This comes from my friend, Phil, from those long ago Khe Sanh battlefield days.
Howdy,
This came to me via my sister-in-law and it is from Elizabeth Rohn-Nelson - not only is she a strong Christian, but she has been involved in presidential campaigns back as far as Ronald Regan (maybe even before then)
This is not some "internet circulating" email - it is from Elizabeth's own heart and well worth our heeding as Christians.
Absorb and start praying!
Phil
Prayer can move mountains, why not Obama?
Being dismayed recently when a family member of mine said to me with great resignation that Obama will take the presidency. These words came from someone who in the past has been a great prayer warrior.
What is happening was my question??? Why are we Christians settling and not issuing a battle cry and falling to our knees and taking our country back?
We allow ourselves to be stripped of the right to pray at school functions and in school, we have the 10 commandments removed from government places and are told we cannot pray in school, all the while providing public prayer places for Muslims. What in the world is going on and why are we being apathetic?
Why aren't we praying? Our God is a mighty God who is waiting patiently for us to raise our voices to heaven to stop the tide of the anti-Christ actions in our world today. Now we find we have a charismatic candidate for president who does not respect our flag and refuses to wear one on his lapel except when it becomes politically expedient and whose own wife and pastor that he loves profess to have strong anti-white feelings, and we sit back and say "it is a given, we can do nothing."
There has never been a time in 2000 years that we can do nothing, never a time that we must sit back and allow the evil in men's and women's hearts to take over our world. We should be very afraid because our apathy is leading us to perdition.
It is time for all Christian Americans to raise the battle cry and take our nation back. Maybe McCain on his own cannot defeat Obama, but our God can and He will if we take to our knees in prayer and raise a mighty cry to the heavens to "Save us O Lord." We have the power to change the course of this election and to keep a man as suspect as Barak Obama from leading our country to who knows where with his message of "change" - a change which I fear will be away from our Christian ideals and away from Christ and further away from one nation under God.
We are great at passing stories and pictures around the internet, but where are our prayers and prayer warriors praying to stop this tide of Barak Obama? God parted the red sea, Jesus raised himself from the dead, and we can bring our country back to its Christian roots and stop the move to the rise of Muslims in our country. We can stop our country from being "under Allah," but we must begin to pray, to pray as if our country and our lives depended on it, because they do. We can stop all these atrocities against God's commands that have taken root in our country through something as simple as sincere prayer, a call to God to deliver us, to forgive us our sins of apathy and to protect us from the evil that is upon us.
Okay prayer warriors, here is your challenge, start those prayer chains. Get the spiritual power working on our behalf and stop Barak Obama the proper way, by calling on our God to save us from the deception that charismatic preaching is using to lead us on the wrong path. Stop those who would take God out of our country and our government. Raise up good men to lead us and protect us.
George Bush is being buffeted because he has fought a holy war against the evils that attack us and we should not be surprised because a prophet is n ot honored in his own country. But we should not rest on our laurels and allow ourselves to be taken further off the path of Christianity and to have God removed from our presence in our schools, courts, government and businesses. Invite God into the fray. Ask that His power rest upon us and give us the victory. Ask him to raise up a mighty army to defend us and to protect our country as he did in days of old. Let us be victorious beginning NOW. The battle is His but we must call on Him without ceasing and unite our voices and hearts in prayer and fasting.
Please pass this around to all people of prayer that you know and maybe, just maybe a more eloquent person of prayer will write something better and more inspiring and even the rocks will shout that Jesus is Lord and our Mighty God is with us, bringing the victory for us and ultimately for Him.
"Be joyful always, pray continually, give thanks i n all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." I Thess 5:16-18
....Continuous Prayer is the answer to this attack on the USA .... Please pray the Will of God will prevail through our continuous prayers to HIM...
Remember Prayer Can... Move Mountains!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
God's Love, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid
God's Love, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid
by Pastor Ed Evans
The other evening I set aside a few moments to relax and watch some television. So much of the same formula trash was on, I started flipping through the channels looking for something different. What I found was “The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” It’s a classic western, but in case you’ve not seen it, it’s a movie about the adventures of two old west bank robbers, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. This was the beginning of a life-long friendship for these two talented actors.
As the film was being made, a couple of other cameras were rolling, capturing all the behind-the-scenes activity, and this is what Producer George Ray Hill and Director William Goldman recalled and discussed, creating another production even before the movie was released in theaters.
Watching and listening to the byplay between Newman and Redford was fascinating. Out of their own acting experiences they often changed scenes and dialogue as they went along. It was with a respect for these two actors that the producer and director often allowed and worked around changes that came out of earnest conversations before each scene was shot.
Looking back at the thoughts and words and creative exchanges between these two actors, changes and suggestions to the shooting script which were sometimes questioned then, now made perfect sense.
