Stand and Fight

This . . .
I didn't write this, but I wish I had.

That . . .
Randy Bohlender did.
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This is That . . .
I’ve always been interested in the varied ways that people respond under pressure. Pressure, danger, peril….it has a remarkably condensing affect on people. Their bravado, their facade, it all collapses together in to one dense ball of what they are.
And there you have it….the essence of them. Some are full of steely resolve. Others are full of hot air. It’s hard to tell who’s who when life is all sunshine in the park, but a well placed lightening strike can make the distinction in a nanosecond.
In being intellectually and spiritually honest, you cannot think too much about life without thinking about death, and you cannot think to much about this age without anticipating the next. To focus on life while not dealing with death or to be consumed with this world at the expense of preparing for the next is to admit your thoughts and emotions are half baked.
I’m pained with watching the tight grip the church has on the here and now, living lives largely no different than their neighbors…maybe a little more moral (though not necessarily) but surely reflecting the same meta-values for self preservation and delaying pain, often at the expense of growth.
Jesus knew we’d struggle with this…being afraid of all the wrong things and being brave about things that demand no bravery at all….when he said the words recorded in Matthew 10:27
“…do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.”
So what are you afraid of anyway? What causes a quaking within you? The thought of a premature death….or the thought of a life you failed to live? The ironic part is that those who cling to this life with a death grip really don’t get to keep it anyway. They die as dead as the rest, perhaps a few years later….but just as dead, and often more so, having died inside long before the shell stopped moving.
Revelation 12 speaks of a group of overcomers…those who conquer evil by the work of Jesus and the purity of their spoken creed. It seems counterintuitive, but those He singles out as overcomers actually lose their lives….yet they win it all, and they win because they do not love their lives to the point of being afraid to die.
The man who is not afraid to die is truly free to live. Cower now and you’ll cower for eternity. Stand and fight - even unto death - and you’ll stand forever.

God and his servant Lia.

This . . .
is about a little girl, Lia, who gave a really great speech about life.
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That . . .
The article about it.
The mother of a 12-year-old girl whose pro-life speech has become a hit YouTube video says her daughter's passion for the unborn is genuine.
Lia is a preteen from Canada who decided to speak out against abortion in her school's speech contest, despite teachers and school officials who encouraged her to pick a different topic.
"What if I told you that right now someone was choosing if you were going to live or die? What if I told you that this choice wasn't based on what you could or couldn't do, what you had done in the past, or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you that you could do nothing about it? Fellow students and teachers, thousands of children are right now in that very situation," she says in her speech.
Kimberly, Lia's mother, says Lia was told by school officials that if she chose the topic of abortion, she would not be allowed to participate in the speech contest. But both were surprised when Lia's pro-choice teacher had a change of heart. "Her teacher was really impressed by this speech and perhaps moved by it, and therefore her teacher kind of was a real supporter of Lia winning for the class," Kimberly notes.
"And she had to go through a couple of hoops and get clearance from a couple of other teachers before she could be declared winner of the class."
Another controversy erupted when the panel of judges had a supposed big disagreement and one stepped down. Initially Lia was disqualified, but later the panel declared her the winner.
She was asked to take out this portion of her speech: "Fetuses are definitely humans knit together in their mother's womb by their wonderful Creator who knows them all by name." Kimberly says after Lia was told to remove that portion of her speech, she took time to think about her decision and ultimately decided to leave it in.
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This is That . . .
The speech.
Lia also competed in a regional speech competition but did not win. However, her speech has been viewed by over 200,000 people on YouTube.
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Go, Lia - Go, God!
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Prayer Time - Prayer List

This . . .
It is hard to imagine a
$1 trillion dollar stimulus package.
How long is one trillion seconds?
How tall would a stack of one trillion dollar bills be?
If we divided up
$1 trillion dollars among every American,
how much would each one get?
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That . . .
I know what time I get up in the morning.
I know when I go to work.
I know when I eat lunch.
I know when I get off work.
I know when I watch TV every day.
I know what time I go to bed.
When do I pray?
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This is That . . .
Well, I do spend time in prayer every day, but it is not really set in stone.
And I am not very focused on what to pray.
If I was me, here is what I would do.
1. Set apart a designated hour every day.
2. Use a prayer list.
I,ve got the time. I've got the list.
The national anthem has been sung.
It's gametime.
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3,200 years.
Half way to the moon.
$3,300 each.
I think if the government would give every
American $3,300 that would stimulate the
economy "much more better" than what
they currently have planned.
What if they required the $3,300 to be used to
reduce any personal debt before being used for
any other purpose?
Hmmmm.

Could I Please Get You A Glass Of Water?

