Wednesday, August 31, 2016

A Prophetic Word?


Is this a prophetic word about God's plan for the up-coming presidential election?

Can it be true that God will use Trump to undo all the devastation of the recent administration, that refreshing and revival will come to America?

 
 
"This big bulldozer bulldozes through the parking lot of cars right through the White House just like it's a deck of cards."
 
charismanews.com|By Jessilyn Justice

Hints

Homeland Security Hints at Taking Over Elections by Bill Wilson

In a headline that is sure to heighten the buzz among conspiracy theorists that believe the sitting "president" will call martial law to remain in office, Homeland Security is considering taking security control over US elections. The Washington Examiner quotes DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson as saying, "We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid." Does America need heavily armed government guards hovering over our voting process? What does this mean when the first major DHS report of this Administration in 2009 characterized Christian conservatives as right-wing extremists?

On April 7, 2009, DHS issued a report: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment. That report said, "Conspiracy theories involving declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of a failed economy. Antigovernment conspiracy theories and "end times" prophecies could motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons. These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist individuals and groups in the past, such as violent Christian Identity organizations and extremist members of the militia movement."

Reading the DHS report seven years later, it appears like a prophecy of this Administration, characterizing as rightwing extremists those who believe in border security, the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and oppose abortion. The report states: "Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns and leverage them as drivers for recruitment." Are these not the very issues discussed in the current election cycle?

If you are pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-border security, pro-limited government, against globalism on sending America's jobs overseas, you are being characterized today as a rightwing extremist, also a bigot and racist. Now the same DHS that established this criteria on behalf of the White House in 2009, is considering "overseeing" US elections for "security" purposes. Is this soft tyranny? Is it designed to bully you against voting for a non-Democratic Party candidate? This intimidation begins at the top. It is how our "president" views those who disagree with his Marxist Islamic beliefs. Hillary Clinton is cut from the same cloth. Proverbs 29:12 says, "If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked."

Read the April 7, 2009 DHS report here:
 
 

The Set of Your Soul

Resilience by Dr. Jim Denison

This morning's ABC News headline caught my eye: "Dog Swims Over 6 Miles to Reunite With Family After Falling Off Boat in Lake Michigan." The ten-month-old puppy fell overboard, swam to shore, then walked over twelve miles to a campground where she was reunited with her family the next day.

Now consider another story of resilience. Humans have long aspired to go to Mars, but six months of travel and life in claustrophobic conditions make the psychological part of the expedition as daunting as the physical. ICE environments (isolated, confined, and extreme) have long challenged explorers.

That's why six astronauts spent twelve months in isolation on a simulated Martian plain. The three-woman, three-man crew lived in a dome-shaped habitat on a lava plain on the flank of Mauna Loa in Hawaii. They worked in conditions as close to Martian as science could make them. And they proved that humans are often as resilient as we need to be.

To many Christians, our culture feels more Martian by the day. As a recent article noted, "Many conservative Christians just don't feel welcome in their own country. They say they are either mocked or erased in popular culture." One pastor asked, "When was the last time you saw an evangelical or conservative Christian character portrayed positively on TV?"

But God promises, "In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us" (Romans 8:37). Scripture enjoins us: "Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up" (Galatians 6:9).

Rather than viewing negative cultural shifts as cause for retreat, let's use them to strengthen our commitment to serving Jesus. In this context, consider David Brooks's latest column in The New York Times. In his view, personal strength is a product of personal significance.

He notes that "people are much stronger than they think they are when in pursuit of their telos, their purpose for living."

He quotes Nietzsche: "He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how."

Brooks concludes: "We are all fragile when we don't know what our purpose is, when we haven't thrown ourselves with abandon into a social role, when we haven't committed ourselves to certain people, when we feel like a swimmer in an ocean with no edge. If you really want people to be tough, make them idealistic for some cause, make them tender for some other person, make them committed to some worldview that puts today's temporary pain in the context of a larger hope."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox makes Brooks's point well:

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that blow.
'Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life:
'Tis the set of a soul
That decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.

What is the set of your soul today?

Prayer Initiative

Prayer Initiative

You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:14,16

His life brought light to everyone. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:4-5

Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint and ultimately perish, but blessed is he who keeps the law. Proverbs 29:18

I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:19

Thank you, Lord, that in You America can once again become a "City on a Hill." America can be Your beacon to the world.