It made me think about something I had read about how some people live their lives – backwards. They seem to always be looking back, as if what had been done in the past might guide their words, their actions, their lives in the future to come. But in living in the past, they so often missed the joy of coming attractions.
It’s has been said that, were we timeless like our God, that our lives would make perfect sense in retrospect.
It was very interesting to have producer Hill and director Goldman commenting on scenes, conversations they were not privy to at the time, and everything captured on film from the weather to the raucous but underplayed humor of Newman and Redford. There were decisions about clothing, contracting demolitions men for dynamite scenes, when to use stunt men and when and why Newman did so many of his own scenes.
In telling the history of the movie, the duplicate cameramen had also captured a precious and insightful aspect of both Newman and Redford, how they interacted with one another, and how they responded to the game of “pretend” we call movies.
What exciting lives we might live if we could “game” our lives with God, be privy to His insights for us, look ahead into our lives as an extension of what has already transpired, and consider how we might respond to it.
Exciting, yes! But some things would not change, for God does not change.
As an example, do you know that God loves you as much right now as He will ever love you? If you are trying to be good so you will gain His love, disciplining yourself to keep His commandments so He will love you more, if those are your motivations, you can stop now.
If you would only realize that God loves you more than anyone has ever loved you, or will ever love you, and loves you as much right this moment as He ever will, how might we respond to such love that is more forgiving, more understanding, deeper than anything we have ever known as love? That’s His love for us.
Now, put your mind on “review” and look back over your life. See your Father’s hand at work in the days of your life? Like in the poem, “Footsteps of Jesus,” do you see times where instead of two sets of footprints there are only one? And those would be the times He carried you.
Looking back, our lives have been much more full of life than the one depicted by that classic flick “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” for our lives have been real, full of all the slings and arrows, heartaches and high points of the real world. And He loved us every bit as much at our infantile beginning as He does right now. For He loves completely, fully, without reservation.
How touching and true the words written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, within the song “The Love of God.” If they seem to have a timeless aspect to them, perhaps it’s because Lehman based his verses upon the Jewish poem “Haddamut,” first penned in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai. It begins,
“The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.
It begins and ends with the unfathomable love of the Creator for His creation. Seen forwards or backwards, in context or standing alone, He accepts no stand-in stunt men, but insists on dealing directly with you and I. Face it, He’s crazy about you.
by Pastor Ed Evans
The other evening I set aside a few moments to relax and watch some television. So much of the same formula trash was on, I started flipping through the channels looking for something different. What I found was “The Making of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.” It’s a classic western, but in case you’ve not seen it, it’s a movie about the adventures of two old west bank robbers, played by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. This was the beginning of a life-long friendship for these two talented actors.
As the film was being made, a couple of other cameras were rolling, capturing all the behind-the-scenes activity, and this is what Producer George Ray Hill and Director William Goldman recalled and discussed, creating another production even before the movie was released in theaters.
Watching and listening to the byplay between Newman and Redford was fascinating. Out of their own acting experiences they often changed scenes and dialogue as they went along. It was with a respect for these two actors that the producer and director often allowed and worked around changes that came out of earnest conversations before each scene was shot.
Looking back at the thoughts and words and creative exchanges between these two actors, changes and suggestions to the shooting script which were sometimes questioned then, now made perfect sense.
It made me think about something I had read about how some people live their lives – backwards. They seem to always be looking back, as if what had been done in the past might guide their words, their actions, their lives in the future to come. But in living in the past, they so often missed the joy of coming attractions.
It’s has been said that, were we timeless like our God, that our lives would make perfect sense in retrospect.
It was very interesting to have producer Hill and director Goldman commenting on scenes, conversations they were not privy to at the time, and everything captured on film from the weather to the raucous but underplayed humor of Newman and Redford. There were decisions about clothing, contracting demolitions men for dynamite scenes, when to use stunt men and when and why Newman did so many of his own scenes.
In telling the history of the movie, the duplicate cameramen had also captured a precious and insightful aspect of both Newman and Redford, how they interacted with one another, and how they responded to the game of “pretend” we call movies.
What exciting lives we might live if we could “game” our lives with God, be privy to His insights for us, look ahead into our lives as an extension of what has already transpired, and consider how we might respond to it.
Exciting, yes! But some things would not change, for God does not change.
As an example, do you know that God loves you as much right now as He will ever love you? If you are trying to be good so you will gain His love, disciplining yourself to keep His commandments so He will love you more, if those are your motivations, you can stop now.
If you would only realize that God loves you more than anyone has ever loved you, or will ever love you, and loves you as much right this moment as He ever will, how might we respond to such love that is more forgiving, more understanding, deeper than anything we have ever known as love? That’s His love for us.
Now, put your mind on “review” and look back over your life. See your Father’s hand at work in the days of your life? Like in the poem, “Footsteps of Jesus,” do you see times where instead of two sets of footprints there are only one? And those would be the times He carried you.
