America Mourns - Prophetic 911 Tribute

Reprinted September 11, 2010

AMERICA!
A PROPHETIC WORD AND 911 TRIBUTE

Written By Rev. Lainie Dowell

Note:

I wrote this reprinted prophetic message as it was revealed to me on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. And I remain restless and still. Even so, Americans Bless Our God.

Thus saith the Lord.

As revealed by the Hand of the Lord to be a blessing to waiting hearts.

The fabric of America is strong. Faith is her best suit. Family values is her cloak. Chastity is her undergarment. Righteousness is her finest dress. Earth contains her bedrock, but she rests in the bosom of Abraham. Peace is her shadow that follows and covers her back. Strength is embedded in her feet. Her hands are coated with filth. But the blood of Jesus cascades all over her. She is covered in Jesus' blood from head to toe. Her knees propel her forward and down. Her head tips and bows weighted with humility and repentance. Her heart lies open. Her chest exposes her ample breast. Nourishment continues to flow. Solidarity and unity come forth. Her sleeping eyes have fully awakened. her mind touches the One far greater than she.

Spiritual Awakening ~ Firery Revival Breakout ~ Chains Fall Away

Spiritual giants give way to yield and move out of the way of the giant maker. Her children need not fear. Her lamp is lit. And her oil barrels are filled from Zion above. Her light shall never fade or fail. Her lamp shines best at nighttime. Her brightest day is dark of night. She is seated in the presence of God. Dining on rich fare from the Master's Table culled with the sweetness of God's love. She rests. She waits. She smiles. She sighs. Yes, all is right with the world. Her people renew their commitment. Draw near and let me tell it to you. In every woe. In every joy. In everything, the Lord IS. He is God above all gods who causes our hands to war and our hearts to make peace. And so it is.....

Step lightly. Surefooted. And securely. Anchored to solid Rock. Step boldly.

Her soul gives way to Spirit. Her Spiritual Awakening lifts her to heights greater than any she has known or ever known to mankind. Solomon and The Queen of Sheeba are her mentors. And if she pays rapt attention, her garments will/shall be securely wrapped about her girth, this home called earth. Her ears shall hear God's voice and obey. Her throat shall drink God's living water and be satisfied. Her loins shall give birth to a brand new people whose commitment to their Father is without equal. For there is none like our God.

America, this "(sweet) land of liberty".

Rise from the ashes.

Dry your tears.

Shake yourself.

Awaken to the new dawn.

The Day of the Lord is at hand.

This is your finest hour.

And, lest you too soon forget, God is yet on the Throne. And He is God alone.

America, this "land of the free and home of the brave."

Long may you live -- In the Lord's perfect harmony.

Hear ye Him. Amen.

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America Mourns With Dignity 911 Tribute

~ YES AND . . .

Note: I wrote this reprinted article and originally posted it on my former Firebrands Christian ClergyWomen Support Network/Resources site on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. I later learned that a female church parishioner I had recently talked with was on the flight that hit the Pentagon. She was a beautiful spirit-filled teacher travelling with a couple of her young students on the way to receive rewards. My experience on that day is shared below (on this site), because the Geo-Yahoo servers have now shut down and I have not yet reconstructed my sites online elsewhere. Look for them soon! Join us there. God bless you. God bless America. God bless Americans. Thank you for sharing again in 2010, as we remember.

October 11, 2000 And The Bombing of The U.S.S. Cole

September 11, 2001 ~ Terrorists Attacked By Air

The World Trade Center - The U.S. Pentagon - A Field in Pennsylvania

Reprinted September 11, 2010

Written by Rev. Lainie Dowell
Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Today is a day when prayer requests and words of prophecy are going back and forth on the internet relaying the awful news of events personally touching and affecting this nation. Some harsh pronouncements spoken against America are fearful. Much death and carnage has occurred.

My oldest son, Ted, was driving in and around D.C./Virginia today and passed the Pentagon as it was burning. He said he saw the American flag still standing up out of the heavy, black, smoke, and he didn't have film in his camera. What a photo that would make.

[Ted had phoned me at home earlier to tell me a plane had hit the World Trade Center and told me to turn on the television. My first impression had been that it must have been a small plane and it was just an accident. But I turned on the TV in time to see on the news that one Tower was on fire and reporters were saying it was an accident. But just then another plane approached and I saw fire and smoke come from the Tower alongside the one that was already on fire. Then the cameras showed the angle at which that second plane had hit the second Tower. The explosion (to me) seemed to have released a gigantic demonic face and body belching way up in the air, and I shuddered. It was so sickening. It was unbelievably painful to watch as those Towers fell (each in turn). It was overwhelming to even think that people were still inside as those buildings imploded. I knew the horror and tears would take a long time to stop flowing. And I knew that God knows this is a day - as gorgeous as it is - that nobody should ever want to see again.

I was turning around in circles praying when my son phoned again to tell me the Pentagon was on fire and a plane had hit it. It was a day of utter confusion. I hung up and wondered what was happening and where would the next strike be. Then the news reported a plane down in a field in Pennsylvania and, once again, believing it to be just an accident.]

My youngest son, Dominic, was at work in Maryland. He told me he witnessed a meeting in his office (in Maryland), with some employees down from his company's home office located in 50% of the NYC Twin Towers. They were all understandably visibly shaken and many had family, friends, and colleagues back home working in those buildings that went down into dust with them in it. My son said his office was closed down, and those employees from NYC were trapped in Maryland unable to get home today to be with family and friends. God bless the hurting, wounded, dying and dead. God bless the living.

Earlier this morning (Tuesday), when I sent my two posts, (1 a prophetic message I had rec'd around midnight and the other a lesson of hope, were both developed the same time]. But I had not understood the timeliness of the moment when I shared them with our Firebrands-of-the-Lord Support Network List. Join us.

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All of these things we heard and saw are harsh. Yes AND, America knows God as Savior and Lord. In an effort to be liked and understood, many whored after strange gods. This is a wake up call, truly.

Yes AND, God has not forsaken us nor left us as a people and nation whose God is the Lord.

All of the words going back and forth (including this one) do not negate the fact that we do know the worth of prayer. We know that we, as a nation, can grab the heart of God and turn back the tide of God's Hand when we lift our hands, hearts, minds, bodies, spirits to Him. Therefore, we truly will not fear; because we had received and believed God's word and prayed BEFORE the terror struck. God never leaves us without a warning.

