Showing posts with label Helper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Helper. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Friday, March 22, 2024
Our Job as a Saint: Do what is in front of you!
Do it for the LORD and Glorify His Name
"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come....."
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We can't wait for the perfect time to do "this or that" for the LORD.
Live your life TODAY for Him.
In all you do, do it for Him.
Change your thinking.
You don't have to be in a foreign country - your country is already "foreign"!!
Peeling potatoes? do it to glorify God.
Changing diapers? do it for the LORD.
Any other "ordinary" things? do it for the LORD!
Your life is important in whatever you are doing so get busy and live for the LORD!
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Marcel Marceau Saved Hundreds of Jewish Children From NazisThe Frenchman who would become known as the world's greatest pantomime artist helped smuggle Jewish children to safety in Switzerland during World War II.
The world-famous mime artist Marcel Marceau worked with the French underground as a teenager and help save many Jewish children from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed annually on 27 January (the date the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated in 1945), is an occasion not only for commemorating the millions who died during the Holocaust (1933-1945), but also for acknowledging the heroic efforts of those who helped European Jews escape the clutches of the Third Reich.
One of those acknowledged heroes was the internationally acclaimed pantomime artist Marcel Marceau (1923-2007), whose work as a young man with the French underground was celebrated in a Facebook video posted on 26 January 2018:
The same story is told in this excerpt from an unattributed article widely shared on social media since 2015:
Marcel Marceau’s extraordinary talent for pantomime entertained audiences around the world for over sixty years. It also saved hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust.
Born to a Jewish family in Strasbourg, France in 1923, young Marcel Mangel discovered Charlie Chaplin at age five and became an avid fan. He entertained his friends with Chaplin imitations, and dreamed of starring in silent movies.
When Marcel was 16, the Nazis marched into France, and the Jews of Strasbourg — near the German border — had to flee for their lives. Marcel changed his last name to Marceau to avoid being identified as Jewish, and joined the French resistance movement.
Masquerading as a boy scout, Marcel evacuated a Jewish orphanage in eastern France. He told the children he was taking them on a vacation in the Alps, and led them to safety in Switzerland. Marcel made the perilous journey three times, saving hundreds of Jewish orphans.
He was able to avoid detection by entertaining the children with silent pantomime.
Documentary filmmaker Phillipe Mora, whose father fought alongside Marcel in the French resistance, said, ”Marceau started miming to keep children quiet as they were escaping. It had nothing to do with show business. He was miming for his life.’’
Marcel’s father perished at Auschwitz. Marcel later said, “The people who came back from the camps were never able to talk about it. My name is Mangel. I am Jewish. Perhaps that, unconsciously, contributed towards my choice of silence.”
While fighting with the French resistance, Marcel ran into a unit of German soldiers. Thinking fast, he mimicked the advance of a large French force, and the German soldiers retreated.
Much of the above was confirmed by Marceau himself in his acceptance speech when he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for humanitarianism in 2001.
“I don’t like to speak about myself,” he said, “because what I did humbly during the war was only a small part of what happened to heroes who died through their deeds in times of danger.” He continued:
I will speak only briefly about my own deeds. It is true that I saved children, bringing them to the border in Switzerland. I forged identity cards with my brother when it was very dangerous because you could be arrested if you were in the underground. I also forged papers, not to save only Jews, and children, but to save Gentiles and Jews, especially Gentiles because there was a law in Vichy-occupied France — to send the young French men, who were eighteen, nineteen years old, to factories in Germany to work for the German Army. And then I had an idea to bribe the officials, and make people look much younger in their photos. I was born in Strasbourg on the Rhine and when the war was declared in September 1939 all Strasbourg had to be emptied by the French government to save the people because we were on the border between Germany and France. Then we were sent to Perigord in the south of France. I was sixteen years old.
As the speech went on, Marceau also paid homage to his father Charles, a kosher butcher in Strasbourg who was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz (never to return), and his cousin Georges Loinger, a Resistance fighter who would later confirm some of Marceau’s wartime exploits. When Marceau died in 2007, Loinger’s remembrances were quoted in an obituary published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
When the French Jewish Resistance decided in 1944 to evacuate Jewish children hidden in an orphanage west of Paris, Resistance commander George Loinger called on Marcel Mangel.
Mangel, Loinger’s younger cousin, helped sneak the kids out of the Parisian suburb of Sevres to Annemasse, on the Swiss border.
