The Heart of the Father…

The Heart of the Father

“For this son of mine was dead and has now returned to life.
He was lost, but now he is found.’ So the party began.”

(
Luke 15:24)


Could it be that the delay in answered prayer, the longsuffering in broken relationships, the suffering we experience often in the face of affliction or adversity, could all of these things be God’s way of emptying us or our self, our flesh, that we may be filled with Him?

Could it be that it is necessary for us to suffer these things, even as the Bible says that Jesus suffered, that He might learn obedience (Heb 5:8); even as the Bible illustrates that He was tempted in every area just like you and I; so that means He also suffered times of doubt, of lack, and weakness in His humanity, in His flesh while on the earth, just as we do… as the Bible says that He was tempted in every area just as we are… and then finally came the cross?

What is Jesus saying to us today in all these things?

Luke 9:23-26

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him
23 Then He (Jesus) said to them all,
“If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily,[a] and follow Me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it. 25 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and is himself destroyed or lost? 26 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own glory, and in His Father’s, and of the holy angels.”

Do you remember the account that is given in the Bible where over 70 of the disciples who were following Jesus were offended, and walked away?

Do you remember how He then turned to the twelve and asked… Are you going to leave too?”

To which Peter answered:
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You alone have the words of eternal life!”

Could it be that in the course of our preparation and training for God’s service, that our resolve must also be tested, as was the disciples, as to whether we will persevere in the face of adversity, affliction, and whether we will also get offended and walk away?

This experience, which is common to all of God’s children (sooner or later) is called by some the “Dark night of the Soul.” It is here that we each get to test the mettle of our own faith, and see whether Jesus is truly Lord of our lives?

What do we do when the pressure is on, and we are suffering? Do we obey Jesus, and follow what He says in His Word; or do we follow the dictates of our own heart, and are we doing what seems right in our own eyes? That is the real test… isn’t it? Selah

Does not the Bible also say that Jesus is the exact reflection of the Father?

When I first read this devotion by Henri Nouwen, I couldn’t relate to what he was saying at first, and I wasn’t getting the point, that is until I read the last line where it says that: “We are all called to become like that father!

For truly if we want to know the heart of the Father, we have but to look to the heart of His Son Jesus! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland



From: Henri Nouwen Society

Sent: Sunday, July 04, 2010 2:45 AM
To: theskipper@cox.net
Subject: July 4, 2010 – The Tears of the Father

The Tears of the Father

The father in the story of the prodigal son suffered much. He saw his younger son leave, knowing the disappointments, rejections and abuses facing him. He saw his older son become angry and bitter, and was unable to offer him affection and support. A large part of the father’s life has been waiting. He could not force his younger son to come home or his older son to let go of his resentments. Only they themselves could take the initiative to return.

During these long years of waiting the father cried many tears and died many deaths. He was emptied out by suffering. But that emptiness had created a place of welcome for his sons when the time of their return came. We are called to become like that father.


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An open letter to the President of the United States…

It all first began on July the 4th, in the year 1776; then there was April 14, 2010…

And as soon as the media found out this wasn’t a violent extremist group of loonies, there has been a nationwide media blackout on this whole subject; and by the way, not only were the governors served, so was Obama!




I was always told that to be a person in authority, and to rule over people, that you must first be under authority; and that is especially true here in our country, where we are supposed to be a Constitutional Republic.

Everyone of our elected officials ALL swear an oath and agree to a verbal contract with the American people, not only to preserve, protect, and to defend; but also to be governed by our U.S. Constitution… as that document is the Highest Law of the land!

Well, Mr. Obama, based on that fact alone, you already strike out, as you have not proven your citizenship, let alone your place of birth; and I for one, and I believe also there are many in our military who feel the very same way, who do not recognize you as their Commander in Chief; and neither do I recognize you as my president… not until you prove these allegations are false!

We don’t have kings, or emperors here in our country; and nor do we have potentate wannabes who would consider themselves above the Law of our Land, as you obviously think that you are; and that, sir, is by the design of our founding fathers, who created our form of government, that is to be run according to the Bill of Rights and our U.S. Constitution; and we the American people are still even your boss, Mr. Obama… and for as long as we still have our Constitution, we find your conduct unacceptable, and you are out of line!

We are putting you on notice that We the People support The Restore America Plan !

Sincerely yours,

Skip Barland


P.S.

The following is a quote from the RAP website: “The Restore American Plan is a bold achievable strategy for behind-the-scenes peaceful reconstruction of the de jure (meaning ‘legal’ authorized) institutions of government without controversy, violence or civil war.

After consultation with high ranking members of the United States armed forces, the Plan is in the process of assembling the Guardians of the Free Republics and reinhabiting the De jure Grand Jures…”

The last word I received, which was last week; out of I believe an estimated 200 countries that we currently have in the world, 60 so far have officially recognized our De jure (meaning ‘legal’ authorized) Government, as the legal and proper government of our nation!

We also need to understand that this country is as a huge tanker ship, and as with any ship of that size, it takes a while to turn it with the relatively small rudder it has; but it will turn in time, and I believe as we are praying, as the Christians in our land, that so will our nation turn, and I believe it is turning as I write.

I believe also that God is answering our prayers.

Pray now for that Spiritual Awakening and Revival to happen that people can be saved, and that we can truly have a spiritual renewal and a new beginnings in our country. Selah and Amen

Here’s the truth that is behind the news… that we are not hearing!