Yes AND, indeed, we continue praying.

No one person has all of the word from heaven. God's people must also understand that infighting is past. The change in the world begins with each and every one of us.

Yes AND, we believe above all that God is faithful who will deliver us yet once more when we turn to Him. And that right quick. The battle is the Lord's.

Yes AND ours is to hear His voice and be guided by His Holy Spirit. Our God judges with a righteous judgment. Vindication belongs to God.

Yes AND our God will not leave His people unavenged, as we cry to Him.

Yes AND???? Truly President Bush was right earlier today when he added to the many voices his call for prayer, retribution, and acknowledged "America is being tested."

Yes AND he [President Bush] also said, "this nation would show the world how America will PASS this test!" When America is under attack, she always rises to her knees before God. For those younger people who never experienced the sentiment of WWII and the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this is their opportunity more than at any other tragic storms they have witnessed to understand why we say this nation is the nation of the true and living God Almighty.

Yes AND there is right and wrong. There is righteous and sinful. There is truth and error. There is heaven and hell. There is life and death. There is God and Satan. There is victory through Jesus our Savior, Lord, and soon-coming King.

Yes AND we are followers of the Lamb Jesus. "We are not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus." He is our Peace in the midst of every stormy gale. Do you know Him?

Yes AND we will tolerate no other God before our God in this "one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all." Why not? Because we know, believe, declare, and decree that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God. And Jesus is the only way by which one may be saved. How is it so many cannot understand that America offers freedom and justice to all, because our God is the God of love and salvation.

Yes AND He is the God of wrath who fully demands that we worship Him alone. So much is passing for truth that is not even true.

Yes AND our "God is Spirit and all who worship must worship in Spirit and in truth." (John 4:24). To that, there is no Yes AND. There is only Yes, Lord. Amen.

God's Salvation is free. Are you saved? Be sure.

ALSO, Come read my powerful 911 Prophetic Word to America, A tribute I received by the hand of God on September 11, 2001, the day terrorists had unexpectantly (for us) attacked America. Click here

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AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEWS MEDIA - UPDATE!

Reprinted from
Silent Thunder's Heart on Fire!
Archives, September 18, 2004.

By Rev. Lainie Dowell

I was refurbishing my other websites when I discovered this walk down memory lane. It is relevant today, because - as some wise person said, "The more things change, the more things stay the same." And bless my soul if this message isn't back around in 2010. Read it as I first wrote it and see if you don't agree. Perhaps you may have already come up with a solution about how to impress upon the mainstream media (MSM) the importance of being an objective reporter and not to inject themselves into the stories trying to, themselves, become celebrities. This also proves that some people refuse to grow up and behave accordingly.

This article, below, begins and ends now as it did when I wrote it in the Fall 2004 (See the September 2004 Archives).

What are the journalism schools teaching today? Why is it that profession has become bastardized and prostituted for the sake of "exposure?" Today's news reporting has become about entertainment. I will gladly settle for a return to the good old days when reporters were content to read "copy." But now we, the public, are inundated with talking heads, including the paid "analysts," aka reporters, who continue to argue their own personal views with their guests in the guise of conducting an on air "interview."

The worst possible body blow to American democracy began the moment somebody decided that large corporations could swallow up little news "shops." Suddenly, in order to read a story about a common, ordinary person, they had to first do extraordinary things. For example, Columbine and that whole season of school violence; Monica Lewinsky; Linda Tripp; Scott Peterson, and so on while otherwise good deeds go unreported. But I digress.

Why doesn't somebody tell the news pundits that we are in a time of great historical importance? I will! Listen. This nation is at war. Our men and women are fighting in a life and death struggle far from home and do not need to have our enemies hear on the same airwaves as theirs that "We are in a quagmire," or that "We are losing the war with no chance of winning," or that our President "is incompetent." Here let me say, "Shame on our Congressional leaders who spew this rhetoric that borders on the very edge of traitor." America, we need to restore that word and meaning back in our vocabulary along with others that are pointing to "Duty, Honor, Country."

How do we get the message through to the media that they need to view this election and the Office of President as being serious. The media have no respect for the office or the one who occupies it. President Bush is the leader of the free world. He is not in competition. This election process is not a beauty pageant. He is not a CEO of a corporation. Yet, he is too often referred to in ugly terms by "interviewers" and their guests. And his cabinet members are treated as "just one of the boys or girls." Not only that but our leaders permit it. It is time to let the news people know they are to "report" the news not to "make" the news or make up their idea of news to force feed the public and then act as if they, themselves, are elected. Think about it.

Pay closer attention to news and see how the media does more than play devil's advocate. They interject their own suppositions and views into the story. They have forgotten what it means to be objective. They have become so arrogant as an industry that they have removed funds for investigating sources preferring to rely on the "first in - first out mentality," most often in the guise of "Late Breaking News!"

News Media-- Why won't you take a look at yourselves! You are shameless and I am shamed by you and ashamed of you. You are setting the wrong example for young and old who tune in. Instead of being an example of civility, honesty, and professionalism, you are presenting as a serious threat to the civility and moral Godly society our brave men and women are earnestly fighting abroad to maintain not only for us at home but also for the whole world. Salute our military! That starts with our Commander in Chief President Bush. To do any less taints your tribute.

You need to respect our nation's leaders. Likewise, to our elected and appointed leaders - including those in local, state, and federal offices - stop acting as if you do not know right from wrong. Why won't you take a stand for what is right and show all those who do not believe there is a difference between right and wrong how to respond or not respond when confronted by it? Stop doing all you know how to adversely effect the outcome of this privilege to vote for the party of our choice.

Down with all of those polls and informal responses that are taken as legal! When President Bush took office, he told the American public that he does not operate according to polls. Did you forget that he also promised there would be no "leaking" from his administration (the way it did in the Clinton administration)? And, speaking of the time President Bush took office --

Did you forget that former Vice President Al Gore is the first one who took the election results to court?

Did you forget that was what led to appeals and, ultimately, the U.S. Supreme Court?

Did you forget that none of the many ballot counts and recounts in Florida came out in favor of Mr. Gore?

