1. “The majority of people in developed countries spend at least some time interacting with the Internet, and Governments are abusing that necessity in secret to extend their powers beyond what is necessary and appropriate.”
2. “…I believe that at this point in history, the greatest danger to our freedom and way of life comes from the reasonable fear of omniscient State powers kept in check by nothing more than policy documents.”
3. “The government has granted itself power it is not entitled to. There is no public oversight. The result is people like myself have the latitude to go further than they are allowed to.”
4. “…I can’t in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they’re secretly building.”
5. “The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.”
6. “With this capability, the vast majority of human communications are automatically ingested without targeting. If I wanted to see your e-mails or your wife’s phone, all I have to do is use intercepts. I can get your e-mails, passwords, phone records, credit cards.”
7. “Any analyst at any time can target anyone. Any selector, anywhere… I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President…”
8. “To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters them and it analyzes them and it measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that’s the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. So while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government, or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they are collecting YOUR communications to do so.”
9. “I believe that when [senator Ron] Wyden and [senator Mark] Udall asked about the scale of this, they [the NSA] said it did not have the tools to provide an answer. We do have the tools and I have maps showing where people have been scrutinized most. We collect more digital communications from America than we do from the Russians.”
10. “…they are intent on making every conversation and every form of behavior in the world known to them.”
11. “Even if you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re being watched and recorded. …it’s getting to the point where you don’t have to have done anything wrong, you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call, and then they can use this system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you’ve ever made, every friend you’ve ever discussed something with, and attack you on that basis, to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life.”
12. “Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.”
13. ”Everyone everywhere now understands how bad things have gotten — and they’re talking about it. They have the power to decide for themselves whether they are willing to sacrifice their privacy to the surveillance state.”
14. “I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under.”
15. “I don’t want to live in a world where there’s no privacy, and therefore no room for intellectual exploration and creativity.”
16. “I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.”
17. “I had been looking for leaders, but I realized that leadership is about being the first to act.”
18. “There are more important things than money. If I were motivated by money, I could have sold these documents to any number of countries and gotten very rich.”
19. “The great fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change. [People] won’t be willing to take the risks necessary to stand up and fight to change things… And in the months ahead, the years ahead, it’s only going to get worse. [The NSA will] say that… because of the crisis, the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it. And it will be turnkey tyranny.”
20. “I will be satisfied if the federation of secret law, unequal pardon and irresistible executive powers that rule the world that I love are revealed even for an instant.”
21. “You can’t come up against the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk.”
22. “I know the media likes to personalize political debates, and I know the government will demonize me.”
23. “We have got a CIA station just up the road – the consulate here in Hong Kong – and I am sure they are going to be busy for the next week. And that is a concern I will live with for the rest of my life, however long that happens to be.”
24. “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.”
25. “There’s no saving me.”
26. “The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won’t be able to help any more. That’s what keeps me up at night.”
27. “I do not expect to see home again.”

Read Deuteronomy 28:15-68

America was founded upon Biblical principles, yet we look around and find it hard to distinguish anything Christian about it anymore! The Bible was once adhered to as the textbook in schools. Now it is banned.

Notice what the prophet Isaiah reported: “And He [Lord of hosts – v. 6] will destroy in this mountain the face of covering cast over ALL people, and the vail that is spread over all nations” (Isaiah 25: 7). There is a covering, a vail of spiritual blindness that blankets the people of the earth. Is it any wonder they go to sleep reading the Bible or say the political is okay?

That same blindness was evident with the collapse of the Roman Empire. They continued to let “barbarians” come into their land that did not become Romans. They did not learn the culture; therefore, they had no loyalty to Rome. America is in the same condition today! Illegal aliens are pouring into our country without assimilating into our culture. They even claim parts of the Southwest for themselves. Blindness!!!

The Apostle Paul lamented over Israel’s blindness, yet he understood that God was working out a great purpose for all mankind. “What then? Israel has not obtained that which he seeks for; but the election has obtained it, and the rest were BLINDED” (Romans 11: 7). Paul even quoted scripture to prove the blindness was a part of God’s plan. “(According as it is written, GOD HAS GIVEN THEM THE SPIRIT OF SLUMBER, EYES THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE, AND EARS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HEAR;) UNTO THIS DAY. And David said, LET THEIR TABLE BE MADE A SNARE, AND A TRAP, AND A STUMBLINGBLOCK, AND A RECOMPENCE UNTO THEM: LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAYS” (Romans 11: 8-10).

