A Prayer for Healing, Starting With Our Hearts, Extending to Our World

A Prayer for Healing, 

Starting With Our Hearts, 

Extending to Our World.

Will You Join Me?

(originally shared on FB on Dec, 1)

Jesus said Love your enemies... He identified himself as, "The light of the world," stating, whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. And about this light he said, "This light shines in the darkness, and the darkness does not overcome it."

When considering all of the division, blame and fear I see around me I remember the statement from Martin Luther King Jr. stating... “Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, and adds deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

Praying in this time of darkness and fear and blame and sickness...

That it will pass quickly! That we will abandon our panic and our illusions of control of this pandemic and begin to see clearly. Help us to enhance and not hinder it's decline! Limit the damage we do to each other as it decreases and decreases and decreases with, or even in spite of our efforts. Help us embrace sanity and act rationally and humanely! 

Lord, we admit that we have become frightened, overly frighten, and suspicious of each other and divided. We have ignored and punished and cast aside our higher values in our attempts to impose or even preserve, "ideas of control." Elevated ideas about control over our own bodies and over the bodies of those around us. But we have never actually had control! Not even of ourselves! And we never will! For only You are God and all of our self righteous actions and judgements are little more than filthy rags before You. Have mercy on us Lord and forgive us our arrogance.

We ask for the blessing of future health! For mercy and health and Light! Through Your provision oh loving Creator! Lead our efforts Lord! And improve the effectiveness of our healthcare actions. Cause us to help and not harm! Cause us to become considerate and gracious to each other and temper our emotions Lord!

We pray a prayer of thanksgiving for your good provision. If it pleases You, may we become humbled like the milkmaids of old embarrassed, but protected by the cow-pox rashes they bore. Lord we ask that You remove the harshness of this scourge!

I pray that this new virus, (Omicron if harmless), or another very soon, that is harmless, may be to Covid as Cow-pox was to Small-pox. 

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Consider: From Smallpox To The Coronavirus: The History Of Vaccinations Explained | NBC News April 2020... To view video Click Following Link >  :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iRatByNw08 

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May it spread and provide a natural protection across Your globe! Especially to those we have disregarded. For in our fear and our selfishness we have certainly failed our global community! And forgive us our selfishness in withholding the supportive medicines, and punishing those that provided them here, while ignoring the needs of our Black and Brown neighbors in places like Africa, and lavishing multiple doses of the vaccines on ourselves.

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Most recently they were disheartened with our decision to vaccinate children, but earlier,  Mike Ryan, executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Programme, Described it at at post 00:23:12 in the W.H.O. press conference like this: “We're planning to hand out extra life jackets to people who already have life jackets, while we're leaving other people to drown.” see original W.H.O. post at https://www.who.int/publications/m/item/covid-19-virtual-press-conference-transcript---18-august-2021

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And forgive us Lord for how we punish those that resisted our arrogant demands and intimidation here! Forgive us our trespasses Lord and help those we have punished and frightened whether through our punitive mandates, or our rebellious defiance in refusals to consider and protect our neighbors! 

Forgive us Lord! And comfort the thousands and thousands that have lost loved ones! Bring them comfort Lord! For You are our Comforter! And cause us to consider the burdens they have left behind. Let us be attentive to those needs.

Strengthen those whose consciences are weak! Comfort and encourage those with suspicions. And to those that resist for obedience sake; give them better jobs Lord! Prosper their families Lord! Restore them Lord and help them to seek Your face and walk in Your ways.

And prosper our neighbors! The countries that our policies have crippled! Give their leaders wisdom! Protect their vulnerable and restore their economies Lord!

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Click picture or link below to hear his plea at-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpY5GIo2UI0

Covid variant Omicron: 'No scientific justification for curbs,' 

 According to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa  

Nov 28, 2021

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Forgive us our trespasses Lord! And extend Your grace that we may learn how to forgive our neighbors and receive forgiveness for our trespasses as well.

