Self Discipline

Today's Biblical Virtue to pray for our kids is Self-Discipline.

"Father, I pray that my children may acquire a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair."

"To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity." ~Proverbs 1:3~

Wow; another one that is convicting to me as a parent. How can I pray for Self-Discipline in my children if I am not modeling it for them.

God Bless, Have Mercy and Remember America Again

George Washington said "The thing that sets the American Christian apart from all other people in the world is that he will die on his feet before he will live on his knees" A question that has haunted me in the last few months is "Am I willing to lose everything ~including my life~ for the sake of FREEDOM" Am I one of the American Christians who George Washington was talking about? Can I say with Patrick Henry "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"? Are you?

HT to Cyber Friend, Sundance Cracker at The Conservative TreeHouse for introducing me to Jack Daniels at I Own The World He says:

Since I was a child, I learned and read about the uniqueness of the American Experience, the exceptionalism and greatness that was America. I believed it, I loved it, and I argued about it and defended it to friends and family and strangers at home and abroad. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, The Mayflower Compact; these sacred documents are what made the USA unique and great. Not in and of themselves, but because they embodied the uniqueness of the Judeo-Christian Scriptures, acknowledging our Creator and His intricate value of man, and the inalienable freedom that is given by our loving Creator. No other document like it exists in ANY country in the world founded by man, past or present. A nation born, established and prospered as a result of a covenant made with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, not by God’s edict, but by man’s understanding that a covenant with God, was to be the blueprint, inspired by God’s word, to her survival, freedom and prosperity.

I believed that the words, “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”, meant exactly THAT.

With great and profound sadness, sadness remnant of the great prophets of old who foresaw the destruction and straying of Israel and wept bitterly for her, my belief in her is faltering. In the present state of affairs, the ultimate and inevitable direction she is going, I struggle to believe in the strength of the USA, not the ideal of America, but rather the fortitude of her people defending these ideals, and this realization sickens me to the very core of my being, I cannot express to you how much.

I once believed what Ronald Reagan believed, that the USA was a light, a beacon to ALL the nations of the world! I believed that if the USA failed, the world failed. My beloved nation is collapsing.

I see corrupt lawyers, judges, revisionists, liberals, gays, feminists, educators atheists, pantheists and public officials slowly and systematically destroy, alter and rewrite history and the constitution, and the ‘people’ stood by and let it happen, intoxicated with entertainment, self absorbed interest, lethargic and apathy induced hedonism.

Since 2009, daily, I read how conservative blogs, websites and news media lamenting about her downfall, the destruction of the Great Republic, only to simply be content with complaining, blaming and ‘we the people’ doing very little in practical terms to rescue this Great Republic; a few gatherings, a grassroots movement, yes, but the fortitude to rise against the tyranny as a single group of people, being of one mind, compelled by righteous indignation to uphold the people’s prerogative to swiftly remove the usurpers? No!

Conservatives bite and gnaw at each other’s ankles, never truly united, divided by ideological nuances, wanting, needing and pandering for the approval of the enemy to be seen as tolerant, righteous, while selling their soul, compromising their integrity, compromising their values, only to be fed another day of their gluttonous want. I see people claim to be conservative but reject God – how can this be? This is an oxymoron. The very essence of conservatives is faith in Family, Country AND God. To hope in one while rejecting the most significant part; God, is suicide on a national level. We have historical evidence in abundance to this testament. Secular societies have ALWAYS failed. The rejection of God as a nation has left her to utter ruin.

God bless America; while America allows more ‘legal’ abortions than those Jews who were executed under Hitler during the same time frame, more than the number of people Stalin murdered. 47 million innocent lives and the number is growing daily!

God bless America; while America allows a minority group of sexual deviants to manipulate, distort, coerce and ultimately legalizing deviant behaviors, behaviors that previously were considered criminal based on the commandments of the Almighty and living God.

God bless America; the same America that has taken the official stand of rejecting God in all public arenas, schools, universities and public office while allowing an ancient pagan moon god and his followers now sit high in the place once reserved for the one true God.

God bless America; but I see for the first time in her long history we stand against God’s own nation, Israel. Do we not understand the curse ordained by God Himself to those nations who oppose Israel?

I see those who hate this Great Republic, destroy her from within; poison the minds of the young, the naïve, and the downtrodden. I see these same people who hate America, worm their way in like emotional and intellectual vampires, making use of deceit, guilt and fear, using shallow and superficial flattery to pollute the ideals and beliefs that the people once firmly held to and never doubted.

I see these parasites, these polluters and destroyers of souls employ the oldest tactic of Satan to undermine God’s authority; doubt. Doubt the validity of the sacred covenant, doubt the greatness of the republic, and doubt her ability and goodness to lead the world. The enemy has used this ancient tactic in a modern setting; lawyers, judges, academics and legal analysts, fraught and purchased with silver and gold from the coffers of evil and vile men where Satan himself provides from the shadows. I see the enemy use greed, depravity, rebellion and lawlessness to bankrupt a nation, morally, spiritually and economically. Future generations cannot even hope to climb out of the financial abyss created by those whose plan it was to bring America to her knees; and the people sleep, and indulge in every form of depravity and pleasure, never concerned about anyone but themselves, and once again, the fires of Nero burn and the Christian, again, is the scapegoat.

So, here we are, dying, invaded by the enemy within, holding to a lie, while rejecting truth, the very source of truth that breathed life into the exceptionalism of America, Almighty God. We have cut our own throat.

Is she not worth saving, not worth fighting for?

The single man of God weeps and implores the people to return to God. Weep, weep for her sins, weep for her shame and when you have finished weeping, stand and FIGHT so that your nation can be healed, restored and be the righteous light to the nations once again.

FIGHT all you people of the Great Republic; FIGHT all of you who once have known the Great Republic. If you love her, FIGHT. FIGHT for her honor, she has been defiled by evil and wicked men, who have sullied her like a common prostitute, only to be discarded after the violations on her has been complete. FIGHT so that America is not fallen, so that America is not lost. She is worth it.

GOD, BLESS, HAVE MERCY AND REMEMBER AMERICA AGAIN.

Special Grocery List

Here's a sweet story to remind us how powerful GOD is.

SPECIAL GROCERY LIST

Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store.

She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries.

She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food.

John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested that she leave his store at once.

Visualizing the family needs, she said: 'Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can.'

John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store.

Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two. The customer walked forward and told the grocer that they would stand good for whatever she needed for her family. The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, 'Do you have a grocery list?'

Louise replied, 'Yes sir.' 'O.K' he said, 'put your grocer y list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries..'

Louise hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed.

The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed amazement when the scales went down and stayed down.

The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, 'I can't believe it.'

The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more.

The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement.

It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said:
'Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands.'

The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence.

Louise thanked him and left the store.... The other customer handed a fifty-dollar bill to the grocer and said; 'It was worth every penny of it.
Only God Knows how much a prayer weighs..'