This is a picture of what is really happening, that we are not being told…

And here is more evidence to that fact, that what we are being told is not true; as here in this video are more examples of the truth that is behind the news, that remains hidden from the American people and from the world:



While Palestinian forces have traditionally used innocent civilians as shields (as is pictured in the above cartoon), against Israeli attacks, hoping that there would be lost of innocent civilian lives, for propaganda purposes; Israel has bent over backwards, even going to the point of dropping pamphlets before an air strike, warning innocent civilians to flee an area before it is bombed.

This is not reported on the news, and I can tell you that no other army that I know of has gone to this extent, and has taken these measures, to protect innocent civilians; and yet all of that is virtually ignored by our media, and all we hear are lies.

There is an agenda, and I’d like you to listen to this lady, Bridget Gabriel, who talks about that agenda, having grown up with it in her home nation, Lebanon, where she lived as a child; and today she is warning us here in the United States of what that agenda is:


Would you please stop and consider for a moment, that just as the Bible says would happen in the last days, we can see it unfolding right before our eyes, as the entire world today is turning against the nation of Israel; and unless things change here at home, from the looks of things so far, with this Obama Administration, so is the United States, folks… and we cannot afford to allow that to happen!

I just wonder how we here in the U.S. would fare under the same circumstances and conditions, if we had to put up with these kinds of attacks in our cities, on innocent civilians, including women and children?

I dare say we wouldn’t tolerate it at all; and yet not only are we not supporting our closest ally, Israel; this administration is today, under Obama, siding with Israel’s enemies; as is also our major media outlests… and may God have mercy on us all if we allow this to continue!

This spinning and managing of our news to support certain hidden agendas has to stop folks, as well all the lying of our government officials and the media to the American people!

Below is just another example of what I’m talking about; in what truly is going on in Gaza today, that is not being reported in our media here at home.

We report, you decide…

Shalom,

Skip Barland



From: David
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 10:05 PM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: OUR PALESTINIAN “FRIENDS

OUR PALESTINIAN “FRIENDS”
For all who believe the lies and propaganda about Israels attacks on civilian targets.
NOTE HOW IT IS FITTED TO SHOOT MISSILES

Captured Palestinian “garbage truck” from Gaza

Doesn’t it make you all “warm and fuzzy”

that Obama just gave the Palestinians 400 million dollars from your taxes?

The agenda behind the agenda and what is truly going on in our government today…

Taking back our country…

Will you become a part of this movement to restore our Constitutional Republic?

Sign up and register today with The Restore America Plan!


I am very sure that for those who are unschooled and unfamiliar with Bible prophecy, and all that the Bible says about the last days, that will proceed our Lord’s return to earth, which I might add are most of the people that you and I know; who we work with; and that we see all around us every day, for most of these people they are totally unprepared for what is about to befall this world; and I’m sad to say (as even Jesus pointed out) that number will also include Christians.

When you look at all that has happened over the last couple of years, with the collapse of our banking and insurance industries, the automotive industries, and the literal 100’s of billions our government has spent (much of it unaccounted for, I might add); now we have this Gulf Oil Crisis to boot, and God only knows what well be next… folks, do you really think that this is all by coincidence and is just dumb luck?

Gee, I hope those of you who are reading this are smarter than that. These dominoes that have been falling, one after another, are on purpose, and truly there is an agenda that we ALL need to be aware of.

It is unfortunate but true that lying and handing out misinformation to the public by our government officials starts at the very top, and it has been that way for longer than I can remember; and is today as much a part of our government’s standard operation procedures as anything else.

Case in point is what we hear as the Washington DC rhetoric today, regarding our ongoing Gulf Oil Crisis; in their lack of response, and mishandling of this whole incident, right from the very beginning.

The question is, what is actually going on with regard to the Gulf cleanup efforts… which according to reports we are hearing (as per this article below, as but one example) is nothing!

Apparently there have been reports and offers for help, and ideas on how to plug this hole, that have been coming in from all over the world, and to date those offers have either been turned down or have gone ignored and unanswered.

Now why is that; and why is BP, the one responsible still in charge? There are some reports (howbeit they are unverified so far) that there are FEMA personal in the area who are dressed as BP personal, and change into uniform when the local media is around, to keep reporters and looky loos out of the area… and why is that?

By the way, I also understand they have made this whole area a no fly zone too, so that planes are told to keep out! So the question is, what is it they don’t want us to see?

What’s the real reason for the delay and why all the stonewalling by this administration, which is something I might add that this administration has become particularity adapt at, with the help of the media behind it.

Now I don’t know if you have noticed it, or not; but I certainly have, that unlike the previous administration, there is virtually no scrutiny over this administration from the major media, and everything he does is merely rubber stamped, or is overlooked and ignored by the them… and why is that?

I mean, come on… the issue on his birth certificate and how that was glossed over and covered up should have been a clue!

Now we’re dealing with this whole Gulf crisis. Could this whole incident be to create further public hysteria, and also to detract the public’s attention away from the Restore America efforts to reinstate our Constitutional Republic, which by the way (from what I’m hearing) is moving forward in spite of all that’s’ going on, including the Media blackout? I do think that is a very likely possibility.

The situation for these “Bankster’s” and their Globalist agenda is heating up, and their whole “New World Order” agenda is today at risk, as the light of public scrutiny is today being focused more and more upon their rat’s nest; as their government oligarchy conspiracy is being forced out into the light of day.

This is so disgusting that our government and the media could have deteriorated to this point, but as I’ve said before, and have provided the evidence to prove it, when it comes to these international bankers and their efforts to muscle in on our government, nothing is beyond these people’s power and means to corrupt and to undermine people, industries, and even whole governments; and mind you these efforts all started long ago, even before our nation was first formed. So they have had lots of time, and they have a huge head start on us.

