America is in the midst of a raging cultural and spiritual war. Forces of Good, Light, Conservatism and a Judeo-Christian Worldview daily battle the forces of Evil, Darkness, Socialism, False Religions and Philosophies. A Good Choice is on the frontlines exposing evil across America’s political and social spectrum.
Apparently the Obama regime has proposed to have Dear Leader give his so-called "jobs" speech the same night that the GOP Presidential Debate was scheduled. Was this a calculated political decision to embarrass the Republicans? Absolutely it was. The massive TelePrompTed ego of the President wanted to upstage the important Presidential debate, and therefore draw more attention to himself and to his 'importance.'
The choice comes down to this: which do we view, Obama's continual blathering v. GOP Presidential candidates' debating? No question or doubt, I'll watch the debate!
** Hurricane Irene wasn’t that bad. In fact, it was downgraded to a tropical storm. Even our hurricanes are getting downgraded.
** Over 6 million people were evacuated from New Jersey ahead of the hurricane. And now, three of them have gone back.
** They had so much rain in New York that a lot of the cabbies had their first shower in years.
These jokes are courtesy of NewsMax.com which periodically sends out an email compilation of late night jokes, few of which are worth repeating . . . these are the exceptions.
Hat tip goes to Rod Clay who sent a link to the fantastic video below that spells out the exponential growth of government salaries over the last two years in the midst of a severe economic downturn. The video contains some very interesting facts and stats.
Listening to the radio the other day, I heard Congresswoman Maxine Waters of California make some outrageous comments, which I had to research further and then to respond … Here is a YouTube video of her provocative remarks.
Maxine Waters said, “I’m not afraid of anybody. This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated.You can’t be frightened.And as far as I’m concerned, the “tea party” can go straight to hell.”
That sounds courageous, “not afraid of anybody,” doesn’t it?The statement received a big applause from the audience as she spoke at her Kitchen Table Summit in Inglewood, California.Has it ever occurred to anyone that “all” or “anybody” includes:Satan, devils, people who act like the devil or even God Himself?
We read in scripture that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge (Proverbs 1:7) and wisdom (Psalms 111:10).Further, we learn in the Holy Bible that by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil (Proverbs 16:6).The word “men” used here, of course, refers to both genders which would include Miss Maxine.Given that she doesn’t fear God, we see that she does not even have the ability to begin to do what is wise.Thus, all she has to offer her constituents is foolishness and evil.
The first noticeable point of foolishness, which she clearly demonstrates, is her saying we need jobs.Jesus said, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added onto you.For your heavenly Father knows what things you have need of (Matthew 6:32, 33 and Luke 12:29-31).”She should be leading her people in prayers of repentance and asking God to have mercy on them.God’s righteousness comes from faith in Jesus Christ.Jesus died for you and He rose from the dead.A person must repent of their sin by confessing to God that they are a sinner and invite Jesus into their heart, if he or she wishes to become a child of God.Study the Holy Bible and with God’s help live by it.We are to look to Jesus to meet our needs, not Miss Maxine or Big Brother.
Secondly, Rep. Waters wants the government to take over all the oil industries.As she said, “socialize the oil industries.”This would put them under government ownership.Oil industries would then not function to serve their customers and shareholders, but rather those in power in the government. Thirdly, Maxine is not opposed to debt.Solomon wrote, “The rich rule over the poor so the borrower is slave to the lender” (Proverbs 22:7).The “tea party” people are opposed to debt and know it enslaves the people who owe it.“Tea party” people are opposed to slavery,for themselves, their children, their grandchildren, or anyone else.Congresswoman Waters intentionally works to enslave the entire citizenry of the United States of America through the policies she supports.She even treats her constituents like slaves with herself as their master or overseer.Who is her master?
Maxine hates the “tea party” for they are blocking the way for her and her comrades to enslave the country. Obviously she is not concerned about the individuals within the “tea party.”She desires that these people go to hell.Stalin murdered his opponents.Maxine did it in her heart.Could this be considered a hate crime or are liberals exempt?
