Does your faith need strengthening? Are you confused and wondering if Jesus Christ is really "The Way, the Truth, and the Life?" "Fight for Your Faith" is a blog filled with interesting and thought provoking articles to help you find the answers you are seeking. Jesus said, "Seek and ye shall find." In Jeremiah we read, "Ye shall seek Me, and find Me, when ye shall seek for Me with all your heart." These articles and videos will help you in your search for the Truth.

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Covid - 19 Vaccine Linked to Rara Blood Disease


VACCINES & SAFETY

COVID-19 Vaccine Linked to Another Rare Blood Disease: Israeli Study

Researchers stress that the study shouldn't deter people from getting the vaccine
 
June 22, 2021 Updated: June 22, 2021
 

Israeli researchers on Monday said that they discovered a link between Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and a rare blood disease called thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP).

Scientists with the Institute of Hematology at Shamir Medical Center said they began researching the possible link after reports of a sudden increase in TTP across Israel.

The team said they discovered a “chronological connection” between when the Pfizer shot was administered to the patient and the onset of symptoms of the blood disease. They said that four cases were detected.

“Physicians and patients need to be alert to the clinical symptoms: weakness fatigue, neurological disorders, hemorrhage and chest pain,” the Institute of Hematology at Shamir Medical Center told The Jerusalem Post.

A spokesperson from the facility told the paper that the study is very small and should not deter individuals from getting the COVID-19 vaccine, and they added that Israelis who haven’t received the vaccine should still get inoculated.

The researchers also noted there were four cases of TTP detected in one month as opposed to two to three TPP cases normally reported per year.

The Israeli Ministry of Health is currently reviewing the team’s findings, they said.

According to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, TTP is a rare disorder that causes blood clots to form in small blood vessels in the body.

“These clots can cause serious medical problems if they block vessels and restrict blood flow to organs such as the brain, kidneys, and heart,” the federal agency says on its website. “Complications resulting from these clots can include neurological problems (such as personality changes, headaches, confusion, and slurred speech), fever, abnormal kidney function, abdominal pain, and heart problems.

The Epoch Times has contacted the Israeli Ministry of Health and Pfizer for comment.

On June 1, Israel’s Health Ministry reported that it discovered a small number of heart inflammation cases, known as myocarditis, observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, saying it was likely linked to their inoculation.

A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on Wednesday is slated to discuss rare cases of myocarditis among young people who received the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines. The agency was supposed to hold the emergency discussion last week but it was postponed.

It came about a month after the CDC said it was investigating several dozen cases of the rare heart inflammation.

The reports of myocarditis have been mostly in adolescents and young adults—and are more likely to occur in males. The symptoms also show up after the second dose, about four days after vaccination, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said in a statement dated May 17.

Link to original article here: https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-vaccine-linked-to-another-rare-blood-disease-israeli-study_3869626.html?utm

Seeing—the Reward of Believing



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When you take a stand of faith, you usually have to take it alone with God. Most of the great decisions that I have made in my life as a leader have been lonely decisions where only God and I stood together. They have been mountain peaks of decision, with nothing but thin air between me and the next peak, and I had to take that step alone, and trust God for the consequences, with no guarantee but God, no warranty but His Word—all other conditions being against it, all natural circumstances being opposed to it, the waves and the winds fighting against it—and all I had was the hand of God!

But He never let me down, even if He had to pick me up by that hand and lift me across to that next mountain peak, without any visible, natural, normal, logical, reasonable means of help. God says, “Serve Me, and I’ll keep you.”

Man says, “It’s impossible! Tie up in port. Don’t attempt the impossible; you’ll sink.”

God says, “Launch out into the deep. Cast your nets and I’ll give you such a draft there’ll not be room enough to hold it. I’ll give you the biggest load you’ve ever had, when you were ready to sink without any load.” 

Man says, “Look at the waves! Look at the condition of your vessel. You can’t do it.”

God says, “Look at Me! With man it is impossible; with God, nothing shall be impossible, and all things are possible to him that believeth.”1

If we are not willing to act by faith on what God has shown us, it might never happen. Somebody has to be willing to be the pioneer. Somebody has to be willing to take that first step of faith in that direction, to take the initiative because of the vision, and to take it alone, if need be, regardless of the cost.

