1A 2 D 3C 4D 5D 6D 8A 9D 10C 11D 12D 13D
15D 16D 17A 18D 19B 20D 21D 22B 23A 24D 25B
26A 27C 28B 29C 30D 31D 32C 33B 35A 36C 37A
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Prayer Request
Please, pray for Jerry Holly he has an enlarged liver & spleen. The doctors are still running test for him to see why. He is also a diabetic & his blood sugars our out of control. Please, agree with me for his healing, that the liver & spleen return to normal size. That his blood sugars return to normal. Give him & his wife Diane strength & keep their eyes on God.
Thank you Lord for answered prayers
Please also pray for Mike Burk he has terminal cancer. For his healing. Finding a cure for the type of cancer he has. A cure for all cancers!!
Thank you Jesus for taking the strips so, we may be healed!!
Thank you Lord for answered prayers
Please also pray for Mike Burk he has terminal cancer. For his healing. Finding a cure for the type of cancer he has. A cure for all cancers!!
Thank you Jesus for taking the strips so, we may be healed!!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Phantom zip codes also found in Virginia
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
01/06/10 10:40 AM EST
As much as $9.5 million in federal stimulus dollars went to 14 zip codes in Virginia that don’t exist or are in other states, Old Dominion Watchdog (http://virginia.watchdog.org) reports. The fake zip codes were listed on Recovery.gov, the federal Web site that is supposed to track how the stimulus money is being used.
The phony zip codes are a new wrinkle in Recovery.gov’s increasingly tattered credibility. In November, Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, said a rash of phantom congressional districts found on the website were the result of confusion by fund recipients, who apparently didn’t know who their congressman was.
But who would give millions of dollars to somebody who doesn’t even know their own zip code?
More fake zip codes here
UPDATE: Even with a real zip code, it takes seven hours for one firm to report back to Recovery.gov on its $2,000 stimulus contract.
--Beltway Confidential
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
01/06/10 10:40 AM EST
As much as $9.5 million in federal stimulus dollars went to 14 zip codes in Virginia that don’t exist or are in other states, Old Dominion Watchdog (http://virginia.watchdog.org) reports. The fake zip codes were listed on Recovery.gov, the federal Web site that is supposed to track how the stimulus money is being used.
The phony zip codes are a new wrinkle in Recovery.gov’s increasingly tattered credibility. In November, Ed Pound, director of communications for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, said a rash of phantom congressional districts found on the website were the result of confusion by fund recipients, who apparently didn’t know who their congressman was.
But who would give millions of dollars to somebody who doesn’t even know their own zip code?
More fake zip codes here
UPDATE: Even with a real zip code, it takes seven hours for one firm to report back to Recovery.gov on its $2,000 stimulus contract.
--Beltway Confidential
Can you answer this quiz correctly???
Survey Questionnaire on the American Revolution and Its Enduring Legacy
1. Is the Bill of Rights part of:
1. the U.S. Constitution
2. the Declaration of Independence
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. the Articles of Confederation
5. Don’t know
2. The most important consequence of the Boston Tea party was:
1. the repeal of the tax on tea
2. the failure of the other colonies to support Boston’s action
3. the opening of negotiations between Britain and Massachusetts
4. the enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
5. Don’t Know
3. Which document outlines the division of powers between the states and the federal government?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Marshall Plan
3. U.S. Constitution
4. Homestead Act
5. Don’t Know
4. The last major military action of the American Revolution was at:
1. Bunker Hill
2. Trenton
3. Saratoga
4. Yorktown
5. Don’t Know
5. Which of the following rights is not protected by the Bill of Rights?
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Trial by Jury
3. The right to bear arms
4. Right to vote
5. Don’t know
6. Which of the following events most directly encouraged the states to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787:
1. the Whiskey Rebellion
2. the Boston Massacre
3. Bacon’s Rebellion
4. Shays’ Rebellion
5. Don’t know
7.
8. Is the Bill of Rights part of:
1. the U.S. Constitution
2. the Declaration of Independence
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. the Articles of Confederation
5. Don’t know
9. The most important consequence of the Boston Tea party was:
1. the repeal of the tax on tea
2. the failure of the other colonies to support Boston’s action
3. the opening of negotiations between Britain and Massachusetts
4. the enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
5. Don’t Know
10. Which document outlines the division of powers between the states and the federal government?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Marshall Plan
3. U.S. Constitution
4. Homestead Act
5. Don’t Know
11. The last major military action of the American Revolution was at:
1. Bunker Hill
2. Trenton
3. Saratoga
4. Yorktown
5. Don’t Know
12. Which of the following rights is not protected by the Bill of Rights?
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Trial by Jury
3. The right to bear arms
4. Right to vote
5. Don’t know
13. Which of the following events most directly encouraged the states to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787:
1. the Whiskey Rebellion
2. the Boston Massacre
3. Bacon’s Rebellion
4. Shays’ Rebellion
5. Don’t know
14.