Did you forget how some of the outgoing Clinton staff deliberately left the offices in shambles and removed the "W's" off of all of the typewriters? Look it up.

When was the first time such atrocious conduct was reported? I believe that was it. And the Democrats have continued their dirty tricks, with impunity. Until now. Watch and see. It will all be revealed. Then maybe the news media will get back to being about the professional news business of ethics, credibility, and present facts that are actually true.

As for me, I thank God every second for allowing me to be born during the time I was. I have a frame of reference. I grew up knowing loving grown ups in my life who more than taught me about "God, Mother, and Apple Pie." They demonstrated love of God, self, others, and, certainly, for America and all her blessings.

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Revelation 16:1, 15

God Wars With Earth...
THE BATTLE RAGES ON IN THE SPIRIT!
Look and see! Listen and hear! Watch and know!


Keep an eye on this space below. . . .

Rev. 16:1 - Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.

Rev. 16:15. - Behold I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked


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America! A Prophetic Word

Reprint

Thus saith the Lord

Revealed by the Hand of the Lord to be a blessing to waiting hearts.

The fabric of America is strong. Faith is her best suit. Family values is her cloak. Chastity is her undergarment. Righteousness is her finest dress. Earth contains her bedrock, but she rests in the bosom of Abraham. Peace is her shadow that follows and covers her back. Strength is embedded in her feet. Her hands are coated with filth. But the blood of Jesus cascades all over her. She is covered in Jesus' blood from head to toe. Her knees propel her forward and down. Her head tips and bows weighted with humility and repentance. Her heart lies open. Her chest exposes her ample breast. Nourishment continues to flow. Solidarity and unity come forth. Her sleeping eyes have fully awakened. her mind touches the One far greater than she.

Spiritual Awakening ~ Firery Revival Breakout ~ Chains Fall Away

Spiritual giants give way to yield and move out of the way of the giant maker. Her children need not fear. Her lamp is lit. And her oil barrels are filled from Zion above. Her light shall never fade or fail. Her lamp shines best at nighttime. Her brightest day is dark of night. She is seated in the presence of God. Dining on rich fare from the Master's Table culled with the sweetness of God's love. She rests. She waits. She smiles. She sighs. Yes, all is right with the world. Her people renew their commitment. Draw near and let me tell it to you. In every woe. In every joy. In everything, the Lord IS. He is God above all gods who causes our hands to war and our hearts to make peace. And so it is.....

Step lightly. Surefooted. And securely. Anchored to solid Rock. Step boldly.

Her soul gives way to Spirit. Her Spiritual Awakening lifts her to heights greater than any she has known or ever known to mankind. Solomon and The Queen of Sheeba are her mentors. And if she pays rapt attention, her garments will/shall be securely wrapped about her girth, this home called earth. Her ears shall hear God's voice and obey. Her throat shall drink God's living water and be satisfied. Her loins shall give birth to a brand new people whose commitment to their Father is without equal. For there is none like our God.

America, this "(sweet) land of liberty". Rise from the ashes. Dry your tears. Shake yourself. Awaken to the new dawn. The Day of the Lord is at hand. This is your finest hour. And, lest you too soon forget, God is yet on the Throne. And He is God alone.

America, this "land of the free and home of the brave." Long may you live --
in the Lord's perfect harmony. Hear ye Him. Amen.

GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS AMERICANS!

As revealed by The Holy Spirit to me upon my noontime rising on 9-21-01, 12:41 p.m. EST
And I remain restless and still -- Even so.

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WHEN OPRAH WINFREY LEFT

Oprah Winfrey ---

Allison Samuels, of NewsWeek, was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren
to talk about Samuels' article about why Oprah left Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church
in Chicago, IL.

(viewed on Fox News - Cable Channel 54 in the east at 10 p.m., Mon., May 5, 2008.)

Notes For future reference:

Allison Samuels has reported that Oprah Winfrey was a member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ (Chicago, IL) from 1984-1986 and that Oprah left the church altogether in the 1990s.

As I recall, it was during the 1990s that I wrote to Oprah about the problems
in the Black Baptist Church and the NAACP and asked her to investigate. I never received a response from her show in Chicago, IL.

I am now recalling how, in 1985, I was a Preacher at the First Baptist Church of
Guilford (FBCG), in Columbia, MD. The Pastor is still there -- Rev. John L. Wright.

At that time, Oprah Winfrey was a noted celebrity in Baltimore, MD, at Channel 13, on a television show called, "People Are Talking," with Richard Scherr. And, she also lived in Columbia, MD.

In 1986, just before Oprah had announced she was leaving Maryland to go to Chicago, IL, she was invited to speak at an evening service at FBCG (Columbia, MD). I had never seen anything like it. When she arrived, she was escorted down the center aisle of our church. She had on dark sunglasses and the feathers from her sweater were blowing around her face, as she strutted down the aisle. She was escorted to the pulpit and delivered a message (not a sermon) pretty much in the way she acted in the movies with the "cullod" accent. I don't know how I could have forgotten that, but it just came back to my mind during Greta's interview of the NewsWeek reporter.

I guess my question is ---
How could Oprah Winfrey have been a member of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright's Church in Chicago, IL, since 1984, when she was already living in Maryland and appearing daily on a local television show? Maybe there might be a followup report on this at a later time.

The reporter stated she believes Oprah may have left the Chicago, IL church in the 1990s, because she did not think her tv audience would appreciate her having anything to do with the kind of Preaching that was being done by her Pastor. And, the reporter said that after Oprah left that church, Rev. (Jeremiah) Wright began lambasting her from the pulpit saying that Oprah had left because she didn't want to give up any money. What he did is called, "Preaching on people," and while the congregants laugh, the one "preached on" knows who the Preacher is talking about --- and the congregants do, too.

Over twenty years is a long time to sit under that kind of goings on in the church and not come away without bringing it with you. There's no way Obama could not have known. He was too close to the Pastor and the innerworkings of the church to have missed it. He was in the Pastor's inner circle of the trusted and the "helped along." I saw happening in my church with men and women coming in to be made "Wright's Preachers" for political reasons and for the sake of money and advancement with the noted personalities.

