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Written by Maria Fontaine November 2014

Are you faced with options, choices, and decisions, but you don’t have any idea which direction to take? You know you want to move in the direction God is leading, but the problem is you don’t know which direction that is. You’re floundering, not knowing where to go, what to do, or how to do it. You can’t see far enough ahead to know what the outcome of each choice will be. Very few things can be decided on their own, and many factors have to be considered in making each single decision.

I was reminded recently of the verse, “Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart.” It led me to meditate on the wisdom of waiting for God to dispel the fog, rather than making decisions when we can’t see clearly ahead. Given time, things fall into place, and we are able to see the way more clearly.

I’m sure you can think of times in your life when you had to make a certain decision but you couldn't seem to get any answers; but when you waited in prayer and with faith, trusting God to come through for you, He eventually made the way clear—and you were glad you’d waited and trusted.

Waiting is an important element of the faith life. It’s not easy, but it’s part of the process that God uses to instruct us, teach us patience, build our character, and draw us closer to Him. The next time you’re in a holding pattern or in waiting mode, be encouraged. The fog will lift—it always does!
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Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust him, and he will help you.—Psalm 37:5 NLT

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.—Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV

If we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.—Romans 8:25 NLT

After waiting patiently, Abraham received what was promised.—Hebrews 6:15 NIV

Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.—Hebrews 10:23 NIV

The testing of your faith produces patience.—James 1:3

See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm.—James 5:7–8 NIV



Activated TFI

Ah religion , stuffing the simple-minded with tales of inaccurate grandeur, in order to get them to be controlled to do ridiculous things like human sacrifices, wars, terrorism, worshiping something that doesn't even exist, money donations, and putting ashes on their face.
There's fairy tales of gods, devils, people rising from the dead, heaven, hell, and amazing deeds by gods, religious leaders, and even saints.

A common one this time of year, is that Saint Patrick drove all the snakes out of Ireland.
Indeed, religion is the cause that many people dislike snakes and thus favor such a fairy tale.
Snakes strike fear in the minds of many people, even the snakes that aren't the least bit dangerous to us.
Due to the bible & religious teachings, and the simple minds of some people, they accept snakes as the devil.

Don't get me wrong, I am not particularly fond of venomous snakes, nor very large constrictors.
I certainly attempt to keep my distance from them and yet, have encountered several in real life and ....even on here.
But to think of all real snakes as evil is so ignorant that it is a bit hilarious.
They are a natural animal that evolved to fill an environmental niche, not a demon.

Regardless, Saint Patrick did not drive snakes out of Ireland. Snakes are cold blooded animals
that require warm environmental temperatures and Ireland simply doesn't offer that environment outside. Ireland is an island surrounded by cold Atlantic Ocean waters. So, since at least the melting of the ice age, snakes can't slither there and warm water sea snakes would never swim there.
There are no snake fossils in the ground of Ireland. Thus, LONG before Saint Patrick, there were no snakes evolved within Ireland. Nonetheless, there ARE snakes in Ireland, just not wild ones.
Ireland's residents are permitted to have snakes as pets and some people there have.
Indeed, sometimes people have even let their snakes go to live in the wild (i.e. during difficult economic times). But apparently that is a death sentence to the snakes, who can't find an appropriate environmental temperature in wild Ireland.

Sorry to spoil yet another (i.e. religious) fantasy and to again educate you about reality.

Still, I hope you have a terrific Saint Patrick's Day.

Ok I'm interested if anyone has had any actual contact with alien visitors ?

I have a burning desire to be "probed" so if anyone has any first hand information on the subject or how to go about getting on the list ....

Please give me contact deals



This is number 3 on my bucket list

By David Berg, February 2006

Most of us don’t consider ourselves particularly strong or capable, and we feel we lack certain strengths or abilities that we wish we had. That’s when it helps to remember that God specializes in using people who aren’t great in themselves.

The apostle Paul wrote, “You see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence” (1 Corinthians 1:26–29 2 Corinthians 4:7).

When we don’t feel capable or sufficient for the task God has set before us, then He has a chance to take over and do things to suit Himself. In fact, the weaker we get in ourselves, the stronger we can be in His Spirit, because that’s when His strength comes in (2 Corinthians 12:10).

The very fact that we feel incapable is one of the best things possible, because then we depend on the Lord and He has a chance to work—and He will. “It is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13). The Lord likes for us to be dependent on Him, to know that we need His help, and to ask Him for it. It’s then that “the things which are impossible with men are possible with God” (Luke 18:27).

The weakness of strength

The biggest temptation for people who have a lot of natural ability and drive is to push things through in their own strength, but that has its limits and dangers. “Men of force are men of faults,” and their biggest fault is when they keep on going in their own strength, their own force, instead of letting the Lord work through them.

