Whatever your need is, God has already made provision for that need…


In Him, Jesus Christ, all the

promises of God are yes and amen!


I was sharing the Lord with a lady last week, and the question came up when I mention that Jesus was the Saviour of the world, “What do I need to be saved from?

Often even among Christians there is a failure to recognize what Jesus has purchased for us on the Cross of Calvary.

The Bible tells us, in 2 Cor. 1:20, that ALL the promises of God, in Jesus, are yes and amen; and also in 1 John 5:14, we are told that this is the confidence that we have, that if we ask anything in accordance with His will, that He hears us; and if we know that He hears us, then whatever we have asked of Him, then we know that we have those petitions.

So why is it that in the face of these promises of God, that can readily be found in the Bible, where God has already spoken what His will is in certain matters, why is it that we have people praying prayers for healing and other things, where God has already told us what His will is, they are praying “Lord if it be your will?”

It is for us to read the contract (covenant), found in the Holy Bible, and then to find there a promise that applies to our problem or circumstance.

The Bible tells us that these stories and accounts that we read in our Bible were given for our example, and for our edification.

The Bible is our Handbook for life, and in it we learn what our rights and privileges are, as God’s covenant children; but also it tells us what our responsibilities are before God, as well.

Jesus’ last words that He spoke on the cross was It is finished,” and so there is nothing more that God must do.

Everything necessary for us in our provision, in things we need for ministry, for our families, jobs that we need, or healing for our bodies, all of these things have been provided through what Jesus has purchased for us on Calvary’s Cross.

It is for us to learn how to write the checks of heaven, and how to appropriate what we need by faith; and by that I mean we find a promise of God, already written in the Word, and having found that promise, we then begin to pray it, confess it, and stand on it, until our answer comes! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland



If We the People don’t demand accountability from our elected officials, then no one else will.

Meet Lt. Col. Terry Lakin

Military Veteran tells Army official:Investigate Obama, not Lt. Col. LakinIF ENLISTED MEMBERS MUST SHOW THEIRS, SO SHOULD OBAMA!

The following is a letter sent to Army spokesman Chuck Dasey in regard to the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, who has refused to take any further orders until Obama shows his original birth certificate:

Dear Mr. Dasey,

With all due respect, sir, may I suggest that rather than investigating Lt. Col. Lakin, an honorable, patriotic officer, who was required to show his birth certificate before deployment, you investigate Barack Obama (aka Barry Soetoro), who, to date, has refused to produce his.

When I enlisted in 1963, I had to produce my long form birth certificate. You did, too. Why, then, does this standard not apply to the man acting as Commander in Chief?

Barack Obama’s first official act after taking office was to sign an executive order sealing virtually ALL of his records and documents that might shed light on who and what he truly is. I ask you sir, would a man with nothing to hide do such a thing?

Recently, a video has surfaced in which Michelle Obama herself stated that Kenya is Barack Obama’s homeland. Even more recently, The Kenyan Parliament (on page 31 of the Minutes) stated that Barack Obama is Kenyan-born.

The U.S. Constitution clearly states in Article II, Section 1, paragraph 5, that no person, except a natural born Citizen of the United States of America shall hold the office of President. That exempts Barack Obama.

Mr. Dasey, you swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and domestic. I doubt that oath has an expiration date. Isn’t it about time the military started honoring that oath? I beg of you… do not investigate Lt. Col. Lakin. Instead, investigate the man who truly needs investigating… Barack Hussein Obama.

Respectfully,

David Briggs
United States Navy, 1963-69
Task Force 116, 573rd River Division

We are in serious trouble when the courts of our land can tell us that we, as American citizens, have no standing or right to demand accountably from our elected officials, that they are conforming to the requirements of our U.S. Constitution, as they have sworn an oath to do.

This has been the decision of several courts in our land, of late; and if these decisions are allowed to stand, then folks we are dangerously close to forfeiting our liberty as a people.

We have a situation in our land today, and it has been this way for over 100 years, where because there are certain hidden agendas among our nation’s leadership, and because they cannot implement their agenda legally, according to our U.S. Constitution, then in the absence of any accountably to do so, they are in fact ignoring our Constitution.

This has become standard operating procedure and business as usual in even the highest office, and also among our Senators and Congressmen; and the reason is because there is no oversight nor accountably.

Unlike our military personal, where they can be brought up on charges and even court marshaled for violating their sworn oath to abide by our U.S. Constitution, our elected officials have no such accountability!

I thank you God for the courage of this man, that he is displaying, which is forcing this miscarriage of justice to be at the forefront of our attention!

God help us to take back our government, and get honest men and women to represent us, who will abide by their oath of office, without hidden agendas.

Lord deliver us from this evil that is seeking to further undermine our Constitutional Republic; and may we once again become One Nation Under God!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Tuesday, June 08, 2010


OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL
WorldNetDaily Exclusive

Call for Obama’s resignation cites ‘deceit, fraud, dishonesty’
‘We can wait no longer for a traditional change of power and new government’


Posted: June 08, 2010
11:30 pm EasternBy Bob Unruh


WorldNetDaily

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely

A retired U.S. military leader who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites has issued a call for President Obama’s resignation and a new election to replace him.

The call comes from Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in 1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific.

“We now must call for the immediate resignation of Barry Soetero (AKA President Barack Hussein Obama) … based on incompetence, deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution,” he said in remarks delivered to a Lincoln Reagan dinner in Virginia City, Mont., last week and published today on the Stand Up America website.

