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Many times we make vows or a promise to do something for others and fail to keep that promise. Many times we have also made a vow or promise to God, that if He helps us through or out of such and such, we promise to never do it again, or never say this or that again; or we promise if He gets rid of John or make Sally go away and leave us along, we promise never to be in their company again. Yet, when God delivers us out of whatever we have asked of Him, based on our prayer request (s) and promises we make to Him, for whatever reason (s), we tend to turn right around and repeat, or get back together with certain persons or people, or do the very thing that we promised God we would not do again if He delivered us.

But have you ever noticed that God keeps His vows to us but we fail to keep our vows to Him. We make void and empty vows which are promise, that we know we are not going to keep, just to get over and feel spiritually connected with God.

We profess and confess, that ‘God is good all the time, and all the times God is good’. But have you ever ask yourselves the questions, 'why God has been so good to me, and He's good all the time? Why it is that I’m not good all the time, and all the time I'm not good or thankful to God for what He has done for me, even when I'm undeserving of any of His goodness? Why does He keep on blessing me?

God in all His love, grace and mercy, gets us in and out of troubles, even if He allows us to suffer the consequences of our wrongs, He's still with us as we endure our just punishments. James tells us that, if a person knows to do right, and does not do it, for that person this is sin! (James chapter 4) Those God loves He also must punish as would our earthly parents punished us for wrong doings. This we don't like, but the chastisement of the Lord brings us into knowledge and position as to who we are in Him, and who He is in us.(Hebrew chapter 12) God keeps His promises whether we're good or wicked, saints or sinners, with blessings or punishments, or whether we like the punishment or not, or praise Him or not. All in all He is still God and we are the vessels of His craftsmanship.

Thanksgiving comes once a year, and its always a good thing to stop in all our busyness and give thanks to God, that it is as it is in your lives, could very well be worse. You should thank Him for what He has already done in your life; thank Him for what He is doing in your life; and thank Him for what He’s going to do in your life although it has not yet come to pass. But knowing that He is a Promise Keeper; and if you have faith to believe in your heart that what you have asked of Him in your prayer requests according to Him perfect will, plans and purposes in your life, whatsoever you asked, He promises it shall be done.

God has been good to all of us year round daily, and we have so much to be thankful for as nations of people and as individuals we have our freedom. Therefore, we should have no problems freely giving God the praise and honor and glory due His holy name. Thanks be to God that it as well as it is in our lives, our homes, our cities, in our nations, and for the condition our condition is in; thanks be to God everyday for your reasonable health and strength and for being "half-way enclosed in your right mind", thanks be to God for all things whether good , bad, ugly, the indifferent, your family, your friends, and your foes, and prayerfully, lessons for daily living have been learnt through everything we have experienced this past year. Knowing that, had it not been for the Lord on our side, you could very well been dead and gone on this earth sleeping in your grave.

O, Praise the LORD GOD of Israel, all you people! Praise Him all you people, for His merciful kindness is great toward us; and the truth of the LORD endures forever... LET EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH PRAISE THE LORD!!! Psalm 117

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE ON CS!

By Curtis Peter van Gorder Nov 26, 2014

A young friend of mine mentioned that he was having a hard time connecting with God and growing in his spiritual life. He asked me if I had any advice, since he considered me a “war-tried veteran” of forty years in the faith. I had to tell him that I am still a work in progress. Though I have been at it for a while, I am still in learning mode and fighting the good fight daily.

Though we learn from our experience, our spiritual life always needs to be renewed and revitalized. Jesus likened it to eating fresh bread daily and drinking from the fountain of living waters.

There are a couple of things that I have discovered in the last few weeks, though, that I wanted to pass on to him: some new habits which have helped me to connect with the Lord and continue to grow in my spiritual life.

The verse I read may be in a specific context, but it speaks to me directly in my own situation. It transcends time and place and is often a key to finding the solution I am looking for. The Word gives me that heavenly perspective that I so desperately need at that moment. When I am praying, it helps to use these verses and bring them to the Lord, as they are His promises to us that cannot fail.

