Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

This morning I was talking with a Christian friend of mine by telephone. We were sharing our need for an income and our desperate job hunts, that have not been successful.
Since November of last year, I know that I have applied for or sent out nearly a 100 resumes and applications. No response, or whatever response, they never followed through. I have even used networking as they suggest trying to obtain a good position once again. All to no avail, as of yet. As we ended our conversation, we had come to that place reminding each other, that God has promised to give us "our daily bread". I wished only those around us understood these things.
It is hard to make others understand the plight you feel you are in, when they just seem to think, that you aren't trying. They think surely you would have been hired by now if you were really looking. Just look at all the job ads in the newspaper.
I have attempted to gain positions at the bottom rung of the ladder as well as those that I am qualified, skilled and experienced at, to no avail.
I was even beginning to believe I might have a former employer for whatever reason that may be black balling me from obtaining future employment. I went so far as to obtain someone to do a reference check on me, to find that my employers were providing me an excellent reference.
The only reason I can conclude that I am not receiving calls is my age. Now, you ask, "how do they know your age?"
It is easy to ascertain that from a resume or application by looking at your education and when you graduated.
I will in 11 days be 54 years old. August 12, 2007, I will have lived long enough and grown wise enough to recognize pure and simple discrimination by age.
It is one of the most exercised discriminatory unwritten policies of HR departments today. Many men my age find themselves losing jobs even to only find out later they hired someone to replace them that are much younger.
Furthermore, the latest practices of HR departments is to run a credit check and in some cases they manage to even obtain your health information. If you have reached my age, and have perfect health, you have been blessed by God. If you reached my age, and don't believe in the credit of this world, and yet somehow you obtained a good credit reference check, then you are blessed beyond what is imaginable in this day and age of high medical cost. I have some poor credit, and I will admit it.
My credit was wiped out in 1996, when my first wife became ill with a problem that she was born with that is called "AVM's" or "Arterial Venous Malformations".
I have a good friend who understands this malformation of veins in the brain. This is not a very well known problem by most. He understands because he will be crippled the rest of his life because of it. It results in strokes and aneurysms. He has the full extent of this rare defect one can be born with and what it results in.

I had credit in those days, because I like most had fallen into this world's enticements, for things material beyond our needs.
I was unemployed due to our office shutting down with WorldCom's mass assimilation of taking all the small companies they had acquistioned and moving them into one big location far away from where I lived. We were struggling with threats from the IRS on our taxes and being harassed by those we had obtained loans from. We had no choice but to file, a Chapter 13 bankruptcy to find relief. It has ruined my credit since. Though in less than two years we had it discharged to try to pay the bills we owed again once we had both gone back to work. You never recover once you are under the slavery of debt. My bad credit is still there. Why any of us, ever get conned into playing God, I will never understand. Thos offering credit ask us to play God, as if we know what tommorrow will bring, as if we know whether we will be alive, working, earning the same amount of money the day we signed on. It doesn't matter how small amount or large amount, if you owe it and can't pay it because we can't control our future, they want it and they want it NOW! Thus Jesus told us not make oaths, but to keep our yea, yea, and our nay, nay. Thus the whole Word of God tells us not to be in debt. There is a difference in having to pay our electric or our water, or telephone on a monthly basis. These an be argued though that they too are not necessarily basic needs. The Word tells us to be content with food and clothing because we brought nothing into this world and we can't carry anything out. When one lives on this basis, knowing God will provide, we will not be anxious for tommorrow. We will thank God for what He provided today. We will just work today for our daily bread and not live our lives for our future greeds or those things that have so enslaved us to them now. We are to live the simple life described in Ecclesiastes, as anything beyond that is greed and results in a life of vanity of vanities.
To enjoy the fruit of your labor and to fear God is the wise mans conclusion. All else is useless and leads to an unhappy life.

The question is, what does credit have to do with work ability, skills, devotion, job experience? Why is it this world thinks that if you are one to enslave yourself to credit cards and other debt that makes for a good employee? Why has this world become so enamored with the idea of being enslaved to jobs from daylight to darkness to have things that don't matter? Why does this world think it is a wonderful thing to sacrifice relationships with others for the sake of the dollar? More relationships are destroyed over wanting more or thinking you don't have enough of something than one an imagine. More divorces and family break ups are over the worshipped dollar more than anything else.
Even in the car insurance industry, credit has become a criteria for obtaining lower rates versus, higher insurance rates. What does that having to do with driving skills, experience, longevity as a driver without accidents, etc.?
Our world has become sin sick with greed, money and power. The more you subscribe to these things the more likely you are to be a good job candidate. You better go in there on the interview and tell them you want to be a huge success and make a million by the end of the year or you just shot your opportunity at a job. You better go into an interview and tell the world what they want to hear.
Figure that one out! It isn't hard to conclude why.
I do my best to live on less than $120.00 per week. Sometimes less, sometimes just a little more, very little more. I get by, but only by the grace of God and other's help for shelter, some help me with my special needs like purchasing my medication, but they can't always help. I have Diabetes 2 (not under control), nerve deafness in my hearing, damaged kidneys, swollen prostrate like most older men. I also have had diverticulitis since age 45, and have had two heart attacks since than as well,Atrial Fibillation, and I also suffer from Crohn's Disease and Post Traumatic Stress, Fatigue Syndrome and at one time my physicians had me on 27 pills a day.
I quit everything but a about 3 medications. One, I couldnt afford them, two I couldnt function on them, and three, I did something outside of prescription treatment to help myself. I am still working on that to eliminate the three other mediations. However, the physical damage already done is done. Some of the problems are do to our lifestyles when young and many others are just flat due to we live in a world where everything we eat along with the air we breathe and the water we drink is polluted with chemicals and cancer calling agents.
For example I got my Crohns disease under control by no longer drinking milk. I did this because research has shown that though milk is homegenized and pastureized, it doesn't kill paratuberculosis which attack the small bowel resulting in infection in the lining of the bowel. Milk also has hundreds of antibiotics and other induced chemicals that can cause all kinds of serious illnesses. I quit it and it worked.

My little check I earn each week feeds me, and purchases gasoline to go to work or where I need to go when told by the Lord to do so, like visiting friends in need, helping the children, taking a friend to the doctors or wherever it may be, I still limit any travel for just my self. There are no pleasure runs, or driving around for fun or going to the store on a whim.

Yes, I have applied for even the minimal jobs, like working as counter help, cashiers, driving a vehicle for deliveries, even tossing news papers.
All to no avail.
I have begun to believe there is an unwritten rule that old people should be shot and put out of their misery or just left alone to die in loneliness. Whatever the prevailing attitude is, it is for real against the elderly worker in this country.

So, what do you do, you do what Christ told us to do, you pray "give us this day, our daily bread". You smile, you go on doing the best you can, you don't give up hope, and you thank God for every little gift he gives you to sustain your life.

My friend reminded me, of this when we spoke. We recalled that God has promised nothing more than our daily bread. Jesus taught us not to be anxious over these things, and taught us that God would provide our needs. I have to admit He does provide for my basic needs. I am not living under a viaduct, like many Americans are, I am not on the soup line, like so many Americans are, I am not having to panhandle for my daily bread. God brings it to me, and I am thankful for it.

Here is my prayer which can be found in two places in the Bible:

Lord do not make me so rich that I would forsake you,
but don't allow me to be so poor that I would steal.

Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us Lord of our trespasses, as we forgive those who have trespassed against us.

These last words from the Lord's prayer, provide us with much more wisdom then all the world could ever offer. I pray everyday that I live my life accordingly.

Today, I pray with emphasis, Give "US" this day our daily bread.
Not just in the physical sense Lord but what we need most in the spiritual "to forgive others who have sinned against us."
Give us your spirit of grace and mercy toward everyone we encounter in this life. Be it friend or foe, teach us Lord, that your bread provided contains nourishment for all areas of our life. Emotionally, spiritually and physically. Remind us that you are the great Creator of heaven and earth and all that we see or can encounter here, belongs to you and that nothing for you Lord is too hard.
Thank you this day, for giving me this day, and Lord let me do my very best with it, for your glory and not mine. Help me Lord not to be discouraged but to find encouragement by encouraging others in this life. Let me encourage all my brothers and sisters in all that I do and say this day.
Amen

Everyday is difficult, but our God never promised us a "rose garden" without thorns.
The Word of God says, "that through much tribulation we enter the Kingdom of God".

That sure blows the Health, Wealth and Prosperity teachers theology away- doesn't it?

Also for those that believe that theology, they would have no need to pray "Lord give us our daily bread" if it is ours by faith in faith rather than faith in God.
If we can lay claim by words as if we were a god to prosperity materially, and demand from God something he never promises, then where does the tribulation ever come in? God isn't there for our beckon call on greed. He is there for our care and nourishment as His creation. We are not gods, as Copeland likes to tell everyone.
Kenneth Copeland fell for the oldest lie told in the garden of Eden which started this whole mess in the first place.

No, my prayer is "Give us this day our daily bread" That means dependence on a Sovereign God,a Holy God and not a little god that I control in my toy box for my sake and fleshly pleasures, like so many of these false prophets proclaim.

"Give us this day our daily bread"

Dr. J.

