These Little Ones...

What Threat Are Children?

"I am no longer a part of your order"...

Oddly, what occurred to me in a dream related to the embed below.

It was profound. It was from G-d, and now I honor the message with the posting of this essay, and the notion laid out by Langston Hughes:

Still Here
been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!

Langston Hughes Stillness Notes

Truth and Other Concerns...

Time: The Root of Mitt Romney's Comfort With Lying Mormonism Research Ministry: 10 Lies I Told as a Mormon Missionary Saints Alive In Jesus: The Ministry of Ed Decker

If You're Just Tired of Polls...

Isaiah 29:14 NKJV - Therefore, behold, I will again do a marvelous work among this people, A marvelous work and a wonder; for the wisdom of their wise [men] shall perish, And the understanding of their prudent [men] shall be hidden."

1 Corinthians 1:19 NKJV - For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."

1 Corinthians 1:20 NKJV - Where [is] the wise? Where [is] the scribe? Where [is] the disputer of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

Translation: we'll know when we know. BTW: Baruch = Barack = blessed.

Mendacity and Madness...

To Whom it May Concern:

I pray for the president. Not in the crass way some have called for, applying a Psalms scripture to his destruction; taking him away from his lovely wife and family.

His name by-the-way: is mentioned 26 times in 24 verses in the Bible. It means exactly what he says it means: blessing. In Hebrew, it is Baruch.

Strangely, so-called Christian ministers have called for his demise...from the pulpit!

This is a sad comedy. I've been to comedy clubs and learned very quickly (from observation) one important rule: if you don't want to be a part of the act, DON'T do something stupid or heckle the comic on stage (also stupid).

Act 17:24 NKJV - "God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

Act 17:25 NKJV - "Nor is He worshiped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.

Act 17:26 NKJV - "And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings,...

We are in a post Citizens United world, and cynical powers in very rich and high places are using the faith, prejudice, hate to sway this election. They themselves have no faith: only avarice and ambition to control.

The president has been called a closet Muslim - something I wasn't aware existed - yet The Constitution guarantees religious freedom and NO religious tests.

Be that as it may: Mormonism has a history of at first labeling Africans, African Americans, Black Americans as cursed from a preexistence in their scriptures that do not compliment the Bible.

Also: the only way you can aparently be saved is not through confession-repentance-salvation: it can only be done through the Mormon church.

Rev 22:18 NKJV - For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;

Rev 22:19 NKJV - and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and [from] the things which are written in this book.

The Mormon church allowed the African diaspora to join their ranks in 1978 (see link above).

After numerous fact-checked obfuscations, and a campaign manager that said they will "not let their campaign be dictated by fact-checkers, I am dizzy, suffering from whiplash at what used to be called "flip-flopping," but now breaking the 8th commandment is a sound debate tactic.

By not calling out truth or lies, we give those that would mock us material to mock us! We sound strange; crazy! It is a method to pimp the faithful for a political end. It will eventually cause a falling away. If we're against science and reason, we will diminish.

John 8:44 NKJV - "You are of [your] father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar and the father of it.

John 8:45 NKJV - "But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

And for my dear Christian friends: here is a study comparing the Bible vs. the Book of Mormon.

One and only one has to be true; the other not:

I'll see you on the other side of the election.

POTUS!...

Prayer for POTUS. Had any problems with Vice President Joe Biden last week?

Praise – Our Father, who is in Heaven. Hallowed be YOUR name!

El, El Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah-Jireh, Jehovah-Rophe, Jehovah-Nissi, Jehovah-M'Kaddesh, JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU, JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH, JEHOVAH-SABAOTH, Jehovah-Shalom, Abba Father. "But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him." Thank You, Father in advance that this is the day that YOU have made, and I will REJOICE and be GLAD in it! I praise YOU becaue praise stills the enemy!

To the Chief Musician, on the instrument of Gath – A Psalm of David: O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Submission – Your kingdom come, YOUR will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

I will obey them that have the rule over me, and submit myself: for they watch for my soul, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for me. I submit myself therefore to God. I resist the devil, and he flees from me. I submit myself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme.

Request – Give us this day our daily bread.

"Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth." Let every seat at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church be FILLED in Jesus' Name. Let every seat in the sancuary at New Light Austin be FILLED. Let every seat in oURLife Austin be FILLED in Jesus' Name. Let us bring disciples to You from the hands of the enemy. I draw near to God and He draws near to me. I humble myself in the sight of the Lord, and He lifts me up. I therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that I may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed [are] those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. I AM blessed!