We petition You, Lord, to lead us according to Your plan, in Your timing, with the power of Your Holy Spirit. We know You are infinitely bigger and brighter than the darkness before us.

We ask that You remind us to keep our eyes and minds focused on what is true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, commendable, excellent, and worthy of praise. Help us to elevate conversations and relationships to those higher things.

May You be the prompter and completer of any daunting tasks before us. In You only may we find our voice to speak, our strength to move.

We pray for a vision of victory over the assaults on America's faith in You and Your will, Your ways, and Your provision for our needs. Teach us, Lord how to best fight efforts to separate this country, culture and people from You. Give us revelation power to lead our country back to You.

God in heaven, we pray that America may once again become a great beacon of Your standards.
As the world sees Your ways and Your love demonstrated in this great country, may all people be drawn to Your Son.

We pray for a compellingly attractive vision for the future of America based on the real America, founded and grounded on eternal truths. Bring us back, O Lord, to Jesus, our First Love.

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“We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. The things of the spirit come first. Unless we cling to that, all our material prosperity, overwhelming though it may appear, will turn to a barren scepter in our grasp. If we are to maintain the great heritage which has been bequeathed to us, we must be like-minded as the fathers who created it. We must not sink into a pagan materialism. We must cultivate the reverence which they had for the things that are holy. We must follow the spiritual and moral leadership which they showed. We must keep replenished, that they may glow with a more compelling flame, the altar fires before which they worshiped.” President Calvin Coolidge



"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by the Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the like of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thy Son, Jesus Christ." George Washington's daily prayer

Let Us Pray...


America was founded by CHRISTIAN men, and our freedoms are based upon Judeo/Christian principles contained within the pages of the BIBLE.

The American way of government is designed to be subject to the people and the people were to be  subject to GOD.

GOD has been, until recent decades, the ultimate authority in this nation.

Let's pray that we all reorient our perspectives so that we once again recognize the LORD'S place in our government, in our national life, and in ourselves.

Let us pray to once again become "a nation with the soul of a church." Alec d'Tocqueville

 
 
 


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PRAY FOR THE UNITED STATES!


Pray for the upcoming election!

Have you prayed for your nation today??

We are issuing a call to all Americans to take a stand for their nation's future by praying for her each day!

PLEASE JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR AMERICA!

PRAY!


"THE SAME POWER THAT RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD LIVES IN YOU." Romans 8:11

"HE IS ABLE TO DO EXCEEDING, ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL WE CAN ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING TO HIS POWER AT WORK WITHIN US." Ephesians 3:20

                          P - R - A - Y !!!!!!!!!!



Pray America

Prayer for Our Nation


Prayer for our nation is extremely important as we approach the November election date.

There are strident voices, clamoring for the attention of the voters, insisting there is but one way to vote.

Some professors of faith in CHRIST insist that Hillary Clinton must be elected because she is GOD'S judgement on this nation and she is part of HIS plan to remove this country from the inter-national scene.

Others who believe they 'have a word' from GOD insist that Donald Trump is GOD'S offer of 'a stay of execution,' so-to-speak. They insist that Mr. Trump can temporarily turn back the flood of evil that is engulfing this country.

There are good people, sincere patriots, on both sides of the issue and the consternation of the undecided is perhaps unprecedented.

The one thing all people of faith in CHRIST possess is the power of prayer. Each believer must be on his face before the LIVING GOD, beseeching HIS mercy and grace and guidance as the voter makes his determination regarding his ballot in November.

By submitting himself to the HOLY ONE, the patriot who desires to cast a godly ballot can know--whatever the outcome of the election--that he has sought the will of the LORD in the matter and stepped boldly into the voting booth with the full surrender of his vote to the guidance of the LORD.

If each of us will do that--if each of us will prayerfully seek GOD'S will regarding our vote and then cast our ballot according to HIS leading--our conscience can be clear no matter who takes the oath of office on January 20, 2017.




