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Prayers for Restorying Sanity of one tiny world

2012-01-30T18:32:00.001-05:00

Prayers for Restorying Sanity of the world

2012-01-30T18:32:00.000-05:00

Psalm 145

2012-01-29T18:47:00.000-05:00

Psalm 145

¹I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

²Every day will I bless thee; and I will praise thy name for ever and ever.

³Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

⁴One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.

⁵I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

⁶And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.

⁷They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

⁸The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

⁹The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

¹⁰All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

¹¹They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power;

¹²To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom.

¹³Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

¹⁴The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down.

¹⁵The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season.

¹⁶Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷The LORD is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.

¹⁸The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁹He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

²⁰The LORD preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

²¹My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.

Global Population Control for Happiness and Peace

2012-01-29T07:01:00.001-05:00

The Number One Priority of USA, the UN, nations, and Economic Forum needs to be "Population Control" to provide "Peace" and "Happy Life". "Peace" without a sound and logical immediate population control is a big failure and hopeless. This world can't feed and provide "happy life" as we can see that the world is turning into living hell. It is unthinkable to ignore so many people is suffering with misguided promises and false hope. May God open hearts of those who gathered all wealth and prosperity to help others and to reduce the global pain and suffering. May God show his love through effective population control and plans for global peace and prosperity. May God lead and enlighten all. ~ Amen * Matthew 18

Love of God 1 Cor 13:8a

2012-01-28T21:19:00.000-05:00

The everlasting Love of God is shown through "Christ". The divine love, the sacrificial love, is everlasting, never fading, never doubting, eternal love.... that we always cherish and will be loved. Thank God for His Love, even though we go through hardships and sometimes we feel bitterness we can renew our hearts and minds to be refreshed by His unfailing love.

To be thankful in all circumstances -- this is so very hard to do, but it reveals the divine wisdom and command. With the Grace of God, we can be thankful in all circumstances.

May God show His Grace, Mercy, Glory, Everlasting Love. ~ Amen

God’s Love Scriptures

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

1 Peter 1:22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Ephesians 4:2-3 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Philippians 2:2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.

1 John 3:18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
Love Scripture Quotes from Proverbs or Psalms

Psalm 23:5-6 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.

Psalm 31:16 Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

Psalm 63:3 Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

Proverbs 10:12 Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

God loves you just the way you are, but He refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus. – Max Lucado

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
Sam Keen - An explorer of literary questions about love, life, religion, and being a man in today’s society, Sam Keen has taken some of the most difficult questions in life and given philosophical answers. Some of the questions he focuses on are “For what may I hope?” “Is there life beyond death?” and, “Whom do I love? Who loves me?” This quote may have come from one of his various literary works in response to the grand, magical mystery that is love.

Peace through One Child Policy

2012-01-28T06:13:00.000-05:00

ONLY ONE TINY, BEAUTIFUL WORLD in the vast universe!

Population control is one of factors for world peace since
the one tiny world can't feed and provide happy life
to billions of people.

Education to all to plan their future with family planning.
Otherwise, this world is getting worse every day. NO HOPE

You didn't choose Life, you are given a life.

Help to create Peace through Population Control and Planning.

ONLY ONE TINY, BEAUTIFUL WORLD in the vast universe!

2012-01-27T11:14:00.000-05:00

ONLY ONE TINY, BEAUTIFUL WORLD in the vast universe!

Population control will be one of factors for world peace since the one tiny world can't feed and provide happy life to billions of people.

Education to all to plan their future with family planning. Otherwise, this world is getting worse every day. NO HOPE

You didn't choose Life, you are given a life.

Help to create Peace through Population Control and Planning.

Lost 130 pounds in the first six months

2012-01-25T14:40:00.000-05:00

Man refuses surgery, drops 270 pounds

This story started on
CNN iReport

By Jacque Wilson, CNN

updated 11:35 AM EST, Wed January 25, 2012

"The absolute best thing about all the weight that I've lost is just waking up every day and realizing that I don't weigh 577 pounds anymore," he said with a laugh. "The biggest rewards are the smallest ones."

Small steps are what began Bryan's weight loss journey. After leaving the hospital, he began to move -- at first pushing a shopping cart around the grocery store like a toddler learning to walk. Then he ventured to the mailbox at the end of his driveway. Soon, he was conquering several miles at a time.

He lost 130 pounds in the first six months, then dropped another 140 pounds over the course of the next year. At 5-foot-8, Bryan now weighs just under 300 pounds.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/25/health/weight-loss-profile-bryan-ganey/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

God is "Love", but also "Love" is the greatest weapon of Satan

2012-01-25T12:37:00.000-05:00

They have raised Sheep herd to be slaughtered using Faith, Hope, and Love using Faith and God. Preachers only nurse the wounds by the satanic deception instead of correctly delivering the Message of God. There is no real hope as long as the same deceptive power is continuing to do the same. God is "Love", but also "Love" is the greatest weapon of Satan like Jesus died on the cross instead of fighting against Satan. I never really understood "Satan" until now.

DRONE = Dr One It is quite psychopathic how they have destroyed the world using Satan Genesis 3:1 -- especially America after Europe with massive debt and living misery corruption.

Genesis 3:1 The Way Possessing the World

2012-01-25T05:45:00.000-05:00

Genesis 3:1

1 Thessalonians 2:3-7

Financial Market Monsters - allegorically

2012-01-24T10:15:00.000-05:00

This is like the Financial Market gobbling up whatever in sight by the few who has complete control over market directions whether it is up or down -- in reality, upside is the problem creating bubbles of all kinds an hype as it is made of nothing (i.e. printing).

Tokyo sees high quake probability, scientists warn

By Elizabeth Yuan, CNN

updated 7:17 AM EST, Tue January 24, 2012

Japan's highest mountain, Mount Fuji, rises behind Tokyo's skyscraper skyline, as the sun sets in this photo last year.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Forty-two million people live in Tokyo metropolitan area
University researchers cited findings on increase in small tremors
Government put 70% probability of magnitude-7 quake in region within 30 years
March 11 quake and tsunami left more than 15,700 dead, government says

(CNN) -- Tokyo faces the possibility of being hit by a massive earthquake within the next four years, according to Japanese researchers.

The University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute predicts there is a 70% probability that the capital's metropolitan area will experience a magnitude-7 quake within four years and a 98% probability within the next 30 years.

Nearly one year ago, a magnitude 9.0 quake struck off Japan's central Pacific coast, triggering a devastating tsunami and aftershocks that left more than 15,700 dead, according to a government report in December on Japan's recovery from the catastrophe. About 4,500 were listed as missing.

Nearly 700 aftershocks registering magnitude 5 or greater followed last year's quake, the government report said.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/24/world/asia/tokyo-quake-forecast/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Hope Never Again the Misery of Nobama

2012-01-24T06:34:00.000-05:00

Who wants to hear the same old deceptive speeches
Hopefully, we never see his deceptive speech again.

Newt Lost: Romney attacks Gingrich in GOP debate

2012-01-23T19:46:00.000-05:00

Romney attacks Gingrich in GOP debate

By Tom Cohen, CNN

updated 11:38 PM EST, Mon January 23, 2012

(CNN) -- In a spirited Republican presidential debate, surging conservative Newt Gingrich came under attack Monday night over his record as U.S. House speaker in the 1990s, alleged lobbying after getting out of government and his past stance on health care reform.

With rivals Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul going after him at one time or another, Gingrich tried to remain calm and exude a presidential demeanor as polls show his campaign strengthening after his victory in last week's South Carolina primary.

Romney is nervous.

2012-01-23T16:28:00.000-05:00

Romney is actually stuttering in this interview. He is loosing his smooth talk -- anyone noticed his manner of speaking? I hope that he is the one for the GOP nomination, but when he said that "Occupy movement was about "Envy", he really lost it as also Dan Rather said that he does not have the touch. As far as his careless, thoughtless statement referring the income gap was about "Envy" speaking a ton about who he really is and what he is going to do. It is not just a mistake of a wrong choice of words, but it reveals his core, fundamental belief system and thinking process.

Go Gingrich & Palin~

Gingrich says Romney is 'desperate'

By Alan Silverleib and Tom Cohen, CNN

updated 6:54 PM EST, Mon January 23, 2012

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

NEW: Off his S.C. primary win, Newt Gingrich calls Mitt Romney "desperate"
Romney calls Gingrich's record "erratic" and urges Gingrich to release records
Gingrich says records tied to his work for Freddie Mac will be released
The pivotal Florida primary will take place on January 31

Washington (CNN) -- Mitt Romney ramped up his criticism of Newt Gingrich on Monday, prompting the former House speaker to respond that his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination was getting desperate.

Surging in the polls after his double-digit victory in South Carolina last week, Gingrich said that presumptive front-runner Romney was seeing his early lead disappearing in Florida, the site of the next primary on January 31.

A new national poll Monday put Gingrich and the former Massachusetts governor in a statistical tie at the top, with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Rep. Ron Paul lagging behind. Gingrich also has narrowed Romney's lead among Florida voters.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/23/politics/campaign-wrap/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer

2012-01-23T12:48:00.001-05:00

The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
Psalm 18:2

The offence of the cross.—GAL. 5:11.

If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.—We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.—Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence.

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.—I am crucified with Christ.—They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us.