“And a call for a national petition for new elections to select the next president of the United States of America must be initiated,” he continued. “We can wait no longer for a traditional change of power and new government.”

A number of retired military members have sought the removal of Obama from office. They mostly have tried to utilize the courts to challenge his eligibility based on claims he fails to meet the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural born citizen.” Few have asserted Obama needs to walk away from the Oval Office for the best of the nation.

“The Declaration of Independence states: ‘To secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness,'” Vallely said in his remarks.

“We cannot permit the current leaders in the White House and halls of Congress to continue in their efforts to lead us down the road of progressive socialism and destruction of America. This is the current battle that we constitutionalists face, and we must be aggressive in our efforts,” he said.

He pointed out that the oath of office for the president is basic, stating, “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

“Sadly, we have seen them violate their oath. Fraud, lying, and corruption are rampant and some have engaged in treasonous activities, and they effectively thumb their noses at us and have sold you to the highest bidder,” he said.

“Lincoln issued this warning in his inaugural address, ‘Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right – a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world,'” Vallely said.

“Being a representative republic, not a democracy, ‘rising up’ means other than revolution by means of arms. The people must ‘rise up’ from the grass roots across this great country as we think of the greater good of this and future generations. We are limited in the peaceful transfer of power…resignation, death, elections, and impeachment,” he said.

“‘We the People’ have had enough. Enough is enough. The Obama White House and identifiable members of Congress are now on a progressive socialist, treasonous death march and are bankrupting and weakening the country. We have watched them violate their sacred oath of office. ‘We, the People’ cannot wait for and solely rely on the next round of elections in November of this year. It is now and each day that these public servants must put the citizen’s interests above self-interest by resigning immediately,” he said.

Vallely graduated from West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961. He served 32 years before retiring, including in theaters in Europe and the Pacific Rim.

He saw two tours of combat duty in Vietnam.

He’s of late been a military analyst for the Fox News Channel and a lecturer on counter-terrorism. From 1982 to 1986 he commanded the 351st Civil Affairs Command that included all special forces, psychological warfare and civil military units in the Western United States and Hawaii.

He told WND he is speaking as an American citizen who wants to see the nation restored to a role of world leadership peacefully.

Vallely said Obama’s record is of failure at just about everything, from the massive buckets of cash handed out in his bailout programs to his instability on foreign policy and his “lack of resolve” on military issues.

He said while he doesn’t call himself a “birther,” even the issue of Obama’s eligibility remains unresolved.

“Certainly as a citizen I don’t buy off on his eligibility,” he said.

But more significant than Obama’s record, history, qualifications or even presidency is the nation’s future, he said.

“We cannot continue to self-destruct here.”

He said he’s calling for the resignation of the president because that’s what responsible citizens should be doing. Congress, certainly, is not going to take responsibility and get the job done, he said.

“I want the people to stand up and take government back, peacefully,” he told WND.

On Vallely’s website, forum participants were in lock-step:

“As a Vietnam veteran and believer in the Constitution I am in full support of these observations and comments,” said Ralph Kennedy. “It seems that even the military forces have been in decline along with the political culture in our country since Mr. Obama has been in place. … I applaud the courage and the common sense exhibited by Mr. Vallely in his statement.”

Added Ronald Hei, “As a Vietnam veteran and retired military officer, I fully support Gen. Vallely’s call for the resignation of Obama. Failing resignation, I call for the petition of the U.S. Congress (existing) for his impeachment for ALL of the transgressions listed above and some not listed.”

David J. Austin said, “Our government under the current president has demonstrated moral corruptness in nearly all aspects of its performance. Our country and flag have been disgraced by the actions of Obama. … I would like to see the new Congress, after the 2010 elections, demand his immediate resignation or begin impeachment proceedings.”

The topic of Vallely’s work also was scheduled to be on the Patriots Heart Network online report tonight.

Peter Ferrara, on the American Spectator website, also has predicted Obama’s resignation.

“I am now ready to predict that President Obama will not even make it [to 2012],” he wrote. “I predict that he will resign in discredited disgrace before the fall of 2012,” Ferrera said.

There’s a new strategy to get answers to Obama’s eligibility questions. See how you can help.

In his Spectator piece, which came only days before Vallely’s remarks, Ferrera said, “What leads me to predict President Obama’s early political demise are his numerous, enormous vulnerabilities to further adverse developments, threatening a geometrically accelerating downward spiral, for him politically, and for America substantively.”

Ferrara cited Obama’s controversies over the Rep. Joe Sestak scandal, his lack of management of the Gulf oil spill, more and more taxes for Americans, a “blind” energy policy and others.

“The president himself has laid the foundation for his biggest political vulnerability of all,” he said. “He won our votes and the election in 2008 with ‘the firm pledge’ not to raise taxes ‘in any form’ on anyone making less than $250,000 a year. Now he has already backed away from that pledge,” he said.

A voter backlash against Democrats expected in November will result in Democrats themselves having “limited tolerance for the above described political pressures and chaos,” he said.

“With the very survival of their party at stake, the Democrats will buckle and desert President Obama, joining the calls for his resignation.

“At that point, with zero prospects for re-election, and unable to govern effectively, he will resign,” Ferrara said.

Other military officers have taken a more direct approach to challenging Obama’s presidency.