This scripture says God is responsible for the blinding of the people. But how has He allowed such blinding to occur? “But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” (2 Corinthians 4: 3-4). God has allowed the “god of this world” to deceive. He didn’t have to let him roam freely to deceive. Jesus said in Matthew 28: 18 that He had all power in heaven and in earth. That means “the god of this world” has no power unless Jesus allows him to have it. Read the First and Second chapters of Job to understand permission given by God to the “god of this world.”

“The god of this world” was identified as being in the original Garden of God. He was called the “serpent” in Genesis 3. The identity of “the god of this world” is clarified in the Book of Revelation. “And the great dragon was cast out, that old SERPENT, called the Devil, and Satan, WHICH DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD: …” (Revelation 12: 9).

It is this ungodly deceiver that we are contending with today. The world has been blinded by Satan’s activities, but God has opened our eyes to his deceptions. God has promised that He would provide a way out if pressure became too much for us to bear (1 Corinthians 10: 13). We are not to be ignorant or unknowledgeable of Satan’s tactics. We are not to let Satan blind us again once we have come out from under his sway. God’s Spirit in us should give us spiritual understanding as to who is our enemy! We are not to let him get an advantage over us.

Will someone throw a stumbling block in your way? Just because someone performs an ungodly act while claiming to be a Christian, does that give you the right to throw away your salvation and become blinded again?

Because all of Israel has been blinded except the “elect” today, what was Paul’s conclusion? “I say then, Have they [physical Israel] stumbled that they should fall? GOD FORBID:…” (Romans 11: 11). Blindness is to be removed in God’s due time. He has a plan!!! “For I would not … that you should be ignorant of this mystery [secret plan], … that blindness in part is happened to Israel, UNTIL the fullness of the Gentiles [nations] be come in. AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED: as it is written, THERE SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER, AND SHALL TURN AWAY UNGOD-LINESS FROM JACOB: FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT UNTO THEM, WHEN I SHALL TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS” (Romans 11: 25-27).

Spiritual blindness has covered the earth to allow mankind to learn that they cannot rule their lives separate and apart from God’s perfect spiritual Laws. God allowed Satan to blind the world UNTIL His plan is complete. The very last phase was to remove the source of blindness – Satan (Revelation 20: 1-3). Satan and his angels will be locked up in a spiritual prison during the 1,000-year reign of Christ. Salvation will be extended to ALL the world – not just Israel.

With the source of deception eliminated, the world will, as a whole, accept Jesus as its Savior. He will resurrect from the dead those who have been blinded during all ages. He will pour out His Holy Spirit upon them; and for the first time, they will KNOW the Lord (Ezekiel 37: 1-14; Romans 11: 15).

Blindness is destined to disappear. Minds will be opened to the REAL truth! Salvation will come. Oh the mercy of God through Jesus Christ.

FOUR years after Barack Obama was elected on a platform of “change you can believe in,” he’s now promising America that the “best is yet to come.” However, on almost every front – fiscally, militarily, politically, socially – the country is in a state of disarray.

Most troubling, however, is the state of our freedoms. Indeed, during Obama’s first term, our civil liberties were utterly and completely disemboweled. The great irony, of course, is that this happened with a self-proclaimed constitutional law professor at the helm – a man who was supposed to understand and respect the rule of law as laid out in the U.S. Constitution.

Not only did Obama continue many of the most outrageous abuses of the George W. Bush administration, including indefinite detention and warrantless surveillance of America citizens, but he also succeeded in expanding the power of the “imperial president,” including the ability to assassinate American citizens abroad and unilaterally authorize drone strikes resulting in the deaths of countless innocent civilians, including women and children.

Obama has a lot to account for over the course of his first four years in office, particularly in terms of the erosion of our civil liberties. Just consider some of the assaults on our freedoms that took place under Obama’s watch, either as a result of his continuing Bush’s policies, enacting his own misguided policies or simply because he did nothing to counter them:

