It was always crushing emotionally while serving in law enforcement to see people who decided at the heat of the moment or at the peak of their anger to end someone’s life. It was after 10:00 PM. There was a young man in his twenties who was at the Subway ordering a sub sandwich. His intention was to kill the other young man who was the only one working while he made him the sub he ordered. You know how those sandwich shops are set up where you stand in front of a glass like display counter watching them make your sub. The young man that was working that night had just gotten married recently and he and his young wife just had a baby. He was working to take care of his family. The suspect ordered his sub, and the young husband and father turn went immediately to make his sub looking down at all the various fixings that were to be placed on the man’s sub. As his face was turned down fixing the sub, the suspect pulled out a gun and shot him in top of his head and murdered the young father and dad as he was making him a sub. We must never forget that evil exists and honor those in law enforcement who patrol our streets and keep evil at bay so we can live our lives free of as much crime as possible. I thank God for our men and women in blue. Blessed are the peace makers.

Then the suspect walked out of the store like nothing had happened and began walking through the neighborhood behind the store. When we received the call from our dispatcher this had happened and the suspect was in the area, all officers on duty drove as fast as we could to the scene. I was the first one on the scene as I began to patrol the area in my cruiser moving slowly through the streets looking for any suspicious activity. Then suddenly I rolled up on the suspect. I was able to apprehend him, take his gun and arrest him, placing him in my cruiser. When asked of his motive, the suspect said, ‘I just wanted to kill someone.’  There were other things he said that were specific, but it boiled down to the fact that he wanted to kill someone, and it just happened to be that young father working at Subway who was in his path that night.

There was another man who was in his house, and someone was breaking into his house late at night. He could hear them prying on the front door. Shocked, adrenaline flowing, he quietly shuffled through the dark to get his gun. His heart was beating, and he had no idea what was going to happen, what the burglar had in mind to do to him and his wife. It was just after midnight and very dark. Then suddenly the front door swings open and someone dressed in black charges in the front door and the homeowner who had armed himself fired three times and the suspect fell to the ground dead. The man had killed another man because he was in fear for his life and his wife’s life and in the state of Florida residents can protect themselves in such incidents. Yet, someone was killed.

In these two killings, one killing was justified and the other was not. The killing at the sandwich shop was not justified. The killing that was not justified was considered a murder, a crime, and the man was tried for murder and sentenced to death. The homeowner never went to jail, never went to trial as the sheriff was able to determine that it was a forced entry of a burglar, and the homeowner was justified in defending his home, wife, and life. Though scarred from having to take someone’s life, he went on with his life as if nothing had happened while the murderer was on death row.* No one in the community considered him a murderer, and no one thought he would be in prison or sentenced to death, even though he too killed a man.

The Apostle Paul writes, in Romans 5:1-2, about being justified before God, writing “Since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.” Romans 5:1-5

When we look at the two killings I mentioned above, we say I see why one is free and the other in prison because we feel in our hearts and minds that the one on death row deserves his punishment. Yet, Paul also writes there is no one who is righteous, not one. All have fallen short. No one seeks God.

We like to think of ourselves as the homeowner who did dreadful things for a just cause, but the truth is, before the ultimate Judge, God, if we have hated anyone, scripture tells us that we are guilty of murder. The person who breaks one of God’s laws, is guilty of breaking all of God’s laws. We all are guilty deserving the death sentence just like the man who murdered the young father and husband. Because of the first man created, Adam, falling into sin, because we are of Adam, we fell with him. There was no hope, until…

God was not going to leave it that way. You see, God so loved you that He gave His Son, Jesus, to be born of a woman, to live a sinless (crime free) life, and to take our place, our sentence, our death sentence, because of our sins, our crimes we committed, and He voluntarily died in our place. God is the only One who is just and the only One who justifies. The sentence for our crimes did not just go away, they were placed on Jesus and God allowed His Son to receive the punishment for our crimes on Himself, to be a sin sacrifice. Our crimes did not go unpunished, our punishment for our crimes were placed on Jesus. That is what happened when Jesus was crucified on the cross. He took on a death sentence, but not His own, but ours. He died for the crimes (law breakers) of the world who have broken God’s law. He did this, though we committed these crimes (broke God’s laws) and were deserving of death, so that through our faith in Jesus’s finished work on the cross, dying in our place for our crimes, we can be justified by faith before God. That means, though we were guilty, our guilt was taken away through Jesus’ loving sacrifice.

