A Harvest Reeped

There’s an old fairy tale story of Jack and the Bean Stalk. Something about a giant and a huge bean stalk that grew up from a seed he planted. I’m not good with fairy tales so let’s get to the point.

Last year I hung a bird feeder in my yard and thoroughly enjoyed watching the various types of birds enjoying it and I was constantly chasing the squirrels away from it to no avail. Then suddenly I noticed the five pounds of seed that filled the feeder would mysteriously disappear over night. Now squirrels don’t eat that much in a short time! They will enjoy tipping up the feeder and scampering away to bury some of the seeds. The mystery deepened until one day….

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The mystery was solved!

Breakfast for Daisy

I named the deer “Daisy.” She continued to return for her fill of bird seed,  so I decided to make her a “dinner plate” after learning she likes corn kernels…

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and so do the squirrels.

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“Sparky” (I name all my friends) made haste and with great pleasure upon discovering Daisy’s dinner he would have his fill and then carry some off to bury for a later snack.

Luke 8:11 says,  “…The seed is the word of God.” Watching the squirrel dig a small hole and bury a corn kernel made me think of how we are to plant seeds of faith. I know for me it is sometimes discouraging when I don’t see any results from the seeds I plant in non-believers. “They just don’t get it” is often my thought but on the other hand we just never know what that planted seed might produce.

Of course we have to be careful of the type of seed we are planting. If it is a seed of discouragement the fruit will be “rotten.” If we plant seeds of hope and love the harvest could bring a sweet aroma glorifying the Lord. Sometimes we just have no idea what that seed will or will not produce.

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While Daisy and her fawns enjoy their free meal and the squirrel is busy planting his seeds for future nourishment…

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I shall enjoy the harvest from Sparky’s faithful endeavor.

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LBGT Agenda -Shut Down Bible Believing Churches

 Students rally outside Santee Education Complex in South Los Angeles on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. The principal of the Los Angeles high school where a scuffle broke out with adult protesters over a new gender-neutral bathroom praised his students Wednesday as "trailblazers" for campaigning to install the restroom. Bathrooms for transgender students have become a focal point in the national debate over anti-discrimination laws. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

LBGT Agenda Has Always Been a Means to Jail Christians and Shut Down Bible Believing Churches

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“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”  (Ephesians 6:12)

As you read this piece, keep that Scripture in your mind. We tend to vent our anger at our government; at Islam, and at all people and groups who scheme to silence us.    Always remember that the god of this world HATES us and HATES Israel!

In eight years, BHO has done more to destroy our values and what we hold dear; our faith in Christ and our patriotism for our country, than any other president in the history of America.  But remember – we are not wrestling against flesh and blood (Obama) but weare wrestling against the powers of darkness – Satan and his demons.

BHO is simply a tool for them.

Oh, he IS evil; there is no doubt about it. But he is owned by the devil and does his bidding at his every beck and call. I believe that Obama has been given over to his lusts and a reprobate mind.  I find it hard to pray for him because I truly believe that he will not be saved.  I used to feel bad about this attitude, but I believe that Scripture backs up my conclusion about him:

2 Thessalonians: 10-12

“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:  That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”

*I think that this passage of Scripture truly defines BHO.

Homosexuals think that those in power really care about them

This is a farce.  BHO, Hillary Clinton and all of the left wingers who have fought for Gay marriage and Transgender rights, could not care less about these people!  This push for everything that goes against the Christians’ convictions, has happened primarily for two reasons. One is for votes.  The second and in my opinion the end game – the eventual jailing of true Christians and the closing of Bible believing churches.

There are many denominations who are not only fighting for the rights of gays, but they ordain gays for their pulpits.  These people will be safe from our government. These are the ones who will be left behind when the Rapture of the Church happens. They are in the world AND of the world as well.

Jesus said in John 17:14 “I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.”

James 4:4 “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

From theblaze.com

Popular Pastor Leaves School Board Over Policy Teaching Students Safe Homosexual Sex, Abortion

A popular Southern California pastor resigned from his position on the state’s largest high school board after his peers voted in favor of a mandate that would require pro-LGBTQ sexual ethics education in public schools.

In an email published in a First Things article last Thursday, Pastor Chad Vegas noted that after 12 years of serving on the board he faced a potential lawsuit for his decision to vote against the policy.

