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Not So United

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Day 36
330 days remaining after today.

Nearly Friday again already!

I’ve heard lots of lies today. I watched the News.

I’ve seen the faces of people with eyes that appear to be open but are surely closed for they cannot see or perhaps will not. It’s frustrating! Obviously, since I am expressing it on this screen. I suspect some of you are similarly frustrated. If so, this is what I think we must do: Pray and pray some more. Pray specifically. Take their names to ABBA. Not that He does know – it just helps me to tell on them. :)

Please intercede for these United States of America that are not so united anymore. 

I am grateful for Scripture that assures me this corruption will not stand forever; that those who practice evil will not escape the consequences of their lawless deeds. Please understand I am not asking for lightning bolts to be hurled on their heads; much to the contrary. I desire for them to repent, believe the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST and be redeemed. Even so it must be that if they do not repent, ABBA is just and they will be stopped in His time. I rest in that; even if they barter their way out of orange jumpsuits and handcuffs throughout their life span here, justice will reach them.  

And so, anger subsides.
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. [source]

I heard something else today. Not Scripture. Chapter and verse. But Biblically sound I think. When I am swept away in anger, most often that is because I am seeing myself as a victim. We must not stay in that place! We are not victims!

We are over comers in Him Who loves us! (Romans 8:37) And this applies, whatever political party is presently corrupting Washington. This helps me. And believe me I need help! 

First of all, then, I counsel that petitions, prayers, intercessions and thanksgivings be made for all human beings, 2 including kings and all in positions of prominence; so that we may lead quiet and peaceful lives, being godly and upright in everything. 3 This is what God, our Deliverer, regards as good; this is what meets his approval. [source]

 ABBA, perhaps I will spare our Readers the name calling, especially since You know. You have heard the names more than a few times. So for now I will ask You to forgive us and heal our land. Like the movie the War Room I ask You to raise up a people; a people that will love You, worship You, obey You and will demonstrate Your Gospel to all the world, especially here in America. I am not happy with the sin and corruption that has brought this present darkness to America, darker than any time in our history and I pray for the LIGHT to dawn. I pray a people will hear You and will pray, seek Your individual will for themselves and will be available to You for what You desire to do through each of us to glorify Your Name and save America. Raise up a People LORD that will obey Your Word and let us see a Leader in the Oval Office that Honors You and the Constitution You gave us for JESUS sake.  

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ Kathie
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Christian Living, Holy Soap Box

Spring Break and Gang Rape

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I’m not sure where to air this. I thought of a Facebook status; but it is way long for that.  So I suppose here at The White Stone is my most logical venue. Reader beware. :)

Spring Break. Sexual assault. Gang rape.

Perhaps you have seen the media coverage as I have. Perhaps you have personal opinions. I do. Perhaps you are interested. Perhaps not. And if not, may I suggest you cease now to read my offering. There is a chance if you continue reading you will blush red, perhaps with anger.

Even if a woman walks stark naked on the beach she should be in NO danger of rape or sexual assault, verbal or physical. All specimens of the male gender are solely responsible for their own evil behaviors! And to assault or rape a female however she is dressed or not dressed is evil! Period the end!

But I’m not finished.

Females everywhere. But particularly females of Christian Faith. We live on a sin cursed planet filled with people with evil hearts and because of that is it not foolish, evil even, to walk around, sun bath, swim, you name it with only a quarter of an inch of fabric between your genital area and exposure?! How innocent can we reasonably label ourselves to be when we parade the beach, the street, even the church house in clothes that are a very few inches from exposing that which GOD gifted us with for the marital bed?

I have asked myself what was I thinking years ago when I did that very thing?!  An evil heart wanted attention. An evil heart thought I had a hot body and I was quite willing to show it off.  If it caused a man to lust, that was his problem and to my sin sick mind just confirmation to me that I was indeed one hot chick. Oh how grateful I am that GOD was gracious and kind and forgiving and taught me differently!!

Back then I did not know that I was of much more worth than a nice body and there was no one who loved me enough to run the risk of offending me to share with me that I had much more to offer than the size 4 frame I was sporting.

I can hear it now.  If you got it flaunt it! If you’re young show it off.  Have you considered the source of that philosophy? Do you have Chapter and Verse in the Bible that gives you permission to expose to the world what GOD gave you for YOUR HUSBAND – not your fiancé, not your present boyfriend and not everyone in eye vicinity!  And please don’t come back at me yeah but you’re old now, no wonder you no longer wear a bikini, short shorts, plunging necklines and thigh high shirts. No brag, just fact: at 63 I can again wear a size four; I’ve worked hard to get here, but that does not give me the right to wear too short, too low, too tight, too clingy, to show off my hard work. I don’t cover up because it’s saggy and ugly. I dress to please my JESUS and protect from public view what my hubby gratefully knows is reserved only for him.

