In the United States of America, which is where I live, today is Mother’s Day, which is a day of national celebration of all mothers. And in the book of Proverbs, chapter 31, we have an example of an extraordinary woman of God who sets a godly example for all us women today, whether or not we have ever given birth to children. And so I am going to be looking today at some of her attributes which we, as women today, can all aspire to. But don’t be disturbed if all this does not apply to you, for it won’t all apply.


The woman being spoken of here is a businesswoman. She is not just a homemaker, a mother, and a wife, but she runs her own business, too, apparently out of her own home. And she has maidservants to help her. And she is a hard worker, too, who is not slack (lazy), but who diligently works with her hands. She is so dedicated to her work that she rises before dawn to provide food for her household, and portions for her maidens (her servants or employees), and her lamp does not go out at night.

So, what can we gain from that example? In all that we do in this life it should be not only for our own good, but for the good of others, and not for selfish gain. In whatever ways that we serve God and others we should set a godly example of dedication and diligence and commitment to our callings, and we should not be lazy. And this isn’t saying that we can’t rest or take breaks from our work, but that we should be those who are not idle and slothful, and we should be those who are dedicated to our work.

This woman does her husband good, and not harm, all the days of her life. But this has to be in the eyes of God and according to the Scriptures and not in the eyes of humans and of worldly and ungodly influences. For what the world defines as “good” may be the opposite of how God defines “good.” For good in the eyes of God is all that is godly, upright, morally pure, honest, faithful, and obedient to the Lord. So to do good to our husbands is to do what is good in the sight of God, and not in the sight of the world.

[Genesis 2:24; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:1-7; 2 Peter 2:13-19; 1 Corinthians 5:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-20; Ephesians 5:1-33; Colossians 3:18-19; 1 Thessalonians 4:3-8; Titus 2:3-5; Matthew 5:28; Matthew 15:19-20; Matthew 19:9; Mark 7:20-22; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:13-21]

Now it says here that the heart of her husband trusts in her. And her husband is known in the gates when he sits among the elders of the land. Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. If you have a husband like that, you are blessed, provided that all this falls under the authorship and leadership and ownership of God in our lives and that this is not according to the standards of a sinful world and fleshly appetites. If your husband praises you for your walk of faith, wonderful!

But please understand here that in the New Testament we are taught by Jesus that he did not come to the earth to give peace, but rather division. For if our faith in Jesus Christ is genuine faith, the members of our own families may turn against us if we are serving the Lord Jesus with our lives (not necessarily with perfection) with the diligence and dedication of this Proverbs 31 woman. So, no matter how dedicated to doing good we may be, it does not mean that our family members will trust us or praise us for it.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Luke 6:22-23; Luke 12:49-53; Luke 21:12-19; John 15:1-21; John 16:33; John 17:14; Acts 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Eph 6:10-20; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13]

Lastly, this godly woman dresses herself with strength and dignity, and she makes her arms strong, not necessarily physically, but spiritually she is strong in the Lord and in his strength, and daily she puts on the armor of God with which to fight off Satan’s evil schemes against her. So, even if she does not receive recognition and praise and adoration, but she receives rejection and even persecution, in return, she will continue strong in her walk of faith in the Lord Jesus in service to him as her Lord (Master).

She is also a woman who opens her mouth with wisdom, which should be the wisdom of God. And the teachings of kindness are on her tongue. But the kindness of God is his grace to us, and his grace, which is bringing us salvation, is training us to renounce (say “No!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives while we wait for our Lord’s return. So this is the “kindness” that should be on her tongue, and the wisdom should be godly and morally pure wisdom, not of the flesh.

And she is not a person who flatters others for her own advantage so that they will like her, but she is a woman of integrity whose words can be trusted. For she is not a deceitful person, but she is a woman who walks in the fear of the Lord (in reverence, obedience, and submission to God) and who serves the Lord even if it costs her friends and family and the approval of others, for she is willing to sacrifice her own reputation for the good of others and for their salvation from sin, in truth and in righteousness.

As the Deer

By Martin J. Nystrom
Based off Psalm 42:1

As the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after You
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

You alone are my strength, my shield
To You alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart's desire
And I long to worship You

Login to view embedded media
Caution: This link may contain ads

Generally it’s been taught that the antichrist is going to declare himself to be God in some rebuilt Jewish temple, but I’m wondering how a rebuilt Jewish temple would even be legit?

