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The State of the Union |Letters To My Kids Series PT II~Voting 2020

GETTING READY TO Vote? Let’s Change the country from within too!

Faith is the foundation #1

Kids,

As you have seen, the country is in trouble. It’s not dead yet, but you must be the generation to change things. 

The first thing you must change is the way this society views faith in God. You notice I did not say religion? There’s a reason for this. 

—You see religion, is an external and outward sign that you acknowledge God. 

—But then, religion is something you do on your own. 

—Religion tells God that you are doing your best to get right with Him.

—Religion is going through the motions of earning your way into being rewarded. Or doing community service in order to get into heaven.

—Religion is what people see that you do outwardly. 

—Religion is doing things your own way!

Proverbs 29:2

—Faith, on the other hand, is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see ( Hebrews 11:1 ). 

—Faith is a personal relationship with God through Jesus, our LORD and Savior which must be professed and lived ( Matthew 10:32; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9-11). 

—Faith can’t be worked for ( Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9; Ephesians 2:8-9 ) but freely given by the work of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross (Read all of Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53:11; Matthew 20:28; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7 ). 

—Faith is shared by teaching others about God’s love and loving others ( Matthew 28:19; John 13:34; John 15:12; John 15:17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:38; Acts 14:21 ).

—Faith knows that whatever is going on in this world, God has it covered and planned for His goodwill ( Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 6:25-34; Philippians 4:6 ), so we are not to worry what’s going on, God will take care of it.

—Faith is letting go of things, and acknowledging Jesus is the Way, Truth, and Life. We become second and do things His way because the world is perilous, Jesus leads us through the narrow paths to safety ( Isaiah 35:8; Proverbs 16:25; Matthew 7:14; Luke 13:24; John 14:6 ).

Kids, you must point others to Jesus! Teach them about His love. Teach them to lead others to Him! Show them the way!

Not by being super perfect, but by showing them God’s love, grace, and mercy. No one is perfect, everyone needs Jesus. No one can try to be perfect, they will all fail, that’s religion.
But everyone can call out to God to save them, that’s God’s gift through His Son Jesus, that is salvation…and everyone who has faith in God’s Son can be saved…that is faith!

The State of this Union must be brought back to unity!
Go out there and change this country one person at a time…no matter who is in charge, God will always reign!

If you don’t know how to have faith, please click the links below to find out. Then go and change your community, your county, your state, your country and the world!:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

Paz Con Dios

Pasos para la Salvación PDF

INFORMATION OF VOTING:

Act for America

ACT! for America Education

Family Research Council (FRC)

Wallbuilders

California Online Voter Registration

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8 DAYS OF GIVING THANKS T-3 DAYS |THANKSGIVING 2019

Isaiah 1:18

Thankful for a God who reinvents us!

by Oscar Roca

I just got a sent a picture of a blind farmer who was passing through his land, looking for his turkeys. The funny part was that he was walking right in front of them, and they were making cow sounds. 

I laughed so hard because this time of year, turkeys are the main course on the plate in my country! 

But then, I started pondering on the fact that those turkeys in that cartoon are so incredibly wise! Yes, I know it’ s just a funny cartoon mem, but think about it, when was the last time you reinvented yourself? 

We all must take this journey called life. I invite you to reinvent yourself today; don’t wait until New Year’s Day to write a list of things you want to reinvent in your life. Start today. 

—What is your physical goal?

—What is your mental goal?

—What is your job goal?

—Most importantly, what is your spiritual purpose?

I don’t have a clue on the first three since I most likely don’t know you personally. But, I do have an answer to the last one. Get to know God personally before this Thanksgiving holiday. I promise you with God’s help; you will be able to accomplish anything in life. I also know that God will reinvent you. 

Wherever you are in life, whatever your past mistakes or regrets, stop holding on to them.

Start fresh on this special Holiday Season. Finish Christmas with the Peace of The Christ Child, who can take all your past away and make you a new person.

I thank God for fresh starts. I know, because He gave me one when I asked Jesus into my life and committed myself to Him. 

