The Movie and Information the Global Elitists DO NOT want you not to watch!
Question: are we still a free nation, and do we still have First Amendment Rights?
Answer, not for long, not if certain people within government have their way.
Have a look at this movie while you still can, as there are ongoing efforts now to have it removed from the internet!
This video contains information that elements within our government, from the highest levels, and I mean from within the White House, from people who are actively trying to subvert our U.S. Constitution and rob the American people of our liberties, are trying to censor; and they do not want you to see it!
President John F. Kennedy warned us that Secret Societies would be the death of our freedom:
Here are just some of the secret societies which we ALL have heard of, who are pulling the strings of our politicians and also the media today, who are actively seeking to permanently destroy our U.S. Constitution and rob the American people of all our liberties:
Pay attention United States, and let us learn from history!!!
God’s promise to Father Abraham was…
“I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you!”
I have spoken before of how our enemies view weakness in this current Obama administration; and whether it is by shear ignorance, or by intention, our failure to understand our enemy’s mindset, and how they view reality puts our nation at risk, and gives our enemies the wrong message.
Here’s a case in point, below is an article that was first published back on June 1st, by DebkaFile, which quotes the chief of the Mossad (Israel’s external security service), as he spoke of the weaken perception the U.S. and Israel now has with our avowed enemies, among the Islamic terrorist organizations and countries; and more specifically Syria and Iran, based upon their perception of this weakened Obama Administration, and its lack of backbone and resolve when it comes to taking a stand against Islamic Terrorism… even to the point today that they don’t even want to acknowledge the word Islam and Terrorism together in the same sentence.
It is called denial folks, and it is not the posture any nation wants to assume when they are at war.
In fact it is the exact posture that was once taken in the late 30’s by the former and infamous Prime Minster of Great Britain, Neville Chamberlain; where in spite of his efforts to avoid war, and to reach a diplomatic agreement with Hitler, he only ended up insuring the inevitability of war; and the same will be true of our nation as well, under Obama, unless there are some serious changes that are made in our present course, and soon.
The core of our problems, here in the U.S., I repeat, are spiritually oriented; in that we have strayed far from our spiritual moorings and landmarks that were once established by our founding fathers; landmarks that were based upon their reverence and fear of God and of His Word.
Our instability as a nation runs right to our very foundation; as we today are seeking to rebuild our nation, not only on a system that has proven itself to be a failure wherever it has been tried before in history, which is a Socialist based system and economy; but we are also building upon a the political corruption and lies of dishonest and corrupt politicians… whose agendas are kept hidden from view; and are very different from most of the American public!
Our situation is critical, and until such time as we have a spiritual change in our country, which I believe must happen at a grassroots level, that will once again bring focus back upon Truth; and upon a biblical perception and basis of how we view Truth, and the difference between what’s right and wrong; then I don’t see that there is any hope nor chance of any improvement within our government, and the current direction our country is taking.
That is the state of our Union as I see it; and it brings front and center the importance and absolute necessity of our having not only a grassroots revival; but also the importance of our having a reestablishment of our Constitutional Republic, as it was originally designed by our founding fathers to be.
Unless We the People take the initiative and are willing to take back our government from it’s current corrupt and dishonest leadership, with their hidden agendas, then the only possible option that we can have is for us to remain on our present course; which will eventually mean a complete loss of all our liberties and rights, as guaranteed by our U.S. Constitution; and ultimately the establishment of dictatorial ruler.
The handwriting is already on the wall, and the history is plain, that we here in America are exactly where pre-Nazi Germany once was; and we are making exactly the same mistakes, by keeping our collective heads in the sand, and by our keeping quite.
Prayer I think is very definitely order… how about you, what’s your opinion on all of this? I’d like to know?
Need I remind you that the Revolutionary War, and our winning our Independence from Mother England did not happen by the American people remaining quite and passive; and by them accepting the status quo; but rather it came by their direct opposition and absolute refusal to be enslaved by their government! Even as Thomas Pain once said: “Give me liberty or give me death!”
Shalom,
Skip Barland
From: Debka@thejmg.com [mailto:Debka@thejmg.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 9:43 AM To: theskipper@cox.net Subject: DEBKA Newsletter July 15, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 Mossad chief: Obama’s perceived military “softness” weakens Israel
DEBKAfile
Special Report
June 1, 2010, 7:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tags: Mossad Director  US-Israel 
In a rare public expression of concern, Meir Dagan, head of Israel’s Mossad external security service, warned Tuesday, June 1, that the progressive decline of American strength over the past decade and the perception of the Obama administration as “soft on military options for solving disputes” have cut deep into Israel’s military and diplomatic maneuverability and made it fair game for its enemies.
