" The Fool has said in his heart...."

    There are many people today that believe very little of what they hear or read.  I have an earthly father that refuses to be on a jury because he says he is not qualified to be able to recognize the truth between two liars.  A judge once asked him, " Sir, you mean to tell the court that you cannot tell, by the evidence, who is telling the truth ?"  My Dad said, " No, since both the defense and the DA were both claiming they were going to tell the jury the truth, one of them had to be lying."  Basically my Dad believes that if the person being accused really did it, but claims that he didn't, and the DA said that he did it, who was my Dad to say who was telling the truth.  Needless to say, he has never been asked to serve on a jury !!!

     There are many places in GOD's WORD that talks about a fool. Psalm 14:1 states - The fool has said in his heart, " there is NO GOD." They are corrupt. They have done abominable works, there is none who does good.  Also in Psalm 53:1 it states - The fool has said in his heart, " There is NO GOD." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good.  And again in Psalm 92:5 & 6A states - O LORD, how great are YOUR works ! Your thoughts are very deep. A senseless man does not know, nor does a fool understand this.
Proverbs 28:26 says - He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered.  Eccl.10:2 & 3 states - A wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart at his left. Even when a fool walks along (his own ) the way, he lacks wisdom, and he shows everyone that he is a fool ( by his actions ).

      What I am getting at with this blog is that a " fool "  in any setting has a problem.  He has no concept of GOD's truth because it is foolishness to him.  Not realizing that GOD's wisdom and truth is so perfect and far above any human wisdom, if he would come to GOD in complete humility and ask forgiveness for his foolish ways and actions, GOD would bless him with HIS wisdom.
     When an unbeliever comes to realize, by way of the HOLY SPIRIT's wooing, that he is a sinner ( we are all born sinners ) he calls on the LORD JESUS CHRIST to save him from his sinful and foolish ways. OH, you ask, what did JESUS do for the foolish sinner ?  Before there was time or even an earth, GOD the FATHER, GOD the SON and GOD the HOLY SPIRIT made a plan to redeem their most beloved creation, yes even before any one of us had been created.  Then after the fall of Adam into sin, in the garden of Eden, GOD showed them that by the shedding of blood there would be remission of sins. 

     All the animal sacrifices that were required and the procedure for those sacrifices were a type or picture of what the MESSIAH, SON of GOD, the LORD JESUS CHRIST would complete when HE came in the flesh.  And when the fullness of time came, JESUS was born of a virgin. Now the fullness of time partially meant that HE was to be born during the Roman reign because of their way of torturing and death on the cross. It had been prophesied that the MESSIAH would be cut off but not for HIMSELF, but for the sins of others.

     GOD the FATHER required a perfect sacrifice as payment for the sin of mankind.  Many people call the belief in the Gospel " easy " but there was nothing easy about it.  It was all done out of LOVE !!!  When JESUS was crucified on the cross, GOD the FATHER literally put every sin, the weight and guilt of every sin of every person ever created or ever will be created, on the shoulders of HIS spiritually beautiful and completely innocent of any sin, SON.  Then GOD the FATHER turned HIS back and looked not on HIS beloved SON, because GOD cannot look at or have sin in HIS presence. This is why when we sinned as human beings, our sin separates us from an ALL HOLY GOD.  Sin put a huge spiritual canyon or crevasse between us and GOD.  The coming of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, HIS death, burial and resurrection satisfied the requirements of GOD the FATHER as payment for the sin of  HIS beloved creation, mankind.

     NOW, if you have considered the truth of this blog, as the rants of a fool, then I would gladly take that title. BUT GOD's HOLY WORD says that today is the day of Salvation.  And since you have read this blog you have been given the story of how much  GOD LOVES YOU !!!  Bow your head in prayer, confess to GOD that you know that you are a sinner in need of a Savior and that you believe that JESUS came and died as payment for your sin, rose again and is seated at GOD's right hand. Ask HIM to come into your heart to save you and make you whole, no longer the fool but a beloved Son/Daughter to the KING !!!!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" And We Shall Be Saved "

     The above title / phrase is from the book of Isaiah Chapter 64.  This chapter speaks a prayer by the remnant of Israel and Chapter 65:1-16 is the LORD's answer to the remnant.  It is a beautiful section of the book of Isaiah and I can't do any better than the original:  Isaiah 64 thru 65:16

