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The mission remains the same:

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. ³¹ And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”-Mark12:30-31

Someone said, “we, as Christians should be different”. And we need to be different. We need to love not just our neighbor, but even our enemy. Loving does not require that we mislead people by telling them that wrong is right. In fact, if we truly love them, the last thing we would want to do is mislead them.

But loving does require a lot. We need to reach out and help one another. Feed the hungry. Tend to the wounded and the sick. Comfort the widow. Hug those who need it. Smile at strangers. Listen to the sorrows of those who need to be heard…

We are still Citizens of Heaven FIRST and America second. Our loyalty belongs to God FIRST. What does that mean? It means many things, but those things include Trusting and Obeying God in all things.

One warning. “Evil does not sleep, it waits. And in the moment of our complacency, it blinds us”.

So Pray now that the Holy Spirit will help us to see the Truth of what is happening in this world and see it, before it’s too late.

There is another quote by a famous statesman, “The only thing needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”

No matter what lies ahead, there is always something we can do. And one of the most powerful things we can do is Pray In Jesus’ Name!

“Prepare To Stand!”–Andrew Brunson

My prayer for each person that I love is that they will be just as happy with their vote in March of 2025 as they are today.

Above America, we are first and foremost Citizens of Heaven, and as such, answerable to God for all that we do. And that includes voting.

We will be held accountable for our vote today by God Himself.

We need to Pray for ourselves, Pray for one another and Pray for our country!

So often, those who do not accept Jesus as their Savior cite their reason as their wish to be “free” to do as they wish. But freedom without responsibility does not lead us to a happy place.

God gave us “Guardrails” for a reason. He loves us and wants us to be happy. Let’s take an easy one. One of God’s Guardrails is “do not murder” (Exodus 20:13). As we all know, murder does not lead to a happy place! Not only are we filled with a guilt that does not go a way, at least not on its own, but we run the risk of life in prison or the death penalty. And it’s just not us that suffer, it’s all those who love us!

There is another type of murder. Abortion. Abortion does not lead to a happy place for the woman involved. And certainly not for the baby. The baby is murdered by its own mother. The baby involved will never have its First Christmas. The baby involved will never roll down a hill of grass for the First Time or ride a bike for the First Time. The baby involved will miss so much and know that its mother murdered her or him.

The woman involved will always know that she murdered her child. And even if she doesn’t realize that she is murdering her child at the time, she will realize it one day.

Does Jesus forgive abortion, absolutely. But every woman that has an abortion suffers, and remembers. And because God loves them; He doesn’t want them to suffer so!

In the Bible, it says, “Do not murder”(Exodus 20:13). This command is just one of a number of God’s Guardrails. He made us and so He knows what will bring us happiness and murder won’t. And because He made us, God knows that our disobedience of His “Guardrails” will only bring us pain. So it’s our choice. Obey His “Guardrails” or suffer the consequences.

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It’s November 1, 2024, and the results of the most important election America has ever faced will soon be known.

What are True Christians to do?

And while there appears to be much anger and fear in the air, regardless of the outcome, whether it is Trump or Harris, our mission as Christians remains the same.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”-Mark 12:30-31

Notice it does not say above, “love your neighbor as yourself“, as long as they are “good”. Jesus came for the sinners, because we are all sinners. Fortunately for us, Jesus loves us all. We need to do the same, now and in the future. No matter the election outcome.

So what does that mean exactly? Don’t we feed those we love and tend to their wounds? Don’t we reach out to them and hug them? Don’t we listen to their cries of pain and confusion?

And don’t we tell them the Truth.

Hell is a very real place with very real suffering, that lasts for all eternity. Don’t we tell those we love the “Truth” and Pray for them to accept Jesus as their Savior so that they can avoid this horrific suffering?

If we truly love our neighbor, we do all of this and more. And because we love God; we also love God’s People.

And God loves every single person, so need to do the same 🙂

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Many, many years ago, Christians were put to death in the Colosseum and persecuted many other places and ways. That persecution is making a return all over the world. And if we are not careful in the next election, it will continue to make a come back in America.

When good rises, evil rises too, for evil does not want good to triumph. But Jesus will triumph over all!

Ancient Rome and America are eerily similar today. Ancient Christians were unwilling to worship any God but the one True God. Jesus was their Savior and they were unwilling to betray Jesus or what He taught them in anyway.