One man came into the church and was close to the Pastor, Rev. John L. Wright, and he was driving him around and going to hospitals periodically with him as if he was a minister. One day, I asked the man who was he and what did he do and why was he there? I knew that he was a local mortician and that his wife ran the funeral home. He haughtily told me that he was "MINISTER OF FINANCE." And right then and there I laid him out, because there is no such thing as that in the church. And, after that, he settled down, at least when he was around me.

God shielded me all these years and the only proof lies between the pages of all my personal journals I've kept since 1983. Too much to tell. Too much to digest. And, yet, it is all as fresh as it was over 20 years ago. It is to prove how God's Word will not return to Him void, as He has said. And, there truly is "nothing new under the sun."

CAN BARACK OR HILLARY GIVE CHANGE?

I don't need to take a poll or ask anybody's opinion about it to know that America is worst now than at any time in its history (not withstanding slavery and multiple wars or natural disasters). Even then, Americans had hope of better days. Our faith in God unified us as a nation, whether Christian, Jewish, Catholic and others.

This primary campaign has proved how much America is in serious trouble. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, and every other person who believes the God we serve is someone whose name and purpose can be glibly rolled off the end of a forked tongue will surely lift their eyes in Hell. How is it that Democrats speak of faith and, yet, their words belie their belief in God? Who is deceived by that? Only those who do not know God. Why do you suppose they have taken steps to shut up the voice of Christians and snatch the Word of God away from our society? It is because to know God's voice is to fear Him with Godly fear and they do not want to know God. For, then it would be encumbent upon them to obey His will, way, and Word.

WHAT KIND OF CHANGE CAN BARACK GIVE?
WHAT KIND OF CHANGE CAN HILLARY GIVE?
WHAT KIND OF CHANGE CAN McCAIN GIVE?

I want change back to when Americans were not confused about who we are!

Change back to God!
Change back to God in the church, home, school, court, nation.
Change back to family values, morals, mores, respect.
Change back to Bible readings in school.
Change back to Pledge of Allegiance in school.
Change back to Americans making a decent living.
Change back to Gender meaning male or female -- period!
Change back to Marriage between one man and one woman -- period!
Change back to Making abortions illegal.
Change back to Patriotism with love of God, Self, Fellowman, Country.
Change back to Personal Integrity, Accountability, Credibility.
Change back to Truth, Liberty, and Justice for all!
Change back to English as the national language of America.
Change back to Godly Leaders who led with dignity and Godly fear.
Change back to [fill in the blanks with positive solutions]


A CALL TO MY MINISTRY COLLEAGUES --

You come together but you fail to speak with one voice. Why?
When you are confused as leaders who say you are called by God (if you are), then you create confusion rather than unify. You, as Clergy, have yet to come to terms among you about who God is, much less that God is. In God, there is no confusion. Therefore, why do you spend a lot of money and take time to build bigger churches relocated far from your parishioners? Why do you preach prosperity to the rich in houses and land but the poor in spirit you have turned out, except to take their meager possessions? Why do you stammer and stutter when uttering prayers in public events being afraid to say the name of Jesus, while applauding Muslims, especially, who from beginning to ending pray in the name of Allah? Why do you fear to call a halt to the blatant lies that politicians and church folk tell about our nation? If America is so bad and if our God is so dreadful, then why are so many from other countries dying to get in but Americans are not dying to get out?

Dear Clergy Colleagues --

DO NOT INCLUDE ME ON YOUR "NEWSLETTER LIST," IF YOU ALSO FAIL TO INCLUDE A CALL BACK NUMBER! IF YOU ARE TOO BUSY TO RECEIVE A RESPONSE FROM YOUR LIST RECIPIENTS, THEN YOU ARE TOO BUSY, PERIOD!! BESIDES, "THERE IS NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN."

Whatever you might believe is your new and innovative Godly plan is already lying in place waiting for you to pick it up and run with it. It did not just start! And, you do not have to reinvent the wheel in God's House. Let God be God. Lead His people. Stop being followers. LEAD WHERE GOD GUIDES!

I welcome all prayerful responses.
Remember - I am humble, but I am not a door mat. Be respectful or be reminded.

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OBAMA-WRIGHT-Black Preacher Tells All!

"The more things change the more things stay the same."
"What goes around comes around."
And it is STILL only the tip of the iceberg.

If you are so led, I would greatly appreciate if you could send this around. As a black Baptist Preacher over the past 20 years, I learned first hand how dangerous the black church really is. However, too many white officials and black lawyers and officials, too, have looked the other way and still do. Many parishioners who don't like what they are seeing and hearing in the church, do get up and leave to go elsewhere. But, they just won't speak out to do anything about it to hold the leadership accountable.

I know first-hand that black Preachers could have people investigated by FBI parishioners (and have done so). And, in my case, nothing happens in our community (MD), except that it first goes past the desk of the black Preacher. Why and how so? Because of the political influence of the Pastor and other church affiliations, many parishioners are also county and state employees who are privvy to personal information about the citizens in the community, especially the parishioners.

TV channels and radio stations are all abuzz trying to figure out why Barack Obama (I call him, "BARAMA") has stayed in the same church for over 20 years. I know that it had to do with the religious and political influence and mentorship of Rev. Jeremiah Wright (Chicago, IL.). And it was a deliberate move on Obama's part to garner black votes, when he (Obama) decided to make his move to campaign for political office. During his speech on race, he threw his grandmother under the bus. And, if given more time to explore what he tries to keep hidden from public view, we'll find out there's more to prove why he would not be acceptable to become President of the U.S. And that has nothing to do with his race.

I began to speak out about the same kinds of rhetoric that the press now holds over Obama's Pastor, as though it was something new. Not so.

I stood up and spoke out against that same kind of hate-filled speech over 20 years ago. I was all alone and I was ignored, except that my pastor had me arrested falsely inside of the church for privately rejecting his sermons and for publicly exposing those kinds of double standards within the black community churches all across this nation. Therefore, I know that, being a black Baptist preacher, if I could stand up and speak out against it, then why couldn't Obama have done the same thing 20 years ago (i.e., speak out against his Pastor)? It was because he did not want to lose his place in his Pastor's good graces and miss out on "just such a time as this." But he has done just that.

By speaking out publicly about the black Baptist church rhetoric and the NAACP, they made me outcast. In other words, I believe I am the only one alive today who can speak directly to the race issues today exactly as they were 20 years ago, at the time Obama said he first joined Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Church (Chicago, IL.) And anything else reported by pundits and others is mere conjecture, speculation, supposition, and a mixture of everything else but context.