Like the resident who killed the intruder in his home, who walked away scarred by what he did, but free we walk away from the Cross of Jesus Christ, with our faith in Him and accepting Him as the Lord of our life, as if we had never committed a crime. Not because we are good, but because God is good, and Jesus is our Lord and Savior. God forgets our crimes (our sins) not because He decided to, but because they were paid for by Jesus’ death. For we are justified by grace, through faith in Jesus Christ.

Why go any further with a death sentence upon your life? Why risk your life ending before you deal with your crimes (breaking God’s law). You see, if you die without accepting Jesus, you will have missed being able to be justified by faith. You will be judged according to the law, not according to grace. The law says you are deserving of death, eternal death where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. That is where the one who murdered the young father is apt to be this day, unless he accepted Jesus before his death. I believe this is why God has led you to this moment of reading about your true condition and Jesus taking your place, your punishment, to make you aware now, that you can accept His loving sacrifice for you by accepting Jesus as the Lord of your life, by faith.  If you are ready to do that today go to Know God, GregLancaster.org/KnowGod and find out how. 

I hope to see you at the feast in heaven where multitudes who said yes to Jesus by acknowledging their crimes (sins), accepted Jesus’ forgiveness will be dining in eternity. This is a place where there will be no more crime, no more murder, no more sin, no sickness, no disease, not even tears. It is a place that Jesus has gone to prepare a place for you. It would be ashamed to find out in eternity, the place Jesus has prepared for you will not ever been seen by you because of your rejection of His love for you.

When people die, they have two regrets. They do not regret missing a business deal, or how much money they have or do not have, no, they regret not doing more for their family since they are leaving them, and they regret not doing more for God because they are about to see Him. Eliminate those regrets today by giving your life to Jesus to serve Him today and introduce your family to Jesus so they too can be saved. That way, you all can serve Jesus and together see Jesus in the future in eternity, sitting at the same feast.

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*To the best of my recollection the man who murdered the Subway worker was sentence to death.

What is going on today!!! with all this out-of-control government, corporations, leaders, teachers, unions, generals, and others? Have they lost their minds?  Have you asked yourself, “Is the world going crazy?”  Have you felt a sense of despair and hopelessness when you look around and see evil like the world has not known before?  Are you confused not knowing why this is happening or what is happening?    Are you wondering who will rise to lead us out of this? Are you looking for a person, a strong leader, a political figure to rise and began to lead the world back into a place of sanity?  Are you dumfounded by some federal law enforcement not doing their job, or even who is oppressing the people? Have you lost your belief that justice is still a reality that no one who deserves justice will receive it? Are you shocked with unbelief that our children are being killed in the womb, or mutilated sexually by the adults in the room? Are you wondering why our own government supports other countries, but denies help to those who need it in our own country? Are you blown away by the sea of humanity pouring in the ship called the USS America as our borders are overrun by a reportedly five plus million law breakers, “illegal” aliens from all the nations of the earth?  Do you feel hopeless as the nations “leaders” shut down energy production for our nation that keeps us warm in the winter, cool in the summer, our transportation going, industries operating while purchasing energy from oppressive, dictatorial governments that hate America?  While at the same time draining the nations reserve oil we are supposed to have for national emergencies and war. Even selling our oil reserves to China who is systematically at war with America in every way except kinetically.  Need I go on?  I think you get the point.  I wanted to take a few moments and help give you a glance at what is really going on by looking back in history, to the present, and into the future.  I believe you will get an “aha moment” and find hope and light in such dark times and possibly may see how you can become a part of the solution to such evil. 

Since the beginning of time, after God created man in His image, in His likeness, satan and his captors, in his jealous rage against God and hatred toward those who are created in “God’s image and likeness” has not stopped.  When satan or one of his captors, which are held captive to do his will, as the Apostle Paul explains it in his letter to his spiritual son, Timothy, sees you, sees a human being, he sees God, or at least, God’s image and likeness. 