Ancient Romans worshipped many gods. None of them were the True God. They had sunken into a way of life that was both pleasure seeking and immoral. They would not listen to or obey God.

Both Ancient Rome and America have sought to please only themselves and do as they wish, at any time, at any cost. And no matter how much they may hurt someone else.

As nations they both rejected God, His Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

We all know what happened to Ancient Rome.

Will that happen to America?

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We have always been one people, one nation, under God. It doesn’t matter when it was added to the Pledge of Allegiance. What really matters is that the hearts of millions of Americans have always loved Jesus.

We were formed as a Christian nation. The attempts to say otherwise are Satan’s.

We have always shared a deep bond with the Jewish people because we shared the Old Testament with them, and still do. And that is why so many of our values are “Judeo-Christian” values. And it’s why we have always had a special relationship with both Israel and the Jewish people.

On November 5th, or today, Americans will go to the voting booths to choose the next President. We will either choose to be “One Nation Under God” and continue to receive God’s Great Blessings, or we will choose to reject God and all that God has Blessed us with.

God’s Hand of Protection has made us one of the most Blessed nations on earth. Our vote for President this year will determine if God’s Hand of Protection remains.

It’s our choice and our consequences.

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“Holy Spirit my heart is your home”

Tough times are coming, but the Holy Spirit, who lives in us, can truly make a difference. The Holy Spirit was sent to Help us. We need to let Him.

One great way to grow closer to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to work in us is to pray to Him. I can well remember how silly I felt when I first prayed to the Holy Spirit. After all, it was one thing to pray to our Father and Jesus, but the Holy Spirit seemed, at first, a stretch.

But a close friend encouraged me to ask the Holy Spirit to Help me in reading the Bible, and soon what seemed difficult to understand became easy! And before I knew it, situations that were incredibly difficult became clearly possible.

Sometimes, it is easier to begin with a set prayer like this one:

Prayer to the Holy Spirit

O Holy Spirit, Beloved of my soul, I adore You. Enlighten me, guide me, strengthen me and console me. Tell me what I ought to do and command me to do it. I promise to submit to everything that You ask of me and to accept all that You allow to happen to me. Just show me what is Your will, O Holy Spirit

“A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.”-Proverbs 11:1

With the upcoming election, there have been many concerns raised about potential “cheating”. Cheating is an “abomination” to the Lord. It always will be. And if either side feels the need to cheat to win, they are not putting their Trust in God.

For if we Trust the Lord, than we must trust the outcome in that we do NOT cheat.

Those who cheat, sin. Sin is only forgiven by Christ through repentance and sorrow for that sin. But will election sinners actually repent?

And if the outcome is changed through cheating, should that outcome be honored?

We have only one mission, to Follow Christ. And in doing so, we don’t follow cheaters.

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With the election only a couple of weeks away, tension is running high in our country. And the truth is, it is understandable that it is.

But take comfort from the Holy Spirit. For after the election, no matter who wins, the Holy Spirit will still live in us. God will still answer our prayers. Jesus will still love us. Although much may change, God will not.

For God never changes. Just as the meaning of God’s Word does not change. No matter who wins, our “mission” will remain the same:

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. ³⁸ This is the great and first commandment. ³⁹ And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”-Matthew 22:34-39

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For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”-Jeremiah 29:11

In the beginning, Zach Williams led a sad life. He had devoted, loving Christian parents and when he hit his teens he rebelled. He dropped out of high school and got his GED, he started experimenting with drugs and alcohol and hanging out with the wrong crowd. He, as many of us do, turned away from God.

Later in his life, he got married, but his marriage was not working. It was then that God showed up and rescued him.

Jesus not only healed Zach Williams heart, Zach went on to become a Grammy Award winning Christian singer. He went on to sing songs that really resonated with people and helped strengthen the faith of many.

Turning to God may not make us famous, but it will make us feel really good about ourselves, our lives, and the choices we make. Turning to God will give us something we truly need: Hope.

And as far as having a “successful” life, now the only one that will judge whether we are a “success” is Jesus, and Jesus measure’s a person’s life a completely different way:

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment.  And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”-Matthew 22: 37-40

Jesus can “rescue” us and use us to help others too. But there is one thing that Zach did do, that we need to do too, he asked God for His help!

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