• In March 2009, only two months after being elected, Obama defended Bush’s unconstitutional National Security Agency spying program in court. Obama went so far as to insist that actions authorized by the president, including illegally spying on American citizens, should be free from any judicial scrutiny whatsoever.
• In April 2009, the Department of Homeland Security launched a program, Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremist and potential domestic terrorist threats because they might be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.” Coupled with the DHS’ report on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority or rejecting government authority entirely,” these tactics bode ill for anyone seen as opposing the government – whether it be an Occupier, Tea Party supported or a free speech protester.
• In July 2009, Obama threatened to veto an oversight bill that would have required the president to inform lawmakers about covert CIA activities.
• In December 2009, Obama, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, announced his intention to ramp up the military industrial complex’s war in Afghanistan and subsequently followed through on his plan.
• In February 2010, the Department of Defense issued a U.S. Army field manual detailing the prospective internment and resettlement of American citizens in the event of another terrorist attack or natural disaster on U.S. soil. The leaked document confirmed the fears of many government critics, “from the Patriot movement on the right to Occupy on the left to Anonymous, anarchists, organized racists, survivalists, and plain old conspiracy theorists in between.”
• In March 2010, the Department of Homeland Security began rolling out controversial full-body scanners to American airports. Despite an initial outcry about the invasive nature of scanners and the enhanced pat-downs of American citizens, government officials continued to tout the machines as safe and effective. A year later, an investigative report by ProPublica/PBS NewsHour, revealed that six to 100 U.S. airline passengers each year could get cancer from the machines, which were purchased with Obama’s stimulus funds.

Editor’s note: The list of Obama abuses of power could go on and on. We know why he is doing these things! The communists said they would capture one or both political parties! They’ve done it!!!

A few example are:

• Undeclared wars are commonplace.
• Welfare for the rich and poor is considered an entitlement.
• The economy is overregulated, overtaxed and grossly distorted by a deeply flawed monetary system [the Federal Reserve System].
• Debt is growing exponentially.
• The Patriot Act and FISA legislation, passed without much debate, have resulted in a steady erosion of our Fourth Amendment rights.
• Tragically, our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression, with no complaints from the American people. The Constitution says only Congress can declare war, not the president.
• The drone warfare we are pursuing worldwide is destined to end badly for us as the hatred builds for innocent lives lost and the international laws flaunted. Once we are financially weakened and militarily challenged, there will be a lot of resentment thrown our way.
• It’s now the law of the land that the military can arrest American citizens, hold them indefinitely, without charges or a trial.
• Rampant hostility toward free trade is supported by a large number in Washington.
• Supporters of sanctions, currency manipulation and World Trade Organization trade retaliation call the true free traders “isolationists.”
• Sanctions are used to punish countries that don’t follow our orders.
• Bailouts and guarantees for all kinds of misbehavior are routine.
• Central economic planning through monetary policy, regulations and legislative mandates has been an acceptable policy [communism].

Excessive government has created such a mess it prompts many questions:

• Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
• Why can’t Americans manufacture rope and other products from hemp?
• Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?
• Why is Germany and Texas concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the Fed for them in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy [is] beginning to wane?
• Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
• Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
• Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?
• Why should there be mandatory sentences – even up to life for crimes without victims – as our drug laws require?
• Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure … Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?
• Why do we sacrifice so much, getting needlessly involved in border disputes and civil strife around the world, and ignore the root cause of the most deadly border in the world – the one between Mexico and the U.S.?
• Why does Congress willingly give up its prerogatives to the executive branch?
• Why does changing the party in power NEVER change policy? Could it be that the views of both parties are essentially the same?
• Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central banks get bailed out in 2008, and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?
• Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth?
• Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?

The Kingdom of God is our only hope!!!

Suddenly, things changed!!! The Viet Nam War seemingly changed society overnight. Our soldiers were introduced to what they called “mary jane.” They came home and continued to smoke “pot.” Our own government smuggled it into the country and had ways to distribute it. Then came harder drugs that were so addictive people could not break the habit. America became a drug culture. Robberies began to become prominent to pay for this addiction. Drug lords had those who did not pay for their drugs killed. Society as a whole began to go downhill. It became fashionable in Hollywood and displayed openly on the big movie screens and then television. The use of these illegal drugs went all the way to elementary schools. As a result, juvenile delinquency escalated. Most children lost respect for their parents. Both parents, forced to work away from home to pay their bills from a materialistic society, could no longer provide an example of goodness. The young people were no longer taught right values of morality. Husbands and wives were thrown into the face of co-workers and adultery became rampant. Homes were split and society continued its downward plunge.

God’s law began to be trampled upon through violation of it. Morals were being compromised as Communism wanted. They studied history well, and realized that every nation that lost its moral footing would eventually fall. America is on the brink of falling!!!