I spoke out against it and, at that time, I also witnessed men and women coming into the church where I ministered (in Columbia, MD), because they knew that the Pastor, Rev. John L. Wright, had religious and political influence. Not only that, but if the newspapers would conduct research, they would find (in my case) that the Senators and Representatives from Maryland are closely linked with Rev. John L. Wright in this county and the entire state.

Newspaper reports contain, and I am an eyewitness to confirm, just how those politicians came into the church to get Wright's influence to pick up black votes. In fact, an attorney in this county (one of Rev. John L. Wright's cronies) is quoted in one news article as saying that nobody can get in office unless they stop by that church. And Wright, himself, said in a publication interview that, "Nobody bothers me (Wright), because they know -- they know I have people and all I want to know is if you're ready." That was in 1992, after he had falsely accused me and had me arrested inside the church.

The press does not really want to know the bombshell I am sitting on about the black Baptist church and black preachers, in particular. The race question will remain a troubling concern as long as the ones who are in positions of authority refuse to acknowledge and consider valid complaints.

Here is the link to my story, which remains unknown. Other links are included on the site. http://www.clergywomen.org/dowell_sundaysun.html

/s/ Rev. L. Dowell, Five-Fold Minister

OBAMA-REV.JEREMIAH WRIGHT LETTER

Subject: Reply to NY Times article by Jeremiah Wright
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:35:48 +0000

Dear Jodi:

Thank you for engaging in one of the biggest misrepresentations of the truth I have ever seen in sixty-five years.

You sat and shared with me for two hours. You told me you were doing a "Spiritual Biography" of Senator Barack Obama. For two hours, I shared with you how I thought he was the most principled individual in public service that I have ever met.

For two hours, I talked with you about how idealistic he was. For two hours I shared with you what a genuine human being he was. I told you how incredible he was as a man who was an African American in public service, and as a man who refused to announce his candidacy for President until Carol Moseley Braun indicated one way or the other whether or not she was going to run. I told you what a dreamer he was. I told you how idealistic he was.

We talked about how refreshing it would be for someone who knew about Islam to be in the Oval Office.

Your own question to me was, Didn't I think it would be incredible to have somebody in the Oval Office who not only knew about Muslims, but had living and breathing Muslims in his own family?

I told you how important it would be to have a man who not only knew the difference between Shiites and Sunnis prior to 9/11/01 in the Oval Office, but also how important it would be to have a man who knew what Sufism was; a man who understood that there were different branches of Judaism; a man who knew the difference between Hasidic Jews, Orthodox Jews, Conservative Jews and Reformed Jews; and a man who was a devout Christian, but who did not prejudge other s because they believed something other than what he believed.

I talked about how rare it was to meet a man whose Christianity was not just "in word only."

I talked about Barack being a person who lived his faith and did not argue his faith. I talked about Barack as a person who did not draw doctrinal lines in the sand nor consign other people to hell if they did not believe what he believed.

Out of a two-hour conversation with you about Barack's spiritual journey and my protesting to you that I had not shaped him nor formed him, that I had not mentored him or made him the man he was, even though I would love to take that credit, you did not print any of that. When I told you, using one of your own Jewish stories from the Hebrew Bible as to how God asked Moses, "What is that in your hand?," that Barack was like that when I met him.

Barack had it "in his hand." Barack had in his grasp a uniqueness in terms of his spiritual development t hat one is hard put to find in the 21st century, and you did not print that.

As I was just starting to say a moment ago, Jodi, out of two hours of conversation I spent approximately five to seven minutes on...

... Barack's taking advice from one of his trusted campaign people and deeming it unwise to make me the media spotlight on the day of his announcing his candidacy for the Presidency and what do you print?

You and your editor proceeded to present to the general public a snippet, a printed "sound byte" and a titillating and tantalizing article about his disinviting me to the Invocation on the day of his announcing his candidacy.

I have never been exposed to that kind of duplicitous behavior before, and I want to write you publicly to let you know that I do not approve of it and will not be party to any further smearing of the name, the reputation, the integrity or the character of perhaps this nation's first (and maybe even only) honest candidate offering himself for public service as the person to occupy the Oval Office.

Your editor is a sensationalist. For you to even mention that makes me doubt your credibility, and I am looking forward to see how you are going to butcher what else I had to say concerning Senator Obama's "Spiritual Biography."

Our Conference Minister, the Reverend Jane Fisler Hoffman, a white woman who belongs to a Black church that Hannity of "Hannity and Colmes" is trying to trash, set the record straight for you in terms of who I am and in terms of who we are as the church to which Barack has belonged for over twenty years.

The president of our denomination, the Reverend John Thomas, has offered to try to help you clarify in your confused head what Trinity Church is even though you spent the entire weekend with us setting me up to interview me for what turned out to be a smear of the Senator; and yet The New York Times continues to roll on making the truth what it wants to be the truth.

I do not remember reading in your article that Barack had apologized for listening to that bad information and bad advice. Did I miss it? Or did your editor cut it out? Either way, you do not have to worry about hearing anything else from me for you to edit or "spin" because you are more interested in journalism than in truth.

Forgive me for having a momentary lapse. I forgot that The New York Times was leading the bandwagon in trumpeting why it is we should have gone into an illegal war. The New York Times became George Bush and the Republican Party's national "blog." The New York Times played a role in the outing of Valerie Plame. I do not know why I thought The New York Times had actually repented and was going to exhibit a different kind of behavior. Maybe it was my faith in the Jewish Holy Day of Roshashana. Maybe it was my being caught up in the euphoria of the Season of Lent; but whatever it is or was, I was sadly mistaken. There is no repentance on the part of The New York Times.

There is no integrity when it comes to The Times. You should do well with that paper, Jodi. You looked me straight in my face and told me a lie!

Sincerely and respectfully yours,
Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr.,
Senior Pastor
Trinity United Church of Christ

McCAIN/ISEMAN/NY TIMES. BOMBSHELL?

The middle of the night New York Times bombshell reported about 2008 Presidential Candidate, Senator John McCain, and Vicki Iseman, has evoked shades of the former President Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky sex controversy during his term in office. I cannot help but recall a solemn-faced Bill wagging his finger in American's faces while he resolutely stated, "I did not have sex with that woman -- Miss Lewinsky."

