There is an old song that we use to sing in the Assembly of God church when I was little. It's called "Because He Lives". Because He lives, I can face tomorrow, because He lives, all fear is gone, Because He lives!......
I have known such overpowering fear in my life. I have been so sick and in such dark places I didn't even know who I was. I had lost all semblance of being a human being. Things smelled wrong, tasted foul, and made me sick to my stomach. I would cry every night uncontrollably, and beg to be taken to church and prayed for. Even in my darkest night I knew that God could help me if I just got to church and had them pray for me. Finally my Mom and Grandmother took me one Sunday Night and I walked in the door and there was a message waiting for me to get there....He said to me through an interpreter, "Come unto me! I stand ready to receive you!" There are dark and dangerous forces in this world we live in. There is evil in every direction, if you don't have the love of God dwelling in your soul. He loves all His children and we are reaping the rewards of living selfish lives and focusing on the wrong things. God is love. He loves us, and we don't deserve it. But He loves us anyway. He has power to destroy evil in your life. He changed my life and gave me everything I could ever ask for. I got involved with the wrong people at the wrong time, and I lost something precious. My own identity.
My life has been difficult, but God gave me the strength, and the abundant love of my family, and I am well today and full of life and joy. He takes our sorrows and gives us unbounded joy in our lives. We begin to see things in a different light when we look with the eyes of Jesus. He can give us spiritual eyes, ears, lips, voices and when we dedicate our lives to serving Him, He gives us a heart of flesh and removes our stony hearts. Life is fragile. It can be snuffed out in an instant. We owe it to ourselves and our loved ones to be the best we can be and when you trust in God there are no obstacles you can't overcome.
If you are curious about the disease I have been describing, ask questions. I will answer them as honestly and frankly as I can. All I need to know is that God is real, His word is Holy, and He means what He says! He is love. And here in America, today, we need Him. Everyone of us needs Him. From President Obama, all the way down to the bum you see waiting for a helping hand when you go to the market or to eat. People in America sleep on the street, have no medical care whatsoever, and have no jobs, no homes, no nothing. Is this the America we sent our troops to die for? Is this the America of George Washington, or President Kennedy? He said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!" Why not ask what we can do for God? He will give us back 7 fold the things we commit to His care and keeping. He doesn't want our money. He wants us to LOVE YE ONE ANOTHER!" "Men will know you are my disciples when you have love, one for the other!" Do you love your country? Do you love the homeless, and the starving and the lonely, sick and afraid of America? Then you might try prayer, and see the power of God at work right here, to solve our problems and take away our shame. It's a shame that there are starving people right here in America, and children with no shoes and no school, much less food for lunch. I saw a show on TV where the children in one of these underpriviledged schools, took the ketchup packets with them when they finished eating in the cafeteria, because they were homeless, and they had no food from Friday in the cafeteria, until Monday when they were back in school. Know what they did with the Ketchup packets? They mixed it in hot water and ate it like you'd eat tomato soup. That's what they had to take them over the weekend, and never mind not having a place to sleep or take a bath or wear clean clothes, much less the latest fashions! But one woman took on the battle and began working with corporations and people to get the help she needed to give these poor underpriviledged children glasses if they needed them, food they could take home to their families, and she even paid some utility bills so people could function like people.
She was on the Ellen show and Ellen had talked with Target and they gave her a check for $100,000.00 to feed, clothe and take care of the little ones who depend on adults to take care of them.
There is so much to be done. So many good causes and things we can do every day to make life better for someone less fortunate. Perhaps God want us to love each other and be the children that make Him proud. I for one pray every day for my loved ones, but I am going to step up the process and begin praying for this country and it's leaders because I don't think that God is pleased with the way things are going. Join with me and pray for America and let's send our boys to win wars knowing the America of old. Things haven't always been smooth here in America, but we are blessed. It's time to turn our faces to God and see the things He wants to do in our individual lives that might turn things around for many. He said that "the prayers of a righteous man availeth much!" Do you believe we need God? Then pray! Something that simple can change the world because "With God, all things are possible!"
Oh, that's an intense one. Not much gets done for these people because everybody says, "What difference can I make?" and walks on by. If everybody would just do what little they can, all those little somethings would add up. I guess nobody wants to take time or, God forbid, MONEY away from their own comfortable life to help some bum. He's obviously a bum because he deserves it, right? So do his wife, and his kids. Click on http://savethechildren.org to see how much you can do by just parting with pocket change each month. It's almost miraculous...
ReplyDeleteNice mom. People do need to pray. They won't though and Jesus will say I never new you. Therefore those of us who do pray need to pray for all these people who don't so that God might have mercy on them. It is impossible to make others change, they have to want to change. I love you mom. Keep up the good work.
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