Hell is a place of continuous torment by fire.The people in hell will be taken out of hell to face trial before The Lord Jesus Christ at the Great White Throne Judgment (Revelation 20:11-15; John 5:22, 23).The universe will be destroyed by fire (II Peter 3:7, 10).People will have to give an account of their lives, even to every idle word that they speak (Matthew 12:36).They will be required to kneel before Jesus and will proclaim Him Lord (Isaiah 45:21-23; Philippians 2:9-11).Whoever’s name is not found in the book of life will be thrown in to The Lake of Fire where they will be tormented by fire endlessly.Death and hell will also be thrown into The Lake of Fire. Jesus died on the cross and rose from the dead to enable people to have a way of escape from this perdition.God loves each and every person and wants all men to be saved.The statement made by Maxine Waters is not in keeping with the stated will of God within the Holy Bible.
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (John 3:16-18).”
I have never heard any “tea party” member say they desired that either Maxine Waters or her constituents to go to hell.Nor do “tea party” members call her the enemy.The enemy, the Apostle Paul explains is Satan (Ephesians 6:12).It is apparent that Maxine Waters and her constituents actually follow Satan and they are the ones who are really going to perdition.
After one woman had walked out of meeting she was interviewed by the news media.She showed more good sense than all the rest of the people put together. She should be made the districts representative in place of Maxine Waters.
Are you going to perdition?
If anyone wants to escape perdition they can confess to God they are a sinner and invite Jesus into their heart.A sample prayer is, “Lord Jesus Christ forgive me of my sins and come into my heart.”
Hat tip goes to Tanya Grimsley who posted the following article at www.TeaPartyNation.com.
Congressman Allen West - Speaking the Truth ... (about Islam)
Only two blacks were newly elected to congress this cycle, and both are Republican. LTC.Allen West is from southern Florida, a bastion of the Democratic Party. He won in a walk.
It is worth the viewing. This new Congressman was an extremely popular commander in Iraq. He was forced to retire because during an intense combat action a few of his men were captured. At the same time his men had captured one of the guys who were with the Iraqis who captured his men.
Knowing that time was crucial and his interrogators were not getting anywhere with the prisoner COL West took matters into his own hands. He burst into the room and demanded thru an interpreter that the prisoner tell him where his men were being taken. The prisoner refused so COL West took out his pistol and placed it into the prisoner's crotch and fired. Then the COL told the prisoner that the next shot would not miss. So the prisoner said he would show where the American service members were being taken. The Americans were rescued. Some one filed a report on incorrect handling of prisoners. COL West was forced to retire. COL West was just elected in November 2010 to Congress from Florida.During the elections he was part of a panel on how to handle or how to relate to Muslims. You will see his answer here.
Here is one of the new congressmen from Florida explaining very definitively in just over a minute the truth about Islam…
I received an email today, which came from the Concerned Women of America organization, and I signed the mentioned petitioned below and urge you to do as well:
Picture this ... Uncle Sam standing on any street corner in the nation doling out birth control pills -- including the “Morning After” abortion pill to all women who wanted it absolutely free of charge!
Standing behind Uncle Sam is you and me ...
The fact that this is just another massive government hand-out means that you and I -- regardless of ourreligious convictions, will be forced into paying for and promoting birth-control, sterilization and early-term “Morning After” abortions?
I’m not standing silently while the Obama Administration violates my moral compass.
+ + Stopping ObamaCare Abortion Mandate
Two weeks from now when Congress returns from their recess, Concerned Women for America iseager to greet them with an avalanche of angry petitions -- thousands of them each opposing the ObamaCare Abortion mandate and demanding it be removed!
Without the help of Pro-Life Christians and Conservative liberty-loving Americans the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) will beginactively promoting and handing out FREE birth-control and we will be forced to pay for it through higher insurance premiums!
Hat tip goes to TeaParty.net for this YouTube video by Nos Populus. Transcript follows the video.