And I guess my mind went blank and did not light up again until the picture appeared showing the two of them touching hands across an outdoor gathering of Clinton supporters, followed by the sound of "the other shoe dropping." After that, I stayed woke throughout the entire Congressional impeachment of then President William Jefferson Clinton. To this date, he and his wife and their surrogates have continued to deny there was any such impeachment.

Political news pundits are standing by McCain in the same way as they did Clinton. However, I keep hearing them add, "unless the New York Times . . . ." and "if the New York Times . . . ." followed by the words, "smear campaign." Who can we believe? It appears to me the New York Times reported and the radio and tv news pundits decided while, at the same time, decrying the nerve of the New York Times and their unnamed source(s) to allow their "scurrilous" report to get out after McCain has all but secured the Republican nomination, as expressed, in part, by Pat Buchanan in a tv interview on MSNBC (Thurs., February 21, 2008, 12:38 p.m. est.)

Could it be that the radio and tv news pundits must now actually become journalists and reporters that they hold themselves out to be? After all, their various national network news appearances are made under the guise of reporting the "news."

Come on New York Times, give us something. Go to video tape? Go to photos that haven't been photoshopped? Go to tape recordings? Go to named sources? How about telephone records? Eyewitness reports? Girlfriends? Guy friends? Anything to defend your own news report and reputation? Discerning skeptics want to know of which I am one. Meanwhile, the New York Times is standing by its story. We shall see.

OBAMA CRITICS HAVE IT RIGHT!

Do not disparage, because you are not alone. A lot of people are expressing their discontent about the news media lovefest with Obama. My prayer is that the heart of Americans will catch up with the mind of the media to overcome their attempts to crown Obama as King of America by (their) divine right. If people think we have seen trouble before - wait until trouble really comes to the door via the White House turned Black (or feminine). Obama says he will link hands with Iran and Syria and terrorist nations. Hillary says she will rollback the advances made by Pres. Bush and that she will give up much of the authority of the Office. What??? McCain won't be much better. In the interest of patriotism, security, and the general welfare of this nation, we'd better thank God for President Bush and pray that Gov. Mike Huckabee will continue to pursue the Office. We know he exhibits genuine respect for the Office and reverence for God.

I cannot stand to look at Obama much less hear him. Can you say, "Jim Jones?" I agree with all the others whose comments have given us a look beyond Obama's facade. Christians wake up! Americans unite to return this nation to God. The candidates who run from that necessity need to keep running out of this country. Stay on the wall. God bless America!

Obama's Not All He's Cracked Up To Be!

Can you say, "Jim Jones?" Obama frightens me. He's too slick! Sound familiar?
What is it about the Christian community that they would accept from an all-talk,
no-action newcomer who has no tangible record of worth everything that is
anathema to our faith in the Lord Jesus? How is it they reject the Preacher,
Mike Huckabee, and don't want him to express his faith in the Lord, while
they run over themselves to heap glory and praise upon Obama? It was really
frightening when I heard one tv news pundit announce, "Obama has more money
than God." Imagine!

Democrats believe their choice is about race and gender/race (i.e., a black man
or a white woman). And they choose to take form over substance. Obama has yet to account for his missing "record." He scoffs at the idea that he needs, as he laughingly says, "seasoning." The truth is, he does! This is not a game or beauty pageant. It is
about this nation and our God, which makes people clamor to get here and to stay.

It's great that we have come this far through the blood and trials of so many
on the frontlines of "CHANGE," but we do not have to take anybody for the
highest position in America based on sentimentality and racial pride. If we had
racial pride and gender identification, it should spur us on to seek the very best
and accept nothing less. And that goes for the GOP candidates, also. McCain
has told us that "there is no perfect candidate." But we'd better be very sure
that candidate is striving by God's hand to become as close to perfection as is
possible in the eyes of God (and man, too). We were proved right about Romney
and we will be proved right about the remaining candidates, too. My prayer is
that Americans will wake up before it is too late and that all Christians will
come together in the true knowledge of our Lord to prayerfully consider how
our nation will be able to recover the true meanings of Godly values, morality,
mores, principles, and common courtesy and respect. And, return to worship
God alone.

The writer of that article (below) makes a correct assessment. Pay particular
attention to that very last paragraph in Jim Brown's article entitled, "Obama a media darling says, conservative analyst." (source: OneNewsNow, 215/2008)

BARAK OBAMA GIVES ME THE CREEPS

Needless to say I am not an Obama fan. In fact, I cannot stand to look at him. He gives me the creeps. More people need to hear his tv interview where he stated his proposal to meet with the Iranian leader and other terrorists in the Middle East. I do not trust him. I also do not trust Hilliary Clinton or John Edwards to keep this nation on a path of greatness. Each of them has at one time or another denigrated the President -- the office and the man. I wonder if they ever once stopped to think about how they would like it if they were undermined even as a Senator much less being disrespected as they have done to President Bush. Have we in America forgotten how to use the words, "sedition," "traitor," and "Firing Squad?" Anybody who advocates the overthrow of the government is guilty of sedition. They are traitors. And they are placed before a firing squad. At least, that's how it used to be.

Mitt Romney says he is a conservative and that Mike Huckabee is not. I want somebody to ask Romney how it was possible for Massachusetts, under his watch as Governor, to become the first and, to date, only state to make it lawful for same gendered people to presume to be joined together in (un)holy matrimony? Even civil unions are a disgrace, because they feed the lie that they are different and those who participate in them would be content to not have it called, "marriage." What a laugh! They know it is just one more step closer towards legitimizing an illegal act of same-sex physical contact. Are Americans really that gullible? Even when we are called "homophobic" and "haters," we are the ones who are forced to apologize. For what? For speaking the truth? Speaking what is verifiably truthful is not being hateful. It is being bold and courageous.

Mike Huckabee is a conservative. I trust him. I believe him. I believe this nation could sleep well at night with him in the White House and do so without any fear that he would open up the gates to this nation and let the terrorists just walk right on in without anybody to stop them.

