Today could be the best day, of the rest of your life.

 This morning as in every morning there is someone in need. Whether they be lost and hurt and no where to turn, or a child of God who has lost their way through these streets we call life with all its crooks and turns. Friends, its not hard to do. Some grow up in very nurturing families and others don't. Yes it's hard but it's done, there are young people as well as adults who live their lives from behind a mask. Many will condemn someone who takes their life and even the thought, but folks have you walked in their shoes one step? We should pray before we condemn. Before you condemn someone just set back and think about it a while. Bad things happen to people from both sides of the tracks so to say. Whether you attended church or never stepped a foot inside. Its called the pressures of life.

 This morning there are people who need more than a pat on the back and for us to tell them everythings gonna be alright. Friends,lost ,lost loved ones as well as christians around the world, a pat on the back is not going to comfort someone who is in dire need. They need more, they truly need Jesus the one who gives a peace that passes all understanding. This morning and every morning let us go before the mercy seat of God and pour out our plea to the one who gave HIS life for you. This morning around the world abroad and here at home (America) sing and pray whether you are lost and suffering or you are a christian and hurting, let us start.

Chorus
 SWEEP OVER MY  SOUL, SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL,  SWEET  SPIRIT, SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL,  MY  REST WILL BE COMPLETE WHEN I  SIT AT HIS FEET. SWEET  SPIRIT SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL.

This morning  Lord, I (we,us,they) am in need of you, I am a sinner in which I am not proud. Lord I come before the throne of grace and mercy, Father, asking you to forgive me my sins, wash me white as snow let your blood flow through me. This is all I can say, I don't know you at all but today I take that (this) step, I need you in my life because "I'm at my wits end" I know no where else to turn.
  Dear Gracious Heavenly Father I was told that you know  the number of hairs on a person's head and that you know each person by name. Father if it be true, because this is so new to me. Please come into my life and set me free.
This morning the christian as well as the lost are hiding behind a mask.You smile when there is no true smile, you joke and kid around when there's no feelings too. The reason I can say that is because I have lived behind that mask of guilt and shame. After years of being told that I wouldn't amount to nothing, I was worthless, or why was I ever born, what other place is there to go. Then one day someone talked to me about Jesus and what He had done for their life and how when the Son sets you free, truly free, you are free indeed.


 SWEEP OVER MY  SOUL, SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL SWEET  SPIRIT, SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL. MY  REST WILL BE  COMPLETE WHEN I  SIT AT HIS FEET.  SWEET  SPIRIT SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL.

 This morning and today around the world if you can and if you want. Let us sing that chorus, and as we do let us together lay it all at Jesus's feet. Because to God you ARE worthy of God's love, To God you DO amount to something, And today you will know why you were born. Yes there is place and a reason you are here.

NASB - Jeremiah 29:11 --- 29:11  `For I know the plans that I have for you,' declares the LORD, `plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

KJV - 29:11  For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

As we sing the chorus one more time.

 SWEEP OVER MY  SOUL, SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL, SWEET  SPIRIT SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL.  MY  REST WILL BE COMPLETE WHEN I  SIT AT HIS FEET.  SWEET  SPIRIT SWEEP  OVER MY  SOUL.

As the choir sings the song, ARISE to your feet for you have a brand new life. It starts with believing.

If you feel something has changed in your life today, give GOD the glory. For you as well as millions of others have now opened up your life to a whole new meaning and a brighter day. Today the mask is removed you have become a Child of the Most God. Even though the roads ahead won't be easy, we can truly rest in knowing, you have a God that loves you unconditionally.  Not as the god of this world. HE will be with you every step of the way.

Folks sing it in all humbleness yet with pride for today your plate is set at the table.

In heaven they just received an invitation from a missionary in a distant land to accommodate a party of believers who just accepted God's salvation plan. Just as the angels say, "All is ready" God hears a cry from another man. There's been another birth into the kingdom And the head waiter hears one more command.

Set another place at the table, write another name on the role. Take out another robe, shine one more crown, another child is Heaven bound.  Add another verse to the chorus as the angels rehearse the welcome song. Set another place at the table for the rest of the family coming home.

If the invitation is not answered, it's engraved forever in HIS hand, I come to remind you of the honor to dine in the presence of this Man.

Set another place at the table, write another name on the role. Take out another robe, shine one more crown, another child is Heaven bound. Add another verse to the chorus, as the angels rehearse the welcome song. Set another place at the table, for the rest of the family coming home. Set another place at the table For the rest of the family coming home.

Today an invitation has been sent out to everyone, Christians, the Lost, Muslims, Jews, Buddist, Krishnas and all others leaving no one out. Come home.

May God bless

A day draws nigh.

We had made up our mind the last blog that we wrote, that we weren't going to write on christianty any longer. Well I guess I was wrong again. Its 3:00 am Monday morning and I woke up because I couldn't sleep. I came across this article from MSNBC, about America losing it's religion. Sounds kind of scary, another teaching of the bible coming true. Friends we have in the last 30 years and even longer been slowly but surely seeing things happen that Jesus spoke about. We are just now reaching a place where the human eye and mind can see and visualize. What certain things are happening, first the election of a Muslim born President, (which he denies but will be manifest soon). That is just one instance. No, there's more to come, wanting to make peace with terrorist in Afghanistan, just another sign for what is written when they say peace and safety then comes sudden destruction. That day draws nigh.

