one of my favorite pastors . Very credible .

thank you for post .

bon

I remember when David warned America with a book that came out in the 1970's about strong judgements coming . He warned of the need for repentance and at the time it was ill-received . The uSA was living the fast-life , the sexual revolution was on , morals were dropping like flies , movies began to look like hardcore pornography , even light comedies . America did not want to listen to him . God was longsuffering , merciful . Really the first  "hard hit" was 2001,  and still no repentance . Just increased patriotism , no revivals.

I hate to say this -- and I don't know a happier way to phrase it -- but I'm becoming increasingly aware that American patiotism, at best, borders on pride ... the sort of pride that credits our own achievements rather than God's gifts and favor.

BINGO!!!!!!!!!  You are absolutely right!  I was getting this just this morning:  The "You Didn't Build That!" statement?  Guess what?  Without God, we couldn't build anything.  The people have forgotten that, and our Government knows it but wants to take credit and push God off the throne....Anti-Christ spirit, alive and well on planet earth and in America today.  I don't buy that all the government officials are clueless about God. No, I believe many are fully aware...and have given themselves to evil.  Of course, I would have to say they are deceived on some level which after much desensitization, is very very deep.  Generations deep.  But there are people in government positions that are willing participants, living off the people who, with Gods help, make all this happen, skimming the creme off the top. 

I have been saying for over a year now that we are ALREADY making bricks without straw....taxed beyond belief and expected to somehow feed ourselves and keep on driving those cars to work on fumes, keep on working the 40 hour work week, keep on paying those taxes.  And it is only getting worse out there, folks. 

SURELY our deliverer is coming.  SURELY!

He will lie to you that God has taken His Holy Spirit from you, that you are paying for past sins.

SOOO true, especially for some members of this very board.  Don't listen to Satan's lies!  That's what they are -- LIES.

Christ Himself said in John 14:16:

"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever"

He will NEVER take His Holy Spirit from you.  The Comforter is yours forever.  We MUST believe this if we are to believe we have eternal victory over Satan in Jesus!

Don't let Nasty Boy sideline you from being a warrior in Christ.  Your inheritance in Jesus doesn't rest on our feelings, praise God!  \O/  If our salvation is by faith alone, so too is our inheritance, as our inheritance IS our salvation!  So it matters not what you "feel".  Everything rests on the promises of God.  He never lies, so you can rest that His Word is truth.

I believe this is why it is by FAITH we are saved, because our feelings are so fickle and fleeting.  All we can do is trust and plod on, no matter if we "feel like it" or not.

~~Becka

I've been saying for some time now that satan is on the war path, doing everything he can to make Christians stumble or look like fools. While the mockery of Christians has been happening for a while now, I really feel that it got kicked up a notch last year around the time of Harold Camping's proclamation of the rapture and end of the earth. If you try to talk to anyone who is not a Christian about what is going on in the world and how it all lines up with the bible, they scoff and say "mere coincidence" or other comments which are not appropriate to post anywhere. I was listening to a broadcast this morning from a man talking about a dream that he had and his explanation of it and as I listened, I was troubled in my spirit, not because what he was saying was wrong, but because if what he was saying was right, there is very little time left and there are a lot of people that I know who are going to be left behind. 

For myself, as much as there have been a lot of improvements in my life over the last three years, there have still been trials and satan has especially been after me these last few months, planting seeds of doubt about my salvation, whether God truly loves me etc.  As a few of you are aware, I had posted a prayer request because I was in a lot of pain. I was praying and crying out to God for healing and no relief came. I finally ended up going to see a doctor which did the trick, but the devil was whispering, "your God doesn't heal, see? You begged and pleaded, what kind of God allows his daughter to suffer that kind of pain?" I thought about it a bit and then I said, "no! I am not going to listen to you satan. Maybe I was being tested, maybe this pain was from you to see what I would do with it, and even though my Father in heaven chose not to heal me directly, I know that He does love me. He died for me!"  That ended that onslaught, however, on the weekend, satan once again had me in his cross-hairs, making me question the salvation and motivation of my own husband! It's a long story but basically satan has been trying to break up our family for years now. And quite frankly his tactics are getting really boring! LOL  he is desperate because he sees that the end is so close and he sees how we are raising our children to love God and he sure can't have that. 

I am so thankful for each of you here, I learn so much and sometimes you guys make my head spin with info (especially the math stuff! LOL) but I know that this is like another family for me to lean on.  Can't wait to meet each one of you in person. POOL PARTY AT MY MANSION!