Showing posts with label prayer. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

DNC Heresy: "Jesus the Palestinian Refugee"

The Democratic National Committee just rigged its elections—again.

After stunning losses at the federal as well as state levels, one would think that the Democratic Party would rethink their mad descent into communistic insanity.

Nope.

Of course, it was not as though there were great options to begin with.

Congressman Keith Ellison was the “progressive” favorite. Bernie Sanders support Ellison, and so did the burned Berniacs furious with the corrupt Democratic National Committee for tipping their hands and paving the way for the beloved Crooked Hillary to win the Democratic nomination.
Then there was was To Perez, an Obama-Hillary hack with "Establishment" written all over him.
And it's not like the have big shoes to fill, either.

The previous DNC Chairman was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is so thoroughly discredited, that Democratic delegates in her home state of Florida booed her. The Medusa-Head from Miami had colluded the whole time, and when she finally was forced to step down, she took a leadership role with the Hillary Clinton campaign.

Is there no end to the shameless collusion of the Democratic Party? Is there no end to their destructive distortions of truth and reality? They see nothing as sacred. Nothing at all.

Even divine subjects have become tarnished, and their religious leaders are false prophets, clouds without water.

Check out who gave the invocation at the latest DNC meeting, in which the next DNC Chairman would be announced:

Imam Abdullah Jaber.
Here is the speech:

Here are some of his comments which stand out:

“The prophet Isaiah called out in the midst of national turmoil and said ‘Then you will call upon the Lord, and the Lord will answer. You will cry, and he way, ‘”Here I am.”’

“But that is if you remove oppression from amongst you.

“That is if you start saying, ‘yes, black lives matter.’ That is if you say, ‘yes, all Muslim lives matter.'”

I immediately cringe. What about Jewish lives? How many Jews have been murdered, obliterated, exterminated by rabid anti-Semites, Nazis (the ones who fought in World War II and the neo-Nazis of today). What about Christian lives, like the ones decimated throughout the Middle East?

What about their lives? Don’t they count, too? Reports suggest that the Imam was about to say ‘All Lives Matter’ but held back to maintain Islamic-minority pre-eminence in the race for victimhood.
“That’s when we start standing up for humanity domestically and abroad.”

So, if I have lighter skin, I do not count?

For a religious figure who was talking about unity and not division, he spent more time dividing everyone.

Then came the most offensive remark yet:

“Because we know of a brown-skinned man who was considered a threat by the authorities. We know of a brown-skinned Palestinian man who was considered a threat but he was nothing but a refugee, right? And that is Jesus.”

Jesus, the Palestinian refugee?

Let’s settle a few facts first, though.

The Islamic faith claims to revere God’s Word, including the Christian Bible—as if there is any other Bible, although some refer to the Old Testament as the Hebrew Bible due to outreach to Jewish communities.

Yet right away the destructive of the Islamic political ideology (I can no longer call it a religion, due to its bloodthirsty basis in history and moral declarations) is in full blown contradiction.
Islam posits that Jesus was not God, but a great prophet, but nevertheless a slave of Allah.

Yet the Bible which Muslims claim to revere is crystal clear about who Jesus is:

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John 1:1)

How about this verse, which should be embedded deep in the heart of every believer:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father but by me.” (John 14:6)

The Apostle Paul writes in Colossians:

“For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form.” (Colossians 2:9)

Jesus did not hide His Messianic call from the Pharisees, either, but rather confounded their unbelief:
“While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying, What think ye of Christ? 
whose son is he? They say unto him, The Son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying,

“The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool?
“If David then call him Lord, how is he his son? And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.” (Matthew 22: 41-45)

Jesus, the Messiah, is not lesser than David, folks, but is cherished equality with YHWH, God our Father.

Jesus is God everlasting, yet became a man to save us. In fact, the Gospel of John does not even include  “the” in the original Greek, since it’s the beginning of beginnings.

And the notion that Jesus was a refuge? Laughable yet deeply offensive.

One verse puts to shame and asunder such an outrageous lie:

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16)

Jesus was not fleeing any oppressor, or any oppressive government:

“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6)
Jesus is no refugee. He is the King of Kings.

To call him a “Palestinian” is the height of arrogant, heretical stupidity. Jesus came as a Jew to save both Jew, Greek, barbarian, the whole world.

The Democratic Party is heading toward untrammeled self-destruction if they continue to embrace such blatant falsehoods and follies.

With such a liar leading the opening invocation at the DNC, is it any surprise that the Democratic opposition has fallen on such hard times?

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Making American Great Again: President Trump Starts First Day By Going to Church

The Daily Breeze printed something positive about President Trump, and it's only his second day on the job!


President Donald Trump opened his first full day as president Saturday at a national prayer service, the final piece of transition business for the nation’s new chief executive before a promised full-on shift into governing.

This is the kind of leadership we need.



