Family Tradition…But What I’m Thankful For! November 29, 2008

I am so thankful for what God has brought me through.  If you have been following my post on “My Life” which is not complete, you can see where I have been in my life thus far.  I made wrong choices as a young teen, but God used my circumstances to mold me into what I am today.  He continues to mold me like the potter does his pottery or the silversmith refining his silver.  The fire may get hot, and by all means I’m not rejoicing…but, I look back and see how I have grown from the Potters or Refiner’s Hands!  He is not through with me yet!

I went through a time in my life where I had no food or very little (I didn’t go in detail about this in my post on “My Life”).  I am so grateful that I spent that time knowing what it feels like to have no food or very little, no washer to wash clothes or money to take them to the laundry mat, only a tub (bathtub for scrubbing them), no car to go places or a junk of a car with no money to put gas in.

God had a plan for me even after I had made those choices. God is using me now as a servant to others and I am so grateful for that.  I love helping people, it is my passion.

Our Life Group from Crosspoint Community Church  had the opportunity to help with a couple and their 2 granddaughters for Thanksgiving, she was such a blessing to our group!  This is things of which I am so thankful for.  Being blessed more by the ones you are helping, this is what I love.

I am thankful for Christ dying for me and the entire world that we may have eternal life with Him.  I am thankful for my mom who raised me in church so that when I strayed like the prodical son, I knew to come home.  I am thankful for my husband Paul, my friend, the love of my life and my hero.  Without him I would have not had values in my life.  He has taught me so much throughout our 19 almost 20 years of marriage about family, caring loving and respecting one another, I am so thankful that God put him in my life.

I am thankful for the church that I attend now (Crosspoint), it is a church that has a vision to reach the lost (the unsaved) and I feel blessed to be apart of that vision.  I love God, my Husband, my family, my church and am thankful that I have these in my life.  My God has blessed me more than I could ever deserve.

Psalms 100:3

3 Know that the LORD is God.
       It is he who made us, and we are his ;
       we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.

Psalm 95

 1 Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
       let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.

 2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving
       and extol him with music and song.

 3 For the LORD is the great God,
       the great King above all gods.

 4 In his hand are the depths of the earth,
       and the mountain peaks belong to him.

 5 The sea is his, for he made it,
       and his hands formed the dry land.

 6 Come, let us bow down in worship,
       let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;

Psalm 107:1
“Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.”

Growing Even Further Away From God and Church (My Life Part 3) November 17, 2008

Between the ages of 16-18 years I was partying heavily.  I began hanging at a house in Decatur that was known as “The Party House of Decatur!”  I made many friends at this house, why?, there was no judgement between anyone, you were accepted the way you were.  Come on in the more the merrier.

Still very introverted the drugs and drinking that I was doing helped me be a little more outgoing.  So by age 18, I was doing pot, pills (uppers, downers) some cocaine, drinking, and playing poker for money, I guess you can say the only thing I hadn’t done was had sex!

The police knew all about this house and it’s owner.  It was raided several times when I was there.  Did that scare me away from being apart of all this?? No! I look back and wonder why God didn’t take me out.  I can see how God had his hand on me and how he was guiding me even in my rebellious stage!

I eventually got up the courage to tell my mom that I wasn’t going to attend church anymore, that I had nothing in common with all those that were attending and most of them didn’t care about church either.  So I stopped going!!!

Then…I met a guy at the party house one night, he was 4 years older than me and very nice looking.  We began dating, if that is what you want to call it.  He began living at the party house, I was there night and day, so this was our date nights.  He never came to my home to meet my mother or father, I knew my parents wouldn’t approve, but I did talk to them about him, I made him sound good.

I was still a virgin at 18, then the inevitable happened.  We had been dating several months, he would tell me he loved me, he was going to marry me, so it would be ok.  I was so naive and wanting someone to care for me that I let it happen.  Soon after we started dating, a warrant for his arrest was issued to him (jail time for writing bad checks) I had no clue this was what he was doing!  He was in Morgan County Jail for about 3 months.  I attended the jail every Sunday to see him. I look back and I know God was giving me clues…No. 1 reason not to marry him! 

While he was in jail I began talking to my parents about him and what kind of family life he had (none…both parents were alcoholics and father was dead) I told my mom we were going to get married, so could he please come and stay at our house, he needed to get away from this home and try to make his life better by getting a job so we could get our own place when we married.  One condition they said, “he would have to stay out in the garage which we had enclosed.”  That was cool with me!  Eventually, we started living together under my parents roof!  How could I have ever done that to my parents?  I made that choice and my parents let me get away with it.  Reason No. 2 not to marry him!  God still trying to move in my life…I’m not listening!

