You never know how your week will turn out when you start on Monday, do you?  I took off for Indiana and then went to New York and then i got a call from someone I worked for a few years ago while I was between pastorates and he asked me if i would like to come to work for them again.

Its a job where I would take a cut in pay, but I will be home everyday and have a normal life again, I told him yes.

This of course will require some faith in the Lord and trusting him with our financial needs, although we have had faith and trust in him all along, but theres something about not having as much faith as one should when they got money in the bank.

We sometimes get “lazy faith”  when your doing well financially and your health is good, the cats fed and your car has gas.

When things are good, we all tend to look to ourselves and think, I’m doing alright, and we forget that it is the Lord who is making things alright,  not us.

Its the Lord who blesses and its the Lord who withholds his blessings from us at times to teach us about faith and trust, or to correct us from wandering away from him or because of outright sin, he’ll choose to withhold his blessings in order to bring us back into a right relationship with him.

Taking a new job and not knowing if we can pay our bills requires faith in the Lord.

I know you think, why take it if your bills are paid now?  Seems like the Lords blessing you at what your doing, right?

Its true he is providing wonderfully well for us, but we have no home life together as a family,  I can’t get involved with a church or even think about starting my own or look at filling in a pulpit somewhere.

And when your not involved in a ministry somewhere, your relationship with the Lord becomes strained.

These people who say I can be a Christian and serve God and not be apart of a church are so far off the chart and dead wrong in their thinking it isn’t funny.

I know from the last 6 months from experience, that when your not involved with a good bible preaching church and in fellowship with other believers, your relationship with Christ begins to suffer.

You get lazy at bible reading, prayer, and witnessing to others.

We need fellowship of other believers in order to keep our senses sharp, to be able to battle against the things that the world throws at us.

If you spend too much time listening and watching the things that are happening in this country and in the rest of the world, you would get so depressed that you wouldn’t want to get out of bed.

In England, they are a stone throw away from being taken over by Muslims, and in America, we are beginning to go down the same path, Mosques being built everywhere, Muslims getting into politics to where they can begin to change laws to suit them. It won’t be long and they will be a force to be reckoned with and we will become enslaved.

But involvement with the Lord and with his people, keeps us looking to the Lord and walking by faith. Its faith in the Lord that keeps us from giving up when things look bleak in the future because faith tells us that someday soon we will be with Christ forever.

Faith tells us that no matter what direction this world goes, our Lord will never leave us nor forsake us and that our salvation is secure.

The life of faith is the only life worth living, keep your faith strong and then God will truly bless.

By now everyone in the world has heard about how the tiger transformed into a cheetah, of course I’m speaking about Tiger Woods.

But I don’t get it,  why is everyone yelling and upset? Why are people demanding an apology for what he’s done to his wife? Why are companies that endorsed him, now dropping him?

Isn’t he a product of the American left?

Isn’t he a product of public schools?

Hasn’t this country for years shouted to our young people that marriage is a product of Christian beliefs that has enslaved man?

Hasn’t he fulfilled exactly what many in this country have preached for years, that you can practice safe sex, that multiple partners makes you a more rounded person?

When Clinton did the same thing, he was praised so why aren’t they praising the Cheetah?  Could it be Bills wife Hillary wasn’t good looking,  and Tigers is, so therefore you can only cheat if you have an ugly wife?

Or could it be that this shows us plainly, out in the open how hypocritical the ungodly really are.

You can’t preach and push immorality on our society and then get upset when someone fulfills what you taught them, it doesn’t work.

What does the ungodly want?  Apparently they want immorality with a dash of morality when someone does something they don’t like.

I can now understand what Jesus was saying to the Pharisees who stood on the corner preaching good things but inside they were ravenous wolves.

Thats the world,  they want to appear like they are good by appearing that their upset about Tiger but the fact is they actually envy him and wish they could be like him. Their hypocrites plain and simple.

Jesus says that you either have to be righteous or unrighteous you can’t be both.

The world ought to be giving Tiger a metal of honor and more money and endorsements for being the poster boy of what they preach and believe. He’s the perfect example of what they want to achieve.

You can’t mix the worlds system with a godly system, they don’t mix, its just like mixing new age and political correctness with Christianity, they don’t mix.

