New President - New World

The New President

It Really Is the End of the World as We Know It!

Barbara Henderson

On inauguration day I found myself suddenly able to write without spending hours trying to figure out what to say.  Since my cancer and chemo I sometimes stare at a blank page and struggle to get down a sentence.  Since writing is my ‘thing’ it was really difficult for me to be unable to write.  However, on the day of our new President’s inauguration my writing block was lifted.  I posted several very long posts on facebook, and I am using three of them for part of this article.  So, this article will be a little different than most of my articles.  You can tell the posts are different, but the subject is the same. 

But, I wanted to say more.  Today I saw something that I am sure is historic.  The Whitehouse spokesperson came out and called the news media out on lying and fake news.  The two things he mentioned were not earth shaking, but they were important.  The first was that Trump had removed a bust of MLK from the oval office. Truthfully, he just had it moved from one place to another inside the office.  Second, the news publicly claimed the number of people at the inauguration was much smaller than it actually was. Then he mentioned several other things, most notably that while the news media has openly stated they will hold Trump’s feet to the fire to keep him honest; in return, Trump and his team are going to hold the news media’s feet to the fire and demand truth from them.  And, delightfully, with twitter and other internet new outlets, they can actually do this! 

The news media and liberals are like the Japanese after the first atomic bomb was dropped.  The Japanese still thought they had enough clout to dictate terms of surrender.  That is where the news media and liberals in government are today.  They still think they can call the shots.  Well, they can’t.  When the second bomb was dropped Japan realized they had nothing with which to bargain.  They surrendered unconditionally.

Ultimately, the liberals in government and news media will come to the same conclusion.  They have to tell the truth or they will be called out.  No more sneaking laws and funding through the back door in the cover of darkness.  I hope there won’t be any more people going to congress with an average bank account and emerging six years later in the multimillionaire class.

After being forced to see their only option as unconditional surrender or total annihilation, the Japanese chose surrender.  I am waiting to see what the liberals and the news media decide to do.  Seriously, I don’t see them  surrendering.  I do see that realistically, a real civil war could come about. 

I read one post by a whining liberal that said conservatives don’t realize how angry liberals really are, and that we can’t gauge how far they will go to stop Trump.  To this I would reply that they totally underestimated how utterly furious conservatives are, and that is exactly how Trump was elected.  I do wonder if Trump saw the untapped potential of the Christian right and conservatives on a national level.  This may have been his reason for going after our vote in the first place.  But, whatever reason he started going after our vote, I believe he is fully on board now and really appreciates the people who put him in office.  He isn’t going to back down on his goals.

The question for us now is what course of action should Christians take to help achieve our goals of a free society where babies have the legal right to be born?  I don’t want an open civil war.  Liberals are angry to the point of open violence.  Now, I don’t know how easily they may be deterred if the police are suddenly authorized to take whatever action necessary to shut down violent protests.  Christians and Conservatives are fed up to the point that they came out in droves and elected Trump.  Many carry handguns where ever it is legal.  For the most part conservatives and Christians are not the ones who go looking for trouble; however, I think the point has reached that defending one’s life or property is just a given fact.  The truth is that if/when a conservative is confronted by a liberal mob then the best way to handle it may be to shoot first and ask questions later.  Does anyone feel like they would be safe if stopped by some protest group blocking traffic?  What would you do?  The life of my family is far more precious to me than the life of a handful of people threatening me. I do have a CC permit.  It is certainly my goal to never need to use it, but I can’t dictate circumstances that may arise when I leave my home.

My prayer is that God will lead our new president and vice president closer to Him, and that in turn, they will lead this nation to turn to God Almighty to supply our needs.

The Bible says, 'Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.' Psalm 33:12

(facebook post # 1)

Never in modern times has there been a possibility of a president leading this nation to the Lord. Ronald Reagan was our last great president, and while he personally was a humble man, the Christians and conservatives of this nation were not, as a rule, humble. Some were of course, but many still relied on themselves to bring about change. Today, millions of Christians have publicly been praying for God to heal our land. Millions of others have been on their knees praying at home. As far as Trump and Pence go regarding humility - no matter how proud they may have been at the beginning of their campaign - they are humble now. I pray they will look to God for strength and wisdom, and that their advisers will also look to God to gain wisdom for themselves and so they can be proper advisors.