That is why it will take a miracle of God, and Christians doing some serious praying, if we are to be successful in turning the tide in our country, in this downward spiral; and our ridding our government of the crooks, that permeate its power hierarchy and also within our media today; who have long ago sold our country out in favor of their own pocket books, and their careers; because the fact is these people have so entrenched themselves at every level of our whole Washington DC power structure, that it is not funny!

We truly are today, in America, as the proverbial chicken in the pot of water, and we are just about cooked and most don’t even know it.

The problem is, this has been going on for so long, and we have gotten so use to the status quo, and the constant media hype and spin, that they constantly are bringing to bear in order to cover it all up; and owed also to the fact we have all grown up with this, and have been so programmed by it, that most American citizens today are completely oblivious to what is really going on.

The evidence however, for everything I’m talking about is there for anybody who wants to look.

See for yourself:

  • I am one of those who do not believe the national debt is a national blessing… it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.
    • Andrew Jackson, Letter to L. H. Coleman of Warrenton, N.C., 29 April 1824
  • The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
    • Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in his novel Coningsby, or the New Generation (1844), Chapter XV
  • Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
  • From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing.

    It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution.

    It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

  • The people must be helped to think naturally about money. They must be told what it is, and what makes it money, and what are the possible tricks of the present system, which put nations and peoples under control of the few.
  • Excerpts from Rep. Louis T. McFadden‘s speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, June 10, 1932:

    “Mr. Chairman, we have in this country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal reserve banks. The Federal Reserve Board, a Government board, has cheated the Government of the United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the national debt. The depredations and the iniquities of the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve banks acting together have cost this country enough money to pay the national debt several times over. …

    Some people think the Federal reserve banks are United States Government institutions. They are not Government institutions. They are private credit monopolies which prey upon the people of the United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers, foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers, and rich and predatory money lenders. …

    Those 12 private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this country by bankers who came here from Europe and who repaid us for our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia and thus drove a wedge between the Allies in the World War. …

    Every effort has been made by the Federal Reserve Board to conceal its power but the truth is the Federal Reserve Board has usurped the Government of the United States. …

    Mr. Chairman, when the Federal reserve act was passed the people of the United States did not perceive that a world system was being set up here which would make the savings of an American school-teacher available to a narcotic-drug vendor in Macao. They did not perceive that the United States was to be lowered to the position of a coolie country which has nothing but raw materials and heavy goods for export. That Russia was destined to supply man power and that this country was to supply financial power to an international superstate–a superstate controlled by International bankers and international industrialists acting together to enslave the world for their own pleasure.”

    • Congressional Record, 72nd Congress, 1st session, June 10, 1932; Vol. 72, pp. 12595-12603. McFadden served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Banking and Currency 1920 to 1931.
  • The present Federal Reserve System is a flagrant case of the Government’s conferring a special privilege upon bankers.

    The Government hands to the banks its credit, at virtually no cost to the banks, to be loaned out by the bankers for their own private profit.

    Still worse, however, is the fact that it gives the bankers practically complete control of the amount of money that shall be in circulation.

    Not one dollar of these Federal Reserve notes gets into circulation without being borrowed into circulation and without someone paying interest to some bank to keep it circulating.

    Our present money system is a debt money system. Before a dollar can circulate, a debt must be created. Such a system assumes that you can borrow yourself out of debt.

    • Willis A. Overholser, A short review and analysis of the history of money in the United States, with an introduction to the current money problem (1936), p. 56
  • It must not be felt that these heads of the world’s chief central banks were themselves substantive powers in world finance. They were not. Rather, they were the technicians and agents of the dominant investment bankers of their own countries, who had raised them up and were perfectly capable of throwing them down. The substantive financial powers of the world were in the hands of these investments bankers (also called ‘international’ or ‘merchant’ bankers) who remained largely behind the scenes in their own unincorporated private banks. These formed a system of international cooperation and national dominance which was more private, more powerful, and more secret than that of their agents in the central banks.
    • Professor Carroll Quigley, Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966), pp. 326-327
  • The drive of the Rockefellers and their allies is to create a one-world government combining super capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control… Do I mean conspiracy? Yes, I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope, generations old in planning, and incredibly evil in intent.
    • Congressman Larry MacDonald, killed in the Korean Airlines 747 that was shot down by the Soviets. Introduction to The Rockefeller File (1976) by Gary Allen

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Conspiracy

This is our country folks, and it’s our Constitutional Republic; and though these people in government today, may think we are helpless and lack the resolve to change or alter their agenda, I think we should show them different.

Our founding fathers all warned us about these people, these “Banksters,” and their evil agenda for world domination and control long ago, and we can even read about it in the Bible; as truly what we are witnessing today is in fact Satan’s agenda, as he is the one behind it all; in order to establish his One World Government, and then to introduce to the world the Beast of Revelation, which is the Antichrist.

I might also add that these people in high places, who today are running OUR government, they are still (as long as we still have our U.S. Constitution) working for us… and I think it is way past time that We the People remind them of that fact.

Anyway, that’s how I feel, what is your opinion… I’d like to know?

Shalom,

Skip Barland




Saturday, July 3, 2010

Winston-Salem 60.0º Fair

Nation/World News

BP, U.S. blasted for ignoring aid offers

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: July 2, 2010

NEW ORLEANS

Many fishing boats signed up to skim oil sit idle in marinas. Some captains and deckhands say they have been waiting around for instructions while drawing checks from BP of more than $1,000 a day per vessel. Thousands of offers to help clean beaches and wetlands have gone unanswered.

BP and the Obama administration faced mounting complaints yesterday that they are ignoring foreign offers of badly needed equipment and making poor use of the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.