Christianity is coming apart in America because 26% of Christians find ” Spiritual energy in material things”

25% believe in astrology

24% believe in re-incarnation

23 % say yoga is a “Spiritual practice”  (Fox news source poll)

Sorry, but these new age beliefs are contrary to the Word of God, you can’t mix the ungodly with the godly.

Karma is new age not Christianity, meditation on yourself and your needs is not biblical meditation where we focus on the Word of God and our relationship to him.

The world says you can be immoral and moral at the same time, Christians think you can be a Christian with new age beliefs, it DON”T  WORK, you can’t mix them.

Either your righteous or your not,  either you walk by faith and faith alone in Jesus Christ or you don’t.

Stop trying to mix the the things of God with the things of this world, they don’t mix.

Being in business for myself has its rewards, like when you make a good check,  but also its lows when your money maker (VAN) breaks down and all your rewards go toward fixing it.

I also know what it means to sleep in a van when the wind chill is 25 below zero, folks, its not fun, its suffering.

And yet, when I think about suffering, its nothing compared to what our Savior suffered for us on that cross so that you and I could be with him in heaven.

The apostles suffered for Christ, but one thing I’ve learned, you’ll never amount to much for Christ, until you have suffered for Christ first.

Think about Peter, he was boastful, a big mouth, and just a pain in the butt at times. But after Peter suffered for Christ, we see a new and different Peter.

He became a man of boldness, compassion and filled with faith.

The Apostle Paul after much suffering, became a man who would die for Christ before he would ever deny him, his love for the lost was his passion.

A pastor will never be a great pastor, until he goes through suffering, it will either make him so that God can use him to touch the lives of people or it will break him so that God has to put him on a shelf never to be heard from again.

When people think about suffering, most think about physical pain of some kind, or a loss of income, but thats not always the case.

Some suffering is not so outwardly noticeable, sometimes its quiet and not obvious at all, and yet the person is suffering.

Remember when God put Moses in the desert, he wandered around going nowhere, there was little physical suffering, and yet Moses was suffering.

God was dealing with Moses on a whole different level, the spiritual level,

For 40 years, God was dealing with Moses, shaping him to become a great leader of his people, but why did it take 40 years?

Well maybe, Moses was a slow learner?  Maybe it took Moses 40 years in the desert to get his spiritual life in order.

For the past 2 years, I’ve been in the desert and Gods been dealing with my spiritual life, molding, teaching and correcting.

Sometimes I think suffering physically is much easier than suffering spiritually, because suffering spiritually hits us where we live.  God deals with our heart condition, our thought life, our motives, and our desires.

Its in our desert times when we learn the most about ourselves and some of the things that God shows us, are the things we don’t want to acknowledge are true about ourselves.

But if we don’t acknowledge them, then we can’t grow spiritually and we stay in the desert longer.

Perhaps your suffering spiritually right now,  God wants to change something in your life that he isn’t pleased with,  you need to stop resisting him and listen to what he’s saying.

This past week, it got down to 7 degrees and for awhile I couldn’t get warm as I sat in my van waiting for my next job and I thought about how the Apostles slept outdoors with no shelter and yet during that time with Jesus, they learned the most about themselves and God was changing them into men of God.

Gods heart desire is to make us to be like him, and if I have to stay in the desert for 38 more years to be like my Savior, then I gladly will do so.

Are you having a desert experience?  If so, open your heart up to the Lord and let him examine it, allow him to make all necessary changes.

Its through these changes that God makes that brings us a heart of rejoicing and peace.

Its been very disturbing to watch the direction that our government wants to take us, but this direction has been in the works for a long time.

It began in the 1950′s with the attacks on God with evolution, then  the bible in classrooms, then removal of prayer and the list goes on and on, I laugh when I hear people say that there hasn’t been an attack on Christianity when it goes on everyday by powerful people in leadership.

Political correctness came into our mist under the cloak of fairness, but this type of fairness is getting people killed.

It was because of political correctness, that has led to the attacks and killing of our soldiers on 6 military posts.

The latest one was because you have to have so many people from different races, religions and sex that a nut job got promoted to a position that he had no business in and he then slaughtered innocent lives on Ft. Hood for his god allah.

Although people said that this guy hated America and was going to kill someone some day, no one said anything because of fear that they would be crucified for doing so.

