Family Today

Those of us who are "elderly" think back at a time when the family lived in a world with morals.  What has brought us from Mayberry to sitcoms filled with homosexuality and downright filth?  Everyone lives accordingly as to what is right in his own eyes today....Judges 21:25.

We live in a fallen world, but where have the morals gone?  Can we point to a decade where they began to slip away from us?  In 1950 "adultery" was against the law!  Homosexuality was a crime and punished by imprisonment!  We mourn for those who grow up in these times today where there are no laws enforced to protect our children from child molesters.  "Adultery" has been on the law books since 1900, but was no longer enforced somewhere around 1960.  

Satan wants to destroy the family as God designed it and he is winning.  His time is short and he is working overtime against the Children of God.  We could list a thousand things that have caused the family to be torn apart today, but what can we do?  First, we must go back to Mothers having a heart for God's Word where it instructs us in Titus 2 to live as Godly women.  

What can we do speaking from this chapter in Titus?  Think about our family and compare it to the family that God wants for His children while we are here on earth.  It begins here my friend.  If we want children who will grow up and be Godly people it will take prayer and applying the Word of God to our lives.  

Trusting the Unseen

Wind cannot be seen, only the results of it!  The spoken word cannot be seen, only the results of it!  God cannot be seen or touched so how can we know that He exists?  Billy Graham faced this same question after his atheist friend tormented him to the point of crying out to the Lord for proof of some kind that He did exist.

We are creatures of the fall of mankind a long time ago.  In the Garden Adam walked and talked with the Creator...after sin entered the world through Adam he no longer saw the Lord and His voice was silenced.  I cannot imagine the great sorrow Adam and Eve must have felt after being in a paradise.  Ever since then people have lived with the thought, does God exist or does He not?  We see so much sorrow in the world we blame the Lord and say how can a good God let such horrible things happen? 

There is a glorious answer!  John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth".  So simple, the Word of God is either the truth or it is a lie!  Taken on faith and tested in our lives we know beyond the shadow of a doubt that God exists!  God will never have to prove His existence, but rather men will either believe and live or reject His Word and go to hell.



Living4Jesus

It has been a long time since I have been on here.  On May 22, 2011 my husband and I went through a devastating tornado.  It is one thing to see this kind of devastion on television, but living through it is very different!  As we stood underneath the staircase that evening all I could say was IN THE NAME OF JESUS!  With the walls breathing as if they were cardboard I clung to my husband knowing for sure that we were going to die.  I wasn't afraid to die, but I wanted to live!  As we jumped out of the back window a few minutes later the rescurer told me to be careful and do not step on any live wires lying on the ground.  It was rainy and cold.  I remember a woman coming over to me and putting her jacket on me and then she was off to help someone else.  We made our way to the street.  I looked at the afermath and everything was gone....gone!  How does it feel to be sitting in the street without nothing?  I can only say that God got my attention that He hadn't had in a long time!  The night before I had been complaining about our apartment and how bored I was that we had been in the same place for twelve years!  Someone took us to one of the shelters where a nurse treated me.  My husband escaped wth some cuts on his arm.  As I sat there waiting for our daughter to come and get us, I promised God that I would never complain again!  God is so loving and so patient and understanding....I found myself complaining about something really small a few days later!  There has been a change in me now for I am so aware of this thing about complaining. 

God met each need we had from the beginning to the end of those following weeks when we did not know where we would go from our daughters house.  He is still meeting those needs today as we are in a new place and a new awareness of just how temporary this life really is!  God has a plan for mankind and we are apart of it!  May we always think on things eternal!

It Is His!

Did you know that there were over 70 billion dollars made last year on lottery ticket sales?  Many Christians play the lottery, but is there any scripture commanding a child of God not to gamble?   The old casinos that began in the 1920's were located in Las Vegas.  Are lottery tickets the same thing?  A born again Christian may feel it is wrong to attend Casinos, where as buying a lottery ticket at the grocery store is done in private.  Where is the scripture to back up those of us who believe that lottery tickets and casinos are evil?  In Matthew 27:35 it says, "They crucified Him and devided His garments, casting lots, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet: They divided My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots". 

