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Make no mistake, we are at war. And there are so many suffering. The soldier who has seen too much and is exhausted. And there are civilians on all sides who are broken-hearted and tired beyond measure.

But we can all call upon the One who will give us rest. Real rest. Jesus. We can call on Jesus to restore our Soul, heal our heart and give us rest 🙂

No matter where we are…

“And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates”-Ezekiel 38:11

Do not Fear, this is not THE war. But the Final War is coming. Please, get ready and call on Jesus, while there is still time.

Please pray for the safety of our troops and all of those involved and especially for the Salvation of all.

God’s Mercy Is for Everyone

I want you to understand this mystery, dear brothers and sisters, so that you will not feel proud about yourselves. Some of the people of Israel have hard hearts, but this will last only until the full number of Gentiles comes to Christ.  And so all Israel will be saved. As the Scriptures say,

“The one who rescues will come from Jerusalem,
    and he will turn Israel away from ungodliness.
And this is my covenant with them,
    that I will take away their sins.”

Many of the people of Israel are now enemies of the Good News, and this benefits you Gentiles. Yet they are still the people he loves because he chose their ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For God’s gifts and his call can never be withdrawn.  Once, you Gentiles were rebels against God, but when the people of Israel rebelled against him, God was merciful to you instead.  Now they are the rebels, and God’s mercy has come to you so that they, too, will share in God’s mercy.  For God has imprisoned everyone in disobedience so he could have mercy on everyone.

Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!

For who can know the Lord’s thoughts?
  Who knows enough to give him advice?
And who has given him so much
that he needs to pay it back?

For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! “-Romans 11:25-36

God’s Commitment to the Jewish people is forever. They will always be special for they will always be God’s Chosen People. This will never, ever change!

And since we Follow Christ, we want to do as God does. That means loving and helping the Jewish people-always.

God will always Love His Chosen people, Always!

“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?” – Micah 6:8

We are entering a time when Mercy matters even more than usual. Mercy always matters, but it matters even more now. In America, but also throughout the world. Jesus has always showed us Great Mercy, even when we don’t give it ourselves. We need to show that same Mercy and Love to others.

We need to open our eyes and see the pain and burdens that many others carry, and comfort them. We need to “bind up the wounded” with lovingkindness. And we need to recognize that the wounded may bear a physical wound, but they may also bear a wound of heart. And act accordingly and give them Mercy and Love they need.

Lord, please send me , In Jesus’s Name, Amen 🙂

There are so many places in the Bible that God talks of the importance of Love.

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” – Matthew 22:39

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal” – 1 Corinthians 13:1

To share just a couple 🙂

Showing Mercy was never meant to encourage people to sin or to think love and compassion are meant to excuse sinful behavior. Nothing could be further from the truth! To encourage others to sin is not loving. It is in fact, the very opposite.

For in encouraging people to sin; we are encouraging them to distance themselves from God!

“For you created my inmost being;  you knit me together in my mother’s womb.” – Psalm 139:13

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you” -Jeremiah 1:5

We can see clearly from these Bible verses that God said conception begins at birth! And we also know that God said in the Ten Commandments “Do not kill”. And yet, in 2025, over 73 million of these babies were killed (abortion).

These innocent, defenseless babies are so very precious and loved by God. And yet our world disobeyed God and killed them.

Let’s start with the Ten Commandments:

Thou shall have no other gods before me.

Thou shall not make unto thee any graven image.

Thou shall not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain.

Remember the sabbath day to keep it Holy.

Honor thy father and thy mother.

Thou shalt not kill.

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet.

Can we say that we have never disobeyed God?

Many liberal churches teach that gay marriage is acceptable to God – it is not.

Many liberal churches teach that gay marriage is Holy – it is not.

There is no place in God’s Word that God says gay marriage is acceptable or Holy.

But there are many with “itchy ears” that say it should be.

And because they feel that what they want is more important than what God does, many of them teach others that choosing gay marriage is okay with God – it’s not.

“For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions” – 2 Timothy 4:3

Is this not happening now? Are not many people choosing to attend the church that allows them to do as they wish?

The Last Days are not a favorite topic of Catholics or Protestants. But it is important that we learn about them so we are not misled.

“The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”- Genesis 6:5

Such was Noah’s time and so is ours. We all know those who truly Follow Jesus, but we read of many more who don’t. There is much evil in our world. And God has much reason to be “offended” as Mary, Our Blessed Mother, said at Lourdes.

“The traditional definition of tolerance is living peaceably alongside others in spite of differences. But that view of tolerance has been twisted today to mean that everyone must accept the other person’s viewpoints without question because truth is relative.”

But the truth is not relative to God. There is only one truth-God’s.

And this is exactly the way it was in Noah’s Time. And it has become this way in our time. And so this is where we will begin.