June 2010 – Page 10 – SB SALT AND LIGHT MINISTRIES

We as Christians are all pilgrims, and we are on assignment…

As Christians, we are ALL but pilgrims, who are just

passing through, and this world is NOT our home!

We are here on a mission from God…

Matthew 28:19-20

¹⁹ Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, ²⁰ teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.

There is another scripture that comes to mind, that tells us not to lose hope, because regardless of what we might feel, or think, given any given situation, be it trial, tribulation, or whatever, God’s has nevertheless given us His word never to leave us, nor forsake us:

Hebrews 13:5-6 (Amplified Bible)

⁵Let your ^[a]character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] ^[b]Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor ^[c]give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, ^[d][I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor ^[e]let [you] down (^[f]relax My hold on you)! [^[g]Assuredly not!]^(A)

⁶So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me?^(B)

Below is another important message from Reinhard Bonnke, concerning our postion in Christ.

This information is imperative for each of us to understand, for as Christians, at least for those of us who have been around awhile, we have heard these scriptures since Sunday school, and we know them by heart; but that does not at all mean that we have experienced the reality of what these scriptures are saying; and it doesn’t at all mean that this truth has settled into our lives, in our hearts, to the point that we are walking in this truth 24/7, every single day that we live in this world.

The reason I know this to be true is because the moment we have any sort of difficulty, and the rug is pulled out from beneath us, the first thought most of us have, and the first words out of our mouth are, “God where are you?”

Well, as I recall those words where also the first words out of God’s mouth, as well, when Adam and Eve had partaken of the forbidden fruit in the Garden.

Genesis 3:7-9

⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

⁸ Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden. ⁹
But the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”

One thing that becomes very evident to all of us, once we have spent some time with the Lord, after having spent time meditating and studying in His Word, and after having familiarized ourselves with His ways, and the way He thinks, all through the teaching of our Comforter and Friend, the Holy Spirit, is that life is ALL about our having relationship, communion, and our being one with God.

Without that added dimension being experienced and lived in each of our lives, then we are ALL like fish out of water, floundering on the beach of life!

Just in case you haven’t already notice, life being what it is, and human nature being what it is, God has a method and a reason for everything that He does, and nothing (including your life) is by accident, and nor is it without purpose!

Not only that, but we can learn from scripture that every detail of our life has long ago been choreographed, and predestined; and not a day goes by but God is not aware of where you are, and what you are going through.

Our problem is, we spend way too much time, and wasted energy, worrying and fretting over our life, and all because we are questioning whether or not God has left us, and whether our sins have separated us?

But this is the reason why we ALL need a Saviour, and it is also the reason why Jesus came to this earth, was born of a virgin, was crucified, died, and was buried, and on the third day He arose from the dead.

That one Life is the reason why we needn’t worry nor fret over anything in life, nor should we ever doubt our Father’s love, nor His presence in our life.

Listen to these words of Jesus:

Matthew 6:25-34

Do Not Worry

²⁵ “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?

²⁶ Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them.

Are you not of more value than they? ²⁷ Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?

²⁸ “So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; ²⁹ and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

³⁰ Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?

³¹ “Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. ³³
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

This is both the inheritance and the destiny of every single Believer, every child of God, of all those who love the Lord, and are called according to His purpose for their life… who have been born-again.

Herein lies the rub, however, this inheritance is already ours, and it has already been bought and paid for in full, by the Blood of Jesus; however, we must accept it and receive it by FAITH!

This thing called faith is the stumbling block for many of us, until we learn how to walk in it; and it is for that reason that our lives are fraught with so many trials and difficulties, because therein is our opportunity to lay hold of God’s promise, and appropriate those promises in our life; and apply them to our lives, and to our circumstances.

Even as happened with the three Hebrew children that we can read about in the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who when given the choice whether to compromise their faith and their relationship with God, or to face the fiery furnace, they chose the fiery furnace, and it wasn’t until they were in the furnace that they experience the fulfillment and manifestation of God’s promise, and were delivered… and so it is with us!

We must learn to live by faith! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Radiation Area

The presence of God is a radiation area, not a contaminating radiation, not radioactive, but resurrection-active, a life-building energy passing into us.

We are constantly in His presence, not just when we pray. He made that clear when He promised, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

It is not the full glory to come, but it is no ordinary presence even now.

Many a time, I am conscious of Jesus Christ close to me as I speak for Him in our Great Gospel Crusades. It has been as if I saw Him walk from the platform among the crowd wherever people were reaching out for Him.

He did and does wonders of salvation, restoration, and healing.

When our faith rises, we have a sense of His presence that no human contact can ever surpass.

A friend may be with us and even embrace us. But the presence of Christ means that He pours Himself towards us, upon us, pervading our whole being with an active, dynamic effect, felt or not.

God bless,

REINHARD BONNKE

Posted 6.03.10 at 2:12am on Facebook

The deceiving of America…

Question: is Obama our modern day Manchurian Candidate?

