Animals and sixth sense

Do you know that God told the animals to go to higher land before the tsunami in Asia? (Visit: http://www.back2cradle.org/tsunami2.htm )  He didn't even tell the religious leaders or anyone else (or maybe we weren't listening). If only we could actually hear the voice of God and (get this) listen to it. The message may sound crazy at the time "Run for the hills!" but He'd really be having our best interests in mind. None of the animals that ran out of the Khao Lak National Park in Thailand perished back when the tsunami hit in '05.


Also, a fun fact: there are dogs that can warn it's owner that the owner's sugar is low. Crazy! What God has instilled in His creation to do never ceases to amaze me.

Network

Three speeches from the movie "Network".The guy in the guy in the movie is known as the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves. Though the movie is 35 years old, the truth remains unchanged.

Wow is us! We're in a lot of trouble.

Beale: Edward George Ruddy died today! Edward George Ruddy was the Chairman of the Board of the Union Broadcasting Systems and he died at eleven o'clock this morning of a heart condition! And woe is us! We're in a lot of trouble!!

So, a rich little man with white hair died. What does that got to do with the price of rice, right? And why is that woe to us?

Because you people and 62 million other Americans are listening to me right now.

Because less than 3 percent of you people read books.

Because less than 15 percent of you read newspapers.

Because the only truth you know is what you get over this tube.

Right now, there is a whole, an entire generation that never knew anything that didn't come out of this tube.

This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation.

This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers.

This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world.

And woe is us if it ever falls into the hands of the wrong people.

And that's why woe is us that Edward George Ruddy died.

Because this company is now in the hands of CCA -- the Communication Corporation of America. There's a new Chairman of the Board, a man called Frank Hackett, sitting in Mr. Ruddy's office on the 20th floor. And when the 12th largest company in the world controls the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world, who knows what sh*t will be peddled for truth on this network.

So, you listen to me. Listen to me!

Television is not the truth. Television's a goddamn amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, and football players.

 We're in the boredom-killing business.

So if you want the Truth, go to God.

Go to your gurus.

Go to yourselves!

Because that's the only place you're ever gonna find any real truth.

But, man, you're never gonna get any truth from us. We'll tell you anything you wanna hear. We lie like hell. We'll tell you that Kojak always gets the killer and that nobody ever gets cancer at Archie Bunker's house. And no matter how much trouble the hero is in, don't worry. Just look at your watch. At the end of the hour, he's gonna win. We'll tell you any sh*t you want to hear. We deal in illusions, man. None of it is true! But you people sit there, day after day, night after night -- all ages, colors, creeds. We're all you know!

You're beginning to believe the illusions we're spinning here!

You're beginning to think that the tube is reality and that your own lives are unreal.

You do whatever the tube tells you --

You dress like the tube.

You eat like the tube.

You raise your children like the tube.

You even think like the tube.

This is mass madness, you maniacs!

In God's name, you people are the real thing.

We are the illusion!

So turn off your television sets. Turn them off now! Turn them off right now! Turn them off and leave them off. Turn them off right in the middle of this sentence I'm speaking to you now.

Turn them off!!

 It's the individual that's finished.

Beale: Last night, I got up here and asked you people to stand up and fight for your heritage and you did and it was beautiful!

6 millions telegrams were received at the White House!

The Arab takeover of CCA has been stopped!

The people spoke!

The people won!

It was a radiant eruption of democracy.

But, I think that was it, fellas. That sort of thing is not likely to happen again, because at the bottom of all our terrified souls we know that democracy is a dying giant, a sick, sick dying, decaying political concept writhing in its final pain.

I don't mean that the United States is finished as a world power. The United States is the richest, the most powerful, the most advanced country in the world -- light years ahead of any other country.

And I don't mean the communists are going to take over the world, because the communists are deader than we are.

What is finished is the idea that this great country is dedicated to the freedom and flourishing of every individual in it.

It's the individual that's finished.

It's the single, solitary human being that's finished.

It's every single one of you out there that's finished.

