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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

In the Beginning Was Information by Dr. Werner Gitt

https://answersingenesis.org/answers/books/in-beginning-was-information/

Between the covers of this excellent book may well be the most devastating scientific argument against the idea that life could form by natural processes. The book can be read, downloaded or bought at the above site.

The science of information is herein explained in detail, with many striking examples to clarify fundamental questions, such as: What are the laws of information? How did language develop? Is artificial intelligence possible?

Because information is required for all life processes, it can be stated unequivocally that information is an essential characteristic of all life. All efforts to explain life processes in terms of physics and chemistry only will always be unsuccessful. This is the fundamental problem confronting present-day biology, which is based on evolution.
. . . The purpose of this book is to formulate the concept of information as widely and as deeply as necessary. The reader will eventually be able to answer general questions about the origin of life as far as it is scientifically possible. If we can successfully formulate natural laws for information, then we will have found a new key for evaluating evolutionary ideas. In addition, it will become possible to develop an alternative model which refutes the doctrine of evolution.


—Dr. Werner Gitt, from the preface

Palestinian May Push for Deadline to End Occupation

By Rick Gladstone, NY Times, Aug. 30, 2014

UNITED NATIONS—President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority may use the global stage of the annual General Assembly here in a few weeks to publicly demand a date for ending Israel’s occupation, according to his ambassador, while expecting that the Israelis—and almost certainly their American allies—will oppose that demand.

“He wants the international community to agree on a date,” the ambassador, Riyad H. Mansour, said. Mr. Mansour called the demand part of what he described as a new strategy by Mr. Abbas to unilaterally advance the goal of Palestinian independence and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after a litany of frustrations, notably the collapse of American-brokered talks with Israel this year.

Mr. Abbas also is apparently hoping that the Palestinian Authority’s role in helping to halt the 50-day war in Gaza between Israeli forces and Hamas militants, achieved last Tuesday with an Egyptian brokered cease-fire agreement, has infused his position with new vitality and leverage.

If Mr. Abbas is denied an occupation end date, the ambassador said, Mr. Abbas will use the Palestine observer state status at the United Nations, an upgrade won nearly two years ago over Israeli and American objections, to make the occupied territories even more like the independent state he has sought.

The most coercive measure available to him is to make Palestine a member of the International Criminal Court, opening the way for possible prosecutions of Israeli actions as an occupying power.

Mr. Abbas has repeatedly hinted he would use that leverage, a prospect that has worried both Israel and the United States, Israel’s most important ally. Yet it also raises the possibility that Hamas, the dominant militant group in Gaza that Israel and much of the West regard as a terrorist organization, could also be vulnerable to prosecution. Though some Hamas officials have voiced support for joining the court, such a prospect could still create tensions with Mr. Abbas’s faction in the Palestinian leadership.

Mr. Abbas and his aides hinted at his revised strategy in recent days, even before the Gaza war was halted with the cease-fire agreement negotiated in Cairo. Mr. Mansour spoke more at length about it on Thursday in a briefing with a small group of reporters at the United Nations.

“We want a date for the end of occupation—that’s the new idea,” the ambassador said. Mr. Abbas, he said, “also knows that the Americans will not be receptive to this idea—it would be great if they are—but he is not going to give up on this idea and he’s said that ‘if not, then you will be forcing me to seek other options.’”

The ambassador said that Palestine could function like an independent state in many ways, “through joining all these agencies, through joining all these treaties, through joining all these conventions and conferences, and also seeking everything that is available to us on the legal front, including the I.C.C.”

The result, the ambassador said, is that “if you are refusing to acknowledge the fact as is, I am going to let this fact start creeping on you more and more until you wake up one moment and accept the reality.”

Israeli officials have historically opposed any unilateral attempt by Mr. Abbas to achieve Palestinian statehood. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel last week denied official Palestinian news agency reports that he and Mr. Abbas had agreed on the establishment of a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.

Speaking about Gaza, Mr. Mansour asserted that Israel had made significant concessions in the negotiations in Cairo that halted the conflict, notably dropping a demand for disarmament of the coastal enclave as a condition for the cease-fire. Precisely how the cease-fire is to be monitored and enforced is one of many issues to be addressed in further talks.

Mr. Mansour said the United Nations Security Council, where discussions over the Gaza conflict have been overshadowed by the crises in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere, should urgently adopt a resolution that strengthens the cease-fire agreement.

“It is in the business of international peace and security, and it has been engaged with this issue for 50 days, and yet it dragged its feet longer than it should have and it should have adopted a resolution a long time ago,” Mr. Mansour said.

Monsanto’s GMO Food and its Dark Connections to the “Military Industrial Complex”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/monsantos-gmo-food-and-its-dark-connections-to-the-military-industrial-complex/5389708
By Steven MacMillan
Global Research, July 03, 2014
The Analyst Report
Region: Canada, Europe, USA
Theme: Biotechnology and GMO, Environment, Science and Medicine



Monsanto, the world’s largest genetically modified (GM/GMO) seed producer, has been at the centre of controversy for decades as evidence of the harmful effects on humans of GM foods continues to mount. Joined with the likes of DuPont’s Pioneer Hi-Bred International and Syngenta, Monsanto and partners comprise the corporate nexus of Big-Agri, where the control over our food supply is increasingly transferred into the hands of private trans-national corporations as opposed to local farmers and governments.

A US peer-reviewed study conducted last year which was published in the scientific journal Entropy, linked Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup – which is the most popular weed killer in the world – to infertility, cancers and Parkinsons Disease amongst other ailments. The authors of the study were Stephanie Seneff, a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Anthony Samsel, a retired science consultant from Arthur D. Little, Inc. and a former private environmental government contractor. The main ingredient in Roundup is the “insidious” glyphosate, which the study found to be a deeply harmful chemical:


“Glyphosate enhances the damaging effects of other food borne chemical residues and environmental toxins. Negative impact on the body is insidious and manifests slowly over time as inflammation damages cellular systems throughout the body [...] Consequences are most of the diseases and conditions associated with a Western diet, which include gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, depression, autism, infertility, cancer and Alzheimer’s disease” (Samsel and Seneff, 2013).

The Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) Jeffrey M. Smith has discovered a link between gluten disorders and GM foods in a study he conducted last year. Gluten disorders have sharply risen over the past 2 decades, which correlates with GM foods being introduced into the food supply. Smith asserts that GM foods – including soy and corn – are the possible “environmental triggers” that have contributed to the rapid increase of gluten disorders that effect close to 20 million American’s today:


“Bt-toxin, glyphosate, and other components of GMOs, are linked to five conditions that may either initiate or exacerbate gluten-related disorders [...] If glyphosate activates retinoic acid, and retinoic acid activates gluten sensitivity, eating GMOs soaked with glyphosate may play a role in the onset of gluten-related disorders” (Smith, 2013).

One of the more damming studies on the safety of GM foods was led by biologist Dr. Gilles-Eric Seralini of the University of Caen, which was the first study to examine the long term affects on rats that had consumed Monsanto’s GM corn and its Roundup herbicide. The study was conducted over a 2 year period – which is the average life-span of a rat – as opposed to Monsanto’s usual period of 90 days. The peer-reviewed study found horrifying effects on the rats health, with a 200% to 300% increase in large tumours, severe organ damage to the kidney and liver and 70% of female participant rats suffered premature death. The first tumours only appeared 4 to 7 months into the research, highlighting the need for longer trials.