Has he been groomed; is he here on a mission; and is he following orders from outside handlers, as was the plot of this 1962 movie?

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the story, The Manchurian Candidate is a story about a soldier who is captured by the Red Chinese, during the Korean war (in 1952).

After having been brainwashed by the Communist Chinese, he is repatriated back to America, where he is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, for valour in rescuing his platoon, while under fire.

The only problem is, the other survivors of that patrol, including his commanding officer, are all plagued with dreams that seem to suggest that things did not occur as they remembered.

In short the man is not what he claimed to be!

Is that the case with this man Barack Hussein Obama?

Please watch the following video:

As I see it, the main problem we have here in the United States is not so much in the leadership that we have elected to represent us.

They are only the symptom of the underlining host of problems that we have, as a nation.

Our deeper problem is that we have a public today who has been so programmed by the media and by our secular education system, to where they no longer know how to think for themselves.

Under normal circumstances, if this were happening under any other circumstances, other than with the President of the United States; and if there was this much evidence against a person, and they refused to provide proof to invalidate the charges that were being brought against them; especially when all they have to do is produce certain documents that are common to any citizen, which you and I have had to produce any number of times; there is no way we would allow such a person to continue with this sort of charade!

Has America been given over by God, as we read in the Book of Romans, to believe a lie… I hope not! But we better do some serious praying.

Shalom,

Skip Barland

An Answered Prayer…

An Answered Prayer
I asked for strength,
And God gave me difficulties to make me strong;

I asked for wisdom,
And God gave me problems to learn to solve;

I asked for prosperity,
And God gave me brain and brawn to work;

I asked for courage,
And God gave me dangers to overcome;

I asked for love,
And God gave me people to help;

I asked for favours,
And God gave me opportunities.

I received nothing I wanted – I received everything I needed.

My prayer has been answered!

The above poem points out a very important lesson in life, for the Covenant Child of God.

How ironic and amazing are the paradoxes of life; where we pray for God’s favor and blessing, and we get challenges and trials; where we pray for success and riches, only to find ourselves humbled, burdened, and troubled.

It is ironic for the reason, that unbeknownst to a lot of people, who possibly have not familiarized themselves well enough with the ways of the Lord, from having meditated upon and studied His word, that God has been answering their prayers all along, and has been doing so in the affirmative!

Consider for a moment the examples given in the Manual for Life (the Holy Bible), in how often God has purposefully and intentionally allowed and sometimes even led His Children into tribulations and problems.

The oldest book in the Bible is the Book of Job, and in it we are given a glimpse behind the veil, were we find the Accuser of the Brethren , Satan standing in God’s presence; where we are privy to hear the following discourse:

Job 1:6-12

“Where have you come from?” The Lord says to Satan.

And Satan answered, “I have been patrolling the earth, watching everything that’s going on.”

Then the Lord asked Satan, “Have you noticed my servant Job? He is the finest man in all the earth. He is blameless—a man of complete integrity. He fears God and stays away from evil.”

To which Satan replies, “Yes, but Job has good reason to fear God. You have always put a wall of protection around him and his home and his property. You have made him prosper in everything he does. Look how rich he is! But reach out and take away everything he has and he will surely curse you to your face!”

Then the Lord said, “All right, you may test him; do whatever you want with everything he possesses; but don’t harm him physically.”

So Satan left the Lord’s presence.

Then we have Father Abraham, who is asked by God to take his wife Sarah, and his entire household, servants, possessions, and all, and travel to a new land, but without God saying where or how long it would take. That was the first test, to see if Abraham would even obey.

After all, it was no small thing, (and neither would it be today) to just pick up and leave the security and comfort of your home and family, and travel to some distant land, and not even know where you are going.

God didn’t given him a travel itinerary, but merely told him to leave his family and home, and that He would tell Him when he had arrived at his new home.

To make matters worse, when he arrived in the “Promised Land” he found himself having to live in tents; and to make matters even worse, he landed right in the middle of a famine… with no food!

I’m also sure that Sarah was not exactly thrilled by all of this, but you will please note that she followed him anyway.

Then what does Abraham do? He takes it upon himself, now facing starvation, for lack of food to feed his family, to go into Egypt; however he did not consult with God, but took it upon himself to do this.

The result was he ended up prostituting his wife, not once, but twice, just to save his own skin.

As it happened, he found out, upon arriving in Egypt, that pharaoh had this thing for attractive women, and was known to kill their husbands, so that he could keep their wives for himself; and so Abraham, in order to avoid being killed, he told pharaoh that Sarah was his sister, not his wife.

And still Sarah stayed with him, even after that!

Well, as we read our Bible, we can find story after story, and example after example just like this, and this is true all throughout the Bible of how God would allow his children to be tested, to suffer lack, and to be in difficult situations, in order to test them, and to see if they would obey Him or not?

We find this happening many times, even in the New Testament.