To give you an example, here is my verse for today: “You have made known to me the ways of life; You will make me full of joy in Your presence.” I thought it is significant that the wording is in the past tense—“you have made known” the way. The picture is not of us desperately struggling to get God’s direction, but of doing what He has already shown us to do, which is a good reason we should remember to write it down when He shows us something, so that we can refer to it later. (Acts 2:28)

The next part of the verse shows us being filled with joy as we keep our eyes heavenward. He fills us with joy. It is the receiving and believing of that joy that is our part. Like the potter, He continues to shape us into the vessels He wants us to be. Our part is to be yielded clay so that we can hold all of His joy and love. This helped me realize that communication with God should not be so difficult. He is trying to get through to me more than I am trying to get through to Him. Through the insight from this verse, prayer suddenly became more listening and less talking—more about having a clear reception than broadcasting.

Grace is the beautiful love we receive from Him. When someone is graceful, it means that they move and act beautifully, and grace does have a lot to do with beauty. When we are full of Jesus, we are beautiful in His sight.

The other thing I passed on to him that I have discovered is the importance of remembering what God has done for us. Beginning with praise and thankfulness for our blessings is a great way to connect with God. The Japanese have a habit that when they meet again, they thank the person for the last experience: “Konaidawa, domo arigato gozaimasu,” which means, “Thank you for the last time.” When we remember what people have done for us, it makes them more willing to help again. I’m sure the Lord is the same way.

Most of our memories are short-lived, so when we write down what He did for us, it builds our faith that He can do miracles for us in the future. This can be expanded to keeping a spiritual journal where we write down our verse and the application, chart our spiritual progress, and record our prayers and goals and whatever else is on our heart. Things seem to move out of the abstract and into reality when we write them down.

I have found that taking these small daily steps to build my faith makes a tremendous difference in my daily spiritual life.
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Many people say that Jacob stole Esaus birthrights....however the Lord had decided to give the promise to Jacob long before they were born....Esau greed allowed him to sell his birthrights of an entire nation for a bowl of soup and water.....we see that type of greedy today as arab babies get blown to peices for oil.....africa stripped and robbed of all its natrual resources.....the natives were kind to the edomites.....taught them how to live off the land...helped them in everyway....77million murdered they are now selling blankets on reservations......the edomites have taken their land....they insult them by making sports teams after them then and a holiday......did it end there nope....they evaded our homeland Isreal with the romans we fled to west africa for safety.....then we were sold in slavery raped beaten hung castrated and burned alive(199mil murdered).......now the edomites have global power....in the u.s. their trigger happy cops can hunt as of old....the klan are the judges lawyers politican and police chiefs.....the edomite community support their killers regardless as one lady said "id shot him a 100times"....the edomites have an un written code stick together no matter what....edomite nations globally present a united front....royalty comes from british......finaces are the world bankers which located but are not from there.....the spiritual overseers come from europe....the force comes from amerikkka....and the strong arm of esau comes from russia(dont believe the hype.....russia not going against their brothers....)and there intellects come from germany part2 ill deal with scripture and what the true and living God say about esau its structure and why his offsprings are so violent.....guess ill go listen too no woman no cry bob marley

A Thanksgiving Day compilation NOVEMBER 27, 2014

Every day should be Thanksgiving Day—a time to thank God for all our many blessings. We should be thankful and treasure every moment of every day and constantly be praising and thanking God for it. Every day can be Christmas if the Spirit of Christmas lives in our hearts. Every day can be every holiday rolled into one when we make it so in our hearts and live it so through our actions.—David Brandt Berg

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It was Thanksgiving Day and I was ten years old. I was in a welfare ward of a city hospital and was scheduled to undergo major orthopedic surgery the next day. I knew that I could only look forward to months of confinement, convalescence, and pain. My father was dead; my mother and I lived alone in a small apartment and we were on welfare. My mother was unable to visit me that day.

A young student nurse heard my sobbing and came over to me. She took the covers off my face and started wiping my tears. She told me how lonely she was, having to work that day and not being able to be with her family. She asked me whether I would have dinner with her. She brought two trays of food: sliced turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and ice cream for dessert. She talked to me and tried to calm my fears. Even though she was scheduled to go off duty at 4 P.M., she stayed on her own time until almost 11 P.M. She played games with me, talked to me and stayed with me until I finally fell asleep.

