[Verse 1]
I will tremble at no other name
My heart’s surrendered to no other reign
I will bow at no other throne
Rest my heart at no other home
Let these hands lift no other crown
Let these knees fall on no other ground
Draw these eyes from the gold that won’t shine
You turn this life from water to wine
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Oh, I tremble (Ooh-ooh)
I tremble, oh (Ooh-ooh)
In your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In your presence (Ooh-ooh)
[Verse 2]
You take my breath with every starry night
Show Your power in downtown city lights
You are higher than the tallest of the hills
And stronger than the walls we try to build
You blind me with the beauty of Your face
And draw me close with Your divine embrace
You speak to me with healing in Your words
And fix the things I didn’t know were hurt
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Lord, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
Lord, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence, uh (Ooh-ooh)
[Bridge: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
My Lord (My Lord, my Lord, my Lord)
My Lord (My Lord, my Lord, my Lord)
My Lord, (My Lord) my Lord, my Lord
To you alone, to You alone be praise (My Lord)
Who can take the place of? (My Lord)
Oh, what compares to Your Love? (My Lord)
For everything that You’ve done (To You alone)
To You alone be praise (My Lord)
Oh, who can take the place of? (My Lord)
What compares to Your Love? (My Lord)
For everything that You’ve done (To You alone)
To You alone be praise
[Verse 3]
You invented all of time and space
Called the morning and midnight into place
Made the mountains, tamed the wildest seas
And still You set Your holy eyes on me
I will always live in wonder of
The fact that I awaken jealous love
Eternity will almost be enough
Eternity will almost be enough
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Oh, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble, oh, Lord (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
Oh, I tremble (Tremble)
I tremble (Ah-ah)
In Your presence (Ah-ah)
In Your presence, oh, yeah (Ah-ah)
[Breakdown: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
(Tremble) Oh, I will always live in wonder of
(Ah-ah) The fact that I awaken jealous love
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Tremble) Oh, I will always live in wonder of
(Ah-ah) The fact that I awaken jealous love
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
(Ah-ah) Eternity will almost be enough
[Chorus: Lauren Daigle & Choir]
Lord, I tremble (Ooh-ooh)
I tremble, Lord (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh)
In Your presence (Ooh-ooh, Lord)
Oh, I tremble
I tremble, oh, Lord
In Your presence
In Your presence
“through genuine humble faith on bent knee from the heart even if no larger than a mustard seed”
UPDATE:9/5/22 check the end of this post. Original 12/5/19
The Faces of Evil
We are seeing very prominent faces stand out this “Christmas Holiday Season” that are far removed from the “Spirit of Christmas,” and are in fact unholy being influenced by the forces of darkness right here in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, America! This One Nation under God has been polluted and corrupted deep within its earthly seat of power by some of the most maligned human beings on earth whose lust for power and control was an attempt to gain absolute power which in turn became “absolute power corrupting absolutely;” and it did in fact blind them to the plain truth of how their quest and drunkenness has delivered them unto the beast and not their Almighty God. For them it started with “a touch of evil” that grew inside of them until its own thirst for another soul grew even stronger within taking over their will or ability to recognize the “simple plain truth!”
One of these key political figures clamored to the world this week “I’m a Catholic,” just like another one of them has said on many occasions how he is a Catholic too, and he is a presidential candidate now; but one thing is for sure, neither of those two is a Catholic and they are indeed fake ones. There are so many fake ones around these days and in fact there are too many “nonbelievers or complete antichrists” among us, even those who use Christianity as a tool or front for vain ulterior purposes, wolves in sheep’s clothing if you will; some of us may even know them personally!
Yes you and I know who I speak about and we witness this abomination by the Greatest Nation on earth, but we must all pray and look beyond all of this wickedness that is trying to overshadow our Great Nation under God and not allow us to clearly remember who this holiday is about; “the one true power, honor and glory which it is about, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ,”who will have the final say in everything in all of existence!
All I can say is, all of you faithful please keep praying to our Heavenly Father who is holding back from pouring out His wrath, but make no mistake about it the truth is upon us, we have enough proof my faithful friends; the winds of truth and justice are coming for them and all the other deceivers!
Stay in communion with the Holy Spirit by remaining faithfully vigilant in humble prayer and supplication for Him our Savior Jesus Christ, who loves us more than we can actually fully know and experience being outside of His glorious eternal kingdom; yet He made Himself one of us born of the virgin Mary His earthly mother, to prove without a doubt that we are here for one reason; which is that, through genuine humble faith on bent knee from the heart even if no larger than a mustard seed, that faith is the only other ingredient needed in our Father’s equation and plan for any of us to be united with Him in heaven for eternity.
And He said to them, “Because of the littleness of your faith; for truly I say to you, if you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible to you.” Matthew 17:20
So He was saying, “What is the kingdom of God like, and to what shall I compare it? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and THE BIRDS OF THE AIR NESTED IN ITS BRANCHES.” Luke 13:18-19
A Blessed and Merry Christmas to All of You!
Lawrence Morra
Just as in Classic Film Noir a touch of evil is all it takes to corrupt a soul enough to bring ruin to a heart!
But, diametrically in opposition to that it only takes the faith the size of a mustard seed to overcome all evil and death! Faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ the King!
UPDATE: Tell me this isn’t the time to update this previous posting?
But first consider if you should tell me if the opening of this previous posting; The Faces of Evil can and should be applicable right now like never before in America!
I’ve been saying for years that I know without a doubt in my heart and mind how corrupt and evil Biden is! I designated him “America’s Own Man of Perdition” a while ago! You probably saw this photo by now all too much but look at the face of Evil and now maybe more folks can understand why I said what I did about him for years! What’s very scary is how we could have such a not only dysfunctional society as we do, but a government that spurned this all on for several decades knowing full well the lying, wicked corruption of this man along with the facilitators of it for so long; was it “all about the money honey?”
How could I practically speaking see the horns coming out of this man’s head and so many citizens did not or maybe didn’t care?
This SOB who in his first 100 days in office ramrodded through an appropriation of 468 $Billion by executive order exclusively for abortion all the way up to Day of Delivery and yet this man is still the president and getting worse than that now, which I thought took the cake; now threatening to use the military with his F-15 fighter jets against the citizens of the USA who are not compliant with his agenda and crazy thinking! Is this Iraq or Syria?
Republication of lifenews.com story
Joe Biden Will Turn VA Hospitals Into Abortion Centers Killing Babies National | Steven Ertelt | Sep 2, 2022 | 12:46PM | Washington, DC
Joe Biden Will Turn VA Hospitals Into Abortion Centers Killing Babies
National | Steven Ertelt | Sep 2, 2022 | 12:46PM | Washington, DC
Joe Biden announced today that his administration will illegally turn VA hospitals into abortion centers, in a move that breaks federal law.
The VA says babies will be killed in abortions “regardless of state restrictions” — which means VA hospitals will become abortion centers even in pro-life states that have banned abortions.
The department submitted an interim rule to the Federal Register Thursday night that will allow abortion access on federal property in some cases, even in states that ban the procedure. VA health care providers can also coordinate abortions with private medical offices in states where abortion is still allowed. Providers can also offer to counsel pregnant veterans and eligible beneficiaries.
The VA said it will make a determination on a case-by-case basis on the necessity of abortion based on “careful consultation between VA health care providers and the Veterans they serve.” For cases of rape or incest, the VA will use self-reporting from a veteran or beneficiary.
“Pregnant veterans and VA beneficiaries deserve to have access to world-class reproductive care when they need it most,” VA Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement. “That’s what our nation owes them, and that’s what we at VA will deliver.”
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The last part means that babies will be killed in abortions in cases of rape or incest merely on the word of the woman seeking the abortion, without any report to law enforcement in order to apprehend the rapist or proof that rape or incest had occurred.
Senator James Lankford, a pro-life Republican from Oklahoma, says the move is illegal and previously sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) Denis McDonough to share his concerns. Specifically, Biden’s move is illegal under federal law.
Section 106 of the Veterans Health Care Act of 1992 prohibits the VA from providing abortions.
Lankford warns in his letter, “Only Congress can change federal law, and Congress has held for the past 30 years that the VA is not permitted to offer abortion services… Abortion is not and will never be healthcare. Healthcare protects life. Abortion takes life. Instead of promoting the taking of human life, I would challenge you, and others within the VA, to respect the dignity of our veterans and all of their family members, including unborn children, by ensuring services provided and funded by the VA are focused on true healthcare consistent with federal law.”
Multiple polls over the years show Americans oppose taxpayer-funded abortions, and most recently a January 2022 Marist poll found that a majority of Americans — 54% — oppose taxpayer funding of abortion.
Leading pro-life group Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life slammed the decision and reiterated that it is illegal, in violation of both federal and state laws. It also noted that McDonough failed to respond Lankford’s letter.
“Shame on Secretary McDonough for caving to Biden and the radical abortion lobby’s demands to violate state and federal law regarding abortion. Abortion is not health care – in fact it carries serious physical and mental health risks – and expanding abortion on demand into the VA is illegal, period,” said SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “This is the latest egregious example of the pro-abortion extremism that has taken over the Democratic Party. Biden himself used to agree taxpayers should never be forced to fund the destruction of innocent life. Now he is head of the most pro-abortion administration in history. There is no law they won’t rewrite or institution they won’t destroy in their drive to impose abortion without limits – even late-term abortions well after unborn children can feel pain – up to the moment of birth, paid for by taxpayers, nationwide.
She told LifeNews: “Democrats’ pro-abortion extremism is wildly out of step with the majority of Americans. We will expose them and hold them accountable at the ballot box.”