The episode represented one of Mangel’s finest hours, but it was not what would make him world famous. After the war, Mangel changed his name to Marcel Marceau — after a general in Napolean’s army who hailed from the Alsace region — and became a world-renowned mime artist.
Marceau died in Paris on Saturday at the age of 84.
“The kids loved Marcel and felt safe with him,” said Loinger, now 97. “He had already begun doing performances in the orphanage, where he had met a mime instructor earlier on. The kids had to appear like they were simply going on vacation to a home near the Swiss border, and Marcel really put them at ease.”
The anecdote about Marceau persuading a unit of German soldiers to surrender by “miming” the imminent arrival of French forces appears to have been mythologized a bit in the telling. For instance, Loinger didn’t mention Marceau’s using pantomime to subdue the Germans in his 2007 account of the incident:
“He and several other French soldiers were in the field in Germany, though I don’t remember where,” when a group of 30 German soldiers led by an officer surrendered to him,” Loinger recalls. “He brought them all back to his base as prisoners. Marcel always said that was his greatest exploit as a soldier.”
Marceau’s own version of the story (as related to American historian Timothy Ryback in 1997) confirms that role-playing was integral to the event, but it does not imply that Marceau played a non-speaking part in that instance:
He claimed he had learned the power of illusion on a sun drenched afternoon toward the end of World War II while fighting with the French Resistance. He and a companion had entered a clearing and suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a unit of German soldiers. Startled, Marceau acted as if he was the advance guard of a larger French force and demanded the German surrender.
As Marcel related the incident, he suddenly sprang to his feet and struck a predatory pose. The night air filled with menace and, an instant later, triumph. Though it was well past midnight, I still see the helmets of the surrendering Germans glinting in that sunlight meadow.
Marceau confirmed that his first public performance as a mime was on a stage in front of 3,000 U.S. troops in Frankfurt, Germany after the war’s end. “I played for the G.I.s and two days later I had my first review in the Stars and Stripes,” he said in his Wallenberg Medal acceptance speech.
Observers sometimes remarked that part of the great mime’s allure was a deep sadness that lurked at the heart of his performances. “You see the pain and the sadness in his mime skits,” Georges Loinger said after his cousin’s passing. “The origin of that pain was his father’s deportation.”
Fittingly, Marceau is honored as both a victim and a hero of the Holocaust, the event that more than any other shaped the course of his life.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marcel-marceau-saved-children-nazis/
I will speak only briefly about my own deeds. It is true that I saved children, bringing them to the border in Switzerland. I forged identity cards with my brother when it was very dangerous because you could be arrested if you were in the underground. I also forged papers, not to save only Jews, and children, but to save Gentiles and Jews, especially Gentiles because there was a law in Vichy-occupied France — to send the young French men, who were eighteen, nineteen years old, to factories in Germany to work for the German Army. And then I had an idea to bribe the officials, and make people look much younger in their photos. I was born in Strasbourg on the Rhine and when the war was declared in September 1939 all Strasbourg had to be emptied by the French government to save the people because we were on the border between Germany and France. Then we were sent to Perigord in the south of France. I was sixteen years old.
As the speech went on, Marceau also paid homage to his father Charles, a kosher butcher in Strasbourg who was deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz (never to return), and his cousin Georges Loinger, a Resistance fighter who would later confirm some of Marceau’s wartime exploits. When Marceau died in 2007, Loinger’s remembrances were quoted in an obituary published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency:
When the French Jewish Resistance decided in 1944 to evacuate Jewish children hidden in an orphanage west of Paris, Resistance commander George Loinger called on Marcel Mangel.
Mangel, Loinger’s younger cousin, helped sneak the kids out of the Parisian suburb of Sevres to Annemasse, on the Swiss border.
The episode represented one of Mangel’s finest hours, but it was not what would make him world famous. After the war, Mangel changed his name to Marcel Marceau — after a general in Napolean’s army who hailed from the Alsace region — and became a world-renowned mime artist.
Marceau died in Paris on Saturday at the age of 84.
“The kids loved Marcel and felt safe with him,” said Loinger, now 97. “He had already begun doing performances in the orphanage, where he had met a mime instructor earlier on. The kids had to appear like they were simply going on vacation to a home near the Swiss border, and Marcel really put them at ease.”
The anecdote about Marceau persuading a unit of German soldiers to surrender by “miming” the imminent arrival of French forces appears to have been mythologized a bit in the telling. For instance, Loinger didn’t mention Marceau’s using pantomime to subdue the Germans in his 2007 account of the incident:
“He and several other French soldiers were in the field in Germany, though I don’t remember where,” when a group of 30 German soldiers led by an officer surrendered to him,” Loinger recalls. “He brought them all back to his base as prisoners. Marcel always said that was his greatest exploit as a soldier.”