Matt. 16:24.Jas. 4:4. -Acts. 14:22.Rom. 9:33. -I Pet. 2:7,8.Gal. 6:1. -Gal. 2:20. -Gal. 5:24.II Tim 2:12.

The LORD lives! Praise to my Rock!
May God, the Rock of my salvation, be exalted!
~ 2 Samuel 22:47 NLT

Insight
David praises God wholeheartedly. Praise is not just a song about God; it is a song to God.

Challenge
Praising God has several aspects to it: (1) Say thank you to him for each attribute of his divine nature; (2) focus our hearts on him; (3) thank him for his many gracious gifts to us; and (4) thank him for our relationship with him.
~ Tyndale

Planes expected to reroute following massive solar eruption

2012-01-23T09:36:00.000-05:00

Planes expected to reroute following massive solar eruption

A powerful solar eruption is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth Tuesday, Jan. 24, as the strongest radiation storm since 2005 rages on the sun.

Early this morning (0359 GMT Jan. 23, which corresponds to late Sunday, Jan. 22 at 10:59 p.m. EST), NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun, according to the skywatching website Spaceweather.com.

The solar flare spewed from sunspot 1402, a region of the sun that has become increasingly active lately. Several NASA satellites, including the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Solar Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), and the Stereo spacecraft observed the massive sun storm.

A barrage of charged particles triggered by this morning's solar flare is expected to hit Earth tomorrow at around 9 a.m. EST (1400 GMT), according to experts at the Space Weather Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [Video & photos of the huge solar flare]

According to NOAA, this is the strongest solar radiation storm since May 2005, and as a precaution, polar flights on Earth are expected to be re-routed within the next few hours, Kathy Sullivan, deputy administrator of NOAA, said today at the 92nd annual American Meteorological Society meeting in New Orleans, La.

Scientists call these electromagnetic bursts "coronal mass ejections" (CMEs), and they are closely studied because they can produce potentially harmful geomagnetic storms when the charged particles rain down Earth's magnetic field lines.

God's Nature

2012-01-22T12:34:00.001-05:00

This God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide even unto death.—Psalm 48:14.

O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.—The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup.

He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.—Thou hast holden me by my right hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.—Our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.—The Lord will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands.

Isa. 25:1. -Psa. 16:5.Psa. 23:3,4. -Psa. 73:23-26. -Psa. 33:21. -Psa. 138:8.

For you, O LORD, are most high over all the earth; you are exalted far above all gods. O you who love the LORD, hate evil! He preserves the lives of his saints; he delivers them from the hand of the wicked. Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart. Rejoice in the LORD, O you righteous, and give thanks to his holy name! Psalms 97:9-12

Romans 8:37-39 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God’s Love Shown Through Jesus Christ

John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 5:8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God. who loved me and gave himself for me.

Ephesians 2:4-5 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, evenwhen we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ— by grace you have been saved—

1 John 4:9-11 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
God Loves and Cares For Us

Zephaniah 3:17 The LORD your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

1 Peter 5:6-7 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Job 34:19 who shows no partiality to princes, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?

Psalm 86:15 But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

1 John 3:1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
What God Says About Love

Deuteronomy 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,

Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

John 13:34-35 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Respond To God’s Love Through Thankfulness

Psalm 136:26 Give thanks to the God of heaven, for his steadfast love endures forever.

Romans 5:2-5 Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Colossians 2:6-7 Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude.

Hebrews 12:28-29 Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.

http://www.whatchristianswanttoknow.com/20-inspirational-bible-verses-about-gods-love/#ixzz1kCjsHlgF

What the Lord loves:
1. The Lord loveth Israel. (Deu 7:7-8; Isa 63:9; Jer 31:3; 2 Chronicles 2:11)
2. The Lord loved the fathers of Israel. (Deu 4:37)
3. The Lord loveth Zion. (Psa 87:2)
4. The Lord loveth judgment. (Isa 61:8; Psa 37:28)
5. The Lord loveth righteousness. (Psalm 11:7; Psalm 33:5)
6. The Lord loveth the righteous and those that follow after it. (Psa 146:8; Pro 15:9)
7. The Lord loveth the individual. (Jhn 11:32-36; Mark 10:21)
8. The Lord loveth those that keep His commandments. (John 14:21)
9. The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. (2 Cor 9:7)
10. The Father loveth the Son. (Jhn 10:17; 15:9; 17:26; Has 11:1)
11. God so loved the world. (Jhn 3:16; 1 Jhn 4:10)
12. The Father loveth you because you love His Son. (Jhn 16:27)
13. God loveth sinners. (Rom 5:8; 2 Cor 5:14; Eph 2:4-7; Heb 2:9; 1 Jhn 4:9-11)

At Least 43 Things God Hates

1. Homosexual acts (Leviticus 18:22).

2. Bestiality (Leviticus 18:23)

3. Idols, and the materials used to make idols (Deuteronomy 7:25)

4. Blemished sacrifices (Deuteronomy 17:1)

5. Worshipping the sun, moon or stars (Deuteronomy 17:3-4)

6. Divination (Deuteronomy 18:10)

7. Astrology (Deuteronomy 18:10)

8. Enchanters (Deuteronomy 18:10)

9. Witches (Deuteronomy 18:10)

10. Charmers (Deuteronomy 18:11)

11. Wizards (Deuteronomy 18:11)

12. Necromancers (Deuteronomy 18:11)

13. Transvestitism (Deuteronomy 22:5)

14. The hire of a whore (Deuteronomy 23:18)

15. Remarriage to a former wife after she has been married to another man (Deuteronomy 24:4)

16. Dishonest scales (Deuteronomy 25:13-16)

17. Workers of iniquity (Psalm 5:5)

18. The wicked (Psalm 11:5)

19. Those who love violence (Psalm 11:5)

20. The froward [perverse] (Proverbs 3:32)

21. A proud look (Proverbs 6:16-17)

22. A lying tongue (Proverbs 6:17)

23. Hands that shed innocent blood (Proverbs 6:17)

24. A heart that devises wicked imaginations (Proverbs 6:18)

25. Feet that are swift in running to mischief (Proverbs 6:18)

26. A false witness who speaks lies (Proverbs 6:19)

27. Anyone who sows discord among brethren (Proverbs 6:19)

28. Lying lips (Proverbs 12:22)

29. The sacrifices of the wicked (Proverbs 15:8)

30. The ways of the wicked (Proverbs 15:9)

31. The thoughts of the wicked (Proverbs 15:26)

32. The proud in heart (Proverbs 16:5)

33. Those who justify the wicked (Proverbs 17:15)

34. Those who condemn the just (Proverbs 17:15)

35. Vain sacrifices (Isaiah 1:13)

36. Feasts as Israel celebrated them (Isaiah 1:14)

37. Robbery for burnt offering (Isaiah 61:8)

38. Idolatry (Jeremiah 44:2-4)

39. Evil plans against neighbors (Zechariah 8:17)

40. False oaths (Zechariah 8:17)

41. Esau (Malachi 1:1-3; Romans 9:13)
[Actually, it’s "Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated" -ed.]

42. Divorce (Malachi 2:14-16)

43. The deeds of the Nicolaitans (Revelation 2:6, 15)

Joel Meredith has compiled a book of Bible lists "to entertain, interest, fascinate, stimulate and, most of all, to educate." There are some minor problems with this list, but it gives you a good idea of what things God finds to be abominations, or are detestable to Him. Somehow, the author missed a couple. By adding in the following, the list grows to 45 things God hates:

44. "You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates" (Deuteronomy 16:22).

45. "I hate, I despise, your feast days" (Amos 5:21). This goes with Isaiah 1:14: "Your new moons and your appointed feasts My soul hates."

You may have heard the expression, "God hates the sin, but loves the sinner." Although that is not a biblical statement per se, it has been accepted as a true statement. But after reviewing this list, that may not be such a sure conviction. What do you think?

http://livingtheway.org/43things.html

10 Most Exotic Fruits

2012-01-22T10:56:00.000-05:00

10 Most Exotic Fruits

Squared Watermelon

For years consumers have struggled to fit the large round fruit in their refrigerators. And then there was the problem of trying to cut the fruit when it kept rolling around. But 20 years ago a forward-thinking farmer on Japan's south-western island of Shikoku solved the problem. The farmer, from Zentsuji, in Kagawa prefecture, came up with the idea of making a cube-shaped watermelon which could easily be packed and stored. To make it happen, farmers grew the melons in glass boxes and the fruit then naturally assumed the same shape. Today the cuboid watermelons are hand-picked and shipped all over Japan. But the fruit, on sale in a selection of department stores and upmarket supermarkets, appeals mainly to the wealthy and fashion-conscious of Tokyo and Osaka, Japan's two major cities. Each melon sells for 10,000 yen, equivalent to about $83. It is almost double, or even triple than of a normal watermelon.

