Our Servants Are Becoming Masters

Dear Father

Centuries ago your servant, Joseph, saved Egypt from financial ruin through your visions and Spirit, and Egypt was grateful vowing to serve Joseph and his descendants. Joseph's descendants flourished and prospered, and because of this service, your blessings were heaped upon Egypt.

Centuries passed and those who remembered Joseph had passed as well. The Egyptians no longer remembered their salvation by your hand and instead turned envious eyes toward the richness of Joseph's descendants . Eventually, the Egyptians stole the riches of the Israelites, enslaved the people.

Father, America was blessed as Egypt was blessed so long ago because they followed your Spirit. Somehow, we have lost your Spirit, and now our servants are working to enslave us. Slowly, the blessings that you have bestowed on your people are being taxed away, and our servants are becoming our masters.

Father, you promised that no longer will the fruit of our hands be recompense for the enemy. You promised that those who gather it shall eat it and those who garner it shall drink it in the courts of your sanctuaries.

I pray that those servants who strive to become our masters will be forever removed from your courts and sanctuaries. I pray that you will raise up new servants who know you and your Spirit. I pray that these servants will restore the courts and sanctuaries according to your will and once again America will be "God blessed". In Jesus' Holy Name. Amen

You Carry The Witness With You

Many Christians lament their lack of witness to others. Others forcibly witness to the detriment of the unbeliever.

I say, stop. Stop worrying about your lack of witness and stop the forced witness of men. You carry God's Holy Spirit inside of you wherever you go, therefore, where you go; so too goes God's Spirit.

The prophets, leaders and apostles of the Old and New Testament were all given one command - "Go!" When Moses fretted about what he was to say or whether the people would believe him, God's answer was - "Go!" When the prophet explained to God that he could not speak to the people because of his impediment, God's answer was - "Go!" After Saul's conversion, Paul went wherever the Spirit led.

Whether you spend your day in an office, teaching a class room full of children, behind a counter helping customers, or fighting in a foreign land, you are a witness to that which is in you. Believe me when I say that the people around you know that you are different. Some will reach out to that difference and some will reject that difference, but no one will be oblivious to that difference.

Do not fret that you cannot bring Bibles to the people in foreign lands or that you are forbidden to speak about God at the workplace. God is bigger than them. God is bigger than you. He only needs us to show up.

Pray a simple prayer - "Please Father, let me be a witness to someone today." or "Please Father, save -----." Then go knowing that God is in charge of the spread of His Word. He was always in charge. How else could one seemingly insignificant Man spread the Word of God throughout the world in two centuries? Paul was saved without any human witness, and so have countless others.

Our charge is to Let God work through us. If we strive to work ourselves, then we have succumbed to the enemy's pit of salvation, religion and pride in our own works. Salvation was purchased by the works of our Savior; not by ours.

Bush vs. Obama

John McCain opined to Obama during one of the debates, "Senator Obama, I am
not George Bush. If you want to run against President Bush, you should have
done that four years ago." But Obama did run against President Bush, or more correctly, he ran against the perception of Bush held by a majority of Americans, and no one perceived this truth better than Obama.

So, is perception Truth? Let us examine other Truths.

Perceive the truth of energy independence by forbidding nuclear energy, coal mining, clean coal or drilling for off-shore oil.

Perceive the truth of healthier capitalism by spreading the wealth among all members.

Perceive a balanced budget by utilizing increased spending and lower taxes.

Perceive an affordable health care plan for all without increasing payroll deductions.

Perceive 'cleaning up' Washington politics by a man who has been part of the 'Chicago political machine' for the last decade.

Perceive a 4,000 page bill posted on the Internet for "The People's" approval before signing into law.

Perceive a "Fairness Doctrine" that will shut down one news station and allow all the others to stand unopposed.

Perceive our next presidential election when illegal immigrants vote by virtue of their shiny new drivers' license.

There is one perception that is a fact - or truth. We will get change, but is it a change with which we can live?

History is no more than the passage of time, and this new administration of "Change" will too pass. With the passage, history will amend perception into truth about both our President and our President-elect.

Yes Bill Maher, There is a Talking Snake

Billy, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Billy, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.*

Billy, Satan does exist, and, for now, he is in charge of the world.

God created the heavens and earth for his creatures, and heaven was created for his first creatures - the angels. They are beautiful creations, Billy, endowed with intellect and free will. The pinnacle of of these created beings was Lucifer - the angel of light.

