The Newman

03/03/2023

“as the serpent beguiled Eve,..”
I am now almost 70 years old, and if I have learned anything about human nature, it is that people are basically the same everywhere you go. We all have the same basic desires in life, the same basic faults, and everything. The only real difference in people is not their race or how smart they are, but their culture and traditional ways of life. People are basically the same everywhere you go on this earth. There truly is “neither Jew nor Greek”, or Russian or French, or African or Chinese. The only thing that makes us different from one another is how we are raised.
I have also found that this only applies to a natural man. All are sinners, and have come short of the glory of God. If you put a bunch of babies of all different races and cultures together in one room, and allow them to just be kids, you will see there is no difference between any of them. Everything that make us different from each other is what we have been taught.
All this being said, there is one basic difference among mankind, and that is the kind of spirit a man or woman has.
Before any of us ever are called by the Lord to salvation, we all “walk according to the course of this world, according to the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience” (Eph.2:2). But at the time of our first meeting with the Lord, we are introduced to an entirely different kind of spirit – the Spirit of the Lord.
Paul called this introduction being “espoused”. Like when a woman first meets her future husband, and they get engaged.
“I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.” 2Cor.11:2
As I said; previous to this first introduction to the Lord, we all walked according to the spirit that rules the entire world around us, including the animals. Very few of us ever thought of ourselves as being led of a spirit, especially a satanic spirit, but we were. A good example of this is found in what Jesus said to his disciples:
“…and they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said: ‘Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, even as Elias did?’
But he turned and rebuked them, and said: ‘Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.’” Lk.9:53-55
James and John never gave it a thought that they might be following an evil spirit when they said this. Otherwise, they would never have said it.
What the Lord said to Peter is another example of a child of God being led by a different spirit, other than the Spirit of the Lord:
“From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed and be raised again the third day.
Then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying: ‘Be it far from thee, Lord! This shall not be unto thee!’
But he turned and said unto Peter: ‘Get thee behind me, Satan! Thou art an offence unto me! For thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of man.’” Mt.16:21-23
Peter didn’t know that he was being “led of the spirit” when he said this to Jesus, but he was. It just wasn’t the Spirit of God that was leading him! And the amazing thing here, is that Jesus had just finished telling Peter: “Blessed art thou, Peter. For flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.”vs.17
It makes no difference how much revelation you may have received from God, it is all too easy to be led by the wrong spirit and not even know it.
As I said earlier, we all start out being introduced to the Spirit of the Lord when He first calls us to repentance. And from that moment onward, He begins to try and teach us the ways of God. But what do we do? Like Eve, we listen to someone else rather than the One who first calls us to repentance.
“I am jealous over you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.” 2Cor.11:2,3
With Eve, it was the serpent she listened to. With those people in the Church at Corinth, it was those that were running around preaching a different Jesus that they were listening to.(vs.4-15) And ever since then, it has been the same story. False preachers teaching things that are not true, and then children of God believing them.
But there is another “voice” that we are also guilty of listening to, as well. And this is a voice you can’t hear with your physical ears.
None of those disciples of Jesus ever thought that they were listening to another spirit, but they were. And neither did you or I, before we met the Spirit of the Lord for the first time. For the most part, we never in our wildest dreams thought that we were being led by the spirit of Satan! If someone was to have told us we were listening to an evil spirit, we would have laughed at them, and maybe even have felt sorry for the poor fool.
Eve didn’t know she was listening to the spirit of Satan speaking to her through the serpent, just as Peter didn’t know he was listening to Satan when he said what he did to Jesus. So, how do you know it is the Spirit of the Lord you are listening to right now, and not some other spirit?
Jesus told James and John: “ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.”, and the same holds true for all of us that are still carnal in the Church. We are unable to recognize it when another spirit is talking to us, and we just assume it to be our own thoughts.
The traditional pat answer to this problem is: “Does the thought glorify God? Or the flesh?”, but in the heat of the moment, you are not going to be able stop and ask yourself this question. It all sounds good in theory, but in practice, it doesn’t work. When suddenly, you are confronted with a violent or s*xual situation, the brain doesn’t have time to stop and ask itself: “Does this glorify God or the flesh?”. Your focus of attention is on what is right there in front of you, and all of that religious doctrine and teachings goes right out the window.
If you really knew it was satanic, as a child of God, you would have no problem bringing that thought “into captivity to the obedience of Christ.” (2Cor.10:5) But since a baby Christian is still carnal and walks according to the body of flesh, (1Cor.3:1-3), he is unable to recognize who is talking to him. For spirit communicates with spirit, and flesh with flesh. And a mind that ruled by the body of flesh is only concerned with the things of the flesh.
“they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh.” Rom.8:5
“I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
This is the story of us all, and not just the Corinthian Church. Even if we are not seduced, or “beguiled”, by what we hear from other people, we are very easily beguiled by the temptation to follow our own eyes and ears. It comes so natural to us all to see or hear something and then make a judgment accordingly, because this is the way we have lived all our life. But now that we have heard the word of the Lord from the Lord himself – now that we have heard the Spirit – it is so easy for Satan to get us to revert back to following what we see and hear with our body of flesh.
In other words, when you read the Bible (with your eyes), or you hear someone quote the Bible (with your ears), the temptation is to try and follow what you see and hear instead of going strictly by what the Spirit tells you or shows you. This is exactly what Adam and Eve did
“This only would I learn from you: Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law? Or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” Gal.3:2,3
Everything we believe must come to us by way of the Spirit, and not simply by what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears. For all of our strength to do anything as a child of God is found in the Spirit. But we are so easily seduced to follow what we read in the Bible instead of waiting on the Lord to come to us with revelation of what we are reading. (1Cor.4:5)
“Are ye so foolish, having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”.
Unfortunately, we are that foolish. We are commanded to be perfect, but it can only be done in the Spirit as we walk in the power of that Spirit instead of in the power of our body of flesh.
“walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.” Gal.5:16
Alan MacDonald
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10/02/2023