Tonight, President Barack Hussein Obama debates Presidential Candidate Willard Mitt Romney. I pray in the NAME OF JESUS, that President Obama not gaff, gainsay or speak falsehoods. I pray that the enemy be exposed for the pathological liar he truly is. Gird President Obama with the TRUTH, for YOUR WORD says: "you shall know the truth, and the TRUTH shall set you free." Truth is not for negotiation, obfuscation or "created realities."
"For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works."

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places]: Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one."

"Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

I declare in the NAME OF JESUS: LOVE is President Obama's weapon, his armor and his shield to withstand the fiery darts of the wicked who will manipulate the Gospel and people of faith for the end game of attaining power, of having the ability to send loved ones - not theirs - into harm's way; of enriching their own pockets for avarice and ill-gotten gain on the backs of the poor; for declaring America a "Christian Nation" and espousing no Christian actions. If so concerned about gays and lesbians, they would not alienate them from the faith; if so concerned about the poor and needy, they would not take away their safety net or health care.

"Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored and the gaps were beginning to be closed, that they became very angry, and all of them conspired together to come [and] attack Jerusalem and create confusion." Your Word says: "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." President Obama IS an OVERCOMER in JESUS' NAME! "A Psalm of David. The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You [are] with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever." Father, Your Word says: "When a man's ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him." Let President Obama's ways please YOU, and his enemies be at peace with him.

Confession – Forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

May You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in Heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. I will work on forgiveness as I seek it from You, Lord. Forgive me, all of us for doubting Your sovereign power: "[Let] nothing [be done] through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, [and] coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Then hear in Heaven, and forgive my sins, and bring me back to the land which You gave to my fathers. "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because I have sinned against You, when I pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from my sins because You afflict me, then hear in Heaven, and forgive the sins of Your servant, that You may teach ME the good way in which I should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people of these United States a "BLESSING" - a Barack - an inheritance, a future and a hope.

Fight the good fight – And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Thanksgiving and praise – For YOURS is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever: AMEN!

I thank YOU heavenly Father, that You and YOU alone are Jehovah-Jireh: OUR provider, our pro-video: that YOU Pre-See our needs before WE do. All Heaven will praise Your great wonders, Lord; myriads of angels will praise You for Your faithfulness. [A Psalm] of David. I will not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb. I will trust in the LORD, and do good; I will dwell in [this] land, and feed on Your faithfulness. I will delight myself also in the LORD, And You shall give me the desires of my heart. I commit my ways to the LORD, I trust also in You, and You shall bring [it] to pass. I THANK YOU Heavenly Father for President Barack Hussein Obama's debate performance. He will not just have "luck": he will have his Heavenly Father and the faith and hopes of millions on his side. You are entirely faithful and will carry out Your Word in Jesus' name. Amen!

Debate Prep...Debate Prayer...

This is the most partisan thing I've posted on this blog. However, I am offended when a party - Republican or Democrat - uses the faith of millions for political gain, tells falsehoods without batting an eye at breaking the Eighth Commandment and expect me to think they're for "family values." I may be saved, but I'm from "the hood." I know game when I see it. Go Joe!

Praise – Our Father, who is in Heaven. Hallowed be YOUR name!

El, El Shaddai, Elohim, Adonai, Jehovah-Jireh, Jehovah-Rophe, Jehovah-Nissi, Jehovah-M'Kaddesh, JEHOVAH-TSIDKENU, JEHOVAH-SHAMMAH, JEHOVAH-SABAOTH, Jehovah-Shalom, Abba Father. "But the LORD is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him." Thank You, Father in advance that this is the day that YOU have made, and I will REJOICE and be GLAD in it! I praise YOU becaue praise stills the enemy!

To the Chief Musician, on the instrument of Gath – A Psalm of David: O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth, Who have set Your glory above the heavens! Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength, Because of Your enemies, that You may silence the enemy and the avenger. When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, what is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen even the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea that pass through the paths of the seas. O LORD, our Lord, How excellent is Your name in all the earth!

Submission – Your kingdom come, YOUR will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.

I will obey them that have the rule over me, and submit myself: for they watch for my soul, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for me. I submit myself therefore to God. I resist the devil, and he flees from me. I submit myself to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme.

Request – Give us this day our daily bread.

"Since you were precious in My sight, You have been honored, And I have loved you; Therefore I will give men for you, And people for your life. Fear not, for I am with you; I will bring your descendants from the east, And gather you from the west; I will say to the north, 'Give them up!' And to the south, 'Do not keep them back!' Bring My sons from afar, And My daughters from the ends of the earth." Let every seat at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church be FILLED in Jesus' Name. Let every seat in the sancuary at New Light Austin be FILLED. Let every seat in oURLife Austin be FILLED in Jesus' Name. Let us bring disciples to You from the hands of the enemy. I draw near to God and He draws near to me. I humble myself in the sight of the Lord, and He lifts me up. I therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that I may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Blessed [are] the poor in spirit, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. Blessed [are] those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, For theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. I AM blessed!