“Prove Me now herewith, saith the Lord, and see if I will not pour out such a blessing that there will not be room enough to hold it.”2 You don’t see the blessing yet. How do you know He’s going to pour it out? You’ve only got His Word for it—you’ve got to prove Him. You have to take a step in the direction He said to go, to find out what He’s going to do. Because if you don’t go, He can’t show. If you don’t obey, He can’t make a way. If by faith you don’t “be,” you’ll never “see.” For believing is seeing in this business—in God’s business.

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It’s often been said that “seeing is believing,” but in many cases, the reverse is also true. Believing results in seeing.—Donald L. Hicks

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“Oh, my lord, what shall we do?” Elisha’s servant asked.

The king of Aram (present-day Syria) was at war with ancient Israel and had sent an entire army to the city of Dothan to capture the prophet Elisha. They came by night, so when Elisha’s servant woke and went out early in the morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city.

“Don’t be afraid,” the prophet said. “Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.” And Elisha prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes so he may see.”

Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.3

In this story, the angelic army was already there, but Elisha’s servant was afraid because he hadn’t seen them yet. Why must we always see with our own eyes in order to believe? We have the Bible promise, “[God] shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways.”4 Is it not enough to believe because God’s Word says so?

Seeing is the reward of believing, not the other way around.

Why does it have to be this way? Why do we have to take everything by faith? The answer lies in that little word—“faith.” It wouldn’t be faith if we could see. Jesus said to Thomas, “Because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”5

This principle of faith is something on which God places a great deal of importance. It’s also something that He gives us credit for6 because it is a sign of our love and trust in Him, that we believe Him and His spiritual power and the principles He lays out for us in His Word.

We walk life’s hot, hard, dusty roads battle-weary and scarred, but we arrive in heaven triumphant. The angels blow their trumpets to herald our victory. We didn’t sink when the storms of life rocked our ships. Satan attacked us on every side, but we survived. We held on. We did our best. We believed! We won the war of faith. Henceforth is laid up for us a crown of righteousness.7Misty Kay

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Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.—Martin Luther King Jr.

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I know how deep-seated is the natural desire to have some visible evidence that our petition is granted, but to have any other evidence than God’s Word is not faith. If God says so, that’s enough. The man or woman who walks by faith needs no other evidence than that. We shall see because we have believed, not believe because we have seen.

David says in Psalm 27:13, “I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.” You will note that he had not yet seen the answer, but “he believed to see.”

It is during this period when we are “believing to see” (after we have taken the stand of faith, yet we have not seen the full realization), that there comes the test period. You remember that Daniel went through this trying time and how the Lord spoke these words unto him: “From the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard.” Yet God’s Word teaches that there was a delay of three weeks before Daniel really received the answer, though the scripture says he was heard from the very first day.8 What sweet comfort there is in this story, for we can say to our own hearts right now, “From the first day that you prayed, He heard you.”—Virginia Brandt 

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The answer’s coming,
Never fear,
The answer’s coming,
It’s almost here.
Keep on believing,
Just trust and obey,
The answer’s coming,
It’s on the way.
—Phil Kerr

Published on Anchor June 2021. Read by John Laurence.
Music by Michael Dooley.https://anchor.tfionline.com/post/seeing-the-reward-of-believing/


1 Mark 10:27, 9:23.

2 Malachi 3:10.

3 2 Kings 6:8–17.

4 Psalm 91:11.

5 John 20:29.

6 Hebrews 11:6.

7 1 Timothy 6:12; 2 Timothy 4:7–8.

8 Daniel 10:12–13.

Monday, June 21, 2021

Just for You

 

Words from Jesus

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Do you ever feel you could use a little “oomph” in your life? A little pick-me-up? Some type of enhancement? Maybe you’ve seen better days. Or maybe things are just fine, and everything is rolling along smoothly for you and things have never been better. Or perhaps you’re in dire straits right now, desperately grasping for a ray of hope from somewhere. Whatever the case, whether you’re feeling down and out, or whether you’re sailing along on top of the world, I am always here for you.

Many things occur in your daily life, whether good or bad. Disappointments come. Maybe that promised job falls through, a loved one falls sick, or an unexpected accident shatters your life. Maybe the doctors have no answers and there is no earthly hope in sight. Economic worries threaten. Maybe you’re feeling lonely, or you find yourself engulfed in the depths of despair. Sometimes you feel forsaken and as if no one understands the agony of heart that pains you.

Maybe you feel trapped by what surrounds you and the complexities of living are more than you can bear. Sometimes you feel isolated, so far away from friends and loved ones. There are times when all your dreams have fallen apart. When you need direction and you can’t make it on your own, I am always with you.

