Suppose you are ready to call God's bluff! Suppose you are willing to
give it a trial. How does God, become real to you? "What do you do?"
Well He wants lives - all or nothing. He wants your life committed to
Him now - not tomorrow.
When you do, you will be home. You will know for yourself His warm
and wonderful love, how he will guide you, and help you, give you joy
you have never had before.
It is important to listen to what God's word says, but it is much more
important to obey it, do what it says.
Faith Without Works is Death
(James 1:22-25)
"Do not deceive yourselves by just listening to his word; instead, put
it into practice. Whoever listens to the word but does not put it
into practice is like a man who looks in a mirror and sees himself as
he is. He takes a good look at himself and then goes away and at once
forgets what he looks like. But whoever looks closely into the
perfect law that sets people free, who keeps on paying attention to it
and does not simply listen and then forget it, but puts it into
practice - that person will be blessed by God in what he does."
What from God's Word here will you put into action this week?
Indeed, James would seem to be bent on contradicting Paul, when he
says that "Faith without works is dead" (James 2:26), but in reality
there is no contradiction at all. James means by "faith" empty
professions of belief, creeds that are mere lip service, in the same
sense as the saying of Jesus: "Not every one that saith unto me Lord,
Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he that doeth the
will of my Father which is in Heaven" (Matt. 7:21).
No one would have agreed with him more than St. Paul. The kind of
"works" which Paul condemns, is the hopeless attempt to win salvation
by observing all the niceties of Jewish moral and ceremonial law.
Whereas the kind of "works" that James regards as indispensable, is
the practice of Christian behavior that Paul binds together
inseparably with the possession of Christian faith.
Do we just read the Bible and not have people read the Bible through
our actions. Do we mark our Bible and not have the Bible mark us.
Reliigion thhat is not commitment, trust, and service is not religion
at all. There is no merit in being trained on Christian doctrine if
we do no more than that. We have only to look at the Old Testament,
to see that the real reason why Abraham's faith is extolled is that he
was the kind of man who was prepared to sacrifice his son, because he
believed it was the will of God. Even Rahab receives honorable
mention for assisting Joshua's spies. In other words, faith without
deeds to back it up is an empty shell (James 2:1-26). When someone
claims to have faith, what he or she may have is intellectual assent -
agreement with a set of Christian teachings - incomplete faith.
(James 2:14-17)
"My brothers, what good is it for someone to say that he has faith if
his actions do not prove it? Can that faith save him? Suppose there
are brothers or sisters who need clothes and don't have enough to
eat. What good is there in your saying to them, 'God bless you! Keep
warm and eat well!' - if you don't give them the necessities of life?
So it is with faith: if it is alone and includes no actions than it is
dead.
It becomes quite clear that we must act out our faith. Isn't it worth
trying! To you there may come the same wonderful changes that have
come to other men and women all down through the years.
Your life may be guided by Christ... Your problems may be solved by
His wisdom... Your weakness may be burned into strength by His help...
Your struggles may become - victories by His grace... Your sorrows may
be turned into joy by His comfort.
And you too, may have that fellowship with the risen Christ. Indeed,
you will not believe the fact of the Resurrection for yourself until
the living Christ lives in your own heart. When you have in your own
life that sense of His nearness and His power - ah, then, you too will
know!
Christian Models
Mike Huckabee
Wise leaders recognize that life is far too complex to comprehend
apart from God's revelation and guidance. Arkansas governor Mike
Huckabee has faced this reality many times. Huckabee was a prominent
pastor of a twenty-five-hundred-member church in Texarkana. By all
accounts he was a successful Christian leader, yet there was an
uneasiness in his soul. Huckabee acknowledged that God clearly led
him to resign his church and enter Arkansas politics. Later, while
governor of Arkansas, Huckabee regularly faced situations that were
beyond his wisdom to know what to do. Huckabee notes: "Being governor
has led me to depend on faith with a new sense of urgency. I face
situations every day that would be insurmountable without using the
faith God has given me to make decisions." Huckabee's career and
leadership of his state was dependent in large part on God's
revelation of his will to Huckabee and Huckabee's subsequent response
of obedience to what he believed God was revealing. Is it possible
for a governor to be led by God's revelation? Certainly!
Student Prayer
Remind me, heavenly Father, that I should spend time with you today
and every day. Make me a disciple of yours, anxious to learn all that
you would teach me. Amen.
For further information go to:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/jeramiahs_back_again/
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| User: "Pastor Dave" |
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| Title: Re: Endtime Indications - 12/25/07 |
25 Dec 2007 09:06:39 PM |
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:31:07 -0800 (PST), George
<ghach@wi.rr.com> said the following:
Endtime Indications - 12/25/07
SAN FRANCISCO(AP) Americans are falling behind on their credit card
payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults
surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting
warnings of worse to come.
You really are brainwashed by your egotistical,
"It's all about me today!" doctrine! Now people
in debt with their credit cards are a sign of the
end times?! BAWAHAHAHA!!!
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Creation is the stage upon which God is revealing
His redemptive plan. We live out our part in the
history of redemption.
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