This is reported by debkafile’s intelligence and political sources.
Dagan presented the Knesset foreign affairs and security committee with this evaluation 24 hours after Israeli Navy boarding parties prevented vessels sailing the Mediterranean from achieving their object of breaking the Gaza blockade.
As the UN Security Council’s condemned the loss of life in that raid, the Mossad chief said Barack Obama’s first year as president was a period of “devaluation” for “Israeli and American strategic assets.”
Dagan’s uncharacteristic bluntness was a measure of the anxiety gripping Israel’s security leaders over the slump in US-Israel relations.
He timed his cutting observations for the day Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to have held talks in White House with President Obama.
Although that meeting was cancelled and Netanyahu cut short his trip to return home and deal with the crisis over the flotilla incident, the Mossad Director decided that what he had to say was important enough to be said and aired without delay.
The Obama-Netanyahu meeting had been scheduled as a high point in President Obama’s charm offensive for mending his ties with Israel and American Jewish leaders, Dagan noted.
By speaking out now, he hoped they would be warned not to be taken in by Obama’s smiles and understand that his attitude toward the Israeli government had not changed in any fundamental way.
America’s ability to generate situation-changing measures in any part of the world was in decline and this weakness reflects directly and negatively on Israel’s strategic situation.
Debkafile notes that by this remark, Dagan indirectly disputed the administration’s National Security Strategy report published in Washington five days ago.
This comment also placed him in the middle of the internal political debate in Israel. Whereas opposition factions maintain the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians and other neighbours is stalled by Netanyahu’s allegedly hard-line positions, the Mossad chief puts it in a different perspective: Whatever the prime minister may do and whichever policy he may pursue, in Dagan’s view he is stuck with the endemic weakness stemming from American weakness and the Obama administration’s waning support for Israel.
He warned the lawmakers that the current US administration is in the process of making of Israel “a liability instead of an asset.” The US president, said the Mossad chief, seriously considered forcing Israel to accept a dictated peace formula.
He only backed off when he saw that this tactic would not produce a peace accord. But that was “only a tactical retreat,” said Dagan.
“Let’s see what steps the Americans take in the future, especially after the midterm congressional elections in November,” he said, because, while an imposed peace is only a last resort and not (the Obama administration’s) preferred option, it is still on the table and a whip he is holding over the heads of both parties.
The Mossad chief concluded by saying: “Such events (a decision to resort to an imposed peace) could career out of control and lead (US-Israel relations) into extreme situations.”
Let us be very careful who it is that we are following and who is setting the course for our nation, and for our children’s future!
This includes all that is being implemented now, and the changes that this man is making to our government, all of which flies in the face of our U.S. Constitution, and so therefore is illegal!!!
In the article below, WorldNetDaily talks about a trail of deciet and illegal activity in this Obama administration, that began long ago.
So what were the first signs of trouble when we look at the history of this man, Barack Hussein Obama, the first “Black” president that we have had here in the United States?
The first point that I’d like to make is that he is not even who he says he is, in so many different ways; but let’s begin with even his ethnicity.
According to what we know of Barack Hussein Obama’s background, at least ethnically, he is: 50% white, 6.25% African, and 63.75% Arabic and Muslim… at least that was the heritage, bloodline, and ideological faith of his father; and from all the available evidence it is also that of his son!
This trail of deceit all started long ago, in Barack Obama’s college years, when he was first being groomed for the office that he now holds; and as we look at the path that he took back then, and the people whom he looked up to as his mentors, it then becomes very obvious where and why the breakdown in trust had to happen.
Unfortunately we are living in a society today, and in a culture, where at least for most people, the perceived perception of reality and truth is shaped, not by any biblical sense of right and wrong, good or evil, as it was with our founding fathers; but rather for a good many people today their moral sense of what is right or wrong is determined by something called “Moral Relativism,” and “Situational Ethics.”
Whereas it was once the purview of Church and the Bible to shape the culture and values of our nation; today it is the media that does this… and therein is our problem, as a nation!
Today the morals and opinions for many in our society are being shaped by the talking heads we see in the media, and also among the so called Hollywood elite, of those who are considered as ‘Media Icons;’ it is their opinions and directions that are being sought after, that so many Americans today are looking to for their direction.
It is to people like Oprah Winfrey and others, who because they have been given a platform to speak from, in the media, that so many are following what she says in order to determine their own value system.
This whole process was made very obvious in Obama’s rise to power, and how he came to be elected as President; and how even in spite of all the obvious evidence and contradictions that he was not who he claimed himself to be, all of which has plagued this man his whole career; and all of which were clear indications and warnings that truly he was not suited, neither morally, ethically, nor experientially, for the job that he was seeking; and that even by his own admission once, when he was still in the U.S. Senate; and yet nevertheless, in spite of all of that, it was the power of the media behind the man that won him the White House.
