As much as we’d like to box God into our own way of thinking or to confine Him to our reality, we can’t. He does what He wants, said what He would do and is going to do. President Trump is a good case in point. Who would have thought a mere run-of-the-mill successful man could be elevated to the position of an American president? I’m being facetious of course, but just think about it; the president before him was only a rabble rouser, drug addict, sexual deviant and a Muslim to boot. Apparently, this was done by the Almighty to bring down the haughty criminals in our government.

Is He stoppable? Certainly not. Is there anything He can’t do? No. Consider the many universes out there in the heavenlies which are constantly expanding out even further and no one can stop them. Our Divine Creator is amazing and unfathomable. To think we can improve on His ways or His word (the Holy Bible) is complete and utter folly. Even so, many Christians pretend or really believe to know God better than He knows himself.

Just when our Christian country was at the brink of collapse by those who would do us harm – God intervenes with this man who would confound the “wise,” turning the whole world on its ugly head. A world fraught with revelry, confusion, criminality and fear. This is a man who says things that right-thinking people were all thinking. The words just tumble out of his mouth and from his fingers on twitter without a second thought. How clever it is for him to circumvent the press – who would have put words in his mouth or skewered the facts – no matter how noble.

By this miraculous happenstance we should know that, like it or not – God is in control.

Some of us have studied in seminary, others in Bible classes, and they think they know as much as they need to know about the God of the universe. Still though, He is even grander than we might imagine and cannot be boxed into our way of thinking. To think that He is only manlike with special abilities is being shortsighted. Can we make anything, anything at all just by calling it into being? Why, we can’t raise the dead or even so much as create an egg. Jesus can and did.

Yet too many Christians believe that God is their Santa Claus and that He will give them anything they please when we have all we really need on a daily basis. Jesus said that you already have a life and a body and if God clothes the lilies of the field won’t he certainly clothe you?

This mighty and awesome God can and does work miracles – even today. The problem is that most of us want results now – and without even being thankful for our daily bread – especially in public. Did it ever occur to you that sometimes God must set things in order to deliver on your prayer, something like bringing a reluctant player into your life? I’m sure there are many players and participants who just won’t budge until they are forced to do so on your behalf. Others just want to remain sleeping under a rock. But not to worry, God will eventually bring things about to our benefit, while at the same time testing us.

In any case, whatever the outcome, it is ultimately for your benefit if you belong to Him. “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” The secret to really knowing God is to do His bidding in accordance with His written word. Who doesn’t enjoy and want to gift an obedient child, especially if that child belongs to you?

Jesus said to learn of God, to love God and your fellow man, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind…Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”

That scripture verse leads me to write about an encounter I had recently with a homeless man.

I met the man in the Florida Keys while diving for lobster. He was sitting on a plot of land that once held a popular restaurant that was destroyed by Hurricane Irma. The plot of land was like a tiny island surrounded by submerged rocks, which made it an ideal place to get lobster. Jose sat alone on one of the boat ramp’s remains. Sitting in the shade of a palm tree, he was drinking a beer. Feeling the urge to do so, I approached the fifty-something-year-old Cuban man. Surprisingly, he was friendly and articulate despite his looks. Sporting a deep tan, he let it be known that he was a Christian – but not a Catholic.

Without prompting he began talking about the state of the nation and about the end times when I told him I was also a Christian. We must have talked for an hour or more. Sensing that the man did not have much interaction with others, I let him use me as a sounding board. He told me his life story and how his wife had left him ten years earlier to raise a daughter while she pursued a life of drug use. He put her through college, and today she is a medical technician somewhere up north.

In any case, the man was not a loser but was only waiting to recover benefits from medical problems due to his work as a heavy equipment operator. He lived on that island in the bushes, not wanting to burden others with his infirmities.

As we talked about spiritual matters, I corrected some misconceptions he had about the rapture and end times. He welcomed the things I shared with him as he asked questions. I finished the divine appointment by asking if he wanted prayer – the man gave me his hand to do so.

Everything we do for power and self-esteem is folly; eventually all life ends, and you can’t take anything with you. Even King Solomon said “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” Life without a sense of purpose and God is futile. Is it any wonder there are so many suicides in our country? Even celebrities and the wealthy are hanging it up literally – and that by doorknobs.

Only in God’s loving arms can we find peace and safety.

You’ve got to go to www.fbcn and view last Sunday’s sermon, the 12^th of August. Pastor Hayes Wicker is one of the last great Bible expositors in this time of apostasy. There are no cheesy tears and phony cracking voice with this man of God.