New Blog Site

I have started up a new blog site, that is devoted to Christian discourse.
The purposes to which is explained in the first article there written.
I have sent out some invitations to some of my readers. If you feel that you would like to be not just a reader but a commentator and would like to add articles to the blog, but weren't invited in the first send out of invitations, then just send me an email and I will add you. The only restriction to being a member is you must be a Christian already. The site is for the purpose of discussion on Christianity, it's practices and more. This site, doesn't exclude anyone because of their denomination, it does exclude those that may be Atheistic, Agnostic or just want to disparage individual believers in Christ. It however will contain many writings, questions and polls, that may not fall in line with mainstream Western ideological teachings and practices as interpreted by Organized religion in America or elsewhere for that matter. I can promise you it will be orthodox in the sense it will be based on scripture, but not necessarily the mess of scripture that many men and the institution of "church" has made it become in a lot of areas for 1900 years. It will be based on the one true foundation of Christ and His Apostles.

It isn't for those who are sold on the idea that we already know it all or have the answers, because it is clear that no of us do. There are some truths that are apparent when we remove our rose colored glasses and quit having tunnel vision.

The purpose of the site is for those who hunger more for God and less of "religion" and it's practices. It's purpose is for those that still have questions and need answers to things they find difficult to understand either in Scripture or "church practices". It's purpose is so that we may disciple one another, and for those that feel God has endowed them with the gift of teaching by discourse as well. Discourse or discussion is whereby we all learn, not by just listening and being silent on a bench somewhere. Christ intended and practiced discourse, the Apostles did and many labelled Christian groups that formulated in Christian history did as well. Most of which have been stifled by the Clergy/Laity power hungry institution of organized religion, who feel they only hold a corner of the truth.

Truth is arrived at by believers when they turn to being instructed by the Holy Spirit and Scripture first and foremost and then by discussion and relationship with other believers.
Let us look at one specific scripture that gave me the momentum in my own Christian life after spending years of hearing various doctrines, denominations and practices proclaimed by mere man who told me what to beleive or practice because of either position, title or education. They thought they were to be the interpreter of Christian truth for me.

I have spent 48 years of my life in the pursuit of truth to that which is already mine in Christ, but it wasn't until I fell on my knees before the Father in my bedroom in 1977, that God put me on a course, of His teaching me, that I have never regretted. It wasn't until that moment that I cried out to the Lord and said, "Teach Me, O Lord that I might not sin against you".
It has been a joy ride since with the Lord at the wheel of my life. There have been ups and downs and fiery trials as well as blessings, but God is teaching me and I am still learning. I haven't arrived yet but I press on to the goal. Our ultimate purpose in this life is to glorify Him and to be conformed to His image and His image alone.

Let's look at 1 John 2:27

7 And as for you, the anointing which ye received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any one teach you; but as his anointing teacheth you; concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, ye abide in him.

The problem doesnt lie in us being taught by the Holy Spirit, and to fear that we will somehow get off base and become cultic is a false proposition so often used by the power in the institution of the church to keep "Christians" ignorant and under thier thumbs.
The problem lies in that we are lazy and it's easier for us to rely on others to tell us what truth is, when all along we have the "Spirit of Truth" living within us, if we are His.
I John surely gives us the guidelines in which to determine if we are His or not. Not many, if they read this book which in my opinion holds some of the strongest doctrinal guidelines who and what a Christian is, that most people ignore it, because they would find themselves outside of it's defining Apostolic doctrines.
They would find their lives examined by the Holy Spirit as coming short of being nothing more than religious and still fooled into thinking they might save themselves through works righteousness, church membership, tithing and a million other qualifiers added by the traditions of men.

The admonition for us to practice discourse for us as a believer, allows us to test everything, but it doesnt mean just because someone else comes along and tries to tell you that you are wrong or has another argument, that you just accept what they have to say. What you believe in your heart, that God the Father has taught you through the indwelling person of Jesus Christ and given to you by his Holy Spirit, no man will ever get you to depart from it.
There are no arguments that men can present to tear you away from truth that you actually know in your heart versus what you may have been taught in your head.

All beliefs, that are really settled in us, are both experiential and taught beliefs. We cannot rely on just one or the other. We must have a balance to arrive at the truth of the two. We must not rule out teachings or doctrines over the experential or experential over the teachings and doctrines we have in our lives.
If one goes to one side or the other and only that, error is apt to happen. Thus, there are many that live the Christian life in error, because they have never looked deeper than what they have been taught and most often have disregarded their own experiences. There are others that are in error because of experiences only, that cannot be documented by good scriptural exegesis or proper interpretation, have lived their lives based on them, they wish not to be taught. All that matters is their experiences. Both sides are open weapons for the enemy to use against us.

God is not a liar, he is truth and He expects us to walk in that truth. You must first desire it above all things. You must desire it above your positions, your titles, your education, your previous learning, your occupation it must be above all else, before the Father will allow you to learn what He has been teaching you all along. Come to me as a child.
A child knows nothing on it's own, and is totally dependent upon it's parents. If your life is not abundant in the joy of knowing the Lord and it depends on anything else other than Him, than you are headed down a wrong path, a broad road to destruction. If you were stripped of all that you had today in life, would you still have the joy of knowing Him alone.
I have been close at times, to having nothing but Him and I can't say that I always had that joy that the Apostles knew even in the midst of affliction. I am on that path. I want to love him more than anything in this world including my own physical life. I don't think any of us can say we have arrived there yet. The more I learn of Him the more it grows though. The more He becomes the most important thing to me over all this life could offer. Over riches, success, recognition, power, title or position. I desire Him alone above all else.

Faith is not blind devotion to any one teaching or interpretation, True faith is based on truth which encompasses more then living on the crumbs that you have been fed under a church, denomination or any one teacher. You must study to show yourselves worthy. Study involves discourse, looking at all sides of a question and not settling in until the truth is arrived at. Words, doctrines, denominations, or any of the religious things we can crowd our lives with can ever provide for us what God can do in intimate relationship with Him. Jesus knew that relationship, it wasn't a superficial relationship, it wasn't religious devotion, it wasn't because he had been taught to pray, he was at all times concious of the Father's presence. Thus, he was constantly found praying through the night on the Mount of Olives moved by the Spirit of God to make intercession, thanks, and to recieve encouragement from the only source that is needed, the Father.

I found in my journey those things that weren't truth, the Holy Spirit did eventually remove from me, and replace with teaching from Him. Often some new teachings that come along are at best old misconceptions, errors but for sure aren't new. To give you an example the "Health, Wealth and Prosperity message it isn't new, it wasn't some special revelation from Kenneth Hagin, it is an old spiritual error as old as can be, that became popularized by our present culture of materialism, the desire for wealth and worldly success. Kenneth Hagins teachings are nothing more than plagiarism from teachings, that he had read, that go way back that are a hodgepodge mixture of paganism, metaphysics, christian scientistism,and other cultic teachings.
Their foundations are found in a false teacher named E.W. Kenyon. To understand where E.W. Kenyon got them, you have to study him and his development of the false doctrines he taught. Most people never question what they are taught they just go with the flow and never doubt. I am glad God brought me to a place to doubt in my life at times.
One of the best books I have read that documents all this is a book entitled " A Different Gospel, by D. R. McConnel. His excellent research and scriptural knowledge assited me in finding my way out of this false teaching back in 1986. I like most, was attracted to it's positive thinking and success message, and I actually was a preacher of this false doctrine at one time in my ministerial life, to which I am ashamed to admit to now. God has forgiven me and taught me truth to eliminate that spirit of error, that the enemy had subtely led me into. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, and no one understands our flesh more than the enemy and he is constantly standing in the corridors of our lives awaiting the opportune time to appear as an "angel of light".

The origins of the Health, Wealth and Prosperity message in my opinion are from the depths of Satan's kingdom- this world and are as false a doctrine that can be found today in any cultic circles across the world. It's propagators -preachers and teachers, the Copelands, the Benny Hinns, the TBN'er's, the Robert Tilton's and the new "Golden Boy" out of Houston - Joel Osteen, have either just been decieved as I was or as in many cases I discovered they chose to decieve and be decieved for the profit and power of it. There is tremendous personal financial profit and worldly success available in teaching the people with "itching ears". Make people feel good about the sin their are committing and turn into a "good news" and they will leap on it by the droves and pour their money into it and all they have, because it is founded on lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and the pride of life.

Paul warned of them in scripture "who peddle the Word of God for profit". What sounds good doesn't always make for holiness and scriptural truth. The HW&P message is so far off base scripturally and orthodox Christianity if anyone spends anytime in the Bible it won't be long before you doubt it's message and are converted from this spirit of error. The Word of God does correct but sometimes we need the assistance of hearing the other side of the argument to arrive at the Word really has to say.
The sad part of it is most of the American churches have bought into at least a portion of the HW&P message, if not all of it.