Biden and the entire Democrat Partisan Establishment, now Communist Party are out of control and not American! And that is what I say to Biden who was one of the many that advocated Antifa and BLM torching of cities, doing mayhem throughout the nation during the summer of 2020; along with rapes and murders having been excused or not investigated with all of the destruction! Harris and Pelosi said they were proper expression by the people, and the “Riots Must Continue!” While Biden sat in his basement instead of campaigning and agreed they were fine; they are nuts and wicked! Now look were we are!
But they sure tracked down the J6 Election Protestors like hey were wanton evil criminals who were not armed or menacing, after allowing them into the People’s House! Even allowing a Capital Police Office to blow away Ashlee Babbitt at point blank range as she was climbing over a dutch-door; she a four tour honorably discharged USAF Veteran, good mother and wife! The event going bad was staged by government insider operatives, FBI and Pelosi!
Those government officials all have blood on their hands and are doomed to God’s wrath!
Here’s an additional news flash today!
“So they riffled [sic] through the living quarters of my 16 year old son, Barron, and the loved and respected former First Lady of the United States, Melania, but, despite proven high crimes and treason, and just plain common theft, all pointed out in the Laptop from Hell (and elsewhere), they never Raided or Broke Into the house of Hunter Biden or, perhaps even more importantly, the house of Joe Biden – A treasure trove!” Trump wrote.”
“This is a Country that’s unfair and broken,” the former president added. “We are truly a Nation in Decline!!!”
Hey I say even burn-out Ozzy Osbourne could get this right and flew the coop with his family back to the UK recently said “nothing is United about America!”
I can also say with confidence if this mess of a nation doesn’t come together and fix all of this evil and put all of the culpable scheming scammers in our government behind bars; then its “Venezuela here we come!”
God bless America and please help your own to overcome all of this madness!
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“Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding”
First this life and my thoughts now aren’t about believing in Santa Claus or not!
A year passed and have things changed; not really the same game but worse!
Let me ask you; do you really prefer to think that not being born would be better for you and your children? Because I can absolutely guarantee you that is exactly what the Devil wants you to believe, that master of all lies wants any of us to think we are defeated before we start. Start what you might say with; how about the greatest and most magnificent journey that the brightest of minds couldn’t imagine in a million years! A way for everything to add up and come out perfect! Who else can sort all of this out, but the author of existence, certainly we mere inklings of a shadowy concoction of energy, matter and substance don’t have a fart in the winds chance of coming up with The Solution to all that has, is and will be happening on this planet our home we call earth.
You see I’ve learned that God absolutely exists and God’s purposes and Plans are all that matter not we free willed sometimes foolish, silly or arrogant creations of; His.“Total humility is the beginning of acceptance and understanding” that we are here for a God given reason not our imperfect sometimes self-righteous thinking or vision of what this has to be about living among the dead as we do; for I say to you this isn’t really living not with a price on all of our heads that says nobody gets out alive! We are looking with eyes half shut or in many cases wide shut in which case even though we think they are open they see nothing, not the Truth of God; never really seeing the length and depth of all that is really going on, and is always beyond our grasp; yet it’s as plain and simple as the morning turns to night and after the night a new dawn comes. No degree in rocket science required, only a genuine humble heart on bent knee which will open not only your heart to God but will open up the ultimate world of possibility and endless love! Something must bridge that enormous GAP for us, and that can only be the One who set this all in motion to begin with! Being BORN into this at times so chaotic and even rotten world is I assure you a Blessing, and no matter who it is or what they have or don’t have, being able to exist is our one sure ticket to the Ultimate Destination. Which is to be with God the One who made this all possible and is always waiting first for our recognition of Him to acknowledge we know we are helpless babes in the woods and need Him above all there is in this existence! That He must be our primary focus and then to learn with His unrelenting undivided help and attention; to Trust in Him! If we are making this connection as individuals that I’m speaking about to you placing Him front and center in our lives, then that will ensure us of our lives being worth something and a whole lot more than we can ever come up with or concoct on our own for being here in the first place!
Life is the most beautiful incomparable gift and blessing of absolute LOVE! We are suffering here and some so much more than others;many through NO fault of their own but the world is riddled with sin and evils that effect even the most innocent among us! What’s fair and fun about that you might ask, and I say not much, that at times to me really sucks, that so much pain and suffering is going on and so many dreams and hopes getting dashed or crushed under the enormous weight and burden of sin, imperfection, stupidity, hate and the list goes on as you are well aware I’m sure! But for this to all get sorted out and for any of us to make heads or tails of it all, is a fool’s errand, unless we have God on our side, you hear that; God on our side. He actually is, that is why this whole damned world didn’t get wiped away like so much chaff in the wind long ago, to our concept of time; but really a flickering flame to God which He hasn’t extinguished yet! We are absolutely at His Mercy and He wants us with Him in His Glory! How do we get that you might wonder here; we start by wanting Him so badly that it becomes our life force and breath our very REASON for LIVING, so we can be a part of His heavenly eternal Glorious and totally wonderful kingdom! I see it clear my friend, we are so lucky to be here and each of us will be nothing but dust, these bodies in the end, with our souls damned to oblivion or complete separation from God’s glory, his eternal kingdom; not even being a memory without God setting the record straight and bringing absolute Justice to all things in His good time when it is appropriate for any of us!
Now that was coming from my own heart that God has opened and restored countless times because due to my own errors and shortcomings, He knows I belong to Him though I don’t deserve to in a sense, yet I do; because I decided with my Own Heart that I want to and must if I’m to be worth anything after it’s all said and done and this carcass I occupy is eventually in the dirt where it belongs, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak;” but my soul belongs to Him my Maker, who Gives, who gives all things; to those who love Him back! But how much grander is what comes for us if we stay strong in our faith no matter what, and “keep Jesus Christ front and center in our hearts and minds!”
The star-forming region NGC 3603 – seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image – contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603’s centre.
1 Corinthians 2:9
9 But as Scripture says:
“No eye has seen,
no ear has heard,
and no mind has imagined
the things that God has prepared
for those who love him.”
Love must be a two way street and we can never give a fraction of what God is giving or ultimately offering!
Saint Dismas a scoundrel of a man and bad dude before he met Jesus Christ who was nailed to the cross next to his, he Dismas to the right side of Jesus saw all that transpired that day his final day, when his heart opened up like never before watching this man who said He is the Son of the Father in the heavenly Kingdom saying things like, “Forgive them Father for they know not what they do!”Dismas was so rapt in awe he asked this dying man the Savior to “just remember me when you join your Father in Your kingdom.” He as then in that moment being honest and humble having admitted he deserved every bit of what he was getting being tied to a cross and crucified for all of his crimes against men, as well wasting his life being a scoundrel, but, then surely as Dismas correctly said to Jesus, in essence his meaning being; you deserve none of what they have done to you, you have to be who you say you are, just by how you are forgiving these same people doing this to you, you have shown not even one complaint or modicum of anger or hatred, you are praying for them instead!
“One of the criminals who hung there hurled insults at him: “Aren’t you the Messiah? Save yourself and us!”
But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
—Luke 23:39–43 (NIV)
And so Dismas then asking Jesus in all humility and heart felt compassion not thinking in the slightest that he deserved even this opportunity to ask, the Messiah; “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” Jesus answered him, “I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise” (verses 42-43).
“As Jesus was hanging on the cross, paying our penalty for sin, He made a promise to a dying, repentant thief. By the grace of God and the power of Christ, that promise was kept. The thief’s sins were washed away, and his death that day was his entrance to paradise.” gotquestions.org/today-paradise.html
What does “if God is for us, who can be against us” mean in Romans 8:31?
Romans 8:31 says, “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” The “things” are the dozens of amazing proofs of God’s unfailing love listed in the preceding verses. Romans 8 contains many of the cherished verses that comfort us, such as “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus” (verse 1). And the one that gets us through difficult times: “We know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose” (verse 28). Verse 31 of Romans 8 is a culmination of all those wonderful promises. It reminds us who God is and how He helps us. When we grasp the truth that God is for us, we have nothing to fear.
God is “for” us in the sense that He is on our side; He is working on our behalf and for our good. He has proved His benevolence in that He has adopted us (Romans 8:15), He has given us His Spirit (verses 16–17, 26–27), and He has determined to save us (verses 29–30).
The follow-up question, “who can be against us?” is rhetorical. It’s another way of saying, “There is no one who could possibly be more powerful than God”or “No one can destroy us.” The idea is not that we will never face opposition; it’s simply that our opposition is doomed to failure. They may be against us, but not successfully against us. Since God is on our side, we have nothing to worry about.
Romans 8:31 is an echo of other passages that say the something similar:
• Psalm 118:6 says, “The LORD is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?”
• 2 Kings 6:16: “‘Don’t be afraid,’ the prophet [Elisha] answered. ‘Those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’”
• Psalm 56:9: “My enemies will turn back when I call for help. By this I will know that God is for me.”
• Hebrews 13:6: “So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?’”
• Psalm 27:1: “The LORD is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?”
Sometimes our hearts respond to verses like this with consternation: “I’ll tell you who can be against me! The IRS, my in-laws, terrorists, corrupt politicians—” and the list goes on. Our real-life enemies seem to overshadow the ideas conveyed in Romans 8. Despite spiritual promises, we still have to endure physical, mental, and emotional struggles—so much so that we may wonder if God is truly for us.
The man who penned Romans 8:31 (Paul) faced the same struggles we face and many more. He lists some of his sufferings in 2 Corinthians 11:22–28 as proof that he did not write from a plastic bubble of ethereal peace. However, his intimate relationship with the risen Christ had become his all-consuming passion. He said he considered everything else “garbage” compared to knowing Christ (Philippians 3:7–9). He had learned the secret of contentment, whether he was celebrated or imprisoned, and he stated that secret: “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength” (Philippians 4:13, BSB).
So when Paul writes, “If God is for us, who can be against us,” he is comparing earthly opposition to the eternal power and presence of Almighty God—and he declares the winner. No one can overcome God’s love for us.
