Nothing Is Impossible With God!

I wrote a post several months ago titled “Abraham Did It, So Can I” In that post I described the beginning of a new journey that I felt the Lord had directed me to embark upon. What a beginning it was my friends. I know that without God I never could have made it through those first weeks. The tests and trials associated with the beginning of my journey were impossible for me to overcome without the Lord’s help. He guided me and strengthened me as I traveled through the storms raging around me.

Since those not so humble beginnings the hardships have continued. One after another, time and time again, they fell upon me like a monsterous force that would not relent. I have experienced every kind of attack, discouragement and distraction that could possibly be thrown at a person. It is amazing to me when I think back over the last five months. How did I make it to where I am now? How will I make it through what lies ahead? The only answer I can truthfully give is that the Lord is responsible for whatever measure of success I have had or will have in the future.

Luke 1:37 “For Nothing Is Impossible With God.” God has been there for me through ever step I have taken. He has been right beside me the whole way. He has gone before me throughout this amazing journey making preparations for my needs before they were even known to me. He has been there to pick me up again when I have buckled under the strain and fallen flat on my face!

Did that make the journey easy for me? No! Not at all. The past several months have been some of the hardest I have ever experienced. I have been on my knees many times, ready to give up, during this journey. I have cried out to God so many times that I am amazed He hasn’t gotten tired of hearing from me. But isn’t that the beauty of our God? He never gets tired of being there for us. He is always happy to hear our prayers and delights in answering them. Does that mean He has answered my prayers as I have asked Him to….No! However He has answered them as they needed to be answered! Praise His name for that!

Psalm 18:1-2

1 I love you, O LORD, my strength.

 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
       my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
       He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

God has been my strength when I had no strength left in me! He has been my firm foundation providing me the support I needed when everything around me was crumbling! He has been my fortress, my place of security, when the enemy was attacking on every side! He has released me from the bondage of my fears and set me free to soar on wings like eagles! He has shielded me from destruction and He has been my only shelter when the storms raged beyond what I could bare alone! He has been my symbol of strength that gave me hope when no hope could be found in the day! He is everything to me and nothing in this world could replace Him!!! Who would I be without the Lord? Where would I be without the Lord? What would become of me without my God and Savior? The answer is simple… I would be lost, in darkness and despair, without hope of rescue!

I want to praise God for everything He has done for me! I want everyone who reads this to know that I would have failed long ago without His help, love and guidance. He is the only reason I am still here struggling forward on this seemingly impossible journey. He is my hero, my counselor, my friend, my Father! He alone has brought me through to the other side of the storms that have raged in my life! He alone will bring me through any future tempests that await me! He alone will shelter me from the storms that life may throw my way! He is everythng that is worth mentioning in my life! He provides whatever joy there is to be found along this rough and tumultuous path that I tread. Praise Him for His love. His never endind love. I don’t deserve it. I can do nothig to earn it. It is given to me freely because “God is love.”

Psalm 18:6

In my distress I called to the LORD; 
     I cried to my God for help. 
     From his temple he heard my voice; 
     my cry came before him, into his ears.

Father I thank you for your love that you have given me without cause. I thank you for the things you have done for me throughout my life. The times you have saved me when I deserved to be left to my own rewards. I thank you for the gift of salvation that you presented to me and the rest of this lost and dying world by way of your Son Jesus Christ. I thank you for your Holy Spirit who comforts me when I can find no comfort elsewhere! I ask you to forgive me of my weakness which leads me to sin against you by losing faith, losing focus, and allowing the events around me to weaken my resolve. I thank you Lord for picking me up everytime I fall. I praise your name for the shelter you provide me when I am beaten and battered by the storms of life! I am so grateful to you for not turning away from me in my times of need. You know I don’t deserve your love or your help and yet you give both freely. Over and over you have rescued me from myself and have put my feet back on solid ground when I became mired in the turmoil that is life! Thank you God, thank you Jesus, Thank you Holy Spirit!!