Marceau’s own version of the story (as related to American historian Timothy Ryback in 1997) confirms that role-playing was integral to the event, but it does not imply that Marceau played a non-speaking part in that instance:
He claimed he had learned the power of illusion on a sun drenched afternoon toward the end of World War II while fighting with the French Resistance. He and a companion had entered a clearing and suddenly found themselves face-to-face with a unit of German soldiers. Startled, Marceau acted as if he was the advance guard of a larger French force and demanded the German surrender.
As Marcel related the incident, he suddenly sprang to his feet and struck a predatory pose. The night air filled with menace and, an instant later, triumph. Though it was well past midnight, I still see the helmets of the surrendering Germans glinting in that sunlight meadow.
Marceau confirmed that his first public performance as a mime was on a stage in front of 3,000 U.S. troops in Frankfurt, Germany after the war’s end. “I played for the G.I.s and two days later I had my first review in the Stars and Stripes,” he said in his Wallenberg Medal acceptance speech.
Observers sometimes remarked that part of the great mime’s allure was a deep sadness that lurked at the heart of his performances. “You see the pain and the sadness in his mime skits,” Georges Loinger said after his cousin’s passing. “The origin of that pain was his father’s deportation.”
Fittingly, Marceau is honored as both a victim and a hero of the Holocaust, the event that more than any other shaped the course of his life.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marcel-marceau-saved-children-nazis/
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No matter who you are, where you are, each of us can choose to live for the LORD in whatever circumstances we find ourselves.
Romans 12:1-2
"Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."...
1 Peter 1:13-16
..."Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the former lusts which were yours in your ignorance, but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; because it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.”
Isaiah 41:10
" ‘Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you, surely I will help you,
Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’ "
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Saturday, February 10, 2024
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God
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A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper he, amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God's own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
That Word above all earthly powers
no thanks to them abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill:
God's truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!
~Martin Luther
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Sunday, December 24, 2023
People Always Need Help
We are all in need of help sometimes
Psalm 9:9-10
..."The Lord also will be a stronghold for the oppressed,
A stronghold in times of trouble;
And those who know Your name will put their trust in You,
For You, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You."...
Psalm 27:4-5
..."One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.
For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
He will lift me up on a rock."...
Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden upon the Lord and He will sustain you;
He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.
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Are you looking for help?
Find a well-grounded, Bible Believing Christian to talk with as they are probably able to answer your questions, point you in the right direction, or send you to another well-ground Believer who can answer your questions.
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
Trials and Tribulations of Life: Well Conquered
...the old saying goes.
There is always something which makes our days in this life difficult.
Our world is fallen. It happened when the first man and woman were in paradise - they chose poorly. (this is when they chose not to listen to God's words, but followed after satan's tricks)
From then on: weeds, weeds, weeds...
Not only the green things, but wickedness, evil, broken relationships, stealing, abuse....and it goes on and on.
If you aren't injured in some way by another person, you know people who are hurt and wounded.
Life is really, terribly rough and tough, but we who choose Jesus as our Savior have a power beyond this world. We can still be hurt, injured, marred, tricked, robbed, etc.
...but when we cry out for help, physical, spiritual, or mental we can KNOW that He is with us giving us help in the way which is best for us.
Romans 8:14-25, 31-39
..."For all who are being led by the Spirit of God,
these are sons of God.
For you have not received a spirit of slavery
leading to fear again, but you have received a
spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out,
“Abba! Father!”
The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that
we are children of God, and if children, heirs also,
heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ,
if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may
also be glorified with Him.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory that is to be revealed to us.
For the anxious longing of the creation waits
eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to futility,
not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it,
in hope that the creation itself also will be set free
from its slavery to corruption into the freedom
of the glory of the children of God.
For we know that the whole creation groans
and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now.
And not only this, but also we ourselves,
having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we
ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly
for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.
For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is
seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he
already sees?
But if we hope for what we do not see, with
perseverance we wait eagerly for it."...
..."What then shall we say to these things?
If God is for us, who is against us?
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered
Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him
freely give us all things?
Who will bring a charge against God’s elect?
God is the one who justifies; who is the one who
condemns?
Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was
raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also
intercedes for us.
Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or
famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Just as it is written,
“For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer
through Him who loved us.