It is at this time that we find ourselves at a pivotal point in history. We have a president and vice president who are Christians. (Trump is a new Christian, but still a Christian, and he is surrounding himself with good counsel.)

We are a nation divided not so much by race as by a difference in opinion as to how important God Almighty is to America, and how important the God of the Bible has been to this nation since its very beginning. A social gospel has replaced the gospel in some churches. The idea that the world doesn't need God has been put forth in public schools and in colleges and universities.

The truth is that our God is very much the God who builds up nations and tears them down. With godless/pseudo liberals and Christians in charge, this nation was being torn down. Now, with new leadership, our prayer is that God will use these men to build up our nation. Clearly, God was the power that has up to this date raised and preserved us a nation - just as the line from our national anthem says. It is God who will build us back up as a great nation if we are faithful to acknowledge Him as God and follow His instructions as to what is acceptable behavior.

To those living in fear of the future I would like to tell you what the Bible says about that. 1 John 4:18 says, 'There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.'
First and foremost follow Jesus Christ.

In following Christ, you can be fearless no matter who the leader may be.
And, pray for our leaders to fearlessly follow Jesus Christ, and the world will definitely be a better place.

(Facebook post #2)

The United States is definitely a divided nation - but the division is not because of race or liberal versus conservative or any other thing that is currently making the headlines.

The division is the same division between people that it always has been. Either you take God and His word seriously and do your best to live by His teachings as set down in the Bible, OR you don't take God seriously. The first choice lives without fear, and the second choice lives in constant fear.

Some think man can find a way that will work by going outside what God says is right. They wind up believing doing something wrong to bring about something right is ok. Well, it's not! An example is this:

There is a concern about over population and unwanted pregnancies, so an abortion solves both the problems, so while abortion is wrong, it brings about several 'right things'. The over population problem is solved. Babies aren't born where they aren't wanted. SO, some very good things happened because of abortion. Yeah- right. Tell that to God on judgment day.

OR - how about this one - People are facing the world in terror because of facing the world with Donald Trump as President. Truthfully, these are fearful people who would be afraid no matter who the president is because they have a faulty view of who God is. The Almighty God of the Bible and of Creation has this to say to His children in 1 John, 4:18,

'There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.'

The way to take away the fear of the snowflakes of today is tell them about Jesus Christ and how He fights our battles for us and stands up for His children. Truly, though God's children may face the fiery furnace for their faith, that know that God can deliver them if He so chooses; but that if God doesn't choose deliverance for them He has a place in heaven for them where they will face no trials ever again. It is just a matter of which way of winning God chooses. Those without Christ are eternal losers. They have a real reason to face life terrified. The solution is evangelism!

We have a new President who is tired of the war on Christians. As Christians, we need to take whatever time we have to boldly tell the world that Jesus saves! If they want to live without fear of the future, then turn to Jesus. He takes us through the storms and then rewards us with a wonderful future where we are joint heirs with Jesus, and we rule and reign with Christ in the Millennial Kingdom.

Let's get busy! Start by praying that Trump and Pence will call on the nation to turn to the Lord, and that people will listen and head the call!

Do you doubt that some of the fearful liberals can be saved? Are they too far gone? I have a true story that I always think of when I wonder if someone is too far gone to be saved. Besides the story of the Apostle Paul, this is my favorite salvation story.

George Whitefield, an early evangelist in America, was despised by a group called the hellfire club. The made fun of him as their entertainment. One day a member of the club was reading one of Whitefield’s sermon and acting out as thou he were Whitefield. In the middle of his play acting he realized he was lost and gave his heart to Christ! True story.

So, even if ridiculed while telling the world about Jesus and the way to heaven, we don't know the outcome of our words. Jesus saves. Our words don't save anyone.