15. Which of the following was responsible for declaring America’s independence from Great Britain?
1. The Albany Congress
2. The Stamp Act Congress
3. The House of Commons
4. The Second Continental Congress
5. Don’t know
16. Which of the following conflicts most directly led to the Stamp Act?
1. The War of the Roses
2. The War of 1812
3. The Mexican-American War
4. The French and Indian War (aka The 7 Years war)
5. Don’t Know
17. Benjamin Franklin epitomized which movement in colonial America?
1. the Enlightenment
2. the Great Awakening
3. the Loyalist movement
4. the Glorious Revolution
5. Don’t Know
18. Who wrote the influential pamphlet called “Common Sense” which advocated independence from Britain?
1. Patrick Henry
2. Edmund Burke
3. Paul Revere
4. Thomas Paine
5. Don’t Know
19. Who took detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention and is widely regarded as the “Father of the Constitution?”
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. James Madison
3. Winston Churchill
4. George Washington
5. Don’t Know
20. Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
1. Alexander Hamilton
2. John Marshall
3. Charles Evans Hughes
4. John Jay
21. Which of the following are the inalienable rights stated in the Declaration of Independence?
1. Life, liberty and property
2. Honor, liberty and peace
3. Life, respect and equal protection
4. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
5. Don’t know
22. The US Constitution establishes which of the following forms of government in the United States?
1. A Direct Democracy
2. A Republic
3. A Confederacy
4. An Oligarchy
5. Don’t know
23. John Locke developed the concept of the “consent of the governed,” an important principle underlying the War for Independence, in a theory known as:
1. Natural Law
2. Law of Relativity
3. Common Law
4. Statutory Law
5. Don’t know
24. Which of the following nations played an important role in helping the colonies defeat the British in the American Revolution?
1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. Denmark
4. France
5. Don’t know
25. Which of the following phrases are the opening words to the US Constitution?
1. When in the course of human events
2. We the People
3. Fourscore and seven years ago
4. I have a dream
5. Don’t Know
26. Which of the following events came BEFORE the Declaration of Independence?
1. Founding of Jamestown, VA
2. The Civil War
3. The Emancipation Proclamation
4. The War of 1812
5. Don’t Know
27. How many children do celebrities “Jon and Kate” have?
1. 4
2. 6
3. 8
4. 10
5. Don’t know
28. How many states were there after the United States won its independence from Britain?
1. 7
2. 13
3. 15
4. 21
5. Don’t Know
29. Who said the following: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”?
1. George Washington
2. Barack Obama
3. Karl Marx
4. Thomas Paine
5. Don’t know
30. Who was the first athlete to win a record 8 gold medals at a single Olympics?
1. Scott Hamilton
2. Kobe Bryant
3. Shannon Miller
4. Michael Phelps
5. Don’t know
31. Who famously sang the songs “Beat it” and “Billie Jean”?
1. Elvis
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. N*SYNC
4. Michael Jackson
5. Don’t know
32. What river did George Washington cross on Christmas Eve in 1776 in a surprise attack on the Hessian troops?
1. Rhine
2. Potomac
3. Delaware
4. Michigan
5. Don’t know
33. Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?
1. James Monroe
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. Larry Summers
4. John Seward
5. Don’t Know
34. In what state did the Valley Forge winter encampment occur?
1. New York
2. Delaware
3. Ohio
4. Pennsylvania
5. Don’t know
35. When did the American Revolution begin? Was it in the . . .
1. 1770s
2. 1640s
3. 1490s
4. 1800s
5. Don’t know
36. Which side of the American War of Independence did American Indians support?
1. British
2. American
3. Both
4. Neither
5. Don’t know
37. The westernmost military action of the American Revolution took place at:
1. St. Louis
2. Austin
3. Richmond
4. Atlanta
5. Don’t know
38. Who famously implored her husband to “remember the ladies” in drafting laws for the newly independent United States of America?