I have a theory: our bodies are the temple of God. Old Testament things foreshadow future events. What if Antiochus Epiphanes’ defilement of the Jewish temple foreshadows the antichrist defiling our bodies with some idolatrous mark/implant.

This would also make sense because Satan has his counterfeit trinity, and it would be in the same spirit to try and counterfeit the Holy Spirit.

Some news items on today's feed....this is scary stuff. We don't need to be afraid of each other. We need to be afraid of the machines.

Autonomous, armed robot dogs:

MSN

Autonomous killer drones:

MSN

MSN

Autonomous traffic lights for self-driving cars:

MSN

Dear saints,

May the love of our Lord Jesus Christ give us mercy, grace, hope, and protection from all evil.

A few things to remember: when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, God fed them with manna. People weren’t supposed to store more than they needed overnight:

Exodus 16:

The point is there are people who are poor today. Any good thing a man does the same will he receive of the Lord. If you share with others in time of need don’t be surprised if you get help too if stuff goes south.

In a rebuke of the neo-liberal orthodoxy which has dominated both major political parties in Britain, a study has found that mass migration has not actually stimulated the economy and has been a major drag on public services and the housing sector.

A report from the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) and co-authored by former immigration minister Robert Jenrick finds record levels of immigration imposed upon the country by the so-called Conservative Party — despite promising the public to reduce the influx of foreigners following Brexit — has not been correlated with an increase to economic growth per capita.

While globalist advocates of mass migration argue that it increases tax revenues and lifts overall GDP, thereby giving governments talking points, on an individual basis there is a different story.

According to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), while the United Kingdom’s GDP grew by 0.1 per cent last year — amid record levels of immigration — GDP per person fell by 0.8 per cent, drastically behind the G7 average of 1.2 per cent, despite the UK seeing the second-highest level of population growth, which has largely been driven by mass migration, The Telegraph reports.

The CPS report remarked: “If large-scale migration of the sort we’ve seen is really so great for the economy, we have to ask ourselves why we are not seeing this in the GDP per capita data”.

The think tank noted that although former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s post-Brexit immigration reforms promised to focus on “highly selective” skills-based immigration, the system has in practice allowed large waves of foreigners coming to the country who either don’t work or are employed in low-wage jobs, because the barriers to entry have been set so catastrophically low. The report found that of the net two million migrants who came to the UK from non-EU nations over the past five years, just 15 per cent arrived in the country with the principal aim of working.

The report also found that the rush to import people from around the world has come with an economic cost. Migrants from Spain, for example, earn 40 per cent more on average than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh. Meanwhile, migrants from the Middle East, North Africa or Turkey between the ages of 25 to 64 were nearly twice as likely to be ‘economically inactive’ than native-born Britons.

1 Timothy 2:9 in like manner also, that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with propriety and moderation, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing

Irenaeus, who was the disciple of Polycarp, who was the disciple of John, who wrote Revelation wrote in "Against Heresies" a premillennial view of eschatology, that had the Church put to flight by Antichrist (so incompatible with Pre-tribulationism), and took prophecy literally (including the number 666, which while it was a symbol for the accumulation of sin all put on one man, it was still literally a number that could be calculated from his name using GREEK Gematria not Hebrew or English or any other language, but Greek), and was incompatible with the heresies later brought by Origen and Augustine, theological poison introduced in the 4th and 5th centuries that poisoned Christian Theology for over 1000 years (and still poison it today)

Views compatible with the early church are Post-tribulation Premillennialism (Historic Premillennialism as opposed to Dispensational), and possibly Pre-wrath Premillennialism (as the main thing said to be faced by the church is the reign of Antichrist not supernatural judgements from God)
Pre-wrath is a newer teaching on it that sees a more distinct difference between Antichrist's reign/Tribulation vs God's Wrath (taking literally the bowls and trumpets as God's wrath as opposed to most post-trib seeing the bowls and trumpets as "symbols" and just "tribulation" rather than the wrath of God), so it's still compatible as both schools believe it's future, premillennial, and the Church would face Antichrist before being delivered. Pre-wrath's main problem is a hangover from a Pre-tribulation view that I believe most start in before reading the bible and seeing a more post-trib view in the bible but they hang onto the '2 second comings' from pre-trib too hard (I only believe in 1 second coming but it's earlier)

Views incompatible with the Early Church are Amillennialism, Post-Millennialism, Full and Partial Preterism (as if even part had been fulfilled, the Early Church Fathers would have wrote about how those parts were fulfilled), and Pre-tribulation Dispensational Premillennialism.

