Pay Your Admission At The Door

Hello everyone I’m back again with some interesting rumors I have been burning on for a few weeks. Not to long ago my Church had one the most successful Bible Schools I have ever been a part of and during our Bible school I heard of some local Churches right in my home town that were charging a fee for children of their own congregation to come to Bible School. Now I hope I don’t really have to tell you how many ways this is wrong but you know I am going to anyway. First and for most I will compare it to your and mine admission into Heaven there’s no charge no fee the price has already been paid by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who shed his blood on Calvary’s Cross to pay for our sins to allow us a path to eternal life in the sinless glory of Heaven. So why in the world would a church require anyone to pay for something that should be given freely?????? By that I mean the chance for a person to learn and hear the word of God young, old, rich or poor!!! To have the Holy Spirit convict there heart of their sins the chance for a person to except what is freely given . Bible School in my eyes is an outreach to the community to the lost, for them to be able to come in and learn what God can do for them, to charge admission for that is an insult to the word of God. The way I see it a lost man is already skeptical of what the Church has to offer him. Every little thing we do is under extreme scrutiny already so to invite him into a Church and then tell him to learn what we have to offer you’re going to have to pay for it, well you might as well forget it you just drove him away from any chance you had and your probably never going to get it back. Ok Ok Ok it is just a rumor I heard but just the thought of it makes me sick to my stomach, it’s just ridicules. On top of all this the reason I heard that this Church or Churches are charging admission for Bible School is the recession yea the recession. They said that if they had lets say 200 kids and or people sign up and bought all the supplies and food and only 100 showed up then they would be out all that money. Again I am getting sick to my stomach cause the way I see it let’s just say that the CHURCH were to put their trust in God and He will take care of the rest, oh my gosh did he just say what I think he said that The Church should put all situations in God’s hands, who ever heard of such a thing. Furthermore it’s never ever ever lost money for a church to witness to the lost and have just one person just one get saved, whatever sacrifices any Church has to make in this kind of situation is exactly what they are here for to stand for Jesus no matter what the cost. Now don’t get me wrong I am not for any church going out and blowing what the Lord has blessed them with but I sure don’t see witnessing and wining souls as a waist of anything. Boy I sure am glad there aren’t any recessions in Heaven.

1 Corinthians 2

1And I, brethren, when I came to you declaring unto you the testimony of God, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom.

2For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

3And I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling.

4And my speech and my preaching were not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,

5that your faith should not stand on the wisdom of man, but on the power of God.

6However, we speak wisdom among those who are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, who are coming to nought.

7But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world for our glory --

8wisdom which none of the princes of this world knew; for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory.

9But as it is written: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him."

10But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

11For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? Even so no man knoweth the things of God, but the Spirit of God.

12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God.

13These things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual.

14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

15But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged by no man. "For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.