For example, when Jesus purposely sent His disciples into a storm, and then came walking out to them on water; or the time when Jesus was fast asleep, and the disciples thought they were about to sink; or the time when Jesus told his disciples to feed over 5000 people, with only five loaves of bread and two fish.

All of these are examples for us to learn from; because God is not about making us comfortable and at ease; but rather God’s purpose in all of this, is to prepare us for service in His Army, in His Kingdom, and for eternity, as members of His Chosen Family!

What a privilege it is to be included in this group, and to have this opportunity presented to us. We must first be born-again; but then afterward, unless we understand the goal, and the culture of heaven, after having read our “Operations Manual” (our Bible), then we are inevitably are walking blind and are severely handicapped.

The above poem points this truth out; and it also shows us that even though we may feel as though the reason why our lives are so hard is because God has forgotten us, which by the way is what Satan is hoping we will believe; but the reality is and the truth, is that God is closer to us in the fire, than at any other time. Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!

Keep America Strong…

Let us PRAY for our country,

and pray for our troops!

Meet Colonel Van T. Barefoot

The following article (see below), that was forwarded to me by a friend and brother in the Lord, a retired Admiral, and it brings up a very serious problem that we have in America!

Let me start by quoting a verse of Scripture that is a WARNING from God:

Deuteronomy 8:11-20
¹¹ “Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God by not keeping His commandments, His judgments, and His statutes which I command you today.
¹² Lest—when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them;
¹³ and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold are multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; ¹⁴ when your heart is lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Who delivered you from the house of bondage; ¹⁵ who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and scorpions and a thirsty land where there was no water; who brought water for you out of the flinty rock; ¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, to do you good in the end
— ¹⁷ then you say in your heart,

‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’

¹⁸ “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.

¹⁹ Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the LORD your God, and follow other gods, and serve them and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

²⁰ As the nations which the LORD destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the LORD your God.

Our country today is filled with a people, who because of the many blessings of God, which I might add we have inherited and have been passed down to us because of the faith of our forefather, they have in fact forgotten God; not only that, but they have rejected His Word; rejected His laws; and are today making every effort to remove any mention of Him from our society.

We have a nation today whose people are exactly the sort of people this scripture is talking about!

Again, I point my finger not at the atheist and agnostics, as the guilty culprits, as they are only doing what comes natural; but rather I point my finger at the Church, as the responsible party here.

I think a little history is in order. Don’t you understand that we owe our existence, as a free republic, to the colonial church of the 1700’s, when our country was birthed during a great spiritual awakening (1730-60)?

They are the ones who formed our Constitutional Republic in the first place; and the main instigators which caused people of that period to take up arms against mother England also came from the pulpit!

Oh how far we have fallen, from where we began!

At this point, there is another warning that I would like to direct your attention to:

Cycle of Democracy

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury.

“From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.

“The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence:

from bondage to spiritual faith;
from spiritual faith to great courage;
from courage to liberty;
from liberty to abundance;
from abundance to selfishness;
from selfishness to apathy;
from apathy to dependence;
from dependency back again into bondage.”

Dr. Alexander Tytler, a Scot professor, wrote a scholarly tome, from which this concept comes, called “The Athenian Republic” which was published shortly before the thirteen American colonies gained independence from Britain. “Google” him to learn more.

In publishing a handout on the “Cycle” in 1994 I noted that the national debt had reached a staggering $4.5 trillion dollars. By October 1, 2007, it had soared to $9.06 trillion!

Barely one year later (Oct. 17, ’08) it was $10.3 trillion!!

On April 22nd, 2009, another trillion dollars of debt had been added raising the public debt to $11.3 trillion.

Our forebears thought of debt as slavery. They would be shocked at what their descendants have done. – – John Wrisley.

It grieves me to have to say this, but the bulk of the unchurched people today, in our country, who have yet to have an encounter with Jesus Christ, they have been raised in a secular and godless society, and because of these facts they know no other way; and because of this, there is no longer a sense of the Fear of the Lord, that our forefathers once had; and by fear I mean reverence, awe, and respect.

Today’s morality is no longer based upon the Bible, from which our entire legal system comes; but it is based on individual preference, where each person does what seems right in their own mind, with no regard to anything God has to say.

This is a BIG mistake folks; and the reason we can know that there is a serious adjustment coming, a proverbial swat across our country’s posterior; is because God has promised certain things when His covenant children fail to honor Him, and fail to follow His laws.

Now I’d also like to say that the reason God does this, is not to destroy us, not yet anyway (God’s wrath will be poured out a little later); but for the time being, we are still living in a dispensation of grace, where we still have time to repent. That window, however, is getting smaller and smaller with the passing of every day!

So now the reason God chastens His children is because He loves us, and He is trying to get our attention! And it’s not only the attention of the unbelievers He is after; but He is also trying to wake up the church, consisting of those people who are called by His name; that they would humble themselves and pray; that they would turn from their wicked ways and repent (meaning to change the way they think); and that they would once again seek after God’s face! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland

From: Norman
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:46 PM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Fw: worth reading FW: A Special Hero

—– Forwarded Message —-

Subject: Hero… a real one!

