Prayer Meetings

You are invited to attend prayer meetings on Tuesday nights to pray for the Israelites and the building of a prayer tower, according to Daniel Bolher’s 2005 Prophecy, so that the Great Lakes will not erupt. The prayer meetings are held on Tuesdays at 7:00 pm, at Greentree Apartments, 4320 Kalamazoo Ave. #224. For more information call 616.455.4784.

This newsletter is disjointed and seems to touch on unrelated subjects, but in the end it will make sense and will tell us how and why we must vote His perfect will.

For more information about what is happening in Jerusalem, go to the websites:

Jerusalem World News: http://www.myjwn.com

Save Jerusalem Site: http://www.savejerusalem.org

Coconut Coffee

The Lord told me to share this story with you. (I have always shared my foolishness with others, laughing at myself. I think it made them more tolerant of the things they have done and to realize that it really wasn’t a big deal. Maybe this will do the same for you.) Years ago I went to Washington D.C. for a convention and a friend of mine took me to the airport and picked me up and brought me home again. I wanted to get her a special gift and went to an up scale shopping mall and I found a box of different flavored coffees and thought that would be the perfect gift for her. She had me over to try each flavor. We fell in love with coconut cream coffee. Family and friends tried to find it for us, with little luck. My daughter found it and would send it to me as a gift for holidays and birthdays. All of a sudden we couldn’t get it anymore. So I decided that there must be a way to make it. I took regular coffee and added coconut to it and went on to work on the computer. The aroma was wonderful and I couldn’t wait to surprise her. Then there was a terrible racket, like an explosion. I went to see what was wrong. The coffee pot was smoking and there was coffee all over the kitchen, on the cupboards, the walls, and the floor. It was even under the refrigerator. I said, “Well Lord at least I don’t have to get the ladder out and wash the ceiling. Out of the corner of my eye, in my spirit, I saw Jesus laughing His little oh heart out. It was good to see Him again.

I used to see Him often in the Garden. One time I was leading a sing-along and hit a sour note. There he was with His arm around my shoulders laughing. We were walking down a path in the garden when I realized that something was wrong. I looked up at Him and saw sorrow in His eyes as He watched a young man walk off, going his own way.

I have been in the garden with Him many times. He would wave His arm at me and motion for me to come and laugh and play in the garden. One time I saw myself as a little girl, about 5 years old. He would wait until I almost caught up with Him and then He would run off. It was so much fun. Jesus always seemed be in a playful mood. He is my best friend.

Christians Must Vote

It seems that there is a lot of talk about whether Christians will vote. Through out the years surveys have shown that 80 to 95 percent claimed they were Christians. Yet the poles show that those elected to office do not uphold our constitution. We either wanted something to be put in place that would be to our advantage, even though it was not according to God’s laws and commandments; or we thought that there wasn’t a devout Christian running for office and we didn’t bother to vote. Well we did vote and we are living with the consequences. We are the ones who are responsible, for aborting babies, the silencing of Christian beliefs in our schools and in the market place, and legalizing same sex marriages. There is a fight being waged to remove the Ten Commandments from the public square and to silence churches that fear they will lose their tax exempt status. These are harsh words, but they are true.

Woe to Ariel (Jerusalem), Ariel, the city where David dwelt add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices. 2 Yet I will distress Arial and there shall be heaviness and sorrow: and it shall be unto me as Ariel. 3 And I will camp against thee round about, and lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. 4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out if the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out if the dust, 5 Moreover the multitude of the strangers (foes) shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly. 6 Thou shall be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire. 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her monition (fortress), and that distress her, shall be as a dream of the night of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion. 9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink, 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed: 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned. 13 Wherefore the Lord said, Foreasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with there lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men. 14 Therefore, behold I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Isaiah 29:1

Is the above speaking about us? Are the troubles we are having the fulfilling of the above prophecy? We know that what is written as a warning will never change. It will produce the same consequences in variant forms. We don’t have wars fought with chariots and swords, but we fight with planes, tanks, and missiles.

I took a break to read the Grand Rapids Press. What I saw was that the Religion Editor, Charles Honey’s article View of gay marriage changes when it’s personal. He says his daughter found love with another woman and he is happy for her. He talks about scripture and the different ways of interpreting it. He is just glad she is happy. What does he think about Sodom & Gomorra? She may come to her senses and realize that she is not living according to the will of God and repent and have her sin wiped out, but if not she will be judged. There are worse things then living without sex. I wrote before about spending three days at the brink of hell and how awful it was. We will be judged. What we need to do is to love our children and befriend them, but we need to make it clear that in our homes we will uphold the commandments. It is a hard thing to do, but their salvation is at stake. We will keep them aware that sin is sin and pray that they will realize it at some point in their lives and repent, asking the Lord to forgive them and to dwell in their hearts so they can live in heaven for all eternity. That is the important thing.