     OH, that YOU would rend the heavens ! That YOU would come down !  That the mountains might shake at YOUR presence-
     As fire burns brushwood, as fire causes water to boil-
To make YOUR name known to YOUR adversaries, that the nations may
tremble at YOUR presence ! 
     When YOU did awesome things for which we did not look, YOU came down, the mountains shook at YOUR presence.
     For since the beginning of the world, men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any GOD besides YOU, who acts for the one who waits for HIM.
     You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness, who remembers YOU in YOUR ways. YOU are indeed angry for we have sinned- In these ways we continue;  And we need to be saved.
     But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousness's are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away,
     And there is no one who calls on YOUR name, who stirs himself up to take hold of YOU; For YOU have hidden YOUR face from us, and have consumed us because of our iniquities.
     But know, O LORD, YOU are our FATHER, we are the clay, and YOU our potter, and all we are the work of YOUR hand.
     Do not be furious, O LORD, nor remember iniquity forever; indeed, please look-we all are YOUR people !
     YOUR holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
     Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised YOU, is burned up with fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
     Will YOU restrain YOURSELF because of these things, O LORD ? Will YOU hold YOUR peace, and afflict us very severely ?

     I was sought by those who did not ask for ME; I was found by those who did not seek ME.  I said, " Here I AM, here I AM " to a nation that was not called by MY name.
     I have stretched out MY hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts;
     A people who provoke ME to anger continually to MY face; who sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on altars of brick,
     Who sit among the graves, and spend the night in the tombs, who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
     Who say, " Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I AM holier than you ! "  These are smoke in MY nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.
     " Behold, it is written before ME: I will not keep silence, but will repay-even repay into their bosom-
     Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together," says the LORD, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed ME on the hills; therefore, I will measure their former work into their bosom."
     Thus says the LORD:
     As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, " Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,'  So will I do for MY servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
     I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah an heir of MY mountains; MY elect shall inherit it, and MY servants shall dwell there.
     Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for MY people who have sought ME.
     But you are those who forsake the LORD, who forget MY holy mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who furnish a drink offering for Meni.
     Therefore I will number you for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did evil before MY eyes, and chose that in which I do not delight."
     Therefore thus says the LORD GOD:
     Behold, MY servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; Behold, MY servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; Behold MY servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed;
     Behold, MY servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for grief of spirit.
     You shall leave your name as a curse to MY chosen; for the LORD GOD will slay you, and call HIS servants by another name;
     So that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the GOD of TRUTH; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the GOD of TRUTH; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from MY eyes.

     The above sections of the book of Isaiah are indicating the sins of GOD's people Israel and HIS final restoration of them.  Israel will come to know that their MESSIAH came to them, and they did not know HIM and they allowed the LORD of Glory to be crucified ( or as Zechariah 12:10 says they will look on HIM whom they have pierced ). All of the predictions of the coming of their MESSIAH in the Old Testament was fulfilled in the PERSON and WORK of GOD's SON, JESUS CHRIST in the New Testament.     
      In the book of Psalm 122 starting in vs.6 - Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; May they prosper who love you. Peace be within your walls. Prosperity within your palaces, for the sake of my brethren and companions, I will now say, " Peace be within you."  Because of the house of the LORD our GOD, I will seek your good.
      Currently it looks as if Israel is blocked on all sides by their enemies, but GOD's WORD tells of a coming time of great tribulation on all the earth, after the LORD comes to take HIS bride, the Church home. Once we are gone, there will seem to be peace for about 3 1/2 years and then the one they thought was so great will show his true colors and do such horrific things that it will make what Hitler did look like a walk in the park.  Currently, the really horrible days are being restrained while the LORD completes the time of the Gentiles, but once HE takes HIS Bride home to be with HIM, there will be nothing here to keep evil at bay and the misery that will ensue for the other 3 1/2 years will make people wish that the rocks and the mountains would fall on them, but they will not repent, instead they will shake their fists in GOD's face and hate him even more.