Head east from Carthage on Mississippi 16 toward Philadelphia. After a few

miles a sign says you’re in Edinburg.

It’s a good thing the sign’s there, because there’s no other way to tell.

On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg — probably didn’t

Make much news back then.

Twenty-five years later, on May 23,1944, near Carano, Italy, Van T. Barfoot,

who had enlisted in the Army in 1940, set out to flank German machine gun

positions from which fire was coming down on his fellow soldiers.

He advanced through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun positions and returned with 17 prisoners of war.

If that wasn’t enough for a day’s work, he later took on and destroyed three

German tanks sent to retake the machine gun positions.

That probably didn’t make much news either, given the scope of the war, but it

did earn Van T. Barfoot, who retired as a colonel after also serving in Korea and

Vietnam, a Congressional Medal of Honor.

What did make news last week was a neighborhood association’s quibble with how the 90-year-old veteran chose to fly the American flag outside his suburban Virginia home.

Seems the rules said a flag could be flown on a house-mounted bracket, but for decorum, items such as Barfoot’s 21-foot flagpole were unsuitable.

He had been denied a permit for the pole, erected it anyway and was facing court action if he didn’t take it down.

Since the story made national TV, the neighborhood association has rethought its position and agreed to indulge this old hero who dwells among them.

“In the time I have left I plan to continue to fly the American flag without interference,” Barfoot told The Associated Press. As well he should.

And if any of his neighbors still takes a notion to contest him, they might want to read his Medal of Honor citation.

It indicates he’s not real good at backing down.

Van T. Barfoot’s Medal of Honor citation:

This 1944 Medal of Honor citation, listed with the National Medal of Honor

Society, is for Second Lieutenant Van T. Barfoot, 157th Infantry, 45th Infantry:

“For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life above and beyond

the call of duty on 23 May 1944, near Carano, Italy. With his platoon heavily

engaged during an assault against forces well entrenched on commanding

ground, 2d Lt. Barfoot moved off alone upon the enemy left flank.

He crawled to the proximity of 1 machinegun nest and made a direct hit on it with a hand grenade, killing 2 and wounding 3 Germans.

He continued along the German defense line to another machinegun emplacement, and with his tommygun killed 2 and captured 3 soldiers. Members of another enemy machinegun crew then abandoned their position and gave themselves up to Sgt. Barfoot.

Leaving the prisoners for his support squad to pick up, he proceeded to mop up positions

in the immediate area, capturing more prisoners and bringing his total count to 17.

Later that day, after he had reorganized his men and consolidated the newly captured ground, the enemy launched a fierce armored counterattack directly at his platoon positions.

Securing a bazooka, Sgt. Barfoot took up an exposed position directly in front of 3 advancing Mark VI tanks. From a distance of 75 yards his first shot destroyed the track of the leading tank, effectively disabling it, while the other 2 changed direction toward the flank.

As the crew of the disabled tank dismounted, Sgt. Barfoot killed 3 of them with his tommygun. He continued onward into enemy terrain and destroyed a recently abandoned German fieldpiece with a demolition charge placed in the breech.

While returning to his platoon position, Sgt. Barfoot, though greatly fatigued by his Herculean efforts, assisted 2 of his seriously wounded men 1,700 yards to a position of safety.

Sgt. Barfoot’s extraordinary heroism, demonstration of magnificent valor, and aggressive determination in the face of point blank fire are a perpetual inspiration to his fellow soldiers.”

If you got this email and didn’t pass it on – guess what – you deserve to get your butt kicked! I sent this to you, because I didn’t want to get my butt kicked.

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE,

ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!

IN GOD WE TRUST!!!

Let us not make another mistake in 2012!!!

As Alan Keyes has said…

Democrat or Republican…

they are both two sides of the same coin.

All of these past presidents have been working for the

Globalist Bankers, and through their policies they all have

been pushing us closer and closer to a “New World Order…

Let us not elect another one in 2012!

One thing I have to say, and that is, if there is any good thing this president has done, it’s that he has driven the Christians in America to our knees in prayer; and at least from this lady’s perspective (see below), it’s working!

The only caveat I’d offer is, I’d hate to see the American people put us right back on the same old merry-go-round, and think the answer to Obama is merely to re-elect another “Bush” type republican, or someone who is a horse of a different color (or party), but who is nevertheless on the hook with the Globalist Bankers.

Democrat or Republican, it makes no difference, because as far as moving our country according to the Globalist agenda, which is a “New World Order,” both parties (Republican and Demorcrat) have been on the same page, pretty much with few exceptions, for the last 100 years.

It is time for a change folks, and by “Change” I mean we need to clean house from top to bottom, in Washington DC, and throw out these bums, these Benedict Arnolds, who have been selling our country out!