Americans really need to wake up before it is too late. Do not let the news media facilitate a political embarrassment that we will live to regret. Keep America for Americans. Does anybody remember the movie called "The Manchurian Candidate" where a man was fitted with a microchip in his head and groomed to help take over the highest office in this land? Take a very long look at *this* news-media driven candidate, OBAMA, and give this election process much prayerful thought.

GOD'S WAY OR GAY WAY?

Openly gay lifestylers don't seem to realize how much more they could have lived their life in the closet than by pressing for acceptance and wide advocacy. It is a Godly and societal matter. It is a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of true and false. It is a matter of yes and no. It is a matter of morality and self-control. Godly behavior is the crux of the problem (or lack thereof). Nothing that is true, based on the prominent evidence and facts, has anything to do with somebody who recognizes it being "judgmental." But, it does have everything to do with the perpetrators wanting legal permission to engage in illegal and illicit behavior. Commonsense is needed.

If men and men or women and women want to live the "gay" way, then our commonsense and Godly spirit tells us what to expect if each group went to live on an island ---- separated from either sex. They would die, because there would be no opposite sex to procreate and build generational community. No sperm. No eggs. No artificial insemination. No children living or dead on either island. Perhaps, then, the truth of the matter will awaken the "gay" senses, if any of them are left who have not been made reprobate by God.

I do not hate gays. I just don't like anybody trying to mess with my mind by telling me it is snowing when I am looking right at them sprinkling torn up paper over my head!

Is it that Christians need to wake up or is it that "gays" are slow walking one another and anybody else to hell?! If they won't listen to us, then God will tell them when they go through the gates of hell.

Rev. L. Dowell, Five-Fold Minister

BYNUM-WEEKS-JAKES-WHITE, OH MY!

An Unholy Mess, Indeed!!

These are all Johnny come latelies to the puddle of life. Where have they been? Judging others then that they say now do not judge!

I WANT TO SEE SOMEBODY TELL ME /BEFOREHAND/ WHAT IS THE SOLUTION AND NOT / COME AFTER THE PROBLEM/ HAS MANIFESTED ITSELF / TO *THEM*/. As for the domestic violence Bynum suffered at the hands of her husband, Weeks, I do not put the blame on her. At the same time, I do not excuse him.

As for the aftermath with them trying to pass it off as another turn of *ministries*, they have NO credibility whatsoever, because of all the damage to so many others in abusive relationships that could have been averted, had they heeded those of us who proclaimed the visionary plan from God IN THE MOMENT *BEFOREHAND.* Instead of sitting still before God and hearing His voice, they want to be off and running again to try to market their new *beat-down revelation (to them).* I read one recent news report about Bynum that proclaimed, "Domestic violence has a face." Need I say more?

I am still going to stand by and watch as all of them fall over themselves to outdo one another and, even try to outdo God, Himself. But the people all say, "AMEN!" to these latecomers and they say to the visionaries, "NOT SO!" But God is still on the Throne and they had all better stop playing with God, the things of God, and the people of God.

FBCG -Howard County, MD, Church

I started this message several times since Tuesday and deleted it each time.

Too much to tell and too excited to hold it in. The glory is God's and He is in total charge. And, regardless of which way either the county or the church turns, God has already placed them in "Checkmate." Legally, they cannot win.

Briefly. My ongoing administrative appeal against First Baptist Church of Guilford in their church construction application is still viable after three years in litigation. God Himself is proving His Word. As of this past Tuesday very early in the morning, it became clearly evident that the church will have to undo all it has done to construct a new building on their property.

They have demolished one former church building, dug a very large hole in the middle of their parking lot (A VERY, VERY LARGE HOLE), placed cement pipes in the ground; had extensive electrical and plumbing work done, and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars but -- all in vain, because -- in the end -- they will have to leave it all undone. And it is as a matter of law that it will be proved to be true.

Early Tuesday morning, I researched a case which will seal the victory in the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, where God has enabled me to proceed "Pro se." I won't go into the detailed aspect of the law(s) which is(are) applicable. Suffice it to say that it was enough to get me excited. And this continues to be done all to the glory of God.

In our county, officials and citizens have been represented by law firms at great expense for some issues around the same county actions involving zoning issues. I reached out to their spokesperson and the response was less than gracious. My help was refused.

The Court has dismissed their case and they are in a dilemma about whether or not they will proceed or if they do, how they will do it. But, I don't believe they had to lose on the particular issue on which they lost their day in court. So be it.

http://www.geocities.com/clergywoman/godaystar.html
DayStar Advocates --
Watchdog Zoning Issues in Howard County, Maryland

Praying as I go!

Can Elton John OutGod God?

Elton John has reportedly stated that he would "Ban all religions." But Elton and all of his perverted ilk who took a foothold and made it into an even larger sphere locally, nationally, internationally, and out of this world are Hell bound if they refuse to repent and turn to God!

Let me be very clear, and let no man, woman, boy, or girl, make excuses or apology for me. If you disagree, then talk to God about it. He fights my battles.

All those who reject the Holy Ghost have blasphemed against Him. Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is the unforgiveable sin without repentance. God turns them to a reprobate mind such that they could not turn even if they wanted to do so, after God's voice has spoken it forth against them.

Those who have been warned and warned to turn already know it. Nevertheless, they have steadfastly refused to repent and turn to the true and living God before God turns them to reprobate without further warning.

The Church of Jesus Christ factions roll on with glee, joy, and jubilation trying to out do one another in their quest to please God and, yet, they are rolling straight to hell along with all of the ungodly diversity they have compromised and capitulated with in order that they may be seen as being Godly and of God in a godless world and time. They make excuses for and try to pray the devil out of his own children!

But, as quiet as it may be kept, children of God ~~

Everybody is not going to heaven!
Everything is not seen by God as being pleasing in God's sight!
Everything and everybody is NOT to be prayed for, even professed Christians.
Everything that passes for truth is not God's Truth, they are just facts.

The facts are these and, alongside of these are God's truths that, by now, the majority of the people already know and have chosen to ignore, reject, and outright repudiate, because of their sinful rebellion and blasphemy of God.

Elton John has received accolades from Kings, Queens, and people in high places. Elton and all his perverted ilk (of all kinds) have been deceived into believing they are on the right path of the living God and have gained wide acceptance among even the children of the living God, who follow after perversion, doubt, and deception. We are human. We make mistakes and nobody is exempt from doing so. But, God in His infinite mercy, love, grace, truth, and salvation, is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us of all sin, when we repent and turn to Him.