Father: I have found Baruch in the Book of Nehemiah; I have found Baruch in the Book of Jeremiah: I have found Baruch mentioned 26 times in 24 verses in the Holy Bible! Baruch is the Hebrew spelling of President Barack Obama's first name, which means "blessed." He is blessed to have the true American Story that he has. He is blessed to have "pulled himself up by his bootstraps" from graduating from Columbia and Havard, to the Presidency of the United States. He has been vilified, called terrorist, communist, fascist, a liar and a "closet Muslim." Yet, he has espoused his Christian faith, he has identified himself as YOUR child. Your Word says: "Blessed [is] that man who makes the LORD his trust, And does not respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies." Barack = blessed, LORD. Governor Romney told 27 lies in 38 minutes in the first of three presidential debates. Sadly, pundits call it a "good performance" and that the "truth does not matter." YOUR WORD says: "These six [things] the LORD hates, Yes, seven [are] an abomination to Him: A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness [who] speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren."

Tonight, Vice President Joe Biden debates Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan. I pray in the NAME OF JESUS, that Joe Biden not gaff, gainsay or speak falsehoods. I pray that the enemy be exposed for the Ayn Rand go-it-alone philosopher that he truly is. Gird Vice President Joe Biden with the TRUTH, for YOUR WORD says: "you shall know the truth, and the TRUTH shall set you free." Truth is not for negotiation, obfuscation or "created realities."

"For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore [it is] no great thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works."

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places]: Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one."

"Love suffers long [and] is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."

I declare in the NAME OF JESUS: LOVE is Joe Biden's weapon, his armor and his shield to withstand the fiery darts of the wicked who will manipulate the Gospel and people of faith for the end game of attaining power, of having the ability to send loved ones - not theirs - into harm's way; of enriching their own pockets for avarice and ill-gotten gain on the backs of the poor; for declaring America a "Christian Nation" and espousing no Christian actions. If so concerned about gays and lesbians, they would not alienate them from the faith; if so concerned about the poor and needy, they would not take away their safety net or health care.

"Now it happened, when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were being restored and the gaps were beginning to be closed, that they became very angry, and all of them conspired together to come [and] attack Jerusalem and create confusion." Your Word says: "These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world." Vice President Joe Biden IS an OVERCOMER in JESUS' NAME!

"A Psalm of David - The LORD [is] my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters.

He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; For You [are] with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil; My cup runs over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the LORD Forever." Father, Your Word says: "When a man's ways please the LORD, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him." Let Vice President Joe Biden's ways please YOU, and his enemies be at peace with him.

Confession – Forgive us of our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.

May You hear the supplication of Your servant and of Your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Hear in Heaven Your dwelling place; and when You hear, forgive. I will work on forgiveness as I seek it from You, Lord. Forgive me, all of us for doubting Your sovereign power: "[Let] nothing [be done] through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others. Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, [and] coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to [the point of] death, even the death of the cross. Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and [that] every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ [is] Lord, to the glory of God the Father."

Then hear in Heaven, and forgive my sins, and bring me back to the land which You gave to my fathers. "When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because I have sinned against You, when I pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from my sins because You afflict me, then hear in Heaven, and forgive the sins of Your servant, that You may teach ME the good way in which I should walk; and send rain on Your land which You have given to Your people of these United States a "BLESSING" and an inheritance.

Fight the good fight – And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

And do not lead us into temptation, But deliver us from the evil one. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Thanksgiving and praise – For YOURS is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever: AMEN!

I thank YOU heavenly Father, that You and YOU alone are Jehovah-Jireh: OUR provider, our pro-video: that YOU Pre-See our needs before WE do. All Heaven will praise Your great wonders, Lord; myriads of angels will praise You for Your faithfulness. [A Psalm] of David. I will not fret because of evildoers, Nor be envious of the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb. I will trust in the LORD, and do good; I will dwell in [this] land, and feed on Your faithfulness. I will delight myself also in the LORD, And You shall give me the desires of my heart. I commit my ways to the LORD, I trust also in You, and You shall bring [it] to pass. I THANK YOU Heavenly Father for Vice President Joe Biden's debate performance. He will not just have "luck": he will have his Heavenly Father and the faith and hopes of millions on his side. You are entirely faithful and will carry out Your Word in Jesus' name. Amen!