Thank goodness today ,and thank God that I no longer have the belt to contend with anymore! However
what you realize later in life is what it actually may take to motivate an individual to actually task himself! How could I say it differently? Well if reading our bibles and praying is considered hard to do how is it we will ever adhere to God’s teachings. What kind of motivation is it we need? Yesterday I wrote a letter to a young man I had known for years I worked with him years ago, and even spent time outside work with him! Late one evening I sat down to look at my emails and there it was his name. It had been months since I had even seen this young man! Last thing I remember telling him was to leave tattoo’s off of his body and to stop overdoing life! Tonight his letter to me was somewhat shocking and
heart wrenching while I will not give his name or repeat his letter ! I will say this however hitting rock bottom in the barrel of life is the pits! This is the point where I thought to myself how can I help this man understand with God’s help what is a good move in the right direction! I know many will immediately say prayer and I agree yet I would also have to commit to contacting him via email until he would want to meet privately! So I sat down and wrote a reply to the young man who now desired to know God, he was at the end.

My reply was legendary in the fact that many have said what I said to him, thousands possibly millions in the past couple thousand years! I shared the gospel of Jesus Christ with the young man and ,explained that Jesus was the way to peace!
“Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,” (2nd Peter1:2)

I spent several hours getting the verses and explaining how Satan drills his victims for lack of a better term! All to the praise of God Almighty and here another letter comes not as tragic as the first ,but downtrodden under Satan’s footprint again! His demeanor was broken and his spirit seemed beaten! I have seen this many times ,and it has happened to me a time or two ,but we need to snap out of it folks! This world and the ruler of it is kicking us through a month of Monday’s for lack of a better phrase! My father gazing down at me steadily used to say to me “why isn’t this done ,or why isn’t that done?” my classical answer was I forgot? “ “You forgot!” well I am going to help you remember and off that belt would come! I am not wanting to compare the motivation that swat gave me to life’s everyday
spiritual awakenings, yet we desperately need to wake up to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our lives!

We need to arm ourselves against the Devil! The Devil is not afraid of those who are not vigilant for his entrance!
He is afraid of any man or woman of God who takes authority over his dominion! I take authority over the forces of darkness and I cast out Devils in the name of Jesus who am I? A servant,physically I am just a farm boy born in Tulsa , and raised in Arizona! One day I grabbed hold of a big two edged sword and I never put it down I just can’t stop swinging it!
“For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” (Hebrews 4:12)
I like to bash that Devil on the head and I want to just hit him over and over again! Divorce makes me swing that sword and so does
the defeat of God’s people by a worthless yet crafty enemy!
Right now I am asking you to pick up the sword like I asked my friend
and do what I did! Problems are usually stress created by the spiritual forces of darkness.

The fact is Satan is the cause……..
“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.”
(2nd Corinthians 2:11)
Evil itself is a cancer, yet sight unseen it can spread rapidly and almost innocently it comes up in conversations and every day events. The problem is we let it in and invite it to take up residence! You may think I am wrong but I encourage you to listen closely to friends and family! See what the origin of the conversations are and the directions they lead! God’s last name isn’t damn and his first name is holy ,yet I hear it used as profanity all day long! People associate God with misery and hurt, and they do it all in a cavalier fashion!
You spiritually may not be able to comprehend that at the moment ,but always consider the evil you find in the spoken words of others who don’t seek God’s kingdom.
The effects of this young man’s life have now come home to roost upon him! God says the wages of sin is death! Death is knocking in many lives today! Christians need to stand up for what is holy and truthful and just! Casting away that which is profane and dark!

Ministering to individuals is what we are called to do it is our great commission!
Satan comes beats down a few people and as brothers and sisters we edify them and uplift them in Christ!
We actually would encourage them to defend the faith but without motivation
What will cause them to listen to reason….
I am going to turn the subject of this article to a little more thought provoking path rather than setting us down individually and ministering to one lets discuss what we all have to look forward to on this earth without God……
This world is headed in a downward spiral, and I am not discounting that we all personally have problems. In the next few seconds I want you to think of the most pressing problems you have besides salvation and just hold that thought! A motivator if you will….

For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape..(1st Thessalonians 5:3)
What brings about any need for peace except calamities…….

If you think life is pressing try this one on for size…..

