PRAYER FOR APRIL1, 2015 Sacrifices

When I woke up yesterday morning my arthritis was particularly painful and my fingers wouldn't bend. Even two warm wax treatments didn't help. I was wandering around the house feeling sorry for myself when SWMBO told me to stop acting like a grumpy old man, just get on with the day, and COPE WITH IT. She reminded me of all the sacrifices everyone makes on a daily basis just to do what needs to be done.
Think of the ultimate sacrifice God made by giving His prime creation free will. He gave us a set of rules to live by, but allowed us to decide not to obey them. God knew that we would sin, and He wanted us with Him for all eternity. From the beginning He planned to sacrifice His only begotten Son, to save those who believed in Him so we could be with Our Father throughout eternity. This Sunday we celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, His rebirth from the grave. God always knew what Jesus would have to endure toward that end- to sacrifice Himself for US. All the things we should do to live the life he directs are minute in comparison, yet we cannot even do those without complaining. Following God's law should be a joyful concept, yet we often look on it as a major burden.

Almighty God- we thank Thee for Thy blessings and the gifts you have bestowed upon us. We celebrate the Resurrection of Thy Son , who was sacrificed for our eternal life. We humbly ask for forgiveness for our sins and our unwillingness to sacrifice some of our thoughts and time toward glorifying Thy Name. This we ask in Jesus name. AMEN.


AMEN

As I have time I will go back and post more prayers for all to consider and comment on.
Keep in mind that religion and politics are NOT separate issues. Those who are guided by God's word reflect those beliefs in ALL we do. We ARE Christians, for instance. It is not a belief that stops at the church door, but what we attempt to use as our guideline for all our our behaviors. Where we fail at that, it is because our beliefs are not perfected, it is no fault of God's.

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

O Gift of Gifts O Grace of Faith
1 O gift of gifts! O grace of faith!
My God, how can it be
That Thou, who hast discerning love,
Shouldst give that gift to me?

2 How many hearts Thou mightst have had
More innocent than mine,
How many souls more worthy far
Of that sweet touch of Thine!

3 Ah, grace, into unlikeliest hearts
It is thy boast to come;
The glory of thy light to find
In darkest spots a home.

4 How can they live, how will they die,
How bear the cross of grief,
Who have not yet the light of faith,
The courage of belief?

5 The crowd of cares, the weightiest cross,
Seem trifles less than light;
Earth looks so little and so low
When faith shines full and bright.

6 O happy, happy that I am!
If thou canst be, O faith,
The treasure that thou art in life,
What wilt thou be in death.

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

O Gift of Gifts O Grace of Faith

1 O gift of gifts! O grace of faith!
My God, how can it be
That Thou, who hast discerning love,
Shouldst give that gift to me?

2 How many hearts Thou mightst have had
More innocent than mine,
How many souls more worthy far
Of that sweet touch of Thine!

3 Ah, grace, into unlikeliest hearts
It is thy boast to come;
The glory of thy light to find
In darkest spots a home.

4 How can they live, how will they die,
How bear the cross of grief,
Who have not yet the light of faith,
The courage of belief?

5 The crowd of cares, the weightiest cross,
Seem trifles less than light;
Earth looks so little and so low
When faith shines full and bright.

6 O happy, happy that I am!
If thou canst be, O faith,
The treasure that thou art in life,
What wilt thou be in death.

This thread could have gone in many possible ways.

And do you think that I do not work? That is rich. I do work and for me, there will never be a retirement ceremony. There will not be a going away party.

Yes, I would say that you are wasting your time. You see, you are not seeing things from where I am. Although I have been at your view point as I did not inherient until I was well into my 30s. So, I raised children on an enlisted income, and that was not easy. I did not see anyone with more as someone who should be forced to help me raise those kids (2 was ours naturally, all the others were adopted or needed a home). Not once did I look at our lives and saw us poor, sometimes strapped for money, but never poor. Now I sit at a different level. Let me see if I can put this in a way you can understand. Let us say you are standing at street level. You hear sirens. But, you can not see a reason. Go up in that building to say the 50th floor, you can see further,, but still can not determine the reason. However, go up to the 100th floor, you are able to see not only the street below (what you see), but also what the person sees from the 50th floor, and then they can see at the 100th not only where the siren is originating, but the cause. Naturally those in the penthouse has already received a phone call telling them all about the fire or accident. I never want to live in the Penthouse, too many problems and decisions. But, one day I hope that you get up to the 100th floor and we can share a common view.