One will usually find God will correct you on these things if you have a teachable spirit and if you are His. Matter of fact, He will correct you anyway even when you are not very teachable, because of His love for you as "His child".
I don't know it all, I surely don't have His wisdom, but the things He has taught me, I am as sure of as the letters on this page. No one but Him could tell me any different. The Christian life and learning is made up of many variables. Scripture, mysticism,(not in the New Age sense of the word) but in the sense that God speaks to us outside of the norm of the real world of just our 5 senses at times, he speaks to us in the quiet of our room and our heart, our interaction with other believers, our personal experiences as a believer, as we are individually His, and our search for truth is propelled by His Spirit within us to become founded in Him.
It was Jesus who said "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these other things will be added unto you". How often do we really take the time from our materialistic lives to actually seek Him first. We live life backwards. We come looking for the things rather than God most of the time, and thus it is easy to be swayed by the false teachers to offer you the things of this life, rather than a relationship with Christ.
My awakening over the years as a believer has never come outside of intense study of scripture first and reading it without coming to it with pre-conceived ideas of what it says before I read it. You must empty your prejudices, suppositions and all that you have been taught if you wish to be taught by God the Father, by the Holy Spirit.
This is the purpose of Dialegomai (the greek word for "discourse", that has been so often mis-translated as preaching). Discourse is two sided conversation not one sided speaking or teaching. Isaiah 1:18 - "Come now, and let us reason together, saith Jehovah: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool".
Note: to even come to salvation, God uses our reasoning with him, to bring us into salvation. God calls us, we begin to reason and then He teaches us in that discourse with Him on what our problem is ( sin) and His solution for it. Grace and mercy through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Once we are born again, God never discontinues that discourse, for the one thing that we have which is in the image of God is the ability to reason. No other animal of God's creation can reason, they act on instinct or taught behavior alone. God gave us not an individual will so much as he gave us the ability to reason. That reasoning is our gift from God and to shut it down and be silent reduces us to nothing more than any other animal on earth that can be taught by it's master, it's environment or it's biological needs to behave in a certain manner. Thus the clergy -laity system propagates lazy Christians. Why should they study for themselves, why should they read the Bible themselves, why should they attempt to find the real meaning by certain passages, all these things have been interpreted for them, and it's easier that way, to just rely on them, rather than to reason, to seek God first, to dig into matters, and get after the meat. The flesh is happy with a superficial Christian or a "carnal Christian". The flesh relishes having someone else reason for you rather than exercise the one gift God gave mankind that no other animal on earth has regardless of what the evolutionist try to tell us.
I still have never seen a monkey sit down at a piano write and compose some of the most beautiful music your ears will ever hear. I have never seen a monkey paint a picture that revealed the beauty of a scene that God has created. I have never seen a monkey speak words to inspire or write to inspire others. It is our power to reason that sets us above all of creation as a creature it's basis comes from God and Him alone. So, I invite you to become a part of this continued reasoning that we will be on a journey of until He calls us home and all our questions will be answered standing in the presence of His love for eternity. Our new blog is called
Dialegomai and can be found as an invited member at http://christian-discourse.blogspot.com/
Once again if you want to be an important part of this blog, and would like to actually take part in discourse and reasoning and learn from others as well as the motivation to look further into God's Word and history and more and want to join and have not recieved an email of invitation, send email to me at jwblack49@aol.com

Dr. J.

Welcome to Dialegomai

The purpose for this blog is to open discourse between Christians that by doing so, as believers we can resolve questions of scripture, doctrine and church history and more in the area of Christianity. The early church never used one man spouting out his beliefs while others sat silently. The early church teachers and elders understood the value of Christian discourse. They recalled God's call in the Old Covenant - "Come,let us reason together". The story of Job reminded them of this. Jesus never did all the talking, he often ended his parables with questions and he even allowed his worse opponents to speak that truth could come out. The Bereans are complemented by scripture for not just accepting the things Paul talked about, "they searched the scriptures, to see if these things were true." God loves questions and opinions for it is from this practice that we arrive at "His" truth.
The Father never intended for us to be silent and not question what we are told by others who may purport to be wiser, or more educated in scripture, history, theology, ecclesiology and so many of the areas, that Christians have far too long resolved themselves in allowing these to tell them what to believe. This is not New Testament Christianity and at it's worst it speaks smack of "Popery". The practices of the American churches and most churches have fallen far short of the intended purpose Jesus's serving as our High Priest, and we as the priesthood of believers.

The earliest examples of those that rebelled after the infiltration of the church of the one man rule, and the re-establisment of Judaism back into Christianity with the advent of a Bishop/Priest/Pastor one man rule system and the restoration of the temple in the form of a building built by the hands of men , were the Lollards, the AnaBaptist and some say the Cathards. Martin Luther wanted the common man to be able to read the scriptures in their own language but he couldnt break the idea as neither could Calvin of the idea of keeping their positions of power and propagating the system of clergy/laity thus their persecution of the Ana-Baptist who practiced "sitter's rights".
Since that time, thousands who have been led by the Holy Spirit to allow Christ to be their teacher as opposed to the traditions of men, have found themselves persecuted, ex-communicated, banned and even shunned by the organizational institutions of men called "church" which is a formulation of an English word "kirke".
We communicate in visual images first. Those visual images are converted to speech in words.
The very speaking of the word "church" connotates a visual in our minds of a building somewhere that people go to assemble. The church has been called " the house of God" by the traditionalist, who have long ago forgotten the idea of God dwelling in a building was the one thing Jesus came to destroy.

Jesus established himself as the true dwelling place of God, and we are that temple he is constructing that God will dwell in for eternity. In essence, the building is not "the church", Christ is and we are, being built into His Holy City, the New Jerusalem, to which He does and will dwell for eternity. The concept as taught by Paul in the letters to the "called out one's -the Ekklesia, has far too long been destroyed in our communication to believers with a pagan concept.
The temples and their priest of the "church for 1900 years, do not in anyway differ in resemblence from those of the pagans and practices that Paul preached the Gospel to and against such practices or Peter explaining to the Jews.
It is the history of our practices that has been hidden from the Ekklesia far too long that just now in these latter days once again is being revealed to His people, because He intends as He said, for us, to "come out of her".
The new house church movement and cell groups is an attempt, though a feeble one often of believers seeking to exercise their gifts that God gave them through Christ to live out this calling given to all men, and not just the select few "the clergy".

The original meaning of Ekklesia has been washed away by 1900 years of Popery, Judaism and more pagan teachings telling believers on what it means to be a Christian and a "how to practice Christianity".
Which often is nothing more then that of "works righteousness" rather than grace enacted righteousness by the indwelling Holy Spirit through the resurrected Jesus Christ. Thus we see more images of the cross and Christ on it, then we do any imgaes of His resurrection to which the "kirke" would prefer to keep Christ dead and on the cross than they would to teach Colossians - "Christ in you, the hope of glory".

This sites purpose is to give the opportunity for individuals to find the truth about Christianity, that is based not on the traditions of men, but built only on the foundation that we have which is in Christ and the Apostles.

So my intention is to see lots of comments so that others may comment to the comments. I also will invite others to write an article to initiate conversation as well. I will moderate the comments only to keep out those that would disparage believers or Christ. I have found that if you allow a complete open forum, often you will gain Atheist and people who are spiritually sick to come in and totally destroy the purpose for which this web site is established. This is a Christian site for those that already believe. It is not an evangelical site to preach the Gospel but to teach the Gospel to those that have already believed. So, I invite your "Christian" comments. This is a site for "us" to be discipled by and from our discourse that we all may come together and arrive at truths of the Gospel as taught by Christ and the Apostles.

My prayer is for many "Christians" who are searching, that have grown tired of the Western concepts of religion, grown tired of playing "church" will come here to discuss with many others Christ, the Ekklesia, Christian history and more to arrive at truth, as taught by the Holy Spirit and Scripture, so that as Christ said, "you shall know the truth and it shall set you free." So that truly we can be the Ekklesia, - "the called out ones". We are told to assemble to maintain encourgement of one another. Why does " institutional church" so often discourage believers? Or does it? I open our discussion with this question, please post your comments by clicking on the comment or answer to the link below.

Joe Black

Mickey Is Out and The Truth Be Told

The whole truth to be told is just what I suspected -lies, excessive force and perjury by an official. Mickey finally got bailed out. I have the real story now, and it reads just like I thought it would. What I pray is that truth comes out.