Dear President Obama,
“We The People” have stated resolutely we reject your vision for our country. You claim you have not heard us.
“We The People” have assembled across America resisting your efforts to subvert our constitution and undermine our liberty. You claim you have not seen us.
Since you have not acknowledged our message, let us here present it once more for if as President Wilson said, “a leader’s ear must ring with the voices of the people,” the time has come.
Our greatest treasure is freedom – the absence of restraints on our ability to think and to act. The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility. We believe in the power of the individual.
A few years ago President Bush said, “History moves toward freedom because the desire for freedom is written in every human heart.” Let us add that we will preserve it only as long as devotion to freedom is expressed in the heart of our actions.
When President Lincoln dedicated Gettysburg National Cemetery he declared, “It is for us the living to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus so nobly advanced.”
That unfinished cause for which our soldiers willingly go to battle and for which so many have given their lives is a free United States of America. It has been nearly one hundred fifty years and the work President Lincoln spoke of is not finished. In fact, that work will never be finished.
Freedom is the capacity of self-determination. It is not an entity but a condition and conditions change. Freedom can expand, yet so can it contract.
You promised change when you took office, Mr. President, but subjugation is not change we wanted or will accept.
You have
·expanded government,
·violated our Constitution,
·confounded laws,
·seized private industry,
·destroyed jobs,
·perverted our economy,
·curtailed free speech,
·corrupted our currency,
·weakened our national security, and
·endangered our sovereignty.
By compromising our nation’s cultural, legal and economic institutions, you are ensuring that our children will never achieve the same quality of life as we enjoy today. Through generational theft you are robbing the unborn of opportunity.
This is not acceptable. Not in America. We did not become a strong nation through hope but rather through self-reliance.
No one better understands the relationship between individual achievement, dignity and strength than our armed forces. Through every war our soldiers have held this nation’s destiny in their hands. They have not failed us. They cherish freedom enough that they are willing to die for it.
Our duty to them and to ourselves is to treasure freedom enough to live up to it.
We accept the challenge, Mr. President. That is why we are assembling across the land to deliver our message to you as often and in every way we can. Dismiss us at your political peril.
Our great nation is a Republic. We will not accept tyranny under any guise. Your policy to redistribute the fruits of our labor is Statism and will not be tolerated.
By our honor, Mr. President, we vow forever to resist coercive government in America. Patriots will not stand silent as you attempt to dismantle the greatest nation on earth. “We The People” will defend our liberty. We will protect our beloved country and America’s exceptionalism will prevail.
This post wraps up my series, "The Whole Armor of God."
Conclusion
The passage dealing with the full amount of Paul’s writings on the armor of God is found in Ephesians 6:10-20. In it we find that we are to be strong in God’s ability, not in our own ability, and in it we find that we can utilize His power, and not our own power. This is why the armor is called God’s armor. It is not visible, yet we are told to wear it.
We are to stand against the devil. In most cases he cannot be seen. Yet we are to stand against him. He and his evil angels often come against us through other things.
Consider Job, God told Satan that all Job had was in his power (Job 1:12), but he was not to touch Job himself. Satan departed from God and the winds blew down the house Job’s children were in (Job 1:18, 19). The Chaldeans attacked Job’s camels and killed all his servants except for one (Job 1:17). The fire of God fell on Job’s sheep and his servants with all being burned up except for one (Job 1:16). Job’s donkeys were feeding and the Sabeans attacked and killed all Job’s servants except one and took the donkeys (Job 1:15).
A second time Satan came before God and was given permission to touch Job’s body but not kill him (Job 2:1-8). Job then came down with boils and felt miserable (Job 2:13).
From Job’s perspective he was being attacked by five different things but in reality there was just really just one: Satan. Mother Nature was against him for the wind blew down the house of his eldest son. Destructive wind is a natural occurring event. The fire of God, I do not take to be lightening, but rather something like napalm exploding in the air and falling to earth as fire. This is not, normally, a natural occurring event but requires the supernatural to accomplish it. The Sabeans and the Chaldeans are both two separate groups of people yet they acted in accord with the other events. After all Job’s possessions were gone he became sick as well. All appeared to be isolated events but really they were not. Satan orchestrated the events.