Based on some government estimates, more than 140 million gallons of crude have now spewed from the bottom of the sea since the April 20 explosion that killed 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, eclipsing the 1979-80 disaster off Mexico that had long stood as the worst in the Gulf.

In recent days and weeks, for reasons that BP has never explained, many fishing boats hired for the cleanup mostly have been waiting around. At the same time, there is mounting frustration over the time that the government has taken to approve offers of help from foreign countries and international organizations.

The Coast Guard said that there have been 107 offers of help from 44 nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted, with the vast majority still under review, according to a list kept by the State Department.

A report prepared by investigators from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed a case in which the Dutch government on April 30 offered to provide four oil skimmers that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs yesterday scorned the idea that “somehow it took the command 70 days to accept international help.”

“That is a myth,” he declared, “that has been debunked literally hundreds of times.”

A BP spokesman declined to comment.

Newly retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the government’s point man for the response effort, bristled at some of the accusations in Issa’s report.

“I think we’ve been pretty transparent throughout this,” Allen said at the White House. He disputed any suggestion that there aren’t enough skimmers being put on the water, saying that the spill area is so big that there are bound to be areas with no vessels.

Some government estimates put the amount of oil spilled at 160 million gallons. That calculation was arrived at by using the rate of 2.5 million gallons a day all the way back to the oil-rig explosion. The Associated Press, relying on scientists who advised the government on flow rate, bases its estimates on a lower rate of 2.1 million gallons a day up until June 3, when a cut to the well pipe increased flow.

By either estimate, the disaster would eclipse the 140 million gallons that the Ixtoc disaster spilled in the Gulf more than 20 years ago, and rank it as the biggest offshore oil spill during peacetime. The biggest spill in history happened in 1991 during the Persian Gulf War, when Iraqi forces opened valves at a terminal and dumped about 336 million gallons of oil.

The total in the Gulf disaster is significant because BP is likely to be fined per gallon spilled. Also, scientists say that an accurate figure is needed to calculate how much oil may be hidden below the surface, doing damage to the deep-sea environment.

“It’s a mind-boggling number, any way you cut it,” said Ed Overton, a professor of environmental studies at Louisiana State University. “It’ll be well beyond Ixtoc by the time it’s finished.”

In other developments, the House passed the first major bill related to the explosion, voting to allow families of the killed and injured workers to be compensated far more generously than current law allows.

The bill now goes to the Senate.


A Gulf Record

BP spill: 140.6 million gallons or more.

Previous Gulf record: 140 million gallons off Mexico’s coast from 1979 to 1980.

Largest oil spill: Iraqi forces opened valves at a terminal and dumped as much as 336 million gallons of oil during the first Persian Gulf War in 1991.

URGENT ALERT: From Chuck Colson

Like the multi tentacled attack of a giant octopus, this present administration is pushing forward with its multi pronged attack on our U.S. Constitution!




July 2, 2010

Urgent Alert

Dear Friends:

This is an urgent alert.

You need to know about what may be one of the gravest, most insidious threats to religious freedom I’ve seen in my lifetime: What may be an attempt, at the very highest levels of government, to RE-DEFINE the very meaning of religious freedom, from “free exercise” to merely private worship.

If what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a speech at Georgetown University reflects a new direction in government policy, then mark my words, our religious liberties are in peril.

Please, click on the link below to see my “Two Minute Warning” video commentary at the Manhattan Declaration website to see exactly what I’m talking about.

Study carefully the play on words; words matter.

I urge you: Watch this video, share it with friends.

Blog about it. Write a letter to the editor of your newspaper – point out what is going on. It’s time to expose this outrageous and dangerous assault on religious freedom.

We cannot be asleep at our posts while we still have the freedom to speak out.

Chuck Colson

Like the tentacles of a giant octopus, it seems I just can’t seem to keep up with all that’s going on today, because every time I turn around there’s something new to report.

There is a definite agenda afoot and I even think today that it is being accelerated by this Administration, to not only undermine our U.S. Constitution; but also to accelerate and permanently disable our Constitutional Republic; and at least according to this report… all of this is being done in order to turn our nation into another Sodom and Gomorrah!

Once again folks, I ask the same question, is this man Barack Hussein Obama, or even Hillary Clinton for that matter, as his Secretary of State, are any of these two people coming anywhere close to representing your interest, and are they speaking for you?

I think not, and I would even go so far as to say that probably applies to what most Americans would say about this administration and it’s socialist, gay and lesbian agenda… then pray tell why are they in office, and why are they representing our country?

Skip Barland

Keeping our nation free!!!


(Forgive the initial instability of the camera, it settles down after a while)

It is men and women like this who keep our nation free!!!

Meet Colonel Jim Harding:

The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918 (amended by an act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting a Second Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster in lieu of a Third Award of the Silver Star to Major James C. Harding (AFSN: 0-57979), United States Air Force, for gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force as an A-1 Tactical Fighter Pilot of the 1st Special Operations Squadron, Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand, in action in Southeast Asia on 2 June 1972. On that date, Major Harding flew as flight leader on an extremely hazardous and complex search and rescue mission to recover an American crew member in the heavily fortified Red River Valley. While providing protective escort for the vulnerable rescue helicopter, Major Harding deliberately and repeatedly exposed his slow-moving aircraft to intense anti-aircraft fire, counterattacked hostile gun positions, and intercepted and attacked a hostile aircraft forcing it to depart the area. His actions were vital in allowing the rescue helicopter to effect a safe and successful recovery of the downed crew member. By his gallantry and devotion to duty, Major Harding has reflected great credit upon himself and the United States Air Force.