There also are ongoing articles in the paper of pending charges of assault against a woman in the apartment of Commissioner James Vaughn, The things that are being said about what may have been going on in his apartment are disgusting to say the least. I don’t know what is true and what isn’t, but to think of the things insinuated are appalling. What kind of people are we having run our cities, states and nation? I’m not saying that they are bad people, but we are seeing more and more what is happening behinds closed doors. Isaiah 29 tells us what the out come will be.

Do they know we are Christians by our actions? by how we dress? I’m not talking about being in style, but about how modest our attire is. What about our language? The jokes we tell or listen to and the suggestive insinuations. When I worked at God’s kitchen they knew that I didn’t like foul language or dirty jokes. One day a volunteer said, “Come on Rosemary this joke is all right, it isn’t dirty, it’s funny.” Well it had a lot of innuendos and I walked away. It was full of crude remarks. I hoped that my action was thought provoking and caused them to reconsider what comes out of their mouths. How we behave is passed down from generation to generation. It often gets worse, but when they find the Lord they change their behavior. It will be passed down good or bad. Our old behavior may turn up in the life of one of our great, great grandchildren.

David was loved by God, for when he realized that he had done wrong He cried out to God for forgiveness and God forgave him. But it did affect his health. Curses or blessings, the choice is ours. Our offspring don’t get to choose which blessings or curses they inherit.

I wrote before about alcohol being a deceiver, for you say, ‘it’s the alcohol making me behave like this.’ It happened to me when I was in high school. I didn’t do anything that was really bad, but it was out of character for me, and I was ashamed of myself. I didn’t want to look in the mirror. I guess, I thought that I would see me as Jesus was seeing me. Some said that they couldn’t believe I would be apart of it. How we act affects those around us for good or bad.

We all have life lessens. What matters is how we use them. David paid the price, His body wasted away with disease and he said he didn’t know. Some say it was venereal disease. He had the commandments and precepts as his guide. God said one woman one man untied for life. God let it happen. He doesn’t want robots, but He lets us live with the consequences.

I wrote before how pornography just shows up on some pastor’s computers; that we need to hold up all spiritual leaders and pastors in our prayers. Satan has gotten a hold on some of them through adulation, money and many temptations put in their paths. Some of it is from their congregations. Men and women temp them until they fall. Satan is using their fall as weapons to turn us or unbelievers from our Lord and Savior. We don’t know how they tried to avoid the temptation before they succumbed. They need our prayers and compassion; for but for the grace of God their go I. A better way is what Dr. Dobson and several others do. They mentor them with love and help them to believe in God’s unconditional love and forgiveness. When we fall and repent God uses it to bring us into a better relationship with Him, giving us the ability to encourage others. Those that fell may have a ministry far greater then they ever dreamed possible. They thank God for His blessing. They can say, ‘If I have been restored, so can you.’ They give God all the glory. Satan will be defeated; he will not win. If we give all our sins back to God and walk in newness and go on to to the next work He has for us to do.

Richard Roberts has been accused of many things by some professors at their university. There is a lawsuit going on regarding slander of character. Oral and Richard and their family prayed a prayer of forgiveness for those who accused them on Thanksgiving Day. Richard resigned as president, and now he is going all over the world with a healing ministry. Many are asking him to come to their city or country. I remember him saying that the Lord told him that there was a call on his life to go throughout the world to heal the sick. At the time he said he didn’t know how he could work it into his busy schedule, being the president of Oral Roberts University and mentoring all the young people on a daily bases.

Some churches have taken out of context God’s Word that says that He Loves all people, by not telling their congregation that He gives them free will to choose if they will live by His commandments and precepts, or do what they want to do. If they deliberately choose to live in sin; they will be judged; telling them in love, that sin is sin. They should not allow them to hold leadership roles in their church. The Pastors who do not point this out will be held accountable for promoting this lie. MT. 7: 13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: 14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. 15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Some pastors are not aware that they are leading their church astray. Satan puts blinders on their eyes and they don’t teach the whole gospel. They may be afraid if they say anything they will lose their tax exemption status.

Things they may do:

They have the right to preach the Word according to the Bible.
They may address the issue of ‘gay rights’ adultery, fornication, abortion, etc. without reproach.
They may have voter registration forms available. It is said that many professing Christians haven’t even registered to vote.
But they cannot promote a candidate.

Back to voting

We must look at both parties and take a close look of what they have voted to promote or block in the past.

