Nov 27, 2017

Call to Prayer:  Where to Begin…?

Let’s see…what to choose to ask the brethren to pray about this week…? In these last of the last days before Christ returns, there is no shortage of topics. God, who desires that none should perish, is trying to get the unbelieving world’s attention to turn to His Blessed Son as Savior, who is God in the flesh; for there is no other way by which one can enter Heaven except through Christ, who paid for our sins with His own precious blood.

As the U.S. Celebrated Thanksgiving, More Homeless Than Ever Needed to Be Fed

Homelessness has increased in recent years in major cities across the U.S. in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. Hardest hit of these cities are those in New York, California, Oregon and Washington. The greatest numbers of homeless are veterans, women and children. There is a pattern in all this. Every major city that is poverty stricken is run by liberals, which shows that the poor, who they claim to care so much about, are suffering under their bad government.

Speaking of the Holidays, Should You Buy the Alexa Device for Christmas?

Alexa is programmed with liberal left beliefs. For example: It tells you there are two main categories of the gender binary spectrum, male and female, but that many other categories exist. That said, Steven Crowder of Louder with Crowder pulled a fast one on people regarding the device in his video this week. Crowder turned off the tape after asking it, “Who is Jesus?” Then he apparently asked it something off camera that caused it to answer (after he turned the video back on) that Jesus was a fictional character. Alexa actually says “He was a Jewish preacher and religious leader who is the central figure of Christianity.” He pulled another stunt regarding the question, “Who is Mohammad?” Still, be forewarned that there are liberal left beliefs programmed into Alexa.

New “Experiment” on Our Children Coming to the Educational System

As if the Marxist “useful idiots” that Soviet defector, Yuri Besmenov, warned us of in 1984 haven’t already done enough damage to our youth’s minds in the educational system, etc., Bill Gates doesn’t feel like he’s done enough damage yet with his Common (Communist) Core “experiment” on our children, so he’s planning another “experiment.” What is it? We haven’t been told.

You can also hear this globalist on YouTube saying that we can “reduce the human population through vaccines and health care.” His mention of health care was separate from reproductive so-called health care (aka abortion), which he then added was another way to reduce the population.

The Transgender Agenda Continues to be Forced Upon Our Children

From Breitbart: Teachers should avoid calling female pupils “girls” or “ladies” because it means they are “constantly reminded of their gender,” a former government mental health tsar has said.

Natasha Devon, who was appointed MBE in 2015 for “services to young people,” said the move would help transgendered children as well as encourage female and male students to defy traditional notions of gender, which affect “well-being.” She told the Girls’ School Association’s annual conference in Manchester, England that she would “never walk into a room in an all-girls’ school and say ‘girls’ or ‘ladies’ because it is “patronizing.” Teachers should instead address youngsters as “pupils,” “students,” or even just “people,” she insisted.

The Children of ISIS

There is a huge problem with what to do about the children and wives of ISIS fighters who have been killed or captured, and not just in Iraq. Men came to Iraq from Turkey to join ISIS, but also from Germany, Africa, etc. These nations are willing to take the children back, but hesitate to accept the women, as they are considered to be a threat (having chosen to marry ISIS terrorists). Many young children are living in crowded, filthy conditions in jails with their mothers while the debate goes on.

Bombing of Mosque in Iraq

The death toll is now over 300 dead and over 100 injured in the bombing of an Iraqi mosque. If ISIS has been defeated, then why were ISIS flags seen on the vehicles that converged on the mosque? One survivor said that the terrorists went through the mosque, making sure everyone was dead, and that he survived because he was underneath dead bodies. Over two dozen of the dead were children. It is believed this mosque was targeted because it is considered to be of the Sufi mystical sect who reveres saints and shrines.

Iran Threat Looming Large

Iranian leaders and military generals have ramped up their threats this week. Iran has become the world’s number one threat, so much so that other Arab nations are meeting to discuss what to do, and Saudi Arabia has even aligned itself with Israel and the U.S. for protection. Russia refuses to get Iran to back out of Syria. Israel next door is under the greatest threat and vows to take matters into her own hands if need be. We see the last days prophesied fulfillment of Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38-39 getting closer by the day.