During this time he would go to work, but not come home after work.  Why did I want to marry someone like this.  This was not my upbringing.  But, I had already had sex with him and was going to change him, this was the man I was suppose to marry, I thought.  We were together 2 years before we married, he treated me like *&%#!  Friends tried to tell me things that he had done but, I wouldn’t listen.  Reason No. 3 not to marry him! God still speaking!

Marriage Day, May 1980, big church wedding, many people on my side, few on his.  My dads pockets were emptied on this wedding.  We had no money for a honeymoon so my sister let us borrow her apartment!  Yeah, a borrowed apartment for a honeymoon!  The night of our marriage a couple gave us a big party.  On top of my pill popping my new husband put drugs in my drink!  I passed out to wake up and find him gone.  My friends told me he left with another girl!  What?  On our wedding night!  Yep, it happened, he slept with another woman on our wedding night!  Reason No. 4, God says this is not the husband I have chosen for you.

From 1980-1983 I was abused physically (battered), abused mentally and almost everyday someone else besides me was sleeping in my bed.  I was the only one holding down a job at this time.  His job was selling drugs.  In late 1982 my parents were visiting our home with my niece (Tina) when our home was surrounded by the Drug Enforcement Officer’s (he had sold to an under cover the night before).  They busted into our home with guns and began throwing everything around.  I begged them to let my niece and my mom leave, but ask my dad to stay, I was afraid.  They took my husband to jail after they had ram sacked our home.  My dad stayed with me, I told him I was so sorry and ask for his forgiveness.  As my father, he forgave me and tried to talk me into coming back home.  I looked at my dad and told him, “I made my bed, now I have to lye in it.”  Reason No. 5, God shows me this man was not intended to be my husband!  God is trying to move me in the right direction, but I’m not listening.  Look, God was giving me the out!  He had committed Adultery against me and I knew it!

He made bail (can’t remember who signed) and was out the next day and made a plea bargain with the drug enforcement to be a nark!  Yep, turned in his friends.  No jail time spent. 

After getting busted, we were ask to move by our landlords.  We moved into an apartment complex where one of my other sisters (Nancey) lived with her roommate, son, and baby daughter.  We had no food, and was living on welfare for our rent and utility bills, I barely made minimum wage and he did not work at all, he could get a job, but would work only long enough to get a little money then quit.  I kept Nancey’s daughter part-time also.  

In March 1983, it was my day to keep my niece (Beth) Nancey’s daughter, but her roommate wanted to keep her.  She was going to drop Nancey off at work and take her (my sister’s) car to get some work done on it.  Nancey called my dad that afternoon and said her roommate had not made it to pick her up so she needed a ride home because she couldn’t get in touch with her.  My dad drove to the Arsenal to get her.  When they returned home a police car was waiting in the drive at her apartment.  The officers ask them to get in the police car and ride to the Arsenal.  The officer told them there had been a wreck on the Arsenal involving her car.  I found out later that evening that Beth and my sister’s roommate had been killed in the accident.  My sisters roommate had not taken the car in to get it fixed, but had been drinking at a friends house all day!  She was drunk and hit another car head on.  Beth was 3 years old, all I could think about was that it was my day to watch her…if I had of kept her my sisters baby wouldn’t have died that day!  God was really trying to get my attention!

My father was still a new Christian at this time, but he knew God’s Word.  He held our family together through this huge loss and trial that we were all having to experience. 

After this I started attending church again, but I just couldn’t give up things in my life that God wanted me to give up…drugs, alcohol, and being abused by my husband.  How could I have loved him that deeply?

The sleeping around and abuse by my husband continued and we separated many times, and eventually divorced in October 1983.  I just couldn’t take it anymore!  I divorced him!  I felt worthless, had very low self-esteem, more introverted then I ever had been, afraid to even look at people, talking to people…no way, I was just plain battered.  Was I not low enough yet to listen to God???

Teen Life-Why Do We Want To Fit In? (My Life Part 2) November 13, 2008

If you haven’t read “My Life Part 1″ you can find it in my recent posts or archive.