Priceless

Sorry for the hiatus for anyone who had been reading on a regular basis. I could make up a hundred excuses for why I haven’t been writing for the past month or so but the truth is I haven’t felt like I was right with Lord. I believe that the Good Lord has let me start writing and if I ain’t right with him I don’t want to write something that I don’t feel good about or that the Lord may not bless. That gets me to my questions for today. What is your witness worth to you, what is my witness worth to me, do you have a witness at all? I see people all the time who say their Christian and go to church on Sunday and work for the Lord on a pretty regular basis but don’t set any value on their witness to the lost. You may be saying what in the world is he talking about? I am talking about Going to church Sunday morning praising to Lord working for the Lord the going home and drinking your six pack that you bought on Saturday just so you would have beer on Sunday. Now if a lost man sees you going to Church and working for the Lord and then sees you half drunk on Sunday afternoon what is he going to think? I know what I would think if I was him, I would say this guy or gal is no different me, why do I need to go to church and get to know lord and get saved if this person is just like me. Now I’m not just talking about drinking I am talking about cursing acting a fool just all around not acting like a Christian knows they should act. Now it may seem I am harking on drinking a lot but it just makes such a good example. And for those of you who know me pretty well you may say this is pretty hypocritical because I’ve seen him have a drink before, and that is why I am asking myself the same question I am asking you. I’ll give another good example let’s say you have been going to church you have been inviting all your buddies to church and witnessing to them about God. Specifically how Jesus can change your life and how He has changed you life and then these same people see you buying a case of beer or see you somewhere puking, stumbling drunk, for a lost man to see that is taking away every bit of what you have been working so hard for. All the talk about Church and God and Jesus you just threw all that out the door as far as he is concerned I know because I’ve been there. I was lost in my sins for a very long time and I have had someone who said they were a good Christian and invited me to church and told me about Jesus turn around the next day and get drunk with me and act a fool just like I was. The whole time I’m thinking what is this guy crazy, he’s no different than me why should I go to church or worry about Jesus? Or for the most part it doesn’t have to have anything to do with drinking as I said it just makes a very good example. It can be cursing or attitude or business ethic is a good one. Let’s just say you have been doing some business with someone who says their a Christian and goes to church and witnesses to you about Jesus and then turns around and lies to you about a business deal or always seems to have their hands in some kind or shady business just to make an extra buck. How does that make his witness look? Again if I was lost and wasn’t going to church it would definitely put a bad taste in my mouth about going and getting interested in Jesus. All this said second to your own salvation and your relationship with God your witness should be a very valuable part of your life. It should be priceless for a saved man. When I say priceless I mean if you had a check for 10 million dollars you’d lock it up in the safest place you could find, you probably wouldn’t even let it leave you sight or get a drop of water on it or you may even guard it with you life if it came right down to it and that is how your witness should be. You should hold it so close and set such value on it that it can’t be compromised for any reason. So if your saved do your treat your witness like a 10 million dollar check or like a few old pennies in the bottom of your ash tray and if you’re not saved come get to know Jesus for yourself and see the great gift of salvation and see what value you will set on your witness. I also want to say Christians are sinners just like every human there not perfect by any means that’s why you need to come to the foot of that Old Rugged Cross and see for yourself what the love of Jesus can do for your life.

In Jesus Name

My preacher got me to thinking this past Sunday about this and it is true if you pay attention to politicians and public speakers and Clergy who say they are proud to be Christians. Why can’t they just say Jesus? It’s like they believe if you call out the name Jesus you’re a public outcast of some kind which may be true in this day and time and it’s a shame. If you’re a true Christian the name Jesus should be everything to you and you should not be embarrassed to say it even if it does make you different. In fact that’s the point a Christian should be different they should stand out in a crowd they should be proud to shout the name Jesus. There is no power in any Church without Jesus no matter what any preacher or pastor or politician says you have to have Jesus you have to call on his name for salvation. It is also politically correct today to pray to God and never mention Jesus because it makes it universal, it makes a prayer sound good to every religion it also makes it mean absolutely nothing. To say a real prayer and have it heard by God and actually mean something it has to be said by a saved person a real Christian or a person asking for salvation and it has to be said in Jesus name. I have harked on this subject plenty of times before and I’m sure I will continue to but if saying Jesus upsets someone or some group of people maybe they need to be upset. We need to stop catering to political correctness and other false religions and just give them Jesus after all that’s all we have to give. That’s all this lost and dyeing world needs is to believe and to call on Jesus. There is no remission of sin without the shedding of blood and that blood was shed by Jesus on the cross of Calvary. It will wash away all sin there is nothing Jesus can’t handle or doesn’t have the answer to, just call out his name and you will see. We all need to understand that the Bible is the true written word of God there no other source except the Bible no matter what anyone says. We all sin and fall short of the Glory of God and all we have to do is believe in Jesus name.

Philippians 2
9Therefore God also hath highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name,
10that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in Heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,
11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Who has blind faith? Not Me!