This is your best answers;

Just when liberal-l*****ts thought it was finally "their time" to lead center-right America, kicking and screaming, into a stifling socialist "utopia," a veteran psychiatrist is making a powerful case that the "hope-and-change" ideology motivating them is actually a mental disorder.

For more than 40 years, Rossiter has diagnosed and treated over 1,500 patients as a board-certified clinical psychiatrist and examined more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases, both state and federal, as a board-certified forensic psychiatrist retained by numerous public offices, courts and private attorneys. He received his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago.

Rossiter explains with great clarity why the kind of liberalism being displayed by Barack Obama can only be understood as a psychological disorder."Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded," says Rossiter. "Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave." "A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity - as liberals do," he says. "A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social
e******y on the population - as liberals do. And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which overregulates and overtaxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state - as liberals do."

Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:

a.. creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;

b.. satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;

c.. augmenting primitive feelings of envy;

d.. rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.

"The roots of liberalism - and its associated madness - can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind," he says. "When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious."

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=3D116644#ixzz1PI7TEb6w

Origin of the Left & the Right

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are
called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left."

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:
"The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.
Spelling Lesson

The last four letters in American..........I Can
The last four letters in Republican.......I Can
The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats

End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2016

Remember, November is to be set aside as rodent
extermination month.

It would seem that you have not read the many posts on the net....here is a link.... click on any of them. http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=liberals+are+smarter
All of these are written by Liberals. Now look at the many people on OPP who have copied these down and opened them for discussion. Liberals are told they are smarter, and they believe it. Perhaps you are different, but should you take a poll, those on OPP definitely think they are special. Doing the same search, just subsututing Conservative for Liberal, you will see that you get practically the same list. http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=CONSERVATIVES+are+smarter

This is partly due to the fact that censorship has already taken place on the WEB. And it serves the purpose like claims of rasism, it divided our nation.

Do Conservatives think they are smarter. I suppose they do. But, intelligence comes in different forms. Many college kids do not know how to change a flat tire or make a fire without using matches. Just something they do not know. But, ask a conservative, for the most part they have these sk**ls; even I know how. So we are different, that does not mean that as individuals minus political affiliation, that either Liberal or Conservatives are better or worse. Perhaps the big difference between the two, Conservatives are more than often religious. Atheism is predominately a Liberal belief system.

As for as making things up. Are you saying that Conservatives have a better imagination than Liberals? I do not really think so, but I have nothing to combat that opinion. But, I can see the benefit of a well nourished imagination. Without one, could we have ever flown an aircraft never mind putting a man into space.

Me personally, I do not buy into conspiracy theories. I am a computer engineer, we can not take that leap without proof. And it has to be very strong proof for me to sort through what is logical and what is just speculation. Not to say that one should not speculate, but it should be defined as such.

There are many questionable things about the boy wonder in the White House. His birth record is only one. I actually traveled to Hawaii and asked to see the records. You know what they told me? Obama has sealed those records. That is right they are not open for the public. Although he posted one, which had signs of being manipulated, on the White House web site. If he would post it, why not let people see the original?

I will not say that boy wonder is a C*******t. But, his record shows that he does not have the best interest of the majority of American citizens at heart.

Perhaps I misspoke in my opening comments. I should have said, why do liberals accept so many lies as t***h. This you will admit, perhaps not for a few years, that you and our nation has suffered greatly because of the many lies that was told and accepted as t***h. I expect that statement to be upsetting, but I assure you that I am not intending disrespect to you.

YOU ARE THE RELIGIOUS LEFT, you are more staid in your ways than any old time religious nutcase! You even defend Islam? You defend the religion of Gaia! The "Earth" spirit? You claim that YOU JUST KNOW that g****l w*****g is a "fact"??? But when you were debunked...you changed that to SEASONS-------Or better sounding "C*****E C****E" and you claim you don't have a religious dogma?? The religion of LIBERALISM (already proven as a mental health problem) Then you "Call" Yourselves SCIENTISTS ???? OMG! what hypocrisy!! Then you claim others more experienced than you, and not being deluded by your false religion, DENIERS? You guard your RELIGION of LIES, vigorously, Accusing others of "Not believing in "science" ??? What you really mean is NOT BELIEVING IN YOUR RELIGION. As your facts have been exposed as f**e so many times and your priests (Scientists?) have been caught taking bribes to promote your dogma, NO THINKING PERSON CAN BELIEVE IN YOUR FRAUDS! Especially as you celebrate Lenin's birthday as your holiday? That wasn't just a mistake!