Theres an old saying, that the older you get the faster time moves, & it seems to be true, I can’t believe that 2010 is over & we start 2011

I remember, I was in grade school the teacher would talk about all of the things we might see in the 2000′s, I would think, thats so far away, I would count up how old I would be if I lived to see the yr 2000 & here I am, 52 living in the yr 2011, its an amazing thing

something I remember being said way back in the 60′s, is that our lives are going to improve so much because of technology & because of great advancements, we would see world peace. It did turn out true that technology has improved our lives greatlybut that peace thing didn’t turn out so good

If I was an angel in heaven, looking down on the earth, I would have to ask Jesus, how much longer are you going to wait, before you put an end to this madness?

I look at our country from when I was a kid to today & I have to ask myself, What Happened? I don’t even recognize my own country anymore

During the 60′s, people and our government leaders worked diligently to stop discrimination in every area of our country, and in many respects, they were successful

But today, I see those same people working diligently to cause division between every person in America, in order for them to gain power over the American people and to stay in office ruling over us

They have brought division between blacks & whites, nationalities, religion & sexes

it was reported, This yr in America, was the worst attacks on Christianity with nativity scenes destroyed, hate filled articles written and the name of Christ maligned

I have watched them chop down the tree of morality & now they have a chain wrapped around the remaining stump and their pulling it out

Joe Biden said that homosexual marriage is inevitable, Barney Frank said that gays & straights must shower together in the military now openly

Obamas financial gurus said that the free market doesn’t work, & has to die & be replaced with a one world market and dollar in order for us to survive

even-though the free market made this country & others that we traded with, rich

We have terrorist who say that America is finished, & all they have to do is put strain on us financially & we will collapse, its just a matter of time before they bury us

we have a mandatory health care shoved down our throats that forces people to pay for the murder of children and our elderly

one Senator said we will have to count the cost & chose how much care someone will receive if their very old

It was reported in The Blaze, that Obama has no choice but to put euthanasia back into the heath care

you have to look at our leadership & think to yourself, have we gone mad?

Whenever a nation turns its back on God & says we don’t need him, we can get along without him

is a nation that is choosing to be destroyed

I want to read for you something that was wrote (believe it or not) in the Wall St. Journal:

What America needs today is not government controls industrial expansion, or a bumper corn crop, America needs to return to the day when grandpa, took the team out of the corn field in the early afternoon on Wednesday in order to hitch them to the old spring wagon into which grandma put all the children after she washed their faces shining clean, and they drove to prayer meeting in the little white church at the crossroads underneath the oak trees, where everyone believed the bible, trusted Christ, and loved one another

This was wrote in 1928

We think our countries trouble is new, but apparently way back in 1928, someone already believed America had left God

When did Americas trouble begin? When the church began to move into apostasy,

they left the preaching & the teaching and they began to dismantle the foundation that brought blessings to this country, & that foundation is the Word of God

Trouble in the church, spread to the home with the drinking & drugs & generation gap

trouble then moved into political circles & today its spread into anarchy in every segment of our society

trouble has been here for years, its never changed, but has increasingly gotten worst

Judges 21; 24-25

in these verses we see that the nation of Israel no longer wanted anyone ruling over them, and they did what was right in their own eyes

& we actually have two things going on in this country right now that is very confusing to me

we have a government that we voted in, that is taking over every aspect of our lives, what we can eat, drink, watch on the inter-net, spend our money & use our land

What I find interesting is a woman can choose to kill her unborn baby, but you better not feed him sweets if he is born

people are screaming for their right to do as they want no matter how immoral or depraved that it is

& at the same time wanting the government to give them more handouts

they don’t realize, that the government is using them, they are saying you go & be as immoral as you want & heres some money to help you drink, eat & smoke pot

but later on, you’ll owe us

little does the people of this nation realize that the more tax dollars they get from our government, the farther their becoming enslaved to them

and the more the slave owes the master the more control the master has over the slave

a couple of yrs ago when I tried my own expediting business, we did our taxes & we thought we would really have to pay in

instead, we got thousands of dollars because of Obamas giveaways & I thought, how much is this going to cost us later

nothing is free, I’ve been saying for a long time, all of these people who are getting free money

because their kids have ADD, lead in their system, can’t read or some learning or behavior problem

or whatever lame excuse they have come up with for not working & getting free money

some day soon, the gravy train is going to stop, & all those folks are going to owe the master

