This is what I have heard this morning:

Government shut down if Democrats and Republicans do not get together on cutting government spending.
Projection of $6.00 a gallon for gasoline
Projection of Skyrocketing food prices — even shortages
Green – Green – Green — we have to go green — CO2 is causing global warming
CO2 is carbon dioxide causes plants to grow which cools the earth and feeds the population
We have enough oil and gas to supply with ease — but we can’t drill — politics

Who do we believe?  And what do we do?

2 Chronicles 7: (21st Century King James Version)

13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land or if I send pestilence among My people,

14 if My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

15 Now Mine eyes shall be open and Mine ears attentive unto the prayer that is made in this place.

via 2 Chronicles 7:13-15 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Pray. Pray. Pray.  And see to it that you (and me) are not caught up in the insatiable greed and lust for power that is fueling this unrest and instability in our world.

Par down. Slim down. Give more. Save up. Look up.

Luke 21: (21st Century King James Version)
28And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh.”
via Luke 21:28 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Psalm 37: (21st Century King James Version)
24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the LORD upholdeth him with His hand.
25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging for bread.
26 He is ever merciful and lendeth; and his seed is blessed.
via Psalm 37:24-26 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Malachi 3: (21st Century King James Version)
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed Me! But ye say, `Wherein have we robbed Thee?’ In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse; for ye have robbed Me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house, and put Me to the proof now herewith,” saith the LORD of hosts, “if I will not open to you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field,” saith the LORD of hosts.
12 “And all nations shall call you blessed, for ye shall be a delightsome land,” saith the LORD of hosts.
via Malachi 3:8-12 – Passage Lookup – 21st Century King James Version – BibleGateway.com.

Joy of the Lord is my strength — and yours,
Kathie

Wayne’s surgery went well today, less blockage than anticipated. He is expected to make a full recovery. Thank you for your prayers and please continue to pray for him as the HOLY SPIRIT prompts you.

Thank you and sweet dreams my Friends – it’s been a long day,
Kathie

Dear Friends and Family, I have an urgent prayer request.

Our friend, Wayne Brady, went in for a stress test today — thought to be routine.

He is in Mobile Infirmary as I type and is scheduled for open heart surgery in the morning.

I covet your prayers for him and Carolyn, the whole family, the doctors, just everything you are led to pray about concerning this.

I will post more as I have more to report.

Thank you.
Kathie

I’m taking a chance this Friday morning — a chance that I will totally miss the target — that’s bittersweet to me. Sweet perhaps, that all readers at this screen are Believers.  That being true, what good are my what ifs? Bitter, that my circle is so small I sit here not reaching the unbeliever with the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST.

What if you are right and The Bible is a fraud?
What if you are right and there is no heaven and no hell?
What if you are right and JESUS is just a man in history and not the God of Life?
What if you’re wrong?

What if I have believed the Bible in vain?
What if I have counted on Heaven and it is not?
What if I have confessed JESUS as LORD and He isn’t?
Even so, in this life I’ve slept peacefully and seen happy days.

When we are both dead will I be any more dead than you?

How is it that your hangover headache and unsteady gait gets you a life of the party badge but a glad countenance giving praise to her Creator nets  a Christian a dunce cap?
Why is that you are lauded for pushing and shoving your religion of no religion and I am demonized for offering life and hope and peace that never ends?
How is that your sniffing and snorting, flaunting and carousing, lusting and leaving and more deviate things than I will say, why is that exalted while my opposite choices  are  ridiculed and argued in the courts?
How does my living by His Commands, harm you?
And do you really not see your refusal to so live, harms you and those around you?

And if you are killing yourself with riotous living, why is it bad that I care?
Would you rather I say go ahead live like hell before you get there?

Does it offend you that I assert there is a hell?
Why?
If it’s a myth as you say, what harm have I caused you?
But what if it’s not a myth? What if it is, and it really is a burning toxic sulphur surrounded by a dark that is  darker than the darkest dark you’ve ever experienced and more lonely than your loneliest loneliness, and it’s forever? What then?

What do I lose in this life believing there’s a heaven, if what you say is true – that when you’re dead you’re just dead?
What do you lose in eternity, continuing here to believe like you say you do?

What if I’m right and The Bible is true?
What if both heaven and hell really are?
What if JESUS is the God and Savior of Life?

What if JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN?

AND THE ONLY WAY TO MISS HELL?

What if when you die you are not really dead?

What then?

Blessed to bless,
Kathie

PRAYING FOR THESE

I know whom I have believed —  You Tube

ABBA, I haven’t a clue what You can do with this but I invite You to do as You will in JESUS Name. Amen and amen.