Let us not be so naive as to think that by merely switching parties, and going from Democrat to Republican, that this is going to fix anything!

May God please help the people in this country to wake up!

Again I say… Pray, let us all continue to watch and pray!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

From: David
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 9:39 AM
To: Undisclosed
Subject: Thank God for the President

Keep Praying for this president!

THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT!

Written by a 82 year old very wise lady. She gives us a whole new slant on the amazing job Obama is doing:

That is right – I will say it “THANK GOD FOR THE PRESIDENT!”

He destroyed the Clinton Political Machine – Driving a stake thru the heart of Hillary’s Presidential aspirations -something that no Republican was ever able to do. Remember when a Hillary Presidency scared the daylights out of you!

He killed off the Kennedy Dynasty – No more Kennedy’s trolling Washington looking for booze and women wanting rides home. American women and Freedom are safer tonight!

He is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes!

Dennis Moore had never lost a race – quit
Evan Bayh had never lost a race – quit
Byron Dorgan had never lost a race – quit
Harry Reid – soon to be GONE

These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed! By the end of 2010 dozens more will be gone.

In December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles they had picked up 14 senate seats and 52 house seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. In just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the house, if not the senate back to the Republicans.

He has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are. Every Generation seems to need to relearn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. He is bringing home the lesson very well.

Liberals tax, borrow and spend – check
Liberals won’t bring themselves to protect America – check
Liberals want to take over the economy – check
Liberals think they know what is best for everyone – check
Liberals aren’t happy till they are running YOUR life – check

He has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In one year he has rejuvenated the Conservative movement and brought out to the streets millions of Freedom Loving Americans. Name me one other time in your life that you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!
His amazing leadership has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a “stimulus” to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded or moved off-shore.
In all honesty one year ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life. Not of the economy but of the direction our country was going. I thought Americans had forgotten what this country was all about. My neighbors, friends and strangers proved to me that my lack of confidence of the Greatness and Wisdom of the American people was flat wrong.
When the American People wake up no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them!

Barack Obama woke up these Great Americans! Again I want to say Thank You Barack Obama! This is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed.

Life’s challenges got you down… God has a better way!!!

When lifes woes have you down,

is every reason be heaven bound;

though this world, be not our home,

life challenges carry us to His throne!

God has a better way!!!

Hillsong United
You Hold Me Now
VERSE 1:
On that day when I see
All that You have for me
When I see You face to face
There surrounded by Your grace
All my fears swept away
In the light of Your embrace
Where Your love is all I need
And forever I am freePRE CHORUS 1:
Where the streets are made of gold
In Your presence healed and whole
Let the songs of heaven
Rise to You aloneCHORUS:
No weeping no hurt or pain
No suffering You hold me now
You hold me now
No darkness no sick or lame
No hiding You hold me now
You hold me now

VERSE 2:
In this life I will stand
Through my joy and my pain
Knowing there’s a greater day
There’s a hope that never fails
Where Your Name is lifted high
And forever praises rise
For the glory of Your Name
I’m believing for the day

PRE CHORUS 2:
Where the wars and violence cease
All creation lives in peace
Let the songs of heaven
Rise to You alone

BRIDGE:
For eternity
All my heart will give
All the glory to Your Name

Have a blessed day!

Skip Barland

The Insanity of Gun Control…and the agenda that is behind it!

“I believe in Second Amendment rights and the rights of hunters and sportsmen to bear arms and use them in a responsible way. BUT I am concerned about allowing loaded firearms into family-oriented spaces.” – Barrack Hussein Obama

“Take away the heritage of a people and they are easily persuaded.” – Karl Marx

When an opponent declares, “I will come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already. You will pass on, and your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.” ~Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945) Source: 1933, quoted in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, “Education in the Third Reich”

“You are the instruments that God is going to use to bring about universal change, and that is why Barack has captured the youth. And he has involved young people in a political process that they didn’t care anything about. That’s a sign. When the “Messiah” speaks, the youth will hear, and the Messiah is absolutely speaking.” —Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan (YouTube has the video)

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)

The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party’s sharpest and most powerful weapon. – Josef Stalin Speech at The Twelfth Congress of the R.C.P.(B.) (19 April 1923)

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler (1889 – 1945)

“During his years as Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels employed a simple, but highly cynical set of rules. He said:

There is no truth, only what people believe to be true.
Control people’s perceptions of the world and you can control their beliefs.
A big lie is as believable as a small one.
Tell people what they want to hear; give them simple solutions to complex problems, enemies on whom they can blame their discontents, and promises to satisfy their narrow aspirations…

So what part of Goebbels’ cynical philosophy does not describe the overall political approach of today’s Democrat Party?” – Paul Hollra

Here are some of the things you can do with a gun:

Defend your household and protect your family
Hunt for meat to put food on the table, and feed your family
Guns are a formidable deterrent against the bad guys, who would come and rob you; and the reason they are is because the people who are prone to this behavior don’t typically like to mess with people who know how to shoot back.
From the constitutional prospective, the public’s right to bear arms has to do with our ability to arm the militia, against possible government tyranny.