• master is going to say, we took care of your health, we took care of your food, we took care of your housing, transportation, children

its time for you to pay, you owe us, your life

You see, theres going to come a time in our future, when our government is going to say, we want to change

we want to go in another direction for the good of our country, we have to go with

new world order to be able to compete

& this country will say, ok, you’ve taken care of us, we trust our master & they will go along blindly

we’re getting closer to the time that the entire world will go into a one world government

but that won’t happen until the church is taken up to be with the Lord

every year that passes, we move closer & closer to the time that Jesus will take his children out of this world

and the sinners who are left, will give their allegiance to their master, they will blindly follow him all the way to the battle of Armageddon

But I know a better way to live, I’ve got a great master to serve & follow & his name is Jesus Christ

• Jews came to the point where God had been so shoved out of their lives hat they did whatever was right in their own eyes

• church has always been the one entity that has kept God pouring out his blessings on a nation

but while the world rushes headlong into a godless state, how are we suppose to pray as we go into 2011?

I Chron. 4:10

I don’t know what was going on in Jabezes life, but this I do know, he wasn’t satisfied with how things were

he prays first of all for Gods blessings, whens the last time you sat down and had a heart to heart and asked God to bless you?

Blessings means to bring good things into your life

I heard someone say once that you should never pray for yourself, but rather always pray for others so your not found to be selfish

I don’t know about you, but I need prayer more than anyone here so I won’t get selfish and to keep my heart right so that I can serve God

Jabez is saying, Lord if you will bless me then I can be used of you

then he prays that God would enlarge his coast, that means to bless him with prosperity

we can take this to the extreme like our T’V evangelist who pray for prosperity lots of money, so that they can live the good life and pour it on their selfish selves

or we can ask God to bless us with prosperity that that doesn’t have much to do with money

enlarging my coast might be new avenues to meet people who need the Lord

perhaps better understanding of Gods Word the how to apply the use it

because notice what he asks for next that goes with these first two request, that you would be present with me

Theres no way you or I can be blessed or prosper if we’re not walking in a right relationship with Christ, he has to be present

which goes along with the forth request: that he would keep him, or in other words, protect him

I want to share this with you, if you are going to get serious with God and start living your life for him 7 days a week and not just on Sunday morning

your going to need Gods protection, because Satan is going to notice you & he will try to stop you

although we are seeing the darkest days coming at us I still believe God can do great things in our lives

I believe he can still do great things in our churches, he can build this church

he can bring us people who need Christ, they need a Savior and we have the answer

he can bring us people who have become disillusioned with the whole church scene & need a church family

I believe a small church can offer more closer relationships if you want to take the time to be here & get to know each other

but you have to be willing to ask the Lord for his blessings

Jer. 33:3

call unto me and I will answer thee, and show you great and mighty things, which thou knowest not

Ever wonder why you don’t see much happening in your relationship with Christ?

Have you called on him? Have you asked him to show you great things?

Ever wonder why everybody else seems to know whats going on in church and you feel left out?

How much time are you spending with your church family?

I had a woman once asked me how come she never heard about things that were going on in church and in peoples lives

I told her you have to invest the time here with the people if you want to know, because I wasn’t calling her!

I know people who only show up in church when they have a problem or its a holiday & can’t understand why their miserable

I believe God can still do great & mighty things in our lives, if we want him to

Our little church can still be greatly used, if we ask him

he says he will answer us, but we have to first ask

Its up to each of us if we want to mature in the things of God or not

its up to us if we want to be involved in the lives of our church family or not

its up to us how much we want to be in the service of our Lord or not

its up to us if we want to see God move in our lives with blessings or not

Eph. 3:20

now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us

• fact is, God can do even more in our lives than what we can ask for

but you have to be willing to ask

many people will not ask, because their afraid of what God might show them & ask them to do

& so they keep their distance, don’t get too involved, because God might ask them to do something outside of their comfort zone

so keep everybody & church at an arms length

but your the one who will never experience what Jabez did, or what Jeremiah did

the world is growing darker, but you & I can still see great & mighty things, if we want, but you’ve got to want it