Many Thanksgivings have come and gone since I was ten, but one never passes without me remembering that particular one and my feelings of frustration, fear, loneliness, and the warmth and tenderness of the stranger that somehow made it all bearable.—Martin Ginsberg

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A Thanksgiving Day editorial in the newspaper told of a schoolteacher who asked her class of first-graders to draw a picture of something they were thankful for. She thought of how little these children from poor neighborhoods actually had to be thankful for. But she knew that most of them would draw pictures of turkeys or tables with food. The teacher was taken aback with the picture Douglas handed in—a simple, childishly drawn hand.

But whose hand? The class was captivated by the abstract image. “I think it must be the hand of God that brings us food,” said one child.

“A farmer,” said another, “because he grows the turkeys.”

Finally when the others were at work, the teacher bent over Douglas’ desk and asked whose hand it was. “It’s your hand, teacher,” he mumbled.

She recalled that frequently at recess she had taken Douglas, a scrubby, forlorn child, by the hand. She often did that with the children. But it meant so much to Douglas. Perhaps this was everyone’s Thanksgiving, not for the material things given to us but for the chance, in whatever small way, to give to others.—Author unknown

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I like the contented way the Pilgrims approached life. They did not allow their feelings or circumstances to determine whether or not they would exercise gratitude and thanksgiving. They believed that God was in control—“providence,” they called it. Following this belief to its logical conclusion, they responded to challenges with a perspective that said, “God has allowed this for our good.” They chose to believe—rightly so—that their dependence on a holy, faithful God was well placed and that even though much was against them, there was always much more for which to be grateful.—Barbara Rainey

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As we enter Thanksgiving, we tend to focus on our blessings and giving thanks for God’s goodness. While that is certainly a good thing, it is not the best thing. The best thing is to turn Thanksgiving into Thanks-living. Regardless of the day or the situation, God wants us to be thankful. (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)



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We read the news headlines in our daily newspapers, we watch news coverage on television, on the internet, and listen to radio. There's local and international terrorism, mass shootings and killings in the workplace, churches, schools, malls, streets, hospitals, and in many homes. There're all kinds of problems with our medical healthcare, issues and problems in the White House, in our local, state, and federal governments; many job layoffs, people losing their homes, and government shutdowns.

Our worry list is looooong! We're worried about one thing or another, society in general is worried. People worry about bills getting paid each month, or if they will have a job to even pay the bills. Many worry about what to eat, what not to eat, too many calories, not enough calories; being over weight, under weight. We worry about our children, including the grown and gone from home children who can't seem to stay gone from home long enough for you to enjoy being home alone. We worry about the weather, our enemies, worry about at what moment will they feel "froggy" to jump and attack us; we worry about what to do to them if they should feel "froggy" enough to jump and attack us; we worry about what to do about this or that, on and on. We're worry warts, not having enough to worry about. Yes, we say, we have faith but when we worry it proves that we lack faith. And nothing ever comes to pass as we have envisioned.

BUT DID YOU NOT KNOW? HAVE YOU NOT HEARD? THAT WORRYING IS A SIN? How is worrying a sin? worrying breaks the commands of Jesus. It destroys our faith and hope, our relationships with others, and our spiritual relationship with God. God promised to provide our daily bread therefore, when we worry, we are telling God we don't trust Him, and we can do a better job ourselves. We take over and worry about how we can fix our problems without Him.

Take heed to what Jesus teaches in His sermon on The Mount of Olive. John 14:1 & Matthew 6:25-33:

Verse 25: "LET NOT YOUR HEARTS BE TROUBLED, YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME... and take no thought for your life, about what you shall eat, or what you shall drink, not even for your body, what you shall wear, is not the life more than food, and the body more than clothing?

Verse 26…. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... LOOK at the fowls of the air, for they do not sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. yet your heavenly Father feeds them, Are you not much better than they?

Verse 27. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... Which one of you by worrying can add one cubit unto his statue?

Verse 28. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, they toil not, neither do they spin.

