FERVENT Post Election Prayer Needed

Post Election Prayer Needed

[Charisma News]—Cindy Jacobs is encouraging intercessors across the country to pray to keep the nation stabilized through December 19th. She points to two issues that need our ongoing prayer—and I agree wholeheartedly.

First, a possible recount of the electoral college.

"You are probably aware that Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate for president, is raising money for a recount in three states, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania,"

Cindy says. "Hilary Clinton, the Democratic candidate, is now joining in on the demand for a [recount]. Money is being raised to pay for these [recounts], and millions have been raised. Recounts have changed state election results, but never a federal one."

I live in Florida, and I still remember the hanging chads fiasco.

The second prayer matter is the electoral count proceedings. As she sees it, it is possible, though not likely, that a recount could affect the landscape of the Electoral College. However, she adds, this has been an usual election cycle. While we must pray for these two issues, she says it is critical that the eyes of the intercessors must focus in a large way on the following for the Electoral College.

Now is not the time to stop praying. Now is the time to press in even harder.

"God gave warnings, as early as 2008 by Chuck Pierce, concerning the need to watch this Electoral College," Cindy says. "He recently prophesied that we must watch for the next 10 days. In fact, these are tumultuous times where we cannot relax in our fervent intercession for the nation. Many are not aware of the mechanics of the way the Electoral College functions. It is designed to give each state a voice in the election."

Here, in an abbreviated fashion, is how it works. By Dec. 13, states must make final elector appointment decisions known, at least six days before the meeting of the electors. By Dec. 19, electors meet in their states and vote for president and vice president on separate ballots. On Dec. 28, the certified votes are handed to the president of the Senate and the archivist. Then on Jan. 6, Congress meets in joint session to count the electoral votes.

"If no presidential candidate wins 270 or more electoral votes, a majority, the 12th Amendment of the Constitution provides for the House of Representatives to decide the presidential election. If necessary, the House would elect the President by majority vote," Cindy says. "There have been what is called 'faithless electors' in the history of the United States, such as in 1836 when 23 Virginian electors acted as a bloc. Although no such faithless electors have changed the outcome of any election to date, the 12th Amendment was needed in the election of the Vice President under Martin Van Buren, as the result of faithless electors." (Photo credit: Andrew Kelly/Reuters/via The Guardian UK)

Cindy also notes that Richard Johnson, Van Buren's vice presidential pick, lost by one as the result of the electors changing their votes. This, she explains, caused the need for the 12th Amendment to be invoked, and it went to the Senate, where Johnson won by one vote. Although he was confirmed, she says this caused Johnson to be a political embarrassment to his party.

"It is important to understand the workings of the governmental process and that we pray for order to keep the ship of state steady in these times," Cindy says. "We must pray for the Electoral College and electors. We must cry out to God to unify our nation as well. The need to appeal to Heaven has not diminished since the election. Let us raise our voices to the God of the nations to send mercy upon us now more than ever."

The Lord told us He is releasing the angels of abundant harvest. Charisma House has partnered on me to release strategic teaching on this revelation. 

 

 

Honoring Castro??????????????

Honoring Castro???????????? by Bill Wilson

To see just how far the American ideal has fallen one has to look no further than the Washington Post or the New York Times coverage of the death of one of the most brutal dictators in modern history-Fidel Castro.

Their stories made him out to be an extraordinary

revolutionary that brought great things to Cuba. Then we look at our universities. American University, in particular, where students were asked by Campus Reform, America's leading site for college campus news. which political figure they viewed more favorably, Castro or President-Elect Donald Trump.

The answers are extremely disturbing if they are a reflection of our young generation, the generation that will be leading this country in the future.

Campus Reform reports: "While several students identified the repressive elements of Castro's regime, such as jailing and murdering his political opponents, few were willing to say that this made them view him less favorably than Donald Trump...

"I mean, right now I don't think Donald Trump is very good, and I know that Fidel Castro has done some good things for the world so I'd say he's proven himself at least in the long term to be more favorable," one student opined after referencing Castro's health care reforms in Cuba.

Another student borrowed language from Trudeau, calling Castro a "remarkable leader" and claiming that his regime "made possibilities for the Cuban people nearly endless.""

Let us remember the Castro regime. It is one of death and destruction. It is a legacy of poverty for Cubans and debauchery for Castro and his family.