Words to Ponder



"Those who wait upon the Lord Will  renew their strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not be weary; they will walk and not faint."  Isaiah 40:30-31

Quotes of Presidents
“Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.”  Andrew Jackson

"I need to know what to believe in...I don't want to be a bag of dust." Amanda Peet 

Boomerang

August 31
Boomerang by John W. Ritenbaugh

“All you beasts of the field, come to devour, All you beasts in the forest. His watchmen are blind, They are all ignorant; They are all dumb dogs, They are sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yes, they are greedy dogs Which never have enough. And they are shepherds Who cannot understand; They all look to their own way, Every one for his own gain, From his own territory. Come, one says, I will bring wine, and we will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink; Tomorrow will be as today, And much more abundant." Isaiah 59:9-12

Do these prophecies describe America? "Everyone is given to covetousness, greedy dogs which never have enough. A Protestant saying is that "the chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever. An anonymous wit paralleled this, saying the U.S. motto should be, "The chief end of man is to glorify prosperity and enjoy it forever."

A European observer wrote that "desire is enthroned in the mind of the American consumer."

We are immersed in a constant barrage of advertisement. Our whole economy works to stimulate our desire for food, clothing, automobiles, furniture, jewelry, and travel, filling our minds with the "gimmies." It is difficult to resist unless our focus is disciplined toward going in the right direction.

Because of these sins, God calls upon the nations to devour His people. The leaders are blind to the nation's real needs because, instead of speaking out and acting upon moral issues, they are embroiled in their own lusts. While America sinks into the quicksand of that way of life, they proclaim an even better and brighter tomorrow!

Another reason why coveting has the power to destroy the coveter is revealed in the credit purchasing system that dominates the American economy. Buying on credit is based upon the idea of possessing something before one can afford it. Advertising usually accompanies credit, and the two of them together seductively lure the unwary and weak. Yet because of the charges collected by the lender, credit actually makes things even more expensive, causing greater debt!

But, God asks in Jeremiah 6:9-13, who will listen?

People will not listen to such simple wisdom as delaying a purchase to pay in cash to save money.

They will not listen even when told they will be able to make more purchases because they will have more money to spend.

They do not listen because their minds are on their sin, their lust for immediate gratification. The cycle continues onto other sins their covetousness motivates.

As a nation, we are living way over our heads. Covetousness has boomeranged and caught us in a way we never dreamed.
 
 

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Pollsters Are Polling, Deceivers Are Deceiving


The Pollsters Are Polling, Deceivers Are Deceiving by Bill Wilson

Everyday there is a new poll about the upcoming election. People are concerned when the polls are trending away from their candidates. But don't be alarmed. Polling is a science.

The candidates themselves commission the best polls. They usually know the real story. To accurately reflect the situation, polls must be taken from a random sample; the questions must be asked in a way that do not bias the answer; and there can be no leading of the interviewee in any direction by the one asking the questions.

The polls taken by the news organizations rarely follow these criteria. Their samplings are biased toward what they perceive as a larger Democratic base and the questions are slanted to lead the interviewee.

Last night, I was subjected to a candidate's poll. It didn't even try to mask its bias. The statements it was making about the candidates were incredible.

This poll, I believe, was testing how people react to certain attack themes the campaign wanted to employ against its opponent. They were themes along the lines of racism, bigotry, homophobia, putting guns in the hands of the mentally ill, denying a woman's right to an abortion, and so on.

The questions started out like this: "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Donald Trump if you knew he has supported racism by..." or "Would you be more or less likely to vote for Hillary Clinton if you knew she supported the unequivocal right of a women to have an abortion?"

Some of the themes that were tested were so outrageous that I couldn't help but comment that "while I don't believe that is the case, if it were true, I would be less likely to vote for the candidate."

Even the one asking the questions started laughing at some of my comments because, he, too, knew the test questions were extreme.

The one thing that I saw from this poll that is interesting to note is that the test themes all had a common theme-anyone who would vote for Trump will be labeled a racist and a bigot.

Clinton, from the direction of this poll, appears to be seriously considering cornering the voters and dividing them based on racism and bigotry. If you don't want to be labeled a racist, you better vote Hillary.

This is a longstanding political tactic of the Hegelian Dialectic used by communists to move people from what they think to what they want them to think.

First, there is the thesis, which is your current way of thinking.

Then there is the new thesis, the antithesis which, in this case would be "if you vote for this person you are a racist."

Then there is the synthesis, where you think about this and know that you are not a racist, but maybe people think you are, so you vote in a way that you can say you are not a racist.