Looking back, our lives have been much more full of life than the one depicted by that classic flick “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” for our lives have been real, full of all the slings and arrows, heartaches and high points of the real world. And He loved us every bit as much at our infantile beginning as He does right now. For He loves completely, fully, without reservation.
How touching and true the words written by Frederick M. Lehman in 1917, within the song “The Love of God.” If they seem to have a timeless aspect to them, perhaps it’s because Lehman based his verses upon the Jewish poem “Haddamut,” first penned in Aramaic in 1050 by Meir Ben Isaac Nehorai. It begins,
“The love of God is greater far
Than tongue or pen can ever tell;
It goes beyond the highest star,
And reaches to the lowest hell;
The guilty pair, bowed down with care,
God gave His Son to win;
His erring child He reconciled,
And pardoned from his sin.
It begins and ends with the unfathomable love of the Creator for His creation. Seen forwards or backwards, in context or standing alone, He accepts no stand-in stunt men, but insists on dealing directly with you and I. Face it, He’s crazy about you.
Obama Talks, McCain Leads
Obama Talks, McCain Leads
by Ed Evans
Barack Hussein Obama's favorite throw-away line is "John McCain told his advisors, 'If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'" Then Obama follows up with, "So I want to talk about the economy!"
But you will notice, Obama doesn't talk about the economy, he talks about raising taxes. He think's that's how you help the economy. It helped kings, and emperors and monarchs. It might even help senators and congressman to have more of our money to spend. But it doesn't help the people who have to pay the taxes; you and I.
Obama should be forgiven, though, because he's a product of the Democratic party, and they all seem to think raising taxes is how you help a faltering economy. Even when the news media asks other Democratic politicians, "Can you believe Barack Obama wants to raise taxes in a faltering economy? What do you think about that?" They go right on supporting the idea of raising taxes. But I repeat, they are Democrats. Of course they want to raise taxes.
It apparently has not occurred to them that every shrinking dollar they take away from you and I is a dollar not spent keeping the economy alive. Every dollar they take away from the small business owners -- the ones who accounted for 100% of the new jobs last year -- that's another dollar not paid to their workers, another dollar not spent on their health care, not spent on supporting their social security. In the end, that employee doesn't exist because they can't afford to pay rising taxes and additional employee wages. A working wage earner has been turned into another welfare space holder.
No, John McCain doesn't lose when he talks about the economy. He wins and we win because he talks jobs, wages, family survival and tax cuts.
Barack Hussein Obama talks a good game. He's an excellent speaker, spell-binding with great imagery; clear, concise. But it is still just talk. You can promise anything when it's just talk.
John McCain has the biography and the resume to show that he does what he says he will do. It's not empty talk. It's not ear-tickling rhetoric just to get votes. John McCain has a plan to put America back to work, and he has the experience and background to lead America out of the financial morass he warned about years ago.
Barack Hussein Obama talks a lot about what he wants to do.
John McCain is already out in front leading. He's been a leader all of his life.
Follow John.
by Ed Evans
Barack Hussein Obama's favorite throw-away line is "John McCain told his advisors, 'If we keep talking about the economy, we're going to lose.'" Then Obama follows up with, "So I want to talk about the economy!"
But you will notice, Obama doesn't talk about the economy, he talks about raising taxes. He think's that's how you help the economy. It helped kings, and emperors and monarchs. It might even help senators and congressman to have more of our money to spend. But it doesn't help the people who have to pay the taxes; you and I.
Obama should be forgiven, though, because he's a product of the Democratic party, and they all seem to think raising taxes is how you help a faltering economy. Even when the news media asks other Democratic politicians, "Can you believe Barack Obama wants to raise taxes in a faltering economy? What do you think about that?" They go right on supporting the idea of raising taxes. But I repeat, they are Democrats. Of course they want to raise taxes.
It apparently has not occurred to them that every shrinking dollar they take away from you and I is a dollar not spent keeping the economy alive. Every dollar they take away from the small business owners -- the ones who accounted for 100% of the new jobs last year -- that's another dollar not paid to their workers, another dollar not spent on their health care, not spent on supporting their social security. In the end, that employee doesn't exist because they can't afford to pay rising taxes and additional employee wages. A working wage earner has been turned into another welfare space holder.
No, John McCain doesn't lose when he talks about the economy. He wins and we win because he talks jobs, wages, family survival and tax cuts.
Barack Hussein Obama talks a good game. He's an excellent speaker, spell-binding with great imagery; clear, concise. But it is still just talk. You can promise anything when it's just talk.
John McCain has the biography and the resume to show that he does what he says he will do. It's not empty talk. It's not ear-tickling rhetoric just to get votes. John McCain has a plan to put America back to work, and he has the experience and background to lead America out of the financial morass he warned about years ago.
Barack Hussein Obama talks a lot about what he wants to do.
John McCain is already out in front leading. He's been a leader all of his life.
Follow John.
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