The Miami Herald reported on April 23, 2006 that Fidel Castro was responsible for 31,173 executions and prison deaths since he took power in 1959. Some 5,728 were killed by firing squads.

He refused medical attention to those trying to escape the island by boat, resulting in another estimated 77,000 deaths. Nearly all the sources indicate an exact number of deaths caused by Castro's regime is unattainable, with some estimating the death toll over 1.5 million.

Castro lived a private life of extravagance while appearing as a poor man in public. He was a liar.

It is easy for those with any common sense to point toward this honoring of Castro and be disgusted. But there is a deeper problem in that our educational institutions are rife with communists who are brainwashing our children and charging them tens of thousands for the privilege.

The Communist Manifesto states: "...Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis."

This is the basis of deception for all socialism and progressivism as well. It is godless and evil.

The Bible tells us in 1 Thessalonians 5:21, 22, "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil."

Communists ply the nature of humans with powerful words like "rights" when, in reality, they wish to kill, steal and destroy. Be not deceived by the honoring of Castro.

Whose Side is BO On?

Brigitte Gabriel
November 28 at 3:15pm ·

"CNN is no longer covering the Ohio State attack. Back to typical Trump bashing. Hmm...I wonder what development made them want to move on."

 

White House Warns Against Blaming Islam After Ohio State Jihad Attack - The Geller Report

 

The Obama administration is warning Americans not to cast blame on the jihadic…

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GOD--That's Why!

LORD JESUS, spare us from the disastrous mistake of communism.

Our forefathers realized before this land became a nation that socialism / communism does not work, and they employed the Biblical counsel, "If a man will not work, he will not eat."

May we have leaders and ordinary citizens who value the enterprise begun here and who always vote to keep the UNITED STATES of AMERICA strong and free.

Franklin Graham

Fidel Castro has died at age 90. Loved by few, hated by millions, his communist revolution deposed a dictator, but ushered in a socialist police state that drove the entire Cuban nation into complete poverty and oppression. And to think that Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representative Keith Ellison and others wanted socialism as a model for our country today! And why didn’t they win? 

God—that’s why. 

The church prayed and came out by the millions and voted. Praise God! And may we all as free Americans give Him glory, great things He has done! This is why it is so important to vote. There’s another election in just two years—Christians need to stay involved and run for office at every level. 

The socialists are regrouping in great number right now, and they will come back strong, organized, and more determined than ever. This battle isn’t over.

 

Fidel Castro clung to socialism, mentored new leftists

 

HAVANA (AP) — Fidel Castro's revolution was slowly dying — or so it seemed. Communism had collapsed in Europe, and Cuba's Soviet lifeline was severed. Food was in short supply. Power outages silenced TV sets normally…

Leaving "In Total"

Donald Trump to Leave Running the Business to Adult Children

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he’s planning to leave his business “in total” to focus on running the country.

“I will be holding a major news conference in New York City with my children on December 15 to discuss the fact that I will be leaving my … great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Mr. Trump tweeted Wednesday.

“While I am not mandated to … do this under the law, I feel it is visually important, as President, to in no way have a conflict of interest with my various businesses..” he tweeted.

“Hence, legal documents are being crafted which take me completely out of business operations. The Presidency is a far more important task!” he tweeted.

Mr. Trump has said in the past that his adult children could run the Trump Organization if he got elected.

Today in History

Today in History

1874

Winston Churchill born

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England.

Churchill came from a prestigious family with a long history of military service and joined the British Fourth Hussars upon his father’s death in 1895.

During the next five years, he enjoyed an illustrious military career, serving in India, the Sudan, and South Africa, and distinguishing himself several times in battle.

In 1899, he resigned his commission to concentrate on his literary and political career and in 1900 was elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP from Oldham. In 1904, he joined the Liberals, serving in a number of important posts before being appointed Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, where he worked to bring the British navy to a readiness for the war he foresaw.

In 1915, in the second year of World War I, Churchill was held responsible for the disastrous Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns, and he was excluded from the war coalition government. He resigned and volunteered to command an infantry battalion in France.

However, in 1917, he returned to politics as a cabinet member in the Liberal government of Lloyd George. From 1919 to 1921, he was secretary of state for war and in 1924 returned to the Conservative Party, where two years later he played a leading role in the defeat of the General Strike of 1926.

Out of office from 1929 to 1939, Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of German and Japanese aggression.