Historicism is hard to say, as historical events could have happened in our past but the Early Church's future though most Historicism relies on allegorical interpretation more in line with Amillennialism which was incompatible with the Early Church (that is 1st and second centuries, pre Augustinian Platonic Cancer infection) as its base.

Thoughts?

1 John 3:15 Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.

Scientifically speaking, creating a humanzee would be no different from how we've created Ligers and Mules. So why haven't we created a humanzee yet, knowing it's entirely possible and super easy?

Many say it's an issue of morality. But why would it be, considering a humanzee would be neither human, nor chimp. What would be a worst or best case scenario in this situation? Being the eternal optimist that I am, I envision a friendly pet-like companion, like a dog, but much smarter. It's not like it would be in a constant state of pain, like some kind of groaning Frankenstein - nature doesn’t allow animals to live in perpetual pain. Perhaps they could even be trained to do our work for us? Like picking fruit in the fields? Or factory work, or other jobs humans don't particularly like doing? For thousands of years we've been using horses in similar ways - I don't see how a humanzee would be any different.

Hi, friends,

Christ is risen!

Does anybody know what Orthodox books were first published in English around 1977 - mid to late 1970s?

A private Evangelical college in Indiana has dismissed a professor following opposition from critics upset with his past social media posts, which voiced support for same-sex marriage and declared that his pronouns were "he/they."

Grace College recently released Matthew Warner, a communications professor at the Winona Lake school, who started teaching there at the start of the academic year last August.

While the college did not give a specific reason, Religion News Service reported Wednesday that it was "preceded by an online termination campaign" organized by "conservative influencers and Grace College stakeholders."

Continued below.

I wonder who profited from building a miniscule copy of all the trees and jungle cut down and burned? This is the reality of the environmental movement. Destroy nature then replace it with profit through industry, an industry that can never match or replace God's given natural filters.

Are we sure the Ukraine war is about Russia or protecting the interests of corporations? No longer do we need to invade we'll buy them. Poland farmers are also blocking access to Ukraine because Poland is buying grain from Ukraine instead of their farmers. It's Blackrock and Vanguard taking advantage of Ukraine's situation. From the video, I deleted linked here if curious. Polish Farmers

I will share what I have been learning on the topic of self deliverance below. In case it might be interesting to anyone.

And I am asking for anyone to please share any thing learned in this area.

Here are the resources that I have personally found the most helpful. See the YouTube video called:

I was a stripper and Playboy model.

Pastor David Middleton channel on YouTube.

Both of those resources how to do self deliverance.

I will give my personal disclaimers on David Middleton, though. He is great on detailed information, and is constantly supporting what he says with the Bible, but he does not think that Demons are going to go out except by commanding them to leave.

That is not what happened to the woman in the video, who was a stripper. She got freed through constant repetition of Bible verses. And others have reported the same things, in particular in regard to getting miraculous healings.

I also disagree with Middleton when he talks about Benny Hinn being a brother. I’m sorry, but Benny is not someone I personally trust at all.

Also, Middleton speaks out against Hebrew Roots, which I am part of. And he speaks out against using the actual Deity names given in Hebrew in the Bible, as for example, names found in the 2,000
year old Dead Sea Scrolls, and other ancient writings, for the Almighty and Messiah.

I’ve gotten tons of prayers answered in the past by saying, God or Jesus. But after I studied a little Hebrew, I switched to the Hebrew. And I think there is something wrong in him for wanting to keep people from using the age old Scriptural names.

But I don’t want to toss out the baby with the bathwater, so I’m still listening to him with hopefully lots of discernment. We are all imperfect people, and the Lord uses imperfect people, which is all he has to work with.

I’ve also seen that people can get deliverance through prayers alone. But if that doesn’t work, we are told to command demons to go out. Before our Savior left, the first thing he told his followers to do was to cast out demons.

P.S. The playboy model video has no inappropriate content at all. But if you are a male, maybe even a female, you might want someone else to find the video for you and blow it up full-size before watching it. Because to the right, there are many thumbnails of Playboy models basically with nothing on.