WND has reported the case of Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin, a career physician who has refused Army orders because of the lack of documentation for Obama’s eligibility.

Lakin invited his own court action in a video:

Lakin was not the first officer to raise questions. Others have included Army doctor Capt. Connie Rhodes and Army reservist Maj. Stefan Cook.

The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, “No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

WND has covered a multitude of challenges and lawsuits over the issue. Some have alleged that he was not born in Hawaii in 1961 as he has written, or that the framers of the Constitution specifically excluded dual citizens – Obama’s father was a subject of the British crown at Obama’s birth – from being eligible for the office.

Besides Obama’s actual birth documentation, the still-concealed documentation for him includes kindergarten records, Punahou school records, Occidental College records, Columbia University records, Columbia thesis, Harvard Law School records, Harvard Law Review articles, scholarly articles from the University of Chicago, passport, medical records, his files from his years as an Illinois state senator, his Illinois State Bar Association records, any baptism records, and his adoption records.

“Where’s The Birth Certificate?” billboard helps light up the night at the Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

Because of the dearth of information about Obama’s eligibility, WND founder Joseph Farah has launched a campaign to raise contributions to post billboards asking a simple question: “Where’s the birth certificate?”

The campaign followed a petition that has collected more than 500,000 signatures demanding proof of his eligibility, the availability of yard signs raising the question and the production of permanent, detachable magnetic bumper stickers asking the question.

A new effort now asks those in authority regarding the nation’s elections to demand the full proof.

The “certification of live birth” posted online and widely touted as “Obama’s birth certificate” does not in any way prove he was born in Hawaii, since the same “short-form” document is easily obtainable for children not born in Hawaii. The true “long-form” birth certificate – which includes information such as the name of the birth hospital and attending physician – is the only document that can prove Obama was born in Hawaii, but to date he has not permitted its release for public or press scrutiny.

Meet another American Hero…


Meet Corporal Desmond T. Doss

(February 7, 1919–March 23, 2006)

Desmond T. Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor and one of only three so honored. He was a Private First Class (at the time of his Medal of Honor heroics) in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Medical Detachment, 307th Infantry, 77th Infantry Division.

On this day in 1945, Corporal Desmond T. Doss of Lynchburg, Virginia, was presented the Medal of Honor by President Truman for outstanding bravery as a medic, during the conquest of Okinawa earlier that year. Doss was a pacifist based on his religion, 7th Day Adventist, and refused therefore to kill or carry a weapon, but he served as a medic and was brave, brave, brave. He saved at least a dozen lives at the extreme risk of his own, and despite multiple wounds, including a compound fracture of his arm he bound to the broken stock of a rifle. Doss was the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor.


This is an amazing story of faith and love, where a man following the convictions of his heart, thought it wrong to take another life; but nevertheless at the risk of his own life, he took numerous risks, while under fire to save the lives of countless soldiers, on both sides too; as he also risked his life to save enemy soldiers as well.

God must have assigned angels to watch over this Christian Brother, as he took the step of faith to trust his life and situation completely into God’s hands.

I feel this is an example of what faith is, where we abandon ourselves completely, into the hands of our Lord; and are willing to step out into the void, casting all of our trust upon Him; trusting that once we do, in accordance with God’s Word and the convictions of our heart, that God will sustain us.

I feel strongly that this is an example and a message for us all to look to in these days. Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland


From: RBC Ministries [mailto:donotreply@rbc.org]
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2010 9:10 PM
To: theskipper@cox.net
Subject: Our Daily Bread — June 6, 2010


June 6, 2010

A Hero Who Healed

Do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. —1 Peter 3:14

Corporal Desmond Doss was the first conscientious objector to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor, the United States’ highest military award.

A devout follower of Christ, Doss believed that it was not right for him to kill others, but he wanted to serve his country so he volunteered as a medic.

During boot camp, his fellow soldiers ridiculed him for refusing to fire a rifle. They mocked him when he read his Bible and knelt beside his bunk at night to pray. But in combat, it was a different story.

During the World War II battle for Okinawa in May 1945, Doss repeatedly risked his life to rescue scores of wounded men.

Through his unselfish actions, he earned the gratitude and respect of his former critics and of those whose lives he saved.

In the face of unjust criticism, Peter told his fellow Christians, “Even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. ‘And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled’?” (1 Peter 3:14).

He urged them to honor God in their hearts and be ready to give a respectful reply to anyone who asked about the hope within them (v.15).

May our response to a hurting world that’s often hostile to Christ be one that demonstrates God’s love. —David McCasland

We’re told to love the enemies
That in this life we face,
For showing love that’s not deserved
Reveals to them God’s grace. —Bosch

To return good for good is human; to return good for evil is divine.


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Obama has never made it a secret as to where his true loyalties lie!

Well at least Obama has never made it a secret as to where his true loyalties lie!

As you review the picture of Obama (see below), at a news conference, and then compare it with the other former presidents at their news conferences, I guess there are two ways of looking at this, and two conclusions you can come to.

Perhaps, just maybe Barack Hussein Obama (aka Barry Soetoro) is the most honest one of the lot, with one exception?

At least each of these former Presidents, with the exception of Obama, are verifiably American citizens.

From the evidence thus far, Barack Obama is not an American citizen; and without exception, all the rest of the presidents who are pictured here, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, were and are traitors to the flag that they displayed.

You can be no other than a traitor, and be for the Globalist Banker’s “One World Government,” which all of them, with the exception of Ronald Reagan, were trained for, and groomed for, since their college years.