Over the many years of my life in ministry, law enforcement and life in general, I have seen marriages and families that started off so well end up on the dust bin of life, scattered across the earth in fragments of what they used to be, none wanting anything to do with the other.  Jesus told us these things would happen, but the pain and feeling of deep brokenness when it does happen is something no one can become used to.  Many just become cold and numb because of it.  Yet, though this husband or wife, who now lives miles away physically, or miles away mentally from the other, now looking at their children, they remember their divorce, and still get that same anger and rage in their hearts, even though their son or daughter did not do anything to them.  Why?  Because their son or daughter were created in the image and likeness of their ex-husband, their ex-wife.  When they see their son or when they see their daughter, it brings up all those negative emotions of anger, and pain.

When satan sees you, a human being, man, or woman, he sees the image and likeness of the Father, God, Who created You.  He remembers that once he had a great relationship with your Father and the other angels. Yes, satan is an angel, but a fallen angel.  You see, he was beautiful in how he was created. His name, as an angel in the presence of God in heaven, was Lucifer.  The Bible speaks of his beauty, but also his rebellion against God, and the consequences that causes rage to boil inside of him to this day.  “‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl.  Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.  You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you.  You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.  You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.  Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned.  So, I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.  Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor.  So, I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.”  Ezekiel 28:12-17

“Lucifer became so impressed with his own beauty, intelligence, power, and position that he began to desire for himself the honor and glory that belonged to God alone. This pride represents the actual beginning of sin in the universe—preceding the fall of the human Adam by an indeterminate time.”  Ron Rhodes

Since satan (Lucifer) was able to organize one-third of God’s angels, as a mob,  to come up against God in the presence of God, why are we always so surprised that satan seduces the hearts of some of our family members, a spouse, members of our church, merchants of the earth, corporations, or nations and organizes them into a rebellion against God and God’s established authority all with a goal of utter destruction and “death of the system” as those who follow satan seek to do.  Romans 15:5; Jude 1:11

Imagine, since satan felt that way about himself in the presence of God, you can only imagine how he feels about himself now. Yet, he is constantly reminded of his past, and future, when he sees you.

Many adults in society still seek counseling and therapy trying to understand how one of their parents had such animosity towards them.  Since it was directed at them, they feel it must be something they did or did not do to cause such visceral lifelong response from one of their parents.  Maybe it was a father who had divorced their mother, or a mother who divorced their father.  They could leave their marriage, but they could not leave the image of their marriage, or the image and likeness of their ex-spouse.  They are constantly reminded of what they lost and as time goes by and it sinks in, that they will never have again when they look into the faces of their and their ex-spouses’ children. So, they act hateful to their children who did nothing wrong. 

Their ex-spouse decides, “Well, at some point I need to accept my new normal and start building a life.” On the contrary, satan, the epic center of evil, says to himself something like “Well, at this point” after being cast out of heaven, down to earth (heavens over the earth), “I have to accept my new normal and start destroying life.”  Since his fall he has not stopped deceiving, misleading, destroying and killing men, women, and children. 

Today we see his work  in a “professional building” with people in clothing that looks like the same clothing that helped your loved one when you went to the emergency room in the local hospital who ended up saving their life.  Yet, these are not into saving lives, they are in to destroying lives. They are into killing children.  Yes, it looks different than it did in the days of Molech and the people killing their children for him for personal gain, but it has the same outcome.  They walk out, leaving their murdered, dismembered, child behind. 

Realize, you are so fearfully and wonderfully made, that after they killed one knit together by God in their mother’s womb, they take the part of that child’s body and sell it to universities and research labs because of its high value.  You see, if the human being was truly worthless as they convince the mother it was before they killed and destroyed the child, they would never consider selling body parts of that child.  ‘Satan is a liar, and the father of lies.  He has been a liar from the beginning.  When he lies, he speaks his native language.  He comes to kill, steal, and destroy.’

When Paul writes to Timothy, he speaks not only of satan, but satan’s captives, held captive by satan to “do his will.”  When someone has chosen to follow satan, he will take them captive, to do his will which is to deceive, seduce, destroy and kill, attempting in every way to destroy the image and likeness of God and to make mankind in his own image and likeness.