George Orwell the author, of 1984 predicted the days we are in of totalitarianism. He wrote one of my favorite sayings: "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."
That day is here - politicians lie, police lie, our courts lie, our corporations lie, the church tells lies and on and on the lying goes on.
When one speaks out the truth about things these days they are considered as a revolutionary. People consider me that. I am that only because my love for the truth.
Even worse they call you crazy, conspiracist and more. Well my friend has had an awakening. He told me himself when he was sitting there in jail, the things I had told him that were happening to this country in it becoming fascist just like Hitler's Germany, it hit him, I was right.
The truth is Mickey was having a conversation with one of the investigators who he was asking to help him get his computers. He was told they will have them for about 4 months. They were to be sent to Longview. He explained his wife didn't use them just him for his business and he needed his records on it to complete his real estate business and for law school.
The District Attorney's office door opened up and he thinks it was the assistant DA that came out. Mickey entered the District Attorneys office to ask the DA about his computers, when the District Attorney, looked at him and told him to "shut his mouth". Well, Mickey admits it made me mad, and about that time I was thinking about about the law on property seizure and I did look at him and might have said something to him in that manner about the law when he told me to shut up, and with all that is going on I found myself calling him an S.O.B. - not a fat bald headed S.O.B., like the news said, but I was hurt, angry and I did call him a name. They told me to leave so I did, I was mouthing him I'll admit as I went out the door of his office and I already had reached the door to exit the entire office area and was about to step in the hall when all of sudden I was hit from behind, and slammed to the floor by Mr. Fabio Martinez, Mickey said he didnt know what happened, I was face down and he was trying to put handcuffs on me. I never hit anyone or threatened them, I just said a few words and left. I was getting ready to go to elevator when I am body slammed from behind to the floor. Fabio said, "I am arresting you".
Mickey asked, "for what?" The investigator said, "for SOB, and some other curse words and disorderly conduct".
Mickey was upset by this time. My head was laid down just feet away from the elevator door, there was a lady sitting nearby on a bench and I looked at her and told her I was being assaulted, he tried to talk but they just told him to shut up and begin hauling him down the elevator to go to the tunnel to the jail. When he reached the stairs to go down to the tunnel, he said, he told them, he wasn't going to walk down there, he knew when he did what was going to happen and with all that has happened the reality of going to jail came to mind. He said, I just couldnt walk down those stairs, so they picked him up and were carrying him in such a way it was hurting him fiercely, so he said, "yes I was wrestling at that point to make it quit hurting". The witness that was sitting on the bench in the hallway that saw it all take place and witnessed he had not struck Mr. Martinez as he claims, Mickey's lawyer is seeking that witness to come forth. If anyone out there knows who it was, then they can help by contacting Mickey and or his attorney so the truth can come out and make this Ex-Houston cop, who probably has a long list of excssive force and police abuse record behind him face charges himself for excessive force, and perjury on a government document ie; the arrest affidavit. I am sure if someone digs around there in Houston they will find former complaints on this guy.
My former Republican friend who never believed much about what I told him this country was coming to has become a believer, because he has experienced fascism at it's best. Micky is even fearful of leaving his home now, because of this incident of fascism. His lawyer has warned him, that there is no telling what they may try next.
He admits the DA made him mad so he called him an S.O.B. but he never hit or struck anyone. He was set up by lies on the affidavit, slammed from behind and jailed by a guy that really in my opinion has no respect for the law, because he is willing to break it to make a name for himself. The further story is Mickey instead of like all other people that are arrested are taken to a Justice of the Peace to set the bond. They arranged it so that he had to go see, the District Attorney's former boss Judge Steen who use to be the District Attorney there in Smith County. So he had to appear in his court. Thus the ridiculous "high bond" of $190,000 set on him and the radio and television and printed press getting wind of what had happened. This brought the press on like flies on a piece of used toilet paper.
I ask for prayer for Mickey and that the truth be told, now.
Mickey admits to me he did say some curse words, which he regrets doing, he did get angry, but he was respecting them when they asked him to leave, he was about to be exit the office at the doorway and get on the elevator and be safely on his way home, when Mr. Fabio Martinez thought he would play "the big bad guy with a badge" routine on Mickey.
I pray that God will avenge Mickey's case for him, and do whatever He must do to make the liars, pay for what they have done to my friend.

We talked this afternoon, myself and a friend of mine drove over to visit with him. All things considered, he is getting through it as he has Christ as his defender.
He said they put him the suicide watch holding, while there, he was able to hear the still small voice of the Holy Spirit talk to him. He had a guy in the cell next to him that was reading scripture out loud and he doesnt recall the specific verse but it was about an angel delivering someone, and he thought Lord that is what I need.
He said there was one jail guard of the whole bunch that would come in and he was a Christian, about that time he showed up. He said, there was one guy down the hall that would yell and carry on, that the other guards couldnt calm down and actually at times would make him worse. The jailer who was a Christian was the only one that could get the guy to calm down, he would speak to him about Jesus and treated him with respect and love and the guy would quiet down. He said that guard went down there as he was praying and begin to talk about a guy that was hanging on a cliff and God told him to let go, and he wouldnt, and what the guy didnt know was at the bottom of the cliff was a net to catch him. Mickey said at that moment he knew he had to let go, and let Jesus. He said, I found myself praying for my persecutors instead of hating them. He said, his angel had come in the form of jailer with words from heaven.

I read 2 Thessalonians once again today it has always provided me with the peace to know someday, all the people like Fabio if they don't repent, will face a judgement from God.

It reads as follows:

We are bound to give thanks to God always to you, brethren, even as it ismeet, for that your faith growth exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all toward one another aboundeth; 4 so that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and in the afflictions which ye endure; 5 which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God; to the end that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with the angels of his power in flaming fire, 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus& 9 who shall suffer punishment, even eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might, 10 when he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be marvelled at in all them that believed (because our testimony unto you was believed) in that day.

I also recall to love our enemies. We need to pray for this Fabio guy, the District Attorney and the law in America. We need to pray that God will reveal to these men their guilt of sin before a righteous God and then pray that the Lord will give them a heart of mercy and compassion and just drop the charges. Mickey knows and said God is using it all for a purpose and I am gaining growth through it. He knows that most of his life like many of us, he has always tried to control everything, take charge, and the Lord is showing him to let go and lean on Him only. He is. We had a wondful visit, and my friend and I prayed for Mickey and hugged him and made suer he knew that we love him and are here for him. I ask you to pray that the charges will be dropped that are a lie. The disorderly conduct he is willing to deal with and accept. He admits, I wanted to be in control and that is understandable as his life as spiraled out of control in the last few weeks, with the death of a child and the loss of a wife. The Disorderly conduct charge isn't a felony and for him to continue with his life and live his dream of becoming a criminal defense attorney so that can be realized, needs to be the only charge he should have to deal with. Which is the truth but the rest of it is all a lie. The assault on a public servant should be thrown out. Technically, refusing to go down the stairs to the tunnel leading to the jail is resisting arrest, he needs compassion given here. He is still blaming himself for ever bringing Kathy home and Will's death. He needs understanding and love. I offered and my friend and many friends and family are doing just that. It was own father-in-law that bailed him out and very kind and helpful bondsmen that God provided. Mickey realizes the evil that we are surrounded by everyday, just waiting to steal, kill or destroy our relationship with Christ. He knows that Satan has been just trying to sift him like wheat. He understands now, our only purpose in this life is to be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ, so that God can prepare us for holiness and so we can be in His presence forever more. Pray for him please.

I said it before and I say it again.
Come Lord Jesus Come

Dr. J.

Pennsylvania and Oklahoma Leading the Fight on Illegal Immigration

If anyone read my article I wrote back in March of this year, I talked about illegal immigration. The news is carrying stories again in this area. What is good to hear, is since our Federal officials are all traitors, at least the one's who have sat there on their tuffs for 20 years doing nothing about illegal immigration, some of the States and Cities of this country are enacting their own laws to curve illegals from enjoying the benefits that we as tax paying citizens cannot even obtain . Money for healthcare and other social program benefits paid to them.
The Federal government- Congress, the President and the Legislation to be specific have for too long been accepting PAC money and lobby money and more from greedy corporations to allow the continuation of the flow of illegal immigrants into this country so that they may hire workers for less and increase their profits.

I have often wondered what direction this country would have gone if the Civil War had been won by the States. Perhaps we wouldn't have a bloated bunch of fat cats sitting on their proverbial tuffs in Washington, that no more listen to the voice of the people of this country than a hole in the head. What Americans fail to realize that those objecting the strongest against States like Oklahoma and cities like Hazelton, Pennsylvania on laws that will restrict and punish those that grant illegals jobs and social benefits are American Corporations and Businessmen. The Federal judges are over ruling those that care and are trying to stop the rush of illegal immigration into this country. These judges telling them as States and Cities, they have no right to do so. What? Since when do we as American citizens not have the right to protect our own National Security.
Illegal immigration as I wrote is one of the largest National Security risk we have.
The American economy and the plight of the American worker is at risk.
Those that forget and ignore history are apt to repeat it.

Rome had spread it's empire worldwide, their military thin and then allowed the barbarians to live in Rome and to be part of Rome. Rome lost it's culture, language and everything that made it Rome. Rome fell and we are about to as well. America is about to become that third world country while China is about to become the world's most powerful nation. You need to learn either Chinese or Spanish if you are going to survive the oncoming destruction of this country.

Perhaps things would have been different if the south would have won the Civil War. For one, the war was about States rights, not about slavery. This lie has been propagated for far too long.
If the States had the right to govern themselves, perhaps a whole lot of things that have made Washington become a centralized dictator government wouldn't exist.

Read the articles out there on the story on Pennsylvania for example and you will find that it is American corporations and their associations that are keeping illegal immigration alive in this country.

I don't have much more to say on this subject, than what I already have in my March 23rd article on the subject entitled
The Immigration Issue Can Be Resolved

All I can say it is good to see even a single mayor leading the fight to save America, though he will have to battle the Federal judges all the way to the Supreme Court. If they rule on this against the city and the states rights, we will have definitely fallen as a free nation that once was secure within it's borders. The fight is on. Maybe the States will win this Civil War.