It was obvious right from the very beginning that this whole campaign was all about the media hype that was put behind the man, where the public was conditioned right from the get go to look NOT at the facts, nor even to believe what they were seeing and hearing; but they were conditioned by the media to believe instead only what the media was telling them to believe… and it worked!
(This line has since been removed from the CPUSA website)
11. Obama’s church is rooted in black liberation theology, liberation theology is rooted in Marxism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUdjhKbImwE
(about half way through covers this)
12. The band that opened for Obama’s Oregon rally (The Decemberists) is named after an 1825 revolt over the Imperial Russian succession (Decembrist revolt) that Meloy views as an attempted communist revolution. They also open many of their shows by playing the Soviet National Anthem… http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/communists-for-obama/
Yet did any of these facts in anyway discourage any of his popularity? No, it didn’t.
I mean really, does anybody really doubt this; that this man Obama is a product of the Media hype behind him?
Truly though, Obama is really no different than any one of us, in that the man has been shaped by his past experience, and he is today the product of that experience… all of which has shaped his character, and who he is as a man.
He is also no different than any of us, in that to the extent he is only doing what seems right in his own eyes, he is just as lost as any man, who has yet to have an encounter with Jesus Christ.
It is just as President, and as the elected leader of our nation, we are unequally yoked; and are being stirred in a direction that is taking our nation further away from God!
For truly we have a situation today, in America, that the Bible warns against; that happens when you have a blind leader, who is also a leader of a blind people, that if that course remains unaltered, this man will lead our whole nation into the ditch, and into ruin.
Our only hope is in Jesus Christ; and in the power of prayer.
Pray for the man, sure… pray for God to either change his heart and save his soul; or that He removes him from office, for the sake of our nation and our future; but at all cost, please do continue to pray… to watch and pray!!!
Shalom,
Skip Barland
From: WorldNetDaily [mailto:alerts@news.worldnetdaily.com] Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 3:42 AM To: theskipper@cox.net Subject: Obama’s Kenyan activities called ‘borderline criminal’
Thursday, July 15, 2010
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Obama’s Kenyan activities
called ‘borderline criminal’
Ex-prosecutor charges foreign dealings
as senator possibly violated Logan Act
Posted: July 15, 2010
11:45 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily
Sen. Barack Obama with Raila Odinga
In a new best-selling book connecting Islam and Obama-style socialism, a former top terrorism prosecutor chides the national media for failing to investigate Barack Obama’s “borderline criminal” activities in Kenya as a U.S. senator.
Andrew C. McCarthy, the former U.S. attorney who investigated the American embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya, charges that Obama interfered in Kenya’s internal politics possibly in violation of the Logan Act.
The centuries-old law bars Americans who are “without authority of the United States” from conducting relations “with any foreign government … in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States.”
In “The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America,” McCarthy says Obama undermined U.S. relations with a strong anti-terrorism ally in an African region where al-Qaida operates. In 2006, he details in the book how Obama campaigned for a pro-communist candidate running against Nairobi’s pro-American government – “in outrageous contravention of U.S. policy and, probably, federal law.”
Obama spent six days barnstorming the Kenyan countryside in support of Raila Odinga, the socialist Luo who was seeking the presidency. Appearing with Odinga at campaign stops, Obama gave speeches accusing the sitting Kenyan president of being corrupt and oppressive, leaving the masses in poverty.
Obama’s interference “was more than reckless,” McCarthy writes. “It was borderline criminal (and that’s being generous).”
Earlier, Odinga had visited Obama in the U.S. – in 2004, 2005 and 2006 – and Obama had sent an adviser, Mark Lippert, to Kenya in early 2006 to plan a trip by the senator timed to coincide with Odinga’s campaign.
McCarthy notes that Obama and Odinga, who named one of his children after Fidel Castro, are “leftist soulmates” whose families go way back. Their fathers belonged to the same Luo tribe – and both Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and the elder Oginga Odinga worked inside the Kenyan government as communist agitators.
There is also an Islamist connection.
On Aug. 29, 2007, Raila Odinga signed a secret Memorandum of Understanding with Sheikh Abdullahi Abdi, chairman of the National Muslim Leaders Forum of Kenya. In exchange for Muslim support, Odinga agreed, among other things, to:
Rewrite the national constitution to install shariah as the law in all “Muslim declared regions.”
Elevate Islam as “the only true religion” and give Islamic leaders an “oversight role to monitor activities of ALL other religions.”
Establish shariah courts in every Kenyan divisional headquarters.
Ban Christian proselytism.
