Perversion, Pride, Gardening and other odds and ends

First words in the Bible that spoke out to me

loud and clear

when I was first saved in 1988

 

When I was first born of the Spirit of God, I came out of all kinds of deep darkness, witchcraft, perversions, and horrible things too horrible to go into detail. Suffice it to say God was very merciful and the fact that I am saved is a miracle beyond any "rational explanations".

It is so sad for me to see the idiotic things that are going on that are even worse and out in the open much moreso than in the 1980's when I was first saved. For people to be prideful about sin is sad, not funny. I grieve over it. Pride is the sin that got the devil cast out of heaven, and homosexual acts are called an abomination in the Bible. How could anyone think the combination of pride (I personally believe this is at the top of the list of worst sins) and an abominable act directly in God's face is something "good"? I pray for loved ones that are supportive or caught up in all of this mess, saying that it is loving....it is anything but loving, it truly grieves my spirit.

There are stages in which a sin takes a deeper and deeper hold of an individual.

 First, it is "naughty" with a smile and a wink, and still with feelings of "I know I shouldn't be doing this but I like it so much" together with the possible embarrassment if caught in the act, or unmasked or "outed".

Next the person gets a little bolder, takes it to a few close friends to gain their "moral support" (funny term to use for immoral behaviour, but yeah, oh well). The person caught in this sin trap is still unsure about it so he or she needs to get lots of encouragement to keep going in their sin and not allow their conscience to bother them about it.

As the person gets bolder, now he or she can even lash out at those who would say anything regarding sin being sin in regards to perverse sexual acts. Now it is "good" to turn the tables on those who speak up about the current moral decline, and to even attack them physically. They do not realize the demonic element to what is giving them their "courRAGE" with emphasis on RAGE.

Psalm 2:1-3 

 Why do the heathen rage, 

and the people imagine a vain thing?   

The kings of the earth set themselves,

 and the rulers take counsel together, 

against the LORD, 

and against his anointed, 

saying, 

 Let us break their bands asunder,

 and cast away their cords from us. 

Praying for those caught in sin, even those who are deeply caught, even as I was, and also as the Apostle Paul was. God is a God that can save even to the uttermost....but there is a point of no return, we do not know where that point is, but the Lord does, so let's not mess around with all kinds of false things thinking we have lots of time to turn away from them, ask the Lord now to heal you and strengthen you to the proper ways, His true ways, and battle against the demons that want to take you to hell with them. God will supply you the weapons for your battles....the main one is patience to wait on the Lord to fight and to give victory in that final battle that is to come, the one He can prepare you for now if you do not delay in responding to His tugging at your heart. It does not require a special invocation or prayer with certain words or a particular kind of water baptism to make that miracle happen in your life. It only requires a sincere heartfelt yearning for His saving grace, His redeeming power, His intervention, and that true sincerity is also a gift from Him, but ask Him and seek Him for these things, and He will provide everything that is needed.

Ok, now that I got that bit off my chest, lol, 

I have been extremely busy with gardening. The lawn cutting, the weed pulling, the compost making, the bug trapping....sheesh!!! But I must admit, I love the fruit of my labors.

 Calaliliy...

 seen from the other side...the bugs got to it! Ugh!

 
My favorite calalily is the purple one...so far
the bugs haven't attacked it yet




Ok, well, I have to get back to weeding
and bug trapping, so much to do, so little time!

DOMA Decision

I cannot even begin to express how sickened I feel by the Supreme Court decision on the Defense of Marriage Act. I know I shouldn't be surprised, and yet I still am, and truth be told I am horrified. Dr. James White had a few words to say a few months ago which I find fitting. We are living in perilous times, no doubt about it. I hope and pray that "the church" wakes up. We need to be praying for our nation, praying for repentance and praying for the church to valiantly proclaim the truth in a world that hates the truth.

Gay Pride Week

This week was "Gay Pride Week", and it began last Sunday, which coincidentally was Pentacost, the anniversary of the birth of the Church. I don't believe in coincidences, actually. I believe that there are people who deliberately chose Pentacost as the day to begin "Gay Pride Week". Pride is the wickedest of sins because it blinds us from seeing how truly repulsive our sins are before a holy God. God hates pride. So to have pride in behaving in truly abominable perversion and to openly and brazenly throw it in God's face on Pentacost is truly hateful as well as stupid. Do you think our nation deserves a spanking for such things? Do you think any of us are "innocent", truly? We all need forgiveness on a daily basis. Pride has no place in any of our lives, for anything that we do, unless our pride is in what Jesus does, and then it isn't really pride, it is thankful humility that does not need parading.

Tomorrow (Saturday) is Gay Day at Disney World in Orlando Florida. I pray that God will prick hearts tomorrow toward truly repenting and sorrowing over all sins being flaunted in His face. I pray for the courage and strength and conviction needed to speak up as God gives me wisdom.

God Speaks

Oklahoma began "Gay Pride Week" on Sunday and gets hit with the worst tornado ever on Monday. Coincidence?

http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=14009

For A Mess of Pottage?