Verse 29. And again I say to you, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed in fine clothing like one lilie or flower of the fields.

Verse 30. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... Therefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, that today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you? ... O you of little faith?.

Verse 31. Therefore, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... do not worry saying, what shall we eat? or what shall we drink? or what shall we wear?

Verse 32. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things.

Verse 33. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... But you seek first the kingdom of God. And God's righteousness; And all these things shall be added unto you: AGAIN, AND AGAIN, I SAY TO ALL OF YOU, LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED... And do not worry about tomorrow, for the tomorrow shall worry about its own things, for each day will have its own troubles."

Yes, tomorrow has its own troubles and problems, and its not promised to us. Tomorrow may never come for some of us plus, tomorrow may be too late. Why not stop worrying today?

The New World Order: Does It All Just Boil Down To A Battle For Your Soul...

NOVEMBER 25, 2014 POSTED BY THEA

Via alt-market By Brandon Smith

From its very inception, the Leninist/Marxist ideology of the Soviet Union made it a central priority to dispel and subjugate religious and spiritual expression. The state was “god.” No other god could be allowed to flourish, for if the people were given license and freedom of belief in something beyond themselves and beyond the establishment, they would retain a sense of rebellion. The collectivist philosophy requires the utter destruction of all competitors; otherwise, it can never truly prevail.

Atheism became the cult of choice among the communists, for in an atheist world there is nothing beyond the veil. There is no greater goal and no inherent self. There is no true individualism, only self interest (not the same thing), the trappings of environmental circumstances, and the constant substantiation of the greater good. By extension, there is no inborn moral compass or conscience, only the social fashions and mores of the moment. In such a world, tyrants reign supreme because atheism allows relativism to flourish; and any crime, no matter how heinous, can be rationalized. Beyond this, if you know and study the real history of the rise of communism, you know through great researchers like Antony Sutton that the very fabric of the system would never have existed without the monetary and military aid of international financiers (i.e. the NWO).

The atheist position uses the same arguments I have just made as a reason to remove religion and spirituality from our cultural influences. And in some respects, atheists are right. Religion is a tool that can be exploited to manipulate the masses. Any system of belief that is faith-based can be misinterpreted and abused in order to lure unwitting dupes and mindless followers into the fray of an engineered disaster. Atheists commonly argue that it is the encumbering nature of faith that causes mankind to destroy itself in the name of zealotry and self-righteous ignorance.

The difference, however, is that religious zealots are still required by the confines of their dogma to at least appear as though they follow a moral code. Therefore, they can be exposed as violators of this code and weakened over time. The atheist/collectivist system, though, thrives on the concept that there is no such thing as a moral code and that one is vindicated and heroic if he takes extreme action to prove that traditional morality is a vice, rather than a virtue. Atheists in positions of power often make no attempt to affirm their actions; rather, they demand that society abandon all conscience and sense of natural law. They do not ask for forgiveness; they order you to apologize for your moral compass. Are some atheists good and honorable people? Surely. The point, however, remains; atheism is the new flavor of the era, the increasingly predominant gravitational center of modern culture, the philosophical soil in which the NWO has chosen to grow its globalist experiment.

What atheists don’t seem to grasp is that atheism is itself based on an act of faith: faith in the idea that there is nothing beyond our perceptions of existence. They have no more factual knowledge of what lay at the center of life than any of the religious acolytes they so fondly attack, yet their own hypocrisy is apparently lost on them.
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IF WE DON’T HAVE HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WE HAVE NOTHING!

Those who are so proud of their own success and their own righteousness, who “thank God that I am not as other men” (Luk.18:11), look down on others and have no mercy, no compassion, no sympathy! But that’s not how God looks at our own righteousness! In His sight, self-righteous pride is the worst sin of all! (Ephesians 2:8-9 Psalm 127) DBB



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It would be a dream come true if I could bow down and pay my humble obeisances to him in person. To be able to touch his feet, that would be a bonus.....

Have a peaceful and calm weekend ahead my lovely CS peeps

In Eureka, California, best-selling author Amy Stewart tends an unusual garden behind her house. Every plant could kill you. Some of her plants, if ingested, would paralyze you. Some would stop your heart. Amy is a specialist in poisonous plants, about which she often writes and lectures. They are grown behind a secure fence.