Thesis, antithesis and synthesis-that's what these polls are probing.

Discernment is needed to counter these messages so there is no deception.

II Timothy 1:7 says, "For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

Exercise your sound mind as led by the Holy Spirit.

Cosmic Rays Intensify!

Cosmic Rays Intensify!

Spaceweather.com and the students of Earth to Sky Calculus have been using helium balloons to monitor cosmic rays in the stratosphere over California.

Their latest data show an increase of almost 13% since 2015. They can seed clouds, trigger lightning, and penetrate commercial airplanes.

Furthermore, there are studies linking cosmic rays with cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in the general population.

(SpaceWeather.com)

Prayer Initiative


Upright citizens are good for a city and make it prosper, but the talk of the wicked tears it apart. Proverbs 11:11

I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds  Hebrews 10:16

Like a trampled spring and a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way before the wicked.  Proverbs 25:26

We will no longer be immature like children.  We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching.  We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.  Ephesians 4:14

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.  But let him ask in faith, with no doubting  James 1:5-6

Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed.  Romans 13:7

Jesus said to them, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."  Mark 12:17


Teach us, Lord, to value our role as citizens.  Awaken in the electorate a desire to know the true principles upon which this country was built, and draw us to Your vision for the restoration of our beloved country.

Let us never take for granted the free land You have given us.  Please show us, Lord, how to do our part to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and those to come. 

We ask for leaders and a citizenry who truly understand our accountability before You for every vote we cast, or do not cast.  Help us to wisely evaluate every candidate and policy against your Word.  We ask for the wisdom to vote as You would have us vote.

We ask You to grant our citizens the wisdom to discern truth from spin and deception.  Give us radar to know when a candidate or policy is counterfeit to the true founding principles and Constitutional roots of this land, borne out of faith in You and Your word.  

Move our leaders and our citizens to rightly divide the responsibilities of government vs. the responsibilities of citizens as defined by You. 

God Almighty, we plead with you to guide, guard, convict and correct all candidates, campaigns, consultants, political operatives and staff members.  We ask You to draw them to integrity before the citizens of this country.  Give them the will to honestly place their values and visions before us, free of manipulation and deception.  We ask You to expose and defeat those who lie.

We pray, Lord, against the voter fraud that has so crippled our confidence in the electoral process.  We ask You to expose and bring to justice those who would undermine free and fair elections.  Please help us to restore integrity to the election process in America. Rid our system of corruption, we pray.

O Lord, give me the wisdom and the courage to confidently and winsomely take a stand for Your Truth with my fellow citizens.  Use my voice, Lord, I pray.


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“Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature...If the next centennial does not find us a great nation...it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.”   
President James Garfield

A Stark Contrast


The organizer's first job is to create the issues or problems...The organizer must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community...An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent...he must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them and fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression." Saul Alinsky

Proverbs 6:19 "The Lord hates...a person who stirs up conflict in the community."

Human Interest Stories


We love human interest stories that tell us how animals come to our rescue at crisis points in life, how they give of themselves to shield us from harm... yet we often fail to recognize that what we see in and so love in these tales of our rescue is the salvation story.

As St. Augustine said, "LORD, YOU have made us for YOURSELF, and restless are our hearts until they rest in THEE," and the reality is that we are always searching for reminders of our need for CHRIST and HIS amazing rescue of us from sin.

While the tales of man's sacrifices for his fellow man and the stories of animal rescuers are up-lifting and can restore our hope in humanity, nothing can ultimately redeem us but the GREAT RESCUER who came from GLORY to save us from death, hell and the grave.

Let JESUS buy you back from an eternity that is void of hope and bereft of joy. Let JESUS buy you back from the enemy of your soul who seeks only your destruction. Let JESUS own you, for HE alone has paid a great price for you.

The family only had their abused rescue Doberman pinscher for 4 days when he did THIS to their 17-month-old toddler..

 
 
Taking home a rescue dog and giving it a forever home can be one of the most fulfilling moments of anyone’s life. 
 
 

Oh, What a Savior!

  1. Oh, What a Savior [Live] - YouTube

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-neoykTHBs

JESUS

JESUS

HE is not a mere man.

HE is one of us, yet HE is before us. HE is one of us, yet HE made us. HE is one of us, yet HE saves us.