A global recession that no one thought the would ever see again since the great depression. Well folks, we ain't seen nothing yet, another foretold. We can stimulus this and stimulus that, (hey world wake up, it ain't happening it won't work). We can print all the money in the world but you can't buy Prophecy my friends. And remember the great depression, when men were jumping from buildings committing suicide, well this is not the 1920's, 30's or 40's friend it's the year of 2009, there won't be many suicides these days. The minds of men have no conscience these days. The big banks and high minded corporation leaders attitude is, take what I can and let me get away with it and get the hell out. A day draws nigh

Well, I feel like certain Senators, two to be exact, Richard Shelby, and John McCain, on two of the Sunday morning talk shows, said that we should let some of the big banks fail, just like the smaller banks are, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. We don't need any Zombie banks. We need to send a message to them that we're not going to keep pouring tax payers money into failing institutions. Well I'm all for that. There is an article that we started talking about at the beginning, More Americans are losing their religion. Its sad, but it's no surprise. There is a parable we need to look at. Luke 18:1-8.

Luke 18:1-8. [1] And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;[2] Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: [3] And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.[4] And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; [5] Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.[6] And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.[7] And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?[8] I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? We had to give you all that to see the picture. Jesus will avenge his elect, but when the time is right. Yes the day has been set, God the Father knows the day. Yes, a day draws nigh.

Will Christ find faith when he comes? I believe that there will be faith, (believers), but not as we see today. Why, because of what GOD showed John the revelator. He saw and heard and wrote, Revelations 13;11-18-[11]And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.[12]And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. [13] And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. [14] And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. [15] And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. [16] And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: [17] And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name [18] Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is (Six hundred threescore and six. = 666 ). Fear not the number friends, fear the man, but then again fear the one who can kill the body and soul.

I am going to copy the article and it will be long but we need to read the article.

A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all.

Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey.
Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious region, with Vermont reporting the highest share of those claiming no religion, at 34 percent. Still, the study found that the numbers of Americans with no religion rose in every state"No other religious bloc has kept such a pace in every state," the study's authors said.

Catholics on the decline in Northeast. In the Northeast, self-identified Catholics made up 36 percent of adults last year, down from 43 percent in 1990. At the same time, however, Catholics grew to about one-third of the adult population in California and Texas, and one-quarter of Floridians, largely due to Latino immigration, according to the research.

Nationally, Catholics remain the largest religious group, with 57 million people saying they belong to the church. The tradition gained 11 million followers since 1990, but its share of the population fell by about a percentage point to 25 percent.

Christians who aren't Catholic also are a declining segment of the country.
In 2008, Christians comprised 76 percent of U.S. adults, compared to about 77 percent in 2001 and about 86 percent in 1990. Researchers said the dwindling ranks of mainline Protestants, including Methodists, Lutherans and Episcopalians, largely explains the shift. Over the last seven years, mainline Protestants dropped from just over 17 percent to 12.9 percent of the population.
The report from The Program on Public Values at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., surveyed 54,461 adults in English or Spanish from February through November of last year. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.5 percentage points. The findings are part of a series of studies on American religion by the program that will later look more closely at reasons behind the trends.
Organized religion playing less of a role
The current survey, being released Monday, found traditional organized religion playing less of a role in many lives. Thirty percent of married couples did not have a religious wedding ceremony and 27 percent of respondents said they did not want a religious funeral.About 12 percent of Americans believe in a higher power but not the personal God at the core of monotheistic faiths. And, since 1990, a slightly greater share of respondents — 1.2 percent — said they were part of new religious movements, including Scientology, Wicca and Santeria.The study also found signs of a growing influence of churches that either don't belong to a denomination or play down their membership in a religious group.
Respondents who called themselves "non-denominational Christian" grew from 0.1 percent in 1990 to 3.5 percent last year. Congregations that most often use the term are mega-churches considered "seeker sensitive." They use rock style music and less structured prayer to attract people who don't usually attend church. Researchers also found a small increase in those who prefer being called evangelical or born-again, rather than claim membership in a denomination, Evangelical or born-again Americans make up 34 percent of all American adults and 45 percent of all Christians and Catholics, the study found. Researchers found that 18 percent of Catholics consider themselves born-again or evangelical, and nearly 39 percent of mainline Protestants prefer those labels. Many mainline Protestant groups are riven by conflict over how they should interpret what the Bible says about gay relationships, salvation and other issues.
Pentecostals stay steady.
The percentage of Pentecostals remained mostly steady since 1990 at 3.5 percent, a surprising finding considering the dramatic spread of the tradition worldwide. Pentecostals are known for a spirited form of Christianity that includes speaking in tongues and a belief in modern-day miracles.

I really didn't mean for this to be so long but those who wants to know need to know where we stand today. Close, I really feel we won't see another 10 to 20 years if we do, it will only be by the Grace of God.
Back when the early Holy roman empire ruled millions upon millions of Christians lost their lives for the Gospel sake. Look out again its coming. FRIENDS, I'm gonna back on out of here now and leave one scripture for you all to read, it's pretty explanatory when read.
REVELATIONS 6:13-17- [13] And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. [14] And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. [15]And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; [16] And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:[17] 6 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand? Its a coming. Again, will Christ find faith when he comes?
WHAT IT IS TELLING YOU IS THE THE END IS NEAR, NO MARK. NO BUYING, OR SELLING, OR EATING. YOU GIVE INTO THE BEAST, YOU'VE SOLD OUT CHRIST. EAT WELL AND LIVE WELL, YOU PAY IN THE END.

THANKS AGAIN ( Keep your eyes on Israel ) a day draws nigh
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