Day 20

Day 20 of The Giving of Thanks.

The Bible. 
I am giving thanks for The Bible. I am thankful for Scripture. I am thankful The Bible has been preserved for me. And for you. It is a miracle that 40 Penman over a span of 1,500 years recorded the Bible as GOD spoke and we have it still today. The Bible has been opposed, banned, burned, rejected, and most sadly of all I think, disbelieved and left on the shelf to collect dust. 

Ephesians 2:19 in part says we were made members of the household of GOD.” 
As members of His household, what a shame we do not read the Letter our Father sent us. 

Verse 20 of the same Chapter says we have been built on the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets – JESUS Himself being the Chief Cornerstone. How is it that we think we can successfully build our lives without the Chief Cornerstone?

I know some of you will this day give thanks with me for your very own copy of Scripture. And you will this day open and read it; you will pray over it and ask The Father how do YOU want me to embrace and obey this reading of Your Word? And it is people like you GOD will work through to save the world! 

Ministry of Recovery

Father, it seems to me that it is going to take a whole lot of Holy Spirit ministry to get Your Children back to in-touch ministry, to each other and the Lost People of the world. The Evil One has frightened the whole world into cowering isolation. People are afraid of human touch, afraid to be good Samaritans; perhaps even afraid of You. Not all of us, but more than not it would seem. 
Please, Holy Spirit, advance a ministry of recovery on us. Teach us and encourage us to face the roaring lion in whatever grab of disguise he is wearing and to be not afraid of him anymore.
Help us stand him down in JESUS name and send him slinking for cover.
Abba, I love this Country. I thank You that You saw fit to birth me and re-birth me in this Country right here. I am grateful and I thank You that through all the darkness and sin You have had a remnant of people who have loved You and have tried to learn Your Ways and live to obey You here in America.
And it is because of You in these people that America is still here today. I don’t see what You see but with my limited abilities, I see an uprising of evil in people. I see people deceived and racing down the broad road of destruction; destroying their lives and trying to destroy America too and in the end, damning their own eternal souls to hell. Billions of people in this world are running headlong to hell and I am unable to stop them.
And honestly, it seems to me, Papa, that few of us who say we are Yours actually care if they go to hell. It’s almost as if we have become so cold-hearted that we by our lives are saying ‘I have my fire insurance and if you don’t have yours too bad for you, I have no time to be concerned about you.‘ 
Please forgive me, forgive us. I hate the evil and corruption that seems to have the upper hand. I hate what has happened and what is reported on just about every digital screen in this world. It would be overwhelming if that is all I could see. I have seen some glimpses of what I believe is You working. I want to see more. Please open me to see You and more of what You are doing to save people and America. Please, Holy Spirit, come and save Your people and the Lost. Hillary thought she was set to advance the plan to destroy America but President Trump interrupted that plan and now the world would have us believe that Biden gets to pick up where that Administration left off and usher in the death of America. I pray You will yet overturn this in JESUS’ name. 

Day 19

Day 19 of The Giving of Thanks

Books.
Lots and lots of books and for the authors who write them and for times and days to read them. For shelves to hold them and for LOVE who built those shelves. For notes taken on the pages of a few, and for underlinings in yellow, blue, green, or pink and completion dates logged at the end. The gift of reading. Let us not take it for granted.

Revelation 20:12 (NLT) 12 I saw the dead, both great and small, standing before God’s throne. And the books were opened, including the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to what they had done, as recorded in the books.   source

Daniel 7:10  (AMP) 10 “A river of fire was flowing And coming out from before Him; A thousand thousands were attending Him, And ten thousand times ten thousand were standing before Him; The court was seated, And the books were opened.source

Acts 28:23  (AMP) 23 When they had set a day for Paul, they came to his lodging in large numbers. And he carefully explained [Christianity] to them from morning until evening, solemnly testifying about the kingdom of God and trying to persuade them concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the [writings of the] Prophets. source

Tell Me That Again

We are hounded by people who profess to know that we must wear a piece of cloth over our faces to be safe from the Coronavirus.
Science and common sense agree that a piece of cloth will catch cough and sneeze droplets.
So will the neck of your shirt catch those droplets if you pull it over your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze.
Otherwise, your lovely face and bright smile can be seen. I miss faces. I miss smiles. I miss
kind humans. 

Now.
Aerosols escape when we breathe.
A cold morning proves that.
We are told our aerosols may contain the virus; that is if we are infected and we are strongly encouraged to believe EVERY ONE we meet may be infected. Let’s talk about those aerosols that escape when we breathe. Actually, let’s look at a video.

How about that?
So a mask saves us from droplets but so does the neck of my shirt. And to be sure, there are droplets. I can feel them when they hit my neck and chest every time I sneeze!
The droplets are a non-issue with simple hygiene and the aerosols are not contained by a mask. 

So. Why are people wearing masks?

But I have more questions for mask believers to ponder.

Did you take your temp this morning before you left the house?  Mine was 96.8. No fever there.
Do you exercise at least 3 times a week? Check – most weeks.
Do you eat a mostly plant-based diet? Check
Do you limit processed foods to near nil? Check
Do you drink plenty of water? Check – most days
Do you take immune building supplements, including Vitamin D3 and Zinc? Check. 
Do you use hand sanitizer when you get back in the car from shopping? Check
Do you keep your unwashed hands off your face? Check
Do you do deep breathing exercises often? Check
Do you love and trust JESUS? Check
Does all this say I am not going to get Covid?
NO. (But even if I do, I have a 99.98% chance that I will survive.)
It just means I am living my life and doing what I
reasonably can to stay healthy and relying on my FATHER to do what only He can do: Keep me secure in HIM in this hostile world until He takes me HOME. 

Now tell me again why a piece of cloth on my face that does not stop aerosols is going to keep me or you safer than trusting JESUS and living for His glory?

Now.
If you still want to wear a mask. If your personal physician has told you to wear one.
By all means wear it.
But be the
tolerant people you profess to be and stop demanding that I (and others like-minded) wear one. 

P.S. Just think of all those people forced to wear a mask all day long at work (if they get to work), sneezing and coughing and snotting into their masks all day long. And because those masks are such a nuisance and so uncomfortable, countless times a day they touch them, adjust them, pull them down, pull them up WITH THEIR HANDS and then their hands touch what you touch. How safe is that?