Jesus taught the same thing. In Luke 12:4–5, Jesus said, “I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.” His point, as was Paul’s, is that, no matter what may happen to us here on earth, there is a higher reality. There is a bigger war than the one we think we face, and God is the ultimate winner (Ephesians 6:12). If we are on His side, then we will win, too. (Revelation 21:7–8, 27).” gotquestions.org/if-God-is-for-us-who-can-be-against-us
I Lawrence say with absolute confidence God is with us right now and never leaves our sides but we do have crosses to carry while here which is absolutely worth it! He Jesus Christ overcame all of this conflict and suffering and did it out of “Pure Absolute Love” and I tell you as I look around this world, me an imperfect nobody, I see so much I wouldn’t want to be any part of, yet I’m so happy to be dealing with the blood, sweat and tears of it all; because I have a shot through Jesus Christ of making sure that my life a gift from God was and is all worth it because He overcame all obstacles to Paradise; our path is to follow Him our Lord Savior and Redeemer. Amen.
I knowing through and by my own heart with Him Jesus Christ that we are going to make it there to the Promised Land, Hallelujah!
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August 10, 2022
The following excerpt points out the humility, dedication and sacrifice to our Lord Jesus Christ by Saint Lawrence. The link for the entire article is provided.
St. Lawrence, under the command of the pope, began to give all of the Church’s goods to the poor. While he was doing this task, a blind man named Crescentius asked him to heal his blindness by laying hands on him. St. Lawrence made the Sign of the Cross over him, and his vision was restored. Lawrence was soon arrested and in prison still healed many blind men. The guard, named Hippolytus, was so impressed by the Faith that he accepted it and also died as a martyr.
On August 10, 258, Lawrence was told to bring along the treasure entrusted by the pope to his execution. After being given two days’ time to collect the goods, St. Lawrence arrived with a multitude of Rome’s crippled, blind, and sick. St. Lawrence announced to the judge: “Here are the treasures of the Church!” Before he was arrested, though, he had dispersed the material wealth of the Church including many documents, which saved years of early Church history.
He was tortured, scourged, and scorched with glowing plates. In the midst of it, he prayed: “Lord Jesus Christ, God from God, have mercy on Your servant!” A solider named Romanus exclaimed: “I see before you an incomparably beautiful youth. Hasten and baptize me.” Romanus had observed during this torture how an angel dried the wounds of Lawrence with a linen cloth.
As he was taken back to the judge he said, “My God I honor and Him alone I serve. Therefore I do not fear your torments; this night shall become as brightest day and as light without any darkness.”
St. Lawrence was grilled to death on August 10, 258. As he died, he prayed for the conversion of Rome so that from it the Faith of Christ would spread. Following his death, idolatry began to decline throughout Rome. He also said, “Now you may turn me over, my body is roasted enough on this side.” Then he said, “At last I am finished; you may now take from me and eat.” He turned to God and exclaimed: “I thank You, O Lord, that I am permitted to enter Your portals.” His body was buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli. The gridiron that is believed to have been his deathbed is in San Lorenzo in Lucina.
Conclusion
Besides fasting and abstaining on August 9th, and hearing Holy Mass on August 10th, we should reflect on our own charity for the poor at this time. St. Lawrence gave his life for Christ, preached, brought about conversions, and cared for the spiritual and physical demands of the poor. We should pray often for the poor when we see them. And at the same time, we should find concrete ways the help alleviate their physical suffering. Since giving outright money to the homeless is not always the best answer, finding Catholic homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and outreach programs grounded in authentic Catholicism is the best we can be help them. See how you can impact both the physical and spiritual lives of the poor in your own area in honor of St. Lawrence who remarked, in reference to the sick and poor, before his death: “Here are the treasures of the Church!”
St. Lawrence, ora pro nobis!
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“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”
Another blogger wrote a very nice piece about how Salvation is by faith not fearwhich was in reference to the COVID-19 scare sweeping the globe. This article went on to explain how past catastrophes have come and gone and each time there were those that while all the turmoil or uncertainty was in play people showed up at church that hadn’t in a long while or maybe never, then later when the danger was gone they slipped right back into their usual sinful nature. It spoke about how people seek comfort and others to quell their fear and consternation. I want to allow you to read a comment I made to another blog last night which touched on this same concern and how I was seeing too much lip service as usual and the same old routine of almost pretend we care. More like when there was a snowstorm when we were kids and we got to stay home, so then we were on the phone with our friends and having a bit of fun instead of doing our school work at home like we should. Today this article mentioned the attack of America on 9/11/2001 just as I had mentioned it last night in this following comment, which I refer to today’s article. “I left a comment on a NYC resident’s blog where it was a consoling sort of love-in as I saw it and I know how people are just like this blog you presented here says! And quite interesting how it specifically referred to the attack on America on 9/11/2001 by outright evil satanic Jihadists!”
My comment to the blog last night follows:
You sound like you’re getting on the page I’ve been ranting about for a while! Perhaps you and millions of others are ready to re-calibrate and focus on the fact that the human race has gotten too big for its britches as the old saying goes and feel too high and mighty or are living day to day like machines that don’t think so good, even though they are under the deluded false impression that they have the world by the, excuse the expression, by the balls! I’ve been saying this in many of my blogs too, how people are way too self-serving and arrogant and they went beyond ignoring God, but they instead decided to play God, be their own world unto themselves and figure they can do as they damn well please, and butt out everybody, even God! Don’t anyone take me wrong here, I can see why people got this way in our modern materialistic high tech world of convenience, being lulled into an almost zombie like pace and style of living; but we’ve had serious wake up calls before (9/11) and people don’t ever seem to learn or get their shit wired and make up their minds that they better live on the straight and narrow from now on.
They just slip back into their old habits as soon as the dust settles and the dark cloud passes us by! I’m sorry to say, but I think it’s going to take a lot more than a COVID-19 scare to shake the “bejesus” out of enough people to come clean and fess up! Look at our National Seat of Power with people like, Schumer, Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler, Feinstein, Maxine the Crazy Machine and so many others that are so corrupted and dirty there is no going back now, they are going to die wicked and greedy pigs! Sorry, I hate to be morbid under such sad conditions but I may cool off and get back to seeing the light shining through, not the clouds, but though “human consciences” hopefully soon and have wonderful things to report to anyone who will listen.
I do think there are still so many people that want to do the right thing and make a good world that is in tune with what Jesus told us to do when he was here. But, we have way too many bad people running things and that has to stop I think before enough substantive change can occur! Sorry, people are ruining this world, so we better pray harder than ever to be delivered from this madness, especially for the sake of all the innocent kids and babies! I hope it is going to change for the better, I do!
God Bless!
I want to add some additional thoughts about this fear factor and related ideas.
Now to this point about fear! I believe everyone should have a healthy dose of fear as we are all fallen and our souls are a glimmer away from eternal damnation if not for the Lamb of God who took away sin on the cross at Calvary, for those who will abide in Him! But, I think some people get the idea it’s not hard at all Jesus did us all a favor and took care of all the dirty details of our transgressing nature, “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak,” and our souls that have at least original sin and I dare say most of us are nothing but dirty rags, without Jesus and His salvation, we’re not even worthy to be near Holy God Almighty let alone look at Him! No as in Holy Scripture it tells us clearly:
“Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”Philippians 2:12
Not fearing the things of this world is fine but fear of God is wise as it humbles us to make certain we know we aren’t worthy in the slightest and we are not home free until we are past the pearly gates so there is no slacking or doing as we damn well please then just when it’s time to face death we suddenly can say hey I’m good I like Jesus and always did!
“As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one.”Romans 3:10
“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” 1 John 1:8
I can safely say I believe that nobody on this earth does enough to hold themselves up as a prize to God, only Jesus could claim victory over all things seen and unseen. Are we worthy of praise for some of the things we have done for others or in the name of Jesus, surely some of us can rest assured of that, but we can also be certain that we carry sin and guilt that will not go away and we will not be free of until we are in heaven with God the Father through and by the forgiveness of our transgressions only by Jesus Christ Himself, and that is why we need to be concerned to a great degree if we don’t call it outright fear, we are all in jeopardy and are in a most tumultuous world these days full of vanity and sin in so many basic things we participate in which serve the beast or the prince of this world and not our heavenly Father. Can we judge ourselves, of course not, we are mere humans that die, but the one who can is who we should fear because we don’t know whether we are truly worthy until He the Lord our God tells us so!
“I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.” Jeremiah 17:10
What we want to hear from our Lord when we stand before him is simply this: “Well done, good and faithful servant!” Matthew 25:23.
Now when people try to fool God they lose. If this COVID-19 is a wake-up call I feel it is potentially a last chance, then again maybe not, but it very well could be and that is how the world should look at it as a last opportunity to come clean, because He sees how evil this world has become and the good is more and more suppressed each year! Abortions by the millions each year alone is a mockery and abomination that transgresses God horribly, so we are in a deep hole full of manure and as my dad used to tell me as a kid when I got wise-ass or a chip on my shoulder; “don’t try to bullshit me.” He would go on to say, “if you did wrong you best admit it and take the consequences, so you can learn from it and not do it again.” My dad meant business and that taught me and tells me now how God is fed up with us here on earth and things better start going in the right direction with so many leaders and peoples, because if not all hell will break loose, because God may allow His wrath to pour out by perhaps allowing evil to prevail sooner rather than later, via-a-vis the antichrist, and that is Scriptural obviously, but still much can be avoided if people will stop and turn to HIM so that many more souls will be saved! Then on bent knee in humble supplication ask for His mercy and help; to only do His will.
I see in this world today how so many opportunities have been given to us to allow the human race to come together with forthrightness and honorable truth that was given to us from God, but all they do is attack one another, even if it is only mind or cyber space attacking it’s all wrong!
Keep praying and changing for the better!
