The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will

take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will

rejoice over you with singing.

– Zephaniah 3:17

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Australia

America has been blessed since it became a country. But now America is following Europe in essentially trying to “ban” God in all ways possible and remove all remnants of Christianity in fear some atheist or someone from another religion out there may be offended. If you are that fragile and sensitive to get offended by anything Christian you are too fragile, sensitive and get offended too easily to live and survive in this world and have got a tough life ahead of you. May God bless Kevin Rudd and Australia-who’s not afraid of offending some non Christian immigrant. His message is clear-if you don’t like it, then leave. I haven’t yet heard of him banning the Christmas tree and renaming it a holiday tree in political correctness insanity. May Kevin Rudd stay strong and keep his backbone and don’t back down to pressures of the EU.

Maybe if we circulate this,  citizens will find

the backbone to start speaking and voicing the

same truths.

If you agree, please SEND THIS ON.

Sadly the American government is looking for ways to legally prosecute pastors for their sermons and to criminalize evangelism. Preachers will not be allowed to even discuss or preach on certain areas of the Bible or risk facing prosecution for “hate crimes”.

The “hate crimes” bill paved the way for pastors and sermons to be criminalized and made illegal. Talk about tribulation and persecution. Whatever happened to freedom of religion in our constitution? It’s dying right now.

I first learned about the “hate crimes bill” and things to come during a conference held by Perry Stone in this area. I never heard of Perry Stone before but he’s a “prohpetic preacher” where he has prophecies which have come true again and again as well as his own show on TBN. He warned he himself would be in trouble soon and told what he could or could not preach about. This has already happened in other countries, but now it’s happening in we-thought-we-were-free America.

Write down the names of all senators who voted on this anti-Christian bill in disguise and be sure not to vote for these senators when re-election comes up. If there are enough Christians, that is. In the end days, very few people will be Christians. The ones that are will be horribly persecuted.

http://action.afa.net/Media/PressRelease.aspx?id=2147487492

AFA warns senators: Your vote on thought crimes bill will be remembered

Here is an article I wrote for the Lexington edition of the Examiner entitled Just Listen. It talks about how there are a lot of talkers, but not many who are good listeners.

Have you ever needed to say something, explain something, or unburden yourself but you were interrupted and just weren’t listened to? It’s very frustrating.

The Bible encourages us to be good listeners, to think before we speak and be slow to anger.

Please take a read and comments are appreciated:

http://www.examiner.com/x-25185-Lexington-Inspirational-Examiner

This email from Perfect Driven Connection came at a very good timing for me. I had just been badly hurt by a couple that I thought were friends at one time but were never friends in the first place. As I said in the last post, someone decided to tell some lies about me and this couple wouldn’t even listen to my side of the story and just put me down and sat on their high horses and judged me. They must have not read the part in the Bible that says: Do not judge lest you be judged and you will be judged in the same manner that you judge others. Not only are these fake friends so judgmental, they don’t even realize it. I have purged them from my life because they have brought me 2 years of pain, tears, insults, rejection, putdowns, and heartache. Before that I actually thought they were nice and friends. I have even stopped going to the church I used to go to, because this judgmental couple go there and I don’t want to see them or have anything to do with them ever again. I’m finished being their doormat. I don’t care what they think or say about me, they have nothing to do with me or my life. I don’t need their approval or love, I need GOD’S love. Anyway here is the email written by Pastor Rick Warren:

Quit Trying to Please Everybody by Rick Warren “It is dangerous to be concerned with what others think of you” (Proverbs 29:25 GN).

When we worry about what other people think, we let them control us. We waste a lot of time and energy trying to figure out what other people want us to be. Then, we waste a lot of time and energy trying to become like that rather than just being what God made us to be. You’re manipulated and controlled by somebody else. Worrying about what other people think is dangerous because we’re more likely to cave in to criticism. It means we don’t always do the right thing; instead, we do the thing that everybody wants us to do. And we’re in danger of missing God’s best because we’re so worried about what other people what us to do that we can’t stop to think about what God wants us to do. • Fact #1: You cannot please everybody. Even God can’t please everybody. One person prays for it to rain; another prays for it to be sunny. In the Super Bowl, both teams are praying that they will win. Who is God going to answer? God can’t please everybody. Only a fool would try to do what even God can’t do. You can’t please everybody. • Fact #2: It’s not necessary to please everybody. There is a myth that says you must be loved and approved by everybody in order to be happy. That’s just not true. You don’t have to please everybody in order to be happy in life. • Fact #3: Rejection will not ruin your life. It hurts, sure. It’s not fun. It’s uncomfortable. But rejection will not ruin your life unless you let it. Quit trying to please everybody! Remember that nobody can make you feel inferior unless you give them permission. The Apostle Paul says, “If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31 TEV) This means we can think like this: ‘God likes me, and I like me; if you don’t like me, then you’ve got a problem. If God likes me, who cares that everybody doesn’t approve of everything I do.’ Remember, nothing you ever do will make God love you less. Nothing you ever do will make God love you more. He loves you completely right now.

When you realize that people you thought were friends who turned out to be nothing of a friend, it hurts.

Recently someone made up lies about me. 2 people I used to think were friends-a couple-believed the lies right off the bat. I tried to tell them my side, but they wouldn’t even listen. I couldn’t even finish a single sentence before they’d interrupt me so they could judge me, tell me how I was doing everything wrong, putting me down, and accused me of lying when I was telling the truth.

These people have brought nothing but pain, heartache and negativity in my life for the past 2 years. At first they were very nice and I cared for them a lot. I did a lot for them. But got so much pain in return.

For example-the woman had surgery and I spent money I couldn’t really afford at Bath and Body works and brough dinner to her home. When I had surgery she didn’t so much as call or email me to ask how I was.

Every Christmas for the past 3 years I have gotten them gifts and they’ve gotten me nothing. This past Christmas the woman was angry and holding a grudge over something petty that happened in JUNE and gave everyone in church a Christmas card EXCEPT me. This rejection hurt and despite her grudge I still got them Christmas gifts.

They are always making comments and saying things to put me down and insult me. And these people call themselves Christians, yet they live on their high horse. I wonder if they informed God that they are going to take his place on Judgement Day.

If a TRUE friend hears lies or stories about a friend, they will definitely want to hear the friend’s side of the story. And if they are TRUE friends, whether they know the whole story or nothing of the story, they still will love you and not judge you.

Well I have purged these people from my lives who have brought so many tears, pain, rejection, and heartache.

It’s time to get rid of the negative and replace it with positive.

If you have fake friends in your life or people who are always putting you down and causing pain and negativity, the best thing to do is just get them out of your life and move on with your own life. Don’t try to please them and don’t worry about what they think about you. They have no power over you unless you give it to them.

Sometimes such as if you must work or go to school with a person like this, the best thing to do is ignore them and have nothing to do with them and focus on your own life to keep the negativity out of your life.

Everyone probably runs across people they thought were friends but later found out they were never friends in the first place. It hurts, but it’s best to get them out of your life as soon as possible.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

(Revelation 1:8)

“But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7