For I am convinced that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor things present, nor things to come,
nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor
any other created thing, will be able to
separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
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Monday, January 23, 2023
Manipulation and Control
The world is full of people who do not care about you and others who desire to control you.
No matter who you are your own job is to always be discerning with the people you have in your life.
...But perhaps you have fallen into the wrong crowd?
Are these people seemingly always critical of you?
Do these people make fun of you on a regular basis?
Are these people bossy, running your life, ruining your life, controlling your life?
Do these people use eisegesis--reading and teaching what they want the Bible to say to control you and others?
Do they make a "show" of liking you, but in reality, you can tell they really do not care about you?
Are these people taking advantage of you?
Are these people making you the "but" of their jokes; making fun of you, not considering your feelings?
Does anyone in this group stick up for you?
Do you ever feel alone even when you are with these people?
Do you ever feel used or abuse with these people?
Are these people talking about you behind your back?
Do you sometimes feel like a victim?
Is their control of your life beginning to hold you back or bothering you?
Have other people outside your group questioned why you are with them?
Are others concerned for you because you are with these
controlling people?
Are you "allowed" to have your own life or do these people consume your life?
Has your life been seemingly "run" by these people as your years slip by?
These people could be in your own family or someone else's family.
All of these questions are things which you should be critically thinking about and discerning concerning your own life.
All of these questions are questions I would be asking of you because I would be concerned you were being abused, controlled, manipulated, deceived, indoctrinated, used, lied to---because all of these questions are Red Flags for abuse.
If any one of these questions concern you about yourself---***privately ask another person (an outsider) for help discerning truth to get safely away from your abusers so you can learn to think for yourself again.
There is always hope. The LORD hears our innermost being. He understands our groans! (Romans 8:24-27)
You can be safe in Him!
You can have victory away from your abusers!
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Psalm 17:6-9
..."I have called upon You,
for You will answer me, O God;
Incline Your ear to me,
hear my speech.
Wondrously show
Your lovingkindness,
O Savior of those who take refuge
at Your right hand
From those who rise up
against them.
Keep me as
the apple of the eye;
Hide me in the shadow
of Your wings
From the wicked
who despoil me,
My deadly enemies
who surround me."...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Who understands my sadness and who can know why I cry?
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells.
God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; He lifts His voice, the earth melts.
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Come and see what the Lord has done, the desolations He has brought on the earth.
He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields with fire.
He says,
“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
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Friday, April 8, 2022
More than just you
..."Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion.
But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?
And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him.
A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart."...
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Friday, March 25, 2022
Hope for Those Who Have No Hope
"Sometimes - you have to give a person hope in hope."
-Pastor Ed
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After you have encouraged someone who was distraught -
you then bridge to show them the God and Savior of the Bible!
Life with the Savior is Good! Share it!
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the defense of my life;
Whom shall I dread?
When evildoers came upon me to devour my flesh,
My adversaries and my enemies, they stumbled and fell.
Though a host encamp against me,
My heart will not fear;
Though war arise against me,
In spite of this I shall be confident.
One thing I have asked from the Lord, that I shall seek:
That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
To behold the beauty of the Lord
And to meditate in His temple.
For in the day of trouble He will conceal me in His tabernacle;
In the secret place of His tent He will hide me;
He will lift me up on a rock.
And now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me,
And I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice,
And be gracious to me and answer me.
When You said, “Seek My face,” my heart said to You,
“Your face, O Lord, I shall seek.”
Do not hide Your face from me,
Do not turn Your servant away in anger;
You have been my help;
Do not abandon me nor forsake me,
O God of my salvation!
For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
But the Lord will take me up.
Teach me Your way, O Lord,
And lead me in a level path
Because of my foes.
Do not deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries,
For false witnesses have risen against me,
And such as breathe out violence.
I would have despaired
unless I had believed
that I would see the goodness of the Lord
In the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
Be strong and let your heart take courage;
Yes, wait for the Lord."
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Thursday, January 13, 2022
The LORD Gives Strength to His Children
Psalm 3:3
..."You, O Lord, are a shield about me,
My glory, and the One who lifts my head."...
John 15:18-21
..."If the world hates you,
you know that it has
hated Me before it hated you.
If you were of the world,
the world would love its own;
but because you are not of the world,
but I chose you out of the world,
because of this the world hates you.
Remember the word that I said to you,
‘A slave is not greater than his master.’
If they persecuted Me,
they will also persecute you;
if they kept My word,
they will keep yours also.
But all these things they
will do to you for My name’s sake,
because they do not know
the One who sent Me."...