We have the strongest fighting military in the world, and the Muslims know it, but they see a weakness in us because of political correctness and they know the easiest way to destroy something powerful is by the inside.

Just think about this, if our soldiers do their job, like capture a top terrorist, and he gets roughed up, they bring our heros up on charges!!,  Don’t think that our enemies don’t see this and laugh as their miranda rights are read to them. (unbelievable)

Today, we have Muslims who hate us in political positions, military positions, local government, schools teaching kids and slowly they are gaining power.

Remember Romes Trojan horse? sneak in when people aren’t paying attention and take over, this is the same thing happening in our country and no one is paying attention.

Satan saw the same thing years ago when it came to churches, he continually attacked from the outside but he wasn’t getting anywhere.

So one day he got dressed up and looked like a Christian, he spoke like a Christian, he agreed with his fellow attenders, and then they voted him in as a member, then a Sunday School teacher, a deacon, elder and lo and behold he became a pastor.

Today our churches are filled with people in high positions who serve their master but his name is not Jesus Christ, although they use his name.

I just read where the United Church of Christ and other liberal churches want to use Obamas  (attack on God) hate crimes legislation to stop talk radio.  Obamas hate crimes bill will also be used to stop conservative preaching in America very soon.

Every true believing Christian ought to support conservative radio, they are on the battle front for American values and way of life. Although I’m not sure anymore what American values are today so when I think of values I go back to what my parents held dear. Freedom, the pursuit of happiness and a love for God and country.

Thats what talk radio (conservatives) preach, and every born again believer should support them, but as you can see, there are those with-in churches who really don’t serve Jesus Christ, they just use his name and they attack everything that God and his son stand for.

Our churches and our country are systematically being destroyed from the inside and very few are speaking out.

I know what its like to preach on something that God is for and wants said, and then be faced with those who partner with Satan and attack you with-in your own church.

In my last church I said something about the homosexual movement just to have a woman who partnered with Satan disagree with what I said, she’s been a detriment to that church but a joy in the eyes of the one she serves.

Theres too many pastors who know the truth but have no backbone to say it the way it is because they’re either tired of fighting and don’t want to be confronted with those in their churches or they just don’t want to obey the Lord.

The fact is, we’re being infiltrated from the inside of our schools, churches, government, all the way to the presidency of enemies who want to destroy the American way of life.

We better sound an alarm just like I am on this blog that is going worldwide of whats going on in our country and we better start voting for those who are AMERICAN!!!   AND WHO LOVE  AMERICA!!!

Otherwise, it won’t be long, and you’ll pay the price if you disagree with those who are in complete control.

We are truly in a fight, like it or not, for our very lives, literally.

I have to wonder how much time do we really have left before the Lord returns. I watch how far the unsaved are willing to go to get this nation to hate the name of God, and I wonder, when will the Lord say, thats enough?

Atheist (unsaved) are now taking out ads on buses that say theres no God, and of course it has to be at Christmas time.

I wonder why these atheist groups don’t attack Muhammad on Ramadan?  Probably because their gutless wonders, they know they couldn’t get away with their attacks on the Muslim God.

Christians are different, we don’t attack back when we’re attacked, we know that they will someday stand before the God of creation, of heaven and of hell and they will bow and proclaim that he is God.

I don’t get angry when I see these ads, and when they do everything in their puny power to stop Christianity, I feel sad for them.

The Bible tells us that when believers leave this world and we enter into heaven, there will be no more pain, suffering or death, we will live in the presence of God for eternity. We will be at peace and in the center of Gods love for eternity.

But for atheist and anyone who has not received Christ, it tells us in Luke 16 that they will suffer in the fires of hell for eternity separated from God.

But heres the horrible part, they will be able to see us living in and enjoying heaven, and yet they will not be able to come there.

Can you imagine being in hell, perhaps seeing a loved one who was a believer and seeing them in perfect peace and joy and knowing that you rejected salvation that they tried to tell you about?

Or perhaps a baby that they aborted sitting with Jesus and yet they can’t cross over to meet them, instead because they attacked God, they put up ads saying there is no God, they are now separated from God for eternity.

They might want to rethink this whole no God business that they’re in.

Why should Christians get angry?  The No God crowd has nothing in their eternity but suffering.

They need our pity and prayers, not anger.