The fact is, you can be nothing other than a traitor to our flag, when you seek to undermine and eliminate our Bill of Rights, and our U.S. Constitution; all of which will have to happen, first, before they can succeed in undermining our government, and forcing us to be absorbed into this so called “New World Order,” which all of these former Presidents, again with the exception of Ronald Reagan, are on record as endorsing.

Until Obama produces evidence to the contrary, in producing an official and legal birth certificate, which is something he has thus far refused to do; and has chosen instead to spend millions of dollars to keep from producing it; as he has with all of his earlier records, such as all his medical and school related documents; until he is willing to set the record straight, then the only conclusion that can be drawn, from all available evidence, is that Obama is NOT a U.S. Citizen!

Here is the ONLY legal birth certificate that we have on file; and it appears to be legit:



Here is the laundry list of documents that Obama, through his lawyers has refused to produce:

1) His original birth certificate. Access is sealed by the Governor of Hawaii.

2)  Admissions/College transcript records from Occidental College.

3)  Admissions/College transcript records from Columbia University.

4)  Admissions/College transcript records from Harvard University.

5)  Records of his editorial writing in the Harvard Law Review.

6)  Medical Records.

7)  Selective Service Registration Records.  (Debbie Schlussel has obtained Obama’s Selective Service Registration record.  She has done an investigation, posted on her website, thoroughly demonstrating that the registration is a forgery and a fraud.)

8)  His Illinois State Legislative calendar.

9)  The list of his legal clients from his days of private law practice.

Obviously something is very wrong here; and please note also how this birth certificate (above) differs from the phony one (see below), which is called a “Certificate of Live Birth,” that the state of Hawaii gives to anyone, regardless of their place of birth, citizen or not; and also notice how this document differs from your own birth certificate, in that it contains information about the hospital, and also the name of a person who signed as a witness, which in this case is the Registrar; all of which are missing on the Certificate of Live Birth.


More evidence of a forgery:

What follows is a video of a man, who is a computer graphics expert, whose face is obscured because of threats that have been made on his life, who list the reasons why the above document is a forgery.


Like the man says… we report, you decide!

Skip Barland


From: Kelby
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:53 PM
To: TheSkipper@cox.net
Subject: FW: What is missing at Obama’s press conference?

WOW!

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What is missing at Obama’s press conference?
No it is not the teleprompters. See the other president’s pictures for a clue.



BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA   (aka BARRY SOETORO )

GEORGE WALKER BUSH


WILLIAM JEFFERSON BLYTHE CLINTON


GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH


RONALD WILSON REAGAN


That’s right…no American flags!!!

And I don’t believe it was just an accident!

It is intentional. So I ask why is it intentional?

He told you he would change America, didn’t he?

Vote in November like your way of life depended on it!

Pay attention folks, do not be ignorant… and be wise as serpents!!!

It is the people behind the curtain, to use the analogy of the Wizard of Oz, who are the real threat… Obama is just their puppet!

As I see the problem we have today, as this article (below) touches on, with this administration, and whereas, yes Barack Obama is intelligent and well spoken, and yes also he is inexperienced too, and possibly way over his head now, with all that is going on; but with all of that being as it is, the real problem we have, and I might say Obama has this problem too, is that the ones behind him, who handpicked him for this job, who saw to it that his public image was puffed in the media, which caused his popularity to escalate, that eventually won him the election, it is these people that we need to worry about.

They will cut their losses and make Obama their scapegoat in a minute; all to shift attention from themselves and keep the public’s attention in other areas. These people are troubled today because more so than at any other time, they are finding themselves, and their Globalist agenda exposed, and truly they cannot stand the light of day, as their father before them, who is Satan, can’t stand it either!

These people, make no mistake, have but one goal, and that is a totalitarian one world government; and their agenda includes the subjugation and eventually the total elimination of our Constitutional Republic; and the men and women who are at the helm of our leadership in Washington DC, and for most of the U.S media, for over 100 years now, have for the most part been compromised, and have been recruited by them, since college, to serve their One World Agenda.

Perhaps this is the betrayal that Kim Clement has prophesied, that would take place in this White House, as Obama finds himself made the scapegoat for the world’s many problems, and especially now, with this one gulf problem hitting this administration right between the eyes.

I have to say, that I hate what our present lot of politicians and this president are doing to our nation; but I also know that our God is a god of the impossible; meaning if we pray, He can do things that far exceed our expectations, and our imaginations… if only we would pray, and believe for them.

With that said, I want to encourage all of you to pray for Obama. Put your personal feelings aside, for a moment, and please try and recognize that this man is being played like a Stradivarius violin, and I don’t think he has a clue, what danger he is in.

His ambition and lust for fortune, power and fame (I believe) has gotten the best of him, and it will be his ruin.

I have no doubt, but that his handlers will drop him like a hot potato, as long as his popularity continues to wan; and as long as they continue to see the attention shifting to uncover their agenda.

Make no mistake, there are some very wicked principalities and demonic forces that are behind these Globalist Bankers, and all their secret societies, and they mean us no good!

They are using Obama to do their bidding; and what they would like to do is weaken us enough economically, to cause enough public unrest and panic, in order to be able to establish marshal law, and then take away our free speech rights; silence their detractors in the media, and on Talk-Radio; and also they want to license and control the internet!