Lawrence Morra
Post Script 3/18/2020
Steady and true is our course! If our focus is truly upon the Lord, then our destination is a certainty that nothing can change! One day at a time seeking His will we move closer to Him. “For the Spirit that God has given us does not make us timid; instead, his Spirit fills us with power, love, and self-control.” 2 Timothy 1:7. Thank you brothers and sisters in Christ, for your faithful efforts in serving our Lord! 🙏
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“your salvation waits just as I know mine does, if we remain vigilant and faithful in Him”
Appearances alone will not tell the true story, as we can see by photographs of these two men who were born 40 years apart but more importantly there was a chasm of difference that was earth shattering between their souls! Billy Graham led a life serving Jesus Christ doing so much good for other human souls leading multitudes of people to Christ the Savior while Joseph Stalin with his brutal rule butchered and put many human beings to death; but he also got many others to do his bidding so he in turn led many souls to perdition and hell.
In my reaching out to a fellow Christian who had noticed a striking decline in the number of parishioners attending her local parish church apparently brought on by what seemed to be some internal conflict of the local church hierarchy, causing the church to lose its former inspirational appeal so she was greatly troubled. But more shocking yet was the fact that at the same time came the news of the startling revelation regarding the shake-up around author and former pastor Joshua Harris’ retreat away from the teachings of Christ; and that Harris announced his total departure from Christianity. So, then she and her family began a quest to find a new church to attend weekly which I commended her on for not losing hope or faith and being vigilant to seek God’s guidance; all of which I tried to sum up in the following outlook I share here for anyone who might feel they are in a similar situation. As you read on here please bear in mind the contrast of these two men; one who led people to the path of righteousness, love and freedom; the other to wickedness, hate, and enslavement! These polar opposite men!
This was indeed some sad news to hear about, though not unlike the turmoil throughout the world which is so prevalent, and I believe we now live in the unprecedented time that Scripture spoke to regarding the time period before the final conflict and Second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. For many years I’ve felt like I don’t belong and in fact the system as well as many people around me seemed to be much less connected or interested in each other as community and more apathetic! The lack of compassion and indifference is appalling these days with so many giving lip service to one thing or another but inside not caring at all about their neighbor; this is so different than how it was when I grew up which isn’t ancient history! Here is something Billy Graham had said that I believe speaks volumes about this current time and he referred to a particular scripture that came to my mind immediately upon reading your Blog Post; which is Isaiah 5:20.
“Many of our news magazines carry stories of immorality. Theologians and pastors are quoted as condoning sexual immorality under certain circumstances. The Bible says through Isaiah the prophet:
“Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).
“Humanity has always been dexterous at confusing evil with good. That was Adam and Eve’s problem, and it is our problem today. If evil were not made to appear good, there would be no such thing as temptation. It is in their close similarity that the danger lies.
Modern social righteousness often differs from the righteousness of the Bible. Someone has said: “A wrong deed is right if the majority of people declare it not to be wrong.” By this principle we can see our standards shifting from year to year according to the popular vote! Divorce was once frowned upon by society, and laws against fornication and adultery were strictly enforced. But now divorce is accepted by society, and fornication is glorified in our literature and films.
The Bible says: “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil.” God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin, and the Bible says God is going to judge it.
Honesty was once the hallmark of character. But it has been set aside with an “It’s all right if you don’t get caught” philosophy. Only when we are in court are we required to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
I hope you are helped by my thinking about this and looking into this source of wisdom and insight that I came upon which quotes the late Mr. Graham. I do know and have faith that our Lord is fully aware of your difficulties and you are on the right path, so keep trusting in Him, your salvation waits just as I know mine does, if we remain vigilant and faithful in Him alone and not to be fooled by the ways of this world which is falling away!
I’m repeating this previously written blog posting from back on June 28th 2020 because what I was seeing and feeling back then has only become more pronounced and the potentiality for what I could see possibly coming upon the earth has increased exponentially and mankind surely deserves such suffering for rejecting God in so many ways!
I added this following text here at the beginning which is actually the end of this article and my hope is that multitudes are waking-up fast to be as humble and loving of God Almighty by truly seeking the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ!
My Dad I must say again, was reminding us that, “we need a routine and discipline without them we are going to surely run into more troubles than we should.”How else can one stay on the straight and narrow when we live in a chaotic upside down mess? A world of confusions and temptations abounding, so many conflicting humans, and especially now being manipulated by powerful evil people, and; this all from Satan. We don’t get away with, “well that’s above my pay grade,” like the people I worked with that knew like I, that this boss was evil, and, that the crooked system was wrong to enable such people to have the upper-hand, but, they just went along to get along! Like Hannah Arendt states in her writings about evil, “And so, the vast majority of evil done on Earth traces back to minds and wills that have been abandoned to fear and laid on the Altar of Obedience.” Or the prophetic words by Edmund Burke “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing,”Corruption begets more corruption. At least in our personal affairs of duty, responsibility and obligation we can strive to be disciplined and as accurate as possible, asking Jesus through the Holy Spirit to help us; please. Thank you for this opportunity God, and, all of you out there. Amen.
Modernism, Paganism and Freemasonry are within the very sanctuary of the Church, and Communism in the world at large.
That train of thought was the beginning of a blog commentary back and forth with a very devout Catholic that inspired me to open up my heart and soul today regarding things I prayed on last night and then again in the early morning upon waking too; when I realized I needed to start composing these thoughts and feelings from my own personal hard-fought experience to help others and this woman did give me the additional catalyst and insight via the Holy Spirit to say it right! As I responded to words that caught my eyes more toward the end of her long comment, these stood out to me from the page before I even looked at the starting point of the text. They basically said we are in a time when parents have to struggle incessantly worrying over the effects this modern technological world which is a hedonist, atheistic world of anti-Christian, materialistic secularism, and as we can see lately Marxist Communism rising to capture the multitudes.
Here is what I explained to her and then again responding to her commentary all of what I said amazingly was inspired because after I addressed her latter part of her message I returned to the blog and what she said before seeing my response which took some time to compose, but, you can see by this sample here of a paragraph I wrote to her was on cue 100% synchronized and could only be the Holy Spirit at work. “Now we have people like author Rowling that promote sorcery and the occult like it’s a fun thing in Harry Potter, manipulating young minds and hearts to seek fanciful worlds of magic and mysticism over seeking to know God and their actual purpose for existing.” As you read I’ll hopefully explain well enough for you to understand my total sense of urgency and need for any of you who love Jesus Christ and believe or even if you have had a wishy-washy faith, and, know of others who don’t believe, you need to focus on the utter importance that this is urgent, this plea I make to others to seek God now!
I had written recently about this period we’re in now how it isn’t just a most unprecedented of times but the “most” unprecedented that will ever come to this weary world because, there is no way the confrontation coming will be quelled without utter ruin, the likes of which this planet and all of humanity has never witnessed! Even I believe far beyond the cataclysmic end by the flood and a new beginning of Noah’s time; because this is a ruin from the inside out, and from without, together in order for diabolical evil to gain complete control, and, not like the sweeping flood from a deluge of rain water from above! I remember in a movie this character says “free your mind and your ass will follow,” and how that is what the Devil is working to prevent, because, he and the many evil minions some of which are in our high government positions see that enslaving the minds, then the asses will follow like sheep!
I just heard that a city council meeting may have started out with a prayer to Allah and Satan, which I certainly will investigate, but, I bring it up not because I already know that is quite possibly true, but because of what you mentioned already in your writing on the blog along with my own insights of how the Free Masons and Illuminati along with the Luciferians, and all manner of evil occult practices are thoroughly permeated into the fabric of our high-tech digital, AI networked global society, that has turned its back on Jesus Christ and thusly God the Father; with a rebellion I feel is not unlike the beginning of all rebellion, when Lucifer with the fallen angels rebuked and transgressed God.
I see the striking clash of this present time mind-set so strongly contrasts the period when C.S. Lewis was writing for the sake of children in some of his writings, to inspire Christianity and the love of Christ in their hearts, after having lost his faith when his mother died, later regaining it miraculously and so beautifully. Now we have people like Rowling that promote sorcery and the occult like it’s a fun thing in her Harry Potter series manipulating young minds and hearts to seek fanciful worlds of magic and mysticism over seeking to know God and their actual purpose for existing. The world has played with fire for too long and now the magnitude of this folly or vanityis so massive that there will never be another time so ripe, for not just the communists Marxist devils of the world, but, no better a moment for the Devil himself to seize this opportunity to steal most if not all of humanity he figures from God, as his one final ultimate act of contempt and hatred of God Himself!
In my mind there is no doubt we are in WWIII and this is the final battle, but, not just as you are well aware of war by attrition, to as in the past, slug it out until the good guys prevail, and then rebuild, only this is to have that one huge spiritual battle of Armageddon the clash between Heaven and Hell when all the forces both material and spiritual will be unleashed like never before and it is coming sooner I’m sure, barring any act of God Himself to postpone this inevitable demise. There is no way all the powers and principalities are going to sort this earthly man-made mess out to some comfortable good compromise or peace. Its one big poker-game and the stakes are never going to be higher; winner takes all!
I prefer to think you’re the one in the greater state of grace being truly inspired, but, I’m a hit or miss sort who wants to do better for God and do at times and then I allow the bad that has happened, to gain my attention and distort my feelings or clarity. I mostly let anger get a grip and my blood boils, but, never to actually strike out at all, just only hurting myself with stress and worry which the Devil loves any of us to do. It’s best to look at it like my father always told me, “they can do anything to this body and even destroy it, but my soul belongs to God!” That sums it up as to being strong in ones faith not letting anything come between us and God through our faith in Jesus Christ! We just need to do the work and commit daily, religiously and even a regimental practice keeping our asses in alignment with His will.