Fire the police commissioner for “allow[ing] himself to be used by heathens and Zionists” to oppress Muslims.
Adopt Islamic dress codes for women.
Ban alcohol and pork.
Even with strong Muslim backing, Odinga (who does business with a wealthy Saudi donor to Osama bin Laden) was defeated in the December 2007 election. But he accused the incumbent president of rigging the vote and incited his supporters to riot in protest.
Over the next month, some 1,500 Kenyans were killed and more than 500,000 displaced – with most of the violence led by Muslims, who set churches ablaze and hacked Christians to death with machetes.
All the while, Odinga was in regular communications with Obama, who publicly called for an end to the violence.
“Odinga’s strategy, the extortion strategy of Islamist intimidation, worked to a fare-thee-well,” McCarthy notes in his book. To appease his angry mob of supporters, he was named prime minister and allowed to share power with the president.
“With Obama’s helping hand, leftists and Islamists had combined forces to overwhelm a constitutional democracy,” McCarthy says, while decrying the national media’s “stubborn disinterest” in the “stunning” chain of events.
The same alliance can be seen in the U.S., he says, as the Obama administration reaches out to the radical Muslim Brotherhood, which according to the FBI, has a plan to infiltrate and sabotage the U.S. from within. Obama and other Alinsky “revolutionaries” are carrying out a similar plan, he maintains.
McCarthy says that while there’s no evidence Obama is a practicing Muslim, he shares Muslim Brotherhood hatred for America and “the Muslim Brotherhood’s sabotage strategy.”
McCarthy says the administration ignores incontrovertible evidence tying Muslim Brotherhood front groups in America to Hamas and other terrorist groups. One of them, he notes, is the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which claims to be a benign civil-rights organization.
But he says the recent Holy Land Foundation trial – “and the eye-popping publication of ‘Muslim Mafia'” – have exposed CAIR “as a farce.” Quoting from “Muslim Mafia” – which he adds is an “important book” – the former top terrorism prosecutor further litigates the case against CAIR’s “Hamas-tainted leaders.”
In another bombshell, McCarthy reveals that he was dropped from the White House Christmas card list following his criticism of the Bush administration’s purging of the words “jihad” and “Islamic terrorism” from the official military and homeland security lexicon.
Like President Bush before him, he says President Obama fails to grasp that Islam is not a “religion of peace” but “a huge part of the problem in combating ‘violent extremism,'” which is the new euphemism for Islamic terrorism.
“To be sure, the same ground was staked out by his predecessor, President Bush,” McCarthy argues. “They are (both) wrong.”
“The need to deal with Islam is unavoidable,” he adds, “not because it’s an asset, but because it’s a liability that can’t be written off.”
A few sparks from the anvil on our journey through life!
We are all travelers in time, who have been placed here on earth with one ultimate destination and goal.
Paul described it as a race that had but one prize at the end; and he said we must each discipline ourselves in order that we may win this prize.
Normally in a race the prize goes to the one who crosses the finish line first; but not so in this race.
For those who would win this race, all that is necessary is that we not quit; and that we stay in faith.
Jesus once gave a parable of the Workers in the Vineyard:
Matt 20:1-16
“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace. To them he said, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you.’ So they went their way.
Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did likewise. About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’ “They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ “He said to them, ‘You also go into the vineyard, and you will receive whatever is right.’
When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his steward, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ “When those who were hired at about the eleventh hour came, they each received a denarius.
When the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise each received a denarius.
When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household, saying, ‘These last have spent one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat!’
“But he answered one of them, ‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Didn’t you agree with me for a denarius? Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you.
Isn’t it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?’ So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen.”
In this parable the ones hired at the beginning of the day were promised one denarius as pay for the days labor; and each successive hiree throughout the day agreed to whatever would be fair, showing a trust in the one who hired them, that he would be fair; but at the end of the day, those who were hired early, who had worked through the heat of the day, were not happy with their agreed upon pay, or should I say their “prize?”
What they failed to understand was that their reward, their prize as it were, was not in earthly mammon, in what the world seeks as valuable; but their reward was in the person of Jesus Christ!
As it is, every person’s journey begins the moment they are born into this world; and every person has been given an equal opportunity to reach their goal and obtain their prize; however we each have been given different paths to follow; and every path has been specifically choreographed by the Master for each one of His children, and is specifically designed for their individual personality and needs.
The Bible even tells us that every detail, everyday spent on this path, has been scheduled for us, and has been written in a book; a book with our name on it:
Psalm 139:16-15
16 You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.
17 How precious are your thoughts about me,[b] O God.
They cannot be numbered!
18 I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand!
And when I wake up, you are still with me!
