In Memory and Faith

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble." Psalm 46:1

Please join us in prayer for our friends John and Diane and family.
John's daughter Kimberly passed away very suddenly today. 

 

 

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST

URGENT PRAYER REQUEST - please pray for Mitch, a missionary friend, who is hospitalized with a very high fever. He and his wife serve in Tanzania. I know they would appreciate your prayers right now.  He is not doing well. God is in control.

Thank you. Nancy

Moving Mountains

I don't know who wrote this -- it was forwarded to me -- but I feel it expresses what has been on my heart as well. This is a time for prayer, perhaps as we have never prayed before!

God bless --

Nancy

 

Moving Mountains
 
Please Pray Now
 
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     Are you sensing that there is something different about this
presidential election?  Discussing it with someone just recently we realized
that it seems like this election is far more serious than those in the
recent past.  Something in my spirit is very uneasy. In the past I have felt
the need to pray for different elections but I have never felt so strongly
the urge to pray, and pray fervently, for an election as I do for this one.
I truly believe that if the wrong person (Obama) is elected this nation will
be changed forever.  We may not be able to undo the things that will be
unleashed during an Obama presidency.
 
    My concern about an Obama presidency is not based on politics; it is
based on righteousness.  Look at any of the major moral issues and you will
find Obama on the wrong side of the issue, and Palin and McCain I believe
are on the right side of the issue. Obama does not live or follow what the
Bible teaches on any issue, yet he claims to be a Christian. He only claims
to be a Christian, but scorns Christian principles.
 
What makes this so disturbing is that the Obama team has raised far more
money than McCain/Palin and the media is unabashedly supporting Obama with every story and headline they write.  Currently McCain/Palin is behind in
the polls and is having a very difficult time.  Some in the media have
suggested that the race is over and there is little or nothing McCain can do
to change the outcome.  Oh how wrong they are!
 
    Let me briefly share a story I recently read in 2 Samuel Chapter 5.
David had just become king of Israel and the Philistines went up to wage war against him.  So David inquired of the Lord and said, 'Shall I go and attack the Philistines? Will you hand them over to me?' The LORD said, 'Yes I will surely hand them over to you.'   So David went and defeated them. He said, 'As waters break out, the LORD has broken out against my enemies before me.' 
    After suffering a great loss in the first battle the Philistines must have thought they now knew David's defense strategy and they would be ready
for him the next time, because once more the Philistines came up to attack
David.  So once again David inquired of the LORD, but this time the Lord
gave different instructions. He said to David, 'Do not go straight up, but
circle around behind them and attack them in front of the balsam trees.  As
soon as you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, move quickly, because that will mean the LORD has gone out in front of you to strike the Philistine army.' David obeyed the Lord and was victorious.
This story holds a very important lesson for us at this time.  In most
presidential elections a frontal assault, a face-to-face battle, is what is
needed.  But this is no ordinary election. McCain is trying all the normal
tactics but he is not prevailing. It seems no matter what he says or does it
is not effective.  I am convinced this election CANNOT be won using normal
methods.  Just as the Lord told David to go around behind the enemy and
attack him there, so we must go around the face of this election and wage
war where the battle is truly raging - in the spiritual realm!  The fact
that the normal physical methods are not effective this time should tell us
that this is a very important spiritual battle and we can only win by using
spiritual methods & Prayer!
 
    What about the sound of marching in the treetops? What is that?  I have
read on the Internet several accounts of fellow Christians being stirred up
in their spirits to pray. Many have been drawn into times of deep prayer and
weeping as they intercede for Palin and McCain.  Some have woke up in the middle of the night and sensed a great need to pray, others have told of how when they heard about Sarah Palin being chosen as VP that something came over them and they wept and felt a need to pray for Her and McCain. Many others are feeling the calling and urging of the Spirit to enter into a time of fervent prayer and fasting for Palin and McCain and our nation.
 
    What is this unusual stirring that is occurring?  I believe it is the
Sound of the Lord marching in the trees, calling his children to act quickly
to pray and fast for Palin and McCain. Think about this, what would the
marching have sounded like to David?  It may have sounded like the rustling
of leaves as when wind blows through them, but this time something was
different and out of the ordinary.  Maybe it was like the sound of the great
wind when the Spirit moved on the day of Pentecost.  Also, God's people are referred to as Trees of Righteous in Isaiah 61. So the sound of the Lord
marching in the treetops in David's time is a portrait of the Spirit of the
Lord moving among and stirring up his children today.
 