The Day of God’s Wrath

“And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and lo, there was a great earthquake:
And the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together.
And every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
And the kings of the earth and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief men, and the captains, and the mighty men, and the bondmen, and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks: ‘Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.’
For the great day of His wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?” Rev.6:12-17
What we have just read here is what will take place on the day of God’s wrath upon the earth. By saying: “the heaven shall depart like a scroll when it is rolled together”, he is saying that the realm of the spirit – heaven – is going to be made visible to all that are upon the earth. And there is going to be a terrible earthquake when this happens. One like the world has never seen before. It will be so great, that mountains and islands will actually be moved out of place. It will be a world-wide, cataclysmic catastrophe and will terrify all life on earth. So much so, that all men will try to hide from the face of the Lamb that they know is coming.
This that will happen on that day is NOT the great tribulation period that Jesus describes in Mt.24
“And Jesus answered and said unto them: ‘Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying: ‘I am Christ’, and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For all these things must come to past, but the end is not yet.’” Mt.24:4-6
This sort of stuff that Jesus speaks of here has been going on since time began. People have thought that “The end has come!” many different times down through history. During World War 1, people were saying this, as well as at other times in the past and the Lord has not come yet.
“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All these are the beginnings of sorrows.” Vs.7,8
Again, this sort of thing has been taking place for thousands of years. Earthquakes and wars have been taking place for thousands of years.
“Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall arise, and deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold, but he that endureth unto the end shall be saved.” Vs.9-13
This, too, is nothing new to the history of the Church. For this sort of thing was taking place even during the ministry of Paul and Peter.
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come.” Vs.14
Now THIS is something that has not been done since the days of the early Church in the book of Acts.
For hundreds of years, the truth of the gospel had been pretty much hidden from mankind by the Roman Catholic Church. And even after God raised up Martin Luthor and began the Great Reformation of the Church, the truth of the gospel of the kingdom has still not been preached as it was in the days of Paul and Peter.
The gospel we have all been hearing for so long, is “Jesus saves”. “The just shall live by faith”. “Believe in Jesus and ask him to save you.” But this is only a very small part of what the gospel of the kingdom is about. In the very last days, there will be some who know the truth of the full gospel of the kingdom of God on earth is all about, and THAT gospel will be preached in all the earth right before the Lord actually returns to set up that kingdom and rule over all mankind as King of kings. Men will go forth in the power and demonstration of the Spirit just as Jesus and the apostles did in the beginning. Healings and people supposedly being delivered from demons can be faked, and the observers deceived. But when a man raises someone from the dead who has been obviously dead for quite some time, THIS cannot be faked by unscrupulous preachers out to make a name for themselves.
When people see this take place right before their eyes, then they will know that “the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.” (1Cor.4:19,20)
“When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand); then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. Let hm which is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house. Neither let him which is in the field turn back to take his clothes. And woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days. But pray that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.” Vs.15-22
I don’t know about you, but I would say that when God destroyed every living thing with a flood, that it was “great tribulation”. Every living thing died in that flood, yet here we have Jesus saying that the tribulation this is to come will be worse than the flood? It can’t get any worse than everything dying!
“ And except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved. But for the elects’ sake, those days shall be shortened.”vs.22
This time of terrible tribulation is not one of natural disaster like that which we read about in Rev.6 or what took place during the flood. This kind of tribulation is all about men killing each other. It is a time of persecution of the Church, and it all begins when the anti-christ sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God – the abomination of desolation.
We just read that Jesus tells us to “flee to the mountains” when we see the abomination of desolation, so we know that this is not talking about those mountains that men seek to fall on them in Rev.6. Jesus is talking about fleeing to a place of safety. The children of God are to leave the populated areas, such as were in Judaea. And the reason for this is that they are going to suffer terrible persecution at the hands of the beast.
This time of persecution is that “great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time”.
“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying: ‘Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies. And power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.” Rev.13:4,5
This all takes place BEFORE “the heavens departed like a scroll that is rolled up”, and BEFORE the terrible earthquake that makes “the mountains and islands to move out of place”, and BEFORE men try to hide from the face of the Lamb as He returns. We know this, because when that takes place, it is the end of all things.
“and he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them…” vs.6,7
THIS is that time of “great tribulation” that Jesus spoke of in Mt.24. It is a time of terrible persecution of the children of God, but it is not a day of the wrath of God. The day of wrath is when there is that great earthquake and when the heavens are opened for all to see and where all mankind will try to hide from the face of the Lamb as he returns.
So, for all those who try to twist the scriptures that say the children of God are not appointed unto wrath, and use that passage to “prove” the Church will be taken up to escape the great tribulation, you now know the truth of things.
The great tribulation is not the day of wrath. Not the wrath of God, anyway. But it is a time of wrath of the devil and his children.
“Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea, for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time
And when the dragon saw that he was cast out unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child”. (Rev.12:12,13)
The “woman” is the Church – the bride of Christ. The “man child” is the child of God that the woman must give birth to – a process that few in the Church today are even aware of. But in the very last days, the “manifestation of the sons of God” (Rom.8:17-21) will be something the entire world will see. There will be men who are able to walk in the power of the Spirit the same way that Jesus and the apostles did in the beginning. “the works that I do, shall ye do also” will finally become a reality and not just something we talk about in Church.
Alan MacDonald
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10/02/2023

