Poor Wayfaring Stranger

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Saint Augustine's Deathbed Prayer

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Death has no pain that Heaven cannot heal!

In Heaven, I will make everything perfect. But not on earth. Not yet. It is not the time. To answer each of your prayers in the way you wish, and to resolve every situation, and to remove every thorn, would not fulfill the purpose for which you’re on earth.

God didn’t promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, or sun without rain, but He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.—Isaiah 41:10

I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.—John 16:33

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.—Psalm 23:4

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.—John 14:27 

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.—Matthew 11:28–29

There are many people who receive countless blessings from Him and who rest on His promises, who yet do not get to know God Himself in a personal way. There are many who for a time trusted Christ and found great comfort in the assurances of His love, but who at length, in some season of trial, entered into close relations of personal friendship with Him. In this revealing they found treasures of love, of sympathy, and of comfort, far surpassing the best they had ever experienced before. In seeking, therefore, for help in sorrow, we should never be content with the gifts of God alone, or with the comforts which come in His words of promise; we should pass through all these to God Himself and seek satisfaction in the infinite blessedness of His love.

It is thus that the Scriptures represent God. He is ever, with lavish hand, dispensing His mercies and benefits, but He would not have us content with these. “He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust.” But He desires to manifest Himself to His children as He does not to the world. The great Bible saints found their satisfaction and their help, not in God’s gifts, but in God Himself. Thus the reason for David’s sublime assurance, “I shall not want,” was not because he had great stores of God’s gifts laid up, but because “the Lord is my Shepherd.” His confidence was not in the wealth which God had given him, which would cover all his wants for the future, but in God Himself. In another psalm the writer’s intense longing is not for any mere tokens of divine goodness, any mere benefits or favors, but for God Himself. “My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God.” His thirst was unappeasable in any way but in fellowship with God. Nothing that God could have given him of the richest of His gifts, of the sweetest blessings of His hand, would have satisfied him. It was for God Himself, the living God, that he thirsted. The human soul was made for God, and God alone can meet its need.

The only heart-filling comfort, therefore, in time of sorrow is that which is in God Himself. It is thus, too, that our Father desires to bless us; He asks for our fullest trust, and He would reveal Himself to us in tenderest personal ways. After Horace Bushnell’s death there were found, dimly penciled on a sheet of paper, laid in his Bible, these words: “My mother’s loving instinct was from God, and God was in her love to me first—which love was deeper than hers and more protracted. Long years ago she vanished, but God stays by me still, embracing me in my grey hairs as tenderly and carefully as she did in my infancy, and giving to me as my joy and the principal glory of my life, that He lets me know Him, and helps me, with real confidence, to call Him my Father.”

There is a blessing in true human sympathy. God sends our friends to us to bring us little measures of His own love—little cupfuls of His grace. But He Himself is the only true comforter. His love alone is great enough to fill our heart, and His hand alone has skill to bind up our wounds.—J. R. Miller

When all our hopes are gone and all seems to fail, even when our dreams are shattered and our ships come home with broken sails, we still have Jesus! And He's all we need!

You, LORD, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.—Psalm 18:28

You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of deliverance.—Psalm 32:7

Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.—Psalm 139:7–12

He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.—Revelation 21:4

His Word is always a comfort and the voice of His Spirit is always an encouragement in the hour of greatest trial. -- Cast your burden on the Lord. Just roll it over on Jesus and roll over and go to sleep—and let Him stay up all night! Don't worry about it. Let the Lord do the worrying! His shoulders are broad enough to carry any load—all the burdens put together, including His own! D.B. Smith

Keep your eyes on Me at all times. The skies may be dark, the winds may blow, the waters may be deep and murky, and the waves may crash all around you. There may be no apparent way of escape. But I am your escape. I am the sunshine that chases away the dark clouds. My voice will still the tumultuous waves. My rays of sunlight will make the waters clear so that you can see the wondrous splendor that lies under the surface of the ocean of life.

So if all around you seems dark and gloomy, turn your eyes toward Me, your eternal sunshine. I will shine brightly upon your life and I will calm the seas, helping you to find peace and security.—Jesus

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Lovers of Pleasure More than Lovers of God!

Dennis Edwards

Again over the weekend more sexual allegations came forth condemning Hollywood and the Music Industry. We always knew these things were so and that the rich and powerful in those industries used their position to advantage for sexual favors. But now we are learning how far the abuse went and it is in deed shocking.