After the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Churchill was called back to his post as First Lord of the Admiralty and eight months later replaced the ineffectual Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of a new coalition government.

In the first year of his administration, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, but Churchill promised his country and the world that the British people would “never surrender.” He rallied the British people to a resolute resistance and expertly orchestrated Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin into an alliance that eventually crushed the Axis.

In July 1945, 10 weeks after Germany’s defeat, his Conservative government suffered an electoral loss against Clement Attlee’s Labor Party, and Churchill resigned as prime minister. He became leader of the opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister.

Two years later, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his six-volume historical study of World War II and for his political speeches.

In 1955, he retired as prime minister but remained in Parliament until 1964, the year before his death.

 

 

More Jobs to Stay

First, an agreement with Ford; now, an agreement with Carrier.
Thank you, President-elect Trump.
The workers of AMERICA salute you.

United Technologies has reached an agreement with President-elect Donald Trump to keep close to 1,000 factory jobs at Carrier’s Indianapolis plant.

 

Trump, Carrier Reach Deal to Keep 1,000 Jobs in Indiana Plant

A Life or a Living?

George Carlin was a comedian, but what he said here was not funny.

Indeed, the truth he spoke is even more accurate today than it was when he stated it prior to his death.

If you see yourself in his analysis of the decline of our culture, perhaps it might be wise for you to revise your position...to begin to allow yourself to make a life, not just a living.

 

WorldTruth.TV with Tricia Cutforth.