9/11 Conspiracy Theories

 

9/11 Conspiracy Theories are a joke! The people who come up with them have either an over active imagination, a case of schizophrenia, too much time on their hands or they just want something to run their mouths about.

Conspiracy: as defined on Dictionary.com

1.	the act of conspiring.

2.	an evil, unlawful, treacherous, or surreptitious plan formulated in secret by two or more persons; plot.

3.	a combination of persons for a secret, unlawful, or evil purpose: He joined the conspiracy to overthrow the government.

4.	Law. an agreement by two or more persons to commit a crime, fraud, or other wrongful act.

5.	any concurrence in action; combination in bringing about a given result.

Now, what person with any real intelligence or the ability to discern fact from fiction, reality from fantasy or truth from a lie would believe that members of the US government would not only decide to murder thousands of Americans just to enter into war with Iraq but that they would be able to convince dozens of other “Americans” to enter into that kind of evil act with them?!  How is it that not one of these supposed conspirators has ever given into their conscience and confessed their part? How is it that not one positive piece of evidence exists to support their idiotic theories?

There are many theories ranging from “controlled demolition” of the WTC buildings to a missle shooting down Flight 93 and also hitting the Pentagon. They are all idiotic at best and at worst they do more damage to the America Psyche as whole than anything the “enemy” could ever do to us. These fools rage on street corners and at conventions and even at the memorial sevice at Ground Zero. They have nothing more than factless, speculative rhetoric in hand and do harm to the families of the victims and degrade our country’s world image more than anything I can think of at this moment. It is a pitiful thing to behold. The terorists are laughing and thanking them for their help!

Anyone with any intelligence, educational background or normal thought process could see right through their “Crap”! It is obvious from the videos of the World Trade Center buildings being hit by airplanes and then the subsequent collapses that they were caused by those strikes from the terrorists. Now, why bother shooting down a plane with a missle if you can crash it into a building? Why hit each of the trade center buildings with airplanes and then use a missle on the pentagon? How do you convince Red Blooded American service men to attack their own country? Are they serious? What kind of fools have we living in our midst?

They are the truest threat to our nation’s security. They are the truest threat to the American people. They breed fear and mistrust for no other reason than to run their mouths or to attract attention to themselves! Our nation is not perfect! Not one person in our government is perfect. None of our citizens are perfect! But, we live in the greatest country in the world today and in the greatest, richest society at anytime in hstory! A country that is so great that it’s laws allow fools the right to express their opinions in public, on the net, on television and in writing!

I am sick of hearing that our President and our military conspired to kill American citizens simply to enter the war in Iraq. I am sick of these idiots poisoning the minds of our youth with their lies and innuendo directed at our highest office and our military that protects the very freedom that allows these fools to speak publicly! Ungrateful, moronic, thoughtless people spew their poisinous rhetoric into the airways and the internet and through publications and meetings simply to make themselves look big and important. They are pathetic losers who need to get a life. They need to find a way to help our country and to fight terrorists rather than doing more damage by spewing this junk everywhere they go! They are the most effective weapon Bin Laden has in his arsenal. They are the enemy! They are the traitors!

Now that I have said all I have said on this subject I have to ask God to forgive me for the anger I feel in my heart toward these “dummies”! I also have to ask Him to please speak to these peoples hearts and “minds” and make them see that they are hurting our country and impeding the healing process by poisoning other’s minds and instilling doubt in their hearts. I am sickened by all of this and I am struggling within myself over the feelings I have towards these people and the desire to do what God would have me do as a Christian! God help us all! God bless this great country! We need the energy being expended by these misguided individuals to be redirected toward the homeless and the needy, laws and elected officials, common decency. We need more effort put into electing Godly leaders who will reinstill God’s Word into the heart and soul of this country not more nonsense and factless claims tainting our unity and fellowship! God help them all, God help us all! God Bless America, PLEASE!