Lucifer discerned that he was better than all of God's creations and pride grew in him. However his pride was not for the Creator, but in the creation - himself. He determined that he, Lucifer, should have the same power as the Creator and he led a rebellion. A war ensued and Lucifer lost. He and his followers were banished from heaven, but this banishment was never meant to be permanent. You see Billy, God still loved his creation. So, he banished them with the hope they would repent. Though Lucifer was banished from heaven, he is still allowed to approach the throne of God as we see in book of Job because God still carries the hope that Lucifer will repent. In the meantime, Lucifer has no kingdom or home of his own.

So Billy, God tried again. He creates a new place and a new creature. Instead of a spiritual place with spiritual creatures, God creates a physical place and physical creatures. You see Billy, God has an order to his creations - the first is last and the last is first. So these new creations were even more spectacular than the first; ending with man and finally the most beautiful creation - woman. Just like the angels, man and woman were created with intellect and free will.

Lucifer saw the man and woman - Adam and Eve - and became jealous. In his mind these new creatures were inferior to him and yet God gave them a kingdom - earth. Lucifer decided he would wrest this kingdom from Adam and Eve for himself, and he would work on the best of God's creations - woman.

Keep in mind, Billy, Lucifer is a spiritual creation and Adam and Eve are physical beings, so Lucifer had a problem. How can he wrest the deed to earth from Eve if she can neither see nor hear him? Lucifer decides he must use a physical vehicle to approach Eve, and that vehicle was the snake.

Lucifer wants the deed to the earth, but he also wants to humiliate God and God's new creation. When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden, there is was only one area of prohibition (or as we call it, sin). They were told not eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil or they would surely die. Lucifer, disguised as a snake, used this one prohibition to tempt Eve. Eve knew the prohibition for we see that she stated that she would die if she ate the fruit of this particular tree. Yet, when Lucifer told Eve that if she ate the forbidden fruit, she would be like God, she decided to go for it. I find it amusing, Billy, that Lucifer did not use a little more imagination for he used the same sin on Eve, pride, that cause his own downfall.

So Billy, what did Lucifer get from Eve in return for the information that the fruit of the forbidden tree would make her a god? He got the deed to the earth. Now he had a kingdom; a home.

To finish the story, Adam ate the fruit and both he and Eve experienced spiritual death. Though God mouned the loss of his finest creation, he must keep his Word. So, God issued a caveat. The sin can be expunged by a living sacrifice.

Billy the plan of salvation is this. One sin - you die a spiritual death or separation from God. To expunge this spiritual death, you must perform a living sacrifice. As every man and woman has sinned at least once in their lifetime, we are all walking around dead, so anything we do will not meet the requirements of salvation. Only one man - Jesus - lived without sin. He was the living sacrifice and by choosing his sacrifice, we have been expunged.

So you see Billy, God made everyone equal - salvation is not who you are or what you do; Salvation is a Choice. Salvation just like Sin is a product of our Free Will, and if I may parapharse Francis Church one more time. Jesus Lives!

* Paraphrased from Francis Church, The Sun Newspaper, 9/21/1897

God's Big Bang

In the French village of Crozet, a group of scientists are searching for the God particle. To do this, they constructed the Hadron Collider, a seven mile underground circle housing a powerful accelerator which will shoot two opposing beams of particles at the speed of light. These two beams, hypothetically, will crash into each other releasing the original particle of creation - or the God Particle.

Science has long searched for the origins of our beginnings in a 'natural' context exclusive of a Creator. The finger of science points accusingly at those of us who believe that God created the world as slaves to our belief, but I ask who is the slave to their beliefs?

Einstein's theory of E=mc2 tells us that Energy=Mass x the speed of light - squared. However, science tells us that the speed of light is fixed at 300 million meters per second, and that by squaring the speed of light, you can produce 10 (with 15 zeros trailing behind) of energy when multiplied with mass. That is a tremendous amount of energy as we have seen by atomic bombs.

Pursuit of the God Particle with still produce a particle. No matter how many times you split the particle, there will still be a smaller particle, and from where did it come? Also, if there was a big bang through Einstein's theory, then would'nt be conceivable that the origins of the universe were created in a relatively short time; perhaps in a flash of energy?

Am I a slave to my beliefs when I explore all of life through the prism of an all powerful God? Or, is the scientist a slave to his beliefs when he explores the natural world exclusive of Him - The Creator?