ISRAEL, ARE YOU PRAYING FOR THEM?

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ISRAEL

ARE YOU PRAYING FOR THEM?

God’s Plan for Israel and the World

Amos 9:11-15″ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.”

Today as I write this, we are living in the Laodicea Church Age, and Israel is still at odds with almost all the world. However, what ever some people and religions might say, God is not finished with Israel. They are still His chosen people. He did not choose them because they were something special. They are something special because He chose them.

If someone in my generation mentioned the name “Amos”, I imagine most people would bring to mind “Amos and Andy.” That was a very popular program years ago. As an unsaved, biblically ignorant person gong to hell, that is what I would have thought of.

Even today, when people talk about prophets they bring to mind Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and others around that time. Amos was contemporary with Isaiah. He was a herdsman from the Southern Kingdom, but prophesied to the Northern Kingdom.

In verse 11 Amos speaks of “that day” to let the Israelites and all of us know that he was prophesying about a time in the future, yet to happen, but surely will happen.

Verse 15 of the passage above, “And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.” That is a promise of God to the Jews. It is absolute and final and cannot, and will not be changed.

When you read the Old Testament, you will see that every time Israel was obedient to God they had peace. Every time they were disobedient to God, they had trouble and wars.
Do you think that Israel or we would learn something from history? No! The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history!

When a person or a nation is disobedient to God, look out! God is a Righteous God and a Holy God, and we should look to Him for guidance in everything, in our life. Our nation has turned its back on God, and is removing His words everywhere you look. That is why we are in a mess today.

I will bring more of my thoughts, on Israel and the World in my next article about Israel.
Meanwhile pray for Israel. Also, please pray for our government leaders, that they might get saved, and get in to the Bible and see what God has to say about what the future has in store for all mankind.

Grief Affects Us All

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Having experienced many types of grief, I can attest to the fact that is a very draining experience.  It hits us like a bombshell. We feel that there will be nothing that can give us relief from this terrible pain.

Even when we have spent much time in Anticipated Grief it doesn’t seem to matter. In this article, I will speak about the loss of a spouse. I am the last of my original family, so I have experienced losses of all kinds.

Married to a beautiful lady for thirty years, it seemed too much to go on. Children are grown and away, and friends and family didn’t really know what to say, and some avoided visiting.

When we are grieving, days are so long, and nights are lonely, and some nightmares at times don’t help. But all is not lost if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. He promises to comfort us. Jesus said in John 14:18  “I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.”

It is important to know that our Lord Jesus suffered much and in many ways the same as we do.  When the Lord Jesus found out that his friend Lazarus had died, the shortest verse in the Bible tells us in, John 11:35  “Jesus wept.” Yes, our Lord grieved over a friend that had died, but this needed to be so that the scriptures could show us his mighty power. The Lord Jesus Christ in all His divine power rose up Lazarus from death to the amazement of all at the scene.

For saved Christians, we have the promises of God that we too will rise to be with our Lord, and it is going to be an awesome time.

I will be bringing you more biblical promises from God in the coming posts, and will be speaking more about grief, and how we can get victory over it.   I have been counseling in grief for over thirty years and have seen thousands of people through the healing process, and will share with you how you too can heal through the grace of God.

Until then I pray that God, the God of all comfort will hold out His hand to you, and you will reach out and take hold and feel the love and the mercy that He has for you.

A servant of the Lord,

Pastor Don

 

I am Heaven Bound, Are You?

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I am Heaven Bound Are You?

In today’s world, the only thing that is on the minds of the majority in our nation is what I can protest about today, what about my civil rights. The criminals are running our country. Then there are the people who are here illegally demanding their rights. All the men we respected for years, now being charged with a numerous amount of sexual crimes, and politicians wasting all their time persecuting other politicians.

We can not leave out the horrible school shootings, and police shootings the hackers out to steal all that you have, and the very banks that we choose to keep our money safe, doing just the opposite. I could go on, and on about what is ruining the world, and now is ruining this once great United States of America, but I will give you the answer with one word.