Prayer Initiative

Prayer Initiative

Upright citizens are good for a nation and make it prosper, but the wicked tear 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 for generations 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.

~~~

“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

Words to Ponder

"There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea." Luke 21:25

Quotes of Presidents

“We have staked the whole future of American civilization not on the power of government, far from it. We have staked the whole of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the commandments of God. The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.”   James Madison

"The Magna Carta was the starting point of the constitutional history'...”  Justice William J. Brennan, Jr.

No Ultimate Conflict

November 30
No Ultimate Conflict by Dr. D. James Kennedy

“Forever, O LORD, Your word is settled in heaven.” Psalm 119:89

No book has been attacked over the past 200 years as has the Bible. Many scholars have joined the savage attack, which continues in our day unabated.

Yet the Bible is correct, and critical scholars are proven wrong again and again. (If there are certain unanswered questions about the Scriptures, give it time—the Bible will be vindicated eventually).

Just because someone is a scholar doesn’t mean he or she is correct. Often they are not. When it comes to scholars, I always remember the admonition of Dr. William Childs Robinson that I heard in seminary.

We were discussing some controversial theological issue in one of his classes. One student said to him, “But, professor, all of the scholars say…”

Robinson said, “Hold it. Hold it right there, young man. You never want to forget that we choose our scholars. We choose our experts.”

And what do the scholars say? Ah, my friend, I think it is vitally important that you know right now, and never forget, what the scholars say. The scholars say anything at all.

They say everything—they express every imaginable point of view.

When you see scholars expressing anti-Christian opinions on television or read them in magazines or the newspapers, just remember, somebody chose those experts, and they didn’t choose them by chance. They often stack the experts in such a way as to promote their own unbelief.

Do you have any doubts about the Word of God that you need to get answered? If so, identify them and remind yourself that the BIBLE is the only reliable source where you will find the immutable answers that GOD wants you to have.

Provision Blocked

House Rules committee blocks provision to require women to register for military draft - AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - Buckling under conservative pressure, the Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft.

The committee's chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a statement Tuesday the action was taken to prevent what he called a "reckless policy" from moving forward without closer study of its impact. The Rules Committee wields substantial influence over legislation before it moves to the House floor.

But the debate over whether women should register is far from over. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted last week to include a draft registration requirement for women in its version of the annual defense policy bill.

The Senate committee's measure calls for women to sign up with the Selective Service within 30 days of turning 18 - just as men are - beginning in January 2018, according to a summary of the legislation released by the committee.

If the draft requirement makes it through the full Senate, then the issue will have to be settled by a House-Senate conference committee. Conservatives have warned that the move is a dangerous blurring of gender lines.

- Father God, we thank You that You have revealed this provision in the Defense Policy Bill that would have forced women to register for the draft. We have often prayed that You would reveal the secret things, and, indeed, You have in this instance. We pray that this provision will never succeed in passing. We thank You that You love women, and that You protect them. We recognize that You designed women to be nurturers and that role is incompatible with that of a soldier. We are grateful!

In Your Name we pray, Jesus.  Amen.

Infectious Faith

Iranians Who Love Jesus, Israel and the U.S.: An Inside Look at "Infectious Faith" by Chris Mitchell

When someone gets baptized in a house church in Iran, people clap and cheer like fans at a World Cup match!

(Turkey)—[CBN News] When we think of Iran, scenes of mobs shouting "death to America," blindfolded hostages, and radical leaders demanding nuclear technology come to mind. But there's another side of the country: Iranians who love America, Israel, and Jesus Christ.

CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell met and talked with some of these Iranian Believers outside of their country in central Turkey.

Mitchell came away with the impression that these brave people have "Infectious Faith".

While they've suffered persecution and often fled for their lies, they still possess an infectious and joyous faith like Iranian Believer Raizal, who said, "I wanted to say I grew up with Jesus Christ.

Though I was muslim, His name was in my mind. And the next moment I started liking Christianity."
Raizal went on to say, "It was really sweet to me, the feelings, the stories, everything. So by the time I was 15, I believed in Him and I said I want to be a Christian."

Many Iranian refugees have fled Iran and come to Turkey where they can seek refugee status with the United Nations. Some say it's just like coming out of the darkness.

"It's totally different from Iran," Iranian Christian Afshin told CBN News. "I can speak about God's Word to other guys. I can freely praise the Lord. I can easily go to church. It's completely different."
Afshin attended the church led by American Pastor Saeed Abedini, who languished for years in an Iranian prison.

Following his arrest in the summer of 2012, the church disbanded. Later Afshin found himself on the run.

"As a result, I came out of Iran because day-by-day it was more difficult and it was more risky for me also," he explained.

"I had to change our home because I was sure that one day they would realize my home as an underground house church," he continued. "They would recognize it; the intelligence services would recognize it."

Many, like Raizal and Reza, her brother, fled for their lives.

"It was really a bad situation there," Raizal recalled. "I couldn't pray to God with all my heart because all trouble was there. Even if I say 'Jesus Christ,' they may kill me."

"It become a problem for my job and my health," Reza said. "They tried to kill me, then I start to run away."

Despite the constant threat, danger, and risk, these believers keep the faith. Now they've found a church home and family. Their pastor leads house churches in Iran, as well as the United States, Canada, Germany, and Malaysia, all via Skype.

"The main church is my house, and through the Internet I connect to everybody," Reza said. "That's why it's become like an Internet church."

He says a great revival is underway within the Islamic Republic of Iran.

"Right now you can see the results of the Holy Spirit," he said. "From 1994, there were about 100,000 Believers. Right now, there are 3 million. You can see what the Holy Spirit is doing with the people."

Dreams and Visions of Christ

Many Iranian Christians came to faith through a dream or a vision.

"I had a dream. I had a dream long time back and every time that Jesus was with me," he continued. "And in all of my life, He was helping me and I didn't know who was this Person. Suddenly Jesus Christ was over there and He said, 'Come to Me.' And I came to that side and He accepted me."

Despite all the hardship and being forced from their homeland, these believers exude joy. Many hope to achieve refugee status one day and immigrate to other countries.

In the meantime, they want believers in the West to pray for the Church in Iran.

"And I'm just begging, really, from the other believers, from other sisters and brothers from all over the world, to pray for Iran that all the people of Iran will find new faith in the true God and they will know God's word, they will find eternal life with Jesus Christ," he said.

If

"If ... I swallow the scientific cosmology as a whole, then not only can I not fit in Christianity, but I cannot even fit science...If minds are wholly dependent on brains, and brains on bio-chemistry, and bio-chemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of atoms...I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees." C.S. Lewis

Beware the 'Hipster Nativity Set'

Beware the 'Hipster Nativity Set' by Dr. Jim Denison

The "Hipster Nativity Set" is making news today. It features Mary and Joseph taking a selfie with Jesus inside a manger with solar panels on the roof. The wise men are riding Segways and carrying Amazon packages. A shepherd is posting the birth on Instagram.