What we read about in our Bible; and what Jesus warned us would happen in the last day, in what He called a “Time of Sorrows,” all of that is happening today, as the enemy, Satan, is preparing the way to establish his One World government, in preparation for the rule of the Antichrist!

Now where we will be in all of this, in the United States, I still don’t think is written in stone… not yet anyway… and so I still believe that we have a chance to turn our nation around.

Yes, I would love to see Barack Obama see the light of day, and get saved!

Let us not be too hard on this guy; and let us also remember that if it weren’t for the grace of God, and the fact that we had an encounter with God, ourselves, and were born-again, many of us would most likely be right there along side of him.

So let us not forget from whence we have come!

I think if Obama ever were to get saved, and filled with the Holy Spirit, it would be one HUGE black eye to the enemy, and to his cause; but I also don’t believe that it will happen, unless we are praying.

Things are getting serious, folks, as time and events appear to be accelerating, the closer we get to the time of our Lord’s return!

This is NOT a time to be fearful, and quaking in our boots; because God has an agenda too, and that agenda includes us, as members of His church, to charge the gates of hell, and kick Satan’s butt!

Come along with us, won’t you… and join in the adventure!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 7:42 AM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Ed

PoliticsSpill reveals Obama’s lack of executive experienceBy: Byron York
Chief Political Correspondent
June 8, 2010

In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Croft. “When you sit down and you look at [your] resume,” Croft said to Obama, “there’s no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I’m wrong, the only thing that you’ve actually run was the Harvard Law Review.”

“Well, I’ve run my Senate office, and I’ve run this campaign,” Obama said.

Seven months later, after receiving the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama talked with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. At the time, the news was dominated by Hurricane Gustav, which was headed toward New Orleans and threatening to become a Katrina-like disaster. “Some of your Republican critics have said you don’t have the experience to handle a situation like this,” Cooper said to Obama. “They in fact have said that Governor Palin has more executive experience. …”

“Governor Palin’s town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees,” Obama answered. “We have got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So, I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute, I think, has been made clear over the last couple of years.”

Obama ignored Palin’s experience as governor of Alaska, which was considerably bigger than the Obama campaign. But his point was clear: If you’re worried about my lack of my executive experience, look at my campaign. Running a first-rate campaign, Obama and his supporters argued, showed that Obama could run the federal government, even at its most testing moments. He could set goals, demand accountability, and, perhaps most importantly, bend the sprawling federal bureaucracy to his will.

Fast forward to 2010. The oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is gushing out of control. The Obama administration is at first slow to see the seriousness of the accident. Then, as the crisis becomes clear, the federal bureaucracy becomes entangled in itself trying to deal with the problem. “At least a dozen federal agencies have taken part in the spill response,” the New York Times reports, “making decision-making slow, conflicted and confused, as they sought to apply numerous federal statutes.”

For example, it took the Department of Homeland Security more than a week to classify the spill as an event calling for the highest level of federal action. And when state officials in Louisiana tried over and over to win federal permission to build sand barriers to protect fragile coastal wetlands from the oil, they got nowhere. “For three weeks, as the giant slick crept closer to shore,” the Times reports, “officials from the White House, Coast Guard, Army Corps of Engineers, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environmental Protection Agency debated the best approach.”

The bureaucracy wasn’t bending to anyone’s will. The direction from the top was not clear. And accountability? So far, the only head that has rolled during the Gulf crisis has been that of Minerals Management Service chief Elizabeth Birnbaum. But during a May 27 news conference, Obama admitted he didn’t even know whether she had resigned or been fired. “I found out about it this morning, so I don’t yet know the circumstances,” the president said. “And [Interior Secretary] Ken Salazar’s been in testimony on the Hill.” Obama’s answer revealed that he hadn’t fired Birnbaum, and he couldn’t reach a member of his Cabinet who was a few blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue.

Given all that, perhaps candidates in future presidential races will think twice before arguing that running their campaign counts as executive experience.

A few days before Obama won the White House, Bill Clinton joined him for a late-night rally in Kissimmee, Fla. Clinton, who became president after 12 years as a governor, told the crowd not to worry about Obama’s lack of executive background. Given the brilliance of Obama’s campaign, Clinton said — and here the former president uncharacteristically mangled his words a bit — a President Obama would be “the chief executor of good intentions as president.”

Chief executor of good intentions? Perhaps that’s what Obama is now. But with oil gushing into the Gulf, that’s just not good enough.

Byron York, The Examiner’s chief political correspondent, can be contacted at byork@washingtonexaminer.com. His column appears on Tuesday and Friday, and his stories and blog posts appears on http://www.ExaminerPolitics.com ExaminerPolitics.com

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Our destinies, as Christians, does not reside in safe harbors…


Our destinies, as Christians, does not

reside in safe harbors, but out in the open sea!

Once again our attention is drawn to the purposes of God, verses our wants and desires.

For as long as I can remember, from the time I was a wee young lad, I have always enjoyed the times my dad would take me to visit the docks, and I had an opportunity to see some Naval vessel, some battle frigate, some destroyer, submarine, or whatever.

That’s just the way I’m wired… I love these things!

So large, so powerful, and so majestic they are; and though I am always thrilled to have the opportunity, even today, to tour these sort of vessels, to go aboard them, which is just so very exciting to me, I become as a kid again; I nevertheless realize that these vessels are not made for the safe harbors, to be moored at the docks.

No, they are meant to sail the high seas, and do battle when necessary, and to always be available and on call for the one who created them… and so it is with you and I!