Whether your life seems to be going uphill or down, I am a friend that truly sticks by you through thick and thin, a companion that will never let you down. I am always on call to help you when you’re in need, to lend a listening ear anytime you need it, or to give you a shoulder to cry on, or to simply listen to that great new idea that just popped into your head.

I will be with you to help lift you up, even out of the depths of discouragement, and to root for you and cheer you on. I will help you to fill up the empty places in your life, and I will stand beside you, and walk with you through life’s good times as well as the bad times, through all the ups and all the downs. I am that someone you can always turn to for guidance and solutions in every difficulty that presents itself. I will never leave you or let you down.

With Me, you can have peace of mind no matter what is going on around you in the knowledge that I will be with you every second of every day of this life, and you will be with Me in heaven for all eternity. I will never leave you or forsake you, whether in this life or the next.

Make sure to spread this good news to everyone you meet! Ask Me how you can tell your friends, acquaintances, and all you meet about this good news—about the one who can make a difference in their lives.

I have not forgotten you

I see your tears. I see your despair and sense of hopelessness and loss in the midst of your times of trouble. But no matter how you feel, remember that I care! I am not far away, on another planet or in another country. I am right here with you. I never sleep or am absent. I am always beside you, and My Spirit is always within you to comfort you. You just need to draw close to Me and receive My love and comfort.

I know you have great needs right now and life is a struggle. I hold out My arms to you and call you to come to Me, so that I can wipe away your tears and calm your fears.

I care for each of My children, and I will care for you. Whenever you call, I always answer. I have in My hands the priceless gift of My peace that will be like a warm blanket that will melt away your fears.

With My presence and peace, you never have to worry or fear, not even about dying, because My children come to My beautiful mansion in heaven when they die, where there are no poor or oppressed people, and no one is forgotten or neglected.

I love you and I care about you. I will never leave you or forget about you, because I love and care for each one of My children as if they were the only one. Though conditions about you may be dark and turbulent, I will care for you. I will give you peace in the midst of the storm, light in the midst of darkness, joy in the midst of sorrow, hope in the midst of despair. Though you may be surrounded by calamity, I will give you strength of spirit and bring peace to your heart.

When your life on earth is coming to a close, you can rejoice that your suffering will not last long. Because you know and love Me, I will call you to come home to My house, where I will wipe away your tears. I will spread a wonderful feast before you, and you will be clothed in joy forever.

Think about these wonderful truths when you are tempted to despair or lose hope. Remember that I am the God of all hope1 and I am never far from you, My precious child.

Beauty from the ashes

Your life has been touched by sorrow. You know what loss means. Your heart aches. Your spirit is low. You’ve seen how from one day to the next a life can drastically change—or end. Someone who was here yesterday could be gone tomorrow.

I know about suffering and I understand loss. I experienced these Myself. I walk with you in your times of grief and loss. I am right there with you.

In the day-to-day rush of normal life, it’s easy to let your relationship with Me be pushed aside and neglected. At times like this, though, the things that truly matter become more obvious, as well as the realization of how much you need Me. You’ve seen how the people you love and count on most can’t always be there for you. My love is the constant in your life, and the only thing that will never change, no matter what you experience. I am always here for you.

When you trust in Me, you will be able to see the good effects of everything you experience in your life, even in the worst of times. If you let Me open your spiritual eyes, you’ll see that there is always something to be thankful for, and you’ll discover the power of gratefulness, which can lift you out of the depths of sorrow and despair.

Count your blessings, even if you can only think of one, and thank Me for it. When you praise Me in the darkest times, it can bring a sense of peace to your heart. When you thank Me for the good in your life, you are, in essence, acknowledging My presence. Therefore, you put yourself in a good spiritual position—one where faith and peace and inner strength that you could never find within yourself become available to you.

If you’re having a hard time thinking of something you can be thankful for right now, I understand. It is difficult. But I encourage you to remind yourself there’s always someone who has lost more or suffered more than you. It’s only natural to be focused on your own sorrow and loss, but if you can take the plunge to look beyond that and think about what you can do for others, you will find that in giving to others you find comfort for your own heart. I fill the giving and caring heart with genuine love—more than enough for itself—so it can continue to share with others.

I love you and I can make it possible for you to have a complete and beautiful life, no matter what happens or what goes wrong. If you have faith, all things are possible, no matter how impossible the situation may look.