Blind Faith: belief without true understanding, perception, or discrimination

Most of the lost people of this world say this is what a Christian has. That we believe in something that we can’t see or touch or feel and don’t have any proof of. That we can’t see the truth or that we are just too silly, clinging to our religion and our guns, to see the true world that we live in. But I ask what do they believe in? That we came from an ameba and evolved over millions of years and this ameba came from a big bang. A bang with force so unimaginable that it started a chain reaction that led to life as we know it. So where did this big bang come from and who saw it who has proof of it, can any scientist reproduce any type of force that creates life from nothing? What other explanations do people have? That we have just always been here that the earth is billions of years old and life has just always been and our finite minds will never comprehend this, and that explanation is not an explanation at all. Or one of my favorites there are greater powers that we don’t know and understand but it’s not the God that Christians believe in. Oh and another good one is the God that is nature and the natural harmony of nature bla bla bla. In my opinion all these are a worship of the creation, I worship the Creator. Most people will ask so where is your proof. I like to start with actual written history starting with the Bible which only continues to be proven the greatest written history of all. I have seen and heard of scientist and historians that set out to prove the Bible to be fiction and only end up supporting Biblical history and finding clue after clue to support the great stories of the Bible. There are also ancient non Biblical writings that support the people and stories of the Bible. Wow actual written records you say. Well what about something you have actually seen for yourself? OK, Have you ever known someone who was just bad I mean bad to the bone always in trouble or doing something stupid. Someone who just always seemed to be headed down the wrong road and then one day they start going to church and get saved and their life does a total 180. They may not be perfect but far from where they were before and getting better every day. Or have you ever seen a newborn baby and seen the joy in a new mother or father’s eyes? I don’t care who you are a child is a miracle of God there is no other explanation as far as I am concerned. Me personally I have felt the touch of God in my life since the day I got saved I don’t even really know how to explain it, it’s amazing and powerful. Have you ever been just really bad off and had your mom or dad just wrap their arms around you and say I love you and everything is going to be ok. It’s like that except 24/7 and it can never be taken away. It’s the most awesome and powerful thing that has ever happened to me. It changed my life and only for the better. I could really go on for days about the things I have seen and felt in the short time I have been a Christian. Praise Jesus!! He died for my sins and for yours and whether you want to believe or not, He is there and somewhere in everyone’s soul there is that need to understand a greater power. That power is Jesus and he is waiting for you to come to the foot of that old rugged cross and say, I believe, please help me, please save me. The good Lord is giving you the proof everyday you just have to choose to see it.

Luke 16:15
And He said unto them, "Ye are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

A Christian?

A Christian is not all ways a good person. A Christian is not always right. A Christian is not perfect and does not know the answers to all life’s problems. A Christian has hard times and bad times. A Christian can be mean, rude, and angry. A Christian is not always supposed to be happy and cheerful. A Christian does not always want to do the right thing or be with the right people. A Christian can be stubborn, ignorant, and foolish. A Christian is not always a winner or popular. A Christian doesn’t have to be physically beautiful. A Christian is not always rich and prosperous. A Christian is not always honest. In fact the one and only difference between a lost sinner and a saved one is the blood of Jesus Christ. After you are washed in the Blood of Jesus and Gods grace has filled your heart you want to be different. Doesn’t mean that you always are different, it means that the Love of Jesus is always there and you know right from wrong, you know good from bad. Your heart is convicted of your sins and you pray you pray so hard for forgiveness and for God’s blessings on your life and that you be led in his way. You want to hear and learn the word of God and fellowship with other Christians. You want to work for the Lord so lost people can gain what you have. So maybe just one less person goes to an eternity in Hell because you were open to Gods will for your life. So for those who are saved listen to God he is there all you have to do is listen and for those who are not saved don’t try to look into the life of a Christian and pinpoint every flaw look into you own heart, are you seeing clearly, have you been washed in the Blood of Jesus?

Reality?

Have you ever had reality just slap you right in the mouth? I know, I know your saying “reality slaps me every day”, but I mean the true reality of this world or maybe just this country or just the town you live in. I had a rude awakening this week and I’m not really going to elaborate but let’s just say it slapped me right upside the head and the mouth. I get up every morning and unless I don’t turn on the TV or the radio or get on the internet or have a conversation with anybody. I don’t hear anything bad about the economy or someone losing their job or being sick and tired or having some type or tragedy in their lives and honestly it all just brings me closer to God and lets me have more appreciation for Jesus and what he did for me. Times like these should remind us all of Job the Lord had blessed Job in many ways he was a very wealthy man that had everything a man could want. He had what we would call a huge farm with many animals and many servants many Sons and Daughters and most of all he feared God and turned away from evil and yet God allowed Satan to test him in every way imaginable. Job lost everything all his animals most of his servants, his children, his health everything gone in the blink of an eye. Yet we can all learn a valuable lesson from Job for he did not blame God he blamed himself. Why you ask, because even though he feared God he had not raised his children to fear God he had not appreciated all the things that God had blessed him with and he knew it. He had let his children run wild and let them party and drink and run head on into evil. His farm was so large and his greed so blinding that he most likely didn’t even know what he possessed. Then when it was all taken away he didn’t blame God, he knew who was to blame, Himself. In fact the Bible says he refused to curse God but cursed the day of his own birth. I think that this relates very well to the times we are in right now in this country. This country has a whole has refused to see God’s blessing on or lives refused to see all we have been given, we have not taught our children to fear God and see what Jesus did for them. We have run into some hard times and it’s our own fault because we sit idly by and watch the people of this country loss faith in Jesus or even forget who Jesus is. It is our own ignorance and greed that is the problem we are only getting what we ask for in my opinion, we have put our faith in man instead of God. I have already stated before that we can’t even always trust ourselves much less other men. My good old gospel preacher said it well he said “Job may have cursed the day he was born but there is one day you won’t curse that is the day your reborn”. I am going to keep saying this until someone listens, learn who Jesus is, get saved, witness to someone, work for the lord, blame your own stupid decisions that you made without the good Lord in your life on yourself. Remember God will give you what you ask for so my question is what are you asking for?