(Link | Photo)

Pomegranate

The pomegranate is native from Iran to the Himalayas in northern India and was cultivated and naturalized over the whole Mediterranean region since ancient times. The LA Times recently labelled pomegranate as ‘one of the most trendiest and versatile fruit on the market', and it could be good for you (another fruit sold for its ‘medical values'). Packed with antioxidants, pomegranate juice is now on the red carpet, and even the stars at the Oscars drink the dark red liquid.(Link)

Dragon fruit

A pitaya is the fruit of several cactus species, most importantly of the genus Hylocereus (sweet pitayas). These fruit are commonly known as dragon fruit. The fruit can weigh from 150 to 600 grams. To prepare a pitaya for consumption, the fruit is cut open to expose the flesh. The fruit's texture is sometimes likened to that of the kiwifruit due to the presence of black crunchy seeds. The flesh, which is eaten raw, is mildly sweet and low in calories; dragon fruit should not be used to accompany strong-tasting food – except to "clean the palate" between dishes. The seeds are eaten together with the flesh, but they are indigestible unless chewed. The fruit is also converted into juice or wine, or used to flavour other beverages. The flowers can be eaten or steeped as tea. (Link)

Kiwano

The horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), also called African horned cucumber or kiwano, is an annual vine in the cucumber and melon family. Often known by its nickname in the southeastern United States - blowfish fruit - it is grown for its fruit, which looks like an oval melon with horn-like spines. The fruit of this plant is edible, but it is used as often for decoration as for food. When ripe, it has a yellow-orange skin and a lime green jelly-like flesh. The horned melon is native to Africa, and it is now grown in California, Chile, Australia and New Zealand as well.(Link | Photo 1 | Photo 2)

Star fruit

The star fruit or carambola is a tropical fruit that is gaining popularity in the United States. This fruit acquired its name from the five pointed star shape when cut across the middle of the fruit. It has a waxy, golden yellow to green color skin with a complicated flavor combination that includes plums, pineapples, and lemons.(Link)

Rambutan

This is the strangest looking fruit ever. Rambutan in Malay, Indonesian, and Filipino literally means hairy, caused by the 'hair' that covers this fruit. On the outside it's magenta with green hairy legs all over it. From the outside you'd have no idea what to expect on the inside. Inside it's similar to a lychee fruit. It looks sort of clear and gummy. It's very watery and has a huge seed in the center. It tastes pretty decent, but it's the look of the ramputan that puts it in the top ten.(Link | Photo)

Ackee

Ackee is Jamaica's national fruit. The fruit was imported to Jamaica from West Africa (probably on a slave ship) before 1778. Since then it has become a major feature of various Caribbean cuisines, and is also cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas elsewhere around the world. The fruit of the ackee is not edible in its entirety. Only the inner, fleshy yellow arils are consumed. It is extremely poisonous in the very center if you eat the red bits. (Link 1 | Link 2)

Mangosteen

Called ‘mangkut', these are the ‘queen of Thai fruits' with their elegant, segmented white–flesh inside a thick large purple peel. They grow in the South and the season lasts just a few months of the year, mainly from May to September. If you are here in Thailand at that time be sure to enjoy this delicious and luxurious sweet fruit.(Link)

Buddha's Hand

Ever heard of a Fingered Citron? How about a Buddha's Hand? It's a weird -looking citrus that has green or rich yellow tapering fingers or segments attached to a base – the appearance is not unlike a curled, arthritic hand, only there are usually many more than 5 fingers! But what on earth do you do with a Buddha's Hand? Do you eat it? Well, yes, and no. Its thick, lemony rind and pith (the white part) is often candied into a delicious citrus delicacy, infused with spirits or made into liqueurs. However, the small amount of inside flesh is quite sour and rarely used in food. The Buddha's Hand and other members of the Citron family are also prized for their aromatic citrus oils and used in perfumes and sometimes kept in homes as a natural air deodorizer.
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Urucu

You can count on finding the Urucu plant (Bixa orellana) around every rural household in the Amazon. Achiote (Bixa orellana) is a shrub or small tree from the tropical region of the Americas. It is cultivated there and in Southeast Asia, where it was introduced by the Spanish in the 17th century. It is best known as the source of the natural pigment annatto, produced from the fruit.(Link 1 | Link 2 | Photo)

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Faith Hope Love

2012-01-21T18:21:00.000-05:00

1 Corinthians 13

¹Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
²And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
³And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
⁴Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
⁵Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
⁶Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
⁷Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
⁸Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
⁹For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
¹⁰But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
¹¹When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
¹²For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
¹³And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Creativity of the Mind through Poetry

2012-01-21T08:46:00.000-05:00

CREATIVITY~OF ~THE ~MIND~

Being creative
Is your mind Taking over
Your soul, being creative
Is your words becoming

Reality, creativity of the
Mind is like lighting striking
At any minute The rush that

Sends through our pen, or the
Paper that holds our finger
Prints, we Love, our words

Flow, we Love what we do
Even in life some people
Disagree the mind is what

Lies deep within, creativity of
The mind is A gift use it
To bring a light and Hope,

Upon our world, courage
And laughter, bring under
Standing, we discover who

We are through the rise" and
The fall" but we rise through
Our words as we bring a light

That shines, as our words flow
Through the beauty of our Hearts

creativity of the mind is who
We are, use it well and let your
Mind discover who you are.

http://poetrypoem.com/

"Not all psychopaths are in prison -- some are in the boardroom,"

2012-01-20T09:30:00.000-05:00

(CNN) -- Think you suffer from a "psycho" boss? A small but growing body of global research suggests you might be right.

Call it the "Psycho-path to Success."

Psychopaths -- narcissists guided without conscience, who mimic rather than feel real emotions -- bring to mind serial killers such as Ted Bundy or fictional murderers such as Hannibal Lecter or "Dexter," the anti-hero of the popular Showtime TV series. But psychologists say most psychopaths are not behind bars -- and at least one study shows people with psychopathic tendencies are four times more likely to be found in senior management.

"Not all psychopaths are in prison -- some are in the boardroom," said Dr. Robert Hare, a Canadian psychologist who is co-author of the book "Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go To Work."

Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus || Spoken Word

2012-01-20T08:39:00.000-05:00

Most of Americans can't afford to eat Fruits and Vegitable.

2012-01-18T04:08:00.000-05:00

One Beautiful Earth in the universe!

The greed has deceived and defraud to rob healthy, living lives away from mass.

It is harder to live healthy life when people can not afford to live healthy.
For example, most of Americans can't afford fresh fruit and vegitable.

Are fruits and vegetables too expensive?
March 14, 2011

What did USDA find?
An average adult on a 2,000 calorie diet could satisfy the fruit and vegetable consumption recommendations of the 2010 DGAs at an average cost of $2 to $2.50 per day.
http://www.gmaonline.org/blog/?p=1098

Possile Order by illuminti

2012-01-17T17:30:00.001-05:00

My condolences to all who are going through the agony of tragedy.

http://beautifulbible.multiply.com/journal/item/1380/Cruise_ship_runs_aground_off_Italy

Is it possible? Is it possible that the ship wreck was intentional ordered by "__".

Given the oddness of global tragedies and wars along with various conspiracy theories, it is not abnormal to ask whether the ship wreck was an intentional accident.

Hypothetically, is it possible that there was an order to wreck the ship by whomever. Considering that most of Americans were completely deceived about the core of American Government, e.g. the Fed Reserve control, it is possible that any major events whether those are disasters or good luck could have been ordered.

The things which are.—REV. 1:19

2012-01-17T16:39:00.002-05:00

“And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house.”

2 Samuel 11:2

At that hour David saw Bathsheba. We are never out of the reach of temptation. Both at home and abroad we are liable to meet with allurements to evil; the morning opens with peril, and the shades of evening find us still in jeopardy. They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed. Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence.

David should have been engaged in fighting the Lord’s battles, instead of which he tarried at Jerusalem, and gave himself up to luxurious repose, for he arose from his bed at eventide. Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey. In stagnant waters noxious creatures swarm, and neglected soil soon yields a dense tangle of weeds and briars. Oh for the constraining love of Jesus to keep us active and useful! When I see the King of Israel sluggishly leaving his couch at the close of the day, and falling at once into temptation, let me take warning, and set holy watchfulness to guard the door.

Is it possible that the king had mounted his housetop for retirement and devotion? If so, what a caution is given us to count no place, however secret, a sanctuary from sin! While our hearts are so like a tinder-box, and sparks so plentiful, we had need use all diligence in all places to prevent a blaze. Satan can climb housetops, and enter closets, and even if we could shut out that foul fiend, our own corruptions are enough to work our ruin unless grace prevent. Reader, beware of evening temptations. Be not secure. The sun is down but sin is up. We need a watchman for the night as well as a guardian for the day. O blessed Spirit, keep us from all evil this night. Amen.

http://www.ccel.org/meditate#morneve

The things which are.—REV. 1:19.

Now we see through a glass, darkly.—Now we see not yet all things put under him.

We have . . . a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts.—Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ; how that they told you there should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.—The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.

Little children, it is the last time.—The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

I Cor. 13:12. -Heb. 2:8.II Pet. 1:19. -Psa. 119:105.Jude 17,18. -I Tim. 4:1.I John 2:18. -Rom. 13:12.

http://www.ccel.org/meditate

Is it possible -- it was ordered by "_"?

2012-01-17T12:22:00.000-05:00

My condolences to all who are going through the agony of tragedy.

http://beautifulbible.multiply.com/journal/item/1380/Cruise_ship_runs_aground_off_Italy

Is it possible? Is it possible that the ship wreck was intentional ordered by "__". We know for sure that it was not a natural disaster. Is it possible that the Captain was following an black order (aka order from Illuminati)?