Paul writes that we do not fight against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, and against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). These are influencing much of the evil deeds we see in the world today. Our attack as Christians must be on these evil beings which are unseen.
Our attack is made through prayer, songs of praise to God, preaching and speaking the word of God, testifying to what God has done for us, and taking authority over Satan.
The armor of God enables us to stand against the attacks of Satan and to advance under fire.
1. The helmet of salvation is being saved by faith in Jesus Christ and knowing you are saved.
2. The breastplate of righteousness is the righteousness we receive by faith in Jesus as well as living a righteous life because we are righteous.
3. The belt of truth is knowledge of what truth is and loving the truth. This includes the word of God, The Lord Jesus Christ, and whatever else is true. As my Theology Professor used to say. “All truth is God’s truth”. Also, as my Philosophy Professor told me one day after class. “For an argument to be logical the assumptions on which the argument is based must be true. Otherwise the argument is illogical.”
4. The shoes of the armor are the preparation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. This means that one is prepared to present the gospel. The gospel is: A. That Jesus was conceived in the virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit. B. Jesus lived a sinless life and fulfilled all the law. C. Jesus was crucified under Pontius Pilate. D. Jesus took the sins of all humanity in His own body on the cross and received against Himself the wrath of God against those sins. Having been separated from His Father. When the process was complete Jesus said, “It is finished”. E. Jesus was buried and rose from the grave the third day. F. If a person believes this and repents of his sins by confessing to God that he a sinner; he is then forgiven and Jesus enters into his heart.
5. The shield of faith is the faith that a person has. This faith can be increased by reading, hearing, and meditating on the word of God and having fellowship with other believers. It shields us from the attacks of the enemy.
6. The sword of the Spirit which is the word of God, the Holy Bible which is also known as Scripture, God’s Word, or “Thus saith the Lord”. This is what man is to live by (Deuteronomy 8:3).
We are to engage in prayer by making supplication for the saints and people in authority and for all men for God’s desire is for all men to be saved. Daniel prayed for twenty-one days before he received his answer. It was held up by the Prince of Persia. Daniel prayed until he received an answer from God.
We are to watch, be alert as to what is going on around us, and persevere in our prayer.
The Apostle Paul asked for prayer for himself which indicates that those servants of the Lord that have a great ministry need our prayers.
The Wall Street Journal had an online article, "Obama's Beach Reading," today. Apparently Dear Leader is reading an eclectic assortment of books he picked up at the "Grapes of Wrath" bookstore there on highfalutin Martha's Vineyard.
My suggestion is that he'd put aside the other tomes and pick up one book, besides the Bible, that might truly enlighten him on a subject he has demonstrated he knows absolutely nothing about:
I heard JD Hayworth say this afternoon on a show on XM Radio’s Patriot channel that members of Congress have been reduced to Ombudsmen or Ambassadors representing the people in their districts or states. The regulators spew forth regulations that bypass Congress and essentially become law.Members of Congress are reduced to beggars before this cancerous bureaucratic government. There is a lot truth to that notion. In fact it has caused me to conclude the following:
Over the years Congress has willingly conceded to regulatory agency [EPA, FCC, NLRB, FAA, FDA, etc.] bureaucrats the power and authority to actually morph our constitutionally established Republican Democracy form of government into rule-by-unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, a socialistic government if you will. Mr. Obama has willingly and gladly worked to expedite this unwarranted transformation. I term our new form of government, as so succinctly demonstrated throughout the entire Obama reign and regime, a BUREAUCRAZY … The unnecessary and power-grabbing 2000 plus page Obamacare law with its rules and regulations, which create over 150 new agencies, is a great example of a government gone insane, a Bureaucrazy! Another example of Bureaucrazy is the droves of highly paid, highly unaccountable Obama czars, who perpetuate government growth at every opportune crisis, man-made and otherwise!