1. Martha Washington
2. Abigail Adams
3. Molly Pitcher
4. Phyllis Wheatley
5. Don’t know
1. Is the Bill of Rights part of:
1. the U.S. Constitution
2. the Declaration of Independence
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. the Articles of Confederation
5. Don’t know
2. The most important consequence of the Boston Tea party was:
1. the repeal of the tax on tea
2. the failure of the other colonies to support Boston’s action
3. the opening of negotiations between Britain and Massachusetts
4. the enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
5. Don’t Know
3. Which document outlines the division of powers between the states and the federal government?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Marshall Plan
3. U.S. Constitution
4. Homestead Act
5. Don’t Know
4. The last major military action of the American Revolution was at:
1. Bunker Hill
2. Trenton
3. Saratoga
4. Yorktown
5. Don’t Know
5. Which of the following rights is not protected by the Bill of Rights?
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Trial by Jury
3. The right to bear arms
4. Right to vote
5. Don’t know
6. Which of the following events most directly encouraged the states to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787:
1. the Whiskey Rebellion
2. the Boston Massacre
3. Bacon’s Rebellion
4. Shays’ Rebellion
5. Don’t know
7.
8. Is the Bill of Rights part of:
1. the U.S. Constitution
2. the Declaration of Independence
3. the Gettysburg Address
4. the Articles of Confederation
5. Don’t know
9. The most important consequence of the Boston Tea party was:
1. the repeal of the tax on tea
2. the failure of the other colonies to support Boston’s action
3. the opening of negotiations between Britain and Massachusetts
4. the enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
5. Don’t Know
10. Which document outlines the division of powers between the states and the federal government?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Marshall Plan
3. U.S. Constitution
4. Homestead Act
5. Don’t Know
11. The last major military action of the American Revolution was at:
1. Bunker Hill
2. Trenton
3. Saratoga
4. Yorktown
5. Don’t Know
12. Which of the following rights is not protected by the Bill of Rights?
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Trial by Jury
3. The right to bear arms
4. Right to vote
5. Don’t know
13. Which of the following events most directly encouraged the states to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787:
1. the Whiskey Rebellion
2. the Boston Massacre
3. Bacon’s Rebellion
4. Shays’ Rebellion
5. Don’t know
14.
15. Which of the following was responsible for declaring America’s independence from Great Britain?
1. The Albany Congress
2. The Stamp Act Congress
3. The House of Commons
4. The Second Continental Congress
5. Don’t know
16. Which of the following conflicts most directly led to the Stamp Act?
1. The War of the Roses
2. The War of 1812
3. The Mexican-American War
4. The French and Indian War (aka The 7 Years war)
5. Don’t Know
17. Benjamin Franklin epitomized which movement in colonial America?
1. the Enlightenment
2. the Great Awakening
3. the Loyalist movement
4. the Glorious Revolution
5. Don’t Know
18. Who wrote the influential pamphlet called “Common Sense” which advocated independence from Britain?
1. Patrick Henry
2. Edmund Burke
3. Paul Revere
4. Thomas Paine
5. Don’t Know
19. Who took detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention and is widely regarded as the “Father of the Constitution?”
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. James Madison
3. Winston Churchill
4. George Washington
5. Don’t Know
20. Who was the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court?
1. Alexander Hamilton
2. John Marshall
3. Charles Evans Hughes
4. John Jay
21. Which of the following are the inalienable rights stated in the Declaration of Independence?
1. Life, liberty and property
2. Honor, liberty and peace
3. Life, respect and equal protection
4. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
5. Don’t know
22. The US Constitution establishes which of the following forms of government in the United States?
1. A Direct Democracy
2. A Republic
3. A Confederacy
4. An Oligarchy
5. Don’t know
23. John Locke developed the concept of the “consent of the governed,” an important principle underlying the War for Independence, in a theory known as:
1. Natural Law
2. Law of Relativity
3. Common Law
4. Statutory Law
5. Don’t know
24. Which of the following nations played an important role in helping the colonies defeat the British in the American Revolution?
