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Monday, November 19, 2012

Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens



 Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature,that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.

I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln


Monday, October 29, 2012

Happy Atheist-Destiny Lab

This is a rap song that was sent to me by a friend.  It will make some offended.  But the reality is that if God is not real, then why would we even care?  Why do good?  Why abide by law?  What is truth....who sets it, and what makes yours right for you?  How can your subjective truth be better than mine.  In that sense we are no better than the "animal kingdom."  What confuses me about unbelief, and I get it, is not the fact that people struggle with believing in the unseen....it is how people base a moral structure without God and TRUTH (personal wisdom, popular opinion? etc....  I thank God everyday that He opened my eyes, that I have purpose, and understanding.  I pray for God to open the eyes of the blind.  The greatest witness to God and His providence?  Look outside your window, or more simply look at yourself.  There is no way a bacteria mutated into a life form and created all this wonder.  Even my 10 year old daughter laughs at the notion of apes deciding one day to stand up and somehow develop language.  How do we lose our sense when we become "educated".  No wonder the devil is at work blinding "smart folk".  These lyrics cut a bit to the bone and absolute profound.- stu

WHAT EXACTLY WOULD YOU SAY IF YOUR CHILD LOOKED UP AT YOU
AND ASKED YOU ABOUT GOD AND IF HE EXISTS AND IF HE'S TRUE?
AND WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN SOMEONE DIES - IS THERE A HEAVEN?
AND WHAT ABOUT THAT MAN UPON THE CROSS - AM I FORGIVEN?
HOW EXACTLY WOULD YOU ANSWER THOSE HOPEFUL LITTLE EYES
WHEN YOU'RE COLLEGE EDUCATED AND CONVINCED IT'S ALL A LIE
SURE YOU WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG BUT THAT WAS THEN
YOU'RE ABOVE THOSE SIMPLE THOUGHTS NOW THE ONLY GOD YOU KNOW IS MAN
ARE YOU SADDENED AND ASHAMED TO TELL THIS LITTLE SOUL
THAT YOU DONT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING AND HAVE NO REASON AND NO HOPE
THERES NO HEAVEN AND NO MEANING THERES NO PURPOSE TO OUR LIVES
THAT YOU BELIEVE WERE JUST EVOLVED RANDOM MUTATIONS COME ALIVE
YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN AN INSECT SON AND WHEN YOU DIE THAT'S IT
IVE LEARNED THROUGH EDUCATION That GOOD AND BAD JUST DONT EXIST
IT'S ALL JUST EVOLUTION IT'S SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
AND WE CAN GET YOU A PRESCRIPTION WHEN YOUR LIFE BECOMES DEPRESSED
IM SORRY THAT IVE CRUMBLED ALL YOUR HOPES AND ALL YOUR DREAMS
BUT IT'S TIME YOU REALIZE THAT LIFES NOT WHAT IT SEEMS


ARE YOU LOST? ARE YOU ALONE? ARE YOU CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE?
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS?
HAVE YOU REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS?
AND CREATED YOUR OWN TRUTH A HAPPY ATHEIST


DO YOU REALIZE HOW YOUR ANSWERS COULD JUST SHATTER ALL THESE DREAMS IN EVERYTHING THAT EVER MATTERED TO THIS PRECIOUS LITTLE BEING WHO HAD BELIEF A CERTAIN PEACE AND HAD RECIEVED THAT INNER VOICE INSIDE HIS CONCSCIENCE AND HIS CONSCIESS MIND BELIEVED AND IT SICKENS YOU TO THINK CUZ YOU'VE DRIVEN BY YOUR EGO AND YOUR GREED AND HE SEES IT AND YOU DONT PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH AND YOUVE LOST YOUR DIGNITY and YOUVE SUCCEEDED IN DESTROYING ALL BELIEF AND DEFEATED ALL HIS REAL HOPES AND DREAMS
THEY MIGHT NEVER BE RETRIEVED AND THE FLAME WITHIN HIS HEART ALMOST COMPLETELY IS EXTINGUISED AND THE HOLES WITHIN HIS SOUL ARE FILLED WITH MIMICKS AND THE MESSAGE OF GODS GRACE WITHIN HIS MIND HAS BEEN DIMINISHED BECAUSE THE ANSWERS THAT YOU GAVE HIM TOOK A PIECE OF his EXISTENCE AND THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS WERE UNFORSEEN AND IN THAT
VERY MOMENT YOU DESTROYED THE VERY PURPOSE OF HIS BEING AND NOW HE'S LOST and he's ALONE AND CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE and
HE HAS FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS HE'S REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS AND CREATED HIS OWN TRUTH AS A HAPPY ATHEIST