This . . .
What if you knew for sure that Jesus was coming back tomorrow?
What would you do tonight?
I know I would be frantically going after all the oil I could get.
I would be looking for a thirsty person to give water to.
I would pray.
I would read the book of Revelation, Matthew 24,
and I Thessalonians, etc.
I would be shouting to my relatives and friends
to get ready.
I would want to get with other believers to pray,
search the scriptures, and cry out for mercy.
I would not be politically correct and
I wouldn't be very interested in eating,
or watching Idol on TV.
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That . . .
Well, He's not coming back tomorrow,
He's COMING BACK NEXT WEEK!
So I have more time than I thought!
Only kidding, but not really.
He's coming in a minute.
Our whole lifetime is but a minute.
Believers will live for eternity with Jesus.
Our lives are like whispers in the wind,
but God has his ears wide open - He's listening!
He is looking to and fro to see if he will find faith on the earth when he returns.
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This is That . . .
So what do you think?
Is Jesus coming or not?
I believe he is, and I'm not ready,
but I'm working on it.
If you believe he is, are you ready?
I want to be with him in all of his plans to return.
I want to be with him and not against him when
he begins to remove sin from the earth,
and I want to be a part of his pure and spotless bride.
I want to be like John . . .
I want to be like one crying in the wilderness,
"Prepare the way for the coming of our Lord".

The Harlot Babylon

This . . .
And on her forehead a name was written
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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That . . .
A religous system is being raised up that the Bible calls, "The Harlot Babylon".
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This is That . . .
The devil is raising up a worldwide religious system of toleration. That's what is happening right now.
It's being set up right now.
The big religions of the world are coming together on the basis of no absolutes.
Everybody is right. Toleration is the rule of the day.
Everyone is happy. There are no standards.
There is no judgement. This is a complete falsehood but
that is how religious unity will happen first.
We can see the signs of that very clear right now
Many leaders in the church and in the world are moving in this direction on a global level.
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"You know there is no real difference between Judiasm and Islam and Christianity and all the other religions.
They all are different ways to the same God.
They all lead to salvation."
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That is an absolute decpeption.
They do not all lead to salvation.
One leads to salvation the others lead to the lake of fire.
Still, many leaders in the body of Christ are leaning in this direction and many leaders in the world are proposing this with great joy.
Satan knows it is too big of a step to get a compromising Christian, a compromising Jew, a compromising Muslem to go from compromise straight to satan worship.
That is too big of a step, so he is going to have them join a tolerant, all embracing movement that will cause them to turn their back from their religious tradition.
They will step away from their religious tradition. They will step away from the absolutes and the ideals they were brought up with and they will join the new peace religion where all the religions are right. The new justice movement that has no absolutes will look and feel great.
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That's the first step, but that is not the end of Satan's plan. After he has defiled their conscience and they get comfortable, a few years will go by and then the antichrist will pull his mask off and say, "Guess what? This everyone is right religion thing is no longer going to work. You have to worship me or die."
Then after their consciences have been defiled, some will say, "we have already left Christianity, we already left the religion we grew up in, we might as well go the next step, it seems like the right thing."
They take the next step and begin to worship the anti-christ.
This anti-christ worship movement will have no toleration.
There will be zero toleration. You worship satan or you get killed.
This will be a shock to many who have embraced the Harlot Babylon religion.
This will be a new idea. They won't see it coming.
In the beginning,none of them believe that this will happen but it will.
They won't realize that they are being decieved.
Many in the church are moving toward this toleration harlot system even now.
They don't know where it is going.
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God is raising up faithful witnesses to expose even the early stirrings of people moving in this direction.
In the last ten years the amount of men and women of God moving in this direction is staggering.
This direction of toleration, this false justice system
this humanitarian movement that's doing good, but on man's terms with no allegiance to Jesus
They have no idea that this will bring them to satan worship at the end of the day.
This is the deception of the Harlot Babylon.
The only people who know and understand what is happening are Bible believing people who believe with understanding what the Bible has to say about this deceptive harlot.
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Based on Onething 08 notes.

You Want To Know This

This . . .
The 2008 Onething Conference gets better each year. By better I mean it's impact on the hearts of believers is more critically overwhelming and mind wrenching combined with relative wisdom and revelation that crunches your body, soul and spirit causing a rending of hearts that sets fire to the urgency of the days we are living in.
In other words . . . I can't quite express it.
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That . . .
This years focus was the book of Revelation and the return of Jesus.
When God created the heavens and the earth,
that was a big deal.
When God made a covenant with Abraham,
that was a big deal.
When Moses delivered God's people out of Egypt,
that was a big deal.
When John the Baptist said, "Prepare the way",
that was a big deal.
When Jesus was born, when Jesus shed His blood for our sins, when Jesus was resurrected,
that was a big, big deal.
When the Holy Spirit came at Pentecost,
that was a big deal.
When Jesus comes again to remove sin from the earth and rule and reign forever with his bride,
Oh, my goodness . . . I can't quite express it.
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This is That . . .
You can watch the archives of the conference here.
Onething Conference
You Want To Know This Stuff!
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People Get Ready by Misty Edwards

This is That . . .
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He's Coming.
Awake, Awake.
People get ready, Jesus is coming.
Awake, awake, oh sleeper.
He's coming. He's alive.
Jesus of Nazareth, the son of David.
He was born to be a King.
He's alive. A Jewish man. He is coming.
People get ready.
He is not a man that he should lie.
He said he would come again and he will come again.
Who is this King of glory?
He's alive.
He's coming.