Christians and anyone else grafted into the Household of Faith who believe they can pray those people's hearts straight are in denial. What they are doing is hurdling headlong into HELL with them. They have refused to believe that the furnace is ready and that HELL has written their name on the furnace door.

And, why should they believe that, when even believers act as if Satan and Hell are a myth and simply a figment of some man's imagination? Many believers are their greatest cheer leaders who have invited them to partake of God's Table of Fat Things (blessings) and have conformed their worship into a more palatable form for the perverse and wicked minds to digest. And they do eat it up in that form, which God hates! Yes, believers need to understand that God is love but He is also hate, when He chooses. He is God and He can do whatever He wants to do. Even that. Why? Because He has already laid down His guidelines for His children and even God gets tired of calling out to them day and night and they refuse His call.

Facts alongside God's Truth:
Satan has his own church/synagogue and his own children.
Satan is the father of lies and his children follow after him as hard as God's children follow after God, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.

God knows His own and He has given them (us) to His Son and empowered us by His Holy Ghost to overcome sin, death, hell, and the grave, in Him - through Him - with Him.

God's sheep know His voice and another they will not follow, even unto death.
Everybody that says, "Lord, Lord" will not be recognized by the Lord as His own.
Man who refuses to recognize Jesus as Lord will not be recognized by Him before God.

Satan has his own vocabulary; and every chance he gets, he twists God's Word to deceive. Satan is counterfeit. He entices God's people who are weak enough to be deceived, after he transforms himself (Satan) into an "Angel of Light." He is not the true Light of the world. He is the Prince of Darkness and evil (rebellion against God) is his entire reason for living.

Again, I say, this is 2006, and the Church's presence in the world is not heightened, as one would suppose. Instead, it has become lowered in esteem in the world's eyes and everybody wants to do their own thing in God's eyes rather than do what God has decreed for them.

PREACHERS have conformed to the world's message which permeates the fiber of God's house when the world tells it to, "Shut up and let me tell it, because I can tell it better than you! I can out sing, out shout, out dance, out preach, out bless, out heal, out everything and, as a matter of fact, I can even put God out of His own house!"

Elton John has talked about the lack of "compassion" among churchgoers? But, were it not for the Lord's compassion, God would have struck Elton dead at the instant he even thought to say those words, much less to give Elton time to get them out of his mouth. We know how it will end, anyway! And it shall be as God has decreed for their end!

Reclaiming Our Faith in God

Good morning on this post election day,

Bitter sweet memories must move us to the sweetest ever knowledge that we hold to our faith in God, which is far superior to anything that may come or go. As it is written, "We walk by faith and not by sight." We do not fear the things that man does or does not do (even this). Again, as it is written, "What shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus?" The answer is still no one and no thing!

Somebody will read this and still not understand whose heart is very heavy right now, because of the incoming (new) majority party. However, it is not what "they" do or don't do, it is our response to it. If we keep faith, God Himself will be our peace in the midst of the continuing storms now and in the days to come. If you recall, the Dems never did really act as the minority party, when they were. So, we will watch to see if there will be a more "agreeable" tone coming from them now. But no matter. We will survive.

When you are inclined to fear and have regrets, just remember this, the people now have what they asked for and it is they who will come to regret it.

Can you recall how King Saul was the people's choice who God later repented that He ever made Him to be King over His people? As Christians (who do not feign to be), this is the faith testing time. It is now time, more than ever before, to reexamine your belief system. Now is the time to really learn how to trust God. Now is the time to begin to know what it means to wage warfare in the spirit (apart from the natural). With God, there is either "Yes" or "No." "Maybe" does not appear anywhere in God's vocabulary.

It is time to "let the church be the church and God be God of the church." (-hymn)
It is time for Christians to come together in unity and stop trying to reinvent biblical truths and methodologies.
It is time to stop being wishy washy and mealy mouth (i.e., "Diversity" is killing societal ethics, morals, and patriotism). But, our faith will never fade and die.
It is time for the Prophet of God to unashamedly stand and declare our God lives.

Our God is alive and He speaks! Too many Christians have not believed that. Too many Christians have rejected God's voice to this nation, because they have not learned to discern the heavenly from the demonic spirits.

It is past time to stop scoffing, taunting, and mocking those who invoke the name of Jesus. If we who know Him do not own Him, then He will turn His back on us, as He has said.

Stop. Look. Listen. See. Hear. It is not too late to fully turn, repent, believe, and obey God.

Yes, it is just that personal. The change begins with us. Regardless of how close we walk with God, we must turn, because we will surely need more of His strength for the days to come.

Rx --
If you cannot receive or believe this message now, just store it away and, in the time to come, you will be quickened to retrieve it and review it. Lest we forget, it must be God's way or no way. And, how can you know which is which? In Him, there is peace. He is our Peace.

Let us begin! There is much to do to restore that name that is above every name in the whole world. We need Jesus to be Savior and Lord, without apology, because:

Infanticide demands it (i.e., abortions, etc.).Terrorism demands it (i.e., wars, hatred, etc.). Perverse Behavior demands it (i.e., homosexuality, beastiality, immorality, etc.), Judicial inequities demand it (i.e., legislating from the bench, corruption, graft, etc.). (il)Legal manueverings demand it (i.e., removing the 10 commandments and the Bible from the public arena, etc). Christianity demands it (i.e., turning God's house into a den of thieves and wolves in sheep's clothing, etc.) Lawlessness demands it (i.e., political prisoners, religious persecutions, etc.)

Actually, I am writing this, because I needed an uplifting word in view of what has just taken place across this nation. But, who will learn the lesson and settle down to turn? Despite all of their money and human resources and faith in God, the many Christian organizations all together could not stop the landslide no matter how hard they tried. Why not? Everybody is content to do their own thing in the land.

When will we unite under one umbrella? Whose umbrella would that be? Faith is the key. It is not enough to quote God's Word. It has to be lived. Maybe this will suffice to impart a faith word into a heart that really knows God has not forgotten or forsaken His own beloved in the land.

Take heart!! Take one day at the time and have peace. Everybody will not understand. That is o.k. It is not intended for everybody. Those who listen will hear and understand. Praising God is my fulltime preoccupation.