Vegas wrote:

CA has mandated this [school transgender policy] for the whole state. I have served on the largest high school board in CA, and the nation, for 12 years. I basically lead that board. Our board voted to adopt the new law into policy. I voted against it. I was breaking the law for doing so. I could be personally sued and our attorney tells me the board insurance won’t cover me because I am breaking the law and I am a bigot.

The California law requires that the state’s middle and high schools offer instruction to students on how to have safe homosexual sex and how to get an abortion. It also requires schools to teach that gender does not correspond to biological sex.

Vegas announced last month in a letter to his Sovereign Grace Church congregation that he would not run for re-election, despite the community’s pleas for him to remain.

“My time as a public school board member has come to an end. I am very much at peace with this decision,” the June 2 post read. “While I am not optimistic about the future of our country, I am deeply optimistic about the future of Christ’s church. Jesus will build his church and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.”

The Bakersfield Californian reported at the time that Board President Mike Williams “decried the decision on social media,” begging for somebody to “talk him out of it,” and later revising his post to say, “No, pray him out of it.”

Vegas posted an update on his decision to his blog Thursday, including his original letter to his congregation:

“It is legally required to teach your children the LGBTQ sexual mores while simultaneously illegal to mention God,” he wrote. “I can’t and won’t enforce that foolishness.”

“I am a Christian pastor above all else,” he continued. “I could not vote for these policies. I can not remain on a board to enforce these policies. I spoke out against the board voting for this. I called on them to realize that they will answer to God on this vote, and they should fear Him more than the state. I did not prevail.”

Westminster Theological Seminary professor Carl Trueman, a friend of Vegas who penned the First Things article that includes the pastor’s email, asserted that a cultural shift “has been taking shape for some time.” Trueman noted that Christian values and beliefs are no longer respected or even tolerated as they are seen as a threat to an increasingly pluralistic society.

He added that Christians should let go of the idea that “the world is run by people who respect difference and diversity, and that all we need to do is behave decently in order to win their respect and earn their favor.” Instead, he argued, they must actively defend their beliefs, even if that means removing oneself from a position on power to avoid being forced to comply with policies that threaten those beliefs.

In his July 7 post, Vegas urged readers to pray for Christians serving in the public school system.

“I do not know how long Christian teachers and administrators can ethically continue,” Vegas wrote. “They will certainly need to increase in their wisdom as they navigate this new legal reality in our state.” He also suggested that soon Christian parents in California will need to explore alternative educational options for their children. – source

Brethren, this pastor is a godly man.  He knows that he must obey God rather than man. He also knows that because of his convictions and that he is acting upon them – he will most likely wind up in prison.

I believe that in the next few years, if the Lord tarries, that this story will be so commonplace. I believe that many of us who speak out against sin will be incarcerated.

I don’t want to be in jail, but I am ready to be – for my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. These days are so evil.  I truly believe that our time hear on earth is short. I don’t claim to know when He is coming to get us, but I think it’s soon. I HOPE it’s soon.

We must be strong in Him

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:  Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen” (1 Peter 5: 6-11).

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!

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    You really nailed this one! We are witnessing things, evil things, that in my 72 years I never dreamed would ever be a reality. To me it is the kids that are going to suffer the most because they have no say in what is being crammed down their innocent throats and for many parents that has to be devastating. Standing up against these demon influenced school boards has left many parents trapped in an evil system because their Christian beliefs are being rejected and trampled on. Satan may think he is winning but as we know Christ on the Cross took care of that but Satan won’t give up until he’s thrown into the firey pit. May God through His Son Jesus Christ have mercy on His children and take us all home to be with Him forever – SOON!

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They scream that their lives matter and demand justice for the death of their brothers; yet, they react in hypocrisy as they steal the lives of the very men sworn to protect them. Your life doesn’t carry significance simply because of its tone or contrast. The value of your life is just that: because you are a living, breathing humanbeing. The lives that were slaughtered near the midnight hour on July 7 were not lives of value because of their skin color, and they were not wielding swords to kill their assassins. They did not throw fiery darts just before the bullets pierced their skin.

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More Deaths for Unborn Children

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Hillary Says More Death for Unborn Children is a Victory – Is This Presidential?

AMPRO274 JUNE 29, 2016 ABORTION RESOURCES, BREAKING NEWS, ELECTION 2016, POLITICAL, U.S. NEWS LEAVE A COMMENT

News releases for today included the call of Pope Francis for us to apologize to gays and Hillary’s proclamation that the ruling of the Supreme Court to strike down a Texas abortion law was a solid victory.