General Orders: Headquarters, Pacific Air Forces, Special Order GB-32 (January 10, 1973)

Action Date: 2-Jun-72

Service: Air Force

Rank: Major

Company: 1st Special Operations Squadron

Division: Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand

Well just in case there is any confusion about where I stand or how I feel about all of this, please listen to what this man has to say.

War is hell, there is no question about it, and that’s all the more reason why it should be avoided at all cost; but when you’ve said all you can say, when diplomacy has failed, and you’re still being backed up against the wall, or if you are attacked, then there comes a time when you have to back your words up with action!

It is also very important that when that time comes, that we don’t let the politicians set the pace and make the strategy for our troops, as happened in the Vietnam War and also in Korea; but rather the first thing you do is commit your ALL to win, and you turn it over to the military to do what they do best; fighting as aggressively as possible so as to end the fighting and to gain victory as soon as possible, for that is the only viable solution or end to any war!

Like Teddy Roosevelt once said, the best policy for diplomacy is to “Speak softly and carry a BIG stick,” because as anyone knows who has ever faced a bully, a stick that is bigger than his is the ONLY thing he will respect!

This world is much too dangerous a place today for us to have any other approach, and make no mistake but that the people who have made themselves our enemies, who attacked our country on 9/11, and who hate us with such a passion, who are by the way Islamic by ideology and faith, believe me when I tell you that they love to hear Obama talk… because he gives them every reason to believe that we no longer have the will nor the internal fortitude, as a nation, to fight for what we stand for and believe in.

How do you feel about that?

The fact is, I don’t believe he speaks for our country at all… and what he does say, I don’t think most Americans would agree with.

I know for sure that he doesn’t speak for me!

Please pray for our Troops, and please also remember to pray for America…

Shalom,

Skip Barland


From: Act for America [mailto:actforamerica@donationnet.net]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:36 AM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Freedom isn’t free


Independence Day, 2010
Dear Skip,

July 4, 1776, may have been the day the Declaration of Independence was signed. But it took seven years of war to win that independence—proving once again that “freedom isn’t free.”

One of the more striking characteristics of radical Islam is its oppressive, totalitarian nature.

Throughout history, the spread of this evil ideology has brought with it death, slavery, suffering and oppression—not the “peace” and “tolerance” its adherents claim.

Non-Muslims and Muslims have suffered under the boot heel of this ideology.

  • For instance, countless Muslim women around the world today suffer as second-class citizens under sharia law.
  • Non-Muslims in Islamic countries face persecution, intimidation, even torture and death.
  • Non-Muslims in countries like France fear to go near “no go zones,” Muslim enclaves where even law enforcement officers dare not tread.

In April, ACT! for America announced the launch of a new joint project entitled Veteran Defenders of America (VDA).

Since then, hundreds of veterans nationwide have signed up to be part of this grassroots movement whose motto is “the eyes and ears of freedom.”

Are you a veteran? Do you have a family member who is a veteran? Then please visit http://www.veterandefenders.org today to find out more about the mission and objectives of this organization.

On June 15th, over 270 people jammed a meeting room in the Nashville, Tennessee, area to attend an event co-hosted by the Middle Tennessee chapter of ACT! for America and Veteran Defenders of America.

Keynoting the event were Erick Stakelbeck, an international CBN news correspondent/expert on radical Islam, and Colonel Jim Harding, the 19th most decorated soldier in United States military history.

Attendees heard a summary of the threat arrayed against us—and how they as veterans can do something about the threat.

VDA plans for the future include training programs in homeland security, emergency preparations, and the threat of Islamist organizations located here in America linked directly to the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood.

VDA is already building a grassroots leadership infrastructure of veterans and for veterans. To find out how you can get involved, visit http://www.veterandefenders.org.

Because veterans understand, better than most, that freedom isn’t free.
Please log on to:

Veteran Defenders of America

because “freedom isn’t free”

ACT for America

P.O. Box 12765
Pensacola, FL 32591
www.actforamerica.org

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!!

Well we have a President who is on record as saying he is ashamed of America…

Well my response is: who is he to talk? He isn’t even a U.S. citizen; but I for one am very proud of my country, and I want to see it taken back by the People!!!

Happy Birthday America!


Below is an interesting article from WND on why America is still an EXCEPTIONAL Country, even today, with all our problems.

Truly today our weakest link is at the top; and that is a sure sign that our foundation is cracked.

Listen to some of the things Obama has said about America and what his vision is for our country:

Ask yourself, as an American, does this man speak for you?

Listen to some of Obama’s quotes:

“Whatever we once were, we’re no longer a Christian nation.”

“America does not presume to know what is best for everyone”

“As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam.”

“In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.”

“The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history.”

“Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors.”

“The United States will be willing to acknowledge past errors where those errors have been made.”

“So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be imposed upon one nation by any other.” (Why don’t you tell that to your friends in the Islamic nations of the world Obama?)

“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.”

“Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”

“Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans.” (and yet America still surpasses any place else in the world where people can have equal opportunities, regardless of race, color, or creed… that’s why we have so many people wanting to come here)

“The point I was making was not that my grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person….”

“My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.” (who attacked who on 9/11?)

“national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies.” (So is that why we leave our southern most border wide open, to make our enemies feel better?)

“I would like to think that with my election and the early decisions that we’ve made, that you’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world.” (As far as I can tell the only arrogance and condescension that I hear these days, is coming out of your mouth, Obama.)

“The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.” (…and that you must convert to Islam or be killed – read your history Obama—and then look at the world today, it’s not Catholic nuns who are going around blowing themselves up!)