    So what are we to do when we sense this stirring of the Spirit?  Two
things, first we are to take it as the sign that the Lord is moving out in
front of us.  Anytime the Lord calls us to do something he goes ahead of us
to prepare the way and fight for us. When Joshua returned from spying out
Jericho the Lord gave him insight to see that the Lord had removed
Jericho's protection so Israel could defeat them.  When the Lord calls us
into battle he goes ahead of us, removes the enemy's protection, and fights
for us to give us the victory. Secondly, the Lord tells us when we sense the
stirring of the Spirit we are to act quickly and join Him in the battle
(through prayer, fasting, praise and obedience)
 
    This election is by no means lost.  For God would not be stirring up his
children all across this nation and indeed around the world, to pray, if he
did not want to give us the victory in this election. And he wants us to
join him in the battle.  God will hear the cries of his children if we will
only cry out to him with fervent, earnest, prayers for this election and
this nation. If those who are being drawn to prayer by the Spirit will
indeed enter into a time of prayer and seeking His face, then God will have
mercy on America spare us from having an ungodly leader, I'm sure of it!
 
        And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say
unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto
this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and
nothing shall be impossible unto you.  Mat 17:20 KJV
 
    And it only takes a little faith!
 
    This election can only be won by going around the face of the election
and attacking the enemy where he is vulnerable, through prayer, fasting and
praise.  If you hear the sound of the Lord marching in the tree tops, if you
feel the stirring of the Spirit calling you to pray, then move quickly into
a time of prayer, for God is moving ahead of you at that time to give us the
victory.  May God give us ears to hear the marching!
 
I ask now that each and everyone of you join me in fasting at least two
meals each day, and pray at least two hours of the twenty-four each day on
November 2nd, 3rd,and 4th having faith that God will save America from the
doom of Obama's becoming President of our country.
 
Another way of helping to save America is to, vote early, contact your local
Republican office and volunteer to drive people to the polls, who have no
other way of getting there to vote. Yes, gas is expensive, however it is a
small sacrifice in order to save America. All voters live only a short
distance from the polling places where they will vote. I have already voted,
and I will spend my two hours praying before the polls open on the 4th.
 
Live the Cause!
 
"SEE YOURSELF AS GOD SEES YOU"
 
"YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD"
 
 

   Cherish today --  it's God's gift to us.
His compassions fail not, they are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23  

Come What May

This is amazing, and worth the few minutes it takes to read/watch....At the end of the article is a link to watch the film.....Enjoy! -- Nancy

Moviemaker’s Goal: Real Life Imitating Art

Homeschoolers, production company depict challenge to Roe v. Wade

World Net Daily Article

October 11, 2008

Debate teams representing the 300 students at Patrick Henry College have won the Moot Court national debate crown twice in the school's eight-year existence, and they've defeated debating bastion Oxford twice, including once in England using UK laws, but now they're reaching higher. They are hoping that real life will imitate their art.

Combining with Advent Film Group, the Virginia evangelical school's debaters are featured in a new film presenting arguments that one day could be used to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that found a right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution. "Come What May," which already has been shown to packed houses in Grants Pass, Ore., and Harrisonburg, Va., is expected to

be available for screening online later this month.

In the movie, Caleb, a Christian student attending Patrick Henry, is caught in a moral tug-of-war as he challenges Roe v. Wade at the National Moot Court Championship. At the same time, the character's mother, a feminist attorney, argues the case at the U.S. Supreme Court, but on

the opposing side.

The microbudget project – essentially created with a volunteer team of students advised by a handful of movie professionals – already has had half a dozen offers for distribution, according to George Escobar of Advent Film Group. He told WND the plans are for the movie to be streamed online on GodTube later this month, but exact details still are being worked out.

"Our intention is that people see the compelling arguments for overturning Roe v. Wade if there are the right Supreme Court justices on the bench," he said.

In the Roe v. Wade opinion, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun hinted the decision eventually could be overturned, leaving abortion laws up to individual states. He concluded that if the "personhood" of the preborn could be established, "the case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."

The advances in scientific and medical knowledge over the past four decades have created huge conflicts over the issue of the beginning of life. Voters in Colorado will decide Nov. 4 on a ballot initiative that would recognize the unborn as a person – given the same constitutional protections as anyone else – from the moment of conception.

Grants Pass Valley Family Forum director Dean Welty believes the time for the issue to be given to American citizens is now. "This movie tells how Roe v. Wade can be reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court," he said.

"Moviegoers [at a screening] were excited or agitated on both sides, because the movie shows in dramatic fashion just how flimsy the legal footing stands for Roe. "New Justice appointees who believe in constitutional original intent will likely overturn Roe," he said.

Since the next president is expected to appoint at least a few new justices during the coming term, the tipping point for many of the previous 5-4 decisions that have upheld abortions could be approaching.

