WILL BILLY GRAHAM'S DEATH ENSURE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS?

So once again we have "LEAPED FORWARD" into "DAYLIGHT SAVINGS", causing a great number of us to lose sleep.

Heart attacks, strokes, car accidents  and depression rise statistically, especially after Spring's jump forward. Missing the sleep that most chronically sleep-deprived Americans have a hard time getting in the first place, can put a strain on a population already stressed by crazy weather changes, constant news of earthquakes and the threat of war.

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What I lose sleep over is the passing of evangelist Billy Graham.

It was especially real to me because my father sang in Billy Graham's choir. He always loved Mr. Graham's soloists George Beverly Shea, Cliff Barrows and their old hymns.

        

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Dad also often talked about the time he met President Truman's daughter Margaret during one of Graham's crusades. He always spoke of her with such awe that he must have considered it a great privilege to have had that personal encounter.
       

Many members of the Christian prophetic community have had both visions and "Words from the Lord" about Billy's passing.

 

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Most of these words of prophecy place Reverend Graham's death as a "WHEN THE OTHER SHOE DROPS" moment in time.

It does signal an event in the so called momentum of "Post-Christian" America.

But does it have to be, forgive me, the "Final Nail In The Coffin"? Or can it be- as some of the prophetically-gifted members of Christ's Body declare -A NEW BEGINNING?

Or rather a last blast of Revival before truly awful and woeful sorrows are poured out on the world, during the Time of Tribulation?

Some have said that with the death of the powerful evangelist, that his anointing for winning souls, his "mantle" so to speak, will fall on ALL of Jesus' current disciples WHO WILL FOLLOW THE CALL. Those who are obedient to God and "pick up" the anointing left behind by Brother Graham could ensure that the last Great Outpouring of God's Holy Spirit in this era could come before Jesus Christ's Return.

Just as Elisha picked up Elijah's mantle so can we who are willing pick up the mantle or so-called gift of the Holy Spirit for winning numberless souls. Just think if so many obeyed this End Time Call that there were MILLIONS of "Billy Grahams" criss-crossing the earth! Or shall we say "CRISIS CROSSING" BECAUSE WE ARE INDEED IN A TIME OF GREAT CRISIS.

As the NFL forges its own "passing" with "political correctness" that never should have entered the American sports arena, causing the loss of truly millions of fans... Maybe instead football stadiums across the United States will fill with shouting fans of Jesus. Perhaps praise and worship and joy and laughter will fill these now emptying stadiums with shouts of healing and salvation. 

Those Christians who cannot believe we are living in the End Days must own VERY DUSTY BIBLES!

To those I say get that Bible down off the shelf and read it!

It is on my heart to also say, "You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you have nourished your heart as in a day of slaughter."  James 5:5

In other words, even though declaring to be a "Christian" perhaps by only once having "accepted Jesus into your heart", but never getting to know Him, never reading His Word, never establishing a personal relationship with Him, you still think you are going to heaven?

There are many who have called themselves "Christian", thinking one moment of remorse is all it takes to become a Christian. Then they go on to live all the earthly pleasures their souls can devour, feeding themselves upon everything life has to offer, to the point of fattening their own hearts as farmers do pigs set aside for slaughter.

 A quote attributed to Billy Graham but actually spoken by his wife is the one most of the mainstream media pointedly neglected to mention. A "Sojourner" article written by a seemingly very liberal Christian still emphasizes the point of the quote.(Click link to read the full article.)

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"Some years ago, my wife, Ruth , was reading the draft of a book I was writing. When she finished a section describing the terrible downward spiral of our nation's moral standards and the idolatry of worshipping such gods as technology and sex, she startled me by exclaiming, 'If God doesn't punish America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah'.

"She was probably thinking of a passage in Ezekiel where God tells why He brought those cities to ruin."

              'Now this was the sin of ...Sodom. She and her daughter were arrogant, overfed, and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.' Ezekiel 16:49-50 NIV" 

Jesus Himself spoke about the punishment awaiting the unrepentant and unbelieving geographical locations of certain cities. It applies as well to nations.

 "But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, in the day of Judgement, than for thee."   Matthew 11:24 KJV

I think frequently about the verse John 9:4:

"I MUST WORK THE WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT ME WHILE IT IS DAY: THE NIGHT COMETH WHEN NO MAN CAN WORK"

 If you haven't noticed the spiritual "darkness" falling upon America and consequently the rest of the world, then you are blind.

The End Times are here. I have explained this in numerous previous blog entries so will not take the time to prove the points.      

We Christians must get the message out about Salvation and Healing in the Cross of the Resurrected Jesus Christ before it is too late! The truth is right now being expunged from the Internet where truth-tellers are being banned.

How long will it be before we can no longer mention the Name of Jesus Christ, nor read our Bibles? You had better read the Word of God while you can. I guarantee you that later on the Book of Books will be banned. Perhaps not in the next few years but perhaps shortly thereafter.

If you think the slight Anti-Christian persecution you may suffer in your workplace is hard now, wait until being a Christian costs you your life! Wait until you have to decide whether to take the Mark of the Beast on your hand or forehead to get paid for work, or buy groceries or pay rent!