A Mingled Seed
“Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying: ‘The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons; so that they have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.’” Ezra 9:1,2
Then we read the end of Ezra’s prayer to God, confessing the sin of his people, Israel:
“Should we again break thy commandments and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? Wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
O LORD God of Israel! Thou art righteous. For we remain yet escaped as it is this day. Behold, we are before thee in our trespasses, for we cannot stand before thee because of this.”vs.14,15
On the surface, it might appear to some that the reason Israel ‘cannot stand before’ God was because they were ashamed of their sin of mingling themselves with the heathen. BUT THEY WEREN’T ashamed. Only Ezra and some of those that told him of this sin were ashamed, but not the nation as a whole. “The princes and the rulers have been chief in this trespass.”
As a matter of fact, it was much more than Ezra being ashamed. He was in anguish!
“And when I head this thing, I rent my garment and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down, astonied.”
The word “astonied” means “devastated”, or “desolate”. An abomination was committed that left Ezra desolate.
When a man and a woman have s*x, “They are no more twain, but one flesh”.(Mt.19:6) The child they produce is a mixture of both parents and has some of the characteristics of both. This mixture of the two, produces an entirely new creation.
This principle applies to both the animal kingdom and the plant kingdom as well. By mixing two different breeds of horses, you come up with something that is a combination of both. If you breed a horse with a donkey, you get a mule. If you breed a lion with a tiger, you get something called a Liger. When you breed a dog with a wolf, you get a hybrid. Something part dog and part wolf.
By this cross breeding of plants, man has been able to come up with all kinds of “improved” corn, wheat, and many other plants. The carrots and other crops that we all take for granted, are nothing at all like the original that God created because of this mingling of the seeds. Cross-pollination.
But God forbade Israel from cross breeding anything – people, plants, and animals.
“Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender with a diverse kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with mingled seed.” Lev.19:19
God wanted to stress the importance of this not mixing the seed so much, that He even forbade the people to wear a garment that was “mingled of linen and wollen”vs.19 For when you mix, say, a horse with a donkey, you get something that is not in God’s plan of creation. When you mingle the two seeds, you get a hybrid. Something with the nature of both parents.
“And the LORD God said unto the serpent: ‘Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field. Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.” Gen.3:14
The serpent was an animal, a “beast”. He was not some spirit being. I believe that Satan had taken possession of the serpent, moving him to do what he did, but the serpent himself was a beast.
Neither was the serpent a snake, like so many believe. It wasn’t until after God cursed him, that he went on his belly. So, this serpent in the garden with Eve had legs.
God continued to say to the serpent:
“And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed.”vs.15
The serpent had a seed – children! Or at least one child. Not something spiritual, either. An animal can’t produce spiritual children.
God put a hatred, “enmity”, between the children of the serpent and the children of the woman. He made them enemies.
In Christianity, it is commonly understood that this ‘seed of the woman’ would ultimately be Jesus, but the woman had other seed as well.
“And Adam knew his wife and she conceived and bare Cain, and said: ‘I have gotten a man from the Lord.’ And she again bare Abel.” Gen.4:1,2
“And Cain talked with Abel, his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against his Abel, his brother, and slew him.”vs.8
“…not as Cain, who was of that wicked one and slew his brother.” 1John 3:15
Cain was the child of “that wicked one” and that wicked one wasn’t Adam.
There are a great many in the Church that believe this means that Cain was spiritually, the child of the devil, but there is nothing in scripture to support this idea. To be someone’s father means that you received your life from them, just as you received your body from your mother. (Yes, life -your soul – is passed on from father to child. Ex.1:5) The soul of Cain that hated his brother Abel, came from his father the serpent.
All Protestant Churches can trace their roots back to the Roman Catholic Church, and the Roman Catholic Church began with that bunch in Jerusalem who were mostly Jewish converts along with a lot of “false brethren”. It was this crowd that Paul had so much contention with in the Book of Galatians concerning the law and the gospel of Christ.