And Lord We Thank You for your Love and Mercy! We celebrate Your presence and the light that has come through the Incarnate Gift of Your Son! Help us to turn from darkness and abide in the Light of Your mercy and grace! Strengthen us Lord and cause us to follow You closely! Amen.

Also Consider...

November 30, 2021...  Click Link below to view video.  https://www.dw.com/en/ask-derrick/av-56502253

Could this already be happening? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BbJWx_t7AA

Time to prepare for omicron exposure,

 Dec 19, 2021

and 
Consider the mechanics of..

How it is less threatening.

Click picture above or link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84XMFVcLScw

First Omicron science December 19, 2021

Dr. John Campbell

Dr. John Campbell

Considering that it started in, and then 

swept across South Africa first...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rijcP5hZTg

Displacing Science with blame! Jay's
extremist accusations and 
fear inducing message.
consider...

Click picture or link for video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmUiZKzb6IY

Discussion | Vaccine mandates divide the nation

     eNCA 1.11M subscribers,   Dec 11, 2021

And bringing it all home consider...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJzc8bSaqe0

Lee's Measure To Exempt Those With Natural Immunity 
From Vaccine Mandate Blocked By Murray, December 9, 2021

And more recently.. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN6cIfp5T4

Most omicron hospitalizations incidental  

Dec 29, 2021, Dr. John Campbell

FINALLY...

Bill Gates tells how the natural antibody-protection was stronger in multiple ways and was spread more effectively through the naturally occurring, much milder Omicron variant than the entire International Global Vaccination effort. Presented on Day One, Feb 18th, of the  BR24 Security Conference 2022 held in Munich Germany. See full Conference Broadcast at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygi8GlMHon0

Fast forward to hear Bill at hour 4 minute 19.

SO AFTER THE PANDEMIC.... 

HOW WELL DO THE ANALYSTS 

SAY WE DID?

AND WHY?

About a month earlier, On January 24, 2020 Scott Atlas addressed the audience at Hilldale College with the following  lecture on this topic.

And Now, Consider the International Political landscape, messaging and costs. 

(click arrows on pictures to see videos)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tuIEktlf98

Why China isn't backing down on its zero-Covid strategy

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Apr 18, 2022

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An infusion from God!

ARE YOU DYING? 

THE WORDS I SPEAK 

ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE TO YOU

(from- John 6:33)

Is knowing and heeding God's word in the Bible, the essential ingredient of your Christian faith?

Is the scripture breathed out by God, truly your most profitable and essential training tool for living by giving you access to His grace, His peace, His knowledge and His power? Does it gently whisper to you as you teach, reprove and correct? 

(from- 2 Timothy 3:16–17)

Are you finding the things that pertain to life and godliness through knowing Him and learning about Him through His word? Is His word truly your trainer in righteousness equipping you for every good work? Is it your, glory and your excellence?
(from- 2 Peter 1:2–3)

Have you committed to His understanding and fellowship with Him? Or are you rejecting what He has revealed in His instruction book to embrace your culture and it's views?

(from- Proverbs 3:6-8)

Do you seek Him or exclude Him?

THE WORDS HE SPEAKS 

ARE SPIRIT AND LIFE!

He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. 

(from- Matthew 13:43)

Light

We can only walk in the light we have been given, 

and if we don't walk forward 

we limit it's effect.

So, which direction should we go?

Every direction at the same time!

As far and fast as we can!

Until the job is done!

I have three blog sites.

This one which is a devotional, https://www.seekinghigherbeing.org/

A second which is in an anger/life management group recovery format, https://www.morethanmanagement.life/

And the third ponders social events and issues, https://www.thesubwaywalls.com/

Feel free to comment either on the blog itself, or on FB and even cut and paste the browser web addresses of any of the posts from these blogs to share with others on FB or other venues as you wish.

Redeeming Love

Redeeming Love

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When attempting to relate to our fellows... the struggling image bearers in hiding or those experiencing defeat around us. It is easy to feel piously humble as we plan our charity or even proud of the seeming tolerance of our actions.