This bothers me greatly.

It's not that someone reimagined the nativity in today's culture—we must constantly adapt the medium to communicate our unchanging message effectively. Paul became "all things to all people" so he could share Christ with everyone (1 Corinthians 9:22).

What bothers me is the way the Hipster Nativity Set turns the miracle of Jesus' birth into something so commonplace and commercial. Mary is depicted with her sweater falling off her shoulder. The wise men are wearing hipster outfits. The whole thing makes me wonder: If the birth of Jesus can be treated with such irreverence, is anything off limits today? That's a discouraging thought.

So, here's an encouraging rejoinder: to the Christ of Christmas "belong glory and dominion forever and ever" (1 Peter 5:11). Nothing we do can remove one iota of Jesus' glory from him. His divinity and majesty are in no sense dependent on our fallen minds and culture.

Jesus came at Christmas to begin redeeming our broken world, a mission he continues through us. As the "body of Christ" (1 Corinthians 12:27), we are his hands and feet, the instruments of his saving mission today.

But there's a condition: for Jesus to continue his ministry today, he must work in the same Power that enabled his ministry twenty centuries ago.

I recently reread Jim Cymbala's powerful book, Fresh Power: Experiencing the Vast Resources of the Spirit of God. Jim has been a friend for many years. His ministry in Brooklyn has inspired Christians the world over to believe God for all he can do to transform a church and a city.

Jim quotes the great Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon: "Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless." Then Jim warns us not to fall into what he calls "Old Testament Christianity"—trying to serve Jesus without submitting to the indwelling power of his Spirit.

Christmas, with all its materialistic distractions, can be a challenging season to focus on Jesus. But Christmas, with its historical connection to the birth of Christ, can also be a wonderful season to proclaim Jesus. Both facts should move us to seek more of the Spirit's power than ever before.

It is not enough simply to believe that the Holy Spirit lives in you. As Vance Havner noted in his classic devotional Day by Day, "It is not what we have but what we know we have that determines our actual wealth. Many a poor man has had an oil well on his farm and didn't know it."

What should we do? Havner: "All things are ours in Christ, but we must make what is ours factually our very own actually. Appreciating what is yours will never make you rich, but appropriating it will."

So claim this fact: Jesus "is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him" (Romans 10:12).

Have you asked him to do in your life all he wants to do in the world?

 

 

Making Trump's Refugee Point

Making Trump's Refugee Point by Bill Wilson

 

Was the campus policeman who shot dead 18 year old Islamic Somali refugee Abdul Razak Ali Artan a bigot, a racist, a xenophobe?

He pulled the trigger.

Killed a young college student armed only with his car and a butcher knife. Could there have been another way?

Maybe the policeman just didn't understand the need for tolerance and acceptance of a young person in a strange new land.

Or just maybe President-Elect Donald Trump's idea is not so far-fetched of stopping Islamic immigration from known terrorist countries until there is a proper and thorough vetting process.

Just ask the 11 victims at the Ohio State University's campus who were run down and stabbed just because they are non-Muslim Americans.

Who is a racist xenophobe?

You and me for being concerned that the US president is resettling terrorists in our country who will attack our sons and daughters because they are different than the Islamists that are being resettled?

Donald Trump for wanting to pump the breaks and determine who is being resettled and if their beliefs align with American ideals?

No, let us put aside the politically correct nonsense that people like the president and Hillary Clinton, and soon to be Chairman of the Democratic Party Keith Ellison (another Islamist congressman), and call a bigot a bigot.

If we the people do not look at this from a critical perspective, we are endangering the lives of our children and the future of our country.

NBC News reports that law enforcement officials said that Artan was a Somali refugee who left his homeland with his family in 2007, lived in Pakistan and then came to the US in 2014 as a legal permanent resident.

Interesting.

Both Somali and Pakistan are terrorist supporting countries.

How did this kid become a legal permanent resident coming from those areas?

NBC News reports that Artan wrote on what appears to be his Facebook page that he had reached a "boiling point," made a reference to "lone wolf attacks" and cited radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.

Artan's post said, "America! Stop interfering with other countries, especially Muslim Ummah [community]. We are not weak. We are not weak, remember that."

Trump's point made.

The politically correct crowd label people racists, bigots or xenophobes because they would err on the side of caution before allowing radicals to resettle in peaceful areas.

It would be my wish that every refugee that comes to this country would come to the knowledge and acceptance of Jesus Christ. Folks like Artan need Jesus Christ. They are so passionate about their own false religion that they will kill and be killed for it. Think of how on fire they would be for the truth if they only knew it.

But they generally hate us because of Christ.

So who is the bigot?

Keep trying to bring people to their senses. As in Romans 14:16-17, "Let not then your good be evil spoken of: For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost."

You are not a bigot for trying to preserve life, or because you want to share the eternal life Christ brings with those who do not know Him.

Today in History

Today in History

1947

U.N. votes for partition of Palestine

Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.

The modern conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1910s, when both groups laid claim to the British-controlled territory.

The Jews were Zionists, recent emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. The Palestinian Arabs sought to stem Jewish immigration and set up a secular Palestinian state.

Beginning in 1929, Arabs and Jews openly fought in Palestine, and Britain attempted to limit Jewish immigration as a means of appeasing the Arabs. As a result of the Holocaust in Europe, many Jews entered Palestine during World War II.

Radical Jewish groups employed terrorism against British forces in Palestine, which they thought had betrayed the Zionist cause. At the end of World War II, in 1945, the United States took up the Zionist cause. Britain, unable to find a practical solution, referred the problem to the United Nations, which on November 29, 1947, voted to partition Palestine.

The Jews were to possess more than half of Palestine. The Palestinian Arabs, aided by volunteers from other countries, fought the Zionist forces, but the Jews secured full control of their U.N.-allocated share of Palestine and also some Arab territory.

On May 14, 1948, Britain withdrew with the expiration of its mandate, and the State of Israel was proclaimed by Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion. The next day, forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq invaded.

The Israelis, though less well equipped, managed to fight off the Arabs and then seize key territories, such as Galilee, the Palestinian coast, and a strip of territory connecting the coastal region to the western section of Jerusalem.

In 1949, U.N.-brokered cease-fires left the State of Israel in permanent control of those conquered areas. The departure of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs from Israel during the war left the country with a substantial Jewish majority which remains today.

Prayer Initiative

Prayer Initiative

Do not deprive the foreigner or the fatherless of justice. Deuteronomy 24:17

Allow us to hear and respond to Your desires for those who would be Americans.

As a country who believes you created all men equal, we pray for Your guidance and wisdom in how we treat those who would want to legally become American citizens. Guide our leaders to honorable and wise immigration policies that secure the safety of America.

As a nation built by immigrants, we pray for Your protection and direction for the newest immigrants to our country and for the safety of our citizens from those who come illegally to do harm to and to benefit from the largess of the nation.

We pray that our honorable, legal immigrants will be part of restoring America to You, instead of part of the effort to transform America away from our founders’ intent and vision.