This crumbling is coming rapidly. Notice what Jesus Christ, as God of the Old Testament, said: “And God spoke all these words, saying, I am the Lord your God, which have brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, You shall have NO other gods before me” (Exodus 20:1-3). Look around at America today. When a young man or woman goes to college, could lose their innocence. They are turned away from God the Father and Jesus Christ. Many become atheists or just do not recognize their former Christian upbringing. They have thrown God’s Law to their backs or trampled upon it.

“You shall not make unto you any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments” (Exodus 20:4-6). Have Americans bowed down to their jobs, cars, homes, and materialism? Have they forgotten WHO gave them such wealth? Have they forgotten that Jesus is a jealous God? Have they forgotten to KEEP His commandments? This means they have thrown His way of life to the ground and trampled upon it!!!

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that takes His name in vain” (Exodus 20:7). Do you hear God and Jesus’ name used in phrases of vanity – meaningless expressions?

Most people grew up in traditions that broke off from the Catholic Church. They admit they did something they had no right to do – change God’s Sabbath to Sunday worship!!! What did Jesus say about this in the Ten Commandments? “REMEMBER the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shall you labor, and do all your work: BUT the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it” (Exodus 20:8-11).

Satan knows this 4th commandment is important to God. What has he done to cause people to profane it? He infiltrated the largest professing church in the world and influenced them to CHANGE God’s day of worship from the Sabbath to Sunday. As an enticement, Saturday has become the biggest shopping day of the week. Satan is clever, thereby causing mankind to violate another one of God’s commandments. All this and much more is what is wrong with America. We lost our God’s favor!!!

“And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, and has made us kings and priests unto God and His Father; to Him be glory and dominion forever and ever.” (Revelation 1:5-6).

Our destines are to be born with a spirit composed body and rule with Christ for 1,000 years!!! Do we believe the Bible is inspired by God for our learning? Look what Jesus inspired in Revelation 20:4, “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (last of v.5) This is the first resurrection.” Now v. 6, “Blessed and holy is he that has part in the first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and they shall reign with Him a thousand years.”

What a joy to understand that we will serve under Christ in His kingdom for 1,000 years. But where will this reign take place? Where the problems are!!!

“And they sung a new song, saying, You are worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for you were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and has made us unto our God KINGS and PRIESTS: and we shall reign on the earth” (Revelation 5:9-10).

Just think, you and I will teach people the true laws of God to prevent sin. We will teach them the true Holy Days of God, and eliminate the pagan holidays that the world engages in today.

The whole world will little-by-little learn of God’s ways when He sends one of His Sons or Daughters to become a king or priest. The human race will accept them as a mighty one because they will have a spirit composed body that cannot be assassinated. Notice how it will be:

“But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain [nation] of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains [larger nations], and it shall be exalted above the hills [smaller nations]; and people shall flow unto it [God’s kingdom]. And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and NONE shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken it. For all people will walk every one in the name of his god [saint with a new spirit composed body], and we will walk in the name of the Lord our God [God the Father and Jesus] forever and ever” (Micah 4:1-5).

Do you understand your destiny? You and I will rule over nations, states, counties, cities, etc.!!! The people under our jurisdiction will look to us, and we will point them to God the Father and our elder brother Jesus Christ.

There will be no more war, rather total peace. There will be no more pornography, rather pureness in heart. There will be no more murder or adultery, rather we will teach doing good to neighbors and stay away from the lust of the eye, lust of the flesh and the pride of life. This world will be transformed in righteousness rather than sinners. This will be a glorious time in man’s history when the Sons of God live and reign under Christ 1,000 years

Have you ever dreamed of such a future for yourself? Jesus has offered it to you. Will you accept the “Gospel” or Good News of the coming kingdom of God? If you do, you have a wonderful future before you. God be with you in accepting this wonderful offer!!!

President Woodrow Wilson tried to get us into the League of Nations, but the Senate rejected it because it would take us into world government and lose our national sovereignty. Behind the scenes giving Wilson instructions was Col. Edward Mandell House, a Socialist/ Communist. They were instrumental in getting the Federal Reserve System started to debauch our currency, and the tax amendment. Both were planks of the Communist Manifesto!!!

Read what singer and patriot Pat Boone wrote in the foreword of Craig R. Smith and Lowell Ponte’s book The Great Debasement. “The framers of America’s Constitution followed the Biblical standard for money, specifying that the U.S. dollar be an honest measure of silver or gold.