HE IS JESUS.

There is no other who has ever lived or who lives or who will ever live who can claim to be the SAVIOR of mankind.

The Jewish people, from whose lineage CHRIST came, kept meticulous genealogical records, and JESUS fulfilled all the predictions about the coming MESSIAH that those records delineate.

When the Romans sacked Jerusalem after the death and resurrection of JESUS and devastated the Jewish Temple, all those records were destroyed. Subsequently, no other person can trace his genealogy as the LORD'S can be traced in the BIBLE.

Nobody can make a viable claim to be the Jewish Messiah--nobody but JESUS.

Because HE is who HE claims to be, because HE is who the BIBLE asserts HIM to be, because HIS HOLY SPIRIT speaks to a searching heart and affirms that HE is the SAVIOR of mankind, you--we--mankind--can claim HIM as DELIVERER from sin and SAVIOR for eternity.

You--we--mankind can trust HIM to calm the storms of life, to set our feet on the Rock of Safety, to robe us in HIS righteousness, and to bear us to the arms of the FATHER at the hour of our death.

OH! WHAT A SAVIOR!

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Words to Ponder



"Wait for the Lord; Be strong and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the Lord."   Psalms 27:14
                                
Quotes of Presidents
“Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country?  It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.”  Benjamin Harrison

“We shape our lives, and we shape ourselves.  The process never ends until we die.  And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”  Eleanor Roosevelt

"On CHRIST the Solid Rock I Stand"

"On CHRIST the Solid Rock I Stand"

My hope is built on nothing less
Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness;
I dare not trust the sweetest frame,
But wholly lean on Jesus’ name.


Refrain:
On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand;
All other ground is sinking sand,
All other ground is sinking sand.

When darkness veils His lovely face,
I rest on His unchanging grace;
In every high and stormy gale,
My anchor holds within the veil.

His oath, His covenant, His blood
Support me in the whelming flood;
When all around my soul gives way,
He then is all my hope and stay.

When He shall come with trumpet sound,
Oh, may I then in Him be found;
Dressed in His righteousness alone,
Faultless to stand before the throne.

On Christ the Solid Rock

  1. on christ the solid rock i stand - YouTube

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    Aug 12, 2008 ... on christ the solid rock i stand lyrics worship video by song by interface.

The Bridge Of Faith

August 30
The Bridge Of Faith by Dr. D. James Kennedy

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.—Ephesians 2:8–9

Have you ever tried to explain to someone what the word “faith” means? If you have, then you know that it’s a difficult concept to explain. Here’s a story that might help others understand the meaning of faith.

It was a dark night on the main road from Jackson to Vicksburg, Mississippi. It had rained heavily, but the storm had finally broken, and the pavement was not so slippery. A truck driver traveled down that stretch of highway, and since conditions had improved, he began to relax a bit. Suddenly he saw the twin taillights of the car in front of him melt into the road and disappear.

The truck driver sat bolt upright with his startled eyes wide open. Such a thing could not happen! In the next fraction of a second, he saw the gaping black hole where once a bridge had spanned the river. The truck driver slammed on his brakes, and the wheels stopped instantly, but there was no longer a road beneath them. His truck sailed silently and eerily into the black void before him.

As the truck sank into the water, the driver broke out the window, got out of the truck, and managed to swim to shore. Like a dripping scarecrow, he scrambled up the embankment to the road. As he climbed, he heard one car after another zoom smoothly into the gap and disappear. The only trace was a booming splash preceded by startled shrieks or cries.

Finally, the truck driver made his way to the road and frantically waved his hands at the oncoming cars in the dark. But they did not stop. Sixteen people died that night because they had faith in a bridge that was no longer there.

In life, we maintain faith in many bridges—the bridge of successful achievements, the bridge of good deeds, the bridge of “I tried as hard as I could”—but all of these bridges are out.

Faith in Christ is the only bridge we can rely on. It’s the only bridge that will get us across the river of temptation, the river of trial and affliction, the river of sin and guilt, the river of death.

Without the bridge of faith in Jesus Christ, the dark waters would swallow up every one of us.

As a survivor, will you warn others about the bridges that are out? You may be their only signal of the danger ahead.

To believe on Christ is initial faith…to assimilate Him is active faith. —Cornelius Woelfkin