     As sinners, we all deserve the wrath of GOD as John 3:18 and 36 state, unbelievers are already under this wrath.  But if you accept that as a sinner, you can do nothing to save yourself, believe that JESUS CHRIST, GOD's SON came and died on the cross, rose from the grave on the 3rd day, and is seated on the right hand of GOD the FATHER ever to make intercession for HIS people, waiting to hear the sinners pray of repentance, ask JESUS to come into your heart and save you, HE WILL, Jew or Gentile, we all come to GOD the same way, thru HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST !!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" And Forget Not ALL HIS Benefits " From Psalm 103

   Psalm 103 is one of the sweetest Psalms that gives us just a glimpse of how much GOD loves HIS people and how much HE loves those who don't even know HIM yet.  Let me show you Psalm 103:

Bless the LORD, O my soul; and all that is within me, bless HIS HOLY name !
Bless the LORD, O my soul; and forget not all HIS benefits:

WHO forgives all your iniquities, WHO heals all your diseases,

WHO redeems your life from destruction, WHO crowns you with
 lovingkindness, and tender mercies,                                                                                               WHO satisfies your mouth with good things, so that your mouth is
 renewed like the eagle's.

The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all who are
 oppressed.
HE made known HIS ways to Moses, HIS acts to the children of Israel.
The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
abounding in mercy.
HE will not always strive with us, nor will HE keep HIS anger forever.
HE has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is HIS mercy
toward those who fear ( reverence ) HIM;
As far as the east is from the west, so far has HE removed our transgressions from us.
As a father pities his children, so the LORD pities those who
fear ( reverence ) HIM.
For HE knows your frame; HE remembers that we are but dust.

As for man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field,
so he flourishes.
For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place
remembers it no more.
But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting,
on those who fear ( reverence ) HIM, and HIS righteousness
to children's children,
To such as keep HIS covenant, and to those who remember HIS
commandments, to do them.   The LORD has established HIS throne in heaven, and HIS
kingdom rules over all.

Bless the LORD, you HIS angels, who excel in strength, who do
HIS WORD, heeding the voice of HIS WORD.
Bless the LORD, all you HIS hosts, you ministers ( servants ) of HIS,
who do HIS pleasure.
Bless the LORD, all HIS works, in all places of HIS dominion.
Bless the LORD, O my soul.                                           Psalm 103

     The above Psalm was written and sung by King David of Israel to his blessed LORD GOD.  For 10 years, before David was crowned King of Israel, he ran for his life from the very angry King Saul.  The short version of this turbulent time was after David slew the giant Goliath of Gath and helped the army of Israel get victory over the Gathes.  David was considered a friend of King Saul and a dear friend to Saul's son Jonathan. Soon King Saul became jealous of Davids popularity with the people and he realized that the ONE TRUE GOD was with David and that GOD would make David King instead of Saul's son Jonathan.  Jonathan was OK with GOD's choice and actually it made Jonathan protective of David. Jonathan helped David to escape King Saul's attempts to kill David.  Eventually King Saul was killed in a battle with enemy forces and so was Jonathan.  But all this took about 10 years of running and hiding and trusting that in GOD's good time he would be made King over Israel.

     David was not a perfect King by any stretch of the imagination. He sinned with Bathsheba and had her husband killed during a battle with one of Davids enemy nations.  David was confronted by the Prophet of GOD about his sin and Psalm 51 speaks of Davids confession to GOD of his sin ( vs.3 and 4 ) and the need for GOD's forgiveness ( vs.7 thru 15 ) and restoration.  Even though David did the sin of adultery, murder and covered it up, when he was confronted with his sin, he cried out to GOD because he knew that GOD was just and righteous to forgive. GOD said about David in Acts 13:22 -  And when HE had removed him ( Saul ), HE raised up for them David as King, to whom also HE gave testimony and said, " I have found David, the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart, who will do all my will. ( originally from 1st.Sam.13:14 )

