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Monday, March 11, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Sequestration? Put it on Steriods... PLEASE !!!!
Sequestration is now being used as an EXCUSE by the Commander in Chief to weaken our military. What a sad state of affairs. A nation once so free and able is being disabled by the most nearsighted legislative inflexibility... it make one shudder. If five nuclear warships are gathered in one Navy Yard, surely (100 +435+9+1=) 545 NUCLEAR NARCISSISTS are often found gathered in the ONE Politically Correct Yard inside the Wash. D.C. beltway. There may seem to be two sides in the US government, but the insane egotism of them all makes for ONE BIG INEFFECTIVE INEFFICIENT CORRUPT MESS.
Instead of each man and woman in DC doing what they want, why don't they simply try to find out what WORKS and do that? I'll tell you why. It is because or past and lingering prosperity has corrupted our sense of need. We all need very much to do the right thing as individuals and as a nation. But we are some intoxicated on (still cheap) oil ($10/gallon gas is not uncommon in many other nations), by still cheap food, by an abundance of cheap (and immoral) entertainments, cheap (and expensive) prescription drugs, cheap alcohol, readily available cheap (and expensive) street drugs... Modern living (or post modern or what ever kind of living you want) is easy in the USA. The poorest here have 20 to 30 times the income of those in real poverty, those living on one to two dollars a day.
My prayer is that sequestration not end, but that in the future the military be excluded from it's reach. Let the entitlements and the pork be touched deeply. Entitlements are pork. Let them receive the same budgetary increases that Supplemental Security Insurance recipients receive, or better yet just cut all increases for 5, or even 10 years. Entitlements, the very thing designed to win the war on poverty have simply ballooned into the poverty of a 16 trillion dollar national debt. Unless some seriously concerted effort comes forth from Wash DC, our children will be in the poor house of debts for many generations.
And let it be taught in every classroom and preached from every pulpit, borrowing is not funding. Borrowing is the privilege of those who have good credit. The credit rating of the USA has never really taken the hit it should take. Reality says that we can in no way be 16 trillion dollars in debt, most of which is unfunded deficit spending, and borrowing simply to pay the interest on our debt and have any kind of "A" rating with any credit bureau. Frankly, if the Mafia held OUR national debt they would have broken Uncle Sam's legs some time ago.
And this is all from a secular point of view! When God is factored in, we ought to be on our knees before Him pleading for divine favor to extract ourselves from the prison of bankruptcy which may engulf us at any time!
Money is at best a tool, and the worst an idol. Will we use it as a tool for good? Or will we suffer from the insanity of the pursuit of more? But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:9-11
Instead of each man and woman in DC doing what they want, why don't they simply try to find out what WORKS and do that? I'll tell you why. It is because or past and lingering prosperity has corrupted our sense of need. We all need very much to do the right thing as individuals and as a nation. But we are some intoxicated on (still cheap) oil ($10/gallon gas is not uncommon in many other nations), by still cheap food, by an abundance of cheap (and immoral) entertainments, cheap (and expensive) prescription drugs, cheap alcohol, readily available cheap (and expensive) street drugs... Modern living (or post modern or what ever kind of living you want) is easy in the USA. The poorest here have 20 to 30 times the income of those in real poverty, those living on one to two dollars a day.
My prayer is that sequestration not end, but that in the future the military be excluded from it's reach. Let the entitlements and the pork be touched deeply. Entitlements are pork. Let them receive the same budgetary increases that Supplemental Security Insurance recipients receive, or better yet just cut all increases for 5, or even 10 years. Entitlements, the very thing designed to win the war on poverty have simply ballooned into the poverty of a 16 trillion dollar national debt. Unless some seriously concerted effort comes forth from Wash DC, our children will be in the poor house of debts for many generations.
And let it be taught in every classroom and preached from every pulpit, borrowing is not funding. Borrowing is the privilege of those who have good credit. The credit rating of the USA has never really taken the hit it should take. Reality says that we can in no way be 16 trillion dollars in debt, most of which is unfunded deficit spending, and borrowing simply to pay the interest on our debt and have any kind of "A" rating with any credit bureau. Frankly, if the Mafia held OUR national debt they would have broken Uncle Sam's legs some time ago.
And this is all from a secular point of view! When God is factored in, we ought to be on our knees before Him pleading for divine favor to extract ourselves from the prison of bankruptcy which may engulf us at any time!
Money is at best a tool, and the worst an idol. Will we use it as a tool for good? Or will we suffer from the insanity of the pursuit of more? But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 1 Timothy 6:9-11
Friday, March 8, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
22-YEAR-OLD WINS AWARD FOR FILM ON SAVING BABIES Stunning speech: 'I promise in the fear of God, I will steward this investment'
Stunning speech: 'I promise in the fear of God, I will steward this investment'
Ivie accepted the award, along with a check for $101,000 by demonstrating humility.
Ivie accepted the award, along with a check for $101,000 by demonstrating humility.
“I deified movies for 21 years of my life, and I made them my god, and it failed me,” he said. “I’m done with that story. I’m done with that idol. And I promise in the fear of God that I will steward this investment, because I would rather tell the plainest truth with $100,000 than the most sophisticated technological lie with 10 million dollars or 100 hundred million dollars.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/03/22-year-old-wins-award-for-film-on-saving-babies/#sYWXbRGeDXWo5u0P.99
Moi? 4 president, MOI ?!!!
..Moi? 4 president, MOI ?!!!..