What Are You Doing?

There are people in this country this morning who have lost their jobs after 20 years of employment. There are mothers and fathers who are going hungry to feed their children. There are thousands of homeless, drug addicts, drunks, and thieves. There are probably people living within a couple of miles of your home right now that don’t have power or running water. There are disabled people living on their own barley able to feed themselves. There are people so wealthy that they lose billions of dollars and have to adjust their lives to live with only millions and yet don’t feel any need to give a few hundred dollars to help any of these people. There are also people working hard living comfortably in middle class America who feel no need to go out of their way to give or to help. There are people who think it’s alright to kill babies because they do it with medical precision. There are people who think the government is responsible for taking other peoples hard earned money and giving it to them for absolutely no reason except they were raised to feel entitled to it. I think you get the point I am trying to make here and my belief is there is one answer to all these things. JESUS!! So my question for you and myself this morning is what are you doing? Do you know Jesus and if so what are you doing to witness to these people and show them the love and salvation that has been given freely to this lost and dyeing world. All any of these people need is Jesus and Christian fellowship. Good moral people are dying and going to hell every minute of every day and most of us have the answer sitting right in front of us and are to lazy to get up and spread to word.
John 3:16"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
So for you and myself get up get out and do something that matters God has already given us the answer all we have to do is believe and want his will to be done in our lives.

TRUE HEROES!!!

True Heroes I believe are those who will lay their lives on the line for others or for a greater cause. Those who without even knowing become a hero and who are humbled by the things they have seen and work they have done to keep this country free. I am talking about the men and women of our armed forces everyone from your home town police officer to the soldiers in Iraq as I write this. They are all heroes and have my upmost respect. For a few hundred years now men and women have been fighting and dying for this country to give you and I the rights that we have this very day. Unfortunately we often take those rights for granted we abuse them we break the laws of our country on a daily basis and laugh about it. When there are men and women in harm’s way this very hour and if they break the rules they may lose there lives or put others in grave danger and when they laugh it is to try to get away from the horrible realities of war. Yet there are people in this country who will speak out against these heroes and say things like they are just to ignorant to realize what they are fighting for that our country has brain washed them and they don’t know any better . Nope quite frankly just the opposite I believe that the people who say these things are the ignorant ones who don’t realize the reason they have the right to say whatever pours out of there facetiously brilliant mind is the exact people who they are speaking against. I also believe that anybody no matter what your political beliefs or religion or gender or overall view of this country is, if you get up and speak against the people that are giving you these rights you are a TRATOR and you should be treated as such you should be put under the jail. God has blessed this country, each and every citizen of this country with freedom and civil rights unknown to the rest of this world and given this country heroes that are fighting for us this very hour, and whether or not you believe in the specific war they are fighting you should still feel blessed. I pray that God puts a hedge of protection around every man and women in harm’s way this morning fighting for us here on home soil and in foreign lands. I also say a special prayer for those who are lost and don’t know Jesus and free pardon from sin, who don’t see these brave men and women for what they are True Heroes.