Let me take you back just a sec for a better understanding of my raising!  I was not a bad child, I was afraid I would get into trouble if I did anything wrong, remember I was an introvert.  I was spoiled, after all I was 8 years younger than my sister and I was the baby.  As a child growing up I did what all kids do…test my parents.  My parents were good role models and had never been in trouble a day in their lives…not even a speeding ticket.  I never saw my mom or dad drunk, my dad may have had an occasional drink.  They had a great marriage and are working toward their 61st wedding Anniversary.

I need to explain to you why I didn’t fit in…in my early years.  I was born with “Dewayne Syndrome,” a muscle in my right eye was not long enough to align my eye straight in the center (my right eye stayed in the corner toward my nose) cross eyed, yep cross eyed!  Kids were mean and this is what I was called “Cross Eyed Lynn!” 

When I was very young I remember hiding behind my parents because of embarrassment, not wanting anyone to notice my eye!  My eye doctor was trying different things with my eye trying to stretch the muscle because surgery was risky (I didn’t know how risky the surgery was until I was about 40 years old).  At 12 years old my doctor decides to do surgery on my eye.  The surgery straightened it, but it can never be fixed perfectly.  I still see double when I turn my head a certain way, when I get tired my eye gets lazy, if I’m trying to focus on someone talking to me it will sometimes drift!  By the time I was 40 I was sure that technology had come for enough along that I could completely get the ole’ eye fixed…it’s very annoying when driving and you have to turn completely around in your seat or you will see two cars! LOL!  I saw a new optometrist, she took one look into my eye and told me if anyone ever told me they could fix the ole’ eye then I had better high tale it out of their office.  The surgeon that had performed my surgery had done an excellent job and that was all that could be done.  Her answer was ok for me, I had already gotten through the rough times in my life that I really worried about what people thought about my eye!  Not until I was in my late 20’s I could use my eye for laughs!  I can do something with my eye that others can’t do and we all get a kick out of it now!  I have family members trying to learn to make their eye do what mine can do! LOL! 

So back to my story!  So my eye is kind of fixed, but I still have the issues of being a very shy teen with a low self-esteem.  I spent my early teenage years 13-16 at the skating rink just like everybody else in the 70’s.  Laugh out Loud there was nothing else to do.  Ha! I’m old!!! During these few years I was turning into a heavy smoker and teen girl that used very profound language!  Still in church every Sunday, Sunday night and Wednesday night! Oh, smoking wasn’t so bad, most all my friends were doing it, even my church friends.  My friends and I would save our lunch money and take time about buying them.  That’s how cheap they were in the 70’s, I think $.35 – $.50 cents a pack.  We would walk right into the store and buy them…no ID required!  It is an encouragement to know that my child can not walk in the store today and buy them, but it doesn’t mean it will keep them from smoking, but it does make it a tad harder.  That is the choice that they have to make…right or wrong as they mature! I pray and hope that each of my children will make choices they won’t REGRET! 

Now don’t get me wrong, God was speaking to me all these years, I wanted to do what was right and be saved…but I was angry with God for the way He made me!  I would beg him to make me attractive, to take away the eye thing, to help me fit in with those popular people, to give me a brain that could understand what I read and retain it.  All I was doing was running from Him instead of stopping and listening and giving Him my life.  I want you to remember as you read about my life that God was with me through it all, I never saw it then…but I see it very well today!

Then…I turned 16 and received my drivers license!  What is it about turning 16 and just going crazy? I know…some teens do and some don’t, well I was the one that did.  I wanted to fit in so bad at that age I was going to try what ever I could to make that happen.  I wasn’t a leader, I was a follower…remember I was a very shy introverted child and teen! 

So where was I…Oh, yea 16 and license!  Guess where that took me??  With the license came the begging for the car on the weekends…me and one of my best friends began circling and hanging out at the boat harbor down at the Tennessee River…this was a hangout for everyone of driving age and older! I practically took over my moms car. How did that happen?? I was spoiled and I did throw some fits!  Fits at 16, me Nah!

We started out riding around on Friday and Saturday night with a normal teen curfew. We met many people as we would sit and watch the cars circle!  Everyone stopping and talking with each other, meeting many people much older than us, more experienced in many things than we were.  A place where a lot of drinking and smoking were going on.  So here it is, I began drinking at 16, it was there and it was offered and I took it, again starting out just to fit in.