Initially the study was published in the September issue of Food and Chemical Toxicology, but was then later retracted after the publisher felt the study was “inconclusive”, although there was no suspicion of fraud or intentional deceit. Dr. Seralini strongly protested the decision and believed “economic interests” were behind the decision as a former Monsanto employee had joined the journal. Monsanto is infamous for employing swaths oflobbyists to control the political, scientific and administrative decisions relating to the organisation, and this incident was a major whitewash by the GM producer to stop the barrage of negative media reports relating to the toxic effects of their products. The study led by Dr. Seralini was later published in a less well renowned journal, the Environmental Sciences Europe, which reignited the fears of GM foods safety.

France has recently implemented a ban on Monsanto produced maize (MON810) – a different variety of the Monsanto GM corn that was discussed in the study above (NK603) – citing environmental concerns as the reason for the ban. France joins a list of countries including Italy and Poland who have imposed bans on GM corn over the past few years. Additionally, Russian MPs have introduced a draft into parliament which could see GM producers punished as terrorists and criminally prosecuted if they are deemed to have harmed the environment or human health. In India, many of the GM seeds sold to Indian farmers under the pretext of greater harvests failed to deliver, which led to an estimated 200,000 Indian farmers committing suicide due to an inability to repay debts.

There is growing evidence to support the theory that bee colonies are collapsing due to GM crops being used in agriculture, with America seeing the largest fall in bee populations in recent years. Resistance to Monsanto and GM foods has been growing in recent years after the launch of the worldwide ‘March Against Monsanto’ in 2012, which organises global protests against the corporation and its toxic products within 52 countries. Monsanto was also voted the ‘most evil corporation’ of 2013 in a poll conducted by the website Natural News, beating the Federal Reserve and British Petroleum to take the top position.

Monsanto Produced and Supplied Toxic Agent Orange

Researching Monsanto’s past reveals a very dark history that has been well documented for years. During the Vietnam War, Monsanto was contracted to produce and supply the US government with a malevolent chemical for military application. Along with other chemical giants at the time such as Dow Chemical, Monsanto produced the military herbicide Agent Orange which contained high quantities of the deadly chemical Dioxin. Between 1961 and 1971, the US Army sprayed between 50 and 80 million litres of Agent Orange across Vietnamese jungles, forests and strategically advantageous positions. It was deployed in order to destroy forests and fertile lands which provided cover and food for the opposing troops. The fallout was devastating, with Vietnam estimating that 400,000 people died or were maimed due to Agent Orange, as well as 500,000 children born with birth defects and up to 2 million people suffer from cancer or other diseases. Millions of US veterans were also exposed and many have developed similar illnesses. The consequences are still felt and are thought to continue for a century as cancer, birth defects and other diseases are exponential due to them being passed down through generations.

Today, deep connections exist between Monsanto, the ‘Military Industrial Complex’ and the US Government which have to be documented to understand the nature of the corporation. On Monsanto’s Board of Directors sits the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the giant war contractor Lockheed Martin, Robert J. Stevens, who was also appointed in 2012 by Barack Obama to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. As well as epitomising the revolving door that exists between the US Government and private trans-national corporations, Stevens is a member of the parallel government in the US, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). A second board member at Monsanto is Gwendolyn S. King, who also sits on the board of Lockheed Martin where she chairs the Orwellian ‘Ethics and Sustainability Committee”. Individuals who are veterans of the corporate war industry should not be allowed control over any populations food supply! Additionally, Monsanto board member Dr. George H. Poste is a former member of the Defense Science Board and the Health Board of the U.S. Department of Defense, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the CFR.

Bill Gates made headlines in 2010 when The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation bought 500,000 Monsanto shares worth a total of $23 million, raising questions as to why his foundation would invest in such a malign corporation. William H. Gates Sr. – Bill’s father – is the former head of Planned Parenthood and a strong advocate of eugenics– the philosophy that there are superior and inferior types of human beings, with the inferior type often sterilised or culled under the pretext of being a plague on society. During his 2010 TED speech, Bill Gates reveals his desire to reduce the population of the planet by “10 or 15 percent” in the coming years through such technologies as “vaccines”:

“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s heading up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really good job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent” (4.37 into the video).

In 2006, Monsanto acquired a company that has developed – in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture – what is popularly termed terminator seeds, a future major trend in the GM industry. Terminator Seeds or suicide seeds are engineered to become sterile after the first harvest, destroying the ancient practice of saving seeds for future crops. This means farmers are forced to buy new seeds every year from Big-Agri, which produces high debts and a form of servitude for the farmers.

Sources:

Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff (2013) – Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases†

Jeffrey M. Smith (2013) – Are Genetically Modified Foods a Gut-Wrenching Combination?


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Is Monsanto the World's Most Evil Corporation?

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/is-monsanto-the-worlds-most-evil-corporation.aspx#axzz3CAMKXBQX
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By Robyn Griggs Lawrence

“Evil” is a word most people don’t use lightly. Yet the majority of NaturalNews readers did not hesitate when asked to name the Most Evil Corporation of the Year in an online survey this week. More than 16,000 voters participated, and an astonishing 51 percent gave Monsanto the dubious prize. (The Federal Reserve took a distant second with 20 percent of the votes, followed by British Petroleum with 9 percent and Halliburton with 5 percent.)

How bad is Monsanto? Mother Earth News writer Barbara Pleasant answered that question in a “Happy Homesteader” post last year. “In 2006 the corporate giant bought Delta and Pineland, a leading producer of cotton seed, so that it now controls a huge share of the cotton seed market,” Pleasant reports. “Monsanto’s genes are in about 95 percent of commercial soybeans and 80 percent of commercial corn, and people like the attorney generals of Iowa and Texas are concerned that Monsanto’s business practices violate federal antitrust laws that protect free competition. When it comes to licensing agreements, Monsanto is reportedly a big time bully.” Monsanto’s misdeeds are well chronicled in Christopher Leonard’s excellent article, “Monsanto Stomps Down Budding Seed Competitors.”

NaturalNews editor Mike Adams believes readers overwhelmingly chose Monsanto because of its “touchy-feely corporate spin that tries to position the company as the savior of life on planet Earth.” He cites the "Monsanto pledge," which claims integrity and sharing of knowledge and technology as corporate values. “To anyone who knows anything about Monsanto, these words must strike them as particularly nauseous,” Adams writes. “For a company that thrives on GMO seeds and is an aggressive opponent of open-pollinated seeds to talk about ‘sharing knowledge’ and ‘helping farmers’ is enough to make you quite literally vomit.”

Adams offers the following resources to help us learn more about the corporation’s efforts to squeeze competitors, control smaller seed companies and protect its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops:
www.NaturalNews.com/Monsanto.html
www.naturalnews.com/NoGMO.html
http://ResponsibleTechnology.org
http://GMwatch.org

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The Complete History of Monsanto, “The World’s Most Evil Corporation”

By E Hanzai
Global Research, June 22, 2014http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-complete-history-of-monsanto-the-worlds-most-evil-corporation/5387964
Waking Times
Theme: Biotechnology and GMO, Science and Medicine

Of all the mega-corps running amok, Monsanto has consistently outperformed its rivals, earning the crown as “most evil corporation on Earth!” Not content to simply rest upon its throne of destruction, it remains focused on newer, more scientifically innovative ways to harm the planet and its people.