We too are not intended to be moored in safe harbors either, attached to the docks of our life; and as it is with the battle frigates, we too are meant for the high seas.

Not only that, but our God ordained purpose and destiny for our life can never be obtained, as long as we are only willing to remain inside the safety of the harbor. Our lives will never be fulfilled there, as God intends for them to be; not until we are willing to cut our moorings, and launch out into the deep, where our faith can have a chance to be tested, and to grow!

So as this message below states, God in His love often is forced to allow the storms of life to loosen us from our moorings, and force us to launch our faith out into the deep.

You see we weren’t just intended to read of the exploits and experiences of others who have done this before us, many of whom were even once as we are today; but our destiny awaits us out in the open sea, where our own story still remains to be written.

However, before that can happen we must not allow fear to keep us from what we perceive as the dangers of life, and cause us to accept what we think is safe and secure… we must realize that the safety and security that we have, as Christians, can only be found in Christ, as we launch our faith out into the deep, where Christ is, and follow Him, as we are about doing our father’s business! Selah

Let us follow Christ’s example in these areas, and let go and do likewise!

Have a wonderful day!

Skip Barland


—–Original Message—–

Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 1:30 AM
Subject: My Utmost for His Highest: “What Next?”


What’s Next To Do?

June 08, 2010

If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them —John 13:17

Be determined to know more than others. If you yourself do not cut the mooring lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

Put everything in your life afloat upon God, going out to sea on the great swelling tide of His purpose, and your eyes will be opened.

If you believe in Jesus, you are not to spend all your time in the calm waters just inside the harbor, full of joy, but always tied to the dock.

You have to get out past the harbor into the great depths of God, and begin to know things for yourself— begin to have spiritual discernment.

When you know that you should do something and you do it, immediately you know more.

Examine where you have become sluggish, where you began losing interest spiritually, and you will find that it goes back to a point where you did not do something you knew you should do.

You did not do it because there seemed to be no immediate call to do it. But now you have no insight or discernment, and at a time of crisis you are spiritually distracted instead of spiritually self-controlled.

It is a dangerous thing to refuse to continue learning and knowing more.

The counterfeit of obedience is a state of mind in which you create your own opportunities to sacrifice yourself, and your zeal and enthusiasm are mistaken for discernment.

It is easier to sacrifice yourself than to fulfill your spiritual destiny, which is stated in Romans 12:1-2.

It is much better to fulfill the purpose of God in your life by discerning His will than it is to perform great acts of self-sacrifice.

“Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice . . .” (1 Samuel 15:22).

Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.

“If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . .” (John 7:17)

The paradoxes of life, our objectives, verses God’s… His ways are not ours!

God’s ways are not our ways!

We quickly will learn, from our study of the Bible that God doesn’t ask anything of us, that He does not also require of Himself, as we can learn from Abraham, and also the life of Jesus.

As the Bible says of Jesus, that He learned obedience through the things he suffered. (Heb 5:8)

In the above picture, what is being portrayed by the artist is a scene taken from Genesis 22, where Abraham was asked to give his only son.

Likewise, God was not asking Abraham to give nothing that God was not also willing to give himself, when His son would later be sacrificed on that same hill and was not it the love of us God that gave us his only begotten Son?

We know the end of the story, we know about the angel appearing, we know about the lamb, the ram caught by a “crown of thorns” in the thorn bush.

We see its Christological significance that prefigures the Lamb who would come and take away the sins of the World. But the story of Abraham is monstrous, who could think of such a thing… it should revolt us. It is inhuman, and it demonstrates nothing about what we understand about love… and yet this is what God required of Abraham, as a test.

Truly, God’s ways are not our ways, as God to our natural mind is incomprehensible, and we cannot understand him, except as we turn to God’s Word, and to the Spirit. Selah

God’s objectives and priorities are very different than ours!

We all too often are looking for comfort and ease for our flesh; and God is trying to kill our flesh; we are looking to coddle our soul, but God is trying to get us to cooperate and work together, with our Spirit man, to train our soul!

We’re trying to find comfort and ease in this life; while God is trying to prepare us for the next life, for an eternity that is to be spent with Him and also for our ministry and calling while still in this life!

All too often we are looking for a vacation kind of life, that is devoid of problems; and here God is always trying to prepare us for war; and yet at the same time, instill in us enough confidence and faith, to where we can maintain our joy and peace inside, regardless of what troubles us from the outside.

We have but to look to scripture as our example of these truths; because that has been the pattern all along, even among the Saints of old; where they too often were put into situations where the temptation was to make this world their home; but God was testing them, to see if they would willing forsake this world, and live only for Him?

Until we can be of this same mind that was in Christ then our efforts are as kicking against the goads, so to speak; and the reason why we are finding our life so hard is because we are moving contrary to the flow of the Spirit.

The answer is to repent, meaning change the way we think, and then turn around!

To do otherwise means that we are impeding our progress, and not aiding it at all; and we are also impeding our spiritual growth too… for does not the Bible say:

3 John 1:2

2 Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland

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On Behalf Of Two Listeners
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 2:04 AM
To: theskipper@cox.net
Subject: GC – June 8 – The Only Way

God Calling
The Only Way

Down through the ages My Power alone has kept millions of souls brave and true and strong, who else would have fallen by the way.

The Faith has been kept alive and handed down, not by the dwellers in ease, but by those who struggled and suffered and died for Me.