David, as all of us are, was a sinner.  GOD meant that David did not follow after all or any of the false gods that were in all of the nations around him. David was a sinner, but he loved the ONE TRUE GOD, JEHOVAH.
     This does not mean that GOD overlooked David's sin but David knew that if he would humbly and sincerely prostrate himself before the LORD that HE would forgive, cleanse and renew the fellowship that they enjoyed before David had sinned.  Were there consequences to Davids sin, a resounding YES. David's firstborn son to Bathsheba died. There was rape, murder and incest within his immediate family.  One of Davids sons, Absalom, tried to take the kingdom away from him and Absalom was killed by one of Davids generals.
     THERE ARE ALWAYS CONSEQUENCES TO SIN !!!!!!  The consequences may not happen right away, but they will happen. Per David's Psalm 51 of repentance after his sin with Bathsheba and Psalm 103 which lists many of GOD's benefits:  Forgiveness, Heals, Redeems, Crowns, Lovingkindness, Mercy, Satisfies, Righteous, Just, All Knowing.  And this is what I would call a SHORT LIST !!!!  Our finite human minds have trouble comprehending what is the height and width and depth and length of GOD's love and care for us, even before we are HIS.
     Look into your heart today, as David did many, many years ago. See what you have done over your life as far as sinning against an ALL HOLY GOD.  Right now, at this moment. as you are reading HIS WORD, HIS SPIRIT is whispering to your heart that it is not too late to be saved. Bough your head, take responsibility for your sin, as David did. Ask GOD to forgive you in the name of HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST who came to earth as a human baby but still 100% GOD. HE allowed the Roman solders to nail HIS hands to the cross, where HE paid the ultimate price that GOD the FATHER required of HIM, because HE knew we could not save ourselves.  HE rose again on the third day, which testified that GOD the FATHER was satisfied with HIS SON's perfect payment for our sin with HIS HOLY blood.   THE PRICE FOR YOUR SIN HAS ALREADY BEEN PAID, you just have to pray and ask GOD to forgive you and to have JESUS come into your heart and save you.  GOD's WORD says, " that not by works of righteousness which I have done. "   No amount of works or baptism or communion or rosaries or catechisms or mass or any man made liturgies will save even one pinkie toe !!!!  So accept what JESUS has already done for you,  today is the day of Salvation, you may not have a tomorrow !!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" Subject to the Governing Authorities "

   We all have our differing opinions when it comes to how our government should or should not be run.  Even I find myself being very critical when it comes to our current bunch of elected officials, especially our last President and the current one. Even our President during 9/11 got my dander up now and then, and I gave him some leeway, for no other President, since Franklin D.Roosevelt had to deal with our country being attacked by foreign enemies.  The knee jerk reaction, and understandably so, is to attack back and so we do but at a very high price in lives and debt. When Pearl Harbor was attacked we knew exactly who had done it, but with 9/11/2001 we just tried to attack the nation that was sympathetic to terrorists and their dictator had been a thorn in our side for many years, so we started there.

     What does GOD's WORD have to say about our Governing Authorities ?  Well as I was thinking about what subject to write about for this blog, the current climate of animosity towards our elected officials immediately came to mind.  I am always amazed at GOD's leading in this blog !!! There are many good scriptures that either give us clear instruction on the responsibilities of our Governing Authorities or gives us examples of what they are or are not to do.  Let's look at some of them and see what GOD says. Remember these are not suggestions, but the nation that has the ONE TRUE GOD as its builder should do as the LORD instructs, because HE also tells us what happens to the nations that forget the GOD that established them, ask Israel about their history.

     One of the most concise scriptures about Governing Authorities is in Romans 13:1 thru 7 - Let every soul be subject to the Governing Authorities. For there is no authority except from GOD, and the authorities that exist are appointed by GOD. Therefore whoever resists the authority resists the ordinance of GOD, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority ? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is GOD's minister ( not the same word as preacher ) to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid: for he does not bear the sword ( death penalty, legal authority given for police and military ) in vain; for he is GOD's minister ( again not the same word as preacher ), an avenger to execute wrath on him who practises evil. Therefore you must be subject not only because of wrath but also for conscience sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for they are GOD's ministers ( again not the same word for preacher ) attending continually to this very thing. Render therefore to all their due: taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs, fear to whom fear, honor to whom honor.

      Even when the Governing Authority is not Christian, we as Christians are to be involved, such as Joseph in Gen.42:6 - Now Joseph was Governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land. And Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. Also in the book of Daniel, he and his friends were taken captive and moved to a strange country by their captors. If you read Dan.1:17 thru 21 you see how GOD blesses the 4 young men to be of great help to their captor king. - As for these four young men, GOD gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams ( this was long before the canon of scripture was complete, no Godly people like this today ). Now at the end of the days, when the king had said that they should be brought in, the chief of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar. Then the king interviewed them, and among them all none was found like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah; therefore they served before the king. And in all matters of wisdom and understanding about which the king examined them, he found them 10 times better than all the magicians and astrologers who were in all his realm. Thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus.

      If the Governing Authorities are wise and the Christian is behaving as GOD commands then there is a symbiotic relationship between even and unbelieving king / president and the Godly Christian.  We as GOD honoring Christians are to FIRST obey GOD in all things, see Acts 5:25 thru 29 - Then one came and told them, saying, " Look, the men whom you put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people ! " Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, ( when we take a stand for GOD's WORD we take the consequences peaceably ) for they ( the officers ) feared the people, lest they should be stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest asked them, saying, " Did we not strictly command you not to teach in this name ( JESUS ) ? And look, you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this MAN's blood on us ! " Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said:  We ought to obey GOD rather than men. "     IF any of man's laws are in direct violation against GOD's law, the Godly Christian should never condone or go along with that law.  Currently we have many laws that go against GOD and as they try and force the Christian to accept these perverse laws then the Christian in America, as in other countries, will have to bear the consequences of peaceably disobeying mans law.