1901: The company is founded by John Francis Queeny, a member of the Knights of Malta, a thirty year pharmaceutical veteran married to Olga Mendez Monsanto, for which Monsanto Chemical Works is named. The company’s first product is chemical saccharin, sold to Coca-Cola as an artificial sweetener.

Even then, the government knew saccharin was poisonous and sued to stop its manufacture but lost in court, thus opening the Monsanto Pandora’s Box to begin poisoning the world through the soft drink.

1920s: Monsanto expands into industrial chemicals and drugs, becoming the world’s largest maker of aspirin, acetylsalicyclic acid, (toxic of course). This is also the time when things began to go horribly wrong for the planet in a hurry with the introduction of their polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).


“PCBs were considered an industrial wonder chemical, an oil that wouldn’t burn, impervious to degradation and had almost limitless applications. Today PCBs are considered one of the gravest chemical threats on the planet. Widely used as lubricants, hydraulic fluids, cutting oils, waterproof coatings and liquid sealants, are potent carcinogens and have been implicated in reproductive, developmental and immune system disorders. The world’s center of PCB manufacturing was Monsanto’s plant on the outskirts of East St. Louis, Illinois, which has the highest rate of fetal death and immature births in the state.”(1)

Even though PCBs were eventually banned after fifty years for causing such devastation, it is still present in just about all animal and human blood and tissue cells across the globe. Documents introduced in court later showed Monsanto was fully aware of the deadly effects, but criminally hid them from the public to keep the PCB gravy-train going full speed!

1930s: Created its first hybrid seed corn and expands into detergents, soaps, industrial cleaning products, synthetic rubbers and plastics. Oh yes, all toxic of course!

1940s: They begin research on uranium to be used for the Manhattan Project’s first atomic bomb, which would later be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing hundreds of thousands of Japanese, Korean and US Military servicemen and poisoning millions more.

The company continues its unabated killing spree by creating pesticides for agriculture containing deadly dioxin, which poisons the food and water supplies. It was later discovered Monsanto failed to disclose that dioxin was used in a wide range of their products because doing so would force them to acknowledge that it had created an environmental Hell on Earth.

1950s: Closely aligned with The Walt Disney Company, Monsanto creates several attractions at Disney’s Tomorrowland, espousing the glories of chemicals and plastics. Their “House of the Future” is constructed entirely of toxic plastic that is not biodegradable as they had asserted. What, Monsanto lied? I’m shocked!


“After attracting a total of 20 million visitors from 1957 to 1967, Disney finally tore the house down, but discovered it would not go down without a fight. According to Monsanto Magazine, wrecking balls literally bounced off the glass-fiber, reinforced polyester material. Torches, jackhammers, chain saws and shovels did not work. Finally, choker cables were used to squeeze off parts of the house bit by bit to be trucked away.”(2)

Monsanto’s Disneyfied vision of the future:

1960s: Monsanto, along with chemical partner-in-crime DOW Chemical, produces dioxin-laced Agent Orange for use in the U.S.’s Vietnam invasion. The results? Over 3 million people contaminated, a half-million Vietnamese civilians dead, a half-million Vietnamese babies born with birth defects and thousands of U.S. military veterans suffering or dying from its effects to this day!

Monsanto is hauled into court again and internal memos show they knew the deadly effects of dioxin in Agent Orange when they sold it to the government. Outrageously though, Monsanto is allowed to present their own “research” that concluded dioxin was safe and posed no negative health concerns whatsoever. Satisfied, the bought and paid for courts side with Monsanto and throws the case out. Afterwards, it comes to light that Monsanto lied about the findings and their real research concluded that dioxin kills very effectively.

A later internal memo released in a 2002 trial admitted


“that the evidence proving the persistence of these compounds and their universal presence as residues in the environment is beyond question … the public and legal pressures to eliminate them to prevent global contamination are inevitable. The subject is snowballing. Where do we go from here? The alternatives: go out of business; sell the hell out of them as long as we can and do nothing else; try to stay in business; have alternative products.”(3)

Monsanto partners with I.G. Farben, makers of Bayer aspirin and the Third Reich’s go-to chemical manufacturer producing deadly Zyklon-B gas during World War II. Together, the companies use their collective expertise to introduce aspartame, another extremely deadly neurotoxin, into the food supply. When questions surface regarding the toxicity of saccharin, Monsanto exploits this opportunity to introduce yet another of its deadly poisons onto an unsuspecting public.

1970s: Monsanto partner, G.D. Searle, produces numerous internal studies which claim aspartame to be safe, while the FDA’s own scientific research clearly reveals that aspartame causes tumors and massive holes in the brains of rats, before killing them. The FDA initiates a grand jury investigation into G.D. Searle for “knowingly misrepresenting findings and concealing material facts and making false statements” in regard to aspartame safety.

During this time, Searle strategically taps prominent Washington insider Donald Rumsfeld, who served as Secretary of Defense during the Gerald Ford and George W. Bush presidencies, to become CEO. The corporation’s primary goal is to have Rumsfeld utilize his political influence and vast experience in the killing business to grease the FDA to play ball with them.

A few months later, Samuel Skinner receives “an offer he can’t refuse,” withdraws from the investigation and resigns his post at the U.S. Attorney’s Office to go work for Searle’s law firm. This mob tactic stalls the case just long enough for the statute of limitation to run out and the grand jury investigation is abruptly and conveniently dropped.

1980s: Amid indisputable research that reveals the toxic effects of aspartame and as then FDA commissioner Dr. Jere Goyan was about to sign a petition into law keeping it off the market, Donald Rumsfeld calls Ronald Reagan for a favor the day after he takes office. Reagan fires the uncooperative Goyan and appoints Dr. Arthur Hayes Hull to head the FDA, who then quickly tips the scales in Searle’s favor and NutraSweet is approved for human consumption in dried products.This becomes sadly ironic since Reagan, a known jelly bean and candy enthusiast, later suffers from Alzheimers during his second term, one of the many horrific effects of aspartame consumption.

Searle’s real goal though was to have aspartame approved as a soft drink sweetener since exhaustive studies revealed that at temperatures exceeding 85 degrees Fahrenheit, it “breaks down into known toxins Diketopiperazines (DKP), methyl (wood) alcohol, and formaldehyde.”(4), becoming many times deadlier than its powdered form!

The National Soft Drink Association (NSDA) is initially in an uproar, fearing future lawsuits from consumers permanently injured or killed by drinking the poison. When Searle is able to show that liquid aspartame, though incredibly deadly, is much more addictive than crack cocaine, the NSDA is convinced that skyrocketing profits from the sale of soft drinks laced with aspartame would easily offset any future liability. With that, corporate greed wins and the unsuspecting soft drink consumers pay for it with damaged healths.

Coke leads the way once again (remember saccharin?) and begins poisoning Diet Coke drinkers with aspartame in 1983. As expected, sales skyrocket as millions become hopelessly addicted and sickened by the sweet poison served in a can. The rest of the soft drink industry likes what it sees and quickly follows suit, conveniently forgetting all about their initial reservations that aspartame is a deadly chemical. There’s money to be made, lots of it and that’s all that really matters to them anyway!