Given the oddness of global tragedies and wars along with various conspiracy theories, it is not abnormal to ask whether the ship wreck was an intentional accident.

Hypothetically, is it possible that there was an order to wreck the ship by whomever. Considering that most of Americans were completely deceived about the core of American Government, e.g. the Fed Reserve control, it is possible that any major events whether those are disasters or good luck.

Understanding Ezekiel's Temple

2012-01-17T10:11:00.000-05:00

Gingrich & Perry was right on Romney Vulture

2012-01-12T14:17:00.000-05:00

OMG Tim Tebow is Virgin!!! Great Man!!

2012-01-11T19:23:00.000-05:00

http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_t3#/video/showbiz/2012/01/11/exp-alan-thicke-is-tebow-bigger-than-beyonce.hln

http://waitingtillmarriage.org/tim-tebow-virgin-and-waiting-till-marriage/

Endless War vs United Korea : Jan 8, 2012 riding horse

2012-01-10T08:45:00.000-05:00

USA and China is baiting at each other.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/10/world/asia/north-korea-prisoners/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

Global Population Control

2012-01-09T10:21:00.000-05:00

ONLY 1 OR 2 KIDS

Human population control is the practice of artificially altering the rate of growth of a human population. Historically, human population control has been implemented by limiting the population's birth rate, usually by government mandate, and has been undertaken as a response to factors including high or increasing levels of poverty, environmental concerns, religious reasons, and overpopulation. While population control can involve measures that improve people's lives by giving them greater control of their reproduction, some programs have exposed them to exploitation.^[1]

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_population_control}

PEACE NOW: UK sending warship to Persian Gulf amid Strait closure fears

2012-01-07T08:07:00.000-05:00

PEACE NOW or PIECE

~*~

UK sending warship to Persian Gulf amid Strait closure fears

By the CNN Wire Staff

updated 11:34 AM EST, Sat January 7, 2012

(CNN) -- The United Kingdom said Saturdayit plans to send a warship to the Persian Gulf, a move that follows Western criticism of Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz.

The UK Ministry of Defense described the deployment of the HMS Daring as "long-planned" and "entirely routine." The destroyer will replace a frigate stationed in the area, it said.

Still, in the past two weeks both U.S. and British defense officials have denounced any move by Iran to close the strait, the only outlet from the Persian Gulf and a key trade route for oil.

Iran threatened in late December to block the strait if sanctions were imposed on its oil exports. France, Britain, and Germany have all proposed such sanctions to punish Iran for lack of cooperation on its nuclear program.

The strait is a critical shipping lane, through which 17 million barrels of oil passed per day in 2011, according to the U.S. Energy Information Agency.

Analysis: Saber-rattling in Strait of Hormuz

Rear Adm. Ali Fadavi, of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said last month the world could not last 24 hours without Persian Gulf oil, and that Iran is capable of closing the strait.

"Today, out of the 1,300 billion barrels of oil in the world, 800 billion barrels are in the Persian Gulf," Fadavi told Iran's Press TV.

The U.S. Navy said the threat to block the strait is unacceptable, as the flow of goods and services is vital not only to the region but to the world.

"Anyone who threatens to disrupt freedom of navigation in an international strait is clearly outside the community of nations; any disruption will not be tolerated," Cmdr. Amy Derrick Frost, spokeswoman for the U.S. 5th Fleet based in Bahrain, said at the time.

Earlier this week, Britain's secretary of state for defense, Philip Hammond, warned that any Iranian attempt to close the strait would be illegal and unsuccessful.

"Disruption to the flow of oil through Straits of Hormuz would threaten regional and global economic growth," Hammond said in a speech in Washington on Thursday.

State media said Friday that Iran plans to conduct military drills in the strait in February under the name "The Great Prophet."

An IRGC commander told Press TV the drills would be different from previous ones, though just how wasn't clear.

Iran launched a 10-day drill in the strait in late December.

Physically closing the strait would require means that likely are not available to Iran, said Professor Jean-Paul Rodrigue of Hofstra University.

"At best, Iran can posture and potentially disrupt traffic for a short duration," said Rodrigue, who specializes in global trade and maritime transportation issues.

Frost said Navy "maintains a robust presence in the region to deter or counter destabilizing activities," and works to allow commercial shipping to operate freely.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/06/world/meast/iran-drills/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

War Profiteering around the globe

2012-01-06T12:10:00.000-05:00

Another War manipulation. They are all controlled by the same Greed manipulating the Middle East Wars -- INCLUDING CHINA.

You know who controls China Central Bank -- the same controlling the world except the five - Iran, N Korea, and 3 other small countries.

China warns US on Asia military strategy -

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16438584

They used Obama to wars in Middle East, and it will not be just there as they always profited from wars, they will continue to make wars at each other if all is still being fooled by the same greedy evil war manipulations.

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Praise the Lord Thanksgiving Psalm 106-107

2011-11-22T13:37:00.000-05:00

Psalm 106

¹Praise ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
²Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can shew forth all his praise?
³Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times.
⁴Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
⁵That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
⁶We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
⁷Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
⁸Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
⁹He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
¹⁰And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy.
¹¹And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
¹²Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
¹³They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
¹⁴But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
¹⁵And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
¹⁶They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
¹⁷The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan and covered the company of Abiram.
¹⁸And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
¹⁹They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
²⁰Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.
²¹They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;
²²Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
²³Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
²⁴Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
²⁵But murmured in their tents, and hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
²⁶Therefore he lifted up his hand against them, to overthrow them in the wilderness:
²⁷To overthrow their seed also among the nations, and to scatter them in the lands.
²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
²⁹Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and the plague brake in upon them.
³⁰Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed.
³¹And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore.
³²They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
³³Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
³⁴They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD commanded them:
³⁵But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
³⁶And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
⁴⁰Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
⁴¹And he gave them into the hand of the heathen; and they that hated them ruled over them.
⁴²Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.
⁴³Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
⁴⁴Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry:
⁴⁵And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.
⁴⁶He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.
⁴⁷Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
⁴⁸Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalm 107

¹O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
²Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
³And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
⁴They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
⁵Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
⁶Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
⁷And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
⁸Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
⁹For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
¹⁰Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
¹¹Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:
¹²Therefore he brought down their heart with labour; they fell down, and there was none to help.
¹³Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
¹⁴He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
¹⁵Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
¹⁶For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
¹⁷Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
¹⁸Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat; and they draw near unto the gates of death.
¹⁹Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
²⁰He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions.
²¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
²²And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.
²³They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;
²⁴These see the works of the LORD, and his wonders in the deep.
²⁵For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof.
²⁶They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
²⁷They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
²⁸Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
²⁹He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still.
³⁰Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.
³¹Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
³²Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
³³He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
³⁴A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
³⁵He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
³⁶And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation;
³⁷And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.
³⁸He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
³⁹Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
⁴⁰He poureth contempt upon princes, and causeth them to wander in the wilderness, where there is no way.
⁴¹Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock.
⁴²The righteous shall see it, and rejoice: and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
⁴³Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.

Thanksgiving Psalm 100

2011-11-21T15:27:00.000-05:00

Psalm 100 ¹Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
²Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
³Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
⁵For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 104-105

2011-11-21T08:20:00.000-05:00

Psalm 104

¹Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
²Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
³Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
⁴Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
⁵Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
⁶Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
⁷At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
⁸They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
⁹Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
¹⁰He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
¹¹They give drink to every beast of the field: the wild asses quench their thirst.
¹²By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
¹³He watereth the hills from his chambers: the earth is satisfied with the fruit of thy works.
¹⁴He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;
¹⁵And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.
¹⁶The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;
¹⁷Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
¹⁸The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies.
¹⁹He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
²⁰Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
²¹The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
²²The sun ariseth, they gather themselves together, and lay them down in their dens.
²³Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.
²⁴O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
²⁵So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
²⁶There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein.
²⁷These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
²⁸That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
²⁹Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
³⁰Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth.
³¹The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
³²He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
³³I will sing unto the LORD as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.
³⁴My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the LORD.
³⁵Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the LORD, O my soul. Praise ye the LORD.

Psalm 105

¹O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
²Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.
³Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
⁴Seek the LORD, and his strength: seek his face evermore.
⁵Remember his marvellous works that he hath done; his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth;
⁶O ye seed of Abraham his servant, ye children of Jacob his chosen.
⁷He is the LORD our God: his judgments are in all the earth.
⁸He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.
⁹Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
¹⁰And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant:
¹¹Saying, Unto thee will I give the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance:
¹²When they were but a few men in number; yea, very few, and strangers in it.
¹³When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people;
¹⁴He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;
¹⁵Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
¹⁶Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
¹⁷He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
¹⁸Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron:
¹⁹Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
²⁰The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
²¹He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his substance:
²²To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
²³Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
²⁴And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
²⁵He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
²⁶He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
²⁷They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.
²⁸He sent darkness, and made it dark; and they rebelled not against his word.
²⁹He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.
³⁰Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.
³¹He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
³²He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
³³He smote their vines also and their fig trees; and brake the trees of their coasts.
³⁴He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
³⁵And did eat up all the herbs in their land, and devoured the fruit of their ground.
³⁶He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.
³⁷He brought them forth also with silver and gold: and there was not one feeble person among their tribes.
³⁸Egypt was glad when they departed: for the fear of them fell upon them.
³⁹He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
⁴⁰The people asked, and he brought quails, and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.
⁴¹He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river.
⁴²For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.
⁴³And he brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with gladness:
⁴⁴And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
⁴⁵That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the LORD.

