Food for Thoughts

This is Saturday June 14^th, 2008

Good morning and may you have an inspiring and fulfilling day.

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Quotes for the Day:

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell
1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist

Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy.
Gretta Brooker Palmer

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German Statesman, Philologist

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Today’s Thoughts

WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW YOUR FUTURE?

Pt. 2 (cont. from pt 1)- --Here It Is!--The Events of things to come!

10. DURING THIS TRIBULATION PERIOD, 10 "KINGS" WILL JOIN THE ANTICHRIST & TOGETHER THEY WILL DESTROY & "DEVOUR WITH FIRE BABYLON, THE GREAT WHORE".--A final judgement which, according to many Scriptures, sounds like the 10 leading nations of Europe, such as we find in the European Economic Community, uniting with Russia & turning on America in a nuclear first-strike that will destroy her in one hour! (<\\Dan.11:38,39,43&&PUB=Dan:11:38^6>; <\\Rev.17:12,16,17&&PUB=Rev:17:12^6>; <\\18:1-10,17-19&&PUB=rev:18:1^19>.)

11. THIS GREAT ATOMIC WAR, ALONG WITH THE ANTICHRIST'S WORLDWIDE SUPPRESSION & PERSECUTION OF ALL WHO REFUSE TO WORSHIP HIM, will make this Great Tribulation period a time of trouble such as the World has never known! That's why God, in His Word, repeatedly tells us how long this period of Great Tribulation will last--exactly 3-1/2 years, or 42 months, or 1260 days from the time that the Antichrist sets up his Image in the Temple--to encourage us to hang on & keep going for Him! (<\\Dan.12:1&&PUB=Dan:12:1^>; <\\Mt.24:21,22&&PUB=Mat:24:21^2>; <\\Dan.7:25&&PUB=Dan:7:25^>; <\\9:27&&PUB=dan:9:27^>; <\\12:7&&PUB=dan:12:7^>; <\\Rev.11:2,3&&PUB=Rev:11:2^2>; <\\ <\\12:6,14&&PUB=rev:12:6^9>; <\\13:5&&PUB=rev:13:5^>.)

12. BECAUSE AT THE END OF THAT LAST 3-1/2 YEARS, JUST WHEN THE FIENDISH ANTICHRIST THINKS HE HAS THE WORLD IN HIS GRASP, suddenly--BOOM!--like a bolt from the blue, Jesus will return & snatch all of His children out of this World! Just after that darkest night in World History we are going to have the brightest dawn!--Jesus is going to come back & rescue His Own, His Church, His people, everyone who loves Him & knows Him & has Him in their hearts! (<\\Mt.24:29-31&&PUB=Mat:24:29^3>)

13. ALL OF THE CHRISTIANS WHO HAVE ALREADY DIED & GONE ON TO BE WITH JESUS will come back with Him to pick up their new resurrection bodies!--And "the Earth shall cast out her dead!" (<\\Isa.26:19&&PUB=Isa:26:19^>) Then we who are alive & remain, having miraculously survived & kept witnessing for Jesus throughout the Antichrist's reign of terror, will instantly be changed, transformed, as we receive our new, miraculous, powerful, supernatural, resurrection bodies--just like Jesus' body after He was resurrected!--And up we'll sail towards the sky, "to meet the Lord in the air: & so shall we ever be with the Lord!" (<\\1Th.4:14-17&&PUB=1Thes:4:14^4>; <\\1Co.15:51-57&&PUB=1Cor:15:51^7>; <\\Ph.3:21&&PUB=Phi:3:21^>.)

14. ALL OF OUR ANTI-CHRIST ENEMIES WILL BE SHOCKED AS THEY SEE THE LORD COMING IN THE CLOUDS of Heaven with power & great glory, lighting up the whole sky like permanent lightning!--The powers of the Heavens shaken!--The Lord descending with a great shout!--A terrific blast on the trumpet of God!--Graves of the saints bursting open as the dead are raised!--And all of God's children who are still alive transformed before their eyes, flying upwards to meet Jesus! "Every eye shall see Him & all the kindreds of the Earth shall wail because of Him!" (<\\Mt.24:27-31&&PUB=Mat:24:27^5>; <\\Rev.1:7&&PUB=Rev:1:7^>)

15. JESUS WILL COME BACK TO CATCH HIS BRIDE, HIS CHURCH, OUT OF THE EVIL CLUTCHES OF THE ENEMY & then whisk us away to the grandest, most glorious & thrilling wedding party that's ever been held, the great Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven! Then, right after the Lord rescues & raptures us to be with Him, the horrific Seven Vials of the great Wrath of God are going to be poured out upon the Antichrist & his people in horrible, terrible plagues such as the World has never known! (<\\Rev.19:6-9&&PUB=Rev:19:6^4>; <\\14:14-20&&PUB=rev:14:14^7>; <\\16:11-21&&PUB=rev:16:11^11>.)

