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2023, An Opinion Piece

Free to Choose

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I saw this on Facebook this morning img_9406and I would not be silent; albeit, I am choosing where to speak. 

Oh, how foolish we are if we think taking a child to church once a week will negate the daily onslaught of the world they get every waking minute, everywhere they go. Especially when today’s Western churches (with few exceptions, if any) are as worldly as the world.

No Ma’am, no Sir, it will take far more input than that to inspire a child to choose GOD. 

Something to think about I hope on this fine Sunday afternoon. 

Shalom, Kathie 

2023, An Opinion Piece, Christian Living, Galatians, Giving Thanks, Repentance

Prayer Journaling on the Fourth, 2023

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What to do today? July 4.
America’s birthday, they say. I am thankful, and grateful to live here. I am grateful and give thanks today for every Real Follower of JESUS who lives here in this Country – the few, very few there may be.

There is opulence and luxury here but now in these winter years how rich is this Country, really? It doesn’t seem rich to me in what matters. In what matters She seems a pauper to me. Poor in all that is eternal. Pompous and arrogant, flaunting sin like it is good. Even CHURCHED people are raucous in sin and unbelief. So quick to be entertained and distracted and indulgent in the same attractions as the world (pagans if you please). And if not participating, applauding or at the least closing eyes and mouths.

Freedom!
A people FREE TO SIN.
Where is the freedom FROM sin?
That Freedom attained only by the BLOOD of The LORD YESHUA (JESUS the CHRIST) BOUGHT for us with His SINLESS Life, HIS Death, and HIS RESURRECTION!
Where’s the allegiance to that Freedom? Where are the fireworks to celebrate the freedom to overcome sin, shame, selfishness, and idolatry? Who is celebrating this FREEDOM today? I know some of you are and for you, I am celebrating! 470858_480p_posters17

AND I’m not raining on cook-outs with family and friends, or giving thanks for the voluminous opportunities afforded to every person walking the sod we call America. I’m not begrudging happy faces and full tummies. Like I began this piece, I am grateful to have been born here, to live here, but these days I wonder if the blessings of America have become Her Curse.

Freedom!
It’s vital.
It’s waning.

Seek JESUS.
Press in Christians. Press into Your Savior and LIVE FREE!

Galatians 5:1 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.  source   Read the whole chapter, it will do you good.

Easter-Resurrection-Background-16-e1522084599831Shalom, Kathie 

2023, An Opinion Piece, Discipline of children, What Can We Do?

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I am alarmed.
I think you should be too.

Children.
Home life.
Family life is not so good for likely more children than we want to think about. There are predominant trends harming the little ones. It’s wrong. They deserve better. Children should be protected. They should be treasured rather than owned like chattel.

I am here to speak of only one of the culprit trends bruising the children.

I don’t see it so much in older homes, of course; it’s more likely to happen with younger families – like the 2nd and 3rd generations following people born in the 40s and 50s. That’s 1940s and 1950s. The math is easy to decipher, right?

Who are these families?

It’s not just families that do not frequent church buildings.
Churched families have been bewitched too. They seem to have bought in as equally as the world. The lines of propriety are not just blurry now but by and large, they have been removed. Slowly and quietly – like boiling a frog, you know.

Marriage.
Partnership. Sadly that’s how recent generations have come to see marriage  – a partnership and the children suffer. GOD does not see marriage as a partnership.
Did you think He did?
Did you ask Him?
Did you search The Scriptures to hear what He has to say about marriage, family, children?
I warn you, it’s not a quick study.

No, GOD established marriage to be a covenant, not a partnership contract.  covenant
And for the members of this covenant, are there stipulations?
Oh yes, there are strict, precise qualifications and restrictions to make these covenants successful, mutually pleasing, and rewarding. When these initiatives are rejected or just ignored, the children suffer; so do the husbands and the wives. Nobody wins.
The majority of these children, based upon long-standing documentation, who do reach adult age, leave this world unprepared for a peaceful eternity. Rejecting GOD’s Covenant affects eternity, did you know?

Lives. Precious lives are at stake – perhaps even those who were birthed or adopted by some of you reading this.  Covenant instead of a partnership.
Did you know a Covenant Keeping Mom and Dad is a child’s best chance to live well?

I suppose you have figured out by now there is more to the Plan of GOD for husbands, wives, and children than is said here — what now remains to be seen is who’s listening so far.

Shalom, Kathie