But Christ calls us to much more. Our salvation is not a mere nod or whisper to attain an assurance that we will avoid eternal fires. It is not merely a commitment to a self improvement program. He calls us to walk with Him.

He calls us to join Him in His walk of obedience, To accompany Him and take up our cross on a walk of fellowship with Him. A walk of dying to ourselves and becoming alive again in a new acceptance of self and those around us.

The love mentioned is, that of God loving through us;

 a Redeeming Love.

Hear and See excellent summaries on the 

"Image of God" at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-rzM5EojJY

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H_4UJfOigA

Sinews of strength and liberty.

See Corrie Ten Boom quotes by clicking the blue link at the bottom of the page.

Below is the Movie, "The Hiding Place," created by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

It portrays Corrie's fears and the persecution she endured after hiding Jewish refugees in her families home during Hitler's occupation of their homeland.

After it starts Click the bottom Right corner to see it full screen.

The Hiding Place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeV7Otqlyzw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2e56rZOj9M

The Holy Spirits Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xAJA1hNcUI

A conversation about prayer

Corrie Ten Boom quotes: https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/inspiring-quotes/40-powerful-quotes-from-corrie-ten-boom.html

Are you drowning?

ARE YOU DROWNING? 

Drowning is not usually the violent, splashing or loud frantic calls for help that most people expect.

Most often it is a quiet progression as moments of subtle resignation seem to ease the exhaustion of increasingly unproductive effort. Moments of deceptively sweet rest like the first moments of relapse into a familiar sin or addiction. And then the Panic and the Terror when we realize our loss. Drowning is a moving back and forth between hopeless resignation to exhaustion and the terrifying experience of loss of control to asphyxiation. 

Christianity describes life on earth as a similar struggle for survival. A struggle against the focused efforts of a deadly and very deceptive foe. An enemy whose intent is to ensnare and enslave and even destroy our lives. His plan, is to hijack life's true purpose. To redirect it down paths of compulsive service to temptations or even addictions or patterns that abuse self or others in pursuit of relief or pleasures.

But as Christians we are instructed to lay aside these hindrances,  weights, and encumbrances along with anything else that entangle us. We are to break free from what the Bible describes as the parasitic effect of sin in and on our lives. 

The article cited at the very bottom of this page examines the deadly events of drowning. It describes the seriousness of what is happening, and why so many unknowingly watch calmly as both children and adults  drown in their presence, unaided.

Spiritually speaking, a progression toward loss, much like drowning is very common. Without assistance, all of us find ourselves quietly, or perhaps, not so quietly drowning in our sins.

But which sins? Are some sins weightier than others? Or is this quiet drifting away a universal human problem? Can you be drowning in your sin and not know it? And how is it to be remedied? 

The message of Christmas presents a timely hope. The promise of a Savior sent to free His people from the bondage and fatal separation that this sin problem creates. 

Matthew 1:21
And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, (which means Savior), for He will save His people from their sins.”

Although you may be a disciplined person, very religious, even from a devout religious tradition. You may still be drowning. Many have replaced saving faith with personal ideas of goodness, or citizenship or even syncretized true Christian faith with something more in harmony with today's claims of, "enlightened," cultural goodness. Regardless of our attempts to achieve, "goodness," the problem of being separated from God's salvation because of our, "sinful nature," and drowning in our sins is a universal problem that we cannot solve on our own.

So what does this, "Saved," promise mean?

Scripture teaches that because God arrived Incarnate in Christ, and then sacrificed himself for us...

1) We can be delivered from bearing the penalty for our sins as we follow Him in faith.

Romans 4:25
He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.

2) We can be delivered from the power and control that sin holds over our lives as we surrender to Christ's leadership through the guidance of His Holy Spirit. 

Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.


3) And we can eventually be delivered from all presence of sin in totality as we enter heaven to further commune with our Savior and Lord.

Revelation 1:4
and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”

So how do we to engage in this process in the here and now? 

