PASS THE SALT...

BATH SALT, that is!

Here's where man's desire to find a "new reality" or a new high takes them...

When there's no meaning to life, we're forced to find one and sometimes worst, we're forced to invent one.  Lets pray for the poor souls who in there scramble to make sense of it all are either misdirected or just plainly refuse to listed to God's voice calling us all to know Him and  fellowship with Him.

Only Jesus can fill in that void that was meant to be filled by a true relationship with Him.  This is where true peace and true joy is found.  No more guilt, no more confusion, and no more need to find oneself outside of what was meant for us from the foundations of time itself.  

Click on the link below to read exactly how desperate the search for that false joy has become:

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A prayer of thanksgiving

God's miraculous grace and blessings continue to rain upon us.

We've had recent and numerous bouts with severe colds and flus and a few trips to the ER with our boy, and just as our car breaks down as we pull up to our driveway, God's provision allowed us to get our whole radiator replaced less than 24 hrs later.

This among many blessings that we are witness to and so I thank The Lord on this His day of grace, mercy and hope.

Amen

Christians Divorce:

I'm so tired of this whole "Christians statistically divorce as much as non Christians" thing.

It's such a lie among all the other lies... 


This can also be said of abortion, lying, cheating on taxes, murder, etc.


You can't know what's true until you know who's "really" Christian, and that's not for man to judge but for God to judge.     Anyone can say " I'm Christian ".


Who owns a magic wand that can determine who is REALLY Christian and who isn't?  Only God determines who REALLY IS Christian. Some people still think we're a "Christian nation" and yet our leading politics is in support of hedonistic lifesytles considered abominations to God, and we sacrifice our own children in death and voilence through evil influence and abortion w/in our society!

That's not a Christian nation!


The True Christians are the one's that ARE NOT divorcing but how would one measure this just by taking a poll or asking a question? You can't test this anymore than you can own a "good person meter" or a magic wand.


ONLY God knows His remnent

There is a true church and a true people of God, and God knows who we are.

The world is far removed from being able to identify God's people because they obviously can't identify sin to begin with.


God forgives all sin but a true Christian knows in their heart the mandates of God and they know how it's of their benefit to obey and submit to those mandates and standards.   And so the true Christian obeys it  and falls in love with it because it's given to us by God for our own protection.


Although we once were people of divorce, we no longer are.
Although we once were people of lies, we no longer are.
Although we once were people of murder, we no longer are.

etc.,etc.


It's not about what we once were but what we are NOW and what we're becoming.



So when people try and drop that fake statistic on you, don't believe it.  It's a lie from the pit of Hell like many other lies.  

Heed the warning:

Heed the warning:

If the warning went out that those train tracks you usually stroll through are active, you'd best heed the warning.

You can say "No train has ever passed while I've been strolling here before".

OR you can cover your ears and dismiss the warning so as to not even think about it.

But whether or not the warning has any validity to it,  it still makes sense and is in ones best interest to search the validity to the claim, and then ponder the foundation on whatever action you'll decide to take on the matter.

Simply dismissing the warning is humanly illogical, irrational and not very wise.

And dismissing any warning without pondering the validity and establishing a foundation upon one's decision is a HUGE RISK to take.

" There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death." - Proverbs 16:25

The Bible is full of inspirational information, guidance for life and promises.   But it's also full of warning.  Within every inspirational message and guidance lies an inherent warning against "doing the opposite".    For example when Jesus says "Be holy for your father in heaven is holy",  these words are inherantly warning against NOT being holy.  

But then you have the very direct warnings within the Bible that are intended for all people.   

"For the wages of sin is death..."- Romans 6:23

, 

"...for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”- John 8:24

It might be that your conscience is sounding like an alarm within you, and you're sensing the warning.
Don't tune it out but instead, heed the warning.

"He heard the sound of the trumpet and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But if he had taken warning, he would have saved his life." -  Ezekiel 33:5

Becoming NEW in 2013:

We all need to transform. All of us are born into sin and incapsulated into a worldly structure that naturally pulls away from God from very early on w/in our lives. Everything that we grow into (socially, educationally, morally, mentally, ethnically, emotionally, etc.) natrually repells God.



This nature is of antiChrist (evil) that rules this world. The nature of evil doesn't rule the world because it's force is above God's force but because it's what WE as humans desire by nature... we are part of it.



It's what we desire because it's what we're born into, it's what we know. We have to come to a heartfelt decision to TURN TO God in direct rebellion, in direct decision, and in direct determination to go against OUR NATURAL GRAIN.



When we come to the crossroads where what's natural to the world collides with the person of Jesus Christ, as many times as we get to that place in time; this is where we as humans have been given an opportunity to see the difference between the two worlds, and decide which way to turn.



This is the decision in the crossroads for every man and woman who's been born into this world. The distinction between these two worlds is clearly seen and understood by the conscieousness placed inside of us to know and identify right from wrong.



The results of our collective decisions can be clearly be seen by that state of the world and likewise the results of our individual decisions can be clearly seen by the state of our personal lives.



And so the consequences our these decisions can be felt today and are also promised for tomorrow.

"However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you"

 
- Deuteronomy 28:15

 

"For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."

- Ephesians 6:12

Consider yourself on that crossroads again this very day and hear what the Spirit of God is saying to your heart.

" I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh."

-Exekiel 36:26