Here are some links if you want to reinvent yourself spiritually… 

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

Paz Con Dios

Pasos para la Salvación PDF

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You Fall, You Get Up — You Fall, You Keep Getting Up! |Christian Short Drills Series

7 But as for you, be strong; do not be discouraged, for your work will be rewarded.”—2 Chronicles 15:7

I had a few stories done for my blog and then I saw this and immediately started writing!:

This is a speech given Deshauna Barber. I must admit, I did not know who this young lady was, nor did I know whether she is a Christian or not. What I found interesting is the story which defined her as a person.

A story in which her inner character came out, with the help of a stranger who cared deeply enough to encourage and to bring her the— I can do all things through Christ attitude (Philippians 4:13).

Yes, I know, contradiction …I just said I did not know her spiritual faith. But, as christians, we are to never give up on the goals that are set for us.

Oscar Roca

You see, I often set my thinking of sports to my Christian walk. I know the goals I have, I know what God wants in my life, most of the time, I continue on my journey with the ultimate goal in my life—To be in God’s will.

How do I know that I am in God’s will?

This question is muilti fold—Is what I am doing :

—Bringing people to Christ’s saving grace(1 Timothy 2:4 )?

— Is what I am doing just, right, and will glorify the LORD( Micah 6:8, Proverbs 21:3, Isaiah 56:1)?

—Am I being an example of what what a Christian is (Deuteronomy 10:12, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Isaiah 66:2, Hosea 12:6)?

Last but not least:

—Am I in constant communication with the One that holds my life together by reaching out to Him first thing in the morning (Matthew 14:13, Matthew 14:23, Luke 5:16 )?

—Do I have peace in the thing that I am doing (Psalm 29:11, Psalm 46:10, Philippians 4:7)?

Light at end of tunnel

—All this to say, God has your back! Don’t look at past failures or mistakes. Always look forward, striving to be on the right road of your journey. Never doubt that God wants the best for you. Never, ever give up when things look dark and tough. Becasue if you keep going, God will make a way for you (Isaiah 43:19, 2 Corinthians 5:17) and will gve you the strength to see you through.

—And just like Deshauna, failures brought her closer to her prize!

—Don’t give up on and in life, you are too precious a commodity for failure. God has everything in your life under His control.

—If you don’t have a personal relationship or constant communication with God, ask yourself this:

—Do I want Jesus in my life?

Yes or No —If yes, click on the links below, they will help answer some commanly asked questions about a personal relationship with God:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

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We Start Off Where We Left Off |Friendships

Romans 12:15

I remember sitting with the neighborhood young men who would come to our house for bible study and hang out during the week to play video games. My wife and I would host them after work so that they would have a place where they could be safe and untempted from this world’s vices.

It was a usual day; the guys were loud and obnoxious as usual. They were having fun beating up the old guy (in my 30s at that time). I received a call from my younger brother’s wife. He had passed away. The young men knew my joyful face, but they also understood my look of concern. They automatically quieted down. No one had to tell them that I was experiencing a tragic moment. They turned off the TV and video game while gathering around me. I told them what had happened, and they all shed tears with me.

As I look back, the incident is still vivid in my mind. Because these young kids were all in their teens. We had gone through some thick and thin times with most of them. Divorced parents, drugs in the family, and so on.

Some of these young men and women were living with their grandparents because the dads were not around, and the moms were not able to handle their teen male rambunctiousness.

Yet, these young men taught me the meaning of true loyalty. They hung out and protected each other. They protected my daughters whenever I asked them to keep an eye on them. These young men were joyful with my family and me.

  • The ministry my family had, was not a ministry but a joyful fellowship
  • Where we taught these young men and women what family should be
  • How to always lean on God, and to continue on in life, no matter the circumstances
  • Most of those young men have moved on.
  • Some have kids now, with their own joys, problems, and experiences.

Then there was the men and women, our friends and brethren in Christ. They, too, have been a big part of our joys and sorrows. We have all been there for each other. Some, we see often, others, not so often. However, here is the incredible part, whenever we get together with these old friends, it’s like we had seen each other yesterday. We start where we left off, no matter the time passed.

Here is the secret to the joyful gatherings even in times of trials. We all have one thing in common. We all have committed our lives to Christ. You see, it is only in faith through our Lord and Savior Jesus the Savior, that we have the strength to be joyfully happy in the good times, and also shed tears with our loved ones and friends during life’s tragic times.