Population, Food, and Inflation Control

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Around the globe, we need birth and population control like the China's only one baby policy. WHY NOT NWO or Agenda 21?

Food 3.0

Psalm 97-103

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Psalm 100
¹Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
²Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
³Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
⁵For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 97

¹The LORD reigneth; let the earth rejoice; let the multitude of isles be glad thereof.
²Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.
³A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.
⁴His lightnings enlightened the world: the earth saw, and trembled.
⁵The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
⁶The heavens declare his righteousness, and all the people see his glory.
⁷Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
⁸Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
⁹For thou, LORD, art high above all the earth: thou art exalted far above all gods.
¹⁰Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
¹¹Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.
¹²Rejoice in the LORD, ye righteous; and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

Psalm 98

¹O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory.
²The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen.
³He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
⁴Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
⁵Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
⁶With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
⁷Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
⁸Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together
⁹Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalm 99

¹The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved.
²The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.
³Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.
⁴The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.
⁵Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
⁶Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.
⁷He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them.
⁸Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions.
⁹Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

Psalm 100

¹Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
²Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
³Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
⁴Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
⁵For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 101

¹I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, will I sing.
²I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
³I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.
⁴A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.
⁵Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.
⁶Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
⁷He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
⁸I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

Psalm 102

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
²Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
³For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
⁴My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
⁷I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
¹²But thou, O LORD, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
¹³Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
¹⁵So the heathen shall fear the name of the LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶When the LORD shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the LORD.
¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
²¹To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
²²When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.
²³He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
²⁵Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
²⁶They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
²⁷But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalm 103

¹Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
²Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits:
³Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
⁴Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
⁵Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
⁶The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
⁷He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts unto the children of Israel.
⁸The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
⁹He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
¹⁰He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
¹¹For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
¹²As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
¹⁵As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
¹⁶For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
¹⁷But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
¹⁸To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
¹⁹The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
²⁰Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
²¹Bless ye the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
²²Bless the LORD, all his works in all places of his dominion: bless the LORD, O my soul.

Psalm 90-96

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Psalm 90

¹Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.

²Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

³Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.

⁴For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

⁵Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

⁶In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

⁷For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.

⁸Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

⁹For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

¹⁰The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

¹¹Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

¹²So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

¹³Return, O LORD, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.

¹⁴O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

¹⁵Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

¹⁶Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

¹⁷And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 91

¹He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

²I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

³Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

⁴He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

⁵Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

⁶Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

⁷A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

⁸Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

⁹Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

¹⁰There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

¹¹For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

¹²They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

¹³Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

¹⁴Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

¹⁵He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

¹⁶With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.

Psalm 92

¹IT IS A GOOD THING TO GIVE THANKS UNTO THE LORD, AND TO SING PRAISES UNTO THY NAME, O MOST HIGH:

²To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,

³Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

⁴For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.

⁵O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

⁶A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

⁷When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:

⁸But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.

⁹For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.

¹⁰But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

¹¹Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.

¹²The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

¹³Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

¹⁴They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

¹⁵To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Psalm 93

¹The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

²Thy throne is established of old: thou art from everlasting.

³The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.

⁴The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

⁵Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.

Psalm 94

¹O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

²Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

³LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

⁴How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

⁵They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.

⁶They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

⁷Yet they say, The LORD shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

⁸Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

⁹He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

¹⁰He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

¹¹The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

¹²Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;

¹³That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

¹⁴For the LORD will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

¹⁵But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

¹⁶Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

¹⁷Unless the LORD had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

¹⁸When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O LORD, held me up.

¹⁹In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

²⁰Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

²¹They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

²²But the LORD is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

²³And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the LORD our God shall cut them off.

Psalm 95

¹O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

²Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.

³For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

⁴In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

⁵The sea is his, and he made it: and his hands formed the dry land.

⁶O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

⁷For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,

⁸Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

⁹When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.

¹⁰Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

¹¹Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Psalm 96

¹O sing unto the LORD a new song: sing unto the LORD, all the earth.

²Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

³Declare his glory among the heathen, his wonders among all people.

⁴For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

⁵For all the gods of the nations are idols: but the LORD made the heavens.

⁶Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

⁷Give unto the LORD, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the LORD glory and strength.

⁸Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come into his courts.

⁹O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

¹⁰Say among the heathen that the LORD reigneth: the world also shall be established that it shall not be moved: he shall judge the people righteously.

¹¹Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.

¹²Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice

¹³Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.

Only ONE beautiful Earth

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GOD CREATED UNIVERSE -- INFINITE NUMBER OF STARS --
BUT ONLY ONE EARTH!

Bible Characters: Peter & Rachel

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Peter [Pē'tûr]—a rock or stone. The Greek form of the Aramaic surname, Cephas. Peter was the brother of Andrew and the son of Jona, or Johanan (Matt. 4:18; John 1:40; 1 Cor. 1:12).

Peter

Peter is another of those outstanding characters in the Bible gallery of men, requiring a book all his own to fully expound his life and labors. From the many references to this reed transformed into a rock, we gather these facts and features of “The Big Fisherman.”

He was a fisherman of Bethsaida, a name meaning “the house of fish.” Afterwards he resided in Capernaum, where Jesus frequently lodged during His Galilean ministry.

His father was Jona, or Jonah, and Andrew was his brother. Both sons were fishermen on the Lake of Galilee and were evidently in partnership with Zebedee and his sons.

He first met Christ at Bethany beyond Jordan, where John the Baptist exercised his ministry. Both Peter and Andrew were disciples of the Baptist. It was Andrew who introduced Peter to Christ.
He received a triple call as friend, disciple and apostle. Through daily contact with Jesus, seeing and hearing His words and works, Peter’s character was deepened and strengthened.

He was a man with many facets of character. His life can be approached from many angles. He was naturally impulsive (Matt. 14:28; 17:4; John 21:7); tenderhearted and affectionate (Matt. 26:75; John 13:9; 21:15-17); gifted with spiritual insight (John 6:68), yet sometimes slow to apprehend deeper truths (Matt. 15:15, 16); courageous in his confession of faith in Christ, yet guilty of a most cowardly denial (Matt. 16:16; John 6:69; Mark 14:67-71); self-sacrificing yet inclined towards self-seeking (Matt. 19:27), and presumption (Matt. 16:22; John 13:8; 18:10); immovable in his convictions (Acts 4:19, 20; 5:28, 29, 40, 42).

He became the leader and spokesman of the Apostolic Twelve and of the three privileged to witness the raising of Jairus'daughter, the Transfiguration, our Lord’s agony in the Garden. He himself became a miracle worker, especially during the time portrayed in Acts.
He made a confession of Christ’s deity which became the foundation of the Church, and was appointed steward with authority of the keys, meaning that his was to be the privilege of opening the door of salvation to the Jews.

He miserably failed his Lord in an hour of crisis, being the only disciple to deny Christ, yet he was restored and recommissioned by Jesus after His resurrection. He became the dauntless leader of the infant Church and was foremost to protest his loyalty to Christ. After Pentecost, Peter’s ministry appears in four stages:

I. Jerusalem activities, 29-35 a.d., when James eventually succeeded to leadership of the Church.

II. Palestinean mission, 35-44 a.d., during which he remained for a while at Lydda and Joppa. He received a call to Caesarea, and in the house of Cornelius opened the door of privilege to the Gentiles.

III. Syrian mission with Antioch as a center, 44-61 a.d., during which he was accompanied by his wife, who became the pioneer Zenana missionary.

IV. Rome, 61 a.d. It would seem as if Peter reached here before Paul’s release from his first imprisonment, and a few years later suffered martyrdom by crucifixion, as Christ prophesied he would. Legend has it that Peter deemed himself unworthy to die in exactly the same way as his Lord had, and so begged his crucifiers to crucify him upside down.

Rachel

The Woman in Whom Romance and Tragedy Were Blended

Scripture References—Genesis 29; 30; 31; 33:1, 2, 7; 35:16-26; 46:19, 22, 25; 48:7; Ruth 4:11; 1 Samuel 10:2; Jeremiah 31:15; Matthew 2:18

Name Meaning—Rachel was the first person in the Bible to have a proper name derived from the brute creation. Wilkinson remarks, “that, for the most part, the formation of a human name from that of an animal is traceable to some peculiarity either observed or desired in an individual, which would thus be most intelligently expressed in a rude and simple age.” Rachel, the name of Jacob’s beloved wife means “ewe,” employed more or less as a title of endearment, just as the word “lamb” is among ourselves. Laban, accustomed to tenderly nursing the weak ewes as they were born, thought “ewe” to be a fitting name for his second daughter.

Family Connections—Rachel was the daughter of Laban, the son of Bethuel and Rebekah’s brother. Rachel became the second wife of her cousin Jacob and the mother of his two sons, Joseph and Benjamin. (Compare material under Leah.)