Have you ever wondered why the Catholics call their Church leaders “Priests” instead of “Pastors”? It is because of their roots back in Jerusalem with those Jewish converts and false brethren. The Jews have priests. Not the Church. Only instead of there being a high priest in the Catholic Church, they have a Pope. But it just another name or title for the same thing.
Due to some very bad teaching in the Catholic Church, the Protestants have unwittingly assumed many things, traditionally taught, to be true. And one of those things is this matter of the children of the devil that Jesus spoke of in John 8:37-47. Jesus called them “serpents” for a reason. (Mt.23:33) That is exactly what they were. Children of the original serpent.
Remember. The serpent in the garden wasn’t a snake as we know snakes to be today. It wasn’t until after he had sinned, that God cursed him and changed his physical form to go on his belly. It was before this happened, that the serpent seduced Eve.
“Unto the woman, He said: ‘I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.” Rev.3:16
If all that Eve was guilty of was eating the forbidden fruit – the same as Adam – then why was her punishment so much greater than that of Adam? All that God laid on Adam was that now he must work for a living: “In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat bread.”vs19 But the woman was not only hit with excruciating pain giving birth, many women even died in those days giving birth!
Why was Eve’s punishment in the reproductive area, while Adam’s was in the matter of food? Why the reproductive part of her?
The reason was that she had committed adultery with the serpent.
Remember. The serpent didn’t look like a snake. He had legs. The truth is, the serpent was the original “wolf in sheep’s clothing”. He looked and talked like a man, but he wasn’t a man like Adam. He had a different spirit. He was a beast. And he seduced Eve, who then bore his child Cain.
God said that He would put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman, and when you look at Cain and Abel, you see this enmity. Cain killed Abel.
If you want to know what the serpent looked like, look at his son, Cain. Serpents beget serpents, and all those who were descendants of Cain are serpents. This is why Jesus said: “Ye serpents! Ye generation of vipers! How can ye escape the damnation of hell?” (Mt.23:33) They can’t. And the reason they can’t is because they are cursed just as their father was cursed in the garden of Eden. “cursed children” (2Pet.2:14)
As time went on, “the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose.” Gen.6:2
The sons of God here are Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, etc. The seed of Adam. Some may or may not have taken the daughters mentioned here to wife, but most of them did. And when this happened, “the holy seed have mingled themselves with the daughters of that land.” The daughters of Cain.
What do you get when you cross a horse with a donkey? You get something that is not pure horse. The genetic make-up of the horse is mingled with the genetic make-up of the donkey, and no matter how much you try to breed the DNA of the Donkey out of the horse in future breeding, there will always be some of the Donkey still there. It is in the flesh and bones.
In the very last days, there will come a man on the scene called “the beast”.(Rev.13) Haven’t you ever wondered why he is call this? It is because that is exactly what he is. A beast. An animal that looks just like any other man, pure serpent. The wheat and the tares look the same, but the tares “are of that wicked one”, and they are trying to choke out the wheat. The seed of Adam and the seed of the beast (serpent) look the same, but only the seed of Adam have a spirit that is of God.
“…that day shall not come, except there be a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2Thess.2:3,4
When he does this, Daniel called it: “the abomination the maketh desolate” (Dan.11:31; 12:11)
If you are a Christian, your body is the temple of God, and down through the ages, the sons of God have, in their ignorance, mingled the holy seed with the seed of the beast, “the serpent”. And the result of this unholy union has been a mixture of both Adam and the serpent. Part man and part beast. And the only way for the man to be separated from the beast is to die.
Maybe now you can better understand why Paul referred to his own body as “this vile body”. (Php.3:21) There is an abomination sitting in the temple of God, showing himself to be God – our god – and this is what makes us desolate from having fellowship with the Father. It is in our genes, and the only way we can overcome this is if we learn how to walk in the Spirit instead of in the flesh. (Gal.5:16,17)