I saw a picture on Facebook recently. A young woman and a young man (possibly late teens), spring breaking it at the beach with family. I suspect they have an exclusive relationship, albeit not engaged or married yet; and in this picture they are embracing one another for the camera. So what troubles me? Bare skin to bare skin.  Much, much more uncovered than covered.

My question is why? Why do we not ask ourselves why? Why so little clothing?

Scripture tells me I have been bought with a price. Scripture tells me I am a Living Sacrifice for my Savior. Scripture tells me I am to adorn myself in modest apparel. I Cor. 6:20. Romans 12:1. I Timothy 2:9. I Thessalonians 5:17.

So what is modest? Certainly that is open to interpretation but there must be some guidelines in Scripture. Right? Surely the Whole Counsel of GOD contained in Scripture would give us guidelines. Right?

From the Counsel of GOD in His Word, I have arrived at guidelines that keep my soul in peace. I would that all GOD’s women come to live lives filled with His Peace; and modesty is a part of that.

Perhaps if we were face to face you would ask so what are your guidelines. Since we are not, ask anyway via email. 

If you do nothing else, get your Scripture and prove to yourself the validity or not of modesty and whether or not you are practicing it – your age and the condition of your body must not be the deciding factor. Exalting JESUS is to be our final authority for our clothes and ALL that we say or do in this life.

To Honor You and Care for You ~ ~ ~ Kathie

Day 110 of 2015   Need someone to come alongside to pray with you?  email me 
Christian Living, Forgiveness, Holy Soap Box, Political awareness, Repentance, Salvation

I Kept Reading

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Recently perusing Facebook I encountered a young woman, twenty-ish, who professed herself as a recent atheist.  She was on a tear about Christians posting Bible verses on Facebook; insisting that we keep our religion to ourselves. There were many who agreed with her. In fact, the comment thread was long and vehement. On and on it went how we were haters, in summary, we were the stench of the earth.

I kept reading.

She also confessed to an abortion. I sensed she was angry. Angry that she had been called a baby killer.  And then a statement of hypocrisy appeared. She began to write of choice and freedom. Freedom to be pro-choice and freedom to preach, yes preach that was her word. Preach her right to choose to abort her baby until she died and if we did not like it we could move!

And there you have it. The stance of the Angry. ( Or the LEFT, the Atheist, or some other identifier.)

Can you hear them?  ‘I can say, write, do whatever I want, and if you don’t like it –  well, too bad. BUT if YOU are saying anything that is contrary to my belief system or my liking, SHUT UP! Keep it to yourself. And if you do not shut up, I will label you a hater, intolerant, a stench, a blight on the face of the earth.’

I kept reading.

I found answers.

Answers to her anger; to her pain. Yes, her pain. A young woman in desperate need. Not a woman to be hated. Not a woman to be dismissed as a lost cause. Not even a woman to be pitied in a pathetic way. But a woman to be loved and prayed for. A woman to be wise as a serpent with, and harmless as a dove.

For you see in earlier times her Facebook feed spoke of asking for prayer; even penning how amazing it was that one little prayer could change your whole day; how God had answered so many of her prayers.

What happened?

I don’t know specifically. But of this I am confident. Her real anger is at GOD. I’m thinking she got disappointed. Someone let her down and GOD didn’t stop it!

It’s been a few days now. I’ve not checked her page again. I might; perhaps not. But I am praying. Hoping for another change of heart for her; hoping for a rescue. Why? Because JESUS loves her and who am I not to love her too? I’ve been mad at ABBA plenty of times and HE still loves me. He still loves her too.

But there is one thing for her I cannot do; well, actually there are many things for her I cannot do. But surely this one: I cannot keep my Faith in JESUS CHRIST private.  And if YOU know Him, neither can you.

We have a mandate from HIM to speak. So who are we going to heed? HIM or them? Read it for yourself.

17 Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation — the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and new! 18 And it is all from God, who through the Messiah has reconciled us to himself and has given us the work of that reconciliation, 19 which is that God in the Messiah was reconciling mankind to himself, not counting their sins against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore we are ambassadors of the Messiah; in effect, God is making his appeal through us. What we do is appeal on behalf of the Messiah, “Be reconciled to God! 21 God made this sinless man be a sin offering on our behalf, so that in union with him we might fully share in God’s righteousness.”   {source}

Or perhaps you prefer another Translation.

17 This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

18 And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21 For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ. {source}

In any Translation – we have a directive from our GOD ALMIGHTY to speak His Message of Reconciliation to the World PUBLICLY.  So we cannot be silent BUT we would do well to be wise about it. We would do well to wait upon the LORD. Charging hell with a water pistol is more than a tad foolish :)

Read up. Study up. Pray up. Listen up. THEN Speak up as the HOLY SPIRIT gives you His anointing to do so.

Until Next Time ~ ~ ~ 
Day 87 of 2015 ~ Any move of GOD begins with His people faithfully praying ~~~ Kathie

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