“While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms.”

“The danger I think is when the United States or any country thinks that we can simply impose these values on another country with a different history and a different culture” (… again look around you Obama, and see who it is in the world today who is trying to impose their belief system on the world… it is the Muslim nations.)

“So I read the book to help me understand what it is that makes white people so afraid, their demons, the way ideas get twisted around. It helps me understand how people learn to hate.” (Do you mean ‘Hate’ like Jeremiah Wright, where you went to church for 20 years?)

“…I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.” (So is this your excuse for infanticide and abortion?)

“It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” (Hey folks, he’s talking about them ‘crazy right-winged Christians’ here; and no we are NOT against immigrants, just the illegal immigrants, who break the law… and while we are on the subject, where is your Birth Certificate Obama?)

“America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles – principles of justice and progress; tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” (How dumb a statement is that! Again it isn’t the Christians who are intolerant of other faiths, it is Islam… try taking Bibles into Saudi Arabia!)

“You know, the truth is that right after 9/11, I had a pin,” Obama said. “Shortly after 9/11, particularly because as we’re talking about the Iraq War, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security, I decided I won’t wear that pin on my chest. (I suppose he is talking here about why he wouldn’t wear a flag pin… is that also why you refused to salute the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance?)

“Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. I believe that many of these decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people. But I also believe that all too often our government made decisions based on fear rather than foresight; that all too often our government trimmed facts and evidence to fit ideological predispositions.” (Yeah, like the decision to ignore our U.S. Constitution and invoke Executive Orders that violate our Constitutional rights… which began under former President George W. Bush, and is today being continued under Obama.)

Folks, America’s greatest strength has always been our Judaic/Christian roots, and our long history and heritage as a Christian Nation!

Here are just a few quotes which our founding fathers have made on this subject; which I think are very relevant today, especially in light of what this current president has to say.

Just ask yourself, which one of the two lists (the one above or below) most reflect your core beliefs about our country?

George Washington

1st U.S. President

“While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”
The Writings of Washington, pp. 342-343.

John Adams

2nd U.S. President and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Suppose a nation in some distant Region should take the Bible for their only law Book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited! Every member would be obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence toward Almighty God … What a Eutopia, what a Paradise would this region be.”
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.”
–Adams wrote this on June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson.

“The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever.”
–Adams wrote this in a letter to his wife, Abigail, on July 3, 1776.

Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in that event.”
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.

“I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ.”
The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.

John Hancock

1st Signer of the Declaration of Independence

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual. … Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”
History of the United States of America, Vol. II, p. 229.

Benjamin Franklin
Signer of the Declaration of Independence and Unites States Constitution

“Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped.

That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion, and I regard them as you do in whatever sect I meet with them.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of morals and his religion, as he left them to us, is the best the world ever saw, or is likely to see;

But I apprehend it has received various corrupting changes, and I have, with most of the present dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an opportunity of knowing the truth with less trouble. I see no harm, however, in its being believed, if that belief has the good consequence, as probably it has, of making his doctrines more respected and more observed; especially as I do not perceive, that the Supreme takes it amiss, by distinguishing the unbelievers in his government of the world with any peculiar marks of his displeasure.”
–Benjamin Franklin wrote this in a letter to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University on March 9, 1790.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/LIBissuesArticles.asp?id=8755

We report… you decide!

Let’s take back our country and restore our Constitutional Republic… while we still can!

While we still have a country to save.

Pray America… watch and pray!

Shalom,

Skip Barland



From: WorldNetDaily [mailto:alerts@alerts.worldnetdaily.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 2:05 AM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: AMERICA THE EXCEPTIONAL–Why it’s the greatest nation in human history

July 2010 – AMERICA THE EXCEPTIONAL:

Why it’s the greatest nation in human history

“America is – is no longer, uh, what it could be – what it, it once was. And I say to myself, I don’t want that future for my children.”
– Barack Obama to a 7-year-old girl asking why he wanted to be president, Elkhart, Indiana, Aug. 6, 2008

Whether Barack Obama is apologizing about America to a 7-year-old child or to European and Muslim world leaders, after 18 months as president there is no longer any doubt about which direction he’s taking America: Down.

  • “Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.”
    – President Barack Obama in Cairo, Egypt, June 3, 2009
  • “Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower.”President Obama at close of two-day nuclear security summit in Washington, D.C., April 13, 2010
  • “[The world] cannot depend as much on the U.S. as it did in the past.”
    – U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to the BBC, June 25, 2010

By every objective measure, it’s clear that President Obama and those surrounding and guiding him are firmly committed to ending, once and for all, America’s economic, military and moral leadership in the world.

However, the problem with that is that history proves the only thing that has prevented the world from plunging into utter darkness and tyranny has been America’s leadership, strength, courage, generosity and legendary liberty – in short, its exceptionalism.

“‘AMERICA THE EXCEPTIONAL’ is the antidote to Obama and his vision of a dependant, enfeebled, American socialist utopia,” said David Kupelian, managing editor of WorldNetDaily and Whistleblower. It transports readers to the real America – the nation they loved as a child, the ‘shining city on a hill’ our founders gave us and the Pilgrims dreamed about and courageously pursued.”

Out of the thousands of years of suffering and oppression that comprise human history, a light burns brightly for just a couple of hundred years.

The American experiment: a revolutionary idea that the common man can be free, master of his own government, so long as he himself is ruled by God.

For a short time this brilliant young country dazzles all the world and all of history, not just with its power and productivity and progress, but with its goodness.