~~~

“We need every honest and efficient immigrant fitted to become an American citizen, every immigrant who comes here to stay, who brings here a strong body, a stout heart, a good head, and a resolute purpose, to do his duty well in every way and to bring up his children as law-abiding and God-fearing members of the community.” President Theodore Roosevelt

Eight Things to Remember

In the midst of trial it is sometimes difficult to remember GOD'S promises. In the midst of plenty it is sometimes difficult to remember GOD'S promises.

When we need HIM most and when it appears we need HIM least, we are sometimes too consumed with our circumstances to remember that we always need HIM.

Believer, as you reflect upon the eight things listed below that HE wants you to remember, allow yourself to kneel at the feet of JESUS and let HIS nearness to you become a reality that helps you to be ever mindful of HIM and of HIS glorious promises to you.

You are a masterpiece.
You are handpicked by God.
You are loved.
You are a person of extreme value and significance.

A Risen Savior

JESUS CHRIST is not merely the main character in an old BOOK who acted out HIS role and spoke HIS lines then receded into the pages of history.

Nor is HE the mere figment of the over-active imagination of an ancient scribe.

Indeed, if that is all JESUS is to you, then you don't know HIM at all! You are among the millions of individuals on planet Earth whose lack of relationship with the LORD prevents their embracing HIM and accepting the "unspeakable GIFT" (II Corinthians 9:15) that HE is to every person who has ever lived. 

If you know HIM not, please receive HIS invitation to gain knowledge of who HE is and what HE desires to be to you. Open the 'love letter' HE has written to you to discover the glorious plan HE has for your life, to come into the light HE shines into your darkness, to embrace the salvation HE provides to save you from perdition.

Discover JESUS as the RISEN SAVIOR of the world, the ever-living GOD whose loving kindness and mercy abide forever, the HOLY ONE who inhabits eternity and is ever-near to share that glorious eternity with you.

 

Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me. Buried, He carried my sins far away. Rising, He gave me life forever.