In 1985, undaunted by the swirl of corruption and multiple accusations of fraudulent research undertaken by Searle, Monsanto purchases the company and forms a new aspartame subsidiary called NutraSweet Company. When multitudes of independent scientists and researchers continue to warn about aspartame’s toxic effects, Monsanto goes on the offensive, bribing the National Cancer Institute and providing their own fraudulent papers to get the NCI to claim that formaldehyde does not cause cancer so that aspartame can stay on the market.

The known effects of aspartame ingestion are: “mania, rage, violence, blindness, joint-pain, fatigue, weight-gain, chest-pain, coma, insomnia, numbness, depression, tinnitus, weakness, spasms, irritability, nausea, deafness, memory-loss, rashes, dizziness, headaches, seizures, anxiety, palpitations, fainting, cramps, diarrhoea, panic, burning in the mouth. Diseases triggered/mimmicked include diabetes, MS, lupus, epilepsy, Parkinson’s, tumours, miscarriage, infertility, fibromyalgia, infant death, Alzheimer’s… Source : U.S. Food & Drug Administration.(5)

Further, 80% of complaints made to the FDA regarding food additives are about aspartame, which is now in over 5,000 products including diet and non-diet sodas and sports drinks, mints, chewing gum, frozen desserts, cookies, cakes, vitamins, pharmaceuticals, milk drinks, instant teas, coffees, yogurt, baby food and many, many more!(6) Read labels closely and do not buy anything that contains this horrific killer!

Amidst all the death and disease, FDA’s Arthur Hull resigns under a cloud of corruption and is immediately hired by Searle’s public relations firm as a senior scientific consultant. No, that’s not a joke! Monsanto, the FDA and many government health regulatory agencies have become one and the same! It seems the only prerequisite for becoming an FDA commissioner is that they spend time at either Monsanto or one of the pharmaceutical cartel’s organized crime corps.

1990s: Monsanto spends millions defeating state and federal legislation that disallows the corporation from continuing to dump dioxins, pesticides and other cancer-causing poisons into drinking water systems. Regardless, they are sued countless times for causing disease in their plant workers, the people in surrounding areas and birth defects in babies.

With their coffins full from the massive billions of profits, the $100 million dollar settlements are considered the low cost of doing business and thanks to the FDA, Congress and White House, business remains very good. So good that Monsanto is sued for giving radioactive iron to 829 pregnant women for a study to see what would happen to them.

In 1994, the FDA once again criminally approves Monsanto’s latest monstrosity, the Synthetic Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH), produced from a genetically modified E. coli bacteria, despite obvious outrage from the scientific community of its dangers. Of course, Monsanto claims that diseased pus milk, full of antibiotics and hormones is not only safe, but actually good for you!

Worse yet, dairy companies who refuse to use this toxic cow pus and label their products as“rBGH-free” are sued by Monsanto, claiming it gives them an unfair advantage over competitors that did. In essence, what Monsanto was saying is “yeah, we know rBGH makes people sick, but it’s not alright that you advertise it’s not in your products.”

The following year, the diabolical company begins producing GMO crops that are tolerant to their toxic herbicide Roundup. Roundup-ready canola oil (rapeseed), soybeans, corn and BT cotton begin hitting the market, advertised as being safer, healthier alternatives to their organic non-GMO rivals. Apparently, the propaganda worked as today over 80% of canola on the market is their GMO variety.

A few things you definitely want to avoid in your diet are GMO soy, corn, wheat and canola oil, despite the fact that many “natural” health experts claim the latter to be a healthy oil. It’s not, but you’ll find it polluting many products on grocery store shelves.

Because these GM crops have been engineered to ‘self-pollinate,’ they do not need nature or bees to do that for them. There is a very dark side agenda to this and that is to wipe out the world’s bee population.

Monsanto knows that birds and especially bees, throw a wrench into their monopoly due to their ability to pollinate plants, thus naturally creating foods outside of the company’s “full domination control agenda.” When bees attempt to pollinate a GM plant or flower, it gets poisoned and dies. In fact, the bee colony collapse was recognized and has been going on since GM crops were first introduced.

To counter the accusations that they deliberately caused this ongoing genocide of bees, Monsanto devilishly buys out Beeologics, the largest bee research firm that was dedicated to studying the colony collapse phenomenon and whose extensive research named the monster as the primary culprit! After that, it’s “bees, what bees? Everything’s just dandy!” Again, I did not make this up, but wish I had!

During the mid-90s, they decide to reinvent their evil company as one focused on controlling the world’s food supply through artificial, biotechnology means to preserve the Roundup cash-cow from losing market-share in the face of competing, less-toxic herbicides. You see, Roundup is so toxic that it wipes out non-GMO crops, insects, animals, human health and the environment at the same time. How very efficient!

Because Roundup-ready crops are engineered to be toxic pesticides masquerading as food, they have been banned in the EU, but not in America! Is there any connection between that and the fact that Americans, despite the high cost and availability of healthcare, are collectively the sickest people in the world? Of course not!

As was Monsanto’s plan from the beginning, all non-Monsanto crops would be destroyed, forcing farmers the world over to use only its toxic terminator seeds. And Monsanto made sure farmers who refused to come into the fold were driven out of business or sued when windblown terminator seeds poisoned organic farms.

This gave the company a virtual monopoly as terminator seed crops and Roundup worked hand in glove with each other as GMO crops could not survive in a non-chemical environment so farmers were forced to buy both.

Their next step was to spend billions globally buying up as many seed companies as possible and transitioning them into terminator seed companies in an effort to wipe out any rivals and eliminate organic foods off the face of the earth. In Monsanto’s view, all foods must be under their full control and genetically modified or they are not safe to eat!

They pretend to be shocked that their critics in the scientific community question whether crops genetically modified with the genes of diseased pigs, cows, spiders, monkeys, fish, vaccines and viruses are healthy to eat. The answer to that question is obviously a very big “no way!”

You’d think the company would be so proud of their GMO foods that they’d serve them to their employees, but they don’t. In fact, Monsanto has banned GM foods from being served in their own employee cafeterias. Monsanto lamely responded “we believe in choice.” What they really means is “we don’t want to kill the help.”

It’s quite okay though to force-feed poor nations and Americans these modified monstrosities as a means to end starvation since dead people don’t need to eat! I’ll bet the thought on most peoples’ minds these days is that Monsanto is clearly focused on eugenics and genocide, as opposed to providing foods that will sustain the world. As in Monsanto partner Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, the wicked witch gives the people the poisoned GMO apple that puts them to sleep forever!

2000s: By this time Monsanto controls the largest share of the global GMO market. In turn, the US gov’t spends hundreds of millions to fund aerial spraying of Roundup, causing massive environmental devastation. Fish and animals by the thousands die within days of spraying as respiratory ailments and cancer deaths in humans spike tremendously. But this is all considered an unusual coincidence so the spraying continues. If you thought Monsanto and the FDA were one and the same, well you can add the gov’t to that sorry list now.

The monster grows bigger: Monsanto merges with Pharmacia & Upjohn, then separates from its chemical business and rebrands itself as an agricultural company. Yes, that’s right, a chemical company whose products have devastated the environment, killed millions of people and wildlife over the years now wants us to believe they produce safe and nutritious foods that won’t kill people any longer. That’s an extremely hard-sell, which is why they continue to grow bigger through mergers and secret partnerships.