This life is not for the body, it is for the soul, and man too often chooses the way of life that best suits the body. Not the way that best suits the soul. And I permit only what best suits the soul.

Accept this and a wonderful molding is the result, reject it and My Purpose is frustrated, your best prayer unanswered, progress (Spiritual progress) delayed, trouble and grief stored up.

Try, each of you, to picture your soul as a third being trained by us – by you, and Me – and then you will share, and rejoice in sharing, in the discipline and training.

Stand apart from your soul with Me and welcome training – rejoice at progress.

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of your Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thessalonians 5:23

The Cost of Freedom is not cheap… and so let us NOT take it for granted!

The Cost of Freedom is not cheap!

The cost of our freedom entails the ultimate sacrifice; and as with the cost of our Salvation, that was paid for in full by Jesus Christ, it may come free to us, as a gift; but it didn’t come cheap! It cost God His all!

Likewise with our troops, who are in harm’s way defending our freedom!

Let us not disrespect either, by taking what has been purchased for us, at such a high cost, for granted!

Jesus said: “There is no greater love than that one should lay their life down for their friends!

However, there are certain people who are operating within the political leadership of our government, and I really don’t want to judge their hearts, because only God knows for sure what makes them tick, and what their true motivations are; but it certainly appears that all that matters to these people are opinion polls, and the public’s perception… all of which only contribute to the success of their political careers.

May God give us honest men and women again, who are not in politics just to pad their own nest; but who are there so serve.

Give us men and women who don’t have hidden agendas, and are operating at the behest, and instructions of powerful people in high places, whose have designs for our future to further undermine our Constitutional Republic, and our sovereignty as a nation.

Lord give us men and women to lead our nation, who are first Christians, and not just in name only, but in character too, who model their lives after the Holy Bible.

Give us men and women in Washington DC, who are honest, who are true Americans, who are not there to get rich, but who are there to serve!

May all Americans continue to pray for our country, that God would change our leadership… and that He would heal our land!

Shalom,

Skip Barland


From: Blanton
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 1:40 PM
To: Skip Barland
Subject: Fwd: KEEP THIS HUMMER MOVING…. THIS IS AWESOME!

Hello Skip,

This will bring tears,

God bless the sacrifice the troops and their families are making everyday for freedom!

Blessings

Blanton

—-Begin forwarded message—-

His mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations.  Psalm 100:5  NKJV

Keep This Hummer Moving

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. ( March 2, 2006)


Karla Comfort’s Hummer


Full view of Hummer

Karla Comfort received a lot of looks and even some salutes from people when she drove from Benton, Ark., to Camp Pendleton, Calif., in her newly-painted, custom Hummer H3 March 2.

The vehicle is adorned with the likeness of her son, 20-year-old Lance Cpl. John M. Holmason, and nine other Marines with F Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division who where all killed by the same improvised explosive device blast in Fallujah, Iraq, in December.

For Karla Comfort, having the vehicle air brushed with the image of the 10 Marines was a way to pay homage to her hero and his fellow comrades who fell on Iraq’s urban battlefield “I wanted to let people know (Marines) are doing their jobs honorably, and some of them die,” said the 39-year-old from Portland, OR “I don’t want people to forget the sacrifices that my son and the other Marines made.”

Leading up to her son’s death, Karla Comfort had received several letters from him prior to his return. He had been deployed for five months, and Comfort “worried everyday he was gone until she got the letters and found out the date he was coming home,” she said. Marines knocked on the front door of her home in Farmington, Mich., at 3 am with the dreadful news.

“I let my guard down when I found out he was coming home,” she said “There are times that I still cannot believe it happened. It’s very hard to deal with.”


Karla Comfort came up with the idea for the rolling memorial when she and her two other sons attended John’s funeral in Portland, Ore. “I saw a Vietnam (War) memorial on a car, and I said to my son Josh, ‘we should do something like that for John,’ she recalled. “He loved Hummers.”

She purchased the vehicle in January and immediately took it to Airbrush Guy & Co. in Benton, Ark., where artist Robert Powell went to work on changing the plain, black vehicle into a decorative, mobile, art piece.

“I only had the vehicle for two days before we took it in,” she joked. Two hundred and fifty man-hours later, Powell had completed the vehicle. The custom job would have cost $25,000 Out of respect for Karla Comfort’s loss and the sacrifices the Marines made, AirbrushGuy & Co. did it for free.

Comfort only had to purchase the paint, which cost $3,000. “I love it,” she said. “I’m really impressed with it, and I think John would be happy with the vehicle. He would have a big smile on his face because he loved Hummers.”

Karla Comfort gave Powell basic instructions on what to include in the paint job. But in addition to the image of her son in Dress Blues and the faces of the nine other Marines, there were several surprises.

“He put a lot more on than I expected,” she said “I think my favorite part is the heaven scene.”

On the left side of the vehicle, a detail of Marines are depicted carrying their fallen comrades through the clouds to their final resting place.

The American flag drapes across the hood, the words, “Semper Fi” crown the front windshield and the spare tire cover carries the same Eagle Globe and Anchor design that her son had tattooed on his back.

“All the support I have been getting is wonderful,” she said. Karla Comfort decided to move back to her hometown of Portland, and making the cross-country trip from Arkansas was a way for her to share her son’s story. It’s also her way of coping with the loss.