Dr. J

The Arrest of Mickey Stevens

I was shocked to learn Tuesday evening when a friend of mine called to inform me that my friend Mickey had been arrested. He wasn't sure what it was about as he just walked into the living room when he heard his name on the television news for Tyler.
The story as so sensationalistic news these days goes, is Mickey had gone to the District Attorney's office to see if he could retrieve his computers for his work as a Real Estate Appraiser and for his needs for college which he was going off to this fall. The District Attorneys office and his investigators claim that Mickey cursed the DA when he refused to give them to him, and then they claim he hit one of the investigators. I just don't see it happening and if it did, they must have done something pretty serious to make him that way. Or was it the sleeping medicine the Doctor put him on? I don't know but their description is not the Mickey Stevens I have known and loved as a brother in the Lord.

Why were two investigators in the DA's office anyway? What was their purpose in coming in for a simple request by Mickey to obtain his computers. why weren't they out investigating? I have lots of unanswered questions here. Did they after a signed confession by his wife want to try to accuse him of the murder of his child? That would have made him irate- he loved Will.
Why haven't they either copied the hard drives or obtained off the computers what they wanted by now ( two weeks) if their is any evidence there of intent? What I have been told there investigation division doesnt even have a IT specialist to look at the hard drives. Where are Mickey's lap top and desk top. Are they locked away in an evidence room, or are they being used for personal business like so many others personal properties seized today by law enforcement. All he was told by the DA according to their side of the story is they had to be kept in a "capital murder" case. Why? They have Kathy's confession? Where had the conversation gone, to make my friend so angry, what was really said in that room in the presence of two investigators? Something set him off, because I have never even heard Mickey say a simple cuss word in our sometime heated political debates.

Mickey had already been accepted to law school, and after the death of his child, he almost considered not going. He was going to hang around Tyler, until his wife went to trial, etc. Then with the coaxing of his parents and friends like myself, we talked him into going on with his life and for him to go do what he has dreamed of doing for sometime now, that of becoming a lawyer. His desire was to help the poor, the downtrodden, to help set the captive free when they deserved it.

What angers me the most, is the arrest affidavit and the news reporters tried to paint Mickey as a dangerous subject.
I have known Mickey Stevens since 1999, when I met him, he was working for Lutheran Children Services. He was some sort of liason for the children in the system of boys homes. Mickey loved children and sought their protection.

Mickey has always respected the law and worked to help people through it.
He was even a Wood County Sheriffs Deputy and worked in the reserve for years. Previous to all that he had worked for the Tyler Police Department. Mickey was the kind of police officer that believed if you carry the badge, you lived the badge. While employed with Tyler PD, an incident took place where one of his fellow police officers had violated the law, either it was a excessive force case or something like that. I won't be able to tell you the full details because my memory fades me more these days, but anyway, the officer was facing problems because of his violation of the law. Mickey stood up out of all the officers that were witnesses or could have been he was willing as the only one witness to tell the truth about the incident. The officer was guilty of the accusation. Mickey because he didnt live the unwritten code that is so prevalent among a lot of Police Officers - the code of "blue covers for blue no matter what", left the department there as he felt that he could no longer be safe. He knew after that from the snubbing he received by other officers, and that if it ever came down to it, he couldnt count on them too cover his back. So, Mickey resigned what he loved doing there at Tyler PD.
He went instead out of Smtih County and found work part-time to keep his Law Enforcement Officers certification at Wood County. Sometimes working the jail, other times working patrol. Mickey took on various jobs after that some related to law enforcement others not. He worked for Child Protective Services in Canton, Lutheran Children Services and later as Private Investigator for a lawyer that I know in Longview who was an old professor of mine at the University of Texas at Tyler. He also worked for me as a private investigator for a short stint before taking that job.

In 2001, I helped Mickey find his way into the Real Estate Appraisal business which he has been working for the last several years. Quietly by himself driving the roads of America to do an honest service, where not much honesty is left these days. Mortgage and appraisal fraud is a mile a minute a huge new white collar crime in America. Mickey was one of those that refused to be dishonest and just give appraisals at the beckon call of many mortgage companies who won't do business with you as an Appraiser unless you give them the appraisal amount they want.
Mickey refused to work that way. He was an honest, upright, gentleman. He also loved his wife, he had fought for her life and mental sanity since marrying her. He worked hard to help her, helped her find the kind of help he knew best to send her too. He loved the law and he loved truth and he loved people.

In all the years I knew him, I never heard him use a curse word or show any signs of violence. The affidavit statements made by the District Attorneys investigators and the DA, are so far out of line from the Mickey I have been friends with. These do not reflect the Mickey Stevens I know. The newspapers in Tyler did even a worse job, making a video that was sensationlist. Today's journalism in my opinion is no different then the "yellow journalism" of the past. Most newspapers and television reports are like they are headlines out of the Enquirer or the Globe. They jump on and write the things that is going to attract the largest audience. In the old days it was called "yellow journalism" today we call it the news. What a joke!

In my day, a good reporter would not have just printed what was handed to them by an official, they would have seeked the whole story. They would have interviewed Mickey, his family and his friends. They would have had a different picture to paint. Thus, that is why the news doesnt go after the story anymore, because we as Americans are like the Romans at the Coliseum, we can't wait to hear something that strikes our flesh as appeasing and entertaining or whatever that stands out and is exciting. We want blood, we want action, we want a thriller, we want to see all the negative there is about people rather than some positive aspects of them.
The truth is we want to know the "trash" about others, it makes us live with ourselves easier, when we can lift up ourselves in our minds above the "criminal types". It helps us ignore the sad fact that we are sin sick as well.

Less we forget as a friend of mine said to me- we are all guilty of sin". God did not call Christians to judge but to love. We can still speak the truth in love but we are not in the position to judge- because "we ALL have been declared guilty. Thus God's word reminds us not to forget those who are in prison. I thank God for the work my Uncle and Aunt have done in this area of their lives. My uncle, an ex-cop, retired as a Chaplain from the Texas Correctional System. He and my aunt have done a lot to help young men find their way back in life and shown them how to live it right and stay out of trouble. We don't always agree on everything either in religion or politics, but in the end we love each other, because love must always be above all things, if we call ourselves by the name of Christ - Christians meaning (Christ one's).

Mickey and I had spoke the morning before the incident that landed him in jail. We talked about his going off to college. He talked about that he needed his computers and in a mild manner, not irritated or excited, he said he was going to go ask the DA for them, if he could release them to him now. He needed his to rap up his Real Estate Appraisal business and for college at Texas Tech's law school where he was going off to become an Attorney.
Mickey loved the law. We often had debates over politics as he was a "real right wing nut" I would call him. George Bush was his favorite President and hard core Republican he was all the way.
In all the debates he and I had, he never grew angry or used an expletive. We loved each others as brothers in the Lord. We could differ on politics and not separate friendship because of them. He called me a "conspiracy nut" sometimes. It didn't matter, I had respect for him and he respected me.

He was so happy I came to see him and contact him. He was so happy that I was there for little Will's funeral. He thanked me twice for calling him that Monday morning before he went to the DA's office to see if he could retrieve his two computers.
He sounded down and out. I could tell he was depressed which is anyone's normal reaction to the death of a loved one especially one's only child. He was depressed over losing his wife to her insanity as well, he told me she will never see the light of day again, because she would probably be locked up forever.
He was sad, the death of Will is sad and the fact that his own wife committed the act and now too she is gone from his life. What man or woman for that matter who has been through all of this would even keep their own sanity?
Remember, he will live with the memory of trying to save his son's life with CPR to no effect for the rest of his life. I have that same kind of memory of trying to save my former wife's life as well. I tried for approximately twenty five minutes, yet she died of brain death from the car accident we were in.
That memory haunts me in my dreams and in my wake. I was a Medic/Firefighter for 3 years in Colorado and had many a person die on me or where I wasn't able to save their lives with CPR. I had those I did save though as well.
When it is your own loved one, it is a different story. Just the death of someone you loved so dearly, leaves a large hole ripped open in your chest where it feels as if someone has removed your heart and left your chest cavity empty. It hurts more than anyone can imagine unless they have been through it. I know the hurt at least a portion of my hurt is the same as the hurt he has been experiencing. He couldnt sleep at nights, he needed and knew he needed to break away from his environment of his home and his child's toys as soon as possible. You have to for your own sanity. He had spent part of that morning packing away little Will's toys and clothes. His parents and her parents were to keep some of the items. I remember my own experience of living in the house after my wife died. Every sight, every smell, every moment was a reminder that she would never come home to me again. It will tear you apart. Mickey I sensed was hurting deep, he so looked forward to friends calling him, family visiting him, and anything that would keep his mind off the loss he suffered.
I don't know, because I wasn't there in the DA's office what actually transpired. I was not a part to the conversation. I do know Mickey though and whatever was said by the DA must have pushed him over the edge. It doesn't take much when you suffer with Post Traumatice Stress Disorder. I know, I have suffered with it since 2001 when my wife died. There is in the pit of your stomach that cries out, God help me, I don't know if I can make it in this life another day. Being a Christian is the only hope that keeps you hanging in there. Mickey knew the Lord as well. We had many a talk about religion versus a relationship with Christ. Mickey cared about justice in a world that is unjust. Mickey like me had seen the other side of the law labor force.
He has seen the corruption that often goes on behind closed doors. He wanted to help right it, as I do. He left those jobs he wanted to be effective in, because as I did, we found the world is not untouched by evil even in the things we as humans believe are good. He had seen men who wore badges like I have, live out their lives as if they were above the law. The side the public rarely sees, except now and then when we read some sensationalist news item where a cop or judge or other as been charged with a crime. They just happen to get caught. It goes on everywhere, everyday somewhere in America or across the world. Mickey wanted to become a criminal defense attorney to insure that the alleged criminal would at least get a fair trial whether guilty or not. That is one thing that we are guranteed by the Bill of Rights that seems these days has gone out the doors. Today largely due to the media, one is judged guilty already and must go to court to prove himself innocent.
What happened to America. We are as it says in the last days - 2 Timothy 3:1-5
But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self–control, fierce, no lovers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; 5 holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power therefore. From these also turn away. .