Few of us would want such a garden, but how many of us have allowed a root of bitterness to spring up within us? How many have a little toxic garden in our hearts?

If anyone had reason to remain bitter, it was Joseph in the book of Genesis. Yet he forgave his brothers, was reconciled to them, and provided for them. His forgiveness melted their hearts, and old wounds were somehow healed. Forgiveness isn't just a behavioral adjustment or psychological device. It is the sum and substance of every page and paragraph of the Bible. It's what the Bible is all about. It's the theme of the ages, the crux of the cross and gist of grace.

Beware lest any root of bitterness spring up within you.


He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging the Obama administration to withhold federal recognition of a Virginia Indian tribe because of its history of banning intermarriage with blacks.

In January, the Interior Department proposed recognizing the Pamunkey tribe in southeast Virginia, which would make members eligible for special benefits in education, housing and medical care — and allow the tribe to pursue a casino. A decision on recognition, which would be the first for a Virginia tribe, is due by March 30.

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By Brandon Smith Part 2

I would not pretend to deny that religion has the ability to create a volatile atmosphere edging toward genocidal tendency, but so does any belief system that assumes it is the paramount of knowledge denying all others. The intellectual intolerance of the socialist atheism of the 20th century spawned a death machine that claimed the lives of millions of people. So, clearly, atheists should be more concerned with the violent tendencies of their own ilk rather than the religious “fiends” they seem so obsessed with. Of course, this is a history modern atheists would rather ignore or rewrite.

I have always been concerned with the dilemma of the collectivist ideology, but even more so in recent months, as our world creeps closer toward global crisis. Crisis always provides circumstance and cover for dangerous philosophical totalitarianism.

Not long ago I came across the column “Some Atheists And Transhumanists Are Asking: Should It Be Illegal To Indoctrinate Kids With Religion?” on Huffington Post. It was written by Zoltan Istvan, a transhumanist and self-proclaimed “visionary and philosopher.”

Firstly, I have a hard time taking anything published by the Huffington Post seriously. Secondly, I have a hard time taking anyone using the name “Zoltan” seriously. Thirdly, I have a hard time taking anyone who labels himself a “visionary” seriously. That said, it is important to study the propaganda of the other side carefully. You never know what kinds of truths you might come across amid all the lies.

The article does not really define what it considers “indoctrination”, but I would assume transhumanists and atheists would argue that anything not scientifically proven could become indoctrination. Interestingly, Istvan starts his tirade against the handing down of religious beliefs by admitting that science has added very little to our overall knowledge of the universe. After all, human beings experience only a narrow spectrum of the world around us, and there is indeed much we do not know. For some reason, it does not dawn on atheists that perhaps our limited scientific observations of the universe do not necessarily outweigh or deny the existence of an intelligent design.

In order to distract from their fundamental lack of knowledge, modern collectivist governments and movements have always made the promise of technological utopia and endless abundance in order to sway the populace into supporting establishment power. We will all work far less, or we will never have to work at all. Shelter, food, health and wealth will be provided for us. Our free time will be spent studying the nature of the cosmos and perpetuating the cult of academia, protected by a benevolent technocratic governing body straight out of an episode of “Star Trek.”

Not surprisingly, John Maynard Keynes himself predicted in 1930 that technological advancement and economic abundance would result in a three-hour workday and infinite time to amuse oneself by the year 2030 in his essay “The Economic Possibilities For Our Grandchildren.”

This was the same essay in which Keynes referred to the financial concerns of many at the onset of the Great Depression as “misinterpretations” and “pessimism.”

Transhumanism, a mainstay of global elitism and the New World Order, also uses fantastical images of scientifically created contentment to sell itself to starry-eyed rubes packed into the circus tent of the technocratic carnival. The very essence of the movement is the argument that one day ALL knowledge of the universe will be obtained by mankind and that through this knowledge, we (a select few anyway) will obtain godhood.
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"Though you build high like the eagle, Though you set your nest among the stars, From there I will bring you down," declares the LORD. Obadiah 1:3, 4 NASB




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