16. GOD'S GONNA POUR OUT HIS JUDGEMENTS & HORRORS & WRATH UPON THE ANTICHRIST & HIS FORCES to punish & sock it to'm with what they deserve!--Until the final Wrath of all, when the wicked gather together at Armageddon in Israel to try to fight the very forces of God. Then Jesus Himself, along with His resurrected, glorified, Heavenly forces, will return to Earth again on majestic white chargers out of Heaven to utterly defeat & destroy the Antichrist & his forces in the supernatural, catastrophic Battle of Armageddon! (<\\Rev.19:11-21&&PUB=Rev:19:11^11>; <\\17:14&&PUB=rev:17:14^>; <\\16:12-21&&PUB=rev:16:12^10>.)

17. THEN WE, THE SAINTS OF GOD, ALONG WITH OUR KING JESUS CHRIST, WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD & ORGANISE IT & RULE IT & RUN IT THE WAY IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN RUN if man had yielded to God! We're going to set up the Kingdom of God on Earth & restore the Earth to the beauty of the Garden of Eden again! This amazing period will last for one thousand years & therefore it is known as The Millennium! (<\\Dan.2:44&&PUB=Dan:2:44^>; <\\7:18,26,27&&PUB=dan:7:18^10>; <\\Rev.20:4&&PUB=Rev:20:4^>.)

18. HE SAYS, "BLESSED & HOLY IS HE THAT HATH PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION (The Rapture): On such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God & of Christ, & shall reign with Him a thousand years!" (<\\Rev.20:6&&PUB=Rev:20:6^>) Jesus also promised to His faithful ones, "He that overcometh, & keepeth My words unto the End, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron." (<\\Rev.2:26,27&&PUB=Rev:2:26^2>) (cont. in pt. 3)

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Prayer Requests

Below is a list of Twelve Steps for having Effective Prayer and receiving God’s answers. Please refer to this often and follow them. They will help your faith to getting answers from the Lord.

1. Have a praiseful, thankful attitude

2. Start with a clean heart

3. Pray for God's will to be done

4. Put the needs of others ahead of your own

5. Be specific

6. Be wholehearted

7. Exercise your faith

8. Pray in the name of Jesus

9. Claim God's Word

10. Refuse to doubt

11. Count it done

12. Thank God for answering

Our spiritual enemy, the Devil, really fights us, but as long as we keep fighting back, he can’t win. It brings to mind a song we learnt to sing for when the going got tough:

Keep on believing; God answers prayer.

Keep on believing; He’s still up there.

Sorrows and troubles will soon disappear:

Nothing can harm you when Jesus is near.

Keep on believing; the storm will pass,

Look for the rainbow; ’twill come at last.

Trust in His promise: ’twas written for you.

Keep on believing and praise your way through!

The original lyrics say, “Keep on believing and pray your way through,” but a woman of God we learned from was a great one for praise so she sang it, “Praise your way through.” That’s how you get the victory! If you believe in prayer, you’re going to start praising the Lord for answering your prayers even before you see those answers

· Again thank you for your continued prayers for Kerri and she wants to let everyone know that she is very thankful for your concern and prayers for her. She is continuing to improve. Due to demands at her job she had to go back to work today after missing the 4 previous days but she was feeling much better and stronger. It’s amazing how it was like the day after I put out the prayer request for her that the Lord began restoring her to better health. Amazing and encouraging! Thank the Lord!

On going prayer list.

I am going to list below the prayer requests that are ongoing. That is, we are still praying for these people and their needs while we wait for the Lord’s answers.

1. Please pray for Nick and his wife Sue. Sue is 7 weeks pregnant and has been told that there is a 90% chance her baby is seriously brain damaged. They are waiting for some test results. They already have 2 children and one is a Downe`s baby.

2. Please also pray for Cora who has been suffering from breast cancer for 5 years . She now has a lump in her neck and it was found to be malignant.”