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Genesis 25:29-34 


Matthew 4:1-10


The theme pops in on me at odd moments....not that I have an urge to sell my soul or anything (actually I'm counting on the grace of God on this one, because left up to myself I have a feeling I'd blow it...because when it comes down to the truth of the matter, I cannot do anything right without Jesus' help). Anyway, we've all heard about this, haven't we?

 Matthew 16:26

I was talking with my boss at work today, and we got on the topics of what we see in this world today, and on discernment and the lack of it today, and the MOB (and some other related and equally disturbing topics), and it brought me back to thinking on that theme. Is it possible to "sell your soul to the devil"? I personally believe it is possible to do so, and that many have done so.



Today I heard that our nation will begin performing gay marriage ceremonies at the national cathedral in Washington D.C. I am hearing the death knell of our nation loud and clear. It has clearly sold it's soul to the devil. :(

The Kinsey Effect

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 I personally think that many who would be afraid to watch the video in this post might need to sit down after being prayed up, and watch it all the way through. Yes, it's ugly. Yes it is a big ugly pill to swallow, but necessary to see it, the lies we're being told, and the full ugliness of those lies, and why we now have so many rapists and child molesters and perverts and violence on the increase, etc, and that these crimes are on the increase, not declining like they want us to believe. They know how to "cook the books" to make it appear like things are getting better, when they are not. I too was guilty of allowing myself to be lulled into their complacency, their lies of "it's good to teach children about sex" and "don't be so judgmental about it, it isn't THAT bad, what people do in their private lives is THEIR business, not ours"....well take an honest look at how this stuff "isn't hurting anyone". It IS hurting alot of people, many of them children. Please pray, and then please do watch it, it is very important that we get outraged and truly grieved in our spirits about what is going on.
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I was thinking about the problems of sexual deviancy after talking with Leslie in the comments section of this post.

Leslie stated:
"... So, they taught that the fall made Adam and Eve and all their descendants much more prone to sin. Of course, this didn't mean - and in fact it could not mean - that Adam and Eve were originally incapable of sin. But it did mean for Calvin and others that they were far less prone to sin, as their faculties were in much better shape. I think that there is a lot of philosophical support for this reading. But, much more importantly, and as Calvin and others realize, this does seem to be exactly what Scripture itself teaches. The Bible clearly teaches that man was severely corrupted after the fall and more prone to sin. This means that Adam and Eve were originally less corrupted, but the Bible also makes it clear that Adam and Eve were not perfect and utterly immune to sin." 

My reply:
"Reading through what you state above makes much sense to me. I do agree that Adam and Eve did change after "the fall" and were much more prone to sinning, which was the reason they were from that point guarded from the tree of life. Wouldn't it be terrible to live eternally but to keep degenerating more and more (physically, morally, spiritually), as we see happening in each successive generation, and that with no end in sight? So it was God's mercy (again) which we perceive as punishment.


 Likewise Paul in the book of Romans reveals how rejecting God leads to getting more and more perverse things that stem from being in rebellion to God...which we all were, but Jesus provides His mercy and grace and His Spirit, to bring us out of this treacherous place to the place He is preparing for us. We do not have to be consigned to eternity of getting worse and worse, because Jesus is the doorway out of that terrible curse."

But I think there is a terribleness to the kind of sin spoken of in the following video, and although all sin is offensive in God's eyes, Jesus did make a point of saying:



Luk_17:2  It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
 

WARNING This video is really disturbing 
...it has information on the beginnings of what is called "The Sexual Revolution" and also is what formed the basis for today's sex education for children. Please pray before watching this, it has extremely horrifying and terrible information about what is being done to our nation's children based on the Kinsey Reports, and what we are shown about Kinsey in this video is that he was a sadomasochistic pedophile, and he determined what was normal for children and why children needed to be exposed to sexual information at a young age, the younger the better.

Almost 3 hours long... I haven't finished it yet...will add my thoughts later:

Wow....the material and documented evidence that is brought up in this is so offensive and highly disturbing, it grieves me to think of all the terrible things that were done to the children that Kinsey used to support his twisted theories. I finished half of this documentary, and truly am ill, I'll try to finish it later...not sure, it has given me a horrible headache. An interesting fact regarding this Kinsey stuff is that Kinsey's first book on his American male research came out in 1948, the same year that Israel declared itself a nation. Not sure if that means anything but many people do attach spiritual significance to that year.

Sometimes I do believe we are very close to the time of the Lord Jesus' returning when I see a film like the one above, which brings to mind this verse:

 2Ti 3:13  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 

Be sure to check out the way a Christian aught to respond to a homosexual  in a related post.

Gay Marriage Legalized for New York

 New York Governor Signs Law Approving Gay Marriage

(Reuters) - Governor Andrew Cuomo made same-sex marriages legal in New York on Friday, a key victory for gay rights ahead of the 2012 presidential and congressional elections.

Sodom and Gomorrah: (had to remove the picture, whenever I came to do something on this blog I kept seeing it, and it was really getting me down so it had to go....but I'm praying for all those lost souls and hope that they realize what a terrible mistake they are making before it's too late)

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Also notice on the sidebar to the video there are two other videos, one in regards to "gays" in Russia, and the other in Rio de Janeiro

link to smilie