What are they are promising to do if they are elected to office:

The right to life
Same sex marriages
Teaching and promoting Evolution
Blocking the teaching of intelligent design
Keeping religion and the Ten commandments out of schools
Teaching children about deviate behavior and that it is normal and must be accepted as such.

We must look at all these issues and vote for the ones who will work to make the changes that need to be made. Even if we feel there isn’t a candidate that fits the bill according to our way of thinking. We are very apt to lose the election. Scripture time and again says that God sent prophets telling about the destruction of whole countries because they forsook the Lord and worshiped false idols. But then He said I will restore the land because there was a remnant that loved God and His commandments and lived by them. So if we will vote for what is right we will bring revival to our land and it won’t be totally destroyed. Isaiah 1:9 Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been like unto Sodom and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

I feel that the Lord is telling me that we will fight a civil war to save our children and to bring revival to our land so that He will not have to destroy our great country. Some one asked me if it was spiritual warfare. I was surprised and then as I thought about it, I realized that it would be far worse than the civil war was to free the slaves. I don’t know when it will be, but it may be during the tribulation; Led by those that are fighting to keep from receiving the mark of the beast that would put them in hell for all eternity.

So be sure to vote and believe what scripture says about the remnant that will bring about the restoration of our great country.

I am deleting the prayers that are usually in the newsletter. I call you to fast and pray as the Spirit leads you for all that are running for office in any capacity. May God have mercy on our nation.

If you haven’t asked the Lord to be ruler over your life why not do it now. You will never be the same. If you have backslidden He is always willing to restore you. Accept Jesus and the Holy God who created this wonderful place for us to live. Just look out your window and see the wonder of it all.

Say this prayer

Dear Lord I am a sinner

I don’t want to live this way any more

I ask you to forgive my sins (list them out loud)

I want you to be the ruler of my life

To live in my heart forever

To guide me in all righteousness

I thank you for coming into my heart

Please fill me with the Holy Spirit

And give me the gift of tongues, Amen

Read the Bible everyday. Start with the Book of John. Read the Psalms and The Book of Proverbs. Find a church that will not compromise God’s Word. Upon arising in the morning ask God to guard your mouth that you will only speak and do what He leads you to do.

You must ask to speak in tongues in order to receive this gift. It is a way of praying the perfect will of God for the situation. Satan cannot understand what you are saying so he can’t try to stop your prayer from being fulfilled. You can ask the Spirit to reveal the prayer to you. He sometimes gives someone the gift of tongues without them asking for he has a special purpose for them to fulfill.

ACLJ

American Center for Law & Justice

The Supreme Court of the United States has agreed with ACLJ’s request that it rule in a Ten Commandments case of great significance. This attack is about allowing private parties to have a First Amendment right to put up monuments of their choosing, unless the city takes away all other donated monuments, including the Ten Commandments:

A patriotic monument in a city park could have an anti-American monument also.
“In God We Trust” might have one that says “In Satan We Trust” next to it.
Next to the Statue of Liberty, a Statue of Tyranny.

You get the picture. We say this won’t happen, but we are seeing many things that are happening today that we never in our wildest dreams thought would come to pass.

Keep ACLJ in your prayers and give them your financial support. Send it to:

ACLJ
PO BOX 64429
Virginia Beach, VA 23467-4429

or go to their website, http://www.aclj.org

Dr. James Kennedy’s Center For Reclaiming America

Coral Ridge Ministries is enlarging and reorganizing their outreach ministry so that they may better inform you of what is going on in our country that hinders our freedoms. The staff is being enlarged to make sure that all they have done will be available in the future for our benefit.

Dr. Kennedy’s daughter, Jennifer Kennedy Cassidy, CRM board member, is the host of a new video blog that provides:

Ministry events
New product offers
Programming, etc.
Jennifer’s weekly video features are e-mailed to users so that it can be watched right on your computers. To register go to http:///www.coralridge.org and click on “Newsletter Sign Up” link at the bottom.

They also need our financial support. For more on what they are doing go to http://www.coralridge.org

Some Things We Need to be Aware Of

Pray for Israel and all those involved in the war in the Middle East. Make sure your church is upholding them in prayer, not just in passing, but holding prayer meetings just to stand in prayer for them.

Many Jews are going back to Israel with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They are living in utter poverty and in filthy conditions. They need our prayers and help now. You can give a monetary donation by calling 1.800.336.9953 or send a check to:

Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews
PO Box 96105
Washington DC 20090-6105

Pray that he believes that Jesus is the long awaited Messiah.

Zola Levitt is back on TCT, Sundays at 8:30 pm. You can find out how to support them on their program.

To keep abreast, contact Reclaiming America News at http://www.reclaimamerica.org and the Alliance Defense Fund at http://www.adpray.org.

Newsletter June-July 2008