As we have already shown, the characteristic feature of the Bible in pairing certain individuals, compelling us to compare and contrast the lives they lived together, makes it difficult to separate any couple and deal exclusively with one or the other. Invariably, as in the instance of Leah and Rachel, their lives were lived out in close association. Yet we must try and isolate Rachel from her sister, for the galaxy of the Bible’s famous women would be incomplete without such a star. Surely, the much-loved wife of Jacob, and mother of Joseph, Israel’s saviour, and also Benjamin, could not have been an ordinary woman even though she shone with reflected glory. From the many references to Rachel we have the following facets of her life and character—

She Was Naturally Beautiful

It would seem as if Rachel had all the loveliness of her aunt, Rebekah. The sacred record speaks of her as “beautiful and well favoured” (attractive). Her sister Leah was “tender-eyed,” meaning some form of eye blemish making her less appealing than Rachel who prepossessed Jacob physically. Seeing her in all her natural charm and beauty, Jacob loved her. Although beauty may be only skin deep, it nevertheless wins admiration. The Hebrew form of Rachel’s description (Genesis 29:17) suggests that she was “beautiful in form and beautiful in look.” That God does not look upon the outward appearance merely is evidenced by the fact, of which Ellicott reminds us, that “it was not Rachel, with her fair face and well-proportioned figure, and her husband’s lasting love, that was the mother of the progenitor of the Messiah, but the weary-eyed Leah.”

She Was Divinely Guided

While, as the younger daughter, it was Rachel’s task to go to the well and draw water for her father’s sheep, it was no mere coincidence that she went that day when Jacob arrived. She might have been sick or indisposed, and if Leah had had to go for the water that day, what a different story might have been written of Jacob, as well as of the history of Israel. Fleeing from his home to Haran, Jacob met God at Bethel and left it “lifting up his feet” (Genesis 29:1, margin), implying a lighthearted alacrity as he continued his journey with the divine promise in his heart, “I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest” (Genesis 28:15). Thus, with the assurance of the divine presence and guidance as a guarantee of favor and safety he met the shepherds who told Jacob of Rachel (Genesis 29:6)—the name that was to charm his heart the rest of his life. That meeting between Jacob and Rachel was of God, and it was His providence that ordered the first glimpse of each other at the well. We are apt to forget that often the most seemingly ordinary incidents in life are as much of the divine plan as the smallest parts of a watch, and upon these smallest parts of the plan all the others depend. Our steps, when ordered by the Lord, lead to great issue.
As far as Jacob and Rachel were concerned that meeting was unforeseen and unpremeditated. “A divinely directed life is often shaped by circumstances that human prescience could not have foreseen.” As soon as they met it was love at first sight, at least with Jacob. The first sight of his cousin’s beautiful face and figure cast a spell over him and he “kissed Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.” As she was his cousin, Jacob was not prevented from kissing Rachel by the etiquette of the East, which was the home of warm feelings and demonstrative actions. Probably the tears Jacob shed were those of gratitude to God in bringing him to his mother’s relatives, and also tears of joy because he knew instinctively that the lovely maiden he kissed would be his wife. Jacob removed the stone from the mouth of the well, helped Rachel water the flock, acquainted her with his story, and was taken home by an excited Rachel where he was hospitably welcomed.
George Matheson draws our attention to the interesting fact that the meeting of Jacob and Rachel is “the first courtship in the Bible growing out of a cousinly relationship—in other words, as having its roots in a previous friendship.” Jacob, a poet by nature, dazzled by Rachel’s beauty, broke out into a deep love before marriage—a thought to ponder in these days when young people are being told that pre-marital experiences are quite in order, to test whether they are suited for each other. Jacob was to prove that the typical trial of love is waiting, and he had to wait many a year before the one whom he loved, as soon as he saw her, became his wife.

She Was Deeply Loved

We are distinctly told that “Jacob loved Rachel,” and that the seven years he served Laban for his daughter, “seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her” (Genesis 29:18, 20). Even after Jacob found that he had been deceived by Laban and had been given Leah instead, he served and waited for Rachel another seven years because “he loved her more than Leah” (29:30). From the first moment Jacob saw Rachel he loved her, and she became his choice as a wife. But while she alone was in the heart of her lover, “the real choice was not Jacob’s but God’s, and for the first place God had chosen Leah.” In his second marriage, Rachel only received half of Jacob, the other half had been given to her rival sister.
While Leah might have had “the keys of Jacob’s house, Rachel had the keys of his heart. Leah seems to have influenced his judgment: Rachel never ceased to hold his love. Leah bore Jacob six stalwart sons, Rachel was the mother of only two: but the sons of Rachel were dearer to him than the sons of Leah.” Jacob is outstanding among male lovers in the Bible for the true, romantic, abiding love he bore for Rachel. Whether such a deep and ardent love was reciprocated we are not told. The Bible has no reference to Rachel’s love for Jacob. She appears as a somewhat placid character. We have no record of any grief she felt, or protest she made when she discovered how Leah had taken the first place in Jacob’s life. We would like to believe that Rachel’s love for Jacob was as romantic as his was for her, and that also the years she had to wait for him seemed but a few days because of her heart’s affection for Jacob.

She Was Cruelly Deceived

The deceit perpetrated by Laban upon Jacob, Leah and Rachel, adds color to the record. Laban cunningly beguiled Jacob into marriage with Rachel’s elder sister and less beautiful sister. Jacob had accepted Laban’s terms to take no wages for his labor in his fields, and at the end of the seven years' waiting expected to receive Rachel. In the gloom the bride appears closely veiled, according to custom. The ceremony is performed and the wedded pair return to their bridal chamber. But in the light of early morning Jacob discovers Laban’s duplicity—a duplicity in which Leah must have had a part. How shocked Jacob must have been to behold the plain-looking, undesired Leah instead of the face of his dearest Rachel.
Leah, by her father’s deceit, had stolen her sister’s blessing. Isaac had blessed Jacob, believing him to be Esau, and now Jacob marries Leah believing her to be Rachel. In the moment of his surprised discovery did Jacob remember how he had stolen his brother’s birthright by covering himself with a hairy skin and venison-smell, and making himself appear as Esau? Was this a retributive providence for his own deception of his blind and dying father?
Laban condoned his unrighteous act by declaring that in those times the younger daughter should not be given in marriage before the first-born. He should have told Jacob this when he covenanted to serve the first seven years for Rachel, or before the marriage anyhow. Jacob then became involved in two marriages, which were not deemed unfitting in an age when polygamy was tolerated even by godly men. For another seven years Jacob toiled bravely on, true love enabling him to persevere until Rachel was his. What interests us is the absence of any recorded protest on Rachel’s part against her father’s deception! Why did she not cry out when she saw that Leah, instead of herself, was being given to Jacob? If Rachel had resentment at the hour of marital vows between Jacob and Leah, she must have suppressed it. Why was she so placid amid such a calamity, at least for the man who loved her so deeply? Unmurmuringly, she goes on waiting for another seven years, ere she is able to share Jacob with the woman who by that time had borne him many children. Perhaps the deep, unchanging love Jacob had for Rachel found little echo from her own heart.

She Was Lamentably but Not Finally Barren

Once Rachel became Jacob’s second wife, her continued barrenness created an unreasonable and impatient fretfulness within her soul. Seeing Leah’s many happy children made her jealous. What anguish is wrapped up in the phrase, “But Rachel was barren” (Genesis 29:31). Says Donald Davidson, “Rachel would taunt Leah on not having the love of her husband, while Leah would find revenge in the childlessness of her rival.” Rachel’s whole being was bound up in the desire to become a mother, so she cried to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die” (30:1). Rachel should have cried to God instead of Jacob whose anger was kindled against her for her impossible request. Certainly he loved Rachel with a true and tender love, and indignation because of her, must have been a source of bitterness. He should have thought of the bitterness of Rachel’s disappointment, and quietly pointed out to her the withholdings of Providence.
Poor, childless Rachel was not forgotten by the Lord for He remembered her and opened her womb (30:22-24). She gave birth to a son, and thereby took away her reproach. The grateful mother became a prophetess for she called her baby Joseph, which means, “The Lord shall add to me another son”—which was not merely the language of desire but the prediction of a seer. Of all the children of Jacob, Joseph became the godliest and greatest. Renowned as the saviour of Israel he stands out as the most perfect type in the Bible of Him who was born of woman to become the Saviour of the world.

She Was Secretly Idolatrous

The time had come for Laban and Jacob to part. While Laban had learned by experience that he had been blessed for Jacob’s sake the patriarch likewise had been blessed, and with his wives, children and rich possessions found he could no longer live at Haran. So he set out for his old home, and took with him all that God had given him. Laban was loathe to lose the diligent partner who had worked with him so faithfully for twenty years. While Laban was absent for a few days caring for his many sheep, Jacob gathered all his family, cattle and possessions and secretly left. Returning home and finding Jacob gone, Laban set out to overtake the travelers. Catching up with them Laban took Jacob to task not only for leaving so secretly but also for stealing some of his household goods and gods.
It was this accusation that revealed Rachel, lovely as she was, in an unlovely light. Although the wife of the heir to God’s promises, she evidently was a secret believer in old heathen superstitions. She stole the household goods, and when Laban sought for them among the goods of Jacob, she had them hid beneath her person. In her cunning in hiding the small images in human form used for divination and which had a religious significance (Judges 17:5; 18:14, 17, 18, 20, etc.), Rachel manifested something of her father’s duplicity. It was not until Jacob reached memorable Bethel that he buried those strange idols under the oak at Shechem. Those lifeless deities, the size of a miniature doll, were regarded as “indispensable evidence as to the rights and privileges of family ownership. Hence, Laban’s query, ‘Wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?’” (Genesis 31:30). Because of his superstitious beliefs, Rachel likely stole the gods to insure a prosperous journey. Such relics from the old home would guarantee all continuance of the old good fortune. Jacob’s trust was in the great God at the top of a ladder with its ascending and descending angels, but Rachel wanted humbler gods that she could see. Further, those household divinities suggest the laxity of true worship in the home.
Thus, although living in a polygamous state, maritally, Rachel was also guilty of religious polygamy. There was a professed relationship to the God of Israel, yet at the same time she was married to idols (Genesis 30:23, 24). Rachel had no right to carry away what was not her own. Had she known that those stolen images would become a terrible snare in Jacob’s family, perhaps she would not have taken them (35:1-5). Images and relics have always been dangerous elements in connection with true religious worship. How prone the human heart is to forsake the spiritual for the material, the Unseen for the seen and temporal! May ours be the constant desire to obey the apostolic injunction to keep ourselves from idols! (1 John 5:21).