Now back to the question of why some of those in leadership of governments and corporations, large industries, unions, and the elites of the world are attempting to control the population of the earth, force people into places of servitude, own all the possessions of people [houses, cars, jobs, communication, labor, etc.] on the earth and yes, the land, or earth itself?  It is not because of something new that has come to life in our generation.  It is the very same works of Lucifer, satan, and his fallen angels, who fell with him, and his demonic hoards from hell, and his captors, which some are these leaders in government, corporations, and Chief Executive Officers, CEO’s, large industries, unions, and elites who are attempting to make man in their image, in their likeness.  They proclaim, “if you will become just like me, think just like me, act like me then I will accept you and make your life better.”  These lies of “make your life better” never works out as history shows us for the last hundred and seventy years, there has been over a hundred nations who have tried this and there is over one hundred million deaths that prove satan’s lies always end in stealing, killing, and destroying those created in the image and likeness of God.

When you see a political coup take place, with those who were not chosen by the people to lead, move into places of authority they begin to twist the laws and cause division.  They work towards destroying the very nation they are in by dividing the nation.  Kill more children through abortion, demanding it and protecting, not the child, but protecting the killing of children. When you see the laws turned on their head and used not to punish the wrongdoer, lawbreaker, but to punish the obedient, such as a parent being called a “domestic terrorist” by those in power because they exercise their first amendment rights at their child’s local school board meeting.  Parents doing what Normal Rockwell’s very painting showed us in his work of what Free Speech exercised under the first amendment looks like.  When you see Americans, homes being surrounded by armed federal law enforcement, with bullet proof vests and rifles to kick in the door to arrest a man in front of his children who stood outside of one of these abortion mills to encourage the women not to kill their child.   When you see grown folk, grownups, acting like children.  When you see those who were hired by the parents and the community to teach their children how to read, how to write/type, and how to add numbers, math, teaching their boys and girls that they are evil or maybe oppressed because of the color of their skin.  When you see teachers encouraging a boy or a girl who is five years old, or eight, or twelve to mutilate their body’s ability to reproduce.  Stopping their ability to allow God to use them to create more men and women in His image.  When you see a society driven by only their sexual desires and teachers, leaders and even government pouring gas on this perverse fire so that there is more and that it burns in the heart of many.  When you see men proudly lining up to be castrated to voluntarily to become eunuchs and a government paying for their castration, while boasting about it before all mankind, as was in the days of Queen Jezebel.  When you see political officials who are nothing but purchased Manchurian candidates, hearts owned through bribery, in the halls of government bent on doing satan’s will, the will of their owners.  You are seeing nothing, but the same that has always been since the beginning days of Lucifer who has sought to deceive, kill, and destroy everyone that is created in the image and likeness of God and God’s creation itself. 

“OK,” you say, now “I understand, this is the work of satan.  I see, just like he did in heaven in the presence of God, now he is organizing men, women, and children to rebel against God.  Rebel against authority established by God.  Rebel against how God created them.  Rebel against marriage between a man and a woman that God designed.  Rebel against family which God established.  Rebel against their own sexuality in how God created them to be.  Rebel against the purposes of sexuality for which God created it to be.  Satan (Lucifer) was an evil community organizer from the beginning, and he still organizes against God who he hates. Wrong being said it is right.  Right being said it is wrong.  Evil is being promoted as righteousness and righteousness is being promoted as evil.  Men are saying they are women and women saying they are men.  Calling good evil and evil good.  Realize, Satan, hates God so much, that when he sees a man or woman, or a child who God created, he is reminded of God, because we are created in the image and likeness of God.  So, in his fury, he perverts, twists, destroys and mutilates the image of God at every opportunity he gets.  He deceives many to turn in on themselves and join him in destroying their own marriage, their own families, yes, even their own bodies and many ultimately turning their backs on God who they once believed.

This might seem hopeless to you at this point now that you have an understanding of the realities of why things are happening the way they are, but do not run and hide and throw up your hands saying, “Looks like it is over, nothing we can do.  It is all going to get worse and worse.  You might as well face it.”