However, had we been reading the New Testament, we would have not been surprised by these accusations, nor the actions of the men involved. Both Jesus and Paul tell us specifically that the last days would bring in much ungodly behavior as was found in the days preceding the flood, and preceding the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

How was the world before the Flood? In Genesis we read,

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually."[Genesis 6:5]"The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth."[Genesis 6:11-12]

Concerning Sodom and Gomorrah we read,

"And the Lord said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know."[Genesis 18:20-21]

When Lot receives the two angels disguised as men  whom God has sent to Sodom, the local men come out demanding that Lot hand the angels over to them for same-sex sexual pleasure. Lot argues with them and offers to give his unmarried teen girls instead, showing how low Lot's standard of morality had fallen since living in Sodom. But the city folk grab Lot with the intent of breaking into his house to fetch out the angelic visitors. The angels save Lot and smite the city mob with blindness. Then the two angels send Lot and his wife and two daughters on their way to escape to the nearby mountains, as they pronounce destruction on the city of Sodom and its neighbors. You can read the account in Genesis 19:1-26. It is interesting to note that the angels tell Lot to escape to the mountains where his uncle Abraham happens to be living. But Lot likes city life and pleads to be able to stay in a small city near the mountains, rather than in the mountains themselves.

Summarizing so far, we see Jesus warned that in the last days the earth would be similar to like it was at the time before the global Flood, and like Sodom and Gomorrah were before their destruction. Before the Flood the earth was filled with violence and was corrupt and men's imaginations were evil continually. We saw that in Sodom men were openly practising same-sex behavior and forcefully trying to violate innocent visitors to the city. In Ezekiel, we read some of the other sins of Sodom.

"Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."[Ezekiel 16:49]

So we see in the people of Sodom pride, idleness, wealth, lack of interest in the poor and needy were additional sins besides the same-sex behavior. Maybe these are additional sins of the Hollywood crowd or their managers and producers.

Apostle Paul, also, talking about the last days, says that, 

"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."[2 Timothy 3:1-5]

Let's just pick out a few of the words that Paul uses to describe the behavior of men in the last days, ones that relate to these men of Music and Cinema, whether actors or directors, producers or managers, who have been accused of inappropriate sexual behavior, aggressive sexual behavior, even rape and abuse of minors. 

"Lovers of their own selves" would be the first to look at. These men were not thinking of the needs and desires of the person they were abusing. Obviously they are thinking of only satisfying their own sexual wants above everything else. "I am going to get what I want," is their motto. They even sometimes work in team work, where one friend might supply a room in his restaurant, or watch as his friend forces himself on a young would be actress or singer. 

"Proud" would be the second to look at. These men must be full of pride to act the way they do without regard for the feelings and desires of others.

"Without natural affection" would obviously fit for those seeking same sex fulfillment. I think some of the perverted antics we have read about with also fit in this category.

"Incontinent," or without sexual control as one online dictionary put it, is a big one for these men. They were without control. Reminds me of the sexual abuse done by the Russian soldiers during the retaking of Ukraine, Poland and then Germany from the Germans. Stalin had freed the worst prisoners and criminals and placed them at the front lines. As the Russian army marched across Eastern Europe these criminals, but now soldiers, would influence the troops to commit horrible atrocities to the woman and young girls. Often the grandfathers or younger brothers tried to protect them only to get a bullet in the head. The troops would line up and systematically rape these mothers and daughters, and sometimes the ranked officers would even enter in. Perhaps the Russian soldiers belief in atheistic Communist doctrine had also had an effect of numbing their conscience to the abuse they were committing. The Islamic State army practices similar behavior following some of the dictates of Mohamed from the Quran. 

The problem we have today is the men who were "incontinent" were looked up as stars, or great producers, or managers. They helped produce films that influenced millions of people with their immoral desires. They were comedians or musicians who had influence on the younger guys coming up, who tried to follow their example. In the case of IS, we have young Muslim boys willing to sacrifice their lives as suicide bombers in the hope of getting their 70 young virgins in paradise. This is an example of a religious belief that feeds on this perverted idea of uncontrolled sexual promiscuity. We are men of like passions. For that reason God had given His people a book of laws, to keep them away from their natural ungodly tendencies. But His people became too religious in their rule keeping, and hypocritical in their obedience. They pretended to keep the rules, and thus made the law of none effect through their traditions.

The next descriptive we'll look at is "fierce." In the Living Bible, they use the words "rough and cruel." The descriptions of abuse we have heard have clearly shown that these guys were rough and cruel in their predatory conquests. 

Let's go down to "lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God." I don't think we need much comment here. These men only wanted to satisfy their sexual pleasure by what ever means possible, lying and stealing to get it, and taking advantage of their position of leadership. They were truly wolves. Maybe they were in sheep clothing, but they were wolves and not worthy of their lofty position.

We will finish up with "from such turn away." We need to turn away from these sort of men and those that follow their bad example. I think most men are not without these temptations and have probably passed the line at some point in their lives. That's why Paul tells us as believers that,

"Ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles (unbelievers) walk, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanliness with greediness."[Ephesians 4:17-19] 

Lasciviousness means a person's behavior is driven by thoughts of sex. Paul is admonishing us as believers that we should  not be motivated by greedy sexual desires. We may have had that tendency in the past, but now as followers of Christ we should be baptised with God's Spirit and be motivated by His law of love.