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Thursday, November 25, 2021
God: The Gladness of My Joy
"As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?...
...The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life..."
"...O send out Your light and Your truth,
let them lead me;
Let them bring me to Your holy hill
And to Your dwelling places.
Then I will go to the altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
[the gladness of my joy!]
And upon the lyre I shall praise You,
O God, my God..."
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Friday, August 27, 2021
Devastations
We have all witnessed, if only viewing them, devastations of one kind or another all through time.
For most people it breaks our hearts, it grieves us so, it brings our sense of humanity "out on our sleeves".
I, personally, have seen many tragedies, but not as much as others have.
Why is this happening?
Why can't we stop "whatever"?
Why can't people just be kind?......
The answer in a broad term is sin (that which is wrong before God).
This beautiful world is full of sinners.
Some of these sinners are true Christians (saved by Jesus' Grace). Being sinners, though, these people can be kind and compassionate or sometimes just as cruel as the unsaved.
The difference between Christian sinners and unsaved sinners is that we have the Holy Spirit indwelling us for guidance, giving us strength, and making us aware of our sins so we will choose to stop sinning with His help. We have been set free from the slavery of sin!
Our job is to listen to the LORD. When we do this we will choose NOT to sin against others.
Other people - those not saved by Jesus's Grace - are just plain old sinners so they can be kind, thoughtless, cruel, to just really mean and evil. They do not have the Holy Spirit indwelling them to give guidance and strength to overcome sin. They are slaves to sin.
Ephesians 2:1-9
"And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience...
But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him...
For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, so that no one may boast..."
So what do we do while we seemingly watch our world crash and burn around us?
We who are Believers in Jesus, saved by His death and resurrection to life again, are to live our lives for Him.
Our job never stops no matter what is happening.
Everyday we can shine for Him, by prayers, actions, talking, listening and responding.
If you are not saved by Jesus' marvelous Grace then you should be thinking right now about what is really important to you. Life is short, we all need to make life saving decisions now.
How to be saved:
Romans 10:9-10
..."if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation."...
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
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Wednesday, June 23, 2021
The True Comforter
John 14:26-27
..."the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be fearful"...
Romans 8:26-27
..."In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; 27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God"...
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Wednesday, January 13, 2021
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing;
our helper he, amid the flood
of mortal ills prevailing.
For still our ancient foe
does seek to work us woe;
his craft and power are great,
and armed with cruel hate,
on earth is not his equal.
Did we in our own strength confide,
our striving would be losing,
were not the right Man on our side,
the Man of God's own choosing.
You ask who that may be?
Christ Jesus, it is he;
Lord Sabaoth his name,
from age to age the same;
and he must win the battle.
And though this world, with devils filled,
should threaten to undo us,
we will not fear, for God has willed
his truth to triumph through us.
The prince of darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo! his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.
That Word above all earthly powers
no thanks to them abideth;
the Spirit and the gifts are ours
through him who with us sideth.
Let goods and kindred go,
this mortal life also;
the body they may kill:
God's truth abideth still;
his kingdom is forever!
-Martin Luther
Sunday, April 5, 2020
Immovable Our Hope Remains
Immovable our hope remains
Though shifting sands before us lie
The One who washed away our stains
Shall bear us safely to the skies
The floods may rise, the winds may beat
Torrential rains descend
Yet God His own will not forget
He’ll love and keep us till the end
You’ll love and keep us till the end
This is eternal life, to know
The living God and Christ, the Son
The Savior will not let us go
Until His saving work is done
Our debt was great, as was our need
But now the price is paid
Who can behold Immanuel bleed
And doubt His willingness to save?
We trust Your willingness to save
The Lord acquits, who can condemn?
Though Satan’s accusations fly
His pow’r can never reach our names
To blot them from the Book of Life
The Son has surely made us free
His Word forever stands
And all our joy is knowing we
Are graven on His wounded hands
We’re graven on Your wounded hands
Built into Christ, secure we stand
For with His Spirit we’ve been sealed
By grace we’ll see the promised land
Where every sorrow shall be healed
To God who gave His only Son
To Jesus Christ, our Lord
To God the Spirit, Three-in-one
Be songs of praise forevermore
We’ll sing Your praise forevermore.
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
The LORD God is Our Only Helper
John 16
Jesus says, 1 “These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling....
...29His disciples said,
“Lo, now You are speaking plainly and are not using a figure of speech. Now we know that You know all things, and have no need for anyone to question You; by this we believe that You came from God.”
Jesus answered them,
“Do you now believe?
Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.
These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
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