“So long as America kept faith with this standard, between the 1820’s and the creation of the Federal Reserve Board in 1913, the purchasing power of our dollar over time actually increased in value. American prosperity grew in part from keeping our money an honest medium of exchange and a sort of reliable value trusted around the world.

“In 1913 America began ‘The Great Debasement’ of our currency, the turn from gold to today’s Federal Reserves Notes, paper fiat money, based only on political promises. And as the Bible warned [Proverbs 13:11], in less than a century the buying power of our paper dollar has dwindled to only two cents of its 1913 value.

“In this book my long-trusted friend and advisor Craig Smith and former Reader’s Digest Roving Editor Lowell Ponte explain how this happened, and how our government continues to debase the dollar as a deceptive way to tax and CONTROL us. If this is not stopped soon, the dollar is doomed. …” Pat

The Communists had a 45 point plan to destroy America. One of those 45 points was to DEBAUCH our currency and leave us in bankruptcy!!! This was the purpose of the Federal Reserve, get us off the gold and silver standard and give us PAPER FIAT MONEY not backed by silver or gold.

Look at us today. We are over 16 trillion dollars in debt, when before 1913 we were the envy of the world. The world looked upon America’s poorest as rich.

The International Communist conspiracy to debauch our currency has worked with great accuracy. Of course, the Federal Reserve is composed of International Bankers who control Communism to be the seen enemy of the United States. That’s why retiring Rep. Ron Paul’s bill to “Audit the Fed” is so important. It will reveal what the Fed’s have been using our tax money and interest on loaned money.

A. Corrupt the young, get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial, destroy their ruggedness.

B. Get control of all means of publicity and thereby:

1. Get people’s minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books and plays and other trivialities.
2. Divide the people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance.
3. Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and obloquy.
4. Always preach true democracy but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible.
5. By encouraging government extravagance [spend, spend, spend], destroy its credit, produce fear of inflation with rising prices and general discontent.
6. Foment unnecessary strikes in vital industries, encourage civil disorders, and foster a lenient, soft attitude on the part of government toward such disorders.
7. By specious [pleasing] argument cause the BREAKDOWN of the old moral virtues: honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness.

C. Cause the registration of all firearms on some pretext, with a view to CONFISCATE them and leaving the population helpless, and hopeless.

The question is: Have they gotten our young people’s mind off religion and God? Have they gotten them interested in sex? Look at the teenage pregnancies in the last 40 years; it tells the whole story as to whether the Socialists/Communists are still at work to overthrow America.

The second question is: Have they gotten the people’s mind off government until the awaken of 2012-13 that we are now seeing? Do they cry “racism” to divide the people? Have they helped us to lose “faith” in our elected leaders by putting into office those that “hate” the Constitution? Is Obama seeking to SEIZE POWER as fast as he can? Have they underminded our once great countries moral virtues as they said they would in 1919?

Have we seen many mass murders by mind controlled individuals? Those working for world government KNOW they need to DISARM the American people, so they will not be met with a “civil war” – the people versus Washington, D.C. What has all the talk been about since Obama was “fraudulently” put back into office? It has been a PRETEXT to gun confiscation – not just gun control!!! Gun control is all over the internet and what sheriffs, some police officers and State governments are going to do when it tries to be enforced.

The more I think of and pray about the state of religion in this country, and all over the world, the deeper my conviction becomes that the low state of the spiritual life of Christians is due to the fact that they do not realize that the aim and object of conversion is to bring the soul even here on earth to a daily fellowship with the Father in Heaven.

When once this truth has been accepted, the believer will perceive how indispensable it is to the spiritual life of a Christian to take time each day with God’s Word, and in prayer to wait upon God for His presence and love to be Revealed. ~Andrew Murray

Do we have an attitude of expectancy when we pray? The greatest obstacle to our faith is our constant focus on the difficulties we face, rather than on the Great Creator of all things who has promised to answer our prayers. Peter was kept in prison, but prayer was made earnestly by the church unto God for him: the church prayed and God did the impossible and Peter was delivered. Our prayers must be made with our hearts and eyes focused on God, not on our difficulties. There should be no doubt in your mind, based upon the absolute promises of God that He will bless your life, marriage, and church if you will truly seek Him and His will in prayer! The greatest decision you can make is to make prayer a top priority in your life on a daily basis!