Apostle Paul also predicted that men would fall away from the truth, following doctrines that justified their own lusts. I would dare to say that most if not all of these men who are accused of sexual misconduct are not believing Christians. Let's read what Paul said.

"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."[2 Timothy 4:3-4]

The atheist writer and intellectual Aldous Huxley confessed he preferred to believe in atheistic materialism because it gave him the moral and sexual freedom that he desired. He said,

“I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; and consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics. He is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do. For myself, as no doubt for most of my friends, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom. The supporters of this system claimed that it embodied the meaning - the Christian meaning, they insisted - of the world. There was one admirably simple method of confuting these people and justifying ourselves in our erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatever.”[Quote by Aldous Huxley]

Many modern day people follow Huxley's thinking. Using the evolution myth as rational for their world view, they have rejected the traditional Christian doctrine of truth, claiming we are here as the result of purposeless accidents. Therefore, anything goes. There's really no "right" and "wrong," it's just a matter of opinion. If life all started randomly and their is no God, nor ultimate judgement for our right and wrong actions, then we might as well do what we want. Like Nike has propagated, "Just Do It!" 

But we can remember the time when people had more of a fear of God. In Proverbs we read;

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."[Proverb 1:7]

But today, since many do not believe God exists, anything goes. Like in the time before the Flood, there was no fear of God in the land and men's hearts and imagination were evil continually. This is what's happening today and why we have that anxious feeling in our stomach that something is wrong, that the world is going in the wrong direction. Many people are turning to populous leaders in politics for this very reason.

But the answer is not political. The answer is a spiritual revolution in our own hearts and minds by accepting Christ into our lives. Jesus promises to make us into new creatures, to rewire us, to change us, to give us new motivations. Paul changed from being a strong Pharisaical Jew persecuting Christians, to become the leader of the new Christian movement to the Gentiles. He in turn  received persecution himself from his former brethren and the Roman officials who often yielded to the powerful Jewish influence.  

I'm going to finish this with a quote from Ecclesiastes.

"Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgement, with ever secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.[Ecclesiastes 12:13-14]

Like Moses said,

"Be sure your sin will find you out."[Numbers 32:23]

Forsake those secret addictions and temptations before they over take you and become bad habits, bad desires, that lead to bad acts. Let's flee those youthful lusts before they overtake us and destroy our testimony and our life and even our souls.

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John Kerry: Israel doesn’t want peace with Palestine

http://www.newsweek.com/israel-palestine-conflict-john-kerry-netanyahu-peace-716257 

[Dennis: Here's a article from Newsweek about Israelis' refusal to seek for real peace with the Palestinians. This is what I have been saying since 1974. I remember distributing a Comix published by an alternative Christian press which clearly, in comic form, presented this very truth. I was living in England at the time. But I had unwisely distributed the pamphlet in a strongly pro-Jewish town. The next day two plain clothed members of the British Secret Police knocked at my door asking to talk to me. They were expecting a radical Muslim group. But there I was with my wife and small family. They politely informed me I could not distribute that piece of literature on the streets of England. I protested something about "free-speech." They laughed and said of course we have free speech in Britain, but if I didn't want to get a red mark on my passport and deported, I would be wise to not distribute that pamphlet any more.

The Comix was about how Israel's position towards the Palestinians was really a position of extermination, similar to Hitler's "Final Solution" for the Jewish people in Germany. The dream of "Greater Israel," or all the land that God had promised to Abraham, would mean that Israel would push for every inch of land that the Palestinians had been living on for some 1,400 years. Israel believes it has the Biblical right to the land and will do everything in its power to gain control over all the land, even in the face of opposition by the whole world. For isn't God Himself with them.? Hasn't He Himself made that decree? Many of the American Evangelicals believe that God's promise to Abraham that those people that would bless him, God would in turn bless, applies to the modern state of Israel today.  Let's read the article from Newsweek about former Yale graduate, and Skull and Bones member John Kerry's remarks.]
 
Former Secretary of State John Kerry believes that the Israeli government is not doing its part to foster peace with Palestine.

In recordings published earlier this week by Channel 10, an Israeli TV news station, Kerry celebrates Palestine for committing to a peaceful solution to the decades-long conflict.

“The Palestinians have done an extraordinary job of remaining committed to nonviolence,” Kerry says. “When the intifada took place [in 2015] they delivered non-violence in the West Bank.”

“This is overlooked by the general [Israeli] populations because it is not a topic of discussion,” Kerry continues. “Why? Because the majority of the cabinet currently in the Israeli government has publicly declared they are not ever for a Palestinian state.”