Our lovely soloist Lindsey Graham came back to us after a trip away. She never fails to uplift us with her many talents and professionalism. You can see her perform last Sunday the 12^th on the same website. What a gem!

YBIC

Jim Towers

I can be contacted at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com, wwwtheprophecies.com., as well as dropzonedelta.com.

It’s sad but true; many people today say they don’t believe in the God of the Bible, probably for fear that it would put restrictions on their sordid lifestyle – a lifestyle of promiscuity, drunkenness and/or drug abuse. The Ten Commandments mean nothing to them. They are those who would stop up their ears and close their minds to God’s word. They don’t want to acknowledge the clear/in your face reality of God, although our surroundings declare His Glory. How can you look about you and not see the reality of a Divine Creator? Obviously, they’ve been blinded by the Evil One – Satan.

Many of the politicians in Washington D.C. have turned this country on its head with their socialist ideology and greed, an ideology where right is wrong and wrong is right.

Democrats and even some Republicans are culpable, and some of the atrocities that were perpetrated by recent administrations are finally coming to light. Today, many of the politicians that were thoroughly ensconced in those previous administrations are retiring so as not to be caught up in the ever-widening net of justice. Others are being prosecuted; and still others have gone to jail, thus fulfilling a Bible promise, “Be sure your sins will find you out.”

Then of course, we have other so-called gods who would advocate for fear, confusion, hate, murder and Sharia. Incredibly, the religion of Islam whose god is Allah, and which is opposed to all others, has infiltrated recent administrations; the entire country’s legal system; and the highest echelons of society, including our learning institutions.

Now, that isn’t to say that the present incoming crop is not without fault. Some conservatives are just as bad.

Most of us have been there and done those very things ourselves, but Christ has delivered us from such folly by dying for our sins. The Apostle Paul says in the book of Romans, “Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord!”

On the other hand, you have those who seek after the God of the Bible (usually after they’ve come to the end of their rope) and repent, receive Christ and are saved from judgment. “For by grace are you saved and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of God lest any man should boast.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is the one true and benevolent God. We were made to be without a care in the world. As a matter of fact, that was God’s intent for mankind all along. He wanted us to enjoy the fruits of our labor and to look to Him for help in times of trouble. He wanted us to rely on Him for all our needs as well. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is a gracious and just God.

That being said, God’s people should be more upright than all others and stand up for what is right and good for themselves and others. By upright I mean to be what we were meant to be with the potential to do good and live an upright life. This should be our ideal human nature, but it isn’t. This is what we were meant to be but aren’t, all because of our disobedience in the Garden of Eden. Now our natural state is one of rebellion. But we who are born again through faith in Christ have the victory and can live above the fray without fear or apprehension, knowing we serve the One True God. All other supposed gods lead to poverty of soul, death and destruction.

Ultimately, we “Believers” can rely on the promises of our one true God. “Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary – they shall walk and not faint.”

Movies:

Believe it or not, a new film is about to be introduced in early October – this after a long dry spell of faith films – (none of which were very successful at the box office.) But I like the title of this one – “The Trump Prophecies.” I just hope they feature some good stories, actors, narrative, lighting, sound and music since all these things go a long way in making for a good movie.

In the meantime, the movie “Death of a Nation” by Dinesh D’ Sousa has been playing around the country. The audience was made up of mostly older people and comprised of about 40 to 50 people. Dinesh is a former president of Kings College, a Christian school in New York City. Today he is a gifted writer and filmmaker.

I’m sure that those in attendance got their money’s worth of information – if not entertainment.

As a matter of fact, the early critiques coming out of Hollywood (a bastion of sodomites, pedophiles and rapists) condemn Dinesh for portraying Trump as a true patriot and leader with all his supposed flaws. However, we Christians know that all men are imperfect and that the Bible says it is God who sets up a country’s leader. (Consider Obama for our chastening.)

Both films named above have our President Donald Trump featured in them. This is ironic to those who don’t know scripture. For the scriptures say, “God has used the base things of the world to confound the wise.”

Another inspirational film is on the horizon. It is the conversion story of Frank Zamperini (remember the movie “Unbroken”?) Well, this movie tells the rest of that first story.

Until next time,

YBIC

Jim Towers

You can contact me at: jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com – www.theprophecies.com  and dropzonedelta.com.

Do yourself a favor and check out FBCN on the internet for sermons by Pastor Hayes Wicker.