The last thing that this country needs is another four years of a chief executive who does not believe he needs any other wisdom than his own self-confidence and hubris.

We have suffered long enough under the arrogant and feckless outrage of a little prince who ate in the morning and refused to listen to anyone else but his own university-induced hatred.

In his inaugural speech, Donald Trump mentioned that this country is one nation under God:

The Bible tells us, “how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable. There should be no fear – we are protected, and we will always be protected.

We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement and, most importantly, we are protected by God.

Amen to that!

Ronald Reagan believed in God, and our nation needed to rest as one nation under God!



Sunday, August 28, 2016

If the Red Cross Says "Don't Pray", Pray Anyway!

I had to reread this story when I found it.

A police officer in flood-ravaged Louisiana wanted to pray for the victims, men and women whose homes were swept away, families whose lives and legacies were irrevocably changed. Even as I write this, I think of Hardy Jackson, devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, who could only moan to the cameras:  “I’ve lost everything. I’m lost. I’m lost.”



Captain Clay Higgins shared with the public what happened to him Lafayette, Louisiana. He visited a shelter housing hundreds of displaced residents. He wanted to help them.

“This flood has been Biblical in proportion, and requires a Biblical response.”

Every crisis we face, we can rest in the promises of God’s Word to find an answer.

Higgins recounted the incalculable losses which his fellow Louisianans had lost in this unprecedented flood, once in 1000 years.

He then explained that The Red Cross was running the shelter, a private firm with a consistent set of rules t guide their operations. One of those rules? People cannot walk around the shelter and offer prayer and support to displaced victims. Higgins was clear: he was offering support, not forcing prayer and devotional activities on other people.

The Red Cross staffers told this police officer, who was not on duty at the time, that he could not pray with and for the people in the shelter!

Outrageous!

Fox News Opinion Columnist Tom Starnes reported:


Now, there is more to consider about this account. Higgins is running for Congress.

But from others records of what happened, Higgins was not looking for free press or donations.

He just wanted to pray with the people in the shelter.

Instead of support, he received calumny:

Higgins said he was escorted to a Red Cross supervisor who asked him to leave.

“I was told that the Red Cross does not allow spiritual counseling in their shelters,” he said. “The supervisor told me the Red Cross is not a religious-based organization and they don’t allow religious interaction with the residents.”

During the conversation, a flood victim asked Higgins to pray. The captain was obliged but had to do so outside the Red Cross shelter.

“Christian compassion was not welcomed there in the manner I had provided,” Higgins told me.



The Red Cross spokeswoman Suzy DeFrancis offered an explanation:

"There's hundreds of people in a shelter of different values and faith," she shares, "and they're sharing a very open space – and we just want them to be able to have their privacy."

She says Officer Higgins would have been given a room where people could have come to him for prayer, if they wanted, but they won't allow people to just go in and start praying.

Granted, no one—especially someone who is running for Congress and in some likelihood seeking publicity. And yet, there was no politicking.

A more egregious incident casts a darker light on the Red Cross’ “non-discriminatory” practice:

Meanwhile, a pastor in the town of Albany told me that four families left a Red Cross shelter after they were told they could not pray or read their Bibles at their cots.

“They got upset and literally packed up their stuff and came right here,” said the pastor, who asked not to be identified. “A Red Cross worker told them they could not pray or read their Bible in public.”

So, what do you do when an agency, whether public or private, says that you cannot pray?

Pray anyway!

What do you do when an agent of a private firm says “You can’t read your Bible here?”

Read it anyway!

Come on, Body of Christ. We have braver examples set out for us!

Daniel prayed ... anyway!

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The Prophet Daniel was a captive youth in a foreign land, probably 17 years old. He was firm in his faith, trust the Lord to care for him. Despite the pressures around him and among his Israelite cohorts, he did not cave to the culture.

When the jealous pagans of the Medo-Persian Empire wanted to eliminate Daniel, they deceived King Darius to pass a draconian decree:

“ … that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions. Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree. (Daniel 6: 7-9)

In short: “Don’t pray at all, or you will die!”

Did our beloved Daniel stop praying? No way!

“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.” (Daniel 6: 10)

Daniel just kept on keeping on.

Officer Clay Higgins could have just kept praying.

The other families could have kept reading. What was the Red Cross going to do, send them out? Have them arrested? Certainly, they would not face any fatal or capital punishment for exercising their God-given natural rights.

No, Believers. We have a Constitution, by the Grace of God, which “secures the blessings of liberty.” More importantly, we have a new standing and power because of the more important Red Cross, the one that Jesus died on for us. This nation needs to pray, and we should not stop when someone says “No you can’t”.

We need to pray for our Heavenly Father to open our eyes and see His love and goodness. We need to pray in the Spirit, keeping ourselves in the love of God. When we pray with others, let us focus on a true remembrance of God’s greatness and goodness in the midst of theses trying tragedies.


If they say “don’t pray”, pray anyway!