According to Channel 10, the recording is from a conference last year in Dubai attended by some of the Middle East’s most influential policymakers.

It is unclear if Kerry knew he was being recorded.

Both the United States and Israel announced on Thursday their withdrawal from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural organization. The countries cited anti-Israel bias as one of the main reasons.  Getty Images 

[Dennis: Israel and America will stand together against the world in the final armed conflict in the Middle East. So says the Bible in the book of Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39. Again we see the present political situation seems to be lining up just like the Bible foretold. Many eschatology researchers believe that the Holy Covenant prophesied in the Bible could involve a temporary compromise between Israel and the Palestinians. Some have speculated that a Holy agreement would allow the Jewish people to build their desired Third Temple somewhere in Jerusalem, possibly on the Holy Mount. The Palestinians would get some sort of self-rule or statehood. However, the Bible predicts the agreement will blow up in our faces, leading to the horrendous period in the Bible called the Great Tribulations in direction to the famous Battle of Armageddon. Israel and America will continue to be bosom buddies till the end.]

 

The recordings are in line with many of Kerry’s comments regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In an hour-long speech in December 2016, Kerry—still as Secretary of State—chastised the Israeli government for being unproductive in recent peace talks.

“Friends need to tell each other the hard truths, and friendships require mutual respect,” he said.
The speech drew rapid fire condemnation from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many members of Congress from both parties, including Senator John McCain and Senator Chuck Schumer.

The speech came three years after a failed round of peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders organized by Kerry.

January 15, 2017. REUTERS/Bertrand Guay 

This week’s released recordings add to Kerry’s past comments regarding Israel.

Specifically, the former Secretary of State does not believe Israel is exhibiting leadership in its handling of the situation.

“If you see 40,000 kids marching up to the wall every day with signs saying, ‘Give us our rights,’ I mean I don’t think Palestine is going to be immune forever to the civil rights movements that have swept other nations in the world and somehow Israel’s ignoring this. That’s not leadership,” Kerry said.

Unless Israel begins a serious and committed process of reconciliation, Kerry believes that war is imminent.

“If you don’t have leaders who don’t want to make peace, if the equation doesn’t change, I’ll be amazed if within the next 10 years if we don’t see some young [Palestinian] leader come along who says, ‘We have tried non-violence for the last 30 years and look, it hasn’t gotten us anything,’” Kerry said.

According to The Times of Israel, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Channel 10 in a statement that his office would “continue to safeguard Israel’s security and national interests,” regardless of “those who tried to prod [Israel] to make dangerous concessions and failed.”

Netanyahu also said that peace talks with Palestine have stalled because they refuse to “recognize Israel within any border.”

“It is unfortunate John Kerry still doesn’t get this,” the statement concluded.

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Apple Seeds and Cancer

You have probably heard the saying that one apple a day can keep the doctor away. This is certainly true because an apple is one of the healthiest and nutrition-dense fruits in the world. One apple provides an estimated 10 percent or more of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C and fiber. Moreover, these nutrients have anti-cancer properties, boost the immune system, aid in weight loss, and prevent free radical damage. Furthermore, apples contain phytochemicals, powerful vitamins and nutrients, and a wide range of antioxidants. The fleshy part and the peel of the apple have proven to prevent and help with many health conditions, including heart disease, lung cancer, asthma, obesity, dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, among others.

The apple peel contains triterpenoids, which have significant anti-cancer capabilities, particularly when it comes to preventing liver, colon and breast cancer. Moreover, regular consumption of apples can lower the risk of particular types of cancers. However, did you know that the apple seed can also help with this dreadful issue?

Apple Seeds and Cancer

Apple seeds are rich in vitamin B-17, something we don’t get a lot of. This nutrient can also be found in apricot kernels, buckwheat, strawberries, cashews, and other natural foods. The vitamin B-17 can help in the prevention of cancers. Moreover, it can even inhibit or reverse tumor growth. Vitamin B17, also known as amygdalin or laetrile, is a glycoside nutrient which is often associated with cancer prevention. It comes from natural food sources and most abundant in the seeds of plants from the prunasin family, such as apricots and apples.

This vitamin interacts with other antioxidants and vitamins and eliminates harmful cells from the body. However, this vitamin is a natural cyanide-containing substance. Small amounts of cyanide can be detoxified by enzymes in your body, but large amounts can be dangerous. Apple seeds contain amygdalin, a substance that releases cyanide into the bloodstream when chewed and digested. However, small amounts of apple seeds do not contain enough cyanide to cause harm.

This powerful vitamin becomes released in the body and targets mutated cells. Moreover, it may help with the regression and growth of cancerous cells and tumors. The compounds of vitamin B17 have the ability to kill cancer cells instead of the healthy ones.

Original article found at the following link:
http://healthyandnaturalcures.com/apple-seeds-cancer-government-hiding-us-years/ 

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