Because rival DuPont is too large a corporation to be allowed to merge with, they instead form a stealth partnership where each agrees to drop existing patent lawsuits against one another and begin sharing GMO technologies for mutual benefit. In layman’s terms, together they would be far too powerful and politically connected for anything to stop them from owning a virtual monopoly on agriculture; “control the food supply & you control the people!”

Not all is rosy as the monster is repeatedly sued for $100s of millions for causing illness, infant deformities and death by illegally dumping all manner of PCBs into ground water, and continually lying about products safety – you know, business as usual.

The monster often perseveres and proves difficult to slay as it begins filing frivolous suits against farmers it claims infringe on their terminator seed patents. In virtually all cases, unwanted seeds are windblown onto farmers’ lands by neighboring terminator-seeded farms. Not only do these horrendous seeds destroy the organic farmers’ crops, the lawsuits drive them into bankruptcy, while the Supreme Court overturns lower court rulings and sides with Monsanto each time.

At the same time, the monster begins filing patents on breeding techniques for pigs, claiming animals bred any way remotely similar to their patent would grant them ownership. So loose was this patent filing that it became obvious they wanted to claim all pigs bred throughout the world would infringe upon their patent.

The global terrorism spreads to India as over 100,000 farmers who are bankrupted by GMO crop failure, commit suicide by drinking Roundup so their families will be eligible for death insurance payments. In response, the monster takes advantage of the situation by alerting the media to a new project to assist small Indian farmers by donating the very things that caused crop failures in the country in the first place! Forbes then names Monsanto “company of the year.” Sickening, but true.

More troubling is that Whole Foods, the corporation that brands itself as organic, natural and eco-friendly is proven to be anything but. They refuse to support Proposition 37, California’s GMO-labeling measure that Monsanto and its GMO-brethren eventually helped to defeat.

Why? Because Whole Foods has been in bed with Monsanto for a long time, secretly stuffing its shelves with overpriced, fraudulently advertized “natural & organic” crap loaded with GMOs, pesticides, rBGH, hormones and antibiotics. So, of course they don’t want mandatory labelling as that would expose them as the Whole Frauds and Whore Foods that they really are!

However, when over twenty biotech-friendly companies including WalMart, Pepsico and ConAgra recently met with FDA in favor of mandatory labelling laws, this after fighting tooth and nail to defeat Prop 37, Whole Foods sees an opportunity to save face and becomes the first grocery chain to announce mandatory labelling of their GMO products…in 2018! Uh, thanks for nothing, Whore.

And if you think its peers have suddenly grown a conscience, think again. They are simply reacting to the public’s outcry over the defeat of Prop 37 by crafting deceptive GMO-labelling laws to circumvent any real change, thus keeping the status quo intact.

To add insult to world injury, Monsanto and their partners in crime Archer Daniels Midland, Sodexo and Tyson Foods write and sponsor The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009: HR 875. This criminal “act” gives the corporate factory farms a virtual monopoly to police and control all foods grown anywhere, including one’s own backyard, and provides harsh penalties and jail sentences for those who do not use chemicals and fertilizers. President Obama decided this sounded reasonable and gave his approval.

With this Act, Monsanto claims that only GM foods are safe and organic or homegrown foods potentially spread disease, therefore must be regulated out of existence for the safety of the world. If eating GM pesticide balls is their idea of safe food, I would like to think the rest of the world is smart enough to pass.

As further revelations have broken open regarding this evil giant’s true intentions, Monsanto crafted the ridiculous HR 933 Continuing Resolution, aka Monsanto Protection Act, which Obama robo-signed into law as well.This law states that no matter how harmful Monsanto’s GMO crops are and no matter how much devastation they wreak upon the country, U.S. federal courts cannot stop them from continuing to plant them anywhere they choose. Yes, Obama signed a provision that makes Monsanto above any laws and makes them more powerful than the government itself. We have to wonder who’s really in charge of the country because it’s certainly not him!

There comes a tipping point though when a corporation becomes too evil and the world pushes back…hard! Many countries continue to convict Monsanto of crimes against humanity and have banned them altogether, telling them to “get out and stay out!”

The world has begun to awaken to the fact that the corporate monster does not want control over the global production of food simply for profit’s sake. No, it’s become clear by over a century of death & destruction that the primary goal is to destroy human health and the environment, turning the world into a Mon-Satanic Hell on Earth!

Research into the name itself reveals it to be latin, meaning “my saint,” which may explain why critics often refer to it as “Mon-Satan.” Even more conspiratorially interesting is that free masons and other esoteric societies assigned numbers to each letter in our latin-based alphabet system in a six system. Under that number system, what might Monsanto add up to? Why, of course 6-6-6!

Know that all is not lost. Evil always loses in the end once it is widely exposed to the light of truth as is occurring now. The fact that the Monsanto-led government finds it necessary to enact desperate legislation to protect its true leader proves this point. Being evicted elsewhere, the United States is Monsanto’s last stand so to speak.

Yet, even here many have begun striking back by protesting against and rejecting GMO monstrosities, choosing to grow their own foods and shop at local farmers markets instead of the Monsanto-supported corporate grocery chains.

The awakening people are also beginning to see they have been misled by corporate tricksters and federal government criminals poisoned by too much power, control and greed, which has resulted in the creation of the monstrous, out-of-control corporate beast.

Notes

(1,3) http://bestmeal.info/monsanto/company-history.shtml(2) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Monsanto(4,5)

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Magnífico Sanador

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Palabras de Jesús

Él sana a los de corazón quebrantado y les venda las heridas.
Cuenta las estrellas y llama a cada una por su nombre.
¡Qué grande es nuestro Señor! ¡Su poder es absoluto!
¡Su comprensión supera todo entendimiento!
El Señor sostiene a los humildes. […]
El Señor se deleita en los que le temen, en los que ponen su esperanza en Su amor inagotable.
Salmo 147:3-6, 11[1]

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Cesa de esforzarte y reposa en Mi amor. Ten la tranquilidad de que a medida que me busques, me hallarás. No temas, ni dejes que los sentimientos de condenación te detengan ni te hagan sentir que no te amo. Conozco las debilidades y flaquezas de tu condición humana. A pesar de todas ellas, Yo te estoy dejando la vía tan expedita y tan fácil como puedo.

Así como el padre se compadece del hijo que se esfuerza por complacerle, Yo también me compadezco de ti al ver tus esfuerzos por alcanzar la manija, y te abro generosamente la puerta por iniciativa propia. Te doy entrada libre a Mi Reino. Ven y participa de los frutos de Mi Espíritu. De gracia doy de Mi Espíritu, y tienes libertad para disfrutar de los frutos de Mi Espíritu por la eternidad.


Tiempo en el desierto

No desmayes, sino confía en Mi amor, ten fe en él. Confía en que tus pruebas y batallas, los momentos en que te encuentras en un paraje desolado y tienes que reposar bajo los árboles y beber de aguas refrescantes que te devuelven las fuerzas provienen de Mí. Ahora no lo ves como una bendición, pero este tiempo de quietud, de oración, de soledad, de reflexión, redundará en riqueza de espíritu.

Encontrarás sabiduría, compasión y comprensión. Hallarás fortaleza en Mí. En tu relación conmigo encontrarás el poder que necesitas. Piensas: «He estado tantas veces en este paraje desolado. Cuántas veces he participado de esta quietud y soledad. ¿Por qué he de hacerlo una vez más? ¿Será que no aprendí las lecciones que necesitaba? ¿Será que soy tan duro de corazón que no oigo la voz del Señor, y por eso Él tiene que castigarme y quebrantarme tantas veces?