     The Godly Christian can live in uncertain times such as we live in today because we have a GOD that is Sure, Strong and always in control. Governing Authorities will come and go as the LORD wills for HIS ultimate purpose but GOD's people will have their part in eternity Rev.21:3 thru 4 - And I ( John ) heard a loud voice from heaven saying, " Behold, the tabernacle of GOD is with men, and HE will dwell with them, and they shall be HIS people, and GOD HIMSELF will be with them and be their GOD. And GOD will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying; and there shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."

     Truly born again Christians will be the only ones, humanly speaking, that will have their place with GOD in heaven.  We are all sinners that deserve to be thrown into a devils hell, but GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON that whosoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have everlasting life....... and this is the only difference between the Truly Born Again Believer / Christian and the unbeliever, is that the Christian knows he is a sinner and has accepted the fact that he can DO NOTHING  to save himself so he bows his head and prays to GOD the FATHER through JESUS CHRIST, HIS SON that he accepts the fact that he is a sinner and cannot save himself, he prays for GOD to forgive him and to come into his heart to save him, in JESUS's name, and HE will, HE surly will.
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" Abortion - Another Horrible Lie of the Devil !!! "

     In the very beginning, right after creation was finished, GOD would walk with Adam & Eve in the cool of the day ( Gen.3:8 ). Adam & Eve had fellowship with GOD until Satan stepped in and whispered the First horrible lie to Eve in Gen.3:1 - Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the LORD GOD had made. And he (Satan) said to the women (Eve), " Has GOD indeed said, You shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? "   Satan wanted Eve to doubt GOD's Love, GOD's Truth and GOD's Care.  Satan absolutely HATES GOD's creation of mankind and Satan's main goal is to take as many of us to hell with him as he can.  The First horrible lie cost us our wonderful fellowship with GOD who had walked with us in the cool of the day.  Think of it, GOD walked with Adam & Eve throughout the Garden of Eden like you and I would walk through the most beautiful garden we can think of with our most closest friend. They enjoyed each others company, communed in harmony together until Satan robbed them of their trust in GOD's Love for them and put doubt in the place of trust.

     Throughout history Satan has been whispering lies in the ears of mankind and he/she has been falling for his lies. Just look at the Crusades when men and women killed innocent people in the name of GOD.  See all the false religions that Satan has allowed just enough of the right sounding words to make people believe that they are part of a Christian organization or church.  Many churches once Preached & taught the truth of GOD's WORD but have also given into Satan's lies that JESUS CHRIST couldn't be GOD's SON, that there is no such thing as a Virgin conceiving and giving birth let alone to the SON of GOD. My husband and I have visited quite a few so called churches and we are absolutely shocked to see what Satan has done to a large portion of the churches in the US.  The GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST is either not preached at all or you wouldn't recognize it because it is mixed with works or baptism or some other requirement as part of salvation.  CHRIST ALONE SAVES !!!  No amount of works or water can get you to heaven !!
     But maybe one of the most horrible lies of Satan, in my generation, is that humans are no more than animals which then morphed into the word " Fetus " and the unborn is no more than a glob of inanimate cells. It sickens and saddens me to think of all the small unborn souls that GOD welcomed into heaven simply because they were not wanted !!!  Lie, Lie, Lie from the pit of hell !!!  Satan laughs every time he whispers into a young mother-to-be's ear and says, you can't afford this thing, you're too young to be a mother, you want to live and have fun before you start a family.  But the worst lie of all is that its not really human, it can't feel anything, its not really a baby until it is outside the body, go ahead and get rid of those cells !!!