(Facebook #3)

It seems like a life time ago that Bill Clinton won the presidency. I felt like someone had died - and I know how it feels when someone you love dies. I remember going into my bedroom, getting on my knees, and crying out to God for mercy. I got no peace that Clinton would be a good president - and he wasn't - but I did get peace that My God, the Almighty God of creation, was in control, and that I could rely on Him to always do right. So, I continued to pray as the years and the elections rolled by. When Obama was elected, I thought surely the end of the world had come, and he almost brought about the end of the real United States. Then this election cycle came up, and my most fervent prayer was, 'Oh Lord, PLEASE don't let 'that woman' have the rule over us.'

I had no idea that God would not only answer my prayer, but give us a president and vice-president that openly claim to love my God and my country. I hope to be able to do my duty to pray for our leaders like never before. I know I have sinned by just praying occasionally for them in the past, and then I usually prayed, 'please don't let their evil plans come to pass.'

So, now we face a new world order! Globalism is on the back burner! People all over the world are rejecting a global redistribution of wealth.

People are standing up and saying,

'Hey!! I want to keep what I work for. Let the poor nations build up their own wealth instead of trying to steal mine.

Christians are standing up and saying, 'Hey, my God is God, and Glory to Almighty God alone. His glory is not going to be shared with false gods and people with nothing but murder and slavery of those who refuse to follow their pseudo-god.

The new theme is make America great again, but it is also make Britain great again, and I believe the rallying cry is going to be heard in nations all over the world, 'Make MY country great! ' and to those wishing to overrun nations and steal prosperity from workers until the natural born citizens are paupers while the usurpers live at ease without working - the cry will be - 'Get out! Go back where you came from and do something worth while in your own land.'

Christians know that there will one day be a one world ruler, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore the fact that God Himself divided the world into nations generations ago.  We should struggle against one globalism as long as we live, or until Christ comes for His children. 

Are You Being Honest About Your Own Sin??

In Times of Stress and Turmoil We Are Tempted to Sin

Barbara Henderson

Well, it seems like a normal day but it’s not!  Most things are going along as usual, but just a few things are totally out of whack!  Have you ever had days like that?  Or maybe weeks?  Or months? Or even years!  There are just a few ‘issues’ that won’t go away.  It may have something to do with work, or home life, or church, or even a hobby that you love.  And in the middle of the turmoil or stress is usually one person, or one person and his/her followers.  What a mess one person can make of what should have been a lovely day.  It can get to the point that the mere thought of that person sets your teeth on edge like you have been eating sour grapes! 

The next thing you know, you’re grumpy!  You are a little too sharp with your replies to those around you.  Their feelings are hurt.  They are grumpy and they pass it on to those around them.  Somewhere in the middle of this turmoil is sin.  You aren’t the ‘original sinner’ in this case, but sin is still an issue in how you act.  And that is how the cookie crumbles, or how one rotten apple spoils the entire barrel of apples.  In times like this one of the most effective prayers we can pray is simply, ‘Help us not to sin’, or more specifically, ‘help ME not to sin’. ‘Lord help us not to sin’ is a prayer that is also relevant to every day of our lives – even the days that are as perfect as earthly days can be. 

Here is an article I wrote on that subject not long after my dad died.

Daddy Always Prayed, ‘Help Us Not to Sin’

My dad was a ‘oner’, meaning the Lord only made one like him. Mom is a oner as well. It was very obvious to anyone that a man as peculiar as dad needed a wife equally peculiar. I could tell you stories about daddy for a solid two weeks without even having to repeat myself one time. He carefully shielded his children from knowing the stories related to his time in the Navy during WWII, so I don’t any really bad stories. Most of the stories involve mom. Together they were able to ‘make it’. To ‘make it’ is an old fashioned phrase meaning to get through whatever happened. Their goal was to actually live the life of a committed Christian. They knew a great deal about what the Bible teaches, and they worked to apply Bible teaching to personal actions. Now, you can’t get any better than that.

At family gatherings, dad was normally the one who would ask the blessing on the meal. Sometimes he was asked to pray in church. Sometimes dad would get to pray over a new baby in the family. In fact, family members with a new baby were nervous until dad was able to pray over the baby. He didn’t do some sort of highbrow prayer. He just asked the Lord to mark the baby’s heart for his own and to bless the little one and his parents.

Whatever the occasion for prayer, dad always ended a prayer like this. He said, ‘And help us not to sin. In Jesus name Amen.’