Realize, first of all, God sees all those who are organizing against Him, against His ways and against His people, the church; believers.  He is not surprised what evil lies in the heart of men to where he thinks he can do away with God, His plans and take over His creation.  God actually laughs as he sees men’s feeble attempts to do such things.

Here is the Good News.  God loves the ones He created in His image and likeness. He loves you and every person upon the earth.  He understands what is going on and that people are captives of satan and are doing satan’s will.  He knows that the minds of the people satan has taken captive are blind and they cannot see what is really going on or the outcome of what they are doing.  He knows they are deceived.  Deception is when you think what you are doing is right, but you are wrong, but do not know it.

God’s remedy for this evil, for this darkness, for this deception, for this captivity was to demonstrate His love for mankind, by sending His Son, Jesus, from the splendors of heaven.  To be born out of a womb (a uterus) just like all mankind, except Adam, the first man.  Think about it, the Savior of all mankind, the Son of God, God incarnate, was born of a woman, through a woman’s uterus (her womb) to live as a man, yet without sin.   That is why satan is after the uterus, the womb of woman, for that is the place where God knits people together in His image and likeness.  Jesus was all God and all man, yet He chose not to utilize any of His God qualities, as to be able to live a life just like you and me, experiencing all the ups and downs, all the temptations to sin, and do wrong, yet He never sinned.  He only did what His Father, God, told Him or showed Him what to do.  God sent Jesus to do His will which is to “destroy the works of satan” and to “seek and save those who are lost” to satan and save them. 

You see, God so loved the world, that He gave His Son, Jesus, to die in the place of every person, for not His sins, but our sins, the sins of the world.  This evil I shared with you is against God and God’s ways.  It is a rebellion against God.  The punishment for this evil is death.  We all, because of our sin, because of the evil, had a death sentence over our lives.  We were bound into an eternal, as eternal beings, created in the image and likeness of God, to where satan will eventually be forever, hell.  Jesus speaks of hell in scriptures way more than you hear preachers and teachers speak of it in our culture today.  Is it not interesting that the more absent the reality of hell is the more mankind emulate hell?  Jesus, Who is the image of God, the invisible God, made God known to us, mankind.  Yes, when you see Jesus, You see the Father. 

The only way out of this hell, this damnation for all mankind was for someone who is sinless, holy and righteous, to be sacrificed on behalf of, in the place of, in lieu of the ones who committed sin. God allowed Jesus His Son, to be a sin sacrifice, which was acceptable to God, for the sins of the world.  He allows anyone and everyone who calls upon Jesus, His Son, and accepts Him as the Lord of their life, their only way to be cleansed and to be forgiven from their sins do be saved.  When God sees us, those who are His through the blood sacrifice of Jesus, He sees Jesus, the image and likeness of His Son. He sees the holy, sinless blood of Jesus covering us which enabled us to be forgiven for our evil, rebellious, demonic sins and for our sins to be remembered no more.  That way, when someone who has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior, knowing that He is the Son of God, when they die, they will not go to hell where there is “weeping and gnashing of teeth” and eternal suffering, but will go to heaven in the presence of God. 

You see, once satan was in the presence of God, but his rebellion, his sin, got him cast out of heaven, but you, if you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, follow Him, will be taken to heaven upon our death, or upon Jesus’ return.  So, you see, satan hates you, He knows that not only are you created in the image and likeness of God, but also that if he can’t deceive you, blind you, and destroy you before you hear about God’s love for you, Jesus life, death, burial and resurrection for you, God’s pathway for you to be made right, sinless before Him, then you will end up going where he, satan, was cast out of; heaven.  Hence, satan wants to destroy every human he can, not just because of what they look like, or sound like, but because they could end up going where he used to be, Heaven, in the awesome presence and glory of God.