Este tiempo no es ningún castigo. No es que no oigas Mi voz ni aprendas las lecciones que te hacen falta. Te estoy bendiciendo y honrando al concederte estos momentos tan especiales conmigo. Momentos en que podemos disfrutar de mutua comunión y conocernos de un modo más íntimo.

No quiero que tengas otros dioses delante de Mí: ni tu familia, ni tu trabajo, ni tu ministerio. Necesitarás esa estrecha relación conmigo para cumplir el plan que te tengo reservado, cuando se te pida que estés en sintonía conmigo, que andes en oración y con prudencia, que manifiestes amabilidad, amor y compasión, y que entiendas a los que se sienten desanimados y han perdido las esperanzas.

Al haber pasado ese tiempo en el desierto podrás hablar de la abundancia de tu corazón. Hablarás por experiencia y darás testimonio de las bendiciones y beneficios que te reportó poner tu confianza en Mí y prestar oídos a Mi voz.


Operación del corazón

Acércate a Mí tal como eres. Te daré un nuevo corazón y un espíritu renovado. Soy consciente de que hay muchas pequeñas piedras que estropean la belleza de tu corazón. Confía en que haré lo que no puedes hacer: quitar los trocitos de piedra uno por uno. No esperes que ese trabajo sea sin dolor. Las operaciones del corazón son algo serio; siempre hay dolor. Muchas de tus duras experiencias fueron, sin que te dieras cuenta, Mis operaciones en tu corazón, las que he llevado a cabo con habilidad. Cuando pases por una época difícil, pon los ojos en Mí; sonríe y agradéceme por la renovación que obro en tu interior. Ese acto de fe no detiene tu sufrimiento instantáneamente, pero da sentido a tu dolor.

Maravíllate por el milagro de ser una nueva creación, injertada a Mí: el Mesías. Te has liberado eternamente de la condenatoria ley de pecado y muerte. Puedes regocijarte en esta verdad gloriosa aunque estés en medio del sufrimiento. Como soy el Creador de todo lo que hay y se te ha creado conforme a Mi imagen, en tu interior tienes una abundancia de poder creativo. Esfuérzate por ver tus circunstancias con una nueva perspectiva: con ansia de colaborar conmigo mientras creo algo nuevo dentro de ti y a través de ti. Aunque soy el Señor del universo, deseo trabajar conjuntamente contigo. A medida que aceptes participar en esta aventura sagrada, te conviertes más en la persona que he planeado que seas[2].


Tu nave llegará a puerto

Siento el dolor y el trauma que has sufrido, tanto en lo físico como en lo espiritual, al pasar por esta experiencia difícil. Conozco el sufrimiento, el dolor, el sentimiento de pérdida, de estar incompleta. Para superar esa depresión, esa melancolía, y salir de estos altibajos emocionales, aférrate firmemente a Mí. Ora, pidiendo mucha fe, y cree Mi promesa de que te guardaré en completa paz. Mantén tus pensamientos firmes en Mí, y permítete creer y aceptar Mi amor y el cariño de quienes te rodean.

Este quebrantamiento, este aplastamiento, estas emociones profundas, esta experiencia que te ha llenado de inquietud, es como el pulido de una piedra preciosa valiosísima. Permito que algunas partes se desbasten y aparentemente se pierdan, pero en el proceso se revela la auténtica belleza interior, la que centellea, la que resplandece. En este proceso has adquirido profundidad interior, que es una joya de valor incalculable. Ahora el amor que hay en tu interior puede brotar sin trabas.

La clave para cobrar fuerzas y estar victoriosa radica en que me ames, en que confíes en Mí y tengas fe en Mí y en los demás. Es importante que te fijes en todo lo que tienes, y no en lo que te falta. Es esencial que creas y aceptes el amor que recibes de Mí y de tus seres queridos. A medida que recibas y creas, confíes y reposes con amor y respondas con amor, encontrarás paz y se curarán tu alma y tu espíritu. Tu nave, que está siendo zarandeada en alta mar, llegará al puerto apacible de Mi paz, Mi reposo y Mi gozo.


Estoy contigo

Nada me es oculto. Conozco todos los pensamientos y deseos, y hasta la más íntima de las oraciones. Cada vez que alzas los ojos a Mí, que clamas a Mí, estoy a tu lado, oigo tus oraciones y Mi corazón se conmueve de compasión. Jamás se me endurece. Jamás me canso de escucharte. Jamás te rechazo. Nunca me duermo. Nunca coloco en Mi puerta un cartel rogando que nadie me moleste. Jamás estoy pensando en otra cosa. Nunca estoy demasiado cansado u ocupado para atenderte. Siempre oigo y respondo tus ruegos: unas veces de la forma en que deseas y otras de maneras que ignoras, o que aún no puedes ver. En todo caso, siempre oigo y respondo.

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Ya que tenemos un gran Sumo Sacerdote que entró en el cielo, Jesús el Hijo de Dios, aferrémonos a lo que creemos. Nuestro Sumo Sacerdote comprende nuestras debilidades, porque enfrentó todas y cada una de las pruebas que enfrentamos nosotros, sin embargo él nunca pecó. Así que acerquémonos con toda confianza al trono de la gracia de nuestro Dios. Allí recibiremos Su misericordia y encontraremos la gracia que nos ayudará cuando más la necesitemos. Hebreos 4:14-16[3]

Artículo publicado por primera vez en 1997, a menos que se indique lo contrario en los párrafos correspondientes. Texto adaptado y publicado de nuevo en agosto de 2014. Traducción: Patricia Zapata N. y Antonia López.


[1] NTV.

[2] Sarah Young, Jesus Lives (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2009).

[3] NTV.

A Alegria de Desatolar

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Brandon Smith

Sou um homem ocupado.

Tal como você, tenho um monte de coisas acontecendo na minha família, igreja, trabalho e tudo o mais. Permita-me ser o primeiro a dizer que todas são com certeza presentes de Deus. Ele tem sido incrivelmente bom comigo, pelo que estou genuinamente agradecido.

Mas fico cansado.

Eu às vezes fico pura e simplesmente cansado. Neste mundo corrido no qual vivemos, acho que todos fazemos coisas demais e descansamos de menos por vezes. A tecnologia nos permite fazer as coisas mais rapidamente, mas também nos dá razões para nos distrairmos. De certa forma é um círculo vicioso.

A pergunta que tive que me fazer foi, por que estou fazendo tudo o que faço e quais são as minhas prioridades?

Ainda mais importante, qual é a motivação por trás de toda esta minha ocupação, e por que isto às vezes suga a minha alegria? A seguir está uma simples tentativa de responder a estas perguntas a partir de uma experiência recente, e espero que também o livre de ficar tão atolado como eu estava.


Quando fiquei atolado

No começo deste ano, porém, bati de frente com um obstáculo. Com toda a minha ocupação, eu tinha praticamente me trancado em um armário e tentado desaparecer. Eu me sentia sobrecarregado e afundando. Eu parecia uma caminhonete velha com o motor fundido e os quatro pneus furados. Eu estava atolado.

