I was praying. I was asking. I was pleading, “Lord, could you please help this woman and her sons.”
As I was saying, “God You are all powerful and in charge, and nothing is impossible for You,” I was thinking how can I help? What can I do? How will I fix this?
BONG! A light bulb moment. We are not to come to the throne of the King with doubts, meekly asking for help. We are to come boldly, confident that God and God alone can help. He can make it happen and we have to pray with the confidence that He will. We must push past our doubts to receive the full blessing of His goodness and mercy. Continued »
How do you spend your free time? Where do you spend your treasures? How much of it is dedicated to helping others and obeying the word of God. Watching how you spend your time and energy can reap marvelous rewards both for the present and the future.
I was thinking about this today when we stopped for lunch at the local Chick-fil-a restaurant. The owner of this particular establishment is a young man named Justin Beard. We have had the opportunity to talk with Justin on a number of occasions and know him to be a fine upstanding young man dedicated to Christ and to his family and the community he lives in. Continued »
But for a vast number of America’s Christians, many Jews and even many non-religious conservatives, it is deeper than any military or political reason. The reason is based on a verse in Genesis in which God, referring to the Jewish people, says to Abraham: “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.”
One need not be a Jew or Christian or even believe in God to appreciate that this verse is as accurate a prediction of the future as humanity has ever been given by the ancient world. The Jewish people have suffered longer and more horribly than any other living people. But they are still around. Their historic enemies are all gone. Those who cursed the Jews were indeed cursed.
And those who blessed the Jews were indeed blessed. The most blessed country for more than 200 years has been the United States. It has also been the most blessed place Jews have ever lived in. Is this a coincidence? Many of us think not.
The above excerpt is from a recent article written by Dennis Prager and published in Townhall Magazine. If you are a concerned christian, as I know most of you who regularly read this blog are, then you will want to read the rest of this article.