Our achieving our destiny and whether or not we are successful at obtaining our goal at the end of our journey, will depend on our determination and our resolve that we shall not quit, nor give up in our ultimate pursuit; and it will require that we will each remain faithful to follow God’s instruction manual and road map for our trip.
Also, and this is most important, we must each learn the absolute necessity, while on our path, that we learn to discern and to obey both the leading and the voice of the Holy Spirit.
Though we each are given a different path to follow, with different circumstances, trials and challenges along the way, nevertheless we each have but one prize to be won at the end of our journey; and there is ONLY but one way for us to obtain our prize.
What is this ‘Prize’ that we all are each destined to strive towards; that the Apostle Paul said that we must discipline ourselves in order to win, or to achieve?
The Prize is Jesus Christ; and for instructions and a road map on how we are to win our destiny, God has given us His Word (the Holy Bible); but many there be that have chosen their own path, and have not even considered God’s directions, and for them the Bible says that their journey shall end in eternal separation from their Creator… or what the Bible calls death!
Won’t you come and join in the adventure?
May we each begin our day today with a renewed focus on our destiny and our ultimate prize; and most importantly may we each remember that the only thing necessary for us to win this race is that we not quit; that we keep our focus on the our Prize, Jesus Christ; and that we remain in faith! Selah
There are two things that set the United States apart from ALL other nations and empires throughout history:
1) It is that our nation was founded by Christians (the Pilgrims, in 1620), who made a covenant with God in something we call the Mayflower Compact, to propagate the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ in this new land; and
2) Our nation was also formed and our U.S. Constitution was designed, structured, and written during the Great Awakening Revival (between 1730-1760) around the Holy Bible!!!
So then, what is it exactly that sets our country apart from ALL other countries in the world today?
John Stossel: What’s Great About America? (1 of 6)
(2 of 6)
(3 of 6)
(4 of 6)
(5 of 6)
(6 of 6)
My thanks go out to Pat today, for forwarding this series of videos to me.
I think it is well past time that we set the record straight; and speak the truth!
Here we have a president, whose own citizenship is very questionable, and for whatever reason he has refused since day one to provide adequate proof of his citizenship; and yet this man starts out by going on a worldwide tour to apologize to the world for America.
So were does this guy get off speaking for us, or apologizing about anything for us?
I would say that in spite of our failures and problems, because we aren’t perfect and yes we still have lots of problems, but this world has truly been blessed through our country, and that is true for many reasons; and the above video I think just points out a few of those reasons.
I am proud of my country, and I’m proud of the fact that my family patriarch, William Barland, came here over 200 years ago, and was here to celebrate our first Independence Day; and I am equally proud and thankful to have been born here, and to be able to call myself an American citizen.
What I am not proud of and that which I find very offensive is any administration (be it Republican or Democrat) who would seek to undermine and disassemble our U.S. Constitution, and thereby betray all that our country has stood for, in favor of a so called “New World Order!”
I would suggest that all of you who agree with me, and who are citizens of this fine country, that you speak up; and let your voices be heard, that is if you agree with me and want to see our republic restored; and our country and our liberty as a people preserved.
I would also suggest that for all of us who are Christians, that we begin to thank God for our long Christian heritage, and that we not take what has been given for granted; and I would suggest also that we ALL begin to pray for this great country as though our future and that of our children depended upon it!
They have told us from the very beginning, just trust us…
Well, how do you like it so far; and worse, if you were America’s
enemies, would you really fear these three people?
Listen to the man before he was elected to office:
Now listen to the man after he was elected:
Our country is perceived as weak today by our enemies; and that is because of the man at the top.
More specifically I’m talking about this Obama administration, and all those others within our government structure who have betrayed both their oath of office, and our U.S. Constitution.
We aren’t fooling anyone folks; and more specifically our enemies in the world, among the radical Islamic groups/countries, totally believe we are without resolve to do anything of substance to stand in their way to do whatever they please.
I mean why should they feel any other way? After all, they even have the media and most of Congress on their side, for different reasons of course, and with a very different agenda; but nevertheless, make no mistake but that the power structure today, as it exists today in Washington DC is working against both the welfare and what’s best for our country; after having long ago sold us out to other interests… all of which by the way have a dollar signs in front!!!
The only people who apparently are the only ones who are fooled in all of this, who can’t or who won’t see the truth, are the American people; and we are the ONLY ones who are in position to put a stop to this.
If we don’t know this, then we need to learn it, and quick, that NO country can long last whose foundation is built on lies, and unless we have people who will begin to speak the truth, and call things as they truly are, then our situation can only get worse!
Please pray for change folks, pray for a spiritual awakening and revival for America, starting at a grassroots level; or as I’ve said numerous times before, we are not going to make it!
