Hello my most wonderful Worldwide Family. I love you all so very much. It is great to be talking with you tonight. I have been praying for you. It seems as if God has answered many people’s prayers in different nations. We thank You LORD.
Dear LORD God Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, we praise You, we are so very grateful to You for Who You are and Whose we are. We worship You and honor You with our lives. Thank You for setting more hostages free in Israel. Please LORD free them all. Thank You for protecting Your land of Israel and Your people. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem, Israel and the entire Middle East region. Please protect all of the innocent people and children in all nations. Please call Your world unto You for salvation. Even terrorists LORD, then they would not be terrorists.
Thank You LORD for our new Leadership here in America. We pray for the President and Vice President and their families and every government official and their families. We pray for the now former President and Vice President and their families. Please protect them all and heal their fractured emotions and give them Your Peace that passes understanding.
Father, please cause all people groups to desire to be kinder and more respectful to one another as fellow human beings. Let us have an end to the malicious news stories on social media and different channels that have made fun of an aging President and slandered another President. LORD, please enable us to love in the manner which You tell us to love. The way Jesus loved us. Even to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us and despitefully use us. Please set us free and heal us LORD. We thank You in advance. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.
There has been a lot of talk lately about D.E.I./ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which has been the ‘law of the land’ for many years, has actually caused division as well as millions or billions of dollars and is now being removed.
Let’s see what God thinks about D.E.I. by looking at His WORD in His Bible. DIVERSITY:
REVELATION 5:9 YOU (JESUS) ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE SCROLL AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS; FOR YOU WERE SLAIN AND HAVE REDEEMED US TO GOD BY YOUR BLOOD. OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION. God loves his diverse creation of HIs human children.
REVELATION 7:9 AFTER THESE THINGS, I LOOKED AND BEHOLD A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH NO ONE COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, TRIBES, PEOPLES AND TONGUES, STANDING BEFORE THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, WITH PALM BRANCHES IN THEIR HANDS, AND CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, “SALVATION BELONGS TO OUR GOD WHO SITS ON THE THRONE AND TO THE LAMB.” (JESUS)
I think we can see that God loves diversity. God created diversity. He is the Creator of all human beings, and we were all created in His Image.
EQUITY: Equity means everyone should end up with the same results regardless of how they started out or how much effort they put into making their lives successful. Everyone needs to have the same amount of prosperity, or end results. This is actually socialism. I feel this leads to the victim mentality. And I will also be the first one to help anyone and everyone in need.
EQUALITY on the other hand means that everyone has the same starting point; and we do. We are all created in the Image of God, all given life, gifts, certain amounts of brilliance from God, and grace from God. We can succeed and overcome obstacles to our heart’s desire. I can speak from experience. With the Grace of God, I overcame many of life’s challenges and refused to have the victim mentality. Come on people, WE CAN DO THIS!!
INCLUSION: We are all included in God’s family. We were all created this way, we were born into the family of God as His children. We have to use our free will that God gave us, to remove ourselves from being included in God’s perfect will, love and family. Or we remain with God by repenting, turning from our sins, and accepting Jesus as our LORD and Savior and letting Him do his perfect will in us to change us from the inside out. Jesus loves us right now the way we are and He loves us too much to leave us in the muck and mire that we have gotten ourselves into. The choice is ours to make. The consequences are eternal. Heaven or hell.
GALATIONS 3:28 THERE IS NO NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK, THERE IS NEITHER SLAVE NOR FREE, THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE, FOR YOU ARE ALL ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.
GENESIS 1:26 THEN GOD SAID, “LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO OUR LIKENESS.” {Who is God referring to when He says, in ‘Our’? God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.}
These are just a few examples from the Bible for the sake of time. Now let’s look at what we have been experiencing for the last 4 years from ‘mans’ definitions of D.E.I.
DIVERSITY: Examples- Current society has been saying we must give priority to those who are black, women, of the LGBTQ AI+ community, etc. in spite of whether or not they are qualified. Not only must we give them preference; we must embrace their lifestyle. The problem is this; as Christians we cannot embrace lifestyles that are contrary to God’s creation and His will. We simply can’t, it is sinful and we are held accountable by God. To be forced to do so does not allow us to be our own ‘part of diversity- the Christian part.’
EQUITY: Current society has been telling us that since some persons start at a disadvantage, we must ‘make up the difference’ by GIVING them what they need, handouts, because they are victims. I already mentioned that we are all created equal. If we do endure tragedies, trials, tribulations, we don’t let this define us. We can rise up in the strength and grace that Jesus Christ gives us when we ask and we can be VICTORIOUS IN JESUS. I have had to overcome many adversities and still do. I have only been able to do this because of what Jesus Christ has done for me. PRAISE GOD!
If we would all follow the example of our LORD Jesus, we can show true love, compassion and respect to others. We can give them a ‘hand up’, not a ‘hand out’. We can speak life into their situations, the Life of Christ.
INCLUSION: Again, current society has been speaking the rhetoric of inclusion while at the same time, including people whom they do not agree with is the farthest thing from their mind. Hypocrisy!
My battery is dying. I have to go. I love you. Jesus loves you.