The above description doesnt fit my friend. He knew Christ and he knew that He is our only hope in this life. Yet, he is human as I or you, and just because we are Christians doesn't mean we don't hurt over the loss of a loved one. Just because we are Christian doesnt mean we don't get angry, or that often feel like life is hopeless. In honesty, our life on this earth is hopeless if we rest our faith in the things that are temporal here. We are to have our minds on heavenly things.
I can put no hope in what I see go on around me everyday in this world. Evil is more prevalent then anytime I can remember in my life.

Mickey needs prayer, he needs right now the hand of God to reach down and lift him up out of this quagmire that is left his soul without rest. He needs mercy, he needs love and he needs people to know the real Mickey, not the one the DA's office has painted for the lust thirsty press in America these days. I get really ticked off when I see how they play there cards anymore. What happened to truth in this country? What happened to mercy and compassion for the hurting, the injured, the victim, the poor, the unloved, the orphan? What happened, we have forgotten God and his declaration on ALL MANKIND- Sin results in death! That sin is not broken down into categories like man likes to do it. That sin says that all "our righteousness is as filthy rags before the Lord. That sin says guilty with the sounding hammer of God's gavel on the bench as the only judge in heaven and on earth righteous enough and holy eneough to judge anyone. That guilty accusation that rings across this universe was paid for you and I and Mickey by the very blood of Jesus Christ- who paid the debt you and I cannot pay! So, rest easy my friend, Mickey, someday, the real judge is coming back again, and when he does, many a man who judged and showed no compassion and mercy will recieve the same in the end. God is a true judge and jury and he will not overlook the sins of those who are always so anxious to point the fingers at others while 4 fingers yet point at themselves. There is coming a day.
Come Lord Jesus, Come.

Dr. J.

Is The Red Flag About To Wave In America or the False Flag?

I love my mother, I think most kids do. I have to tell you she is the staunchest supporter of my blog, she reads almost every article and then takes time to send me back a reply. I appreciate that. Nothing could be more important than having one's mother be one of your biggest fans and that she is. Every now and then she sends me an article to read and often these fire up my thoughts to write a new article. The one she sent me the other day did just that.
Now, I don't know how much of it's true because it's source according to ABC News is the FBI. The article dealt with the smuggling of Iraqi's and other individuals from terroristic countries coming across our borders in the south. I perceive the article in one of two ways, first it's either information being fed to the public to allow for how and where the next attack in the United States came about or it's for real, a genuine report from the FBI and if it is then it is a blatant letter of condemnation. This would mean a sound judgement placed on the present Republican and Democratic rule in Washington. They were doing nothing but to allow this to continue. I am sure you understand or will by the time I am through writing here.

Here is a portion of the story for you. This is excerpted from the Fire Society.com blog.
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Mexican Human Traffickers Find More Lucrative "Cargo"-- Middle Easterners

According to ABC News, the FBI is now investigating a major human smuggling ring that is bringing Iraqi and other Middle Easterners into the U.S. through our southern border (see below for a link to the article).

The report indicated that the smuggling ring "used to smuggle Mexicans, but decided to smuggle Iraqi or other Middle Eastern individuals because it was more lucrative." The smugglers gathered at the Mexican border, crossed the Rio Grande and bordered their “cargo” on trains for the U.S. interior.

Read the ABC News story here. http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/fbi-iraqis-bein.html

And this smuggling ring is just the tip of the iceberg.

Hezbollah and Al Qaida coming through Mexico
Last year, the FBI director reported that both Hezbollah and Al Qaida terrorists had crossed our Mexican border. (Report here.)

Also, as we reported in our “Truth About Illegal Invasion” booklet, in a four-year period (2001-2005) more than 91,500 illegal aliens from countries known to or suspected of sponsoring terrorism were apprehended at our border. That means an estimated 200,000 illegals from potential terrorist nations were not apprehended and successfully infiltrated our country.
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Now either this is being put forth as propaganda by an elitist Washingtonian group of conspirators to create a future excuse for a future "false flag" attack that will happen in the U.S. or it's for real.
If for another "false flag" incident what better way than to get the American people behind Cheney and others in Washington to justify Cheney's desire to use nuclear weapons on Iran. This would be easy once they could pin the blame on an alleged Iranian terrorist that was smuggled in to the U.S. across the border. How else would he have gotten in? Airplane, nope, visa card, nope, must have snuck in across the border then.
Then again this could for real be happening. In that case one must ask "why are American citizens rights to privacy and freedom being slowly eroded away by Mr. Bush and his crowd, for Homeland Security purpose, while they are allowing our borders to still continue to be violated?
I mean look at all they are using in surveillance and the taking away of the Bill of Rights for American citizens while the whole time, they are letting our borders remain insecure to allow them to get into this country anyway. What Security?
It sounds to me like another hoax of tax dollar expenditure for something that doesnt work. Just look at all we spent over the years for domestic security, and national defense against an enemy attacking. We spent millions on air defenses and underground defense facilities like Norad to guard against attacks like 911. We had millions of dollars spent by the CIA and the FBI every year preceding the attack, yet no one knew or had an inclination that it was about to happen, Yet, they couldnt even scramble a few Air Force Defense planes off the ground quick enough even after they knew the airlines had been hijacked to stop it. Baloney! Just look at Homeland Security the millions they are spending and they can't even secure our borders. What a joke!
In my opinion, thats just another reason, I don't believe the "official story".

A part to the unofficial story is that the State Department had the 9/11 perpetrators on a list of known terrorist yet when the State Department official in Saudi Arabia notified the FBI before issuing them "visas" to come over they were told to allow them to do so.
Who made that decision? I haven't heard any questions come forth on those facts. Why has that State Department official since retired prematurely, according to what I hear? What would he tell you, if he could speak?
To be honest, perhaps he did speak, I didn't read the garbage Commission on 911 final report.
I heard enough on television and went to the web site to read testimony to know that report was a snow job on the American public. Just read some of the Firefighers and EMT's stories and some of the victims families testimony sometime online. You can actually listen to them online and even see video interviews at You Tube.

Now, all this news of these possible terrorist coming across the border, which I don't doubt, may be true somewhat. If I were one of them ,it would be the most plausible way to me to enter without detection. Especially in light of the following news item.
While you were sleeping in America as usual the elitist future totalitarian communist in Washington or wherever they are hiding in conspiracy have taken another opportunity to allow Terrorist to enter this nation. Check these facts out.
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On February 23, 2007 the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that it was opening the border to permit unlimited, unrestricted access to trucking companies registered to and owned by Mexican companies, whose trucks will be driven by Mexican drivers, but will now be able to drive freely on roads in the U.S.A., all in the name of NAFTA (of course) and empowered by the actions of the SPP.'
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Now, do you really believe that our government hasn't already been run over by the Red's and that they aren't already in office. They are somewhere in the bunch, believe me.
When will the American people wake up and realize these things? I'll tell you when! I'll tell you just like I would have told the people if I would have been there before Stalin or Mao took over, the people won't wake up. They have all been lulled into a slumber by smoke and mirrors, mis-information, propaganda and a corporate-government run media. They have been brainwashed to believe that all the policies and law are being made for their good, for their security.
So didn't the Chiness people and the Russian people believe the very same things. Hitler used the same techniques to gain power as well.
You sleep and sometimes you never wake up and sometimes when you do, it's too late, the giant in your nightmare has already crushed you.
We are like Rip Van Winkle, we have gone to sleep for the last 50 years, thinking all was well in America when in truth, the totalitarian communist plan to take over this country and turn us all into nothing but slave labor and peasants has already begun to happen.
How would you know? If, you don't open your eyes, and get your head out of the sand and begin to ask questions, you won't ever know.
A true patriot never trust just anyone, for he knows that there are always traitors or assasins among the flag waving crowd.
It takes great observation skills and lots of training to pick them out.
It isn't easy, just ask any Secret Service man who has to protect our leaders. There are signs you have to look for, the guy that doesnt smile when the rest do, etc. They refer to this as "observational pyschology".