Which subject should be covered in today’s issue du jour?

It was a choice between the Pope’s apostasy in mis-leading 1.2 billion Catholics or the callousness of a presidential candidate who will one day see these words in a panoramic optic of her own life and be asked what they mean.

Jesus’ words: “And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.”(Mt 18: 5-6)

Hillary’s words: “a victory for women across America” and “upheld every woman’s right to safe, legal abortion, no matter where she lives.”

As a believer in these words “But I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment,” (Mt 12: 36) I needn’t say whose words will prevail in the days when time comes to a screeching halt, for Hillary and the entire world as we know it.

More Americans than ever before are now standing on the side of bringing the curse of abortion down. It is a trend whose time has come.

To say, those that still call the death of the unborn a ‘woman’s right’ is perverse is of itself bad enough, but it stretches every ounce of credulity we can muster to think that such a person now wants to be president of these United States.

It would seem that Hillary, Obama and the entire cadre of liberals who support more abortions in America have learned their math from common core. Simple math has long since decided that it is not about women’s rights, it is about an American death toll. To wit:

Civil War – 600 thousand dead

World War 1 – 117 thousand dead

World War 2 – 207 thousand dead

Korean War – 36 thousand dead

Vietnam War – 58 thousand dead

Gulf War – 4800 dead

Firearm homicide, suicide, accident in the last decade – 307 thousand dead

Killed by terrorists on American soil including 9/11 – 3200 dead

Total dead in all wars, firearms and terrorism since our nation was founded – 1.3 million dead

Abortion deaths since 1973 in America – 55 Million dead

The death toll for abortion is 53 times greater than all other causes of American deaths, including both world wars combined.

It is not a victory – it is a violation – it is full blown wickedness of Biblical proportions.

The only thing worse than 55 million abortions is aborting these facts from our national conscience and hearing Hillary Clinton applauding the continuation of the slaughter as – a victory.

Rejoicing over more death for the unborn is first a violation of God’s laws (Ex 20: 13) and a violation of the conscience. It violates the laws of nature in that, the creatures with the highest sense of right and wrong on the planet, have dipped to the lowest practice of any creature, by systematically destroying their own offspring under the protection of the law.

It is women who want the right to play in the sexual panacea of today’s unbridled world of licentiousness, but want to play without having to pay. They accept the hypocrisy where a man can be hunted down to pay support for their children, but women are not held accountable for the death of their children.

Many would like to see Hillary’s responding not to the Supreme Court’s anti-life indiscretions, but some courts sentencing her to jail for her part in email scandals, Whitewater or Benghazi. Yet, others might call for her to witness a weeks’ worth of abortions in only one abortion mill preferably in Texas where abortion abuses are rampant. She might be forced to witness the body parts of the little ones being used in experiments, which now includes, sending the brains of the tiny ones to youth at summer camps forstudent dissections.

To connect these practices to politics and jurisprudence is beyond immoral it is genocide under color of law and human rights. No it is not a mere travesty; it is one women’s struggle for power at the expense of thousands of precious human lives.

Pulling the lever to vote for Hillary is the moral equivalent of being complicit in crimes against humanity.

Only a person devoid of all humanity and conscience could support a Hillary presidency, but this is the state of our nation today.

Is it really that serious?

In fact, it is much worse than that.

An Old Testament passage which addresses the practice of mercy says – “A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.” (Pr 12: 10)

This passage clearly raises the question – if showing mercy to a beast is an act of righteousness – where does the slaughtering of millions of unborn human babies stand in the realm of right and wrong?

Hillary calls it a victory!

Hillary for president?

Don’t do this to our country.

Michael Bresciani is the editor of American Prophet.org since 2005. The website features the articles and reports of Rev Bresciani along with some of America’s best writers and journalists, news and reviews that have earned the site the title of – The Website for Insight. Millions have read his timely reports and articles in online journals and print publications across the nation and the globe. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

American Prophet.org has since 2005 featured the articles and reports of journalist Rev Michael Bresciani along with news and reviews that have earned this site the title of The Website for Insight. Millions have read his timely reports and articles in online journals and print publications across the nation and the globe. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook

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In a nation choking to death on political correctness, it would seem that I should immediately follow the title of this article with an apology. This will never happen in my lifetime.