Welty noted it's possible a handful of voters in each precinct across the nation could make the choice between GOP candidate Sen. John McCain, who has a long record of largely pro-life votes, and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who has advocated for abortions beyond even the demands of the

National Abortion Rights Action League.

"If this new movie gets widely known, and it could break out because it's very controversial, then watch out," Welty said.

Escobar has worked in the American Film Institute and in Hollywood as a freelance story analyst. He was assistant to the director on several television shows and vice president of product technologies for Tele-TV, which then was headed by Howard Stringer, now CEO of Sony. The founder of Advent Film Group in 2007, he confirmed distributors already are bidding for the rights to distribute the movie.

"We know that Christians love 'Come What May,'" said Escobar. "What surprised us were the secular, pro-choice audiences, some of whom have told us that 'Come What May' is causing them

to reconsider their position." He cited the huge impact of recent low-budget movies, "Facing the Giants," and "Fireproof," as a sea change in the movie industry. "Giants," about a high school football team, was made by Sherwood Baptist Church in

Albany, Ga., on a budget of $100,000. It earned $10 million in box office sales and – so far – has sold more than a million DVDs. "Our mission is to change culture for Christ through media," said Escobar. "We are drawing from the outstanding talent and strength of the homeschooling community.

"If homeschoolers can turn the public education monopoly upside down, they can do the same for cinema," he said.

Statistics indicate homeschooling is growing at a rate many times the rate of growth for schools nationwide, and there now are estimates of more than 2 million students who are homeschooled.

Endorsing the project were Michael Farris, founder and chancellor of Patrick Henry College, the nation's only Christian liberal arts college established to serve homeschooled students; Graham Walker, president of the college; and Michael Smith, president of the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The project, in which students also received on-the-job training in the film industry, already has been

honored. It was given a Redemptive Storyteller Award for 2008 from the Redemptive Film Festival.

Kurt Ramspott, founder of the pro-life group Guys-For-Life, said the film "could be a tipping point in this dramatic battle of Good vs. Evil in our lifetime." "It is a 'must see' that will spur you onto action," he said.

Click below to watch the film (it's free):

http://www.onenewsnow.com/comewhatmay/default.aspx

 

GOD RULES

 

I've been thinking alot lately about suffering. The needs are so great as many around us are going through various testings and trials. In our ladies' Bible study, we are slowly going through the Book of Romans. We meet on Wednesday mornings, and yesterday's lesson was about God's Peace -- peace with God and the peace of God. Once we have accepted Christ as Savior we have peace with God. We begin a personal relationship with God, based on the blood of Jesus. No one can take that away, for God has given it to us.

But the peace of God is a very different matter. "The peace of God is to have perfect peace of mind and heart, no worry, an untroubled heart in spite of circumstances." We talked about how to access that peace in the midst of suffering -- physical pain, emotional loss, loneliness, death of a child -- and then the widespread pain of global disasters -- cyclone, earthquakes, terrorism, war, famine. The Scripture teaches us that God has promised us peace. Our God is bigger than anything or anyone that can threaten or harm us. We are in His hands. Why do we not experience His peace? Because we have taken our eyes off Him. God has a purpose in all of our trials. We can trust God when He allows tribulations in our lives -- He is using them to some advantage for us.

Have you asked God what He wants to teach you through this painful circumstance?

Lord, You are faithful. We trust you. Even when we don't understand. You are God. Thank You for Your everlasting, powerful and tender arms that hold us. Yes, thank You for that peace that is beyond our understanding, yet so real. We look to you, our Creator, Sustainer, Shepherd and Savior. YOU RULE!

Here are a couple of verses to turn to today, tomorrow, or any time your feelings lead you to doubt or fear. I'm writing these down on index cards so they are handy at a moment's notice!

John 14:27, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 121 -- the whole thing!

P.S. I just love Elisabeth Elliott and her sweet yet deep insights into God's Word. Following is a link to her daily devotional:

http://www.backtothebible.org/index.php/devotions/authors/elisabeth_elliot.html

Hey, thanks for "listening".

Nancy

The Serpent and the Dove

There are so many false "gospels" out there. And they so often look true, lovely, and good. That's what makes them so deceptive!

Jesus tells us to be wise as serpents and as innocent as doves.(Matthew 10:16) Please read the article linked to this blog, with an open mind -- open to the Truth of Scripture. We need to pray and ask God for the wisdom and discernment to scrutinize man's wisdom in the light of God's Truth.

A Christian author who was saved out of the new age movement says media icon Oprah Winfrey has become a false prophet for a false Jesus. Please click on the link below:

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=73537

GodTube.com

http://www.godtube.com
Post a prayer request on the prayer wall, or share with other believers. This site is worth a visit.