Well, the signs that we have been sold out are all over the legislation and laws being passed these days, they are just like the one guy in the crowd who doesnt smile when everyone else is. YOu just have to know how to interpret the signs.
I can't put a finger to blame on any one person or political party or other, it could be many or it may be a few that hold powerful positions that we are unaware of. It's easy to blame President Bush and his cabinent, but there are all those Senators and Legislators as well, that have allowed or been behind this kind of duplicity far too long. Some one is calling the shots up there, and it isn't you or me.
For an example of our ignorance on matters, most Americans don't even know that the Federal Reserve is called by a misnomer name. Why? It is a private institution run by private individuals who hold a lot of power over our economic and policies affecting the American people. Yet, they are not even a government institution and our elected officials have no say so over their decisions, or their power plays in economic decision making.
They recommend and we follow their recommendations. Did you ever ask to think why? Why do these few men like Allen Greenspan and others have that capability? How can a non-governmental institution be so powerful?
When did this happen, why, where, how?

I have lots of friends and family, that get aggravated with me, because I do just that about everything. Who, what, when, where, why and how. It has to be due to my old journalistic training and my working investigations for 18 years. I even approach my Bible reading in the same manner. I am thankful I do, as it has been the most enlightening reading I ever did.
If you want to get to truth, you have to determine what is deception. You have to look at all the pieces to a puzzle or otherwise when you put it together it will look nothing like the picture on the box. It will be a confused picture, a picture non-theless, but only a portion of it. For example, if you had a puzzle of a young lady holding a rose, but if all you put together were the portions of the puzzle of the rose, you wouldnt have the whole story. The whole puzzle when put together would show the young lady holding the rose - the whole story would be told. Most Americans are satisfied too go only so far in their puzzle skills as to put just the rose pieces together and never realize the 'rest of the story.'

We as Americans have been spoon fed the garbage that comes out of Washington, by the press and those leaders who provide the press with their stories. The worst part is we eat it and ask for another spoonful. We never ask the question, what is it your feeding me, where did it come from, why does it taste like that, when did it come into existence, and how did it come about. We just let the newscasters and government decision makers spout off all their predetermined news and decisions to us, and say "Ok."
To me, they are just vomiting out what benefits them or the story they want told. About 90% of the time, it is like the rose puzzle, just the parts that show the rose, the rest of the parts are left laying to the side.
We never question any of our news sources or the stories we are told. Most people I talk to have been so brainwashed that they are actually fearful of questioning anything other than whatever the prevailing majority thinks or I should say what they have been told to think.
Many of these, I am sorry to say are, Fox News, mesmerized. Fox loves to flash across their screen, "Fair and Balanced" news. What a farce, they are so programmed by the right wing conservative bunch they couldnt be fair and balanced if they wanted to. Bill O' Reilly is one of their superstars. In my opinion, the truth be told, he and that Shannon guy are only spouting off what has been written for them. Do you honestly think that Rupert Murdoch, the media giant owner of Fox would allow them to say anything other than what benefits the elitist of this country?
This applies to religion, Christianity, history, politics, and more, most people
just seemed satisfied to lie their in the mess and not even try to get up and clean them selves off a little and say, you know what, I want to learn how I got into this mess in the first place.

I absolutely at times, feel like screaming at some people when they get tunnel vision and narrow minded and they can't see beyond the nose on their own faces. it;s frustrating and makes me realize how frustrated Jesus got with the Pharisees and their followers. No wonder, he called them names, like children of the devil, etc. To be quite honest when talking to these kind of people it is just flat due to "intellectual laziness on their part.
Anything beyond thinking what they are told to think would take much to much effort. To think outside of the box might result in them splitting a vessel in their brains, God forbid!
I don't mean to be demeaning, but I can't tell you what it feels like to show facts to someone and then have them deny them and not even try to examine them for themselves.

I have to tell a story, when I first got into the investigation-security business back in the early 80's, I had a friend who had a small convenience store, he was having a lot of money turn up missing, he thought he might know who was doing it, but he wanted proof. So I talked him to putting some cameras in the store to video what went on while he was away. The idea was to be a deterrent more than anything.One camera was placed directly pointing at the register, where the cashiers would be. On the very first night the thief went to work, even though they had been told and shown the camera. This person was videoed taking a $20.00 bill and putting it into their back pocket. When he called me the next day we looked at it together. My friend, the store owner then called the young lady to his office that was the culprit, and showed her the video. She denied it was her! She said it was someone else.
This is the kind of stupidity I encounter when you talk to people about truth in America. Most don't understand what a "FALSE FLAG" incident is. When told of incidents both in world history and American history they look at you as if you have something wrong with you. It's as if you have two heads or something.
They don't know history and don't want to know history. I guess there is a sense of security in ignorance. What is their to fear if their is only light and darkness is denied. They remind me of Christian Scientist or the Word of Faith movement. They would lie there dying from a horrible disease before they would ever admit they have it.
To do so, would be a lack of faith in their minds, when everone else knows, that's stupid. Why do we see this in these religious groups, yet can't see it in our own blind acceptance of the news and our politicians?
Why, because it is easier to believe that no one in power in America could ever possibly be a dictator or have a desire to be one. There again we want just to see the rose in the puzzle, not the whole story.
Don't be fooled, every man enjoys the power when thrust on them. From the beginning of time, man has wanted to be a god. Thus he disobeyed God and has been seeking that same position ever since, power over others and power over the earth. Thus we have wars!

Just like the young lady that was informed of the camera, she could see the video of herself and yet she denied she did the crime.
These people that I often talk to will act is if they are blind and deaf. They don't see and they can't hear. Whatever you do, don't press the issue they will attack you and ask why you just don't believe like everyone else and go along with the crowd.

Matter of fact, I have been accused by certain family members of being crazy and should be arrested for even thinking about alternative explanations for things like 911 or other political controversies. This is how insanely brainwashed "they" are.

It always reminds me of a documentary I was once watching on Stalin and Russia. They showed a woman crying at Stalins glass encased body at one of the anniversaries of his death when the public is allowed to view his embalmed body.
This woman was the victim of Stalin.
Stalin had personally imprisoned and killed her entire family, her mother, her dad and even some of her children, yet they asked her why she cried? She cried because, she said, "I am sad he died, he was a great man and leader and she loved him". I am not lying to you, that was her real reply.
This video and interview took place with the lady after the Berlin wall came down just a few years ago and she was under no threat to say differently.
She could have spoken freely, at least that is what we have been made to believe is the case in Russia now.

That is the sort of brain washing that has happened to these people when it comes to their blind devotion for some of our leadership here in America. They in my opinion are the one's who have lost their minds to even reason or to think objectively any longer about anything in this life.

I believe we should pray for our leaders and I do. We are also told to "speak the truth in love". I do that as well. I never say what I say to harm, I say the things I say to heal. To heal people from living and breathing falsehood. We are to discern good from evil, we are to recognize the spirits of lies and truth. These are admonitions found all through scripture.

I guess, that has always been part of my problem, I always marched to the beat of a different drummer. I never could accept things, just because someone told me they were true. I had to find out for myself, and you know what, I am thankful to God that he made me that way. That's probably unlike many, I read my Bible a lot, because as opposed to just going once on Sunday to hear men speaking, which is often sprinkled with their own opinions and a lot of flesh at times, I can reach truth by biblical study on my own.
Even God, says "come let us reason together".
Reasoning involves a process known as "discourse", two individuals or more actually discussing matters from different points of views until the puzzle is solved and their is agreement or final acceptance of something for both parties. God told Job to do that with Him while Job was in his pain. Job questioned God, made some statements then God questioned Job and made some statements out of it Job got the answers he needed. Dialegomia is a lost art to the "one man show" church.

In the early church they did not practice one man preaching, they practiced "Dialegomia" - discourse. Even the story in the book of Acts where Pauls long night with the people caused a young man to fall out of a window because he had fallen to sleep, was a discourse not preaching. Check out the Greek word, if you don't believe me.
Apparently the young man was more like most church goers today, he just sat there and didnt get into the discourse between Paul and the other believers.
He was a silent observer, who let the others do the talking and it lulled him to sleep.
We are like that in our churches and in our political lives anymore. No place for opinions or discourse to arrive at truth.
Just sit there and be silent and let the so called "trained professionals" tell us what to believe. Believe and go home and don't question it.
That's the way TV news watchers are as well, they believe what they are told, they shut off their television and go to bed. They are still in the slumber they were when they watched the news.
Have you ever wondered why people that love God fall alseep in church? Reason, number one, they weren't called to be silent, they have the gift of the Holy Spirit as well to speak truth to the body. They have been silenced by man's traditions not by the command of God or the practices of the early church. It was just the opposite before men thought they were smarter than God or equal to him, and re-established the earthly human priest again. They destroyed everything Jesus came to do away with and they did it in only a few short years after the death of the disciples.
The day of the "big mouth and little ears is spreading to even the common citizen as well.
We listen, they talk. We got our intellectual food at news time, so now believe it, act on it and go back to the slumber you were in before you even heard it.
One of the major reasons the church is failing is the Ekklesia has forgotten how to have discourse, even in our assembly together.
Whatever the preacher says is accepted as Gospel truth when often it is not. It's easier that way. It's called spiritual laziness! Sit there and get fed what is suppose to be pure unadulterated truth from God, accept it, go home. He's the professional, besides isn't he the one that really knows the Bible? He did go to college and all. That's what I pay him to do, to stand in for me with God, that way I don't have to do anything but sit here silently. The system propagates it.
We do that with our news reporters and politicians as well. They are the professionals, I pay for him to know or to tell me, so I don't have to make an effort to find out for myself or do anything about it. How many people gripe about policy in Washington and in their home state, but never have taken 5 minutes to write a letter to these people or the newscasters. I do, lots of emails and letters.