These are the arguments against Control:

It violates our Second Amendment Rights, and the first reason to resist such legislation, which obviously is unconstitutional, and therefore is illegal, is to suspect the intentions of the government that is seeking to impose this legislation and take away our weapons.
In the real world, when you have gun control imposed, it is the law abiding citizens who are disadvantaged, because they are the only ones who turn in their weapons. The criminal element will not be compliant; and so therefore you end up with a situation where only the criminals are armed; and the citizen are left without a means of defense.
In the event of food shortages, which I believe are coming, you will have to resort to throwing rocks and using sticks to hunt for meat, in order to feed your family.
The most important reason against having gun control is that once such legislation is passed, we no longer have the means to take back our government from the tyrannical evil powers that would scheme to rob us of our liberties… and therein is the best reason for us not to have it!!!

In this world that we live in today, with this naive liberal mindset, that believes all that one has to do, in order to combat the evil that is in the world, is lay down our arms; and those who would do us arm would do likewise, because they now can see we mean them no arm… and then we can have world peace!

Folks, can I give you a lesson in life? The ONLY thing a bully understands is a stick that is BIGGER than theirs. Diplomacy that is not backed by the resolve to back what we say with actions, and the ability to follow throw, is not worth a dime.

What I have just described is our problem today, because it is this kind of idiocy that is prevalent in Washington DC, among our Congressional leadership today, and in the White House, that is directing our country.

Hey, what can I say… that’s my soap box speech for today!

Comments, replies, and even rebuttals are all welcomed.

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Deliver us from evil!

Deliver us from evil!

Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild Quote:”I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of England to rule the Empire … The man that controls Britain’s money supply controls the British Empire. And I control the money supply.”

Below there is a new book that is coming out that is shedding some light on an organization that is very powerful, but information on these people, and their agenda has been kept in the dark for years. Hopefully now that is changing.

Today it is very important, perhaps more so than at any other time in our history, that we follow our Lord’s advise and become wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

What we don’t know as a society and people, especially here in the United States, is definitely working against us today, as never before, to permanently undermine our Constitutional Republic, and also our sovereignty as a nation.

The Globalist agenda is to permanently replace our Constitutional Republic, an act that was first implemented back in 1871, when it first became standard government policy to lie to the American people.

That is exactly the reason why the District of Columbia was formed; because in doing so, we are now legally, considered the UNITED STATES CORPORATION, and we are legally no longer a Republic.

You want to know why Congress is no longer responsive to our wishes; it is because many of them, who are on board with this agenda, are operating as corporate officers, and as such, their first allegiance is to the corporation, not to us.

May God help this information to get out, as is happening today (thank God), with books like this one that are coming forth, into the light of day.

I pray it’s not too late for us, and that the American people will understand what is at stake here, and what these people are attempting to do to our country!

This “New World Order” agenda was first made public back in 1991, by former President George H.W. Bush; who is a product of the Skull and Bones Society, as is also his son, former President George W. Bush, Jr.

Mind you, Bush senior is also a member of the Trilateral Commission as well.

Both of these individuals are people I supported, and like most of you, I thought they were the good guys, and that they were on our side. Oh boy… was I fooled!

We can read in our Bible how Satan once offered to Jesus all the kingdoms of the world, if He would but bow to him, and worship him.

Jesus turned him down, but didn’t at all challenge his right to make the offer, and do what he had promised.

Do we not realize that this deal was also offered to others, in the past, and they didn’t turn him down?

I believe that it was; and not only that, but I believe that one of these families who are instrumental today, more than any other, in this Globalist movement, is the Rothschild’s Family Cartel, that is attempting to move us all towards a One World Government.

It is the Rothschild family who is without a doubt, the main influencing force behind all of these secret societies, that you are about to read about.

May God help us to wake up and wise up… and also let us pray for God to forgive our nation, forgive us, and that He will heal our land.

Shalom,

Skip Barland

From: WorldNetDaily [mailto:alerts@alerts.worldnetdaily.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 5:51 AM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Bilderberg investigator informing European Parliament about secretive cabal

A Free Press For A Free People

Finally, lawmakers to hear
‘Bilderberg conspiracy’
Author sees opportunity to bring ‘shadow government’ into mainstream

Once considered a “conspiracy” theory, the secretive story of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderbergs – tycoons worth more than the combined wealth of all Americans – will be told in public before the European Parliament.Author Daniel Estulin, whose work “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group” has sold millions of copies, has been invited to present an unprecedented speech before the European Parliament in Brussels June 1 on the subject of the secretive cabal.

“This is an opportunity to bring Bilderberg into the mainstream,” Estulin said. “A subject that was once considered to be in the domain of conspiracy theories is now being taken very seriously indeed.”