Shalom,
Skip Barland
From: Jerusalem Prayer Team Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:38 PM To: Skip Barland Subject: Former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Member Reveals Iran’s Plans for Israel
Former Iranian Revolutionary Guard Member
Reveals Iran’s Plans for Israel
Dear Skip,
Not long after the Islamic Revolution in Iran in 1979 a young member of the Revolutionary Guard, disgusted by what he saw from the mullahs who were running the country, contacted the CIA and offered to work as a double agent. For years “Wally” was one of the best sources of intelligence for America about what was happening in the radical Islamic regime.
In a speech this month at the Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, “Wally” described an Iran that is very different from what is normally portrayed by our political and diplomatic elites.
Protected by a bodyguard, wearing a disguise, and using a voice modulator to protect his identity, “Wally” described the dangerous reality in no uncertain terms.
“Stop dreaming, please,” he said. “You are not dealing with rational people. Every time you extend a hand, it is not seen as sincerity, but stupidity.”
He predicted that Iran will eventually attack Israel, Europe and the Gulf and advocated a preemptive military strike against the regime but not against the Iranian people or infrastructure.
“Wally” accused the Obama administration of naiveté and betrayal for seeking to engage Iran. Not only does the regime see this as weakness on the part of the United States, he said, but the Iranian people view it as a betrayal of the highest order as they fight for freedom.
There is no doubt listening to his inside information that Israel is in great and imminent danger.
I am writing you today because you are a friend of Israel and I know you agree with me that we must support Israel at this crisis moment. Will you send your support to the Jewish people so that they know they are not alone? Will you stand for Israel in their moment of crisis and great need?
Your ambassador to Jerusalem,
Dr. Michael Evans
The Jerusalem Prayer Team is a non-profit, non-denominational, 501c3 organization dedicated to developing a prayer movement of people around the world. It receives no support from the Nation of Israel. Donations are tax deductible. The mission of the Jerusalem Prayer Team: To guard, defend and protect the Jewish people and Eretz Yisrael until Israel is secure, and until the Redeemer comes to Zion. Dr. Tim LaHaye, Mr. Pat Boone, Mr. Bill McCartney, Rev. Tommy Tenney, Dr. A.R. Bernard, and Dr. Jay Sekulow are just a few of the more than 300 Christian Leaders who are part of the Jerusalem Prayer Team.
Faith always involves our taking instructions and doing as our Operations Manual (the Bible) tells us to do; and Jesus even said that both He and the Father would gage our love for them by how well we do this!
Let us learn from the Parable of the Wise Builder (1 of 3)
(2 of 3)
(3 of 3)
Faith sees and speaks of things that are not, as though they were!
Faith involves our broadening the vistas and boundaries of our natural mental capacities, which is the realm of our imagination, and our being able to see things there that are not yet visible to our natural eye!
For truly, as we look at the definition of FAITH, as it is defined in the Bible, we learn that it is the substance of things hoped for; and the evidence of things that are not yet visible nor felt in the natural.
The question is, how else can we get there and see those things that are not as though they are except by way of a sanctified imagination?
As Jesus said: “All things are possible if ONLY you can believe!”
There are therefore things in life that we have to believe first, before we can see them; for when we see from our heart, through eyes of faith and love, we open ourselves up to a world that lies beyond our five senses!
Join in on the adventure… won’t you? Let go and let God!!! Selah
In order for us as Children of the Most High, of those who are created in His likeness and after His image, in order for us to break through our natural resistance coefficient, which is this sin ridden and fallen world that we live in, and in order for us to be able to tap into the supernatural realm of which we so readily can read about in the Bible, it is out of necessity that we must start exercising both our faith and our sanctified imitation.
In Proverbs 28:18 we read: “Where there is no vision, the people perish.“
In this verse of scripture, the word “vision” has to do with the Word of God, which is the only legal means for us to gain both glimpses and access into the Supernatural realm; and God is also telling us here that where there is no “vision” into God’s supernatural Word, there can be no message of life, and the people perish because of it.
Even Albert Einstein realized this secret, when he said:
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” ~ Albert Einstein
In the Bible we are called the “Sons of God,” and it even says that the angels in heaven bend over in awe and amazement, and we are told also in Romans 8:19 that even nature itself longs in earnest expectation as it awaits to see the manifestation in the earth of the Son’s of God! What do you suppose this means?
I happen to be a “Trekkie” fan, and as such, I’m one of those people who enjoy watching science fiction and the high definition graphics and realism that are provided us in our modern day technology, that brings realism to the silver screen; but I also maintain that we ALL are wired that way, and that we have been since birth!
In fact here is one of my favorite lines from another movie, which I actually believe contains more truth than fiction, in what it conveys. Go ahead and take a listen, click here and listen to what Morpheus is saying to Neo about the world that remains hidden from our eyes!