Lean harder on Me now in your time of need. My arms are strong enough to hold you up. My shoulders are broad enough to carry the weight of all your sorrows. Come to Me, talk with Me, and open your heart to Me.

Let Me help you and give you hope. Let Me show you the good, even if it’s through your tears. Let Me show you how you can love and comfort others, even when it seems you have little or nothing to give. Let Me help you pick up the broken pieces of your life and make something beautiful of them. Let Me help you rebuild your life on a solid foundation, one that will last when all else fails.

I am here for you always and forever, and I will love you for all eternity.

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If you haven’t yet experienced a personal relationship with Jesus, He wants to become a very real part of your life both here and now and forever in eternity. He stands at your heart’s door, waiting for you to open the door and invite Him into your life.2 You can do so by praying this prayer:

Jesus, please forgive me for all my sins. I believe that You died for me and rose from the dead. I open the door to my heart and I invite You into my life. Please fill me with Your love and Holy Spirit, help me get to know You, and guide me in the way of truth. Amen.

Published on Anchor June 2021. Read by Jerry Paladino.
Music by Michael Dooley. https://anchor.tfionline.com/post/just-you/


1 Romans 15:13.

2 See Revelation 3:20.

Sunday, June 20, 2021

O poder do louvor é incrível!


Sempre há muito para o Diabo reclamar e ele realmente tenta, mas quando o desânimo surgir, olhe para cima. Temos que fazer um esforço consciente para repreender o Diabo e, em vez disso, ter pensamentos bons e positivos! O Senhor é capaz de afugentar todas as sombras, todas as dúvidas, medos e mentiras do Inimigo. Mas precisamos fazer nossa parte.

Seja positivo! Conte suas bênçãos! Agradeça a Deus por tudo o que Ele fez e apenas afugente o Diabo, todas as suas sombras da noite, deixando a luz entrar, a luz positiva de Deus nas Escrituras, a Palavra, oração, louvor e canções! Qualquer coisa que possamos fazer para ocupar nossa mente completamente com o pensamento positivo pode nos ajudar à vitória! "Tudo o que é verdade, tudo o que é honesto, tudo o que é justo, tudo o que é puro, tudo o que é lindo, tudo o que é de boa fama; se houver alguma virtude, e se houver algum elogio, pense nessas coisas. " [Filipenses 4: 8]

É uma espécie de terapia de trabalho. É uma terapia de oração e louvor. É uma terapia bíblica. É uma terapia de música e hino. Tudo isso ajuda a afastar as sombras da noite com as quais o Inimigo nos ataca. Se estamos pensando no Senhor e colocando-O no centro do foco de nossa concentração e consciência, isso empurra o Diabo e todas as suas dúvidas, mentiras e medos para as periferias externas. Não podemos pensar em ambos ao mesmo tempo.

Portanto, continue acreditando e louvando até ter a vitória!

The Power of Positive Praise is Terrific!


There is always plenty for the Devil to pick on and he really tries, but when discouragement strikes, look up. We have to make a conscious effort to rebuke the Devil and think positive, good thoughts instead! The Lord is able to chase all the shadows away, all of the doubts and fears and lies of the Enemy. But we need to do our part.

Get positive! Count your blessings! Thank God for all He has done and just chase the Devil away, all his shades of night by letting the light in, God's positive light of Scripture, the Word, prayer, praise, and songs! Anything we can do to occupy our mind completely with positive thinking can help us to victory! "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoeverthings are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things." [Philippians 4:8]

It's a kind of work therapy. It's a prayer and praise therapy. It's a Scriptural therapy. It's a song and hymn therapy. All these help chase away the shades of night that the Enemy attack us with. If we are thinking about the Lord and putting Him in the center focal point of our concentration and our consciousness, then this pushes the Devil and all his doubts and lies and fears into the outer fringes. We cannot think about both at the same time.

Therefore, "Keep on believing and praise your way through" to victory!

Ivermectin Studies in Mexico, Peru, and India Show Positive Results

Dennis Edwards: The mainstream media, mainstream medical system and mainstream international agenda is the pushing of the experimental gene modifcation injection as the only solution to the Covid problem. But we do not know the secondary long term effects of these injections. Instead of experimental and possibly unsafe injections, we could be using ivermectin: a safe, cheap, and effective medicine against Covid 19. But ivermectin does not fill the corporate pharmaceutical industry with billions of dollars, nor does it have the negative secondary effects we are seeing from the injections. In America alone, on its voluntary adverse report system "VARS," which usually receives or has registered only about 1% of the actual adverse events, there has been already acknowledged over 5,000 deaths from the Covid -19 vaccines. If that 5,000+ number was actualy 10% of the death events, rather than 1% (which is believed to be an accurate estimate of the events that are actually registered in the VARS database), then over 50,000 American have died as a results of the Covid -19 "vaccines." However, the death rate from the vaccine could be much higher, if the 1% estimate is near to accurate. 