I dedicate this to the heroes in my own family Jeremy Gibson of the US ARMY and Aaron Joseph of the US NAVY . GOD BLESS

One Year Ago

I'm not even sure how to start this except by saying God is good! One year ago yesterday my life changed forever for that mater my whole family's life changed forever. My Dad oh my crazy Dad his moto is if your not living on the edge your taking up to much space. So he lives on the edge loving life, living life, enjoying life. A few years back he started paragliding/powered paragliding and ended up being very good at it and running his own school teaching others. Until one year ago yesterday he likes to say he was flying along and the earth jumped up in front of him. It was probably the scariest day of my life my Mom called and said "your Dad has crashed" and that's all I remember hearing some how later that day I ended up at Grady Memorial Hospital trying to find out what had happened and how bad of shape my Dad was in. After about 5 or 6 or 10 hours of emergency surgery it seemed like. The doctors came out and pretty much said he was in very bad shape and the next 24 hours would tell the story. He had broken both his legs one exposed compound fracture, both his arms one of them also exposed compound fracture, his hip and lost more blood than a human even has in their body and on top of that he had fractured bones in his face and had a very significant brain injury. So...... we were all this time praying and crying and pleading with God for miracles of any kind. We all moved up to the ICU floor and that's where the real bad news stared coming a little guy in scrubs, I'll never forget his face as long as I live, comes out and wants to talk to my sister and I about what is going on and what will happen next. He looks me in the eye and says your Dad has no brain function except for what keeps his heart beating and I think my heart stopped for a minute or 2, that or it was beating so fast that it just felt like one continuous beat. The doctor said that he would wait an hour and re evaluate him and let us know something then. Then I realize I've got to go tell my family what the doctor just told me so after a few minutes of crying and praying harder than I probably ever had I finally got it out. I don't even remember the reaction of everybody else I was so lost. I remember thinking I have to get everybody I can think of praying I started calling people I'm not even sure who I called and I'm pretty sure all I could get out was please pray for my Dad. That was a long hour but when the doctor came back out he said that my Dads brain activity was coming back Praise Jesus!! but he needed to drill a whole in his head and put in a monitor so they could try to control the pressure on his brain. During this time we also got to go back and see him for the first time he (my Dad) was so swollen all over he was almost unrecognizable there was tubes and hoses and needles and monitors everywhere it was quit possibly the worst real life situation I have ever been in. I was signing papers left and right it was a blurry few weeks of watching waiting, surgeries and ups and downs, left and right and round and round. Confusion and anger and love and sadness and you name it every emotion in the human vocabulary but all that time I knew that God was there I didn't know what his plan was but he was there. I prayed and cried and prayed and cried and before we knew it he was stable, still unconscious but stable and needed to move to another hospital. The doctors were telling us they didn't know how his recovery would progress that he was just lucky to be alive. We get to the second of seven hospitals yes I said seven and my dad starts to wake up very slowly but surly wake up no communication no real movement but his eyes would open he was still on a ventilator some what breathing on his own some of the time. It seems now like one day he just snapped out of it and started communicating little by little the lord was bringing him back to us. He remembered everybody and started trying to talk more and more it was miraculous to say the least. He had some memory/confusion problems and he still could not eat on his own but he was healing and getting stronger day by day. Every hospital was another step closer to home. The doctors kept telling us there were still no promises that he would ever be close to his normal self again that it might be 2 or 3 years before my Dad was even able to understand what had happened and be able to go home without round the clock medical care. Undoubtedly they had no clue who my Dad was or that a great and powerful God was at work. After a few set backs here and there and months of not being able to eat or even move his self around at all. We were finally released to go home what a day what a day it was awesome to be told he may not live, he may never be the person you knew before he may never be able to do anything without assistance again or just a plain we don't know what is going to happen, to miraculously healthy and on the way home. He can do most things on his own and is getting stronger everyday he can walk some with a walker for short periods of time and has a positive attitude that he is going to get back to a normal life again soon. All that said the real blessing that came from this thing that most people would say is a tragedy is that my family my Dad everybody that knows my Dad every person that has heard his story has a renewed appreciation for life and family and for Gods blessing on our lives. My family is closer now than we have been ever I think we appreciate the time we have with each other we actually communicate an a regular basis. So I think hidden in this was a God telling us look at the beautiful family you have. look at all the things that you believe are more important that will never be. look at all the things that I have blessed your life with that you are taking for granted. I would also like to say that God blessed us with just the right doctors at just the right times just the right therapist, just the right hospitals just the right everything to go through this and only come out stronger and feeling his blessing more than ever before. I love and appreciate every person that the good Lord put in our paths on the journey of the last year. I pray all the time that God blesses each person that has prayed for or work with or even indirectly had any effect on my Dads recovery in a very special way that they may have the appreciation and love for his glory and blessings on their lives that I now have. God never puts you in a situation that you can't handle or that wont make you stronger in the end. I thank God for my family for my Friends for my Dad, all whom I love very much and for this trial that has only made us stronger.