One night as we were all sitting on the hood of my car (my moms)…here came a white 1960’s Jaguar…I’m talking cool car!  I don’t remember how in the world we got the guys that were in it to stop and talk to us, but they did.  My best friend and I ended up in the car with them…this car was so cool…the inside was decked out in wood that was very expensive and beautiful, it even had black lights in it…man it was ripped!  As we were riding around in this hot car, with some cool guys having fun, one of the guys took out a joint (marijuanna) and lit it, they all started passing it around…I had no idea of what to do, I had never seen that, I was afraid!  My friend and I wouldn’t have any part of it that night and the guys never pressured us to!  As time passed night after night hanging at the hot spot, meeting up with these guys, riding in a hot looking Jaquar, listening to loud music, and drinking…thinking this was great fun, this was our life with pretend church on the other side.  These guys never pressured us, just liked us for who we were.  We became good friends with them and of course you get the picture, we both eventually caved!!!  We decided to try it (pot)! The day we smoked our first joint was on a Sunday afternoon, we were always at the Sunday night service at our church and we walked in late.  Both of us walked in that service “high,” I will never forget it as long as I live!  It is as if I spit in the face of Jesus!  

Hangest thou in there, more to come (My Life Part 3)!

Veteran’s Day 2008 November 11, 2008

On Veterans Day, we pay tribute to the service and sacrifice of the men and women who in defense of our freedom have bravely worn the uniform of the United States.

My father is a Navy Veteran of World War II!  His ship was hit during this war and he saw horrible things.  He saw buddies of his that died on that Battleship that day!  My dad fought for his Country and at 84 years old is still fighting for it!  My sister’s and my neice and I took my dad and mom out for lunch today to celebrate and pay tribute to him and all the other Veterans in the United States.

My son Blake who is now a Senior at Priceville High School has joined the National Guard and completed  Basic Training last summer between his Jr. and Sr. year.  He will attend AIT summer of 2009.  I don’t know what will become of the National Guard in the future, but I am proud of my son wanting to serve his country!

We visited Washington a few years back on a school field trip and went to Arlington National Cemetary to the Tomb of the Unknowns.  I have never seen anything like this in my entire life!

Tomb of the Unknowns

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqZ-mkdp1H0

 

 

 

Thank you to all who serve and have served!  God Bless you for protecting our Country! God Bless America!

One Picture Says It All November 11, 2008

I borrowed this picture from one of my Crosspoint Community Church bloggers Jason.  He took this picture last week on a business trip in Wyoming. 

When I saw this picture on Jason’s blog I just freaked out…this is the first thing that came to my mind as I looked at this pic…this one beautiful flower living in all the dirt around it. 

We see pictures of Christ all through the Old Testament and then again in the New Testament of Him living His sinless life here on earth. 

This picture portrays to me a picture of Christ (the beautiful one and only flower) that took on a whole bunch of dirt (sin) for us, that we may have eternal life with Him.  Oh, what a beautiful picture. 

I would love to have this picture blown up and hung in every room of my house just to look upon it, to have the reminder of how beautiful Christ was (prefect) but had to become dirty with sin (our sin), and to have His Father turn His back on Him because God Himself could not look upon sin!

Thank you Jason for capturing the small things and sharing it with us!  To me it is larger than life!  It is Eternal.  All we have to do is look at God’s creation and it tells the whole story, creation tells the story we need to hear each and every day of our life if we would take the time to look at it! 

Thank you God for the many servants we have in our church…believe me there are many!  The friends I have at Crosspoint look for those little pictures of Jesus so that they can share them with our great big world!

Enjoy God’s Creation below! 

Got To Top Of One Mountain, Spiraling Down Another! November 10, 2008

Our family has been dealing with a trial since January of 2007.  We were obedient to God in this situation, as we sought His face for answers.  We left our home church and spent almost 6 months in our own home having church because that is where God lead us.

People that we loved and were our friends has been very hurtful to my family and are raising their demonic heads again! You know what really just gets me…these people are Christians and were our best friends.

My post on my life may slow down a bit for I need to be in Gods Word more and more and seek His face in obedience to Him!  I need to drink the kool-aide of Jesus!  Be in prayer for our family as we deal with this trial and pray that we are obedient to God and not lash out like our flesh wants to do but that we will act like Jesus would have us to do as Christians!

Thank you for your prayers in advance!  I love my church Crosspoint Community Church in Decatur, AL and I know that our family will make it through with the church we attend now, because they are an encourgement to our family!

Thank you Dave for being the Pastor that you are!  You have a servants heart!

Love All!