It's over now until 2016. When I think about this FB group, "David B Severy for President 2016," (https://www.facebook.com/groups/108183335995364/)
the more I want to be president. Not because I'm qualified by my past but because I understand my future. There has not been, to my knowledge, a christian president unaffiliated with a christian "denomination" and unaffiliated with a political party. I'm quite willing to be the first. My platform will be, as it is today, THIS:
the more I want to be president. Not because I'm qualified by my past but because I understand my future. There has not been, to my knowledge, a christian president unaffiliated with a christian "denomination" and unaffiliated with a political party. I'm quite willing to be the first. My platform will be, as it is today, THIS:
1)Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
2) Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
3) Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
4) For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
I have rarely met anyone who agrees 100% with everything I say or write. One wit said of himself that by the time he got finished what he was speaking he didn't agree with himself anymore! Thankfully we do grow and with God as our guide the truth opens to us and we are made mature.
What can be discouraging to any honest man or woman is the corruption in government, in Wash. D.C. and in most every state capitol. I believe that being a christian can keep one from corruption. Why are some in Washington who profess Christ so corrupt? I'm persuaded that it is because we have sent them there not for the purpose of establishing fair government, we send them there to compete for government business, government contracts, government jobs, and government pork. The reason this competition is possible is largely because the federal government has usurped many rights and functions that the constitution grants to the individual states.
The Federal Government has placed tax burdens on the states which require the states send their congressmen to Washington D.C. to recoup the tax revenues usurped from their people! Fighting over money is 99.99% always a painful self defeating battle!
America could function quite well without dozens of agencies, several cabinet posts and a ton of federal regulation. It is simple greed at the federal level that has legislatively usurped states rights and citizens tax dollars, centralizing power in ways that cripple freedom. It has been said that the entire world could be fed, that no one would be hungry if only the wars which are being fought would cease. The war of words, of truth and the lie for votes, for the power of elected office in America in similar fashion impedes the just, and unbiased administration of the federal government.
Why do we suffer corruption and the inequities that result? I think we need to look far ahead to a day when we depart from this life. We need to ask ourselves: is the stress of "dog eat dog" competition for "bones" that cannot keep me from the grave worth becoming a callous, stingy man or woman? What am I trying to prove by being richer than thou? Greed IS a problem in America.
I believe everyone ought to be free to become as rich as they please, but not at the expense of other people. Criminal greed does accomplish great storehouses of ill gotten gain. These storehouses them become the targets of jealous poor who gather together against the criminal rich to "redistribute" wealth. The fact is that there is an abundance for everyone where crime and greed are shunned. What is necessary for that to happen? That I consider your welfare:
(1) equally important or
(2) more important that yours.
It is the christian principle of life.
(1) Do unto others as you would have them do unto you which makes your well being equal to mine.
(2) And No greater love has anyone for his/her friend than to lay down their life for them. This says your well being is more important to me than my own.
It is not widely known but some say that if it were not for war, the world could be fed, starving peoples could be fed, famine could be overcome and the world could support even a greater population than it's present 7 billion+ !!! Overpopulation is not the problem. The problem is human greed which sustains inequities among peoples and nations!
God gives each of us this life as a test. Will we learn that God IS Love? Will we learn that Love is not selfish, but that Love gives and gives and gives and gives... ?
Jesus didn't want anyone to sin against Him, and He didn't sin against anyone! He also counted our lives more important then the defense of His own. And in the mystery of Divine life He was crucified!
Maybe the knowledge and experience a president needs is not that complicated?
Acts 20:35
King James Version (KJV)
35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
CAN I BE PERFECT?
2 Chronicles 16:9 For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
Psalm 101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
To those who say "Christians are not perfect, just forgiven" I say, you have a very limited view of what Jesus did, and what God can do, FOR YOU! And I'm not tying to be picky or judgmental. But we know that Jesus says:
Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
Were I to preach it I would say:
God is not looking for sinless people. Nor is He looking for people who have no room to grow, or people who see themselves without need of growing. He IS looking for people who want to stop sinning, who want to grow, who know their need of repentance and transformation, and deeply desire to please their heavenly Bridegroom and Father. Is it perhaps that the heart can be perfect, that the heart can be full of that which God loves even while the soul still operates in some degree of frustration and falleness? We are to crucify the flesh, mortify the deeds of the body, and die daily. If we are practicing these, if this is our lifestyle, not yet flawless sinless perfection, but our yielding to a steady ongoing filling of the Holy Perfect Spirit of God... "I can only imagine..."
Somehow we need to go on to know the Lord, and know our calling and gifts, and serve the Lord in and with them, knowing that we are not flawless, but are called to be perfect and holy too! I am finding out that I have used my past and my PRESENT imperfections to excuse me from serving! I was disqualifying myself for fear of being disqualified! It seems I may have been sinning as a way to say to God: "I am not able to repent, therefore not able to serve!" (There are relevant details I could go into). I am wondering as I write if I was set up by satan to come to some very wrong conclusions about God's ways and His requirements! But whatever the details I also have a heart which God knows, and He is greater than it! I also have a deep desire to repent and He has the enabling power for that(!) AND also for serving Him!!!!
I did not get this from my own mind, the ideas began to flow when I read a book by Jack Hayford, A Passion for Fullness.
God is AWESOME! He is looking for people whose hearts are perfect toward Him, whose deepest desire is to come to the end of there life and hear Him say: "Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord."
Are not these the people God will perfect and complete in His likeness?
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Hebrews 12
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
7 If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.
9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees;
13 And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed.
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;
16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest,
19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more:
20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart:
21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:)
22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:
26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven.
27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.
28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
29 For our God is a consuming fire.
Colossians 2:10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:
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