Oh - great darkness is coming. The day of time is short that we can still get out the Good News of Salvation in Christ Jesus!

Don't wait for someone else to do it!

Other prophetic Christian leaders have said that after Billy Graham's death, the ever-increasing strange events, weather, and other weird things that have been happening WILL ACCELERATE. That's quite possible!

If you want a perspective in how strange things are happening around the world watch some Jason A. videos on Youtube, from the past several years.

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So then, will you be part of the Wise who win many to righteousness before the Return of the Lord Jesus? Do you want to be an Eternal Star in God's Kingdom?

Rather than those who try to win a type of fake immortality through film and music recordings? Those films and music recordings will fall to ash in the dust of a ruined civilization.

But the deeds you do here on Earth, right now, to win others to Jesus, will cause you to shine eternally like the STARS OF HEAVEN it says in the book of Daniel 12:3...NASB

"Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those WHO LEAD THE MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS, LIKE THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER."

In other words, if instead of spending your days surfing the Internet, playing computer games or following twitter, or loafing on the sofa watching the fading glory of the NFL...what if you LEAPED FORWARD OFF THE COUCH AND SPENT YOUR DAYS WINNING OTHERS TO JESUS CHRIST? You would really be putting DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME to good use!

Then all of your lost sleep would serve an eternal purpose!

The night is over. The Day of the Lord is nearly here. So let's throw off old habits that have kept us from following Christ with all of our hearts and winning others to Him! Let's be bearers of His Light! Rom. 13:12 (My paraphrase.)

But you are NOT IN DARKNESS that the Lord's Soon Coming would surprise you by stealth! I Thess. 5:4 (My paraphrase.)

Even the Book of Wisdom - Proverbs 11:30 says:

"The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise." KJV


So, in a sense your life will leave behind you A TREE OF LIFE and I guarantee you will see the fruit of that tree when you get to heaven. That is - if you are wise enough to win many to salvation!

So let's all get on the J-Team! Billy Graham's passing should help us to see that his life's example is one to be followed, but which we can even improve on.

Since the wave of the Charismatic Movement in the Body of Christ in the 1970's, we have learned that there is far more to the Salvation experience than making a one-time commitment, to follow Jesus.

We have learned that there is such a thing as The Baptism of the Holy Spirit which empowers us.There is HEALING in the Name of JESUS! That the Blood of Jesus can deliver us from diseases bodily and mentally. That there is deliverance from demonic obsession, possession or acting out which we see much of these days.

That includes several incidents of people eating other people's faces off as in the case several years ago in both Jupiter, Florida, and four years before, in downtown Miami. Blame it on some illegal bath-salts drug if you want, but there was a spiritual condition in those men for the drugs to affect them that that way.

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      Since YouTube refuses to bring up the 2012 videos when I try to link them here, you will have to find it on your own. One of the video titles is:  "Miami Zombie Attack Victim Identified..."
  
The YouTube address I have is:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5ZuXW0eh

Type it in separately in another browser window and maybe it will come up for you.

Yes. It really DID happen in 2012. I was in Florida and watched it on the local news channels. Here are some other links to articles about the cannibalistic attack, after which Miami police shot the man chewing off the other's face. That included his nose and both of his eyes. And one article says Miami police have seen other cases of this bizarre behavior.

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MIAMI ZOMBIE EATS OFF ANOTHER MAN'S FACE


FYI: Youtube or Google are blocking the links. So click on them, one at a time, copy each to other windows in your browser, and pull them up separately, outside this blog. JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THE NEW GAGGING OF TRUTH ON THE INTERNET!


Let's go TEAM while we can still use the Internet and other Social Media to get the Word out. Time is short and the window of opportunity is closing.

Take the initiative - be the first on your block to go door to door telling people about Jesus. Don't let any famous cults out do us for ZEAL!

Talk about Him in your workplace, your home, your school, at the bus-stop or the gas station. On the train or plane. In Maine or on The Plain. Don't worry if they think you're insane.

NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION! II Corinthians 6:2

YOU can be a conduit of salvation, healing, deliverance and hope to others in these Last Days! So let's get our work done while the Son shines. 

Let's become A MILLION BILLY GRAHAMS AND SEE how many Daylight Savings we can achieve!

    

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SERVING FATHER TIME OR FATHER GOD?

            

         

My father was an extremely talented man. He was a tenor singer, an artist, and later in life a blacksmith and artificer in woods and metals. But his mother was sure he would be a preacher. Because his greatest gift was that of persuasive speech.

                                       

He did have the preacher or evangelist anointing upon his life. In fact, as a prayer warrior, I bet my grandmother sent to heaven many prayers regarding this outcome. But everyone has a will of their own to follow God's way- or not.

Between the times when he was heartily seeking God, he let his stubborn, carnal nature guide him instead of the Holy Spirit. I am not criticizing my father...just stating a fact.

He died an ill and broken man. He had decided to listlessly and aimlessly follow Father Time rather than the call of Father God. He ended up facing his final days in loneliness, trailing three failed marriages behind him. None of his lofty dreams and plans  had come to fruition.