Is prayer the first thing in the morning on your list for the day? How much time do you give to prayer? Paul exhorts us just as he did the Christians in the church at Colosse in Col. 4:12. “Devote yourselves to prayer, keeping alert in it with an attitude of thanksgiving.” We can move mountains through prayer! We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us when we pray! Our savior said it best in Luke 18:1, “Men ought always to pray and not to faint.” May we all cry out to our Heavenly Father daily: Teach us to pray and give us the discipline and self control to do it faithfully!

Our Heavenly Father is calling each of us to a closer walk with Him as we develop a greater intimacy with our Savior through prayer. We must never underestimate the power of our prayers! When we pray for ourselves and for others according to God’s will and Word powerful miraculous results will come in answers to our prayers. Schedule a portion of your day to come boldly before the throne of grace. Make prayer the priority in your life that our Savior did during His earthly ministry. There is no higher calling nor greater honor and privilege than a life devoted to prayer. It is the key to being an over comer and dwelling in the shadow of the Almighty both now and throughout eternity.

Have you ever stopped to reflect on the times you’ve prayed? Not just the times when you’ve said some prayers, but times when you cried out to our Heavenly Father with deep emotion and an intense and fervent spirit. Unfortunately, this too often only happens when we are backed into a corner and are facing a crisis at some level. God’s desire for us is that we learn to pray with great passion and purpose on a daily basis ever seeking to draw closer and closer to Our Wonderful Savior. Too often we become preoccupied with the things of this world and devote very little time to those pursuits that have eternal value, such as prayer and fellowship with our Heavenly Father through the Scriptures.

When God pushes you to the edge of difficulty

Trust Him fully because two things can happen

Either He will catch you when you fall, or

He will teach you how to fly!

The Apostle Paul prayed many beautiful and powerful prayers for his brothers and sisters in the Faith. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul wrote the following words, which formed his heartfelt prayer for all the Saints. “That God may grant you to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, and that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith” Eph. 3:16-17. In Col. 1:9 he records another example of a prayer warrior’s heart when he says, “For this reason since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all wisdom and spiritual understanding.” There are many more examples of scriptural prayers that we can pray for ourselves and for one another. Powerful, dynamic words from our Father that are truly His will for all His Saints. We should never lack words for our prayers, if we will but turn to the Holy Scriptures for His Words to direct our lives in His will. Can we say as Paul that we have not stopped praying? Praying for ourselves and praying for others with a fervent enduring passion.

Our Heavenly Father is looking for men and women with a heartfelt commitment to intercessory prayer. This kind of commitment requires an earnest effort, and an energetic approach to praying that dictates the setting aside of specific time to be spent coming boldly before the throne of grace into the presence of our Father with our prayers. We should follow the example of Epaphrus, who according to Col. 4:12 was always wrestling in prayer for other Christians that they would stand firm in all the will of God, mature and fully assured. Epaphrus was a simple humble servant of Almighty God just like you and I. But he determined to make his life count for eternity by obeying with all his heart Col 4:2. “Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.” Prayer was the first thing on his list for the day. How about you? Is prayer the first thing on your list for the day? The last? Or is prayer somewhere in between if it ever happens much at all. The word devote used here doesn’t fully convey the complete meaning of the original Greek, which was giving constant attention to, or persevering.

We are commanded in Scriptures to make a conscious decision to set aside much time to talk with our Father in Heaven and to listen to Him as He works in our hearts by His Holy Spirit and His Word. The greatest privilege Our Father gives us is the freedom to approach Him at any time. Not only are we permitted, we are expected to meet with Him through prayer on a regular basis. Great power is available from God if we will but pray in faith, believing. Doctor R.A. Torrey built a message around James 4:2 many years ago, “You do not have because you do not ask. He said, “These words contain the secret of the poverty and powerlessness of the average Christian, the average minister and the average church.” “Many individuals and churches wonder why they have so little victory over sin. Why am I growing so slowly into the likeness of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? And God answers….”Neglect of prayer. You have not because you ask not.”

Prayer has as much power today when men and women are themselves on praying ground and meeting the conditions of prevailing prayer, as it has ever had. God has not changed and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save as they ever were. Ask God today to reveal his will for your life and the situation you are facing. Lift the level of your praying and He will show you great and mighty things you have never seen before!

Our God will supply all our needs according to His riches in glory – IF WE WILL PRAY!

Matthew 21:22

*All things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

Mark 11:24-25

*Therefore I say unto you, what things so ever ye desire, when ye pray,

believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

*And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any;

that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.