1. Canada
2. Mexico
3. Denmark
4. France
5. Don’t know
25. Which of the following phrases are the opening words to the US Constitution?
1. When in the course of human events
2. We the People
3. Fourscore and seven years ago
4. I have a dream
5. Don’t Know
26. Which of the following events came BEFORE the Declaration of Independence?
1. Founding of Jamestown, VA
2. The Civil War
3. The Emancipation Proclamation
4. The War of 1812
5. Don’t Know
27. How many children do celebrities “Jon and Kate” have?
1. 4
2. 6
3. 8
4. 10
5. Don’t know
28. How many states were there after the United States won its independence from Britain?
1. 7
2. 13
3. 15
4. 21
5. Don’t Know
29. Who said the following: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”?
1. George Washington
2. Barack Obama
3. Karl Marx
4. Thomas Paine
5. Don’t know
30. Who was the first athlete to win a record 8 gold medals at a single Olympics?
1. Scott Hamilton
2. Kobe Bryant
3. Shannon Miller
4. Michael Phelps
5. Don’t know
31. Who famously sang the songs “Beat it” and “Billie Jean”?
1. Elvis
2. Bruce Springsteen
3. N*SYNC
4. Michael Jackson
5. Don’t know
32. What river did George Washington cross on Christmas Eve in 1776 in a surprise attack on the Hessian troops?
1. Rhine
2. Potomac
3. Delaware
4. Michigan
5. Don’t know
33. Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?
1. James Monroe
2. Alexander Hamilton
3. Larry Summers
4. John Seward
5. Don’t Know
34. In what state did the Valley Forge winter encampment occur?
1. New York
2. Delaware
3. Ohio
4. Pennsylvania
5. Don’t know
35. When did the American Revolution begin? Was it in the . . .
1. 1770s
2. 1640s
3. 1490s
4. 1800s
5. Don’t know
36. Which side of the American War of Independence did American Indians support?
1. British
2. American
3. Both
4. Neither
5. Don’t know
37. The westernmost military action of the American Revolution took place at:
1. St. Louis
2. Austin
3. Richmond
4. Atlanta
5. Don’t know
38. Who famously implored her husband to “remember the ladies” in drafting laws for the newly independent United States of America?
1. Martha Washington
2. Abigail Adams
3. Molly Pitcher
4. Phyllis Wheatley
5. Don’t know
JUST A JOKE
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Wyoming when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust..
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany ..
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep...
Now give me back my dog.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany ..
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep...
Now give me back my dog.
VETERANS & MILITARY -- KANSAS
Veterans Resource Fair
Hosted by
Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins
When: 10:00 a.m.-1:00p.m.
January 16, 2010
Where: American Legion Post 400
3029 NW US Highway 24
Topeka, KS 66618
Who: Open to all Veterans and Military Service Members and their Families
Why: To bring services, benefits and information to Veterans and Military Service Members and their Families
Confirmed Groups: American Legion, Association of the U.S. Army, Topeka Housing Authority, Kansas Commission of Veterans Affairs, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Topeka VA Medical Center, Tricare, Disabled American Veterans, U.S. Department of Housing, Social Security, Kansas SRS, Topeka Workforce Center, Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center
Hosted by
Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins
When: 10:00 a.m.-1:00p.m.
January 16, 2010
Where: American Legion Post 400
3029 NW US Highway 24
Topeka, KS 66618
Who: Open to all Veterans and Military Service Members and their Families
Why: To bring services, benefits and information to Veterans and Military Service Members and their Families
Confirmed Groups: American Legion, Association of the U.S. Army, Topeka Housing Authority, Kansas Commission of Veterans Affairs, Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, Topeka VA Medical Center, Tricare, Disabled American Veterans, U.S. Department of Housing, Social Security, Kansas SRS, Topeka Workforce Center, Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center
VIRUS BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR IT
HUGE VIRUS COMING ! PLEASE READ & FORWARD!
Hi All,
I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!
I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mail message sent around to all your contacts ASAP.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!
You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK, 'regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C drive of your computer.
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address on his/her contact list. That is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it!
If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even if it is sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN.
It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.
Hi All,
I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!
I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mail message sent around to all your contacts ASAP.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!
You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK, 'regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C drive of your computer.
This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address on his/her contact list. That is the reason why you need to send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it!
If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even if it is sent to you by a friend, do not open it! Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN.
It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
3 THINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES US
THREE THINGS THE HOLY SPIRIT GIVES US
The first thing the Holy Spirit gives us is LOVE. Next He gives us HOPE , & He gives us LIBERTY.
LOVE:
Loving people is sometimes hard to do. Mostly if you feel that you were wronged by that person or persons. We as Christians cannot do any work for God, that it is acceptable to God without Love. Love will produce fruit. You are not even able to have fellowship with God without love. To God you become as a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
Though I speak with tongues of men & of angles, but have not love, I become as sounding brass or clanging cymbal.
We need to love others. The Holy Spirit gives us the love of God. Not just for people you love, but for people you do not like. You have to love them also. Let the Holy Spirit give you a heart of love.