ARE YOU LOST? ARE YOU ALONE? ARE YOU CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE?
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS?
HAVE YOU REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS?
AND CREATED YOUR OWN TRUTH A HAPPY ATHEIST












Friday, October 19, 2012

The Wish Wand- Amazing Poem about Finality of Hell

                                                                          The Wish Wand
The dangers of wishing instead of knowing about your eternal destiny are real. In this poem I tried to imagine what would happen to me if I died and faced God with only wishes and had not asked Him to forgive my sins for Christ’s sake, and take me to heaven.

I had a little wish wand and waved it to and fro
Whenever thoughts turned heavenward
Or the other place you go.
I thought it safe to trust it
With my whole eternal soul,
So I wished the life I’d lived on earth
Would get me to my goal.
I wished that all would get to heaven
Whatever they believed,
That Buddha sat at God’s right hand,
That New Age be received.
I wished that Paul would change his mind,
That Jesus wasn’t right
Because he spoke of lostness and a
Dark eternal night;
About the way to heaven
One truth, one narrow gate, and
I was so broadminded that I wished away my fate!
So I waved my little wish wand
In the patient face of Him
Who met me at the gate of heaven and wouldn’t let me in.
I wrote to heaven’s congressman,
But he courteously replied that I should have
Left my wish wand at the feet of Him who died!
For wishes could not wish away a lifetime of rejection,
And wishes could not dress my soul
In heaven’s own perfection.
And wishes could not save me now for hell was so obscene,
That wishes there die ghastly deaths,
Strangled with a scream.
But I took my little wish wand
Into hell the day I died,
And I waved it at the serpent as he
Slithered to my side.
It was dark but I could see him
And all I knew was fear,
And no matter how I waved my wand
He wouldn’t disappear!
Oh I wish that I had wished aright;
I wished I lived again.
I wished I had a body that
Was whole, not racked with pain.
I wished I could remember
Something other than the dirt.
I wish I could forget my sin.
How every memory hurt!
Oh, I wished and wished and wished
That I could have another chance
To cast upon the crucified
A saving, helpless glance.
But the devil took my wish wand
And he laughed right in my face
And I went to live eternally in
Darkness and disgrace.
I never wished a wish again
I had no heart to try,
For hell is where hope ended,
And where all my wishes died!

 Jill Briscoe, Telling the Truth

Monday, October 15, 2012

Romney, Christian Republicans, Mormons and Jesus.....

Talking with Republican recently about the Romney campaign.  He knows that I communicate the reality that Romney is a professed Mormon.  I am not trying to make a huge point about it but just really trying to look at what that means to me.  The individual tried to tell me not to judge him, but i guess we all have to judge in some extent of who we vote for.  Obamacare?  Trillions deficit?  Maybe not....but as a believer I am not trying to point out that mormonism simply is now all of a sudden a viable offshoot of Christianity now that there are no evangelicals running.  I am amazed at the depth of Christians faith when their pocketbook could be affected.  Wow.  Last time I checked, Mormanism is not even close to being an offshoot of the Divine ONE TRUE WAY.  Billy Graham it is said has already removed Mormonism from their list of cults after meeting with Romney (http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20121015/NEWS/310150041/Mormonism-cult-claim-vanishes-from-Graham-site?odyssey=nav%7Chead).  Lord I hope not.  Bro. Billy, we can pray for Mitt, love him, and even share the gospel with him...but lets not be more american than we are Christian.  Jesus, you are who you say you are.  Not changed by political winds.  Who wins?  I really don't care.  Jesus is coming.  Get ready.-  Stu