Father God nudged him at every turn, yet he turned away, desiring instead to follow his own interests.

As a child growing up, I closely watched Dad to see if his actions would line up with his words.

I know he yearned for more of God's Spirit in his life. When I was ten he took us from a mainstream, traditional church to a more "seeker-oriented", Southern Baptist-style congregation.

He was usually the only one in the place who would raise his hands in worship while the rest of the singing people held their hands rigidly at their sides...entranced by some invisible edict that stated "one must not get too emotional when worshipping the Lord". Heaven forbid that someone would leap up and dance like King David once did.

That same year my Pentecostal aunt and uncle gave Mom and Dad a book called, "They Speak With Other Tongues", by John Sherrill. He was the husband of long-time editor of Guideposts Magazine, Elizabeth Sherrill.
                                        

                                

In the book, rational journalist John Sherrill observed the phenomenon in worship services the across the U.S.A., trying to determine its source, purpose and validity. It was an experience that "born-again" Christians were said to experience after asking for this Shower of Power and spiritual gifts.

Not all Christians wanted it. Not all Christians even knew about it. Many well meaning pastors and congregation-members mocked and reviled it, saying it was "of the devil", because they just didn't understand it. People always fear what they do not understand. Little did they realize, because they rationalized it away, that it was clearly stated in the Bible as an important part of the Christian experience.

Sherrill finally concluded, after much research, that the experience was indeed valid, useful and valuable for receiving all that God has to give to enable His true believers to live a victorious Christian life.

My father wanted nothing to do with the "Baptism in the Holy Spirit". He simply could not open up his mind to receive something that to him was new...to him "non-traditional"...yet it was tradition set by the very original disciples and followers of Jesus Christ themselves as sound principle, as they waited for the arrival of "The Comforter" in the upper room.

Dad wanted to go beyond the rote and repetition of a traditional denominational "service" but couldn't get past his fears in order to venture out into the depths of God's Holy Spirit.

I once heard a Bible speaker who taught this analogy:

You can have as much of God as you want. But God is VAST. You can stick your little toe into God's great ocean, or just timidly step your foot in. You can venture into His Holy Spirit realm until you are up to your knees. Don't let yourself get "spooked" by the Holy Ghost and jump out of the water. Just wait. You can dip into the liquid love up to your waist and say, "Maybe I'd better move in the direction of the Tide of the Holy Spirit."

It's hard to glue your feet to the ocean floor bottom when the waves start to carry you away. You can even go in up to your neck as you feel the warm comfort of God's protecting Spirit surrounding you. Don't be afraid of getting "carried away" with God. His waves will take you to exciting places!

In my father's failing years, after having been struck with Parkinson's disease, he lived for a brief time with my brother's family. While living in that town, he attended a nearby Assembly of God church . Finally after all those wasted years he relented to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.

Yes. He had been "saved" for many years. In his youth, he even sang in Billy Graham's choir. But he allowed the traditions of man and a narrow mind-set to rob him of all that God had truly planned for his life. Until it was too late. He ran out of time.

Father Time certainly catches up with everyone eventually. They amble along life's loose and varied pathways without asking the Lord, "Father God, what is it you want for my life?"

Some people don't get an answer right away so they stop asking. Many individuals don't get an answer they like so they crawl back onto their own twisted path. Because they didn't like the answer or because of the sacrifices it might require, they run away from God, like Jonah, in the opposite direction.

Then there are quite a large number who don't even ask at all. They don't realize that Father Time will eventually take them to meet Father God. Then they realize that they wasted the precious time God gave them here on earth, circling round and round in the desert like the children of Israel, after their exodus from Egypt.

I have pursued the Lord the largest part of my life. Like many of us I veered off onto a side path now and then, got stuck in a hedgerow, and had to circumnavigate back onto His Highway. But it was all a learning experience.

In no way am I saying that I am better than my father. What I AM SAYING, is that Father God has put an anointing, A CALL upon my life. I cannot allow Father Time to take me to meet Father God without fulfilling my true calling.

If I waste my life working ten hours a day for "peanuts" only accomplishing putting a roof over my head and food in my mouth, but I'm not doing what the Lord has called me to do - then what good is it? I am just spinning my wheels and wasting the gift of time God the Father has given me.

Many famous people have chosen to follow foolish Father Time, wasting their lives on fame and fortune, when they could have been influencing millions for Father God. Elvis Presley, Whitney Houston, Miley Cyrus...to name a few. They chose to follow their own way rather than follow the path that would have brought them the most happiness.

So here I stand, at the cusp of a NEW YEAR, overwhelmed with the thought:  Do I want to end up like my father, who seeking SELF-FULFILLMENT fell far short of what God had truly planned for him?

Or do I want to enter this New Year 2017, fully convinced and ready to go full charge ahead into the ministry call Father God has place upon my life?

Here I am Lord. I surrender myself to you. My wishes, my dreams, my goals...I lay them on your altar. Here I come.

Father Time - you can't have me yet! Heavenly Father...Lead the way!