Romans 5:5
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
We have had that Love of God poured (pass tense) into our hearts. The Holy Spirit has done that for us & He will gives us Love to love the unloved. There are no barriers now to be able to reach that person or persons.
Titus 2:1 & 2
1) But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine;
2) that the older men be sober, reverent, temperance, sound in faith, in love, in patience
Titus tells us to stay in the sound doctrine of God. Love is one of the doctrine of God's. Without love you cannot serve God. Hatred begets Hatred. That is not of God!! But, Love begets Love! So Gods love helps us to love others!! It is by the grace of God to love the man who hates me.
Luke 6: 32 - 35
32) "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For evensinners love those who love them.
33) "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Evensinners do the same.
34) "And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to recive as much back.
35) "But love your enemies do good, and lend hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest, For He is kind to the unthankful & evil,
Love begets Love, It does take the grace of God to love your enemy Remember hate the sin he has done, not the sinner. If a person does not have the Love of God in his heart, he will not have God in his heart. We need to stay in the Word of God to feed upon His Word!.
Hebrews 12:15
looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, & by this many become defiled;
2 Corointhians 5:14 & 15
14) For the love of Christ constrains us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died.
15) and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them & rose again.
Paul tells us that the love of Christ constrains us. The Holy Spirit gives us love & that we take this love & teach of Christ. People of today does not believe the Word of God is true. This is not new for this world. Jeremiah had this problem also. Look at Jeremiah 32:2 & Jeremiah 20:9, We are to hold the truth of Gods love. Paul put love at the head of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians. Love is the very first one. And really even through the other eight. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trail; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love at school; & temperance is love in training.
HOPE:
With out hope you are not useful in Gods work. That means if losing hope is putting you out of communion with God. So he does not have the Spirit of God upon him for any service. There is not a place in the bible where God used a person without hope.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy & peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
We should not become discourage. So, ask God to forgive you of it, that we are cast down & discouraged. And ask God to give us hope through His Holy Spirit.
LIBERTY
We have gone through love, then hope, & now liberty. God does not use men who is in bound up. In today churches there is not a whole lot of liberty. Churches has so much formalism of strict adherece of their regligion. They criticize church as you would a move or on stage performance. They no longer listen to what actually the man of God is saying. They want to be entertain, we go to church to receive the Word of God. I know that is harse to say, but it is the truth! I would call it a carnally mind set. If you want liberty you must receive the Spoken Word of God.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; & where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
Romans 8:21
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Galatians 5:1 & 13
1) Stand fast therefore inn the liberty by which Christ has made us free, & do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
13) For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty & continues in it, & is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using your liberty as a cloak for vice, but as servants of God.
Some people will not do the work of God, even when you tell them how good they would be. They will say: I have a life, where really they are tied up in bondage.. What would have happen if Christ said I had a life. What about all the men & women of the Bible said that also. Christ came to set us free! And He wants us to work & speak for Him. Even some will not even pray in a prayer meeting when they are asked to say a prayer or have a few words about Christ. That is very much a cold spirit in the church. The only reason they went in the first place was they felt it was their duty. Instead of a privilege!! That just is not right.
We need the Holy Spirit to give us these three things -- Love, Hope, Liberty. Placing them in our hearts! Don't you want Love, Hope, Liberty? I sure do. We need to pray daily for the renewing of these in our life, so we can enter boldly into Holy of the Holies.
Hebrews 10:19
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
It is a poor life to just live for sake of self. That gets us no where. We need to be used of God. To be a Sanctified Vessel of Him!!
2 Timothy 2:21
Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified & useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equpped for every good work.
AMEN & AMEN
The first thing the Holy Spirit gives us is LOVE. Next He gives us HOPE , & He gives us LIBERTY.
LOVE:
Loving people is sometimes hard to do. Mostly if you feel that you were wronged by that person or persons. We as Christians cannot do any work for God, that it is acceptable to God without Love. Love will produce fruit. You are not even able to have fellowship with God without love. To God you become as a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
Though I speak with tongues of men & of angles, but have not love, I become as sounding brass or clanging cymbal.
We need to love others. The Holy Spirit gives us the love of God. Not just for people you love, but for people you do not like. You have to love them also. Let the Holy Spirit give you a heart of love.
Romans 5:5
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
We have had that Love of God poured (pass tense) into our hearts. The Holy Spirit has done that for us & He will gives us Love to love the unloved. There are no barriers now to be able to reach that person or persons.