     Let me just give you a few scriptures that will stop the mouth of all those who ( abortionists, those who council women or fathers to kill their babies ) work along with Satan to destroy human babies.  Gen.1:26A,27 & 28A - Then GOD said, " Let US make man in OUR image, according to OUR likeness;  So GOD created man, in HIS own image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them.  Then GOD blessed them, and GOD said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.  Gen.2:7 - And the LORD GOD formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   Gen.9:5 thru 7 - " Surely for your lifeblood I will demand a reckoning; from the hand of every beast I will require it, and from the hand of man. From the hand of every man's brother I will require the life of man. Whoever sheds man's blood, by man his blood shall be shed; for in the image of GOD HE made made man. And as for you, be fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply in it."  Exodus 20:13 - You shall not murder ( premeditated, planned ).  Exodus 21:12 - He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.  Exodus 21:22 thru 23 - If men fight and hurt a woman with child ( not with a glob of cells ), so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no lasting harm follows, he shall surely be punished accordingly as the woman's husband imposes on him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.  BUT if any lasting harm follows, then you shall give life for life.  Levit. 24:17 - Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death.  Prov.6: 16 & 17 - These six things the LORD hates, yes seven are an abomination to HIM:  A proud look.  A lying tongue. Hands that shed innocent blood.

      Just think what would of happened if Mary said to GOD, I don't want this gift of the CHRIST child and if you give HIM to me I'll just get rid of the glob of cells !!!!  Now that may have sounded ridiculous but if mankind is made in the image of GOD and all children are a gift from GOD , then who may we have killed ? - Psalm 127: 3 thru 5  Behold, children are a heritage (gift) from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is HIS reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. Happy (blessed) is the man who has his quiver full of them (children); they shall not be ashamed, but shall speak ( at peace ) with their enemies in the gate.
     GOD blesses us with babies, babies with souls and spirits and gifts. HE gives everyone special gifts such as knowledge to cure diseases, wonderful musical abilities, brave soldiers, policeman, fireman and nurses that will be there when a life needs rescuing, or a Dr.that takes an oath to " First do no harm " and means it.  In the US alone we have killed more than 64,000,000 babies, more than 8 cities of people the size of New York. Terrorists killed about 3,000 people during the carnage on 9/11/2001 and we were cut to the heart with grief over those horrible acts.  We shake our fingers at other countries who treat women, young girls and the disabled with disdain, but we had better get the 2 X 4 out of our own eye before we open our mouths to anyone else about the splinter in their eye. Because GOD will not hold them guiltless who takes the life of the unborn, HIS WORD is replete with examples.
     Even as horrible as the murder of an unborn baby is, GOD has made a way of forgiveness thru HIS SON JESUS CHRIST.  ALL who call upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.  PRAY and ask JESUS to forgive you of any and all sin, HE will - HE LOVES You more than you can possibly imagine. Call on HIM today !!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" Render unto Caesar..... Mark 12:17 "

Then JESUS answered and said to them, " Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to GOD the things that are GOD's." And they marveled at HIM.  Mark 12:17
In Matthew 22: 17 thru 21 the religious leaders were testing JESUS and hoped to " entangle HIM in HIS talk " in vs.15 so they did a question and answer session with HIM about taxes. Vs.17 starts - " Tell us, therefore, what do YOU think ? Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not ? " But JESUS perceived their wickedness and said, " Why do you test ME, you hypocrites ? Show ME the tax money." So they brought HIM a denarius. And HE said to them, " Whose image and inscription is this ? " They said to HIM, " Caesar's." And HE said to them, " Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to GOD the things that are GOD's."

TAXES and TITHING are both touchy subjects when brought up in either our churches and in normal conversation. As a True Christian, you should do both, pay taxes required by government and give your tithes and offerings onto the LORD per the verses listed above. In the book of Malachi 3:8 thru 10 it states - Will a man rob GOD ? Yet you have robbed ME ! But you say, in what way have we robbed YOU ? In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed ME, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in MY house, and prove ME now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you such blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it.

If in this life we go to jail for not paying taxes to a government that, let's face it, doesn't know a thing about budgets, spending within their means, nor the evil ways in which they use our hard earned taxes ???  Shouldn't we give out of love our tithe to a GOD that loves us, died for us, will provide for our needs and even some of our desires if they are within HIS will for us !!! Can you imagine what the true Church could do if its parishioners would truly tithe and give offerings over and above their tithe !!!  But some say that they can't give, they can barely pay their bills and keep food on the table !!! Why is that do you think, remember the verses above from Malachi ???
JESUS gave another example of giving in Luke 21:1 thru 4 which states -  Then HE looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, and HE saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So HE said, " Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for GOD, but she out of her poverty has put in all the livelihood that she had."