When you see a person who is taken over by darkness, deceived in thinking what they are doing is right when they are wrong.  When you see a man proudly lining up to be castrated and Manchurian leaders or teachers promoting and doing such evil begin to pray for them.  Go to them, by the power and authority Jesus has given you in His name, and because of His blood, and cast off satan and his demons off that person, the way satan and his fallen angels were cast out of heaven.  Lay hands on them asking God to heal them if they are sick.  Tell them about the Kingdom of God, that now through Jesus the Kingdom of God has come to destroy the kingdom of satan, the kingdom of darkness.  Let them know of the price Jesus paid on the cross for them and how it was the ultimate demonstration of the love God has for them.  Let them know there is forgiveness in Jesus that He will give them a new name and it can be as if they have never sinned in the eyes of God.  Let them know that you came to “seek them out and save them” by the power of Jesus Christ.  Let them know of the hope we all have in Jesus.  Let them know, though there is much happening in the world because of satan and his kingdom of darkness, that God’s Kingdom is Greater, and it rests in the heart of each and every one who has accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  There is hope for a lost and dying world and that hope is Jesus Christ.  Jesus came to destroy the works of satan, and Jesus has sent us, like the Father send Him, to do the same, which we do by setting satan’s captive free, healing the sick, preaching the Kingdom of God, telling of the Good News of Jesus birth, life, death, and resurrection. Those who believe, we baptize in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and we teach them the ways of Jesus so that they can follow Jesus, now that they no longer follow satan.

It is a process…getting things where we need to have them to get a good night’s rest. The young phases of our life we take sleep for granite. We just assume we will grab a few winks, and we will be back at “it”. Then we go through the next phase, something is wrong with me. I get tired so easily and I am not as alert as I used to be to resolve issues or problems. It never crosses our mind at this point that it is sleep that we are not getting. Then we get to the next phase, “My life is falling apart!” “It’s all so hard!” “Am I coming to an end of who I am?” – then we finally decide to take what we took for granite seriously, SLEEP! 

“Those among us who naturally need little sleep are few and far between, yet many Americans routinely skip the healthy 7 to 9 hours of sleep that most adults require. Daniel J. Buysse, the former president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, told the Wall Street Journal that ONLY FIVE OUT OF 100 PEOPLE who claim to need just 5 to 6 hours of sleep a night aren’t chronically sleep deprived.” —Maggie Shader, Consumer Reports This means, according to Maggie Shader, 95% are sleep deprived.  

Former Prime Minister Margret Thatcher and President Ronald Reagan were known for not sleeping much and working all the time. They were admired for it, and many benefited from their endless hours of work and no sleep. Yet, they suffered greatly towards the end of their lives as their minds, that needed the sleep, began to crash with Alzheimer’s  and Dementia . The very thing they took for granite, sleep, was the thing that more than likely caused the breakdown in their brains. “Margaret Thatcher is famously said to have slept for only four hours a night. How easy is it to do a high-powered job on this amount of sleep?”  Our brains dump proteins and clean up the waste in our minds when we lay down and sleep. If they don’t get cleaned, they build up things that harden our minds’ abilities to function. I wrote about it more in my book I Will Fight in Strategy 7 “Morning Glory” Page 255-265  “Defrag Your Mind”.  

‘God will speak to this people, to whom he said, “This is the resting place, let the weary rest”; and “This is the place of repose”—but they would not listen.  So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:  Do this, do that, a rule for this, a rule for that; a little here, a little there—so that as they go, they will fall backward; they will be injured and snared and captured.”’  Isaiah 28:12-13 

One of our greatest acts of humility, which means “total dependency on God and respect for other people” is to let all the cares of life go, entrusting them all to God, and get a good night’s sleep.  

Notice a child when they sleep. They are knocked out. They go into deep sleep. You can push them around, pick them up in the den where they fell asleep “ON THE FLOOR!” to take them to bed and they never wake up.  

We, on the other hand, slightly doze off, slightest sounds wake us up and we lay there deprived of Delta (deep, healing) sleep.  

If what we are doing is not working, then we need to do something else.  

I began looking for the right mattress, temperature, lighting, sound control, influences that kept me from the child like rest God has indented for us…till I landed in a much better sleeping pattern and a new phase of my life.  

Everyone I am sure is different about what they need, but all can approach good delta sleep like the success battle plan strategy it is and succeed.  

Remember, God reveals His secrets to us in our sleep.  He may even speak to you!  You don’t want to miss a conversation with Your Creator because you were “too busy” to sleep!  