1. Fanie Willis under investigation herself.
2. Jack Smith possible evidence tampering.
3. Alvin Bragg can't even define what the charges are. Judge is a compromised disaster.

All of these should be dropped and if it were not Trump they never would have even been charged.

Before I begin let me say that I don't believe that I'm an apostle, prophet or teacher. So please don't take me wrong. I reject titles and I don't know what I am to he honest. I'm no apostle Paul that's for sure. I try to follow him and the other apostle though as we all should.

Anyway, getting to the point of this thread, I've experienced things that make me afraid and times of fear and confusion. I believed that it's the shadow death in psalms 23. I believed that its also the daily dying that Paul teaches about. He died daily. I feel so oppressed sometimes that I weep.

I don't know what it is. Is it mental illness, spiritual warfare, the cross, or all of the above maybe?. I don't even know. I'm very fearful and weak. People will likely say that God hasn't given us a spirit of fear but the apostles knew the fear of God. They were confused at times as well.

Corinthians 4:8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—

10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.

13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

Seeing the Invisible
16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

I have fond memories of my childhood and America. I remember MTv, fragile Rock, HBO and cable TV. I remember the 4th of July as a kid. If only I could go back to a more simpler time. That's how my fleshy mind thinks.

It's all rubbish to me now however. I can't go back and America never helped me follow Jesus. It helped kill me inside instead. I want to live.

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, “Why were the former days better than these?”.For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.

11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance,
And profitable to those who see the sun.
12 For wisdom is a defense as money is a defense, But the excellence of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.

13 Consider the work of God;
For who can make straight what He has made crooked?
14 In the day of prosperity be joyful,
But in the day of adversity consider:
Surely God has appointed the one [h]as well as the other,
So that man can find out nothing that will come after him.

Many preachers, prophets and apostles boast of their anointing but they don't seem know what it is, nor do they live by it or teach it. Jesus and the apostles were not rich like them. They taught against wanting wealth and the world including America

1 John 2:3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God [a]is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

Do Not Love the World
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Deceptions of the Last Hour
18 Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the[d] Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

20 But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you[e] know all things. 21 I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

1 John 2:24 Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life.

26 These things I have written to you concerning those who try to [f]deceive you. 27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you [g]will abide in Him.

The Children of God
28 And now, little children, abide in Him, that [h]when He appears, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before Him at His coming. 29 If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone who practices righteousness is born of Him.

I don't listen to Joyce Myers or any teacher but I can't get over how she wears jewelry and teaches wealth and prosperity. To me this is pride, vanity and greedy lust for money.

The jewelry I can understand a little. She claims to be abused by her father. I'm unsure if that was sexual abuse or not but maybe she feels ugly because of that abuse.

Maybe she has self esteem issues and wants to make herself beautiful. i understand that. A woman used expensive perfume to wash Jesus feet so maybe it's like that. i don't know. However she is no teacher in my opinion.

Please feel free prove me wrong however. I try to see good in people and not just faults

All Trump's talk over more jobs was just talk, with unemployment soaring on his watch. Foxconn was just one more fake story from Trump. And Biden took the opportunity to twit him a bit when announcing a real job project by Microsoft.

Login to view embedded media

I don't understand why people support Israel. They're not Christian are they? Isn't that like supporting the anti Christ? Forgive me if I'm wrong but how am I supposed to see it?

So we hate Muslims for hating Jesus but we love Jews who hate Jesus, what wisdom is this?

Furthermore people who think that way often seem to become warmongering Christians who want to save Israel with war and weapons.

I love all people the same. I dont care who you are. I hope for us all. We are commanded to pray for men everywhere. We are commanded to greet everyone and not just for our brethren like the unbelievers do.

I don't know if this vid is real or not and I can't prove it either way , but it's promoted by this man Pascal Najadi who is involved in Donald Trumps space force , speaks highly of Mike Flynn and just recently did an interview with Lt Colonel Riccardo Bosi , so I take him to be the real deal.

Now the vid shows a number of things , it shows the astronauts along with the camera crew filming what is supposed to be the moon landing among other things , but obviously doing it here from earth. Lights falling and other crazy stuff.

See what you think guys , because I don't normally get into this type of stuff , it always seemed too unreal for me. But I have always had an open mind...