Some 58,220 American boys died in Vietnam over a 10 year period, and we protested against the war. Why are we not seeing an out cry against the Covid -19 "vaccines" if 50,000+ have already died from them? Is it because the public have been mentalized to believe that the "vaccines" are safe? Are "vaccine" deaths being attributed to natural or other causes rather than to the "vaccines" themselves? Who will tell us why the "vaccines" are being pushed so vehemently even now with the many adverse effects and deaths related to the injection? Does anyone have the answer?

God's word has forewarned us that in the "last days" an evil One World government would arise just prior to the return of Christ. The Church Fathers from the Apostles down through Justin Martyr, Jerome, Augustine, etc with one voice echoed the warning of the ancient prophets, the warning of Jesus, and Apostles Peter, Paul, and John. 

"Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived." - Apostle Paul [2 Timothy 3:13] In other words, there are in fact evil men who are working to deceive others. They are pushing for a One World government from which the Bible predicts will arise the final Antichrist dictator.

"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect." - Jesus [Matthew 24:24] In Jesus' Endtime discourse he warned that deception would be one of the main signs of the end leading up the the great tribulation which will occur during the time of the Antichrist.

"For thy (Babylon the Whore's] merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries (pharmakeia) were all nations deceived." Apostle John [Revelation 18:23b] In the revelation that Jesus gave to Apostle John we see again that the world is deceived by the great men of the earth. The word "sorceries" in the original Greek is written "pharmakeia" and has a meaning as to deceive through the use of drugs, or drug-related deception. Could there be some correlation between the pharmaceutical industries and the deception being perpetrated against the peoples of the world? Why are the great men of the earth like Bill Gates and Durão Barroso involved in pharmaceutics? Who is orchesting the mass "vaccination" program worldwide? Is there something more to the rush too get everyone vaccinated? Is it just for the money? Or is there a deeper, more sinister motivation?

"And (the false prophet) deceives them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast." - Apostle John [Revelation 13:14a] Again we see that mass decption will be taking place at the time of the end. Are we really "awoke?"

"And he brought me into the inner court of the Lord's house, and behold, at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east....Then he said unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city." Prophet Ezekiel [Ezekiel  8:16 & 11:2] Again we see it is the rich influential leadership of the city and or country who are deceiving others. In the above quote the men have their backs to God and are worshipping "Nature" as God. As a result of our rejection of the true God of the Bible, men misrepresent the Bible message and end up worshipping the creation rather than the Creator of that creation. The results of the rejection of the true God leads to the gender correct LBTG rainbow people movement as seen in Apostle Paul's discourse to the Christian community in Rome in his letter to the Romans chapter one.

"Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?" [Psalm 94:16] God wants us to stand up and be heard. He wants us to speak out against iniquity. We are the salt of the earth, but if we have lost our convictions and don't warn the wicked of their wicked ways we are guilty with them. [Ezekiel 3:17-19]

"But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent bequilded Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ....For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works." Apostle Paul [2 Corinthians 11:3, 13-15] Apostle Paul, warning just like Jesus did, that we be not deceived by the slick methods of the Evil One and his convincing ministers. Could Dr. Antoio Fauci be one of the many "ministers of righteousness" leading us to destruction?

"You are of your father the Devil, and the lusts of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it." [John 8:44] Jesus talking to the religious leaders of his day calls them liars, children of the father of lies, the Devil. Are the people who are lying to us followers of Satan? Are we actually experiencing the satanic conspiracy of the last days?

"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him." [Revelation 12:9] Has the whole world been deceived into believing a lying narrative, used by the powers that be to gain a greater control over the peoples of the world. 

Please pray and find out what God wants you to do to warn others. In your warning, bring them to the source of truth: Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life. Then they are the Lord's and you can work together to warn and help others and we will soon have a snowballing effect.

"Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature." Jesus [Mark 16:15]

"And the things that you have heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also." Apostle Paul [2 Timothy 2:2]

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