Because this is no longer a nation of independent individuals. It's a nation of some two-hundred-odd million transistorized, deodorized, whiter-than-white, steel-belted bodies, totally unnecessary as human beings and as replaceable as piston rods.

Well, the time has come to say, "Is 'de-humanization' such a bad word?" Because good or bad, that's what is so.

The whole world is becoming humanoid -- creatures that look human, but aren't. The whole world, not just us. We're just the most advanced country, so we're getting there first.

The whole world's people are becoming mass-produced, programmed, numbered, insensate things....

 I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; punks are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.

We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!

We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.

It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."

Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.

I want you to get mad!

I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.

All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.

You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"

So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell,

"I'm as mad as hell,

and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"

The harvest is ripe!

Revelation 14:48
"Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe."

The mark of a disciple

John 13:34-35
  ³⁴ “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. ³⁵ By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Persistence!

The Parable of the Persistent Widow

 ¹ Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up. ² He said: “In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought. ³ And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’    ⁴ “For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, ‘Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, ⁵ yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
 ⁶ And the Lord said, “Listen to what the unjust judge says. ⁷ And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? ⁸ I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”

LUKE 1:1-8 

BLAM!

Psalm 37:4

New International Version (NIV)

⁴ Take delight in the LORD,
   and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Why I'm abstinent

It's a long story but I'm deciding to write it. I grew up a Christian. I was even a Sunday school teacher and youth president at my church. But the issue of sexual purity was always a sensitive and confusing issue for two reasons: 1) the pressures of the world around me (high school, the media, my friends) made abstinence seem out of the question 2) I had no real role models around me that were living pure lives (not just with their mouths, but their lives and their bodies). So I always thought that I would follow the world's way and save it for that right guy. ;-) *rolling eyes*

Until I met this lady....

Do you ever believe that God sends people in your lives at the right time for a purpose? Or that things just happen as a coincidence? I like to believe the former. I used to work at a hair salon and I would always meet interesting people and here their stories. I met this one woman some years ago while I was in high school. She was a little old frail woman who identified as black but looked white and spoke Haitian Creole even though she wasn't Haitian. She told me her life story. She used to be a doctor, worked in a hospital in one of the northern states for some years before she retired here in Florida. She told me that she married her first boyfriend! Can you believe that? She dated one guy and that was the guy she ended up marrying. She was telling me about her daughter and how her hair curled over her face when she was born. It was quite a story now that I think about it. To think: a black female doctor who got married to the first man she dated.

I remember her stressing me to wait on things for my life. That they'll happen in due season. Her tale could've been complete farce but it did encourage me to do something: wait. I would love to say that I waited but I didn't. I had to do it my way. I had my first boyfriend freshman year of college.We broke up by summer's end when we realized we were on two different roads going different directions. Mine's ended at the Lord's feet, his at the feet of another girl my age.

I did learn my lesson though. I (by the blessing of the Lord) was able to keep my physical purity for the most part and I was inspired to keep on keeping on my path to purity. It's a daily decision. Every morning, I have to wake up and think:

• I will not pursue a guy just because I am bored
• I will not pursue a guy just because he is gorgeous
• I will use discernment to do things the right way

Plus, on the real: I want to see how God is going to show up. I like to do this thing where I put God to the test on something. It's awful but I do it anyway because I trust He will do what He says He's going to do. He's faithful. Just as long as I am, too.

Go purity. *fist pump*

Ephesians 5:3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people.

1 Corinthians 6:18 Flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. 19 Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

Hebrews 12:16 See that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his inheritance rights as the oldest son.

Numbers 15:39 You will have these tassels to look at and so you will remember all the commands of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by going after the lusts of your own hearts and eyes.

Psalm 119:9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

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I just recently got encouraged by a woman named Dr. Lindsay Marsh. She was a 30-year old virgin, keeping her purity as God intended for it. She started a movement called Worth the Wait revolution. Dr. Lindsay recently got married at 33 to a gorgeous man of God. (Go Lindsay!) And what did she say? God is faithful.