The dollar just fell to 75.41 versus the euro Thursday Nov 8th at 1.44 and rising…
A.) continuing in this manner could bring about the financial collapse of the dollar on the world stage! The collapse of the dollar most assuredly will bring on the collapse of both the U.S. housing industry, and the fall of the stock market, signaling a depression worse than the one in 1929 say analyst! The dollar fell to its lowest point in 26 years and China has signaled today it will start divesting some of it’s 400 billion dollars in U.S. currency to a more powerful monetary standard such as the Euro! This is the equivalent of mom saying “she is through lending you money”, but much more serious! China a large holder of U.S debt and the inflated dollar will now pull out the leg which is currently letting the dollar rest it will now allow the dollar to plummet according to analyst with a recession as its only possible resting place! The word recession may be uncommon to this generation, but it basically means the coming of mass poverty and total collapse of our monetary system.

Systematically and slowly China becomes next world superpower…….

B.) People’s Communist Republic of China and the European Union are both headed for
a position of prominence on the world stage! China predominantly a dictatorship commonly known as totalitarianism! Basically this means if you cross the state you could wind up dead or in prison for even reading a bible this is becoming a real global reality and a coming future threat! Next we have the multi-tentacle beast the European Union which is basically positioning itself as a multilateral
world encompassing body for creation of a new world order! What does the European Union desire for our futures? Well it rides the coat tails of the United Nations
with exuberance. The United Nations is synonymous with anti-Semitism, corruption ,and of course we can’t forget not following through with much of anything! While Russia may possibly be the first and last threat we face in any military scenario. The U.S has a new arms race initiated by Vladimir Putin to deal with recently! We
must know right now the worlds coming leaders are dictators much like Stalin or Lenin.
I can’t leave out Mao Zedong who is definitely a Chinese leader you don’t want running your world! Yes, yes I understand none of these is a problem for you now, but actually you would be wrong in saying that China doesn’t affect you because it affects global markets which affect your 401k and your ability to buy and sell goods at reasonable prices! China also puts lead in our children’s toys, and leverages Iran’s ability to increase oil prices while maintaining a capability to enrich weapons grade uranium for WMD‘s! However we haven’t stopped buying those Chinese toys yet!
China is also removing itself from the dollar, and this could also effect the entire
economy! If you have given China no thought
today maybe you should read up a bit on the worlds next Big Gun!

How does God say it’s going to go for us……………..
C.) Well let’s begin with Israel

Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make [him] afraid.
(Jeremiah 30:10)
(Above) a Prophecy of Israel restored almost 3000 years old!

Bible Prophecy clearly states a coming calamity after the restoration of Israel!
“And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all [these things] must come to pass, but the end is not yet. ”(Matthew 24:6)

Well with what we have now in the middle east you might say that we have always had wars and you would be right but not entirely safe from the coming destruction because prophetically this biblical restoration of “Israel” into its own lands signifies we are now at the end of days

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken..” (Matthew 24:29)

What signifies a time frame for any of this besides Israel well it’s found in a passage a little further on in Matthew! What I really want to point out is this
in the Old Testament we have several sources discuss a prophetically eventful moment of God returning his people to their land in fact we saw this factually occur in 1948. Much like the passage in Jeremiah 30:10, and Jeremiah46:27
But here is the clincher

“So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, [even] at the doors.”
(Matthew 24:33)

“Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”
(Matthew 24:34)

In these passages which are rounding up the end of Jesus speaking the “Parable of the Fig Tree”
The Fig Tree is Israel and although no man can know the hour or the day!
A man can know the end times simply by reading God’s words in Matthew!
So how is it we find peace in the midst of all our cares here on Earth well
I can tell you this, that you personally are going to live out your very own life!
You will face struggles and still face the everyday challenges that you are now facing. When you accept Jesus into your heart realizing that this world is
imploding into sin and turmoil. You do something that most do not! You enter into his rest which brings freedoms! You also look at things differently knowing all the while God’s in control! Imagine if you will that you have just walked into a convenience store and you find several people injured and a lone gunman who rushes to meet you from behind a counter he points his gun directly at you threatening your life! Well now without God your shaking violently and trembling thinking of the last moment your going to have for all eternity right here and now! However with God your calm and patient and if it comes to death your ready! It is your motivation by God that changes your surrounding situation!
What really seems terrible for you right here and now is looked at as just another
passing moment on the way to glory! The robber thinks he holds life and death in his hands but really he holds nothing! Yes he can open a door but he cannot stop you from a superior ending! Some who hold onto life with every straw and fiber of their being is ruled by fear! Fear of what they will lose and frustration of what they will miss! Neither should hold any merit to a true believer who
is contending for faith! Perhaps a life with God is better now than say another ten years in a recession and a world of suffering. I am never condoning suicide but rather casting the Devil’s major tool fear to the wind! O’ Death where is your sting? Let’s cast together……

In His Service

John Crable

Pastor/CLJC Online Ministries

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