Now JESUS was not saying that HE is only happy with those who give everything that they have, which is what the poor widow did, but HE is saying that the attitude of the rich that gave was, " I have this extra money and I am so rich that I won't miss it, so let me make a big show of all this money that I am giving."   The tithe is to be the first cut from all that we make or receive. There is not to be a big show of what we have given. It is no ones business except between you and GOD. HE says in another scripture " Let not the right hand know what the left hand is doing ".  It is to be taken before the rent, groceries, parties, clothing etc.  It is not to be from our leftovers,  GOD will take care of you !!!  2nd Cor.9:6 thru 8 states about giving -  But this I say; He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for GOD loves a cheerful giver. And GOD is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

Now I have a personal peeve about giving, whether to claim giving on your taxes or not. I look at it the same way that David did when he was going to sacrifice to GOD in 1st.Chron.21: 23 thru 24 - And Ornan said to David, " Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all."   Then King David said to Ornan, " No but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing."    If we use it as a tax write off, we have given to the LORD that which costs us nothing, but that is my thoughts on giving and tithing, you and GOD have to work out your giving and remember GOD loves a cheerfull giver !!!!  Attitude is everything when you give !!!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

" Evil has No Shortage of Followers ! "

If you are a person who watches a lot of news, national and local, you are probably half afraid to leave your home or even stay home without an Uzi or at least 3 really big vicious dogs !!!  Detroit and the gangs, famous people who have either family members murdered or commit suicide, bank robberies every day, break-ins, even babies being murdered on a regular and continuous basis, dysfunctional government as well as families, drug homes, pot houses, texting/driving and dying, rape, terrorism.........should I continue, I'm even getting myself a bit panicked !!!! 

I have heard a certain question asked and answered the same way many times over my 60+years of life:   Do you think that humans are basically good ?  Answer: Yes, I think that people are basically good. If you are a disciple of the LORD JESUS CHRIST and HIS WORD, you know that the opposite is true.  The heart of man ( mankind ) is desperately wicked, who can know it ( only GOD ).  If you doubt this you must live  a very sheltered and fairytale life. GOD's WORD is HOLY and completely truthful. HE knows you better than you know yourself and HE knows what we all are capable of as human beings. HE created each one of us. HE gave each one of us life, breath and a living soul, Psalm 139.

GOD has destroyed all life ( except 8 persons, selected pairs of animals and 7's of other animals ) from this earth once already with the Great Flood in Genesis Chapt.6 thru 8. The reason was stated clearly in Gen.6:5 - Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.  GOD saw that there was a man named Noah, that found grace in the sight of the LORD. HE gave Noah instructions on how to build the ark and to prepare it for the animals that GOD would direct to Noah. Now this man, Noah, did not live a separated life with no one around him. He had family members, friends, townspeople who knew what he had been told by GOD to do, but not a single one of them believed. It took 120 years for Noah to complete the ark and when it was done, the animals went in, Noah, his wife, his 3 sons and his 3 daughter-in-laws were the only ones that went inside the ark, and the LORD GOD shut them in Gen.7:13 thru 16. Every other living person, animal and bird died because of the evil and hardness of man's heart. From the moment that the rains started til Noah, his wife, his sons and his daughter-in-laws stepped onto dry land again was approx.13 months.

When they stepped out onto dry land, Noah built an altar to the LORD and sacrificed some of the clean animals ( that is why they took 7 of some of the animals ) and created a sweet aroma. Gen.8:21thru 22 states - And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in HIS heart, " I will not again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, nor will I destroy every living thing as I have done.  While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease."  This also puts a crimp in the science that the earth is in trouble because of "global warming".  Also people are always finding sea shells way up high in the mountains and scientists try to explain it various ways, but the truth is that when GOD brought about the Great Flood of Genesis that the water was approx.14' above the highest mountain peak so that is why they dig up fossils that normally would be found in the oceans.

If you read through GOD's WORD and see how many times man makes a mess of things, does what he thinks is right in his own eyes ( the book of Judges shows generation after generation of this ) and after he has gotten himself in such a mess ( as we are in today ) then GOD would send someone to save them. These people were pictures of what JESUS CHRIST would come to complete. When GOD the FATHER sent GOD the SON, JESUS CHRIST to earth as a human baby, HE sent HIM at a specific time. Since it had been prophesied that the MESSIAH would die on a tree, HE had to come at the time of the Roman's use of crucifixion as their form of torture and death. Isaiah 53 deals with GOD the FATHER's requirement of a perfect spotless/sinless sacrifice for the sin of all mankind.
TO THE READER OF THIS BLOG, we are all evil hearted sinners. When GOD the FATHER looks at the person who has not accepted HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST as their personal SAVIOR, HE states twice in HIS WORD John 3:18,36 - He who believes in HIM is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because  he has not believed in the name of the only begotten SON of GOD.  He who believes in the SON has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the SON shall not see life, but the wrath of GOD abides on him.