Hat tip to TokenLibertarianGirl for posting this vid. Before watching it, I did not know that Rick Perry endorsed Rudy Giuliani for President in 2008. This is yet another reason to alert all your conservative friends not to support this man for President! Please pass this on!
Cartoon by Steve Breen as found on Townhall.com 8/14/2011
President (Barry Soetoro aka) Barack Hussein Obama can blame an alphabet of reasons like the Arab Spring, Bush, Congress, the dog, ... the TeaParty, the Weather, but in the end it is his European socialist policies that have worsened, not bettered our economic picture. See my post "The Five Key Bad Economic Indicators" to see who else beside Dear Leader owns the disasterous economy.
What we badly need a strong, true constitutional conservative leader, unlike Mitt Romney or even Rick Perry, to turn the country around. Someone like Michele Bachmann would help get 'er done ...
Besides the “Midwest Magical Misery Bus,” names for the Obama bus include “Economic Distress Express” which was offered the other day by one viewer of Fox and Friends morning TV show. Another is "Highway Jobbery." Personally, I like "The Debt-End Tour Bus." See the tweet below for another name.
Hat tip goes to @TheHenry who just tweeted the following?
Good one!@MonicaCrowleyon O'Reilly: "One Nation Under the Bus Tour." Re: Obama bus tour.
Obama is campaigning, something he does well above everything else.
Elections do have very serious consequences. In November 2008 a majority of voters, living and dead in many cases, gave the keys to the bus to Barack Hussein Obama. Whether he even had a license to drive remains a question mark. He subsequently did exactly what we knew he would do, and what all “good” socialists/Marxists do. They grow government, spend money, and wrest liberty from the people. What we now have here in America is a form of what some have termed soft tyranny.
President Obama has been literally and figuratively throwing America under the bus for the past three years. America is the bus. The Obama regime’s focused and radical socialist/Marxist agenda is what currently fuels the bus. We need to return the power to the people.
The bus needs to be run by founding principles and values of our Founders, not by those of Marx, Keynes or FDR. That is why it is so important to elect an authentic anti-establishment conservative Republican like Michele Bachmann to stop the speeding out-of-control bus, which is headed for oblivion with 330 million onboard. The bus needs be repaired using the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution as the guide.
would add Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to the bad economic indicator lineup portrayed in the cartoon above. Why? They, too, are bad economic indicators because of the atrocious debt deal to which they succumbed! They should have held fast to the Cut, Cap and Balance legislation or to Rep. Connie Mack's Penny Plan, which REALLY cuts spending ... Instead, they chose to continue to play backroom Washington politics, Washington business as usual. We can no longer tolerate this. i guess we will have to show them all again in May and November of 2012 that We the People are in charge and want real change (not rhetorical hope and change)and wemean business ...
.
The Super Congressional Deficit Enabling and Expansion Commission is not only a very bad joke. More than that it is a clear demonstration of the ineptness of both the Republican and Democratic Party leaders in having a clear vision and approach in dealing with the real problem in Wasting-a-ton, D.C. and that is SPENDING WITH A CAPITAL
When the results of the Iowa Straw Poll were announced in early evening on Saturday Michele Bachmann won it all. Ron Paul finished a close second.
Santorum, Cain, McCotter, Bachmann, Pawlenty, and Paul all gave speeches in Iowa this afternoon. I think Rick Santorum gave the best speech. He was passionate. He has worked hard in Iowa and in other states. Too bad he does not have much of a chance. Likewise Herman Cain gave a strong stump speech, but he too is an also ran. Bachmann immerges as the cream of the crop of candidates. She is a strong, principled conservative, more than any of the others besides Ron Paul.I would expect the bottom three finishers to drop out of the race.