He was invited to speak by Mario Borghezio, Italy’s most senior member of the parliament, considered one of the most powerful legislative bodies in the world.

He compared his address there to an invitation to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress, a rare honor for anyone outside the ranks of the government.

Estulin believes the subject of the Bilderbergers never before has seen the light of day in front of such a highly respected audience.

His work will be part of a presentation titled “Bilderberg Group – Towards Creation of One World Company Ltd.,” which will include the work of Borghezio and British members Nigel Farage and Gerard Batten.

Estulin’s book, “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group,” is based on years of his work as a Madrid-based journalist and investigative reporter.

He connected the dots between the Bilderberg Group, world events, politicians and corporate tycoons, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission over a period of 15 years.

Estulin reveals how the web of people and organizations has become a “shadow government whose top priority is to erase the sovereignty of all nation-states and supplant them with global corporate control of their economies under the surveillance of ‘an electronic global police state.'”

He reveals that not all members of the group are “bad,” explaining that membership is structured like concentric circles, with varying responsibilities and relationships. But it includes almost every famous player in politics and finance, such as George W. Bush, George Soros, George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.

Estulin writes: “This parallel world remains unseen in the daily struggles of most of humanity, but, believe me, it is there: a cesspool of duplicity and lies and double-speak and innuendo and blackmail and bribery. It is a surreal world of double and triple agents, of changing loyalties, of professional psychotic assassins, brainwashed black ops agents, soldiers of fortune and mercenaries, whose primary sources of income are the dirtiest and most despicable government-run subversive missions – the kind that can never be exposed.”

He cites David Rockefeller’s own admission. Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, a Bilderberg member and board member of the CFR, wrote: “Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”

The Bilderberg Group is an annual, invitation-only conference usually with more than 100 of the globe’s most influential leaders, such as heads of state and business tycoons. It always is closed to the public and press, a privacy frequently ensured by armed agents.

The conference this year is scheduled June 3-6 in Sitges, Spain.

WND reported attendance at last year’s event included U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner; Larry Summers, the director of the U.S. National Economic Council; Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan; World Bank President Robert Zoellick; European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso.

New invitees in 2009 reportedly included Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt. Henry Kissinger, a lynchpin of continuity with other secretive internationalist groups including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission, is a regular attendee as is Wall Street Journal Editor Paul Gigot.

Former British cabinet minister Lord Denis Healey, one of the founders of the group, explained the purpose of the group to Jon Ronson of the Guardian.

“Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn’t go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless,” he said. “So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing.”

Estulin reported then his sources told him the main topic of the 2009 agenda was the world economy. He said his sources inside the group told him the movers and shakers would be discussing two options – “either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline, and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

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The world hasn’t just become wicked, it has always been wicked…

In memory of Irena Sendler

She passed away on May 12^th, 2008 – But she won’t be forgotten

This story was forwarded to me by a friend, and I think what this lady did is well worth remembering, and even passing along to others to read. I believe also that this story stands as a warning for all of us, because I believe history is about to repeat itself, if we are not careful!

I dare say that most of you, reading this, probably have never even heard of this lady. She is one of those largely uncelebrated and unheard of heroes; however, her story is absolutely amazing!

I would also like to say that this should serve as a very ominous reminder for us, and even a warning, in these days and times that we are living in today.

Jesus warned us that there was coming a time that would be the worst time in the history of the world, and that includes Nazi Germany!

For anyone with eyes to see, our present government today is going in exactly the same direction as did pre-Nazi Germany; and if we fail to learn from the lessons of history, then we will most assuredly be destined to repeat it.

Please read on and learn about this amazing woman… who is truly an amazing hero!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

From: Sher
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 3:04 AM
To: theskipper@cox.net

Subject: Fwd: Irena Sendler

There is no comment that I can think of that is APPROPRIATE…

Except to say what an amazing woman!

—–Original Message—–

Meet Irena Sendler…
The world hasn’t just become wicked, it’ s always been wicked.

The prize doesn’t always go to the most deserving…

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.

During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist.

She had an ‘ulterior motive’.

She KNEW what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews (being German).

Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids).

She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids’/infants’ noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

She was caught, and the Nazi’s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard.

After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family.

Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Note: Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won — for a slide show on Global Warming.

63 years later

In MEMORIAM – 63 YEARS LATER

Please read this little cartoon carefully, it’s powerful.

Then read the comments at the end.

I’m doing my small part by forwarding this message.

I hope you’ll consider doing the same.

It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the six million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians and 1,900 Catholic priests who were murdered, massacred, raped, burned, starved and humiliated!

Now, more than ever, with Iraq, Iran, and others, claiming the HOLOCAUST to be ‘a myth’.

It’s imperative to make sure the world never forgets, because there are others who would like to do it again.

This e-mail is intended to reach 40 million people worldwide!

Join us and be a link in the memorial chain and help us distribute it around the world.

Please send this e-mail to people you know and ask them to continue the memorial chain.

Please don’t just delete it.