“Along the way I got nothing but positive feedback from people,” she said. “What got to me was when people would salute the guys (Marines). It’s hard to look at his picture. I still cry and try to get used to the idea, but it’s hard to grasp the idea that he’s really gone.”


Dog Tags




Semper Fi

Let’s get this Hummer going around the world…

We won’t forget !

Pass it on.

“In  God We Trust”

Signs, Wonders, and the Miraculous are happening today…


Above is an incredible picture that was taken of Bruce Allen while ministering; and when the photo was taken, Bruce was being translated.

(Notice the luminous cloud on the upper right corner)

Sid Roth – It’s Supernatural Messianic Vision: Bruce Allen

(Click on the above link to view entire program)

The miraculous and supernatural signs and wonders are ramping up in these days; for even as the Bible promises, when the enemy comes in as a flood, the Lord raises up a standard against him!

Now I know, before I even get started, that there will be a certain portion of you who will say that this picture has been photo shopped, and will right off the bat respond in unbelief.

To those people, I can only suggest that you look to the Word of God, where God says that He is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The miraculous signs and wonders have never ceased, folks, not in our time, nor in any other time… not since the Day of Pentecost!

What has ceased, however, is the faith of the church, and Believers within the church, to believe and expect the miraculous and supernatural; and consequently doubt and unbelief have dominated the church, at least it has here in the West.

Not so in the Third World countries however, where miraculous and supernatural manifestations have become a normal part of ministry there for quite some time.

I know personally that this is happening, after having met a man, in my trip to Phenom Phen, Cambodia a few years ago, who had been raised from the dead, after having been dead for more than 12 hours.

I have a friend, named Dave, who was ministering in India a few years back, and the first person he prayed for had no eye balls; and God did a creative miracle right there, and put eyes balls in his eye sockets.

The question arises, why are these signs and wonders not more commonplace here in the West?

For my part, I think it is for the same reason that the Bible records that Jesus could not do very much, in the way of miracles, in His own home town, among his own people, and the reason that was given was because of their unbelief.

It is after all Jesus, Himself, who promises us that ALL things are possible, if only we can believe.

Based on that one promise alone, I would say that the only limitation we have, for us to appropriate more of the supernatural in our own daily life, is found in our tendency to put God in our religious boxes, where we aren’t really expecting or believing for God to manifest the supernatural.

This is not just for the few to experience; but this is for all of God’s children.

However, it won’t happen in an atmosphere where the Holy Spirit is not given free rein; and where people are fearful of what they don’t know, or understand.

Know this, God will not override the pastor, and whatever ceiling your pastor has established for his level of belief in these areas, will also be your ceiling too!!! Selah

These supernatural manifestations are to be used as a tool to witness and evangelize; and I believe it will happen as we press in towards more face time and intimacy with God, as per 2nd Chronicles 7:14.

We need this more than ever, folks, and our country needs it.

The Holy Spirit was sent, as the POWER of God, to unite the church; to teach us and lead us into all truth; and also to convict the world of their need for a Saviour.

The enemy, however, has made it a subject of controversy and division, which in and of itself should tell you something, about how important all of this is.

Once again, I want to say that the only limitation we have is between our own two ears!

I don’t know about you, but I’m thirsty for more of this myself, in my own life… and I’m pressing in! How about you?

Come with us, and join in on the adventure… won’t you?

Shalom,

Skip Barland

Lord, restore our Republic, and give us once again a nation that is truly under God!

Lord, restore our Republic, and give us

once again a nation that is truly under God!

First of all, let me start by saying I don’t care what skin color our president has; I don’t care whether he or she is white, black, brown, yellow, red, blue or green with purple polka dots, as long as he or she is native born; is a U.S. Citizen; and can proof as much by supplying the proper documentation.

I expect he or she to be a Born-again Christian, who fears the Lord, and abides by God’s laws; who also places God and his laws first place in their own life, and therefore also uses that same moral plum line to guide them in the decisions they are making, in order to guide our nation’s future.

It matters not to me how much or how little pigmentation they have in their skin, as long as I know I can trust them to do what is best for our nation, and for our nation’s future.

I want a president who, whether or not he or she is a military tactician, or strategist, I at least expect them to have the sense to listen to and follow the advice of godly and trustworthy council of those, around them, who have that experience and knowledge; and that they would listen to their advise to guide them in the affairs of war; who won’t go off half cocked, and follow some secret agenda; and who at the risk and sacrifice of the lives of our men and women in our nation’s armed forces, are taking their orders from forces outside of our government, and outside of what’s best for our nation’s best interest, as this present lot of politicians are doing today.

This is an example of the caliber of person I would expect to be Commander in Chief of our land:

And this is an example of someone I would recommend and vote for, to be President of our land:

Don’t tell me that the only people we can find for the highest office of our land, is by scraping the barrow, as we have been doing; or selecting man and women who have been trained and conditioned, through education and secret societies, to betray our U.S. Constitution, and follow hidden agendas before they are even elected to office.

May God deliver our nation from such leadership, as we have today, who are further dismantling our Constitutional Republic and our sovereignty from the inside out; and deliver us from the media that supports them!

May God instead reestablish our nation, once again, upon faith in God, and upon our U.S. Constitution; and let us have men and women in office who are loyal to our Christian heritage and principles, who both reverence and obey the Bible, and the Christian heritage that has made our nation strong!

Amen, so let it be Lord Jesus… let it happen in our country, as it is established in your Word! Selah

Shalom,

Skip Barland