The chapters below provide some of the answer to this question. 

Hebrews 12 King James Version (KJV)
1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
3 For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.


Hebrews 12 The Message (MSG)
1-3 Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed—that exhilarating finish in and with God—he could put up with anything along the way: Cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
4-11 In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through—all that bloodshed! So don’t feel sorry for yourselves.

Many find these verses foreign to their understanding. They may even conflict with the values they have been taught in our modern Humanist Culture. Some of our churches have adopted this culture and skip over them or omit them completely from their teachings.  

If you are not familiar with Humanist teaching, and have questions about the revolutionary changes they are bringing to our culture, including many of our churches, consider the conversation below. 

Click the link below, not the picture above  

https://www.thesubwaywalls.com/2019/11/christian-and-humanist-tradition.html 

And for boaters and swimmers, a good article on understanding and avoiding the potential for physical drowning see: https://www.soundingsonline.com/voices/drowning-doesnt-look-like-drowning

Stop and See the Miracles

Stop and see...

Stop and (SEE) the Miracles!
Pause and (ENJOY) the Moments. 
(KNOW) His loving eyes watch over you.

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Spiritual Pride

Exaulting, defending and imposing our own will...
Our most intoxicating Spiritual Deception.

Will we follow in Christ's steps of (humble) obedience...
or expect Him to follow us in our selfrighteousness and zeal? 

Pause and Consider...
(Who) expressed the highest religious aspiration?

I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Isaih 14: 13b-14

(Answer)
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
Isaih 14:12-13a

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Isaih 14:15

Saving the World

NOT BY THE WORLD'S STANDARDS

(Maintain courage, faith and confidence because everything you do matters. )

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16

In your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

I Peter 3:15-16

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons that we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

II Corinthians 10:3-5

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THE DOMINANT FALSE PRETENCE

THAT

CAPTIVATED MY GENERATION

"THE POPULATION BOMB"

which described 

THE EMINENT REALITY 

OF MASS STARVATION IN THE 1970's 

IN RESPONSE...

A determined man of faith and wisdom
Norman Borlaug...

 fought and won against the global

 crisis that faced my generation 

See his Nobel Peace Prize Speech (green link) at the bottom of the page

To succeed he was required to navigate through a tide of opposition that continues to this day. 

The man attributed with Saving Billions of Lives...

~ Norman Borlaug~ Occupation: Agricultural Scientist

and 1970 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient.

Born: March 25, 1914, Died at age 95 on September 12, 2009

Some of his quotes:

"I now say that the world has the technology - either available or well advanced in the research pipeline - to feed on a sustainable basis a population of 10 billion people. The more pertinent question today is whether farmers and ranchers will be permitted to use this new technology? While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions, and pay more for food produced by the so-called "organic" methods, the one billion chronically undernourished people of the low income, food-deficit nations cannot."


By developing and applying the scientific and technological skills of the twentieth century for “the well-being of mankind throughout the world”, he may still see Isaiah’s prophesies come true: “… And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose… And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water…” And may these words come true!

The following video describes Borlaug's story of overcoming the "Population Bomb" 

DEFUSING THE 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOaI5XRzuN8&list=PLc7nB8Z7S2L8rjdCRpZ_rRKuI7tbY0_f6&index=2

click (arrow on photo) above to see video


and (arrow on photo) below 

To learn about

God's Providential Preparation

click photo to see video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10930qMlG4U&list=PLc7nB8Z7S2L8rjdCRpZ_rRKuI7tbY0_f6&index=1



The BLUE link below is a playlist of videos that examine todays threats along with other noteworthy threats to our existence past and present.

See his Nobel Peace Prize Biography (green link) at the bottom of the page.

Creation Groans! The Butterfly Effects and CO2.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc7nB8Z7S2L8rjdCRpZ_rRKuI7tbY0_f6

photo and quote sources:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/1686-Norman_Borlaug

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1970/borlaug/biographical/