Showing posts with label #COURAGE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #COURAGE. Show all posts

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Terrorists In Congress


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Joshua 1:9

King James Version

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

 Two months ago, a monstrous, murderous mob stormed the legislative branch of the greatest democracy the world has ever known. Those there were unprepared, and yet no one in the government was harmed. Some of the defenders were harmed: that is why they were hired. Since then, the government has fortified the Capitol Building area so that no one can get in. It is patrolled by beefed up security and surrounded by steel fences and rolls of razor wire.

Not since August 24, 1814, when a British army marched into Washington and burnt the Capitol and the President’s Mansion has the Capitol been so threatened. Those soldiers were part of the most powerful army on earth, the ones who defeated Napoleon, the conqueror of Europe.

Now over two hundred years later, a threat to the safety of the capitol was announced by the FBI and the CIA. A group of disgruntled, yellow-livered malcontents have threatened to destroy congress-men and -women. Sure, they profess patriotism, but these well-armed traitors will end up taking away our freedoms. Their primary goal is to shut down congress and stop the process of government. In the past no one would have taken them seriously.

What have these miscreants achieved? Exactly that! Congressmen, scared and afraid to do the very work they have been elected to do, have opted to cower at home. They have been elected to represent us—and the free world. Their work spaces are barricaded behind all those fortifications, and yet they have allowed treasonous conspirators to shut down congress. How awful! Congress should be covering their faces for shame.

Our congress members need to take the commission that God gave Joshua to be strong and of good courage, to not be afraid nor dismayed. Representatives and Senators, get down on your knees, claim this promise God made to Joshua, and do the right for us, your supporters and electors!

May God give our elected officials courage and determination to represent us boldly and in good faith the way we have elected them for!

 

Labels: #California, #IR, #InlandEmpire, #Congress, #Representatives, #Senators, #Fear, #Terrorists, #Traitors, #FBI, #CIA, #NationalGuard, #Courage, #Capitol

 

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/nations-capital-turned-fortress-washington-ahead-inauguration/story?id=75259761

Monday, November 23, 2015

Persecute Children?

Psalm 51:15

The Voice (VOICE)

15 O Lord, pry open my lips
    that this mouth will sing joyfully of Your greatness.
Jocelyn (not her real name) was a student in a local public middle school. Their class had been studying Islam in their religion class. The class syllabus had them study all of the major world religions, except Christianity, in reasonable depth. They took at least three weeks for each religion. Students were required to try and think like a Muslim or a person in whatever religion they were studying at the time. They were to find all of the good things about the religion and not allowed to say anything negative about it.

In my schooling, the 8th grade was the time our class went through the doctrines our church taught very, very thoroughly and completely. To this day the concepts I have of our doctrines is what I remember from that course when I was 12 years old. Naturally over the years my mature, analytical mind has reevaluated how I think about them today, but the foundation was laid that year−the year I was baptized. So personally, I regard that time frame in a child’s life as being most formative.

Jocelyn is by nature a very shy and retiring student, not wanting to make waves. She was unable to reconcile what she was learning in school and the fanatical Islamic terror tactics that she saw each night on TV. Finally the Lord opened her mouth, and she told her class that she is a Christian saved by grace and that “there is none other name under heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved.” The teacher was horrified and sent her to the principal. The principal suspended her from school. He later told Jocelyn’s father that it is illegal to mention the name of Christ in a California public school. Jocelyn was not to come back to school until she signed a contract that she would not talk about Christ or Christianity on campus ever again. Of course her parents, who are new Christians attending one of the popular mega-churches, could not tolerate that denial of the American Bill of Rights to their daughter and have moved her to a Christian school.

Martin Luther, who suffered extreme opposition and persecution throughout his life, commented about this verse. “By asking the LORD to open his lips, David showed how difficult it is to offer thanks to God. This is something God demands of us. Talking about the Lord and thanking him publicly require an extreme amount of courage and strength because the devil is constantly trying to stop people from doing this. If we could see all of Satan’s traps, we would know why David prayed for the Spirit’s strength and asked the Lord himself to open David’s lips. He wanted to tell the devil, the world, kings, princes, and everyone about the Lord.”[ii]

Lord, open my lips and then use them to speak Your praises.





[i] http://koha.andrews.edu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=725217&query_desc=au%3A%22Gow%2C%20Haven%20Bradford.%22
[ii][ii] Martin Luther By Faith Alone: 365 Devotional Readings Update in Today’s Language,  ed. James C. Galvin (pub. 1998 by World Bible Pub. Iowa Falls, IA) from the page for November 15.