Titus 2:1 & 2
1) But as for you, speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine;
2) that the older men be sober, reverent, temperance, sound in faith, in love, in patience
Titus tells us to stay in the sound doctrine of God. Love is one of the doctrine of God's. Without love you cannot serve God. Hatred begets Hatred. That is not of God!! But, Love begets Love! So Gods love helps us to love others!! It is by the grace of God to love the man who hates me.
Luke 6: 32 - 35
32) "But if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For evensinners love those who love them.
33) "And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Evensinners do the same.
34) "And if you lend to those from whom you hope to receive back, what credit is that to you? For even sinners lend to sinners to recive as much back.
35) "But love your enemies do good, and lend hoping for nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Highest, For He is kind to the unthankful & evil,
Love begets Love, It does take the grace of God to love your enemy Remember hate the sin he has done, not the sinner. If a person does not have the Love of God in his heart, he will not have God in his heart. We need to stay in the Word of God to feed upon His Word!.
Hebrews 12:15
looking diligently lest anyone fall short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, & by this many become defiled;
2 Corointhians 5:14 & 15
14) For the love of Christ constrains us, because we judge thus: that if one died for all, then all died.
15) and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them & rose again.
Paul tells us that the love of Christ constrains us. The Holy Spirit gives us love & that we take this love & teach of Christ. People of today does not believe the Word of God is true. This is not new for this world. Jeremiah had this problem also. Look at Jeremiah 32:2 & Jeremiah 20:9, We are to hold the truth of Gods love. Paul put love at the head of the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians. Love is the very first one. And really even through the other eight. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love on trail; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love at school; & temperance is love in training.
HOPE:
With out hope you are not useful in Gods work. That means if losing hope is putting you out of communion with God. So he does not have the Spirit of God upon him for any service. There is not a place in the bible where God used a person without hope.
Romans 15:13
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy & peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
We should not become discourage. So, ask God to forgive you of it, that we are cast down & discouraged. And ask God to give us hope through His Holy Spirit.
LIBERTY
We have gone through love, then hope, & now liberty. God does not use men who is in bound up. In today churches there is not a whole lot of liberty. Churches has so much formalism of strict adherece of their regligion. They criticize church as you would a move or on stage performance. They no longer listen to what actually the man of God is saying. They want to be entertain, we go to church to receive the Word of God. I know that is harse to say, but it is the truth! I would call it a carnally mind set. If you want liberty you must receive the Spoken Word of God.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Now the Lord is the Spirit; & where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty
Romans 8:21
because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Galatians 5:1 & 13
1) Stand fast therefore inn the liberty by which Christ has made us free, & do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
13) For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty & continues in it, & is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
1 Peter 2:16
as free, yet not using your liberty as a cloak for vice, but as servants of God.
Some people will not do the work of God, even when you tell them how good they would be. They will say: I have a life, where really they are tied up in bondage.. What would have happen if Christ said I had a life. What about all the men & women of the Bible said that also. Christ came to set us free! And He wants us to work & speak for Him. Even some will not even pray in a prayer meeting when they are asked to say a prayer or have a few words about Christ. That is very much a cold spirit in the church. The only reason they went in the first place was they felt it was their duty. Instead of a privilege!! That just is not right.
We need the Holy Spirit to give us these three things -- Love, Hope, Liberty. Placing them in our hearts! Don't you want Love, Hope, Liberty? I sure do. We need to pray daily for the renewing of these in our life, so we can enter boldly into Holy of the Holies.
Hebrews 10:19
Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus,
It is a poor life to just live for sake of self. That gets us no where. We need to be used of God. To be a Sanctified Vessel of Him!!
2 Timothy 2:21
Therefore if anyone cleanses himself from the latter, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified & useful for the Master, prepared for every good work.
2 Timothy 3:17
that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equpped for every good work.
AMEN & AMEN
Different Morals of the Grasshopper & the Ant
ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER !!!!
Two Different Versions.................
Two Different Morals....................
OLD VERSION.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION.
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.
Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Thank you Linda for sending this!!
That is the way it is
Rev. Londa
Two Different Versions.................
Two Different Morals....................
OLD VERSION.
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away..
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION.
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome. Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and once peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.
I’ve sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant not a grasshopper!
Make sure that you pass this on to other ants.
Don’t bother sending it on to any grasshoppers because they wouldn’t understand it anyway.
Thank you Linda for sending this!!
That is the way it is
Rev. Londa
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