What I admit there is I’m a very passionate and compassionate man, but, by the hand of the dirty crooked world I was damaged and because of that have some residual anxiety, which we all actually have honestly speaking if you’re a human being with a real conscience and feelings in these insane times, how could we not be stressed, sad and worried with all of what is happening in the world and in our own backyards, it will surely take away your ease or true peace of mind. So, besides having to survive day to day with the work and toil of the living, we now are faced with this added stress factor which is real and people can choose to ignore it or numb it, and the final option which I utilize is turn it over to the Lord with genuine humility allowing Him to manage it or even heal it giving inner strength to any who follow Him, to carry their own cross, and, this is indeed part of doing that which is mandatoryin today’sHelter-Skelter Mad-cap World!
It will never overpower my faith and love for Jesus, I’ve been tested in fire, as one good man and friend put it to me a few years ago in a deep conversation, how it really is, that not many people actually truly comprehend and know this about me. I should be dead several times over, as I have fought a battle within society where I was set-up and then antagonized or provoked to elicit anger, so that I would mess up and then give the fascists the upper hand to clobber me and tear me to shreds, but, I outwitted these devils by God’s Holy Spirit touching and giving me strength! For the most part people don’t give a damn when a person like me takes on the evil system alone, and that is OK with me, I used to care what people think about me or want them to like me, but, that is so much vanity and is foolish to me now, I only need Jesus Christ, I have no one else anyway really, none of us do, because, we all face our own death with only ourselves in that moment of leaving this life, I know that, and this world means nothing to me. I think I can safely say that I know what martyrdom tastes like up close and personal, its hard, but, Jesus is there to help.
I was forcefully attacked both spiritually and physically on North American Martyr Day after having sprinkled Holy Water on the interior of a building I worked in where a tyrant and evil minion of Satan’s ruled with impunity within a government operation, and, I was told to do that by a man who once studied in the seminary to be a priest and didn’t go through with being ordained. Obviously, his not doing this task himself is very telling, and, I happened along to have the honors and sprinkled plenty of Holy Water throughout praying as I went, especially on the big head honcho’s office! The man I was up against within the government circles was so bad that many used to call him the Devil and he was proud of that title and told me so when I was first employed there, saying to me, “there are many who call me the Devil himself!” Mind you this is a person in a government agency with a big responsibility to the public and all of the personnel that worked in that location; and this blatant arrogant vile statement was beyond the “Emperor having no cloths,” but, was telling me clearly this man was either demonically influenced with a network of the same within this overall organization to be so flippant and brash, or he was actually possessed! He was even witnessed as saying he blames God for everything. Me, the happy go lucky nice big brother to anyone was put in this predicament for a good reason, just like my Dad always said, there is a reason for everything! My priest friend now, knows all of these things and not even family know the half of it, nor have time for it. Some people don’t care out of selfishness and being somewhat weak, not having a strong enough faith that they practice. I’m telling anyone who reads this I do it only for one reason, because, we are in the End Time and you better get your ass in gear to prepare your own souls for judgment; I know this is part of my duty to say this, and, I do hope in my heart I’m helping someone out there.
I had a few ladies lately speak about Catholics and how they being in other churches see this all as too much pomp or tradition and ritual! I say this today to anyone that will listen. Don’t you see how conflicted and sick humans are and how much sin they possess? Do you really think you can skate though life and be devoid of making huge mistakes in your faith for Jesus? I see the regimented doctrinal practice of faith as an only tool that keeps people on the straight and narrow, because, what did Jesus say! “Enter the narrow gate, for the gate is wide and the road is spacious which leads to destruction, and many are those who are going in it.” Matthew 7:13
People think they can have their cake and eat it too, because, they say I’m a Christian and I don’t hurt anyone. I love Jesus! So, that will do it for many; they so think. If it were that easy why is all of this confusion and mayhem going on all around us and even in our own families? Or people that call themselves Christians are fighting other Christians and the oldest and strongest of the original Christian Church the Roman Catholic Church is infiltrated with evil and bad people among many good ones; the diabolical conflict within and without! I would never be so stupid as to throw the baby out with the bath water. And, if this strongest pillar of the Church the Church Jesus told Peter to build and be the head of, the first Pope in essence, has been so corrupted to ruin it you don’t think many smaller denominations are being infiltrated by evil spirits or weren’t when they broke away from the original Church in the big Reformation? The Devil is working on all levels and was since the beginning with all peoples, to corrupt and manipulate to his own nefarious designs.
All one need do is look at the Jim Jones story and how the Church he established from Reformation-Fake Christians, his People’s Temple, which this cult led by Reverend Jim Jones, “Jonestown Massacre,” How 909 people followed a cult leader to Guyana, ‘drank the Kool-Aid!” (history.com) Some people put themselves up on a huge pedestal of knowing so much and many self-proclaimed expert authors are making plenty of money selling their own brand of Christianity, who are apparently geniuses knowing so much, that God wants them to set us all straight, but, 909 people and souls died as a direct result of the Reformation or one of these splinter cult groups of which there are too many to count, having caused much loss of life and souls. So, because all of this mayhem and corruption abounds everywhere we look, now seeing our earthly lives are in a quagmire of deception, destruction and ruinous sin. And, the road to destruction is the road we are on and in! We are living in SIN and no hope of escaping it by our own plans or conceptualizations, Jesus didn’t say I died for you, so have your sins and then I will fix the books! NO WAY, we better “shape up or ship out,” like my Mom said! “Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.”Philippians 2:12, that’s no silly thing; we should fear the possible loss we face now, not down the road when dying or when I feel like it! On the other-side of this life is eternity; and, can any of us say with certainty that we are home free? NO WAY! And, Satan is looking to trip up as many as he can before they die! Look at these minions in the streets and all the higher notable people that live in horrendous sin and lust for power like George Soros, Hillary or Obama and Xi JinPing with his Chinese Communist Party, along with so many others that the list is countless! I didn’t suffer; this is nothing, because we all deserve hell! As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.” Romans 3:10
Many churches and its followers think a modern designer approach is good enough or they know Scripture and stand by it. Then, many of these same people live lives of selfishness or lack true humility, thinking they know what they are doing! Wake up; every one that wants to make it to heaven, this world is passing away and your opportunity to make it there is disappearing before your very eyes; don’t you get that? And, you’re not going to cut it if you are halfhearted and not in all the way and willing to carry your cross every day without fail fighting this sinful world that wants to devour your time, energy and soul!This is the world of vanities and sin where the prince of darkness has his way. It’s not a fluff and puffed up affair of I do a bit and I live a bit! No, it is all in, and, do or die, especially now there is no excuse, you get that? The proverbial writing isn’t just on the wall it’s everywhere and in your face! Look at all those fires in Australia the likes of which have never been seen before on earth in Modern Times destroying billions of animals along with their habitat which were all arson, intentionally set fires to increase havoc and suffering on earth, fear factor and misery, by the evil people like the Jihadists or minions of Xi JinPing and Soros!
Then, here in the US because of one Black man Floyd all this carnage and death occurred around this land and you think that was just erupting because of Floyd? It was planned by the same evil people and the Devil; just like the Plandemic the Wuhan Corona Virus or COVID-19. On a microcosm level personally, I’ve gotten to relate to some people online very personably and because I have a heart and care they took me for money, in one case even playing the role of a devout Catholic and being a shyster, conning people to pity and extend a helping hand with cash. Another was a, Southern Born Again Denominational Church member. I did help, with quite a lot, that I know most if not all of you would not have done, but, I got fooled and when I realized I was taken, it angered me, but, then I said let that person find their way, hopefully that person wakes up soon. It’s like that with Jesus we can pretend and talk the talk, but, what are we really after? This person wanted money to do whatever and get it easy. NO SHORT CUTS OR MALARKEY WILL DO WITH GOD!
To this other fine blogger with an exemplary article I had already typed some text in the blog reply window and was also writing or composing my text in other text pages to transfer. I do this occasionally being in a hurry then not checking over and over to make sure it’s correct, especially when using multiple sources, and of course in my own blog I can edit and fix them; but, on someone else’s obviously I can’t. See, here by example, regimentation and stronger checks and balances is needed in our faith too! Being careless or flimsy and in a big hurry can throw us off our balance or maintaining the bench mark we need to maintain for the highest standard or in other words the strongest faith we can muster. My Dad I must say again, was reminding us that, “we need a routine and discipline without them we are going to surely run into more troubles than we should.”How else can one stay on the straight and narrow when we live in a chaotic upside down mess? A world of confusions and temptations abounding, so many conflicting humans, and especially now being manipulated by powerful evil people, and; this all from Satan. We don’t get away with, “well that’s above my pay grade,” like the people I worked with that knew like I, that this boss was evil, and, that the crooked system was wrong to enable such people to have the upper-hand, but, they just went along to get along! Like Hannah Arendt states in her writings about evil, “And so, the vast majority of evil done on Earth traces back to minds and wills that have been abandoned to fear and laid on the Altar of Obedience.” Or the prophetic words by Edmund Burke “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing,”Corruption begets more corruption. At least in our personal affairs of duty, responsibility and obligation we can strive to be disciplined and as accurate as possible, asking Jesus through the Holy Spirit to help us; please. Thank you for this opportunity God, and, all of you out there. Amen.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew10: 37-42
“Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous will receive a righteous man’s reward.
And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because he is a disciple – amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”
I hope all of you out there can have the contrite, humble heart that is needed in order to allow God Almighty, by His Holy Spirit to take charge of your immortal soul and lead you to paths of righteousness, so that you will enter by the narrow gate into His eternal kingdom. Amen.
Due to a follower’s like of this post today I decided to go back to this blog posting of mine and add a bit of additional information as an amendment to the original, which pertains to the comments as well as the text body; so please also read the comments.