Para ser sincero, eu tinha tirado os olhos de Deus e estava olhando para mim mesmo. Tinha colocado os deveres da minha vida doméstica, trabalho, estudos e ministério na frente de glorificar a Deus em meu coração. Tinha de alguma forma me esquecido que fui criado por Deus para ser conforme a imagem de Jesus.[1] Perdi de vista que este era o verdadeiro propósito por trás de tudo para o qual ele me chama.

Lembre-se que, apesar de todos estarmos ocupados, a ocupação em si não é nem de Deus nem pecado. Estar ocupado não faz com que você seja um super cristão, nem tampouco que seja um desastre. Só revela pecado ou tentação borbulhando abaixo da superfície.

Muitos de nós tratamos o tempo como uma mercadoria que pode ser reciclada em vez de um presente a ser apreciado. Agimos como se fôssemos donos do tempo em vez de percebermos que é algo que nos foi dado. Para mim isso se traduz em trabalhar demais. Quero fazer tudo com excelência e ser conhecido como alguém que trabalha duro, um cara que faz as coisas acontecerem rápida e eficientemente.


O descanso da obediência

Minha motivação é orgulho e egoísmo, claro. E é por isto que quero me trancar em um armário às vezes. É desgastante arcar com toda essa ocupação. Não fomos criados para sermos seres autônomos, mas sim para dependermos e confiarmos na graça e na glória de Deus. Fomos criados para vivermos nossa vida, e não nossa ocupação. Os propósitos de Deus, não nossas prerrogativas.

Estar ocupado certamente leva à exaustão física e emocional, mas eu realmente preciso de descanso espiritual. Preciso parar de tentar impressionar a Deus com meu trabalho e em vez disto glorificá-lO com meu serviço. Preciso me lembrar que Ele é providente, bom, e me equipou para servi-lO sem as correntes dos deveres aterradores.

Cristo nos libertou de dependermos de nós mesmos e nos aprisionou à sua graça. Não estou fazendo um favor a Deus; Ele está me dando uma missão. Minha vida, família, trabalho—tudo provém dEle e é para Ele. Posso descansar nisto. E não tenho que ser perfeito; posso ser obediente ao meu chamado com a expectativa de que a glória de Deus vai superar os meus fracassos.


A gentil libertação

Por fim, minhas dificuldades tinham mais a ver com a minha perspectiva das coisas do que minha ocupação. Em vez de buscar um armário no qual me esconder, eu deveria estar olhando para o único que pode me dar descanso. E quando O clamo em desespero e fatigado, Ele me lembra que me deu responsabilidades por um motivo. Seu propósito é sempre para Sua glória e o meu bem. Eu havia me esquecido disto. Ele responde com muita graça à minha oração por descanso, não com afirmativa, mas correção. O descanso não foi tirado das responsabilidades, mas sim da auto gratificação. Nisto há grande alegria.

As escrituras não nos desencorajam a trabalhar nem ditam quantas horas por dia deveríamos trabalhar, mas em vez disto focam em nosso coração. Apesar da maioria de nós não ser considerada um “servo”, as palavras de Paulo nos instruem:

Vós, servos, obedecei em tudo a vossos senhores segundo a carne, não servindo só na aparência, como para agradar aos homens, mas em simplicidade de coração, temendo a Deus. E tudo quanto fizerdes, fazei-o de todo o coração, como ao Senhor, e não aos homens, sabendo que recebereis do Senhor o galardão da herança, porque a Cristo, o Senhor, servis.[2]


Desatolando

Como então desatolamos quando nossa alegria está afundando? Ou melhor ainda, como podemos evitar ficar atolados para começar?

Primeiro de tudo, lembre que Deus está no controle. Ele não o deixará e não Se surpreende com suas dificuldades.

Em segundo lugar, ore para ter um coração que deseja a glória de Deus e não a própria. Isto é geralmente a coisa mais difícil, porém a mais recompensadora.

Em terceiro lugar, priorize o seu tempo. Não deixe que o trabalho se interponha entre você e sua devoção a Cristo e sua família. Encontre maneiras criativas de administrar o seu tempo ou acabe com as coisas que o impede de servir a Deus e as pessoas que Ele colocou em sua vida. Vale a pena.

De http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-blogs/173977-the-joy-of-getting-unstuck.html.
Brandon Smith é editor do Projeto TGM, residente da Pastoral na Igreja CityView, e escritor autônomo. Tradução Denise Oliveira. Revisão H.R.Flandoli.


[1] Romanos 8:29.

[2] Colossenses 3:22–24.

If You Knew God Stood Next to You

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Very few of us understand the full meaning of the words in Matthew 1:23: “They shall call His name Emmanuel; which being interpreted is, God with us.” This short sentence reveals to us the grandest fact the world will ever know; that God, the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, is not a far-off Deity, dwelling in a Heaven of unapproachable glory, but is living with us right here in this world, in the midst of our poor, ignorant, helpless lives, as close to us as we are to ourselves. This seems so incredible to the human heart that we are very slow to believe it; but the Bible teaches this as a fact. In the very beginning of Genesis we read of the “presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.” And from that time on He is revealed to us always as in the most familiar and daily [interaction] with His people everywhere.

In Exodus we find Him asking them to make Him a “sanctuary, that He might dwell among them.” He is recorded as having “walked” with them in the wilderness, and as “taking up His abode” with them in the Promised Land. He taught them to rely on Him as an ever-present friend and helper, to consult Him about all their affairs, and to abandon the whole management of their lives to Him. And finally He came in Christ in bodily form and dwelt in the world as a man among men, making Himself bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, taking upon Him our nature, and revealing to us, in the most tangible and real way possible, the grand, blessed, and incomprehensible fact that He intended to be with us always, even unto the end of the world.

Whoever will believe this with all their hearts will find in it the solution to every difficulty of their lives.

I remember when I was a little girl and found myself in any trouble or difficulty, the presence of my father or mother on the scene would always bring me immediate relief. The moment I heard the voice of one of them saying, “Daughter, I am here,” every burden and anxious thought dropped away. They did not need to promise to relieve me; the simple fact of their presence was all the assurance I required that everything now would be set straight and all would go well for me, and my only interest after their arrival was simply to see how they would do it all. Perhaps they were exceptional parents to have created such confidence in their children’s hearts. I think perhaps they were. But as our God is certainly an exceptional God, the application has absolute force, and His presence is literally all we need.

How often in the Bible He has stilled all questions and all fears by the simple announcement, “I will be with thee”; and who can doubt that in these words He meant to assure us that all His wisdom, and love, and omnipotent power would therefore, of course, be engaged on our side?

I remember to this day the inspiring sense of utter security that used to come to me with my earthly father’s presence. I never feared anything when he was by. And surely with my Heavenly Father by, there can be no possible room for fear.—Hannah Whitall Smith1

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“As I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not leave you, nor forsake you” (Joshua 1:5).

Moses was used mightily by the Lord, yet we all know he had his inadequacies and limitations too. Still, he was the vessel which God chose to work through as He carried out the plagues over Egypt, divided the Red Sea, and miraculously led and fed the children of Israel for forty years. That’s pretty big stuff. Can you imagine having to be Moses’ successor after all that? That’s exactly what Joshua had to do. I can’t even begin to imagine what Joshua was thinking at the time.—How can I possibly live up to Moses? But the Lord comforts and reassures Joshua and says, “As I was with Moses, so I will be with you!”