My Life! (Part 1) November 8, 2008

This is going to take several post!  This will be the testimony of my life…becoming a Christian.  I thought now that the election is over I might give you an in-site into my life.  It is not a glamorous one for sure.

Let me start out by telling you I was born and raised in Decatur, AL.  I have a loving family and I was a daddy’s girl.  The family never had much money but the needs were met.  We have always been a very close family.  So close it is hard to go without talking to each other everyday! 

Now about me!  I was a very shy child with a learning disability that was overlooked by my parents (my parents were up in age when they had me and I had 3 older sisters me being 8 years younger than the 3rd sister) I was also overlooked by the school system.  Back in the day…to get help you had to be considered mental retarded.  So, in the eyes of my teachers I just didn’t study well enough to keep my grades up.  I had short term memory loss, although I could read well, and spell well, but never could remember what I read and never had a high level of intelligence because of vocabulary skills.  I wasn’t able to retain stuff.  I faked my way through my teenage life and most of my adult life trying to make people think I understood what they were talking about. 

I was able to have great jobs, was an Office Manager for Mid-South Machinery John Deere in Athens, AL and even started a new store in Tuscumbia, AL for John Deere.  I also worked for Delta Research as Security Manager (security of classified documents), and then became Office Manager, working with some of the smartest people (engineers) that I had ever been around.  How did that happen??  My office was in between the 2 owners of the company and I had to work for them and to keep things running in the office with 4 technical secretary’s under me!  I was good at hands on learning!  I probably made more money in 1990 than anyone with “no” college degree!  I will explain more about my work at Delta Research later down the road!

Even now for me to remember or to learn something I really have to dig deep and read things over and over…how frustrating.  My vocabulary is still very simple as some of you know.  No big words for me…not scared to ask what you mean!  I guess I get through it by calling myself “red,” whatever works.  I sometimes can’t think of words I would like to use in a sentence to carry on a conversation which is very frustrating.  Sooo, enough about this subject you get the picture!

So let’s switch gears, at a very young age I can remember my mom taking me to church.  I know she took me as a baby, but have memories of church when I was around 4 years of age.  My mom became a Christian at a young age and my father became a Christian at the age of 55 and he is now 84 years of age.  My mom went to church about 30 years without my dad and took my sisters and I Sunday after Sunday.

During my early church years I participated in all church activities from Preschool through Youth!  Not ever realizing what to do to accept Christ.  Was it just that easy, to ask Jesus into my heart?  I didn’t understand.  I never really understood how that could be, even though I had been in church for many years.  At the age of 16 I walked the church isle, because several friends of mine were making committments to follow Christ.  Was I really saved?  Were they really saved?  I don’t think I was, but I could see a change in some of my friends life and really wondered why my life wasn’t changing.  I wanted to be saved but I didn’t want to change some of my behaviors, being uneducated and trying to fit in somewhere was very hard for me!  So I chose people who didn’t care how smart you were, or how you looked, I just wanted to fit in.  This took me down a path of destruction!

I will start on My Life! (Part 2) tomorrow!  Hang in there and keep up and you can see how Christ made a difference in my life!

Miserable Day! November 7, 2008

Woke up this morning couldn’t talk, congested and on top of that a migraine.  Man…our family and everyone I know can’t seem to shake this crud that is going around!  Is it because we live in the South (The Tennesse Valley) where we have the worst allergy crap in the world? 

This has not been a productive day for me so this is just a short blog!  I did manage to get this new blog page set up later this afternoon.  I have moved form blogspot to wordpress which seems to be much better, but a little harder for me to set up because I do not have a technical mind!  Hey, I think I’m doing a great job working at it though!  I still have more to add like pictures!  I will be working on this…maybe I will have a great looking page soon! 

If you want some good reads please follow the bloggers that are listed in the sidebar of my page.  I am sure you will enjoy!  You can also follow me on twitter, my latest updates are also on the sidebar of this page!

Have a great evening!

God Bless!

Do NOT Be Troubled! November 5, 2008

I am appreciating the fact that I am an American. The USA has made History in this 2008 Election! This election in itself well be forever remembered in History books across America. This Great Country has elected the first African American President and the people have spoken! I call that Freedom of Speech, what this country was founded upon.

God holds our future in His hands and we as Christians know the outcome! I would like to use a quote from our worship leader at Crosspoint Community Church, “Presidents will come and go, but Jesus Christ, will forever be, never changing, the same yesterday, today and tomorrow!” Thank you Kevinchristian.wordpress.com for this quote it helped me put everything into perspective.