http://www.religionfacts.com/mormonism/comparison.htm

Religious AuthorityAll sacred texts equally, continuing revelationsBible (all), ecumenical councils and creeds (Catholic and Orthodox), official papal pronouncements (Catholic), continuing revelations (Pentecostal)
Sacred TextsBible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great PriceBible (some include Apocrypha)
TrinityRejected - Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct beings who are "one in purpose"Affirmed - Father, Son and Holy Spirit are of the "same substance"; three persons in one being
GodHeavenly Father, who has a physicalbodyTrinitarian God, who does not have a body
Jesus ChristSon of God, Savior, originally one of the spirit beings that all humans used to be (see Jesus Christ). Has aphysical body.Son of God, Word of God, God, secondPerson of the Trinity (see Christology)
Holy SpiritA spirit being who is a separate being from God and Jesus.God, Third Person of the Trinity
Original sinDenied (see Human Nature)Affirmed (by most denominations)
Free willFree to do good or evilFree will to do good is seriously impaired
Purpose of Christ's IncarnationTeach about God, provide a model for right living, die sacrificially for human sin (see Jesus Christ)Teach about God, provide a model for right living, die sacrificially for human sin, reveal God directly to humanity
Resurrection of Christ?YesYes
SalvationBoth faith and works; works emphasizedBoth faith and works; faith emphasized (in most denominations)
Second chance after death?Yes, during a period of "learning and preparation" after deathNo
AfterlifeAll spirits go to the spirit world, undergo preparation, then rejoin with bodies in the resurrection (seeAfterlife). The good spend the intervening time in spirit paradise, while the wicked go to spirit prison.Souls of wicked sent to Hell, believers go to Heaven for eternity (see Afterlife). In Catholicism, many believers will suffer inPurgatory before going to Heaven.
HellThe wicked enter an unpleasant "spirit prison" prior to judgment; after that, only the most obstinately wicked (like Satan) will be consigned to "Outer Darkness" for eternity.Place (or state of being) of eternal torment and distance from God.
Place of WorshipChapel or TempleChurch
Meaning of Sacraments (Chr) or Ordinances (LDS)Ordinances are covenants between man and God and a means of grace. Some of them are necessary for salvation.Symbolic acts commanded by Christ (some Protestant); means of grace if received with faith (Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant).
Sacraments (Chr) or Ordinances (LDS)Include baptism, confirmation, the sacrament (Lord's Supper), laying on of hands, ordination, temple endowment, and marriage sealing (see Temple Ordinances)Two common to all denominations: Baptism and Lord's Supper. Total of seven in Catholicism.
SymbolsNo official symbol; cross is not used; the angel Moroni raising a trumpet isseen atop Mormon templesCrossfish and others
HolidaysEaster, Christmas, national and local holidays, birthdays, celebrations of events in Mormon historyEasterChristmas, saints' days, several others

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Mali Music Wrote a Song For The Devil....



PS:  It ain't no love song.  Phenomenal.  A link to check it out on "spotify"Mali Music – I Hate You

Lyrics to I Hate You :
(I hate You!)
You a Liar! You a Cheat! You Deceive me.
(I hate you!)
From the depths of my soul and i mean it!
You wanted to kill me, but it ain't goin be easy.
(cause i hate you.)
Yeh ima stand my ground and ima fight wit the Lamb of Jesus Christ!
I rebuke you I see what your tryin to do so i wrote this song for you.
Yes you cuz i hate you

Verse 1:
Neva had a feelin like this before.
I aint Neva really like ya since i came to the lord.
All stunts that you're pullin really gettin on my nerves
Forget what you used to forget what u heard.
The word: A light, a lamp, unto the feet i walk with.
The more i eat the more i hate the mouth that you talk with.
Holiness before me pull me back when i get near ya.
I'd punch you in the face if you weren't in the spirit.
But the enemy comes with means to steal, kill, and to destroy us.
Doesnt matter what race ya'll.
Man,woman,girl, and boy yeh.
He Dont care nuttin bout ya
He's trying to take you out
Feels good but you're dying man.
he's nasty and he's mean come on the winnin team
Dont play wit em no more you'll see i had to let em go.
Cuz I hate you