Those words for Joshua are also for us today. You know why? All the men and women who have done great things for the Lord were just ordinary men and women—with a great God. The same God who walked with Moses, Elijah, Daniel, and all the great men and women of God—is with us today!—George Whitten2

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What does this mean, “God with us”? … The Greek particle used here is very forcible and expresses the strongest form of “with.” It is not merely “in company with us,” as another Greek word would signify, but “with,” “together with,” and “sharing with.” This preposition is a firm bond, implying, if not declaring, close fellowship. God is peculiarly and closely “with us.”

Christ Jesus was the man of men, the second Adam, the model representative man! … You can scarcely find a halting place in the march of life at which Jesus has not paused, or a weary league which He has not traversed. From the gate of entrance even to the door which closes life’s way, the footprints of Jesus may be traced. Were you in the cradle? He was there. Were you a child under parental authority? Christ was, also, a boy in the home at Nazareth. Have you entered upon life’s battle? Your Lord and Master did the same. … There is no pang that rends the heart—I might almost say not one which disturbs the body—but what Jesus Christ has been with us in it all.

Do you feel the sorrows of poverty? He “had not where to lay His head.”3 Do you endure the griefs of bereavement? Jesus “wept” at the tomb of Lazarus.4 Have you been slandered for righteousness’ sake and has it vexed your spirit? He said, “Reproach has broken My heart.”5 Have you been betrayed? Do not forget that He, too, had His familiar friend who sold Him for the price of a slave. On what stormy seas have you been tossed which have not also roared around His boat? Never a glen of adversity so dark, so deep, apparently so pathless, but what in stooping down you may discover the footprints of the Crucified One. In the fires and in the rivers, in the cold night and under the burning sun, He cries, “I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am both your Companion and your God.”—Charles Spurgeon6

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When the times get rough and storms rage, when the nights get darker and the discouragement deeper, don’t give up! Just look to Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.7 Jesus is there with you. He is with you in the darkness. He is with you in the trial. He is with you in the depths. He is with you there because He loves you. He is there to pull you through.—David Brandt Berg

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Our God is not some faraway disinterested being. He is a God who is personal, who has a relationship with His creation. He has made Himself known to us through His Word. He has shown us some of what He’s like. He is interested in us as individuals. He has made a way for us to live with Him forever, through salvation. Through belief in Jesus, God the Son, we become God’s children, which enables us to touch Him personally, to communicate with Him, to hear His voice, to share our hearts with Him. He communes with us, abides in us, and loves us. We commune with Him, abide in Him, and love Him. We have a personal relationship with the Personal God. How incredibly wonderful!—Peter Amsterdam

Published on Anchor September 2014. Read by Jon Marc.

1 Adapted from A Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life (1875).
2 http://www.worthydevotions.com/christian-devotional/emmanuel-god-with-us
3 Matthew 8:20.
4 John 11:35.
5 Psalm 69:20.
6 http://www.ccel.org/ccel/spurgeon/sermons21.lxi.html
7 Hebrews 12:2.

How to Defeat Depression!

By Dennis Edwards: Words from Jesus:

It’s a sad day when one of my creations decides that life is not worth the living, that things are just too difficult. My heart weeps for any of my sons or daughters who make such a decision. The sorrow is that it is indeed the wrong decision. You murmur and complain and fall into depression because you have believed the lie that things are not going to get better. They are going to continue as they are now- forever, so what’s the use of living? But the truth is, things do change. Situations do change. Even your attitude towards the situation you find yourself in changes.

How then can you tell when that little voice of conscience is of God or of the enemy? Here’s the answer: when the voice is positive, encouraging, faith building; then it is of me. When the voice is critical, negative, or causes you to be discontent, bitter, or discouraged; that voice is not of me and you must reject it and resist it with all your heart, mind and spirit. Life is what you make of it. Even an aged Pope suffering with Alzheimer can be a good example of suffering graciously.

Life is sacred. People do not want to hear that in today’s secular, materialistic world. They want the freedom to act as they wish, pushing my old traditional guidelines to the wind. They just want to Do It! But life is not something you should take for granted and each life affects many more. You are just passing through this life. It is indeed very short and will soon be gone. Enjoy it! Instead of thinking and worrying about your own personal situation get busy helping others. It’s therapeutic. Forget your own dam self, of course, you have problems and are a hell of a mess. Everyone is.

Put your eyes on me, Jesus, the author and finisher of your faith.[1] I have promised to be with you through all your tribulations. Even the one you are going through now. You can make it, if you call upon me. Like I said to my disciples, “Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest,” or as in the Spanish translation, “make you rest.” “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly of heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”[2]

I have promised that all things that happen unto you I will convert to good, if you will only love me with all your heart.[3] Nothing can separate you from me.[4] Therefore, when the enemy of your soul tempts you to get down and discouraged and you hear that little voice telling you to end it all, call upon me with all your heart. I promise I will come running and I will be with you.[5] Your future is as bright as the promises of God. Comfort yourself by reading my word. Strengthen yourself by listening to encouraging music that is positive, uplifting and reminds you of my promises. There are many good Christian hymns or positive secular songs that can bring you the encouragement that you need.

Be positive. Speak positive. Sing, praise and shout the victory and it will be yours as you draw nigh to me. Do not just sit there and be inactive. Do something. You will not be sorry if you keep on keeping on. Anything wonderful can happen in that little moment of time when you do not give up, when you do not quit. Keep on believing. You will be glad you trusted me tomorrow and so will your loved ones. Keep your eyes on me, not the pit of discouragement. I promise you, I will not fail you nor forsake you.[6] Nothing can or will be able to separate you from my love.[7] I love you. Just meditate on that truth and that alone should help you to fight to live another day. You are needed, right where you are. Do not quit. You will indeed be glad you trusted me, tomorrow! You can remember the words I inspired and were made famous by Charlie Chaplin in the song “Smile.”

Smile though your heart is aching
Smile even though it's breaking.
When there are clouds in the sky
you'll get by.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow
Smile and maybe tomorrow
You'll see the sun come shining through
For you.

Light up your face with gladness,
Hide every trace of sadness.
Although a tear may be ever so near

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying.
You'll find that life is still worthwhile-
If you just smile.

That's the time you must keep on trying
Smile, what's the use of crying.
You'll find that life is still worthwhile-
If you just smile.[8]


Some other songs you could listen to are listed below:

Josh Groban, “You Raise Me Up!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oni0tO_HN30
Celine Dion & Josh Groban, “The Prayer” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idtNxZYnxIw
The Gaither Vocal Band, "Because He Lives" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVdEdIDyeaA
Celtic Woman, “You'll Never Walk Alone” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7du-RHGrJrA
Don Quixote, “The Impossible Dream” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow
The Gaither Vocal band, “The Love of God” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzDLLSTR9yY
Simon & Garfunkle, “Bridge Over Troubled Waters” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNgn4r6SOA
“One Day at a Time” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzAUuX5g6KY
Andrae Crouch, “Through it All” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFzdFzzBqTc
Carrie Underwood, “How Great Thou Art” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLMzr3PFgk

Footnotes:
[1] Hebrews 12:1-2
[2] Matthew 11:28-30
[3] Romans 8:28
[4] Romans 8:38-39
[5] Jeremiah 33:3
[6] Hebrews 13:5
[7] Romans 8:38-39
[8] http://www.metrolyrics.com/smile-lyrics-charlie-chaplin.html

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