She Was Tragically Taken

We now come to a feature peculiar of Rachel as a mother. Hers is the first recorded instance in the Bible of death in childbirth and her sepulchral pillar is the first on record in the Bible. It would seem as if Rachel had surrendered her idolatry before the death stroke fell on her. The hallowing influences of divine blessing on her husband and his seed as the result of Bethel, begot within her a sense of divine awareness. Young Joseph’s great reverence for God bespeaks of Rachel’s godly training in his boyhood years. Jacob’s love for her and his stronger faith (Genesis 35:2-4) helped to purify her character and she lived on long after her death in the life of her noble son.
While Jacob and his host were on the way from Bethel to Ephrath, tragedy overtook Jacob when Rachel died in giving birth to her second son, Benjamin (35:16). She had named her first son Joseph, meaning, “The Lord shall add to me another son,” which prediction was fulfilled when Benjamin was born. How often the brightest anticipations of life are clouded by the gloom of the grave! Rachel prayed for children, but the beginning of her second son’s life was the ending of her own. What travail and anguish are resident in the phrase, “Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour ... she died” (Genesis 35:16, 18). Facing death she called her son, Benoni, meaning “son of sorrow.” Suffering had brought her to the gates of death and the gift she coveted proved to be a crushing burden under which she sank. But Jacob chose another name for their child and called him Benjamin, signifying, “the son of the right hand,” and showered much affection upon the motherless child.
The last cry Rachel uttered as she died was “Benoni”—son of sorrow—and it is in the spirit of this Benoni that the Bible portrays Rachel. When Jacob came to die in extreme old age, he spoke sorrowfully of the early loss of his beloved Rachel who through her years had been caught in a web of much sorrow and unhappiness. He had loved her at first and ever afterward. Brokenhearted, Jacob buried Rachel on the way to Bethlehem, and set up a pillar over her grave. In “his heart that grave remained ever green, and he never ceased in fancy to deck it with flowers.” In a previous grave at Shechem he had buried Rachel’s idols, and with them her superstitious beliefs. Now he stands at the grave containing the dust of his beloved one and the pillar he placed over it was a sad memento of a broken heart. In later days Rachel’s tomb became a conspicuous landmark (1 Samuel 10:2). With Leah, Rachel had helped to build the house of Israel (Ruth 4:11). One day Rachel’s precious dust will be reanimated and she will sit down with the glorified with “Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.”

She Was Symbolically Recalled

Rachel’s cry for children was prophetic of the slaughter of the innocents when Christ was born (Matthew 2:16-18). Jeremiah pictures Rachel as rising from the grave to weep over the children being carried away to Babylon, never to return (Jeremiah 31:15). Thus the “Benoni” of Rachel’s heart as she died has been re-echoed throughout the entire history of Israel. Often it does seem as if tragedy triumphs, but the key to the mystery of sorrow can be found in the words of the church which for centuries has been singing for Rachel whom Jacob loved—

Sad-eyed Rachel, do not weep,

Your children die as martyrs go;

They are the first-born of the seed

Which from your blood began to grow;

In spite of tyranny’s dread days

They bloom in glory to God’s praise.

Global Revolution Thrive - What on Earth will it take? 2:08:40

2011-11-17T13:07:00.000-05:00

Millionaires ask Congress to raise their taxesWASHINGTON

2011-11-16T18:10:00.000-05:00

Millionaires ask Congress to raise their taxesWASHINGTON

(CNNMoney) -- A group of two dozen millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, demanding lawmakers raise their taxes."We want to pay more taxes," said California millionaire Doug Edwards, a former marketing director for Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). "If you're fortunate, and you make more than a million dollars a year, you ought to pay more taxes."The millionaires want Congress to allow the tax cuts passed during the George W. Bush administration to expire. Some want higher taxes generally.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/tax_millionaires/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

Millionaires ask Congress to raise their taxes

2011-11-16T18:05:00.000-05:00

WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) -- A group of two dozen millionaires stormed Capitol Hill on Wednesday, demanding lawmakers raise their taxes.

"We want to pay more taxes," said California millionaire Doug Edwards, a former marketing director for Google (GOOG, Fortune 500). "If you're fortunate, and you make more than a million dollars a year, you ought to pay more taxes."

The millionaires want Congress to allow the tax cuts passed during the George W. Bush administration to expire. Some want higher taxes generally.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/16/news/economy/tax_millionaires/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2

2 Peter 3

2011-11-13T11:22:00.000-05:00

Cleaving to God ~ Ch 3

2011-11-12T15:28:00.000-05:00

Have a nice weekend ~
Kisses
XoX

Gov. Chris Christie Endorses Mitt Romney

2011-11-11T18:11:00.000-05:00

Gov. Chris Christie Endorses Mitt Romney

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/chris-christie-backs-mitt-romney-14716662

Veterans Day

2011-11-11T14:25:00.000-05:00

MILITARY SUICIDE is higher!!!

2011-11-11T11:19:00.000-05:00

Military Suicides Plague U.S. -

Specifically, 468 soldiers have taken their own lives this year versus 462 who were killed in combat.

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=1276

please pray about this -

with out exception Suicide is always the result of demonic activity.

We pray he gets voted out in 2012 -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhIOpnyVZE&feature=rellist&playnext=1&list=PL2FFF0569A236D2C3

90 ft Wave Surfer

2011-11-10T06:36:00.000-05:00

Tribulation of this world

2011-11-07T12:16:00.000-05:00

The Jesus Suffering: The reality of the world

2011-11-07T11:02:00.000-05:00

No Greater Love

2011-11-06T11:24:00.000-05:00

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Peace: Make a promise to visit this place

2011-11-06T07:27:00.000-05:00

Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Make a promise to visit this place
By Bob Greene, CNN Contributor
updated 6:57 AM EST, Sun November 6, 2011

Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose books include "Late Edition: A Love Story" and "Duty: A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War."

(CNN) -- As we head into a workweek that ends with a federal holiday on Friday, you can expect the usual:

Newspaper, television and Internet advertisements touting special sales and slashed prices on selected items. Veterans Day has become an annual opportunity for merchandisers -- many of them see the holiday as a chance to get a jump on Black Friday, the day-after-Thanksgiving bacchanalia of bust-down-the-doors sales pushes.

It's hard to blame the merchants. The economy has been dismal. Anything that might bring shoppers into stores is seen as a plus.

But before the Veterans Day promotions kick into high gear, perhaps we might take a moment for a different suggestion about how to commemorate the day:

Make a note to yourself.

Make a promise to do what you can, whenever you can, to pay a visit to an unforgettable American place:

Arlington National Cemetery, just across the Potomac River from Washington.

More than 300,000 souls have found their final resting places in that cemetery. Anyone who wishes to visit is always welcome.

It is a short distance from the popular tourist attractions on the National Mall. If you are at the Lincoln Memorial and are in the mood for a walk, all you need do is circle behind the monument to Mr. Lincoln, cross the street and head for the Memorial Bridge that spans the Potomac, then take a stroll along the pedestrian lanes that are on either side of the bridge. You emerge in Virginia, where the broad, boulevard-like Memorial Drive leads to the entrance of Arlington.

Once you are inside, all is still. The beauty of the place, and the knowledge of why it is there, can take your breath away.

There are 624 acres of lawns, gardens and towering trees that are hundreds of years old, but as gorgeous as all of that is, they aren't what overwhelm you. The sight of those hundreds of thousands of headstones, each honoring a military veteran or a member of the military who died while serving, is what has the power to render you silent and humbled.

Some parts of the cemetery draw large and constant crowds: the Tomb of the Unknowns, the eternal flame where John F. Kennedy is buried.

But for me, the best way to spend time at Arlington is just to set off on a walk along the many paths that meander through less-visited portions of the grounds. You can walk for hours and never pass the same headstone twice. To stop and read the names on those headstones, and the dates, and to think about the service each of those departed soldiers, sailors, aviators and Marines gave to the nation where the rest of us now live and breathe ... to do that is to remind yourself of what duty entails.

Each person who comes to Arlington takes his or her own memories home. There are moments that can be surprising to a first-time visitor. A distance from the always-well-attended grave of President Kennedy is another resting place that seldom has many people around it: that of William Howard Taft of Ohio, the only person in the nation's history to serve both as president of the United States (1909-1913) and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921-1930). Sometimes you will find yourself the only visitor there.

