Hello my most wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is awesome to be talking with you at this late night hour. While there are superfluous and disconcerting changes taking place in our world, it is very comforting to know the One Who holds the whole world in His Hands. What a powerful and extremely important time to believe in God, to be sustained by a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son, and to be filled with and led by His Holy Spirit and His WORD, the Bible.
Dear LORD God Almighty, Creator of Heaven and earth, Jesus Christ our LORD and Savior, Holy Spirit, the Divine Trinity, the One and Only True God, we worship You and praise You. We are grateful to You not only for our very existence but also for every provision that You bless us with as Jehovah Jireh, our Provider and every healing that You impart to us and our families, as Jehovah Rapha, our Divine Healer.
Please call us all to repentance and both personal, national, and world wide revival. LORD save us all from our sins and from ourselves. Please send Your Christian soldiers into all corners of Your world to share Your Gospel, glad tidings of good news and Your Love with all of Your people.
LORD please bring peace to every nation as Jehovah Shalom, the Prince of Peace. We need You every moment. We pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and for Israel as You tell us to in Your Scripture. We pray for the Innocent people in Palestine. We pray that You would save them all and all terrorists also LORD. If they were saved, and truly knew You, they would not be terrorists.
Please give us a burning desire to know You, to live as You lived, Jesus, to walk in Your Dunamis Power Holy Spirit, to change Your world for salvation. To speak words of peace and life. Please bless and protect all of those who are imprisoned, being persecuted, tortured and killed for their Christian faith. We pray for our enemies. Again, if they were saved, they would not be enemies, they would be our brothers and sisters in Christ. Please bless their families and all of our families for all generations. Please help us to teach them Peace and Love, not prejudice and Hatred. We thank You in advance LORD. In Jesus’ Name we pray. Amen.
I have been thinking lately about how people try to separate being a Christian from their God. What I mean by this is this; they may give a person praise or accolades for an accomplishment or an award that they received. When they ask the person how they were able to achieve this great accomplishment they are told that they were only able to merit this success by the Grace of God. The person may further respond, ‘No, how did YOU do this? What is YOUR trick?’
This reminds me of when I was in college. A fellow student asked me how I was able to maintain a certain grade point level while at that time being a single parent raising 2 small children. I explained that I did not want to take time away from my children, especially since I was going to two colleges at the same time. During the day I was taking classes in the Healthcare field and at night I was taking my basic requirement courses. So I spent time solely with my children from the time I got out of class until we all went to bed. Then I would set my alarm for 3 am, arise and spend time talking with and praying to the LORD and meditating upon His WORD the Bible before I started studying until my children awakened for breakfast. I did this year after year. The LORD enabled me with His Grace. He gave me the strength, the drive and the focus. He made me succeed in parenting and college.
My classmate said to me, ‘No I mean how do YOU do it?’ I did not have a different explanation. I could not answer in the manner that they desired for me to answer. That was the Truth. That was how I was able to do what may have otherwise been humanly impossible. Only because of God and His Supernatural help and blessing. I could not be separated from God, nor could any success that I may have achieved be separated from Him. God was the Reason. God is always the Answer.
Once a person told me that I should write a book about my profession and the decades that I dedicated myself to the care of people in need. They said it should be a ‘secular’ book, focusing on my career. I absolutely will write this book one day. I absolutely will not be able to write it without mentioning the way my God helped me acquire and succeed in my profession and sustained me even through the most painful trials and tribulations and tragedies.
I think about books and documentaries about the life of George Washington our first American President. Many times information about his belief in God and time in prayer and Church is not mentioned although this was an integral part of his life. He would pray before battles. God miraculously saved him when he was attacked by Native Americans in one of the battles. The miracle was described by the Chief of that tribe. The arrows aimed at George Washington would not strike and kill him. Thank You God for this leader that You called to be our first President.
I think about many documentaries about Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. He was the most powerful Civil Rights Leader. But, let’s not leave out that he was a Pastor. He preached God’s WORD. He got his calling from God. God used him to change the world. Thank You LORD for this man of God.
George Washington Carver was famous for many inventions, for example 325 different uses for peanuts. He was a famous inventor and scientist. He was also an artist and pianist. He was the first African American to earn a Bachelors Degree. He was born into slavery. In a documentary that I watched it was said that his testimony was that it was God Who gave him his ideas. He was a Christian. Yet this is rarely mentioned in writings about his life. What an awesome man this was LORD that You blessed with a plethora of knowledge.
There are many more brilliant and famous people who I am sure would prefer to give all the glory to God for their many achievements and accomplishments.
ACTS 17:26-29 AND HE, (GOD), HAS MADE FROM ONE BLOOD EVERY NATION OF MEN TO DWELL ON ALL THE FACE OF THE EARTH, AND HAS DETERMINED THEIR PREAPPOINTED TIMES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THEIR DWELLINGS, SO THAT THEY SHOULD SEEK THE LORD, IN THE HOPE THAT THEY MIGHT GROPE FOR HIM AND FIND HIM, THOUGH HE IS NOT FAR FROM EACH ONE OF US, FOR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING, AS ALSO SOME OF YOUR OWN POETS HAVE SAID, ‘FOR WE ARE ALSO HIS OFFSPRING.’ THEREFORE, SINCE WE ARE THE OFFSPRING OF GOD, WE OUGHT NOT TO THINK THAT THE DIVINE NATURE IS LIKE GOLD OR SILVER OR STONE, SOMETHING SHAPED BY ART AND MAN’S DEVISING.
Well, once again it is late and I need to sleep. Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you and am praying for you all and your generations. Most importantly of all Jesus loves you.