2 Thessalonians 2

1Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering together unto Him,

2that ye be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as if from us that the Day of Christ is at hand.

3Let no man deceive you by any means, for that Day shall not come, unless there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition,

4who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sitteth as God in the temple of God, showing himself to be God.

5Remember ye not that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

6And now ye know what withholdeth, that he might be revealed in his time.

7For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now holdeth back will hold him back, until he is taken out of the way.

8And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of His mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming--

9even him, whose coming is according to the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,

10and with all the deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

11And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie,

12that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

13But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you for salvation, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

14whereunto He called you by our Gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

15Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold to the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.

16Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God even our Father, who hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,

17comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.

Break Yoself!!

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to let yourself down?? I mean almost everyday I tell myself something that I need to do and it almost never gets done. At the same time have you ever stopped and thought about how many people let you down on a daily basis just in general. I'll bet almost everyday someone you know lets you down I mean its everyday life you just learn to live with it. No matter how much a person loves you or how much respect someone has for you they will at some point in your life let you down. Your Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, Best Friends, Your Preacher, Your Church, the list goes on and on but most of all its Yourself that will let you down or at least in my case. So why do we place so much trust on people and on ourselves? The people in your life are just like you if you realize it or not WE can't trust ourselves to always do the right thing. But hey lean in real close and let me tell you something amazing, There is one you can trust through thick and thin through any trouble and any tribulation through any tough time he always has the answer all you have to do is call on his name Jesus Christ!! Have you ever heard anyone tell a story about putting there lives in the hands of Jesus and any situation not coming out for the better. I can't for anything think of one person I have heard say I trusted in Jesus and it was a disaster he let me down big time. No because if you break yourself and put your life in the hands of Jesus and really listen to what he wants for your life, just let his will be done in you life you'll see its worth it. He's not going to let you down!! let me also tell you not to trust me on this you need to see for yourself come on and let the Lord in, Get Saved!! it's wonderful. Praise Jesus!! After all look where trusting ourselves and the leaders of this country that we have put in office has gotten us. Lets all try putting our trust in Jesus and see what happens theres no doubt in my mind he wont let us down.

Psalm 139 :

1O LORD, Thou hast searched me and known me.

2Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.

3Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.

4For there is not a word on my tongue, but lo, O LORD, Thou knowest it altogether.

5Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon me.

6Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

7Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? Or whither shall I flee from Thy presence?

8If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there.

9If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.

11If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me," even the night shall be light about me.

12Yea, the darkness hideth not from Thee, but the night shineth as the day; the darkness and the light are both alike to Thee.

13For Thou hast possessed my reins. Thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

14I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.

15My substance was not hid from Thee when I was made in secret, and intricately wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

16Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being imperfect; and in Thy book all my members were written, which in continuity were fashioned, when as yet there were none of them.

17How precious also are Thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them!

18If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand; when I awake, I am still with Thee.

19Surely, Thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.

20For they speak against Thee wickedly, and Thine enemies take Thy name in vain.

21Do I not hate them, O LORD, that hate Thee? And am I not grieved with those that rise up against Thee?

22I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them mine enemies.

23Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts.

24And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Religious Freaks

What a beautiful Monday Morning in the house of the Lord. This morning I am trying to wrap my mind around why Christians are politically incorrect, ignorant, religious freaks to what feels like most of this country? Correct me if I am wrong but this country was founded by Christians the originals laws and Constitution was written in compliance with the laws and rules of the Bible. Our founding fathers were all great men of God who called on his name to help the people of the country to lead guide and protect them through the storms of life. Furthermore for over one hundred years more Christians fought and died to keep this country alive and prosperous and FREE than any other people. Now in my mind that means Christians have more invested, more blood sweat and tears poured on this land in the name of The true and living God, Jesus Christ, than any one else. So why in the world over the past few generations has it become so popular in this country to discount Christians and their opinion to take our God and Our beliefs out of our schools out of our government out of everything that we have fought so hard to build for the people of this lost and dieing world. No longer can a Christian man even be seen praying outside of the church building and not be called a political incorrect religious freak. Christians fought the hardest and sacrificed the most for this country yet now have the least rights of all, but if a lost man who believes in absolutely nothing but his right to say something stands, oh my gosh we have to let him talk or he might be offended aaaaahhhhh ohhh noooooo!!! Well let me tell you something maybe we need to offend a few more people open there eyes and let them see a Christian point of view let them see what this country was founded on and what it should still stand for. It is absolutely insane to me that a man from a religion the hates the world an intends on extinguishing every living soul who is against him can walk into this country and have the right to say anything offends him. Why don't the Christians of this land stand up and let these people see how the Lord Jesus could lead there lives and how it could change the downward spiral this country has gotten itself into. We should show them that God is good and all you have to do is ask him for salvation and guidance in you life and he will show you what great prosperity and happiness really is. Instead of turning this country into a lost and dieing country of poverty and dis pare and not offending anybody lets offend a few people and be politically incorrect and give them a Savior that could shift this country back to the Religious Freak it used to be.