I always make a point of stopping at the grave of Audie Murphy, the most decorated combat soldier of World War II; his headstone is no different or more ornate than the other hundreds of thousands on the grounds, a soldier among soldiers. And, since 2003, there has been the grave of an old friend and wonderful, generous colleague: Bill Mauldin, the enlisted man whose cartoons in Stars and Stripes made him beloved to the soldiers with whom he served in the Second World War, and who went on, after the war, to become as fine a newspaper editorial cartoonist as ever lived.

A visitor will feel especially moved when, across a patch of grass, he catches sight of one of the between 27 and 30 new burials that take place on an average day. Arlington remains a working cemetery; it is a place, in the words of the cemetery's own defining statement, "where dignity and honor rest in solemn repose," and that touches you most deeply when you see the newly arrived family of a veteran standing with bowed heads at another fresh grave site.

You may not get to Arlington on Veterans Day this week, but if you promise yourself to visit one day, you will never regret it. The cemetery is open to the public every day of the year. It opens promptly at 8 a.m. During these fall and winter months it closes at 5 p.m., and from April through September it stays open until 7 p.m.

Whatever burdens you may be carrying in your own life, whatever problems may be weighing you down, a few hours walking the quiet pathways of Arlington will remind you of the sacrifice and service of people you never met, people who wanted the country to endure so that new generations could live, and hope to prosper, and strive to enjoy. To visit Arlington is to understand anew the true meaning of an ancient phrase:

Paying our respects.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/06/opinion/greene-arlington-veterans-day/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Psalm 1

2011-11-06T04:33:00.000-05:00

Praise the Lord. Turn your eyes upon Jesus. Hope in God when there is no hope in this world for His Love and Peace is everlasting. Amen

Prayers for all who are suffering from various tribulation. God understands our trials and tribulations in this life, and He can give us comfort and love which no one can provide. For He Himself hung on the Cross suffering to bear our pain, and He understands our living. His comfort and love can provide peace and love in our hearts and minds.
Praise God, Amen

Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus

O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There’s light for a look at the Savior,
And life more abundant and free!
- Refrain:
  Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
  Look full in His wonderful face,
  And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
  In the light of His glory and grace.
Through death into life everlasting
He passed, and we follow Him there;
O’er us sin no more hath dominion—
For more than conqu’rors we are!
His Word shall not fail you—He promised;
Believe Him, and all will be well:
Then go to a world that is dying,
His perfect salvation to tell!

Psalm 1

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

²But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

⁴The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

⁵Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.

⁶For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.

Exodus 30

2011-11-05T15:46:00.001-04:00

Take thou also unto thee principal spices, and thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment.—EXO. 30:23,25.

Upon man's flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.—One Spirit.—Diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.

Thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.—God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power.—God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

Of his fulness have all we received.—As the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.—He which . . . hath anointed us, is God; who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Exo. 30:32. -Eph. 4:4. -I Cor. 12:4.Psa. 45:7. -Acts 10:38. -John 3:34.John 1:16. -I John 2:27. -II Cor. 1:21,22.Gal. 5:22,23.
http://www.ccel.org/meditate#daily-light

O God

2011-11-04T15:14:00.000-04:00

Greetings

2011-11-03T11:17:00.000-04:00

God Refuge

2011-11-03T04:17:00.000-04:00

Jesus, the Lamb

2011-11-02T12:40:00.000-04:00

Jesus

2011-11-02T06:58:00.000-04:00

All Saints Day

2011-10-31T20:23:00.000-04:00

95 Thesis on October 31, 1517

2011-10-31T15:43:00.000-04:00

Halloween and All Saint's Day

2011-10-29T14:51:00.000-04:00

Have a good day
October 31
Martin Luther
95 thesis on the door
at All Saint's Church

World Most Dangerous Drug

2011-10-26T12:15:00.000-04:00

I just found out what is the World Most Dangerous Drug. After I have seen it, the characteristic is just like the World Financial Meth!

Life as An Orthodox Monk

2011-10-23T15:16:00.001-04:00

Have a nice week
Thank you,
Kiss

The Difference between Obama and Putin

2011-10-23T14:17:00.000-04:00

Brother Nathanel on "Israel's Master Plan"

2011-10-23T06:32:00.000-04:00

LA vets demand housing at giant VA campus

2011-10-22T09:42:00.000-04:00

LA vets demand housing at giant VA campus

From Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Caleb Hellerman, CNN

updated 8:56 AM EST, Sat October 22, 2011

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The connection seems obvious: nearly 400 acres of land set aside to house veterans and thousands of veterans who need a place to call home.

But Los Angeles' estimated 8,000 homeless vets have been barred from living at the sprawling campus for decades. The West Los Angeles property -- some of the most valuable in the nation -- was donated in 1888 to "establish, construct and permanently maintain" a branch of a national home for veterans, according to the original deed.

And for nearly a century, that's what happened: permanent veterans facilities sprang up, including a post office, a trolley system and housing for as many as 4,000 vets, said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Mark Rosenbaum.

But "beginning with the Vietnam War era, vets were kicked out," said Rosenbaum, who's leading a class-action suit over the property against the Department of Veterans Affairs.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/22/health/homeless-veterans/index.html?hpt=hp_c1

Close encounters in the Galapagos

2011-10-22T08:55:00.000-04:00

Close encounters in the Galapagos

By A. Pawlowski, CNN

updated 6:17 PM EST, Fri October 21, 2011

The Galapagos -- 19 islands that lie 600 miles west of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean -- are home to species of animals found nowhere else on Earth. Famously visited by Charles Darwin in 1835, the archipelago played a key role in his theory of evolution.

These days, both tourists and researchers flock to the islands to see giant tortoises that can live 150 years, marine iguanas that dive to find dinner, flightless cormorants, and penguins that somehow thrive near the equator.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/18/travel/galapagos-tips-destination-adventure/index.html?hpt=hp_c2

Dark Night of Soul

2011-10-22T07:35:00.000-04:00

Dark Night of the Soul
by St. John of the Cross (1542-1591)

Dark Night of the Soul is currently listed as the 9th most popular CCEL downloaded book. A sequel and continuation of Ascent of Mount Carmel, the Dark Night of the Soul is a spiritually moving and mystical story. In the book, St. John of the Cross continues his description of the soul's journey--the "dark night"--to the "divine union of the love of God." A poet at heart, St. John describes the journey and the union with beautifully rich and deeply symbolic language. His words offer encouragement and comfort directly to readers as they too struggle with the excruciating dark night. At times, the Dark Night of the Soul can be difficult to read, but its difficulty is surpassed by its ability to offer hope to the downtrodden and discouraged. One of the most profound works of Christian mysticism, this book is highly recommended for those seeking union with God.

-The Christian Classics Ethereal Library

http://www.ccel.org/read

Abba Father, YHWH

2011-10-20T18:56:00.000-04:00

Sitting at Your feet is where I want to be
I'm home when I am here with You
Ruined by Your grace, enamored by Your gaze
I can't resist the tenderness in You

I'm deep in love with You, Abba Father
I'm deep in love with You, Lord
My heart, it beats for You, precious Jesus
I'm deep in love with You, Lord

Humbled and amazed that You would call my name
I never have to search again
There's a deep desire that's burning like a fire
To know You as my closest friend

Lord, my Redeemer, Your blood runs through my veins
My love for You is deeper than it was yesterday
I enter through the curtain, parted by Your grace
Oh, You're the lover of my soul

Root of all misery and evil = Fraudulent Financial Market

2011-10-20T04:40:00.000-04:00

Americans and ALL are being deceived again.

2011-10-19T07:50:00.000-04:00

~ Even if all are 99% right and 1% wrong against God, it will be wrong. There are certain belief as a Christian that I do not violate, and it is obvious to be that Obama is deception as he is continuing to use victims of Political Corruption for his advantage. However, what God is speaking to me is that this will be "ENDLESS WARS" and "ENDLESS PROTESTS" with different reasons.

Even if I do not write out reasons, those who know what I am talking about are the ones who really understand the Bible, psychology surrounding faith and conflict, history, underlying crowd sentiment, etc. Also, why the crowd is manipulated and who is manipulating the crowds.

God has spoken to me about realities of what is going on around the globe -- and it is more than what appears to be. OBAMA is living hell for the world as it will be continuous wars and protests with evolving and different reasons!!

Beautiful Mind and Heart: Hero

2011-10-18T21:00:00.000-04:00

Hero vs Cowards

2011-10-18T20:13:00.000-04:00

Genuine Lover vs Cowards

Soldiers of God

2011-10-18T09:41:00.000-04:00

The Soldiers of God against the demonic power!
One of these days, Soldiers will full attack the demonic power - the psychopathic Greed.

http://beautifulbible.multiply.com/journal/item/1087/

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Where is the End of the World SHOCK: Atom and Hydrogen Bomb

2011-10-17T20:08:00.000-04:00

http://beautifulbible.multiply.com/journal/item/1087/
Corporate_Fascism_the_ultimate_corruption_Government_joint_venture

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Bible Prophesy is being fulfilled... the 666 Fed Reserve

2011-10-17T18:49:00.000-04:00

From the beginning, the Words of God said what we are seeing as we now see the 666 in actions. Christians are excited about the fulfillment of the "Israel" reborn in 1948. And now some know how the nation is established -- and reasons.

It is possible that the Illuminati is in fact thinking that they are gods and they think that they are above the laws.

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