What follows is my response to a blog today regarding another apparent misdirection of the faithful by the active Pope Francis. I had to get into a more comprehensive explanation and chronicling of my own experiences that have led me to have my current perspective and belief that comprehensive efforts on many fronts including the Vatican are actively working to discredit the faith and renounce God’s word that Jesus Christ is “the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
It appears from Holy Scripture what Francis is saying flies in the face of what the Lord Himself has commanded us to do.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away, and look, new things have come. Everything is from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed the message of reconciliation to us. Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, certain that God is appealing through us. We plead on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God.” He made the One who did not know sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.”
Matthew 28:19-20 “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
I have a few things to add here! First I apologize for this extremely long comment but so many people around the globe need to get real. We are living in a most unprecedented time like no other in history when the digital age and information overload is non-stop, which is good and bad! The good side is that spreading the word of God and the Good news of the Salvation though Jesus Christ has never been so facilitated! But, the double-edged sword is at work in this, because Satan is using many of the advantages of high speed digital communication to confuse, misinform and outright deceive in earnest as the father of lies having these modern tools at his disposal! We now see a Pope that is false and I dear say he appears to be supporting the beast which I’ve become aware of over the last several years like many of you! My mother based on her long life experience and being a parishioner of the RCC had been saying for the last dozen years that Jesus is in a sense being crucified again by an out of control secular world and culture of death. Obviously materialism and vain exploits riddle the earthly societies tremendously while so many turn away from seeking God and prefer pleasure, lust and all manner of instant gratification. This leads to all manner of perversions and abuse which we read about or see on TV or the net news daily. Is it any wonder hatreds and violence plague our man-made system. This is to me a spiritual warfare like no other that has increased exponentially over the last 30 to 40 years and especially since 9/11/2001 which to me was a definite demarcation line or event to clearly show that two opposing ideologies or beliefs that have been colliding for well over several hundreds of years are now being set-up for a major showdown which is of course The Battle between Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior and the antichrist.
On Christmas 2018 I was interacting that whole week with connections of mine on a social media platform sharing happiness and prayers for peace and salvation when a rabble-rouse agent or troll kept appearing on this one particular post and he increased his insults at our belief in Jesus and indeed upon Jesus with many carefully orchestrated rants that seemed to both promote atheism and then Nation of Islam which ultimately appeared to be the mindset of this derelict hateful minion! I am a passionate person and yes I can become a bit angry when wicked people offend or attack those I love! I tried for the days leading up to Christmas to be intellectual each time this individual kept appearing not letting well enough alone and allowing those of us of faith to have a peaceful joyous Christmas to share and celebrate the birth of our Savior! I will not just pass it off I thought; so I took it as a “direct attack” by evil, which I never experienced on Christmas by anyone my entire life until then! I know from this event and so many others that were painful challenges in my personal life over the last several years or more that this is pure evil at work in the world and it seeks out anyone of faith to attack viciously with its sole purpose to dishearten or trouble the faithful while completely confusing the weak and lost; it is pure hatred I witnessed not only of Jesus but of all His faithful. This Pope speaks in contradictions and I never thought that I would say such a thing having been brought up a Catholic and knowing in my heart I truly love Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior! But, I won’t go into all of my reasons except one is that I reached out to this Pope at the Vatican during one of my more if not most troubled periods in my entire life where I was up against powers and principalities; or very corrupted political slaves of the Devil in my locale and I got “Zero Response” back from the Pope when at least some acknowledgement regarding the matter which I explained in great detail in a letter of several pages; would have been appropriate. Now I realize I should have sent it to Benedict XVI instead, but I was duped like so many to believe we had a new Pope Francis. Now in light of the most recent betrayals of the Church and its faithful this Pope has sealed his fate in my view as being derelict in the least or possibly diabolical at worst.
Before I show you what I said to that attacker of our Lord on Christmas Day 2018 I ask that you focus on this Scripture which says it all in my heart and mind as to why I felt it important to share this long explanation.
“Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.” Isaiah 45:22-23
“Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11
Victoria, for a couple of days leading up to Christmas and right on Christmas this phony and deceptive guy who was commenting on a post about the two Scandinavian young ladies beheaded kept twisting truth like the Devil to make Jesus nothing more than some guy like Muhammad. His denouncing Jesus and Christianity therefore on Christmas set me off onto my mission, as he would not stop it no matter how many important things I tried to explain to him. He was a clever deceiver. He did however stop after this piece I wrote to him on the post!
Tony Aツaz Your own words; “live the way you want and not dictate as you are just a human and not a messenger of GOD, like Jesus and Muhammad were.” “Muslim hoax I am wondering how you equate a “hoax” with facts of an Islamic Empire.” Wonder NO MORE, Pay Attention and learn of your blaspheming error! You have a huge inaccuracy that needs to be corrected! Saying that Jesus is another prophet like Muhammad is blasphemous. First Jesus was not a mere prophet but was God Himself and therefore the Redeemer and Savior of Mankind as he said. Muhammad was only a supposed prophet and there is irrefutable evidence in the historical text of the time he lived that points to his being an outright liar and heretic as well as a criminal and child molester along with his being a polygamist! The following statements are highly accurate and actually proven.
“In 632, only months before he died, Muhammad apparently met for the first time with a Christian community as such. An official delegation of Christians, probably led by a bishop, came to Mecca from Najran in Yemen. After engaging the Christians in discussion, the Prophet is said to have realized that Christian teachings are indeed incompatible with Islam, after which the revelation followed that only Islam is acceptable to God as a religion. The Quran also says very specifically that those who refer to Jesus as God are blasphemers, and that Christians saying that Christ is the son of God is an imitation of Jews, who earlier had said that Ezra is the son of God. According to the Quran Jesus was only a servant; Jesus the son of Mary was no more than an apostle of God. Quranic verses dealing with Jesus’ death have been interpreted differently by commentators, but generally they have been taken to mean that Jesus did not die by crucifixion. For Christians the Quran has thus served as a denial of Jesus’ incarnation and death on the cross and of the reality of the Trinity.” (Oxford University Press)
These two points alone put Islam and the Muslims completely at odds with Jesus Christ and all Christians and are the enemies of such! Muhammad himself began this conflict and was the spoiler and Heretic directly attacking God’s plan as foretold by all the previous prophets going all the way back to Abraham. Things have been in conflict because of Muhammad ever since and are getting worse, this will not resolve until Islam is Chastised or obliterated as a fake religion started by a false prophet and therefore heretic! In Summary Muslims are in complete denial of what Jesus Christ said and who He was which makes them Anti-Christ and supportive of the Devil and all that is unholy. Basically Muhammad started this Blasphemy back in 632 AD and outright declared War on Christendom! Islam you yourself stated is an EMPIRE which puts it in the category of being a Nation not a Religion! It is not a religion that is backed up with solid historical evidence and prophecy over time by many prophets other than what Muhammad said; he made it all up, the heretic! Islam seeks to conquer and must be stopped! And it will be! God’s avenging angels are going to obliterate Islam and any of its followers, they are minions of Satan!
After this experience on Christmas day 2018 the likes of which I had never experienced any such blatant antichrist in your face attack, during a most important religious observance activity for Christians, tells me that we are in the end times, as Satan is working through all means available at a fever pitch to attack Christianity and it’s faithful; because the time is drawing near for God to return! Of course I could be off by many years but this is my hunch as there are so many signs and I was attacked by evil several years ago to stop me from being a witness and faithful one for Jesus. A woman of a consecrated Catholic order told me back then that there was a reason I was suffering for Jesus and it would become apparent at some point in the future why I was being prepared! Now I see in retrospect that God did want me to do something for Him and it could be just to be doing as I am or maybe something more; like a priest told me recently, “wait and see!”
God Bless You. Amen.
Lawrence Morra III
“He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him” (John 5:23, 24)
Because we who accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior believe in the blessed trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and that the Father and Son are one; when we glorify Jesus we are glorifying the Father. Therefore, the eternal glorification of the Father is through the Son Jesus Christ. If any people will not willingly give praise and glory to God in this life, they will do it against their own will throughout eternity. It’s made clear through God’s word to all who seek Truth, Hope and Salvation from a sinful world that in many instances is barely even a distorted reflection of God’s Glory, we must do our best to not be deceived making sure to discern God’s will from that of the worldly beast or even ourselves.
Thanks be to God. Amen.
Note: Upon my actual completion of this Blog in the very early morning hours today a comment showed up in my email from the author of that parallel blog which I’ve included with my reply below in the comment section in-case you’re interested. Thank you.
Further clarification needed here for lack of thorough communication on this one point! I realize Jackie commenting in the original post said more than I agreed to. I was agreeing that first Francis is not a pope; I know he is a fraud pope just like America now has a fraud President Biden, which doesn’t make all previous presidents frauds. The point of God being the Father who is in heaven is absolute, and no pope or anyone in the universe stands in for the Father; only Jesus Christ was the physical and spiritual presence of God the Father on earth with us, the Holy Trinity. This only occurred when Jesus was born a human being and became our Savior; meanwhile He is in heaven seated with the Father giving us the only direct presence of the Father which we can have now that is through Jesus Christ, which then allows the Comforter or Holy Spirit of God the Father to teach and guide us as we seek to serve the Father, doing His will alone.
John 14: 25-27 “All this I have spoken to you while I am still with you. 26But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you. 27Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.”
Amendment on 3/15/2022
In addition to the comment just mentioned that you may want to read I now ask that you consider these newest additional thoughts and historical information I wrote today to hopefully further convey to you how we must be very careful what we are believing and following due to the attacks upon the Church from it’s infancy and on throughout the millennia, all of which is meant to distort, disrupt and severely damage it; in order to confuse, scatter, isolate and otherwise divert God’s children away from His Church; placing them in severe jeopardy of being deceived as we now see happening in the Church! And how subsequently many Christians are falling away as prophesied would happen in Latter Days with a Great Apostasy; secularism, atheism and pagan belief with even completely distorted and perverted Christianity is rampant now. Thank you for your patience and understanding but most important for trying your best to understand God’s will through our Savior Jesus Christ. Amen.