There is no commandment "Thou shalt not gamble", but it is a thing associated with evil.  What we do with our money is a "conscience" matter.  Money was in God's plan before the foundations of the world was laid!  It is not man's invention.  EVERYTHING in this world belongs to the Lord.  Yes, even our money that we earn honestly through hard work.  When we consider even our money belongs to Him, what then shall we do?  He has put it in our hand, do we have the right to use it for evil?  God forbid!

Being a good steward of our money will bring us blessings from the Lord who is over all things!  Before we buy, do we stop and think "will this honor God?".  Years ago when we began to think about money, this thought sobered us up to giving serious thought to spending His money!  We all make mistakes and we have made our share, but we are growing in the great reward of being a good steward!  It is His money!

Misunderstandings

This is a picture of me when I was young...not!  Years ago a very special friend of mine gave to me the wonderful knowledge of 'misunderstndings'.  This is what happens when we speak something to a person and later they deny that we ever spoke it.  Since I have experienced this on so many occasions, I wondered if misundertandings could be a parasite in the Church leading to strife?

How frustrating to know you are right and you cannot convince the other person that they are wrong!  We know beyond the shadow of a doubt that we are right and the other person just will not take the admonishing given them!  Our sinful nature cries out for justice!  In the end of the matter we will either forgive that person or treat them with indiffernce all of their days.  Would it not be better to suffer the misunderstanding and forgive?  In our infantile thinking we must set it right!   We do not like to be wronged!

When Jesus hung on the Cross, the mockings of the crowd were hideous and nearing the end He said, (knowing He was the Son of God) "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do"!  Luke 23:34.  Is it not enough to know that we did say it and be satisfied?  The flesh cries out to be justified, but the Holy Spirit is confident in the knowing of a matter!

Now, did you hear me say that the picture was of me when I was young?   

WWYD?

We love cute pictures, good food, time with family and friends.  As I was writing a letter to my daughter I enclosed a picture of her when she was fifteen years old.  Since she is forty-three now I began to think about the time that had passed so quickly!  A thougt entered into my mind, a very sobering thought!  What would we do if tomorrow was the end of time?

Our days are filled with the routine of life, but I would like for you to pause and look at your right hand for about thirty seconds.  while you are looking would you think about the God who created you, Jesus Christ?  Thank you.  Doing this will put our focus on the Creator.  If I knew that tomorrow was the very last day of time, how would I do things today?   It is a very hard thing to think about...some would even say "Not today!  Johnny will be going to Church camp next week!"  Each of us could think of why not.

Is the coming of Jesus real to us?  We are commanded to watch and pray for that event...Luke 21:36 says, "Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of God".  It is my wish that you will do the practice of examining your right hand from time to time...and pray to the One who created our marvelous body!  The end of time may be tomorrow, may we be prepared if it is!

Grapes of Wrath

In the movie, "Grapes of Wrath", we see the "preacher" who really represents what the movie is all about.  Behind his character is the agenda that there are not many souls, but one big soul.   There are so many voices in the world today through movies and media that it is very easy for someone to be deceived. 

The Grapes of Wrath was a long time favorite of mine until the Holy Spirit gave me discernment about the evil agenda behind it.  Did you know that you have discernment, but we are commanded in scripture to ask for understanding?  Proverbs 4:7.   In the Greek "understanding" means, "a call for help".  Many Christian women watch the Oprah Winfrey show...she has been dubbed as the greatest talk show host in the history of the like.  If you are really born again by the Spirit of God you will have the discernment to know that she represents evil of the worst kind!  She believes that there are many roads to heaven...John 14:6 says, "I (Jesus) am the way, the truth, and the life and no man comes to the Father except through me".  Some of these women claim to be Christians; only God knows the heart, but we can see that many have been deceived by her!  

Oh, how precious and powerful is the Holy Spirit!  Wisdom, discernment, and understanding all go together.  Today in this world of deception we need to cry out for all three!  May the Lord Jesus Christ give you understanding as you seek its' importance in your walk with the Lord, so you will not be deceived by anything in this world that shows its' ugly head against the truth of the Gospel!