In fact, whether we realize it or not; we are born for the supernatural; even to the extent the supernatural should actually become natural to us, even as it is to God, who is our heavenly Father and our Creator; and even as we can see it was for Jesus… of whom we are told in Scripture (in John 21:15) that He (Jesus) performed so many miracles that there wouldn’t be room enough in all the books in the world (at least in Paul’s day anyway) to tell of them all.
Here’s my point, folks, when our faith is based upon God’s Word and the promises of God’s Word that is what gives both substance and validity to our faith; which in turn gives substance to our hopes; and therein lies the difference between FAITH and PRESUMPTION!
The term “presumption,” which most people in the world operate in today, means to take or do something, or to perform some act, without the proper leave nor allowance to do so… and this is definitely NOT what faith is!
To follow this path will lead you ultimately into error and into false religious cults; and it can also lead into occult activity; but then again the “Occult” is also nothing more than a perversion of the “Truth;” and by that I mean behind the lies that Satan tells there is always a thread that leads to some truth or some history, that Satan has corrupted and hidden from our view, in an effort to discredit it; and thereby to try and keep it from God’s children.
I maintain, as I’ve even heard Kim Clement say, that it should not be the Psychic’s that are out rendering aid to law enforcement agencies, to aid them in their work; and folks you should know also that the only reason why these agencies will allow these sorts of activities, and will sometimes seek it out, is because there is both verifiable power and accuracy there; and these people have often in the past been able to provide supernatural help in solving certain cases; howbeit, its power source is derived from outside of God’s permission, and therefore it is a counterfeit.
But can we not see all throughout the Old Testament, where it was the Prophets of God who heard the secret plans of Israel’s enemies, plans that were made in their bed chambers; and did his prophets not reveal these plans to the leadership of Israel in advance, in order to aid Israel in their battles?
We can know from this that there is a REAL antithesis to that counterfeit gift, that we find in the world, that is truly available through the POWER of the Holy Spirit, to ALL those who are God’s offspring, who are the Sons of God in the earth. Selah
Oh yeah, here’s one last point, that I shall leave with you as a caution and also a warning, as to what the Apostle Paul said in Scripture (see 2 Timothy 3:5), would be one of the main signs that we are living in the Last Days, that will usher in the return of our Lord, Messiah Yeshua, to earth; in that He said “That men would be very religious and have a belief in God; but that they would deny the POWER (meaning the Holy Spirit).”
“ As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings; so the LORD alone did lead him…” Deut. 32:11-12
THE MOTHER EAGLE “STIRS THE NEST”
Eagles are born to fly and to soar high above the clouds, and so are we as God’s children.
Now wait until you get a load of how they are taught to fly!
The maturing eagle is taught to fly when the mother eagle “stirs the nest.”
Do you understand what that is?
Those little eagles are not in any hurry to get out of their nest. They are growing and their mom and dad are feeding them every day, and they are having way too much fun getting fat.
Their nest has been made out of thorns and briars. That is how the father and mother eagle build their nest. Say, how would you like to have your bed made out of things like that?
But that is only the outer shell. They line that outer shell with animal skins and fur and they make it very comfortable for those little baby eagles; and so they are in no hurry to get out of that nest.
There is also lesson here for human parents too. If you make it too comfortable at home your children will never want to leave home.
We could learn something from father eagle and mother eagle, for when it comes time for those little baby eagles to start flying, the first thing they do is stir the nest.
The mother eagle hovers over the nest and starts fluttering and flapping those powerful wings and that blows all of the loose feathers and fur away from those baby eagles.
The next thing she does is to go and take her powerful beak and tear that nest all to pieces. She pulls out all of that fur and those animal skins and all of a sudden those little baby eagles are sitting on thorns.
That will move them out of their bed real quick will it not? And then she starts flapping her powerful wings and then they start to get the lesson.
They think she wants them to start learning to fly. Therefore they start flapping their wings a little bit imitating their mother. And then she flaps her wings again. And they will start flapping their wings again. And then one day she screeches real loud and she swoops down and she places one of those baby eagles on her wing. And they go up to 5000 feet and perhaps 7000 feet and then she starts swooping and soaring around through the sky and all of a sudden she tips her wings and the little baby eagle falls off.
He starts to do somersaults and flap his wings as he is heading down to the ground and all of a sudden before he goes splat on the ground she swoops down and picks him up on her wings and takes him up again to 2000 feet, to 5000 feet and perhaps to 7000 feet.
She repeats that process over and over and over again until that little baby eagle is able to fly. That is the way the mother eagle teaches her babies to leave the nest. She stirs the nest.