It will only take you a minute to pass this along.

Thanks!

Learning to take risks…

Let us not be afraid to take risks…

especially when we are doing so for the Lord!

I really like this article (see below), because I think it is very true.

When I first read it, what came to mind were several different things, not the least of which is I see this pattern all throughout scripture; and I see it also in the people of today, that God uses.

I think they are ALL risk takers, people who aren’t afraid of living there life on the edge.

Look at King David, the man of which the Bible says he was a man after God’s heart; look at him, at even such a young age, how he wasn’t the least bit afraid of facing a vicious lion, or knurly bear. He risked his life and slayed both, all in order to protect his flock of sheep.

God was later able to use those qualities for His service.

I can think of a few people today, who are exactly that way.

If they were in the world they would be called adrenaline junkies; and are for the most part, all very capable and intelligent people, who are always pushing the envelope, no matter what they do. Don’t you know that is exactly what God is looking for.

2 Chronicles 16:9

⁹ For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him…”

These stories are found all throughout the Bible; starting with Father Abraham. His story starts when God is asking him to take a huge risk; when he asked him to leave the safety and comfort of his home and family; and take Sarah along with his household, and go to a land they knew not!

To make matters worse, God wouldn’t even give him a travel itinerary, but merely instructed him to keep walking, and that He would tell him when he got there! How well would we have done under those circumstances, if God had given us that assignment?

As a general rule today, and this is very common in our times, where people won’t even leave a job, until they already can be assured and have a guarantee that something has already been lined up ahead of time… and we call that just having common sense… but God looks for more!

If God says to do so, then we can step out into a void, and know that He will be there ahead of us, to support us, and make a way, when in the natural it looks impossible!

Another thing that comes to mind is this word “Meek” which was the word that Jesus used in the Sermon on the Mound, when He said: “Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.” (Matt 5:5)

We are very mistaken if we think this word means milk toasty and weak; quite the contrary!

It is taken from a word, in Greek, which also mean to tame wild horses. In other words, it implies high spirited energy that is under control, and has been channeled and directed.

Such are these people… who are God’s risk takers!

The point is, we too can have that label, if we would but be willing to launch our faith out beyond the safe harbors of our life; out into the deeper waters of faith.

As created being, who are made in the image and likeness of God, certainly we have not been made for safe harbors; no more than a battle frigate is made to remain close to shore.

It looks impressive to see it there, sure, and we can all admire its construction and beauty; but that is certainly NOT why it was created… and neither were we. Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland

—–Original Message—–
From: Pentecostal Evangel [mailto:tpedevotionals@ag.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2010 12:03 AM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Daily Boost – June 1, 2010

Welcome to the

DAILY BOOST

Taking Risks
June 1, 2010
By Danny Cheney

Are you willing to take risks for God?

Many people will take plenty of risks in their lives for seemingly unimportant reasons, but are afraid to do something big for God.

Why are we so afraid of doing something big?

Because if it doesn’t work, we feel like we fail big!

God, however, is looking for risk takers, people who are not afraid of failure.

A couple of years ago we had a Speed the Light fundraiser that was a big risk taker for us. Skydiving!

At 10,000 feet (nearly 2 miles) in the air, we were to jump out of a perfectly good airplane and parachute to the ground.

Just before the sky diving trip they made us all sign waivers that they were not responsible in the event of death.

In the video they showed us, it stated over and over that you could die from this.

What would make us go through with this adventure? It is exhilarating to

take a risk; and sure I was nervous, but this was for God. To raise money for His kingdom.

The moment came. The door of the plane opened. There was no turning back now. It was jump or jump.

Guess what I did? I JUMPED!

Free-falling at 120 mph for more than a minute was the most incredible experience of my life. I made it out alive. We landed safely, and I was ready to go again.

When you take risks for God, it might be scary, but it is the most exciting part of the Christian life.

Many Christians never discover the joy in risk taking; and they never go to the next level in their spiritual journey either, because they are always afraid of the unknown.

In obedience to God’s leading, Abraham went to a land he had never seen.

Noah built an ark on dry ground at God’s command, trusting God’s promise of a flood.

Moses went to deliver the Children of Israel even though he was a stuttering coward.

Each of these servants of God, and many others in Scripture, were willing to take a risk.

People might think you are nuts for doing something “crazy” for God, but obedience to God is vitally more important and immeasurably more rewarding.

Individual believers and even entire congregations can become spiritually stagnant when the safe and status quo are cherished realities.

We must break out of our comfort zones and do something “risky” for God.

“We’ve never done it that way before;” “we like it the way it is.” “I don’t think it will work;” or “we better not try.”

Do these excuses sound familiar?

We can stay the way we are. But if we do, we will never grow past where we are.

We will never go forward unless we are willing to take risks.

So let’s dare to be different and let’s dare to make a difference.

Danny and Sonya Cheney pastor Rogers First Assembly in Rogers, Ark.

http://www.pe.ag.org.