Proverbs 8: A Call for Wisdom, But in it is Christ

I felt the need to ask all who read this ‘call to prayer’ to read Proverbs 8. Please read the whole proverb, but here is an excerpt:

“Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things…They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction…Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways…Blessed is the man that heareth me…For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.”

Proper wisdom can only be found in God’s Word—The Holy Bible—in which one will find Christ.

Nov 20, 2017

Call to Prayer: “When will it End?”

We’re asking for prayer this week regarding two concerns, not that there aren’t many more. One is for the injured victims and families of the deceased in yet another mass shooting. On November 13 and 14, 44-year-old Kevin Neal, who had a history of mental and anger issues, including arrests, perpetrated a series of shootings in Rancho Tehama Reserve in California, using a semi-automatic rifle and two handguns. He was barred from owning guns after a stabbing incident in January; however, he manufactured the guns at his home.

He killed five people and wounded 12 others at several crime scenes, including at an elementary school. In addition to the victims who were shot during the rampage, several others were injured by shattered glass.

Neal killed his wife on November 13 and hid her body under the floorboards in their home.The next day, November 14, he killed two neighbors with whom he’d been feuding, claiming they were making meth and that the fumes were injuring his nine dogs. (Neal himself was a pot grower, which is a big business in California Land. His sister has since stated that she believed he was addicted to drugs. If indeed his dogs were affected, perhaps they were nibbling on those plants).

After the initial murders, Neal went on a random shooting spree, firing at vehicles and pedestrians. He ran inside an elementary school, firing at windows and walls, and tried to get inside classrooms, which were locked down by a diligent custodian as soon as shots were heard. This same custodian also rounded up children to get inside and hide in the classrooms when the shooter rammed a stolen truck through the front gates.

Two children were shot and wounded at the school, and a woman was shot as she tried to distract Neal away from the school.After leaving there, Neal continued his rampage before being killed by sheriff deputies.

Six of those shot and wounded were children – two very young students at the school, and three other children from the same family who were wounded when Neal shot at their vehicle. Their mother was also shot.

Six-year-old Aileen Favela said she wasn’t aware of what was happening when a classmate yelled for her to “get down.” She said she was worried about her brother during the shooting.  Both are now afraid to go to school. Surely many other children feel the same way.

Victims’ families have turned to online fundraisers to help with medical expenses.

The other request for prayer concerns our nation. The minions of madness, who have proven they’ll stop at nothing to wrest back power, are upping the ante in trying to remove our president from office. Several House Democrats on Wednesday filed articles of impeachment, needless to say for bogus reasons, one of them being the fact that $73,000 in federal tax dollars was spent for Secret Service golf carts at the president’s Mar-a-Lago Florida resort. Seriously? President Trump doesn’t take a salary for one thing; and for another, how many times did Obama play golf while president, which required Secret Service, not to mention the tons of vacations?

Here was another outlandish claim: “It’s time for Congress to take action to stop this reckless and harmful behavior by removing Mr. Trump from office and to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States.” How ironic is that? Since when does the Marxist Democrat Party of today care about our Constitution? A million-dollar ad campaign is being launched to try and stoke public sentiment for their seditious, global agenda. And California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters (whose actions prove she isn’t qualified to be in politics, to say the least) continues her rhetoric. At a Glamour magazine event on Monday in New York, she asked attendees to chant along with her, “Impeach him. Impeach Trump.”

The hypocrisy is astounding, but nevertheless is something we should expect in these upside-down last days. Speaking of which, invoking the power of demonic false gods was part of the equation at the “Catharsis on the Mall” in D.C. last weekend, where a statue of  Shiva the Destroyer looked upon the Washington Monument; and a giant metal statue of Abraxas the Dragon was rolled through the streets around the Capitol in a protest march. This “demon lord of magic wands” is also present in the game “Dungeons and Dragons.”

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil” (Ephesians 5:11-16).

The end-of-days birth pangs are upon us and will continue to increase in intensity and frequency. We’re seeing the signs that the Tribulation is near, and only those in Christ will be removed from the earth to escape the wrath to come.

“And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another …And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold… As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:10, 12, 37).