Iowa Straw Poll Results:
1. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (4823, 28.55%) 2. Congressman Ron Paul (4671, 27.65%)
Eight candidates showed up in Iowa on Thursday night, 8/11/2011, for the third Presidential debate of this campaign season. Missing in action were both Governor Gary Johnson, who participated in the New Hampshire GOP debate, and newly announced candidate Rep. Thaddeus McCotter.McCotter apparently did not meet the registration deadline. I would have liked to see him participate. Gov. Johnson apparently did not make the cut because he lacked sufficient support. An appropriate substitute For Johnson was the equally undesirable candidate Governor Jon Huntsman.
There was no clear winner in the debate.
Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and Newt Gingrich performed the best. They gave the best responses.
Michele Bachmann held her own during the debate. She did well in her confrontations with Tim Pawlenty. However, she was not as endearing as she was in New Hampshire, but overall she represented herself and her positions passionately and clearly. Her stands on the key Conservative issues in the House of Representatives showed her willingness to tackle hard positions and stick to core principles. This demonstrates leadership.
Ron Paul remains a strong candidate and has influenced other candidates, who seem to be coming around to some of his long standing positions on foreign entanglements and also on his ideas regarding the economy. Unfortunately Newt Gingrich is a terribly flawed as a candidate, because he is a phony conservative. He is the brightest and well-rounded intellectually, and even acted presidential. But, like Romney, you don’t get what you see.
Tim Pawlenty was present, but his desperate attack on Bachmann demeaned him. Michele Bachmann exposed his weaknesses during his service as governor.
Herman Cain was nearly invisible.He had a few good remarks, but he got lost in the forest of other so-so candidates. Rick Santorum was the strongest on social issues of abortion and marriage, but the debate format frustrated him and it showed. A president has a lot of pressure on him, much greater than any debate.
Mitt Romney, another faux conservative, played it safe and let the other candidates fight it out among themselves. He talks leadership, but like Barack Obama shows none. He is the GOP establishment’s choice and will be hard to overcome, despite is obvious drawbacks. Jon Huntsman should quit, or should run in the Democratic Primary against the President. He did a good job imitating Gov. Gary Johnson, who did poorly in the New Hampshire debate.
As others have said, the “winner” of the debate may have been Governor Rick Perry or maybe even Governor Sarah Palin. Really, with the exception of Newt Gingrich, who I think did the best in the debate per se, there was no outstanding winner present. The obvious loser was Jon Huntsman, whose views are out of the mainstream of even the current generally accepted Republican form of “conservatism.” I predict that the top three finishers in today’s Iowa Straw Poll will be:
1 – Michele Bachmann 2 – Ron Paul 3 - Tim Pawlenty
All the evangelicals are swooning over Rick Perry just because he said a few religious words. Mark my words, he is the establishment candidate. He is the next Barack Obama. He is the one to beat. He supports the NAFTA super-highway and forcing young girls to get vaccinated against sexually transmitted diseases. He does nothing while Mexican drug gangs come and go across the border and murder police officers. A former Democrat, he was the Texas state campaign chairman to elect Al Gore in 1988. Whenever "Slick Rick" Perry is confronted with an issue (like blocking the very popular anti-groping law), he claims that he agrees with you, but then claims ignorance and blames someone else. He is a liar.He is the one you need to convince your friends NOT to vote for (this is imperative!) along with pretenders like Cain, Santorum, and Pawlenty. Mark my words, Mitt Romney is not "the one". He will fade into obscurity or drop out near the end like last time. For more of Rick Perry's dirty tricks, see my earlier post in support of another Republican who ran against him for governor.
I was somewhat surprised to read on the editorial page today of my local paper, the Mansfield, Ohio News-Journal this headline, “Tea party showed no honor in debt debate.” I read the editorial and was alarmed. It is an example of extreme bias, misrepresentation, propaganda, and malpractice by the leftist media. The Decatur (Alabama) Dailyeditorial stated in part:
Members and front organizations must continually embarrass, discredit and degrade our critics… When obstructionists become too irritating, label them as fascists or Nozi or anti-Semitic… Constantly associate those who oppose us with those names that already have a bad smell. The association will, after enough repetition, become “fact” in the public mind.