TRUTH: « We are the Guardians of Humanity and our Light Obliterates the darkness of evil, and Treason, Always » - We are Human Species and now we are Striking Back - Spring of 2024 #STORM - Beyond Biblical

When Jesus Christ lived on the earth he told the people that if anyone would come after him that he must deny self, take up his cross daily, and follow him. Well, when Jesus took up his cross it was to put our sins to death with him. So when we take up our cross daily, it is to die daily to sin. And then to follow Jesus is to obey him, and to model our lives after him and how he lived. For, in essence, he said that if we hold on to our old lives, we will lose them for eternity, but if we deny self, die daily to sin, and follow him in obedience, then we have eternal life in him (see Luke 9:23-26).

So, faith in Jesus Christ should result in us giving up our old lives of living in sin and for self so that we can now follow him in obedience to his commands. And this is a process of sanctification, but it is not to be regarded lightly nor for us to think that we can just hold on to our sins as long as we want because it is a process. For as soon as we are aware that we are sinning against the Lord, and that we are doing what displeases him, by his grace we are to put those things out of our lives, and we are to replace those bad things with the things of God that he wants in our lives.

So a walk of faith in Jesus Christ is that daily putting off the flesh and putting on God and his righteousness. And it involves us putting off those old sinful habits and replacing them with what is the opposite. So if lying has been our practice, we need to stop lying and we need to make telling the truth our practice. If stealing and cheating have been our practice, we need to stop doing that and now we must be generous and give to others who are in need. If our speech has been filled with hate and evil, we need to now speak the truth in love to others, in kindness, but not lying to them.

And anytime that we choose our sins over God, and we tell God “No!,” while we tell the flesh, “Yes!,” we grieve the Holy Spirit of God. For Jesus died on that cross to deliver us out of our slavery to sin, not just to forgive us our sins, and not so we can keep on sinning without feeling guilty. The whole point of our salvation from sin is to change us, to transform us, to take us from being those who were, living for self and in sin, to those who are now living for God and for his righteousness. So we put off all that is of the flesh and we put on all that is of God and that is of his love (Romans 6:1-23).

And with regard to anger, we get our emotions from God, and he gets angry sometimes, but for the right reasons. So it is possible to be angry without sinning if we are angry over injustice, genocide, adultery, abortions, and all that is evil and is against the Lord and that is harmful to other humans. But we must not let that anger settle into our minds and hearts and then have it turn into bitterness and resentment and a desire to get even with others. We must use the anger, instead, as a springboard to rightful actions and decisions which are helpful to others, and not harmful to them nor to self.

So, just understand that the Christian walk of faith is all about us turning away from our sins to now follow Jesus in obedience to his commands. So we put off all that is of the flesh and that is sinful so that we can put on all that is of God and that is righteous, holy, just, honest, morally pure, upright, faithful, loving, and obedient to our Lord. And daily we deny self and die to sin and we follow our Lord in obedience to his will and to his plan that he has for our lives. For this is what genuine faith in Jesus Christ looks like, which is God’s gift to us, and it is what his grace trains us to do (Titus 2:11-14).

Video Talk

Login to view embedded media
Caution: This link may contain ads

Mighty in Power

An Original Work / June 17, 2019

Jesus, our Savior, reigneth forever;
Mighty in power, His name we honor.
He’s our refuge from all evil.
God our righteous, He’s our fill.
He satisfies us with all His blessings.
We magnify Him. Our praise to Him sing.

Glory and honor, praise to the Father,
Perfect in wisdom, He is our vision.
He delivered us from all sin
So, in Christ, we’d be forgiven.
He purifies us. His love will guide us.
He is beside us, holy and righteous.

Our Holy Spirit, comfort in sorrow,
Strength in our weakness, hope for tomorrow.
He gives courage to be bold in
Witnessing for Jesus Christ.
He teaches all things about our Savior.
New life in Jesus, we found His favor.

Login to view embedded media

I don't seee how political gossip is good. I don't see how Trump or Biden are mature Christians. They engage in gossip themselves.

I dont agree with rich Christians either. We are not here to live in luxury. That's not what I see the apostles or Jesus teach us.

I know the fear and worry over economics, social security and other worldly matters is not faith in God or obedience to him.

I know promoting war is not good. Let God handle that. Im not saying that soldiers are wrong necesarily but we shouldn't promote any war.

To me vanity is wrong. We shouldn't want to be judged or adored by our appearance in any way. In my opinion.


I'm not perfect but I know these things.