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Welcome! |
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This week has
been difficult. First I heard about the poor woman, Iryna
Zarutska, who had been killed on a train in North Carolina and
the people around her walked away like they were afraid of her.
Why hadn't the news stations told us about it? Why didn't
the people who saw her help her?
Then Charlie Kirk was killed. I saw post after post on Facebook celebrating Charlie's death. When the United States House of Representatives was asked to have a verbal prayer for him I heard members saying, "NO!" and arguing. Hearts are hardened. Minds have been shut off from the truth. "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" (1Pet 5:8) is what has happened here. I heard Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills talk about youth being taught evolution in school and that puts them on the same level as animals. Public schools are notorious for having staff that leans to the left. Not all of them, but the large majority. Our local school district posted on Facebook that their flags were at half mast "by presidential order" and that was all they said. How would you take that? I take it that they don't want anyone thinking they are doing it because they care about what happened but because they were forced to do it. Charlie Kirk is guilty of trying to use facts to help people understand issues. "Prove me wrong" was what he advertised. He didn't get into arguments he just stated facts. The shooter disagreed with him or was hired by someone who disagreed with him. Charlie is no longer on earth but we are! What would God have us, the Body of Christ, do now? Let's ask Him! One thing we can definitely do is pray against lies, deceit, and the manipulation being done by teachers, politicians, and others! Right now the power held by the people who spew evil seems as huge as a mountain. Hold on.... "If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you." Mt 17:20 I do believe that, if God wants a mountain moved (yes, a literal mountain) then we can move it with our faith. He made the mountains, what would stop Him from moving one? We can make a difference! Together we can make more of a difference! One weapon you have is the truth! Don't be afraid to use it! Every person will have to kneel before Jesus. Let's not allow them to say that nobody told them! Are you with me? |
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Sometimes the Bible study was started in the welcome message. Each Bible study has a link to that week's welcome. Did you know I was blogging before there was such a thing as a blog? Did you miss last week? Here it is. |
| "And have no fellowship
with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it
is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for
whatsoever doth make manifest is light. Wherefore he saith, Awake thou
that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming
the time, because the days are evil." Eph 5:11-16 |
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this telling us to do? REPROVE the unfruitful things done in darkness.
What does reprove mean? Reprove: (Strongs Definition) to confute admonish Confute: (Dictionary.com) to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove. By speaking the truth and proving those things wrong you bring them into the light. How shall you speak to them? "I would they were even cut off which trouble you. For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Gal 5:12-14 That's right, with love. Do you think it is impossible to love someone that is evil or mean? How about someone you don't even know? I have a story about that. I was praying to have love for everyone. I don't remember if a certain incident caused me to pray that or I just wanted to see people through God's eyes but I was praying for that love. One day, while driving, I was at a red light. A motorcycle pulled up next to me and I felt an overwhelming love for the driver. The light then turned green and he was gone. I was shaking my head as I drove through the intersection because it was such a strange thing to happen. I had never had anything like that happen before. It IS possible to love people that you don't even know! Then there is one more story I have about love. I had fallen out of love with my husband. I was ready to file for divorce. I started thinking about what God would think about that. I knew He wouldn't approve. So I began praying for a love for my husband. It took a little while but I fell back in love with him. It wasn't because of anything my husband did, either. God gave me that love. Of course it was up to me to use it. Keep this in mind about people who refuse to listen to the truth and who refuse to find out if there really is a God. God said, through Isaiah, "I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear." Is 45:23 "For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God. So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Rom 14:11-12 That's right. Will they be able to say nobody told them? |
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Did you miss last week? Here it is. The old Bible studies can be found using any of the three links below.
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Eagle head pictures
courtesy of
Sue Woosley
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