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20/11/2022

If you are seeing this post just know that death is never your portion this remaining days of the year.Amen👇👇

19/11/2022

19/11/2022

ALWAYS BE THANKFUL TO GOD
Na wa oooo....Satan visited me and asked me:
"How far?..
I told him: "I thank God for everything.."
He laughed me to scorn.. He said what on earth should I thank God for?

He showed me my mates who are living inside
mansions, and I said hahaaa and I showed him my mates who are also inside the grave...

He showed me some of my mates who are inside the costliest cars in town... I also showed him some of my mates who are inside the costliest caskets in town...

He showed me the fat bank account of some of my friends..
And I showed him the hospital bills of some others
who are terribly sick...

He took me to boutiques, to show me those who
are dressed with the most expensive designer clothing. I took him to the prisons and cells scattered all
over the country and I showed him guys who were accused innocently who have been there for many
years... Even their loved ones has forgotten them
there...

Satan felt broken and wanted to leave me alone. But I told him to follow me to just one place...
I took him to d mortuary and I now showed him
many of my mates who are lying down there naked and dead.

He could not say anything again. He left me and ran away.

Friends, don't let anything get you depressed. You are
not a mistake, you are not an accident no matter what has happened to you or how bad you think you are faring in life.

There is always something God is doing in your life
that your enemies are envying....

You can't withdraw your own money from your bank
without your ATM card or bank slip...

The Bible said that with joy we shall DRAW from the wells of salvation...

There are many things to draw from God and
thank him still for in your life... JOY is ur ATM card

Without JOY, you will draw nothing. That is why Nehemiah, in the midst of battles, he
was able to say: "The joy of d Lord is my strength..."

Beloved God might not have done everything. But he has done many things. If only you know how much evil and shame that the
Lord has spared you from since conception
you will appreciate God for what you are today.

To him that is joined to the living, there is
hope.... For a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Be thoughtful, be thankful. David understood this and he said... "If it has not been the Lord who was on our side, they would have swallowed me up quick when
their anger was kindled against us. But our souls as a bird has escaped the snare of the fowler...

Remember what you are today is not the final.. God is preparing something bigger
always...... Rejoice!!!