What? This editorial blames the Tea Party Members of Congress for harming the United States by their insistence in immediate and significant spending cuts in government spending? The Tea Party is being maligned for wanting to address the real problem of excessive, wasteful government spending and not the invented debt default “crisis,” which served only to advance President Barack Obama's and Democratic radical socialist agenda. The constitutional conservatives in Congress wanted a Cut, Cap and Balance Bill, but what they got was an unacceptable compromise. The resulting compromise was insufficient to ward off the credit downgrade.
Interestingly, the Tea Party Congressional Members and the Tea Party Movement, itself, have been labeled by the Left as extremists, racists, terrorists, subversives, Nazis, fanatics, and radicals throughout the debt ceiling debate. This is being done to marginalize and to try to minimize the growing strength and influence of the Tea Party on the political scene and in the popular culture.
This tactic employed by the Left including the President and Democratic elite inside and outside of Washington, D.C. It was used in the 1960s against the John Birch Society. They, too, were called the same names as the Tea Party is being called. There is a common source for this tactic and it can be found in a U.S. Communist Party directive from 1943. Here is a quote from that directive:
The tea party’s negotiating success is a direct result of it being more willing than its opponents to harm the United States. Reasonable politicians from both parties have backed down not because they were wowed by the tea party logic, but because they were unwilling to permanently damage the nation they gave an oath to serve.
That is why patriots and patriotic organizations such as Michele Bachmann, Tea Party Members of Congress, Tea Party participants, the John Birch Society, etc. are being relentlessly being attacked in the Leftist media and by Leftist politicians. It is part of the enemies playbook that has been used for over 60 years.
A flash mob (or flashmob)is a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. --- Wikipedia
Like the whirlwind passage of the frenetic farce called ObamaCare, the equally farcical and so-called default-avoiding Debt Increase "Deal" foisted upon America was the work of another Congressional Criminal Flash Mob. This time lead by Speaker of the House John Boehner and Senate Leader Harry Reid. Is it just a part of the crime wave fad sweeping America?
Today I conclude my series of articles commenting on the concepts and principles involved in the Armor of God, which the Apostle Paul described in the New Testament. This is the topic of the Sunday school lesson, which I am currently teaching.
The power of His might.
As children of God our confidence is not self-confidence, but rather confidence in God. We trust that God is working in us, through us, and around us for our good. This is why the Psalmist can write, “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? ” (Psalm 27:1). Without our realizing it, God works through the children of God to perform what any particular individual child of God has faith in God to accomplish. It seems like when we are doing the tasks at hand, which we have to do, but in reality it is actually God supplying the strength and ability to accomplish any task.
We are given promises by God which allows us to become partakers of His divine power.
II Peter 1:4 Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
The first promise of course is salvation.
John 3:36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
We have the promise that God will not leave us.
Hebrews 13:5c I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
We have the promise of cleansing and forgiveness if we sin after receiving Christ.
I John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
We can go to God with any care or problem that we have.
I Peter 5:5c, 6, 7 God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
We have healing of our bodies through Jesus Christ
I Peter 2:24c … by whose stripes ye were healed.
We have been given power and authority over demons and diseases.
Luke 9:1 Then he called his twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure diseases.
Our names are written in heaven.
Luke 10:17-20 And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.
The apostolic authority extends to each believer to this day.
Matthew 28:18, 19, 20 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
.
One who is born-again becomes a part of the Body of Jesus Christ (His Church) and now has the right to exercise the power of God in Jesus' name. If yoU want to be a part of the Body of Christ, then you can do so by repenting of your sins and by inviting Him into your life. A sample prayer that you can use is, “Lord Jesus Christ forgive me of my sins and come into my heart.”
Apparently the Obama regime has proposed to have Dear Leader give his so-called "jobs" speech the same night that the GOP Presidential Debate was scheduled. Was this a calculated political decision to embarrass the Republicans? Absolutely it was. The massive TelePrompTed ego of the President wanted to upstage the important Presidential debate, and therefore draw more attention to himself and to his 'importance.'