SIN!

Of course, you will not hear about that on any newscast, in any newspaper, or unfortunately, not in many churches today.

During World War 1 and World War 2, our nation was a praying nation. I know this because when I was going to school, every morning we would go to the auditorium, stand, pray the Lord’s Prayer, and Pledge of Allegiance to Our Flag of this great nation. Every Wednesday afternoon we got an afternoon off to go to Religious Instructions.

There are no more religious instructions in schools today. Everything being taught today in schools is about “Evolution.” According to Webster’s Dictionary, Evolution, means, A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

The only thing that “Evolved” in the period of time from the end of World War 2, and now is the degradation of our Nation! WHY? Amos the Prophet warned of this way before the First Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ to this earth to save rotten sinners like me from going to hell.

Even though the Lord GOD was talking to the Prophet Amos all about the sins of Israel, and what they could expect from turning their backs on GOD, you have to see the relationship to the very days we are living in NOW!

AMOS 8:1-12 “Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence. 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat?
7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. Does this look and sound familiar to what is going on right now?

8 Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:
10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
And here we find ourselves in 2018 and maybe a little bit beyond.

11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

Oh, how we have become a nation, just Like that of what the LORD was talking to Amos about. We are a nation that has turned our backs on God! We got proud after World War 2 and decided WE won. We did not give God what was due HIM! He should have gotten all the HONOR AND GLORY for our victory. From then on, we relied on our own wisdom and our government to lead us.

Out went the Lord’s Prayer from schools. Out also, went the Ten Commandments from Public Buildings. Out went the Bibles. All this has brought to us is an uneasiness in our nation, with Democrats blaming Republicans, and Republicans blaming Democrats and a number of Republicans blaming their Republican President, I guess for their own motives, and everyone else blaming everyone else, including GOD.

Now we see a Porn Star alleging that she had an affair with The President of the United States, and he is already been found guilty on all the TV New stations, and she is on the way to becoming a millionaire on what she will earn for her alleged affair.
I am not denying The Presidents guilt or the guilt of all the famous celebrity’s whose names have been defamed. I leave that in God’s very capable hands.

The Apostle Paul reminds us that God is aware of all things that are going on and everything hidden that we do will be revealed. Romans 2:16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

These things I say only because of what I get from my Final Authority, which is the King James Bible. I know there are the majority of Americans and Non-Americans that will disagree with me. However, if you Study and Search the Scriptures as God has commanded you, it might not be too late for you to bring some pleasure to God, and find out how God made it so easy for you to come and live with HIM in Heaven someday…
Tune in again, as I will show you some wonderful things that God has promised those that trust in HIM. I will also share HIS wonderful workings in my life. Praise His name forever, Amen!

God’s Plan of Salvation

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How do I get to Heaven?

I am asked that question all the time. With so many different religions, and all them saying they are the way, no wonder most people don’t know how to get to heaven. Actually, if you read the King James Bible it becomes very clear exactly how we get to Heaven, and what happens when we get there. The problem is that most people don’t read the Bible. For a country founded on the principles of God, we have sunk down to be a biblically illiterate nation.

Now, here is something for you to ponder. I am an ordained, saved by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, Christian Pastor. That alone is a mouthful, but not enough. I don’t believe in religion, any religion. Did you know that religion is only mentioned three times in the Bible, and only once is it positive? And in this positive biblical view of religion, it has nothing to do with any church denomination. Are you pondering?

James 1:27 “ Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

How many people do you think fall in the category that the next verse implies?

Jas 1:26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

The Apostle Paul, I believe to be the greatest Christian that ever lived, spoke of his religion before his conversion.

Gal 1:13″ For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

So, I don’t believe in religion, however, I whole-heartedly believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!  I pray that you will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ to save you from going to Hell. See Opening Page for God”s Plan of Salvation.