Now, our youngest grandson prays like that, although he was not around dad enough to have learned to pray that way from dad. He is just very well aware that even though you set out to do right, you often do wrong. This little one is ten, and likely to burst out in prayer at the drop of a hat. He prays about everything, including indigestion and nightmares. He has no problem with taking all his problems and trials directly to God.

So, I see from the elder, my dad, to the younger, my grandson, sin is recognized as something that we do, but something that we ought not to do – but we do it anyway. It isn’t that strange. Paul, the greatest mortal to the Gentiles, had the same problem. What he wanted to do, he didn’t do. And, what he didn’t want to do, he did. That is all too familiar to me.

If you look around at the world today, you will see sin everywhere. I suppose it isn’t that shocking that sin is everywhere. After all, every human being is born with that sin nature. There is no escaping it in this life. People born into loving and wealthy families still sin. People born in poverty and sorrow still sin. Sin is in every economic and social level. Sin is inescapable, both in our own lives and in the world around us.

Sin is so common that people begin to take it for granted. Something as life changing and important as sin is trivialized to the point that it doesn’t mean anything really bad unless it is a sin that will get you jail time. Adultery and sex outside marriage are considered so trivial it isn’t even news. The teenagers and single adults NOT having sex are the odd ones. The consequences of sex in general like pregnancies and STD’s are even further trivialized. Pregnant? Just get rid of it. Pick up an STD? There’s an antibiotic or a shot for that most of the time. And that is just one area. There are many more.

Christians see the big or bigger sins all around us. They are easy to spot if you can even recite half of the ten commandments. It is so easy to say, ‘That is worse than what I do’. And, it probably really is worse than what you/I/we do.

If I had to pick two sins that cause the most trouble, the first one would be lying. That is not telling the truth. When we think of that sin we think of big lies. But, the truth is that most big lies start with little lies.

And, we think of lying to other people.

But the first person we have to lie to is ourselves.

We lie about stuff that doesn’t seem important, but it really is very important.

We lie about things like:

That TV show won’t hurt me to watch because I don’t want the kids to watch it.

I have had a very bad day, so that gives me the right to vent my frustration on family.

I had a bad day and the cure for my frustration is a relaxing hour drinking fattening coffee and eating rich desserts.

I don’t have to be nice to that person because they are not nice to me.

I don’t have to do a good job because I am under-paid and under-appreciated.

These are all lies, and they all hurt.

Whatever the truth may be, it matters. We don’t need to lie to ourselves by making things worse than they are, or better than they are, or more important than they are, or more trivial than they are.

After lying to ourselves for a while, we don’t see the problem with a few small lies to others..

It does matter.

And, the second sin I see is that Christians seem to be sadly lacking in charitable love. Even Christians are predisposed to love ourselves more than we love others. That is a sin. We are to love others the way Christ loved us. That was charitable love, love that was not earned or deserved.

Loving ourselves more than we love others leads to what I call the ‘disconnect syndrome’. People are just going through the motions. Even in the middle of Christian families the family leaders are busy doing whatever they think they need to do above what actually needs to be done. They need to love family members more than they love themselves. You can work out the family dynamics yourself, but usually every family member could be more charitable to other family members. Everyone could give more time and attention to building a strong family.

I really miss my dad. I wish I could hear him pray again, ‘Help us not to sin’. We could all add a couple of lines to dad’s ending for prayer. We could say,

‘Help us not to sin,

Help us to tell the truth

Help us to love each other like Jesus loved us with charitable love,

In Jesus name,

Amen.

--End article--

1 Samuel chapter 12 gives us an example of people who had turned away from God’s spokesman Samuel and demanded a king.  Samuel was undoubtedly very hurt by their actions, but he said, ‘Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you’. (1 Sam. 12:23a)  

Luke 6:28 instructs us to, ‘Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.

You may be tempted to think, ‘I’m not liking this at all.  THEY cause all the trouble and I’m supposed to pray for them?  The answer is,’ Yes, if you want to be obedient to God you are supposed to pray for them.  It will benefit them, but it will benefit you more. Praying for those who cause trouble in your life keeps you from growing bitter and harming those you love.  It  keeps the way clear between you and God.  Nothing is more important than that.