No question about it. For two centuries America has been the leader of the free world and inspiration to the unfree world. It has sent its soldiers to fight and die in foreign lands to protect the innocent, it has led the world in science, technology, manufacturing, agriculture, business and philanthropy – but above all, it has been a beacon of liberty. But that beacon today is under withering assault.

“Despite the attempted socialist transformation of our nation under Obama,” said Kupelian, “in November Americans have a chance, perhaps our last chance, to restore America’s exceptionalism and to reconnect with her original, transcendent purpose.”

“If you want to re-experience the real America,” he concluded, “and be refreshed and strengthened for the battles ahead, you must read this very special and inspiring issue.”

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Kim Clement shares a word from the Lord regarding – A Betrayal!

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A number of years ago, I started receiving revelations regarding a insidious attack from an old enemy; an enemy with a smile on the outside but hatred on the inside. Eventually the revelation became a prophecy and I spoke it out a number of times. I spoke of Russia and even mentioned ‘citizens’ gaining access to the secrets of the USA. People laughed at this, informing me that the cold war era was over, but I knew that something was wrong.

As a prophet I began praying about this and every day I would call to God for America’s protection. Then a few months ago, I had a vision and the words spoken to me were, “The hand of the betrayer is on the table.” In the vision I was in the White House, and I shared the little that I knew with all of you. A few days before the revelation from the news media of the espionage by Russian agents, who had become American citizens, God sent me into a time of isolation to pray. I knew something was going to happen. He is protecting this great land of HIS. Here is an excerpt from one of the prophecies that I received in Nashville, Tennessee in 2005:

“I will pinpoint Russia… I will pull their pants down and show their nakedness to the world. For they have played with this nation. They have played with this nation and they have said we will bring to shame this nation…I will expose Russia. And men, citizens of this nation that have acted the whore I will bring them out… exposing corruption, and America shall rid itself of leeches that take and they give nothing back: Citizens who are not citizens but enemies of this nation. The United Nations has housed Judas. And now I have taken Judas out and I’m revealing the lie… And then there will be one political upheaval after the other.”

Tomorrow night I will share in a few minutes what God had shown me and also how President Obama will be challenged to face some very difficult decisions.  You will see how God is protecting our nation in spite of the fact that millions of Americans sit glued to political entertainment, while every law of the land being passed and proposed is tainted, influenced, molded and stuffed full of “spending” for things a nation cannot afford.

The media is the most powerful weapon of the 21st century, but it has been so corrupted by the political machines and used to promote all kinds of ungodly sewer. God will make this change and I, as a prophet, will do everything in my power to speak His word through this same media (specifically the Internet). Our audience is growing and the interest in what God has to say is increasing at a rapid rate.

Stand with me and join me as we pray under the guidance of his prophetic word.

KIM CLEMENT

I would say the betrayal in America doesn’t just end here; I believe the uncovering of this spy ring is but one of many betrayals we are faced with today.

The most traitorous of betrayals happens when a nation is betrayed from within; from among those very people who have been elected to represent our nation, to preserve, protect, and to defend our U.S. Constitution, who are the people who create our policy and who pass and invoke our laws.

This betrayal has happened as we have seen long established spiritual and moral boundaries, that were established by our forefathers, not to mention our rich spiritual heritage and history as a Christian nation, are today all but forgotten; are violate; and are ignored.

This has not happened overnight, but is the result of a very long and methodical process which I believe started back in 1963, when the Supreme Court of the United States rendered the Abington Township School District v. Schempp decision—on June 17, 1963, which was the second so-called “school prayer” decision (the first came a year earlier in Engel v. Vitale). But this one by far was the most far-reaching one of the two — prohibiting school officials from organizing or leading prayers and devotional Bible reading in public schools.

And so the Supreme Court of the United States, by that act, made it illegal to do what the first U.S. Congress did in 1782:

Aitken Bible 09/12/1782

Prior to the American Revolution, the only English Bibles in the colonies were imported either from Europe or England. Publication of the Bible was regulated by the British government, and required a special license. Robert Aitken’s Bible was the first known English-language Bible to be printed in America, and also the only Bible to receive Congressional approval. Aitken’s Bible, sometimes referred to as “The Bible of the Revolution,” is one of the rarest books in the world, with few copies still in existence today.


History of the Aitken Bible

On January 21, 1781, Robert Aitken presented a “memorial” [petition] to Congress offering to print “a neat Edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.” This is the text of that memorial:

To the Honourable The Congress
of the United States of America
The Memorial of Robert Aitken
of the City of Philadelphia, Printer

Humbly Sheweth

That in every well regulated Government in Christendom The Sacred Books of the Old and New Testament, commonly called the Holy Bible, are printed and published under the Authority of the Sovereign Powers, in order to prevent the fatal confusion that would arise, and the alarming Injuries the Christian Faith might suffer from the Spurious and erroneous Editions of Divine Revelation. That your Memorialist has no doubt but this work is an Object worthy the attention of the Congress of the United States of America, who will not neglect spiritual security, while they are virtuously contending for temporal blessings. Under this persuasion your Memorialist begs leave to, inform your Honours That he both begun and made considerable progress in a neat Edition of the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools, But being cautious of suffering his copy of the Bible to Issue forth without the sanction of Congress, Humbly prays that your Honours would take this important matter into serious consideration & would be pleased to appoint one Member or Members of your Honourable Body to inspect his work so that the same may be published under the Authority of Congress. And further, your Memorialist prays, that he may be commissioned or otherwise appointed & Authorized to print and vend Editions of, the Sacred Scriptures, in such manner and form as may best suit the wants and demands of the good people of these States, provided the same be in all things perfectly consonant to the Scriptures as heretofore Established and received amongst us.