As we get older, there’s a reason why we hurt emotionally but are joyful when one of our friends passes into the next journey. We know that losing a brother or sister in Christ is only a temporary thing. We shall see them again because they have only gone ahead of us. They have finished the race and have completed their journey, reaching their destination. We rejoice in this but feel sorrow for not having them around.

One day we will rejoice and kick back with all of the people that have come through our home, our lives, and once again, we will start where we left off here on earth…

I would invite you to have this joyful assurance of knowing what your next life journey will take you. I invite you and ask that you invite your loved ones and friends on this jpurney too!

Get to know God like I do:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

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Words Which Bring You Peace, Grace, joy & Set You Free |The Bible

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John 8:34-36 NKJV

  • Words are powerful, they are precise.
  • Words can make you climb the highest mountains or leave you crawling the lowest of valleys.
  • Words can build up or destroy. They say that violence is the reason for so many deaths in this world and that guns kill.
  • What they have missed is the rhetoric on both sides of the political aisle.
  • They also have missed the constant and systematic social media onslaught of making people who have differing views hate each other.
  • Words. Words unite. Words divide. Words hurt. Words heal.
  • The Word of God in His scriptures does both. We must have the full counsel of God to know what we as humans are capable of. Left to our own free will and thinking, we are then left to our own demise.
  • Free will and thinking can only coincide within us when there is a Higher Power that has given us limits on what we can and can’t do.
  • I know you are thinking, “How can you say that we are free people who have free will and thought if you are saying that we need a Higher Power to tell us what we must and mustn’t do?”
  • This is where Moral Law and Truth come in.
  • We can’t have a free society without morals. Morals are taught and practiced.
  • We also need civil law to keep society in order.
  • The less government intervention, the better. Let me explain. How can people be a free society if every action is dictated by the government? The more government interferes, the fewer people are free to think for themselves and make the right decisions. Because human laws are imperfect, no matter how good they seem.

  • Why? Because human beings have both good and evil inside of them.

  • Words. Words can teach, or make people ignorant.
  • The Bible is still the most read book in human history. It has founded societies and has made more people free.
  • The words inside have changed lives. This book has withstood the test of time.
    There are more copies which prove how close to the original writings of the Old and New Testaments they are than any other book out there.
  • Even the skeptics are unable to say otherwise. The critics have tried saying that we can’t trust the Bible because it was written by men and the writings are so old, we can’t believe what the original manuscripts.
  • Yet, the more they fight this Book, the more the Bible verifies itself, more than any other book out there (See References below).
  • Words. The Bible has words. If you read them and acknowledge what these words say, it brings new life to the person reading it.
  • Words inside this beautiful, awe-inspiring Book have led more people to be free, than any other book in History.

  • Words. Can transform a person from the inside out.

  • I invite you to read the Bible yourself.
  • You will find the words refreshing.
  • Start with the Book of Psalms and Proverbs.
  • Once you are there, you can jump into the Gospel of John.
  • Then you can go to Romans where the words will give you what people without God are like.
  • What people with God plus regulations are like.
  • Finally, what people who have a lasting personal relationship with Jesus, the Savior of the world are like.

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You see, words can be read and interpreted in personal fashions. But once you understand God’s word, there is only one way you can learn it.

  • You can read it for the task of reading through it like any other book. You can read it and see how God gave us do’ and don’ts, and try incredibly hard to abide by God’s Commandments.
  • Or, you can take those same Commandments and read what Jesus said about them in his Gospels and in Acts, Romans, 1st, and 2nd Corinthians, Galatians,, etc..
  • Once you read the explanations of the God’s Word and Commandments in these Letters, you will be set free.
  • And once someone is set free in Christ, the person is forever free, no matter what governing bodies are in charge.
  • No matter what words anyone uses against the person that has been set free through Jesus the Savior of the world.
  • Remember, words can hurt, divide and misinform.

  • But the Word of God heals, unites and points you to the grace, peace, and joy of knowing God wholly, through a personal relationship with His Son Jesus.

I invite you to know Jesus and ask Him into your life. I encourage you to be indeed set free…

Get know God & be truly free:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

 

REFERENCES:

BibleAsk.com

Dead Sea Scrolls

New Testament Writings Research

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