The rapid spreading of teachings could lead to different interpretations and practices of the faith right from the beginning, by a people who either were living as pagans believing in many gods or following Old Testament teachings handed down over the millennia from the prophets; but in either case straying or violating God’s word could easily occur.
To prevent that following the book of Acts came the Epistles of Paul, Peter and John by which the foundational doctrines of the very beginning of Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church were implemented; and we must remember that in that early stage and for centuries there were no massive numbers of the Bible for peoples throughout the world to sit and read daily as we now so conveniently have today and throughout much of the modern times. But even for those that could have a copy of God’s word it could be easily taken and intentionally or unintentionally manipulated for self-designed intentions and this has eventually happened throughout history since the time when Christianity began to flourish and even now in the present when God’s word is readily available!
Paul, Peter and John were the core leaders of the apostles who were following the directives very closely as to what their teacher our Savior Jesus taught and instructed them to do. This was why they wrote the Epistles which were and still are to Catholics foundational guidance meant to provide a structured clearer understanding of God’s word carefully interpreted and provided to the communities or societies wherever disciples of Christ go into the world to spread the Good News! Think of South America and Central America how many of the people there in those locales predominantly are Catholic Christians who are believing in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, there in those many nations that not many centuries ago were still believing in horrible falsehoods and pagan blasphemies that even included as in the Mayan Civilization the sacrificing of infants and adults both; to false gods and I say to Satan! The Roman Catholic Church that Peter started was given to the world as the order directly from Christ to Peter His leading Disciple; to build His Church, means he is directly responsible for this great Godly accomplishment and service to our Lord Jesus Christ which he did by being the greatly humbled faithful and completely loyal lead servant shepherd who did suffer for doing it being put to death eventually! Now think for a moment if you were the Devil would you not be extremely jealous of those so obedient to God that built this Church as a beacon of light and promise for eternal life as well as all those that follow it! Would you as the Devil want nothing more than to disrupt, attack and bring ruin to this “Saving Beacon of Hope” to the world that is providing “God’s Truth” through the “Direct Ministry of Christ” being facilitated by these Catholic priests and servants who are bringing multitudes to the alter of God in the name of “Jesus Christ” to be “saved from death!” So of course throughout the centuries and indeed the millennia Satan has attacked the Church from the outside by misdirecting faithful Catholics just like we see now in Washington with a most vile man Biden or a most despicable woman like Pelosi ruling in government affairs globally effecting so many in a negative extremely harmful way, both on a secular level of life and most harmful the spiritual life actually damaging faith deeply, while saying they are Catholics to further discredit God’s Church, and poison the well as it were! But then; to exponential levels by infiltrating the hierarchy of the Church and “crowning a false prophet” as the new Peter or current, “leading shepherd of the Church’s flock,” this Bergoglio who is not serving one master but multiple earthly masters, and Satan most of all! All churches have been caught up in one thing or another over time, first as breakaway offshoots of the predecessor foundational church, and now to the point where we even have the Presbyterian church not just supporting abortion rights but condoning abortion actually as advocates of it, and thus serving Satan himself; to me no less than what the ancient Mayan’s did, a modern version of paganism and falsehood!
Now also take into consideration this information that points to the truth of how Christianity has been sliced up into so many different subsets that I think you must agree, that created quite a lot of room for errors and or intentional manipulation of God’s word because all people are fallible and defective and are not the original leading Apostles Paul, Peter and John who knew more about what God’s truth is, than all the Johnny come lately types which creating this potentiality of failure that has been proven out over time to be the case that far too many times throughout just the last couple of hundred years, even leaving out some of the major demarcation points and departures from the mother original church; such as the Great Reformation initiated by Martin Luther.
“The Center for the Study of Global Christianity also has statistics that align closely to this number (see #41 in the link-34,200 denominations in 2000).
On a Christianity Statistics article, updated March 2017, states that thereare approximately 41,000 Christiandenominations, but they also state:
This statistic takes into consideration cultural distinctions of denominations in different countries, so there is overlapping of manydenominations.
The World Christian Database represents over 9,000 Christiandenominations. This number is quite lower than 30,000 but it also doesn’t say what who exactly is represented or who isn’t.
On Wikipedia they list about 1,100 denominations (according to my count) but Wikipedia isn’t official.
For more details on the breakdown of (30,000+) read this article (not a primary source).”
In America alone we are looking at an estimated 70 million Catholics which brings me to this original conceptualization of the church by its lead Apostles right after Jesus Ascended into heaven.
“Jesus set Peter apart from the other disciples during his earthly ministry around A.D. 30, declaring his primacy in the establishment of the Catholic Church after Jesus would leave them. Many modern Bible scholars believe Jesus knew of the need for church unity and specific leadership before leaving his disciples, leading to what he says to Peter in Matthew 16:18, “Upon this rock I will build my church.”Peter’s name means “stone” — a name that Jesus gave to Peter when he met him.
Roman Catholic tradition views this verse as Jesus’ formation of the papacy, making Saint Peter the first pope and establishing the Roman Catholic Church in the same moment. Through Peter’s leadership, believers in the early church could unite under truth and sound teaching. Here are some examples of the type of leadership Jesus expected of Peter and continues to expect of every pope that has come after him:
Early Christians were pluralistic in their beliefs. Early believers needed to defend the truth and establish a set belief system. In I Timothy 6:20, Paul admonishes Timothy, a young church leader, to, “…guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid profane babbling and the absurdities of so-called knowledge.” This verse shows that false teaching was spreading during those early years of Christianity, and Paul left the task of defending the truth to Timothy. Early churches needed sound authority to keep them from absorbing falsehoods.
Saint Paul also changed the concept of the church in Ephesians 1:23when he refers to the church as Jesus’,“…body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way.”This unique phrasing shows that the church needs unity as the body of Christ in the world. A unified church can complete the mission given by Jesus to “make disciples of all nations”in a way that a fractured religion cannot.
To strengthen the entire church:In Luke 22:32, Jesus says to Peter, “I have prayed that your own faith may not fail; and once you have turned back, you must strengthen your brothers.” In establishing the Roman Catholic Church and the papacy, Jesus commanded Peter and every pope thereafter to strengthen the members of the Catholic faith.
To guide and care for the church: The pope must guide the church like a shepherd tending their flock. Jesus referred to himself as the Good Shepherd and the church as his sheep in John 10:11. A crucial part of the history of the Catholic Church timeline is Jesus’ departure from Earth. Before his ascension, Jesus passed on the earthly care of his sheep to Peter, the pope of the Roman Catholic Church. In John 21:15-17, Jesus tells Peter to “Feed my lambs,” “Tend my sheep,” and “Feed my sheep.” catholicworldmission.org
On 2/24/22 I wrote the following in that day’s essay.
The Enemy Within the Church
Matthew 7: 13-15“13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. 15Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.”
Getting back to what you have said here about so many falsehoods happening in churches and all around us in this more and more artificial contrived world, which has taken the old “Ways of The World” spoken about in Scriptures and exponentially amplified its corruption, deceptions, temptations as well as great frauds that the masses are now believing and following; putting false gods before God Almighty of the Ten Commandments and breaking that first one with many or maybe even all the rest in the process! Just think of sins of the flesh alone which can and will condemn multitudes to hell, how in the old days the proliferation was minimal, but now with video and digital communication platforms this evil is anywhere just about with a click, it’s even in pop music and so forth; with many more in this age being ruined by sins of the flesh!
I say sadly that the majority of the human beings are now in potential peril of being unworthy of salvation at all. Industrial scale abortion is now to the point of a full term helpless baby being murdered and what could possibly be any justifiable reason for it, especially one that God Himself would accept? There is none, and so humans are making sacrifices of human babies to the modernist man-made Beast System and thus Satan, who is the prince of this world and who rules the flesh material sinful realm; even the blasphemous falsehood of a president Biden wants to push through Federal on Demand Abortion across the country; pure evil. This is exponentially worse than what pagan idolaters of ancient civilizations like the Mayan Empire did regularly!
We are told to be in the world but not of it and that is literally what it means and how we should live each day, but, sadly we do not; most are just going along for the ride and then faking belief and Trust in the Lord. It’s too easy to do and very convenient to have your cake and eat it too, and be as you said a Lukewarm Christian vs. the devout Faithful Believer in Jesus Christ!
2 Corinthians 10:2-4“2 I beg you that when I come I may not need to be as bold as I expect toward those who presume that we live according to the flesh. 3For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh. 4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.”
Here is a portion of one of Billy Graham’s fine sermons that clearly defines what we are talking about here and should consider.
The warnings are clear. The Bible says in Romans 12:2,“Do not be conformed to this world.” The Bible teaches in Galatians 1:4 that,“[Christ] gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil age [cosmos].” In other words, the world was such a great danger to our souls that this danger caused Christ, the Son of God, to go to the cross to deliver us from it.
Throughout the Bible, the lines are definitely drawn between the world of unbelievers and the world of the children of God. “Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God”(James 4:4).Jesus Himself said,“The world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world”(John 17:14-16). Again Jesus said,“If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you”(John 15:18).
The Bible also teaches that the Christian will face opposition in the world. “All who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution,”said the Apostle Paul in 2 Timothy 3:12. Just as Christ’s life with all its love, concern and selflessness was a rebuke to the cosmos of His time, so our lives with Christ abiding in us today bring about criticism, opposition and persecution from those who cannot comprehend the mystery of God’s redemptive grace.
The Bible teaches that we are not to be discouraged by this belligerence. We are to consider it evidence that we are identified with Christ. Jesus said,“Blessed are you when they revile and persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven”(Matthew 5:11-12).https://decisionmagazine.com/in-world-not-of-it/ by Billy Graham | January 28, 2016 | Billy Graham
This internet is a Devil’s Playground and so many are deluded or mesmerized by the click bait and followers routine; followers for what and to what avail? This is mostly frittering and wasting the time away, that precious time we have to make sure we have our houses in order for the Lord and are working diligently to serve the will of our Father in heaven who put us here for a purpose; His purpose; so when Jesus comes knocking on our doors we aren’t caught unawares!
