Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. (1 Thessalonians 4:11-12)
Two years ago I wrote and published an article about how the United States of America is in the same moral state today as the nations God judged and destroyed in 722 B.C. God called Jeremiah to testify to the truth about what was about to happen, that Jerusalem and many of the surrounding nations were about to be destroyed, and he warned Jeremiah that the opposition would fight back hard against him. But God promised to be with him during those difficult times and rescue him. He was told that the days were so evil, that he was not to take a wife and raise a family. When Jeremiah began to tell people the truth, he was opposed by his own family, and by the religious leaders of his time, including other prophets, who tried to silence him. Does this sound familiar to anyone reading this? Do you see any parallels between what Jeremiah suffered, and how people telling the truth today are suffering also, even from their own family members? The reason why so many people opposed Jeremiah was be
Rick Hoyt, who became a national symbol of hope and inspiration to millions, died a few weeks ago due to complications with his respiratory system, as he had cerebral palsy, which left him a quadriplegic when he was born. His father, Dick Hoyt, and co-teammate of Team Hoyt who competed in the Boston Marathon for years, as well as other competitions such as the Ironman Triathlon, died in 2021. If you have never heard the story of Dick Hoyt and his son Rick Hoyt before, then read on and be blessed. It is a tremendous story about not listening to all the negative things this world tries to tell us, especially in the medical field, and how faith can overcome many obstacles the world puts in your way.
Paul's letter written to the believers in the Roman city of Philippi in the First Century and recorded in the Bible, was written from prison where Paul was incarcerated at the time. Not only did Paul not consider his imprisonment negative, he stated that the truth about Jesus was spreading even more in the area because of his imprisonment, and that it gave courage to others to take a stand for the truth. Paul made it very clear that true faith in Jesus Christ, which puts us at odds with the world system run by Satan, would result in suffering, as suffering is our calling as true disciples of Jesus Christ. A true disciple of Jesus will always suffer from not participating in the sins of the Satanic world system. This truth, for the most part, is not taught in American Christianity today. If a member of a Christian church is arrested and incarcerated today, or if the state takes away their children and accuses them of neglecting or abusing their children, in almost every case the Ch
Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things God's wrath comes on those who are disobedient. Therefore do not be partners with them. For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. For it is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible, for it is light that makes everything visible.