In politics, in history or religion we need to learn what is truth, and how to get to it. This means as an old Bible professor of mine once told me, "supposition has to go to the garbage can, so you can get through to find the real meat".

I say all this, because, we are either allowing terrorist free entry into this country or we aren't, Which is it? We need to ask our government that question Either President Bush and the U.S. government have a "War Against Terrorism" going on or they don't. If they don't, then there are some very shady things going on and we need to ask why.
What is the purpose of sending thousands of young men to fight over in a country we had no reason to go to anyway, knowing that Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan produced the one's that attacked us,if that is the case. At least the facts say it is.
It was money from Saudi and the Bin Laden family that helped finance 911. Then why did we go to Iraq? Why? I would tell you but you wouldnt believe it.
Did we really go to Iraq because Saddam had WMD's that we all know never existed, anyway.
Let's say they did, and if they did, what would the chance of one crazy leader pointing one at America and firing it at us wouldnt that mean the absolute destruction of himself and his country. Of course it would! Saddam may have been crazy but he loved himself to much to be that stupid.
Why do you think that China or Russia whose power equals ours in nuclear missles have never fired one at us? What holds them back??
North Korea has one of the biggest nuts alive running that country and they have nukes pointed at us and they haven't fired one, yet. I wonder why?
Total annilahation from us, is why they don't.
It's the great "Mexican standoff".

Now, would a single crazed group of terrorist do such a thing when they have no particular ties with any one country and are by label free agents in this world to do their dirty work?
Yes, of course they would.
They represent and comprise only a few radical Muslims, not all Muslims, though the Muslim religion is based on violence, but what can we say about the religion of Christianity?
We practice the same ideals of violence as they do. Tit for Tat. Power over rather than power under, as Jesus taught.
This is of course is not Christianity to be warmongers but the 'religion of christianity' and history proves that the "organizational church" has been more responsible for violence to other men then most Muslims could dream of.

True Christianity is based on the peace of God, not the violent traditions of men gone mad with power. Yet, if you look at church history you see just the opposite.
This has to tell you something about organizational religion. It surely can't be ordained by God the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Then if that isn't the church, then what is? The answer lies in scripture and in study. I found it, will you search to find it? Or will you just be spiritually lazy and live status quo?

What I see about to happen in America is another "FALSE FLAG" about to be waved. Cheney is pushing for a nuclear strike on Iran, what more could make that happen then some sort of nuke in the U.S. going off in some major metropolitan area here and then blaming it on an Iranian terrorist. Who would be responsible acutally? Who would be able to say, if in fact the RED FLAG isn't already waving over Washington and we have already been taken over from within.
I can tell you this it would bring about the greatest elimination of individual rights ever known to mankind in this country as martial law took over every part of this country.
Every person would be searched, limited in travel, interrogated for any previous inconsistencies of thought from the majority or as dicatated by the regime holding power in this country.
There may be just such a plan going on right now, to bring all free citizens to their knees in captivity to a New World Order, a Police State. Won't you be ashamed then, when you look at us that tried to tell you to sort truth for yourself before it's too late. To stand up now, and be counted before it was too late.

Is the (communist) "RED FLAG" about to wave in America? It just might be. Or another "FALSE FLAG" (a created event by individuals to blame on others, to achieve personal and political objectives) event created for the benefactors of a country that would come under them as Police State rulership. Which will it be? I know that until they rounded up all the guns in America, they might have a tough time with a few, American insurgents. However, the sad thing to say is most people would accept the security offered by the dictators over liberty, they already have.

I honestly can't tell you why, just deep down in my guts I have a feeling, based on the signs of the times, the things going on around us that something major is about to change the face of this country. The question we must ask ourselves and align ourselves with is this, will it be a better country or the worse nightmare Americans have ever experienced?
I don't know but my heart tells me, the elitist-conspiricist have already gone too far to accomplish their objectives to stop now.
They want what they want and that is POWER!
Perfect power (totalitarianism) has always corrupted perfectly those in power.
I ask again, Is The Red Flag or the False Flag About To Wave In America? Probably the RED FLAG if we keep allowing politicians to say one thing out of the side of their mouth while practicing another. The law they passed for Mexican truck drivers and their trucking companies is just another perfect example of the duplicity the Washingtonians practice.
You know there is only one spiritual being that loves and practices such duplicity - Satan himself and he is alive and doing well these days with influencing our politicians in America it seems.

Dr. J.

Remember The Poor

"I have been poor and I have been rich, but I have always found someone poorer than I"
Many years ago, when I was a young man in college, I went with our Baptist Student Union on a missionary trip to Matamoros, Mexico. We stayed in a large open area and slept on cots, took cold showers at a church in Brownsville, Texas. Each morning a bus load of us would drive to an area where we were constructing an orphanage for some children there. This became my first exposure to poor of the world outside my own.
We traveled into the poorest parts of Matamoros and it was then and there I realized how rich I was.
When I was a college student, my wife worked in the day as a maid, I worked at the same place in the evening doing laundry. There were many times in those days, that after paying our rent for an efficiency apartment we would barely have $5.00 - $10.00 left to eat on, but we had friends.
Those friends though not Christians were often our lifeline. They would feed us and buy us things now and then. They were great friends. The one thing that set them apart is they understood poverty. Most people have no clue unless they have been there. One has to experience poverty or Christ has to show them the need to have a desire to help. It takes compassion to help the poor, not judgement.
I remember well the impression it made in my mind when I saw how the people in Mexico lived. Many of the families lived on the streets in large cardboard boxes cut and shaped to form a small shelter. Often the only heat they had was a small coffee can with something burning in it. I came face to face with real poverty.
All the time thinking I was poor previous to that trip there. I found that in truth I was rich. I had a comfortable but small dwelling place to live in, some food, and I had a heater to warm me. I have since that day been both rich and poor. I have had lots of money, I didn't want and very little that I needed more of it.
These days, I am kind of back in the situation past, poor but never so poor to forget that there are plenty of others in this world that live in true poverty.
To help remind me as a Christian one of the most important truths taught in scripture, I often refer myself to some verses in the Bible. These are verses that all of us as Christians need to hold fast to.
We as a nation and a people have been so mesmerized by our wealth and our materialism we forget. Forgetting the poor is the very worst thing we can do.

All the money taken in and given to organizations, if only a small portion of it is not going to help the poor, then it useless money. It can be your church, your volunteer organization or whatever - if the largest amount is going to the organization itself and not flowing out to those in need, the purpose of your organization is already defeated. There are church denominations, that own billions of dollars in property, two of which I can name are the Baptist and Catholics. Not to pick on just these two but they own the largest amount worldwide. What would all that money have done, if instead of more buildings and property being purchased it would have been given to feed and clothe the poor? It would have helped change the world. So the next time you see someone poorer than yourself, remember these verses.
Remember what Jesus said, what does it profit you to hear the word but not to do the word?

Remember The Poor

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." -Matthew 6:24

"He who mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished." -Proverbs 17:5

"If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered."-Proverbs 21:13

"He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich--both come to poverty." -Proverbs 22:16

"Jesus answered, 'If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.'"
-Matthew 19:21

"Then Jesus said to his disciples, 'I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.'"
-Matthew 19:23-24

"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.'"
-Matthew 25:41-45

"He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses." -Proverbs 28:27

"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy."
-Proverbs 31:8-9

"People who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." -1 Timothy 6:9-10

"Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life." -1 Timothy 6:17-19

"Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy." -Ezekiel 16:49

"Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death."
-Proverbs 11:4

"A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold." -Proverbs 22:1

"Rich and poor have this in common: The LORD is the Maker of them all."
-Proverbs 22:2

"A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor."
-Proverbs 22:9

"Do not exploit the poor because they are poor and do not crush the needy in court, for the LORD will take up their case and will plunder those who plunder them."
-Proverbs 22:22-23

"Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle." -Proverbs 23:4-5

"Better a poor man whose walk is blameless than a rich man whose ways are perverse."
-Proverbs 28:6

"A faithful man will be richly blessed, but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished." -Proverbs 28:20

"The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern."
-Proverbs 29:7

"Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless." -Ecclesiastes 5:10

"There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land."
-Deuteronomy 15:11

"He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God." -Proverbs 14:31

"A fortune made by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a deadly snare."
-Proverbs 21:6

"You evildoers frustrate the plans of the poor, but the Lord is their refuge."
-Psalm 14:6

"He who is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and He will reward him for what he has done." -Proverbs 19:17

"A rich man may be wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has discernment sees through him." -Proverbs 28:11

"The wealth of the rich is their fortified city; they imagine it an unscalable wall."
-Proverbs 18:11

I thank God for friends and family that have been there to give me a hand when I needed it. Perhaps, you know someone today that you have been overlooking that needs help. Perhaps, there is someone you know who has a need. Perhaps, there is someone you have judged when it wasn't your right to judge but it was your call to help.
I say it again - remember the poor.

Dr. J.