I have a few previous blog postings I want to share that hopefully will shed a bit more of God’s light upon this subject and narrative you have eloquently presented here.
Discernment and spiritual awakening with the Holy Spirit speaking to us and in turn we hearing Him is the best thing to seek in order to stay on the one path that Jesus explained perfectly; John 14: 5- 7 5“Lord,” said Thomas, “we do not know where You are going, so how can we know the way?”6 Jesus answered,“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 7If you had known Me, you would know My Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him.”
Let’s keep discerning and following the Holy Spirit not men or the system, but, still through discernment we can look for any good that exists in people or institutions and recognize any intrinsic good or value that God wants us to receive from them; learning to fully see God’s Truth in all things and make use of what he instructs us to, by His will alone; anything else will be not of God and we must reject it.
This world today is a very tumultuous quagmire and extremely dangerous for anyone, but, especially Christians who are being challenged and attacked from all directions! We must remember as long as we are in this battlefield our souls are in mortal jeopardy of being lost to eternal damnation. Too many people are nonchalant and think they are so on top of this professing to be good Christians, when they are just playing the game and are deceived or even deceivers; minions of the evil one.
This additional essay reblog posting of 3/13/22, does point out to me clearly just how vicious and dangerous the world has become since antiquity for Christians or those people who want to seek and follow Jesus Christ. The battlefield is all around us and growing more deceptive, intense and more totalitarian all the time because the heat is on to devour mankind!
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit”
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”
Hi Sister Hope! First of all I send my prayer for Almighty God to bless you and your entire family in the precious name of Jesus. I agree with what you’ve pointed out here with great clarity and wisdom! You are holding true to your Faith in Jesus Christ and thus following the Father’s will as He inspires us to do through His Holy Spirit while of course consuming His Holy Words in the Bible.
I also see a problem besides Bible Thumpers which are too many “wishy-washy Spiritual Blenders” thinking they are showing others truth by being very selective choosers of Scriptures to promote a self-indulgent perspective or let’s say a modernistic PC or let’s be all inclusive gig which actually is causing many to stray from the Faith and “will of God” creating a secular man-made church system and the evidence of what I’m saying is rampant and in our faces! If you take the time to examine all of the information and other essays I provided these are just a few of the multitude of examples of what is Really Going On! We have multitudes of youth that put Taylor Swift on a pedestal and she is serving the beast system and Satan without a doubt! Even a so called Catholic woman who gains popularity on social media that I had to part ways with was doing just what I said, and even said the current so called pope is someone to support when she and anyone with a clue should know he is a Freemason sort of World System Pope, which is ludicrous as he is blaspheming God continually and then there is the Presbyterian church that says abortion is fine and they support it! https://lawrencemorra.com/2021/08/27/presbyterian-baptist-churches-join-new-coalition-of-churches-to-promote-killing-babies-in-abortions/
If anyone thinks I’m a Bible Thumper so be it, I’ll accept that title as I know it’s not true and what I am is a man who will stand toe to toe with any evil on earth and not back down who is in a modern world of many multitudes of the opposite of a Bible Thumper running loose and concocting or blending as they so choose! Mainly to give themselves license to live as they please and have all the things they WANT! Sadly with that most often times they are leaving God out and pretending; maybe delusional! When nobody takes a stand anymore then the world and all the people on it is done for! How else did WWII not end up being a victory for Hitler! When the going is tough the tough get going is how I see the task before us not any wishy-washy or oh let’s not look at reality and want to deal with it, lets just all sit around and talk nonsense like so many do who bring up religion and Jesus, but, are not in fully and willing to take a stand putting it all on the line, and I mean all; so many aren’t like this on the internet! I love talking many other subjects which I can look at as enjoyable and heartfelt fun topics! But, when it comes to Jesus Christ and why I’m on earth that is when it’s time to separate the men from the boys and the woman from the girls!
No church that serves Almighty God through Jesus Christ would even think such a thing let alone promote it to multitudes! I see far too much lip service and though I understand full well who Martin Luther King Jr. was and how wonderful a job he did in advocating the Faith, he was not living in this over ripe hedonistic, narcissistic and antichrist culture we now find ourselves in! If he were here now I’m sure he would address what I’m talking about very strongly and get people’s minds and hearts right who truly want to see and hear Truth, God’s Truth; but, there would be plenty who would not listen or care and even criticize him! Let’s focus at this moment how the world responded to Christ; they nailed Him to a cross, I deserve less? We all deserve far worse than that Cross eternally! That was us on that cross or should be if not for the Eternal Love and Mercy of God Almighty!
“9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one. 11There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.” Romans 3: 9-11
“12All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.” 13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.” Romans 3:11-13
The one world religion is on the horizon as many powers on earth are pushing cultures and societies toward it which is all in alignment with the antichrist agenda, we are in a world of “many antichrists” amongst us who are cheering on the coming of the actual false god; and to not be coming on strong against this now, is to be derelict or even participate with such evil like that Presbyterian church or the false pope is doing! Edmund Burke knew what he was talking about when he said, “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
I don’t intend to be one of those and I say what I see as the Truth and follow the Holy Spirit that God has sent to me on many occasions in dire-straits, even saving my life from impending death a few times, so I was shown He will address what needs to be, if we are truly faithful and “take a stand” for Him offering our whole being as a servant unto the Lord God Almighty in the name of Jesus, along with continuing to do his will; not the world’s.
“15 I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth” John 17:15-17
“19 If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.” John 15:19
In this world, but not of it, is more how I live and even then I fail here or there because I’m fallen just like all of us! But, now that the heat is on and the spiritual warfare is at a “fever pitch” with many young innocent lives being lost forever; this is the mother of all wars coming on hard and fast, there is no room for getting wishy-washy in our faith and not doing things that need to be done, in order not to completely drop the ball as it were, and allow more weak-minded or lost persons to lose their souls with all of the mumbo-jumbo nonsense being poured out upon the human race now! I talk faith with anyone, but, I do not participate with games or half-truth speakers with forked tongues and the like or seeking self-aggrandizement of any kind when it comes to God’s will, and my own responsibility, to speak and live as truthful as I can.
I’m sorry to say it is, “Turn or Burn” and you nailed it by mentioning it, because anyone who has so much information or has their wits about them and refuses to “turn away from,” in the utter face of so much evil running rampant in this world now, and thinks they can chill so as not to get worked up over the world’s problems, which does require having a genuine conscience that serves God only; such as those have a big surprise coming, as many are going to hell and I don’t want to be one of them; as well, I prefer nobody will be, but, that is up to them to be sure they are following God’s will so they won’t be! I am a sinner and deserve hell and I have seen how the human race has gotten exponentially worse in its utter evil decadence and even arrogance, thumbing its collective haughty nose in the face of ;and yet with so much evidence in their faces, which to me is pure evil and Satanic, just like these pop stars or many a politician and billionaire corporate magnates, to even a Joe Smoe down the street who blows everything off that isn’t of any interest to him while he has his fun times!
What I’m saying is, I may seem hard core to some, but, that doesn’t faze me at all, because when moved by the Holy Spirit in this tumultuous evil world now, I must respond as the Spirit of God directs me to, and, I had to face powerful government crony powers and fight for my rights and even existence, so I have some knowledge and experience; know what I’m talking about. I did tell those powers that I won’t stop doing what I know to be absolutely right and necessary, and they can stop my body but my soul goes on and belongs to God Almighty, so I fear no man or beast!
So I don’t like the phony pretenses and airs of many online social media groupies and I stay away from them, I learned fast they are narcissistic self-worshiping, disingenuous fools, but, I can’t help them if they won’t hear truth in their own hearts, that is up to them to get down on both knees and crawl if necessary like I did, fighting tooth and crawl if necessary; to not join into the frenzied wicked Ways of the World!
Again I mention Taylor Swift who is so far into serving the beast system, and her doing so, young minds are sucking this crud up and turning their hearts over to this New Age Evil Mind Set! Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t see anything remotely approaching this debauchery on this global scale, but since his untimely death the world has gotten vastly more evil and the Devil is more cunning as he traps so many into this web of blasphemy! So I say it like it is and shout it from a roof top if I must, but, I won’t “go along to get along” like so many are doing! And I Hope, you will understand perfectly what I speak and won’t be in any way drawn away from God’s Wisdom and Truth that is there for the taking to those “who have eyes to see and have ears to hear and use them with an open heart to Jesus” in order to respond appropriately especially if speaking to Truth online, which is full of lies and half-truths just like the MSM is propagating to the world! I worked in that business and dumped it hard and fast just like Hollywood when I left it! In it we see a few success stories, but, we never see the multitudes who were lost and ruined possibly ending up in hell for sure, for partaking of those dangerous cauldrons of sin and self-worship and not doing the right thing; like as I see it now in this most tumultuous twisted world that is off the rails and going down hard and fast! Do you not see all of the children as well as adults who have been murdered and sacrificed for the elite power mongers of the world? With their total LIE and SCHEME to take over all!
Will the coming worse confusion like we already see be stymied or stopped by just talking easy or not at all to avoid bruising someone’s ego or feelings? Hardly, and the trouble is going to get exponentially worse, not better for this corrupted sinful world! Sure we can and should take time to enjoy the little things all that good that is free in life; as we share these good things with each other as God wants us to! But, there has to be many who are willing to roll up their sleeves and get right into the thick of it, those people Edmond Burke was talking about, to prevent loss of souls to hell; which requires many strong actions and words of Truth; the Truth hurts often times, and we all need some huge doses of it now; Big Time!
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