After appointing a committee to study the project, Congress acted on September 12, 1782, by “highly approv[ing of] the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken.” The endorsement by Congress was printed in the Aitken Bible:

It is that one decision, where the official stance was made by our top judicial court that God was no longer relevant to anything that was of any importance or of any consequence in the lives of our children; and the result of that decision, I believe, more than any other one thing, is the reason why our country has deteriorated and has come to the point we are at today.

What has happened since prayer was stopped in the U.S…

What are some statistics on children when prayer was taken out of school?

In 1963, Madalyn Murray O’Hair won a lawsuit against the Baltimore School System, which voted in her favor 8-1 to ban school prayer and label it “unconstitutional”. Though not all prayer was immediately banned from schools at that time, through a process of time, almost all school prayer is banned today.

Young People

  1. For 15 years before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years.
  2. For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%.
  3. Before 1963 sexually transmitted diseases among students were 400 per 100,000. Since 1963, they were up 226% in the next 12 years.

The Family

  1. Before 1963 divorce rates had been declining for 15 years. After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 years.
  2. Since 1963 unmarried people living together is up 353%
  3. Since 1963 single parent families are up 140%.
  4. Since 1963 single parent families with children are up 160%.

Education

  1. The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores. SAT scores had been steady for many years before 1963. From 1963 they rapidly declined for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941.
  2. In 1974-75 the rate of decline of the SAT scores decreased, even though they continued to decline. That was when there was an explosion of private religious schools. There were only 1000 Christian schools in 1965. Between 1974 to 1984 they increased to 32,000.

    a. That could have an impact if the private schools had higher SAT scores. In checking with the SAT Board it was found that indeed the SAT scores for private schools were nearly 100 points higher than public schools.
    b. In fact the scores were at the point where the public schools had been before their decline started in 1963 when prayer and Bible reading/ instruction was removed from the schools.
    c. The scores in the public schools were still declining.

  3. Of the nation’s top academic scholars, three times as many come from private religious schools, which operate on one-third the funds as do the public schools.

The Nation

  1. Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%.
  2. Illegal drugs have become an enormous & uncontrollable problem.
  3. The nation has been deprived of an estimated 50 million citizens through legal abortions just since 1973.

We report… you decide.

Again, please pray for our nation.

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven… and ALL these things will be added to you!

Seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness!

Matthew 6:25-34 (New Living Translation)

25That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to him than they are? 27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?

28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, 29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are. 30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, he will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?

31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’ 32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs. 33 Seek the Kingdom of God[a] above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.”

Jesus also instructs us in John 14 to NOT allow our hearts to be troubled, “Let Not,” as the KJV says; all of which implies it is our decision whether to trust in faith, or not; and these are instructions given to us by our Lord, and it is not a suggestion.

He goes on to tell us that He is going before us in order to prepare an abode for us, specific with each one of us in mind; and along with that He gave us the promise of coming back to receive us unto Himself, and there to live with Him forever.

Now the Bible is very interesting because whereas Jesus put the above text in the future tense, as something that is yet to happen in the future; the Bible also says that we NOW are in heavenly places with Jesus too… so how is that possible?

How can we be here on earth, and at the same time, simultaneously be with Jesus in eternity?

What I believe this verse is teaching us is that our spirit man, being of the same substance and nature of God, who is Himself a Spirit; and with that part of us having been given to us by God, and is that which is created in His image and after His likeness; I believe it is our spirit man, that is existent outside of our time and space continuum; and is therefore also eternal. We know after all there is no distance in the spirit.

It is also our spirit man that only comes alive, at our re-birth, at which time I believe we then have the potential for unending communion with God; and our being with Him ALL the time, regardless of where we are, or what we are doing in the natural.

But the question still arises, back here on earth, because all of that is very well and fine; but how does any of this information help me where I am today?

How am I able to tap into this supernatural dimension; and how can I receive God’s help and guidance, which I do desperately need today?

Also, how do we get to the place where my life is being government not by what I see or feel; but by faith, in what is not yet visible to the natural eye, nor felt in the natural?

Also the question arises as to how do we deal with our current earthly challenges in the mean time, that are most definitely real and in the natural?

For the answer to all of these questions we need to consult the Operation’s Manual (the Holy Bible); and there are any number of instructions that we will find there.

But all of them have to do with our appropriating what we need here in this life, in our time, by faith! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland


What is the Holy Spirit saying today? Here is a video from Cindy and Mike Jacobs…

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Watch this special video with Mike & Cindy Jacobs talking with Chuck Pierce about the oil spill in the gulf coast and God’s glory covering the earth. This is a continuation of the live streaming event on June 23, 2010. You don’t want to miss this!


There are so many voices out there today, who are saying different things about the times we are living in; and I for one hold to that one Scripture that Cindy Jacobs references in Amos 3:7, which says: Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.”

Folks, we need to understand that there is a God in heaven whom we, as His covenant children, are accountable to.

You know as upset as we get at the world and the people who are ruining our country and our world today, following in their plans and craftiness, they are only doing what comes natural for anyone living by the flesh and in the natural; and therefore apart from their Creator, and outside of His covenant.

It’s the Church’s mission to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom of God in the earth, as it is in heaven, that is our mission; and to the extend the enemy, who is Satan (the Devil) is resisting that effort today, seeing that his time is short, he is bringing his forces to bear and is increasing his efforts today, in order to resist the move of the Spirit in the earth; but our promise from Jesus is that He WILL build His church and the Gates of Hell shall NOT prevail against us!!! Selah and Amen

Pray folks, let us continue to watch and pray!

Shalom,

Skip Barland