Well God the Father is compared in the Bible to the father and mother eagle. God also will teach his children to fly high. In the book of Exodus the Bible says,
“Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession.” (Exodus 19:3-5).
Well I thought the above flight lesson would go nicely with the lesson below, which is called the “Cherokee Legend” which is the rite of passage an Indian boy must go through on his way to manhood.
The similarities of both examples, to that in the life of a Christian are absolutely stunning!
Just think of it folks, you could go to Disneyland and just about have to mortgage you house these days, in order to take your whole family; and take them on rides like Space Mountain, where we get jerked first this way, and then the other.
Well God gives us that kind of excitement for free… and it’s all a part of our training!
So think about that little baby eagle, or the young Indian’s rite of passage next time you are tempted to complain; and just figure… hey, we don’t have it so bad after all!
Enjoy the adventure,
Skip Barland
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth’s rite of Passage?
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him an leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.
He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm.
The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!
Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.
It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him.
He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
We, too, are never alone.
Even when we don’t know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us.
When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.
Moral of the story:
Just because you can’t see God, doesn’t mean He is not there. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Walter Hawkins graduated to Glory this past Sunday…
Get down one more time…
A tribute to a brother… Famed Gospel singer Walter Hawkins…
Has gone up Yonder!!!
(May 18, 1949 – July 11, 2010)
Grammy Award-winning gospel singer, composer, and pastor, Walter Hawkins died Sunday at his home in Ripon, California after losing a battle with cancer. He was 61.
According to his older brother, Edwin Hawkins, Walter fought an arduous battle with pancreatic cancer. “Today, I lost my brother, my pastor, and my best friend… Bishop Hawkins suffered bravely but now he will suffer no more and will be greatly missed,” he said.
The gospel singer was born in Oakland, California and obtained his divinity degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
In 1972 he recorded his first album ‘Do Your Best.’
In 1973, he became a pastor and founded the Love Center Church in Oakland.
The Mercury News reports that Bill Carpenter, a friend and family representative said that Hawkins garnered nine Grammy nominations after recording a series of albums. Hawkins’ ‘The Lord’s Prayer,’ won him a Grammy in 1980.
Hawkins was once married to gospel great Tramaine Hawkins, but the union ended in divorce.
Hawkins is survived by two children, Trystan Hawkins and Walter “Jamie” Hawkins Jr., an R&B singer; a daughter-in-law, gospel singer Myiia “Sunny” Hawkins; two grandchildren, Jamie-Daniel and Jahve; and his siblings, Carol, Feddie, Edwin, Daniel, and Lynette.
Faith is reaching out in trust, standing on the promises of God’s Word, when all else has failed!
Faith is standing on promises that are in opposition to every circumstance and feeling that you have; that says that though I die, I will die trusting in God’s faithfulness! Faith is giving God room to do the unexpected in your life, by not limiting your possibilities, and by availing yourselves of options you may not have otherwise considered possible!
FAITH IS MAKING ROOM FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO MOVE IN YOUR LIFE!!!
When all seems lost… there is God!!!
When life seems to have passed you by and all seems lost; when circumstances and problems mount and all you can see is more of the same; now is the time to dig in, tie a knot at the end of your rope, for your salvation is near!
God’s promise is never to leave you, nor forsake you; and though it appears from all you can see that He has done just that; and all rhyme and reason seems to have escaped you as to why, know this, God is NOT a man that He should lie!
When circumstances and life seems to contradict God’s Word, and when everything indicates otherwise, this is God’s test.
Faith in what you can see and what you already have is NOT faith at all; but rather FAITH by definition, as we read in Hebrews chapter 11, is based on nothing more than a HOPE; and it is made evident in things that are not yet felt nor seen in the natural.
Faith always sees through the eyes of the spirit, those things that are not yet visible, and are not yet manifested in the natural; but are nevertheless promised in God’s Word!
Faith also will cause us not just to see, but also it will cause us to speak of those things that are not, as though they were; just as we can learn from the “Father of Faith,” father Abraham himself:
Romans 4:17-21
17(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.
18Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be.
19And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah’s womb:
20He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;
21And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
So regardless of where you are today; or what’s going on in your life; it matters not what problems, trials, or tribulations have encroached upon your life, God is still on His throne; and is no further away than the very next breathe that you take.
Do not look for Him in heaven above, nor scan the horizon for a some sign of his presence!
Rather look inside your own heart (your spirit man); for the evidence you seek will not be found in anything you can see, feel, or touch; but it will be found in the FAITH that says I don’t care what happens; I don’t care what circumstances or problems are thrown at me; I will not let go, and I will not abandon my trust and hope in God, that He shall perform His Word in my life EXACTLY as it is written in His Word, and exactly as He has promised. Selah
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