All of you who have not accepted JESUS CHRIST as your personal SAVIOR;  the wrath of GOD abides on you !!!  All this shows just how much GOD loves us. HE creates us in HIS image with the same attributes as GOD ( to love, laugh,cry,to live forever, to have a conscience, etc.) and we have the freedom and the responsibility to live a life pleasing to HIM. BUT when man chose to sin in the Garden of Eden, our fellowship with GOD was broken, JESUS restores that broken fellowship and the HOLY SPIRIT comes into the heart of those who ask GOD to forgive them through the death and resurrection of JESUS CHRIST.  John 3:16 states - For GOD so loved the world that HE gave HIS only begotten SON, that whomsoever believes in HIM shall not perish but have everlasting life.........Are you believing in JESUS  or does the wrath of GOD abide on you John 3:18, 36 ???
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie

What does YOUR god require of YOU ?

This blog is a follow-up to the one I did yesterday about " What has Your god done for You lately ? ".  Of course, my GOD has done so much, as I stated, there is not enough space in one single blog or lifetime. But in this blog I am asking what does your god require of you. The god of so many religions require that their followers must do something to get their god to do something for them. Quid pro quot kind of religion is not much of a religion. How do you know if you have done enough for your god to get you somewhere better, when you pass on from this life ?  A works religion is a religion that leaves you empty, hollow and uncertain about your eternity, and you will have an eternity !
Every soul, given by GOD, will live forever somewhere. This includes every baby aborted by whatever means, every person fortunate enough to be born, all persons young and old will live somewhere forever !  If your religion requires you to do anything, for your god, as payment to get you somewhere better when you pass on, then that religion is dead and unable to get you anywhere but Hell.

The book of Romans talks a lot about works vs.faith and concludes that a person who tries to work their way to heaven either by philanthropic type works, baptism, catechism, murder/suicide, communion or any other works type requirement is not by GOD's grace but is trying to get to heaven by his (mans) own strength. Rom.4:2 thru 7 states - For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something of which to boast, but not before GOD. For what does the Scripture say ? " Abraham believed GOD and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace, but as debt. But to him who does not work but believes on HIM who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness, just as David also describes the blessedness of the man to whom GOD imputes righteousness apart from works:  "Blessed is he whose transgression is  forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. " Psalm 32:1-2          

Also in Rom.4:20 thru 22 it states - He did not waiver at the promise of GOD through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to GOD, and being fully convinced that what HE had promised HE was also able to perform. And therefore, " it was accounted to him for righteousness." Rom.10:9 thru 13 states - That if you confess with your mouth the LORD JESUS and believe in your heart that GOD has raised HIM from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes to righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For  the Scripture says, " Whomever believes on HIM will not be put to shame." For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same LORD over all is rich to all who call upon HIM. For whoever calls upon the name of the LORD shall be saved.

What does My GOD require of me ? To love HIM. To put HIM first in my life above all others or anything. To obey HIS doctrine and commands. In 1st.John 1:5 thru 2:2 states - This is the message which we have heard from HIM and declare to you, that GOD is light and in HIM is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with HIM and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth, but if we walk in the light as HE is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of JESUS CHRIST HIS SON cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, HE is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make HIM a liar and HIS WORD is not in us. My little children, these things I write to you, that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an ADVOCATE with the FATHER, JESUS CHRIST the righteous, and HE HIMSELF is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the whole world.

And in 1st.John 2:15 thru 17 states - Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world the love of the FATHER is not in him. For all that is in the world-the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life-is not of the FATHER but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of GOD abides forever.
My GOD loves me enough to give me 66 love letters in HIS WORD the Bible. HE tells me in so many ways through HIS WORD how to live the best life for HIM and when I goof up and do something wrong, HE does not turn HIS back on me but HE listens as I ask for forgiveness through HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, my ADVOCATE. HE forgives me, picks me up and brushes me off and then helps me, by HIS indwelling HOLY SPIRIT, to go forward and do for HIM what only I can do - which is to LOVE & PRAISE HIS HOLY name forever and forever, AMEN !!!
Your servant in CHRIST,
Julie