Now we as people of this Great Country, should come together and stand in one accord being obedient to God and pray for our Country and all of our leaders of this free land!

Think about it why are we here? From all indications we have a Creator and we have the Word (Jesus Christ) that died for our sins so that we may have eternal life. He came to save the world and He left this world to go and prepare a place for us.

John 14: 3 “And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”Again think about it…why are we here? We are here to be about His business, God has called us to be servants, Jesus called His disciples to be servants and the barrier of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Luke 10:2 He told them, “The harvest is huge, but the workers are few. So ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 “Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

Since I have been at Crosspoint Community Church I have learned what the Vision of winning lost souls to Christ is and to put that Vision to work! I’ve seen this Vision work in our church and my own extended family members! Already three have been saved in our family (one being Zach our High Functioning Autistic/Bi-polar son) because our Pastor is sincere in His vision to win lost souls for Christ. God is using our pastor and our church to harvest the fields.

So I leave you with Do NOT be troubled for God is in control of this world and I pray that you will seek His face and be workers of the field that needs to be harvested.

John 14:1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God. Trust in me also.

God Bless All and God Bless America

The DAY 2008! November 4, 2008

I woke this morning with a thrill of excitement…Election Day! I was a Proud American ready to do her duty at the polls! Our family has been praying for this election for a long time! This is an historical one that my youngest son Zach will probably see in his History book! Not for it being the most chaotic, mud slinging, and no good choice election, but for our Country finally allowing an African American Presidential candidate and a woman Vice Presidential candidate. I am proud of my country for this…it’s time to stop the racism of any kind. I pray that Gods will be done in this election, and pray that we all have interceded on behalf of this Great Country!

I was just going to talk about voting today but my daughter changed my mind! I’m going out on a limb here, but this is what is in my heart!

I have to tell you a about my 13 year old daughter, Liana. She has taken this election to heart! When she got up and dressed this morning, she came to me and said, “Mom I am literally sick of how this election may turn out!” This child’s stomach was in knots! We have talked to our kids about our political views and why we have them. Yes, we are conservatives! We have always taught our kids biblical principals…based on the rule book “The BIBLE” and the Ten Commandments…you get the picture. So with all that said…you have to know Liana. She is a very strong willed teen and she doesn’t mind telling you how she feels about what is right and what is wrong. She sees this very liberal candidate that doesn’t have values like what we have instilled in her. She just can’t fathom why all these people are voting for this candidate. He may be a good man, a good father, a good spouse, but his beliefs do not line up with the Word of God and she knows that! I hate that my child is worrying over an election and I told her that when it comes down to it if the other candidate is chosen we will pray and intercede on his behalf. I needed to add this little piece of information in…for never did I think about an election when I was 13 years of age.

Our children are suffering because of this GREAT Country turning against God. We as Christians are afraid to speak out! Sorry…if you didn’t like the sound of that, but this is my belief and my blog. I don’t have to be a theologian to know the world is going to hell in a hand basket and the Bible is being fulfilled!

I like Kay Authors quote, “Our country has changed—now, are we headed for revival or judgment?” I am hoping revival. It is time for all Christian Americans to raise the battle cry and take our nation back! How do we expect to change lives if we are afraid of speaking out as Jesus did during His time on earth. He told it like it was, no sugar coating, he got angry with the money changers in the temple and drove them out! Yes, He is loving, but yet He is God and weather you want to believe it or not God is a God of love and destruction. Can you believe that on several occasions He wanted to destroy the Israelites? Check out Exodus 32 and Numbers 11, Moses intercedes for the Israelites and God does not destroy them. When the Israelites are obedient to Him, God destroys their enemies!

So…now we know why we are faced with the problems of today! Rebelling against God! Christians not standing on the truth! Letting the evil of this world take over! Yes, I know God is in control, and the Bible is being fulfilled, but do you think God wants us to sit around twiddling our thumbs and not stand up for what He has written to us in His Word. The agnostics and atheist do a good job of standing up for what they believe in! So go figure!

These are solely my views and I know that many of you have your own that are completely different from mine, and I do respect them! The U.S wouldn’t be called a free Country if we could not voice our opinion.

I will be watching the election tonight with my family and when the time comes for one of the candidate to concede and the other make his victory speech…I promise that I will be obedient to God and pray for the leader Democrat or Republican of this GREAT Country!

God Bless All and God Bless America!