August 06

Have you ever heard that saying "I was born and raised in the church" well I guess I can say that, at least until my teen years. I knew who Jesus was and I knew what it took to be saved I knew what the church was all about and yet chose to be ignorant. I ran head on into every sin I could find. Drugs, alcohol, sex, violence you name it I've done it. Then one day God chose to change my life with a mosquito that's right one of the tiniest of all creatures. I got a call one day that a good friend of mine was sick and in the hospital and wasn't doing well. I'm not talking about and average everyday guy this dude is on of the biggest strongest healthiest guys I know. He was in the ICU with an infection in his brain, fine one day and had a 50/50 chance the next most likely because of a mosquito bite. So of course all the friends and family start to gather including me and it just so happened a good old Gospel Preacher showed up and prayed with us that day went in and prayed over my friend which is comforting even for a lost man. So I end up staring out the window wondering if my friend dies where is he going to end up. I started to trying to pray to no end ( later I learned that God doesn't hear the prayers of a lost man except the prayer of salvation). When I realized, I know where I am going, I am standing there so worried about where my friend is going and I know beyond a doubt that I am on my way to Hell. So that's where it happened standing there all alone, weaping I said Lord God please forgive me, please save me, please help me, please be the Lord of My life and he said yes. In the blink of and eye I was no longer alone God might have well been physically standing there with me listening to my prayer. It was like I knew with no doubt that everything was ok now, my friend was going to be ok I was going to be ok everything was going to be ok. Amazingly I did not worry one bit from that point on about my friends health nor my own. The next Sunday I went straight to church it just so happened it was the Church of that good old Gospel Preacher that prayed with us that day and he told me he had prayed that the lord use that to save someone that someone was you he said and the Good lord has been with me ever since hearing my prayers and answering them. Praise Jesus!! Now all that happened to me because the lord decided it was my time and he used a little old Georgia mosquito.

My First Blog This Should Be Interesting

Hello to the few who will probably read this I just want to start this off right to support the title I have given this blog. I went to a Baptist revival last night (by the way I am Southern Baptist) and heard brother Bill Tribble preach on The Tribulation. For those who don't know That is the time between the rapture of those who have accepted Jesus Christ as there Lord and Savior and those who have not being left here on earth with the Antichrist to rule them. It was a great sermon by a great man of God and I enjoyed it very much. That gets me to the first thing I have been burning on for a while. I cannot for the life of me understand why so many people on this earth choose not to believe. On one hand they will believe anything some doctor or therapist or generally educated person tells them but they wont believe a Book that is the greatest recorded history known to man (its called the Bible). They will believe Jo Schmo when he tells them they should eat the Almighty ORGANICS and they will be healthier than ever. They believe there are a such thing as organics period. My belief in organics goes about as far as my belief in santa clause by the way. Its one of those things that seems like a nice thing to believe in but some where deep inside you know is just the biggest sales and advertising scheme ever. But they don't believe that there is a higher power that wants to take care of you and lead your life for the better and convict you off things that are wrong. The people of this very nation will believe in a mortal man and believe that he will fix this country and all the things in it just by haveing what he thinks are good ideas that may help and a smooth tongue. The very same people refuse to believe that the son of the one true God came and died for there sin and just by believing in him this country could return to the greatness that we believe that we are falling away from. I could go on for days but the moral of the story is I cant grasp the fact that something that has changed my life so drastically something that there has been proof of since the beginning of recorded time is so unbelievable for so many people and at the same time some guy can call himself a doctor or whatever he can just make up something to call himself and people will believe every word he says with absolutely no proof except he said so. All I am saying is just try Jesus on for size he changed my life, every part of it I am just a sinner saved by the grace of an Almighty God, and I don't understand why that is so unbelievable for the majority of the people of this world...