My mother, for example, had a lot going for her in the natural—a lot of God-given talents, abilities, drive, personality, looks, and so on. But it wasn’t until after she broke her back in an accident and was bedridden and in a wheelchair for five years that the Lord was able to use her the way He wanted to. After she and her doctors had tried everything they could with no success, when she didn’t have anyone else to turn to and no more strength of her own, the Lord stepped in and healed her miraculously—and she knew the Lord had done it! She still had the natural traits and abilities He’d originally given her, but through this experience she learned to lean on Him, to let Him use those traits and abilities for His glory, and to give Him the credit for whatever got accomplished—and that’s when He was finally able to use her to the full. Of course, all of us depend on our natural abilities to some extent at different times, so to rely more on the Lord and His strength is a lesson we all need to learn.

How to win spiritual victories

It’s been said that “Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees.” Well, that certainly is the truth, because when you’re weak in yourself, that’s when you can be “strong in the Lord and in the power of His might” (Ephesians 6:10). However, the Devil might not tremble so much if you’re one of those people who think that they’re “strong.” If you’re too self-confident, that in itself is a major spiritual weakness. “Let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall” (1 Corinthians 10:12).

We cannot strive in our own strength. We must look to the Lord, and He must win the battle. We don’t have to try to win victories by our own striving, struggling, and working in the flesh. We just have to do our part by putting our will on God’s side, and God will do the rest, which is virtually everything!






Activated TFI

Jesus went and preached to the spirits in prison, and there wouldn't have been any point in preaching to them if it hadn't been possible for them to repent and be sorry for their sins and to receive some kind of opportunity thereby to get forgiveness and to find a better life, to be delivered from their imprisonment in the heart of the Earth. Whatever it was or what it was like is not clear, but if it's spoken of as a prison, that's bad enough! (Mt.12:40; 1Pet.3:19; 4:6; Eph.4:9.)

But for Jesus to come and preach to them, it was obviously to give them an opportunity to believe and receive which they had not had, and to be released or saved. That's obvious, you don't even have to argue about it. Theologians argue about it because it doesn't fit their particular doctrine, but it's right there in the Bible plain as day! Why else would Jesus have gone to the trouble to preach to them unless there was a second chance in some way--really their first chance--and an opportunity for them to be sorry and repent and be forgiven and released?

God probably has as varied terms and means of punishment and correction in the afterlife as there are in this life under the System and its laws, etc. He's probably got a great and wide variety to show people how wrong they were and give them an opportunity of repentance and change--as has been manifested in many near-death experiences or of people who have had death experiences.

God actually let them leave this life temporarily to show them their mistakes when they couldn't learn any other way; to actually come face to face with the Judgement Angel and be told and showed and taught where they were making their mistakes and what they were doing wrong, with the opportunity to correct their life and even allowed to go back and live again in order to change!

Well, if God will do that for the living, then why not also for the dead? If there's no further opportunity or possibility of them learning and repenting in this life, then He takes them on the other side permanently to show them and teach them--and there's no point in showing them unless there's opportunity of repentance and some chance that they'll be able to change.

And if there's a chance to repent and change not only here but there, then there must be some opportunity for forgiveness and release from punishment and from chastening and such purging as Purgatory. Purgatory, as the Catholics call it. I'm a firm believer in Purgatory, but not necessarily their kind of Purgatory, whether it's Hellfire, Lake of Fire or whatever, it's a purging.

It seems from all I can gather from the scripture, that the lake of fire is pretty bad punishment for the very worst! To be cast in the Lake of Fire you've got to be a pretty wicked sinner who has been really defiant of God and every opportunity God has given you to repent, and have really done a lot of damage and hurt a lot of people; like Hitler and some others, someone who has turned many astray.

So that's the kind of people the lake of fire is reserved for--including the Devil and the False Prophet and the Antichrist and all his crowd! That's very plain in the Scripture. (Rev.14:11; 19:20; 20:10,14-15; 21:8.) The very worst and the ultimately wicked who just are horrible and have slaughtered millions and destroyed nations and killed babies and innocent women and children, Hell could hardly be bad enough for some of those people, and it'll be plenty bad!

These folks, they not only didn't know it was their Master's will, they didn't even know there was a Master, possibly! But if they didn't know their Master's will and did things worthy of stripes, they're still worthy of some punishment. Because the Lord Himself in His Word says "This is the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World!" (Jn.1:9.) Everybody is given some light.
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Rev.12:10



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The logical solution to this and other identification problems is to dispense with the card and simply attach the silicon data chip to its owner. What surer way to accomplish this than to implant this rice-sized biochip under the skin, and what better place than the hand or forehead? Biochips have already been implanted in pets--ostensibly for medical and tracking purposes-- and in at least two humans. A British university professor has had several chips implanted under his skin to perform tasks such as opening electronically locked doors and turning on lights or his computer when he walks into the room. A U.S. surgeon did the same. A version of the popular biochip used to track pets has already been developed for human tissue. Could this or something like it be a forerunner of the mark of the Beast?

And what about the number 666? It is likely to have something to do with people being assigned a unique multidigital number, along the lines of a personal identification number, or PIN.