(I hate You!)
You a Liar! and the truth aint in ya
(I hate you!)
Tried to kill my parents, my brothers, my sisters.
You wanted to kill me, but it ain't goin be easy.
(cause i hate you.)
I despise you with all my soul.(I hate you) im disgusted by your presence alone.
I rebuke you and see what your tryin to do so i wrote this song for you.
Yes you Cuz I hate you

Im a bride yes God can mold me yes
Im saved and my body's holy
Yes I was guilty but Christ died for me
Dont believe the lie ya'll the devils' phony.
He jus mad cuz he cant hold me no mo'
God opened doors he cant close
Tryin take me out yeh he came close i gotta word now ya'll and im throwin bones.
Like no weapon formed against me ya'll it can never prosper
Never seen the righteous of the LORD forsaken.
Not deceived they get bread, yeh.
So on the real though im tired of this mess
Sick of this thing that we all call flesh.
Holy Ghost spreading Im bout to do what they do and ima sprinkle all the ashes on you! (Yes you!)

(I hate You!)
You try to make me do wrong when im right
(I hate you!)
Trying to speak that in my new life.
You wanted to kill me, but it ain't goin be easy.ima make hard as heck
(cause i hate you.)
I refuse to follow you and fail.(I hate you)
Aint liftin my eyes up in no Hell.
I rebuke you and see what your tryin to do so i wrote this song for you
(i hate you)
You're an accuser of the saints.
(i hate you)
Aint gunna choose death no more, i cant.
(i hate you)
You wanted to kill me but it aint gunna be easy NO!
(i swear i hate you)
Every demon in hell yo grandmomma and you
(i hate you)
Ewww Satan i jus cant stand you.
I rebuke you and see what your tryin to do so i wrote this song for you.
( yes you cuz i hate you)

I hate you wanna fight you
Cant tell you how much i dont like you
A deceiver and a liar you get on my last nerve i depise you
You stupid and simple tryin to defile me
Im a temple now Im fed up and i want you to know THIS!

(I hate You!)
You a Liar! You a Cheat! You Deceive me.
(I hate you!)
From the depths of my soul and i mean it!
You wanted to kill me, but it ain't goin be easy.
(cause i hate you.)
Yeh ima stand my ground and fight! I am of Jesus Chrsit!
I rebuke you and see what your tryin to do so i wrote this song for you.
(I hate you)
Ohhhh i hate you!

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

WITH EVERYTHING


 

Not sure about the artist, these lyrics are a bit modified....see if you can get ahold of this reality today.  Remember You are the BLING.  The Light of the World!  Let the world see your light and glorify Father in Heaven!!!



With Everything : Hillsong
Name Above names
Lamb That was slain
Beautiful God
And King above Kings
God of all things
Beautiful God

And there is no other name
Like Jesus
We give you all of the praise
Oh Lord, Jesus

So let hope rise,
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light,
And every eye will see
Jesus, our God,
Great and mighty to be praised.

So let hope rise,
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light,
And every eye will see
Jesus, our God,
Great and mighty to be praised.

God of all days,
Glorious in all of Your ways.
Your majesty, the wonder and grace,
In the light of Your name.

So let hope rise,
And darkness tremble
In Your holy light,
And every eye will see
Jesus, our God,
Great and mighty to be praised.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout for your glory.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout for your glory.

With everything,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise

Our hearts they cry
Be glorified,
Be lifted high,
Above all names.
For You our King,
With everything,
We will shout forth your praise!

Friday, April 6, 2012

Good Friday:  Jesus took all the weight of our sin and carried it to the cross.  How awesome is that?  The struggle for life and yet the surrender to death.  Jesus once said that no one could take his life from him, but he had to lay it down, and that He did.  One revelation from the crucifixion is how Jesus died so quickly compared to most crucified people.  He had been beaten so badly, it is not much of a stretch to think that He did not even give up a fight when having his hands nailed to the tree.  The criminals hanging beside had to have their legs broken to expedite the dying process...  Jesus had already given up His Spirit.  The passion week falls silent now.  Saturday the people are dealing with betrayal, humanity, sin and need for restoration.  Many are totally undone with confusion. 

Sunday is coming.