A complete switch from clumsy cash to efficient electronic currency would certainly make our lives easier by making financial transactions quicker, more convenient, and more secure. However, it would also make our lives more controlled, comparable to the ankle transmitters that some convicted criminals under house arrest or on parole must wear. Your whereabouts could be known at all times, and your privacy would be nonexistent. Every purchase you made, every place you went, every TV show you watched or Web page you perused, every phone call you made could be monitored and recorded in a central database.



And there is one more catch. According to the Bible, the driving force behind the coming one-world order is the most evil entity the world has ever known. The Devil, also known as Satan, will no longer be content to operate behind the scenes--the Beast (Antichrist) will be the Devil incarnate. The Devil's goal has always been to have people worship him instead of God. In the last half of the Antichrist's rule, the horrific three and a half years that the Bible describes as the "Great Tribulation," he will pull out all the stops in order to achieve this.

Revelation tells us that accepting the mark of the Beast will not be an entirely financial decision. It will also be a decision to embrace the Beast and what he stands for. We are also told what will become of those who worship the Beast and willingly bear his mark: "If anyone worships the Beast and his image, and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand, he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God" Rev. 14:9-10.

Although the Beast will rant and rave on the world's stage for a few short years, he and his followers will be the ultimate losers. At the end of the Antichrist's seven-year reign, Jesus Christ will return with the hosts of Heaven to right all wrongs, and He and those who love and follow Him will emerge from the Great Tribulation as the glorious and eternal winners.

You can be a sure winner too, by accepting Jesus as your Savior. Two thousand years ago when He walked the earth, Jesus gave His life so that you could experience His love and have all the other wonderful gifts He has for you in this life, and live forever in the next. To receive all that, all you have to do is sincerely pray a short prayer like this one:

Jesus, please come into my heart and life. I'm sorry for the things I have done wrong, and I ask for Your forgiveness. I receive You and Your gift of eternal life, and ask You to fill me with Your love and peace. Amen.

It's that simple. Receive Jesus today, and He will never leave you. He will be with you through the troublous times that are soon to come, and beyond! He will cut the strings!






Deeptruths TFI

First you can accumulate money like a madman, then one day you understand that you wasted your whole life. When you understand this you become afraid, but the old habit persists. You can give the whole and forget about it and escape, but you cannot share it.

If a man of understanding has money he shares it because money is not for itself, it is for life. If he feels that life needs it, love needs it, he can throw it away completely, but it is not a renunciation, it is again using it. Love is the goal for him; money is never the goal, money is the means. For people who are after money, money is the goal, love becomes just a means. Even their prayer is for money; even prayer becomes a means to money.

Money is a very complex phenomenon. Why do people get so much into it, and so many people at that? It has a certain appeal, a magnetic appeal. Money has a hypnotic appeal in it and the appeal is that you can possess it completely. Money is very docile, it becomes a slave. The ego feels very fulfilled.

Love is not docile, love is rebellious. You cannot possess love. You can possess a woman, you can possess a man, but you can never possess love. If you possess a woman, the woman has become money, a thing; if you possess a man, the man has become money, a thing, an instrument. A man is a man and a woman is a woman only when they are an end unto themselves, not a means to anything else. Money is the means, and to become obsessed with the means is the greatest foolishness that can occur to a man and the greatest curse.

Money should not become the goal, but I am not saying at the same time that you should renounce it and become beggars -- use it, it is a good means. I'm not against money, I have nothing to say against it. I am saying something about you and your possessiveness, not about money. Money can be beautiful -- if it is not possessed, if you don't become obsessed with it. It can be beautiful. Money is like blood circulating in the body: in the body of society money circulates, it is blood. It helps society to be enriched, to be alive -- but it is like blood.

You must have heard about diseases in which the blood stops and cannot circulate, clots of blood come into existence and they become blocks and the blood cannot circulate in the body. Then you are paralyzed, and if the clots happen in the heart you are dead.

If money circulates, moves from one hand to another, goes on moving, the more movement the better, then the blood circulates well, then life is healthy. But when a miser comes in, a clot has happened; somewhere somebody is accumulating, not sharing, and that is a clot in the blood circulation. The man disturbs, he does not live himself and because of his blocking he does not allow others to live. The money has stopped circulating. Blood circulating is life, blood stopped, blocked, is death. Money circulating is life, money stopped, blocked, is death.

I'm for a society where money moves fast, nobody clings to it, everybody uses it, and you remember that the simple law of money is: the more you use it, the more valuable it is. For example, we are sitting here. If ten persons have a hundred rupees in their pockets, and they keep it to themselves, then ten persons have only one thousand rupees, dead. But when those rupees circulate, if they make two rounds, ten thousand have become twenty thousand; if they make three rounds they have become thirty thousand; and if they make four rounds.... The more they circulate, the more money there is, because when one hundred rupees are kept by one man those hundred rupees are dead. If he uses them they go to somebody else, then they come to him again because others are also using them; now he has two hundred rupees, and again three hundred, four hundred, five hundred.... The more you use it, the more money floats and circulates, and the richer society is.