“For God does speak—now one way, now another— though no one perceives it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they slumber in their beds…” 

 Job 33:14-15 

For it is there, when we sleep, where He “makes you lie down in green pastures,” God “restore your soul.” It is time for a restoration once again in your life!  

Since God is the Creator of the Universe, the earth, sky, and sea, and all that is in them, and He gave us a divine book, written under the inspiration of His Spirit to make Himself and His creation known to us, not believing in the Bible turns a person, a marriage, a family, a nation and a world into confusion and chaos.

Results from the most recent Barna Group Survey of adults 18 years of age and older:
“30% of Americans are what they call “Don’ts,” ‘Don’t Know, Don’t Believe, Don’t Care that God exist…they would say that we are all gods, the universe is our god, the environment is our god, those types of things.” George Barna
‘Americans are very confused, 7 out of 10 Americans say they are Christians. 50% of Americans say they have a Biblical World View, when in reality only 6% do. 88% of Americans are best described by syncrhrontizm. What it means is they pick and choose ideas from many different philosophies of life. They will buy into a few Marxist ideas, they will buy into a few Post Modern Thoughts, they will buy into some Eastern Mystical ideas about how to live and so forth. They put all those together in a personal blend that becomes their own unique world view. It doesn’t really work when you do that, as often there are contradictions within their own worldview. When you ask them, ‘How do you reconcile those?’ They say, huh, I didn’t know I had those contradictions and secondly, I’m not really worried about it. We’ll see how it works out.” George Barna
“68% of Americans would say they are Christians,” but when you match their actions [fruit] by their beliefs that number trends down. George Barna
“We think we are more religious than we actually are. To us, there are two different things you have to measure, one is beliefs, and one is behavior [fruit]. If your behaviors don’t match your beliefs, then you really don’t believe what you told me you believe. So, when we look at the beliefs, we find that people say they are very spiritual, they are religious, they are active spiritually, but when we look at the behavior we see a downward trend in almost everything that we measure: whether it is church attendance, Bible reading, prayer, worship engagement, confession of sin, talking with other people about their faith…all of those things are on the decline.” George Barna

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The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned its 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide for nearly 50 years. The ruling came in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

The case challenged Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban, and whether it was unconstitutional. It was enacted in 2018 but was blocked after a federal court challenge.

The state of Mississippi asked the high court to uphold its law and directly challenged the precedent in Roe and the 1992 Casey v. Planned Parenthood that held that states cannot ban pre-viability abortions, those done before a child can survive outside the womb.

Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.

The decision, unthinkable just a few years ago, was the culmination of decades of efforts by pro-life advocates.

The ruling came more than a month after the stunning leak of a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito indicating the court was prepared to take this momentous step.

Alito, in the final opinion issued Friday, wrote that Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the 1992 decision that reaffirmed the right to abortion, were wrong the day they were decided and must be overturned.

In a statement, Franklin Graham, president, and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said: “The United States Supreme Court just announced one of the most significant rulings in my lifetime—officially voting to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision because it was ‘egregiously wrong from the start,’ as stated by Justice Samuel Alito. The radical left is calling for a ‘night of rage,’ pregnancy centers are already being vandalized and attacked, and our U.S. Supreme Court justices are being targeted with threats and intimidation.

Since 2009 in a prayer and fasting community they’ve been praying, asking God, every Monday for a twenty-four prayer watch, along with many others who have been praying “Dear God, end abortion, send revival, send a third great awakening.”  In addition The Greg Lancaster Show, formerly, VFNtv, they would end every program “Dear God, end abortion, send revival, send a third great awakening.”  Today is that day where our God has shown us favor and abortion, the killing of children while they are still in their mother’s womb has become illegal in potentially half of the states in the United States of America.

The Greg Lancaster Show, VFNtv, has kept this critical issue up before America including the undercover work done by David Daleiden with Center for Medical Progress who uncovered the horrific truth of what has been happening behind the closed doors of Planned Parenthood.  Today, this evil practice has become illegal when it comes to Federal Law and is now left up to each state to decide what they will allow or not allow in their states as stated in the Tenth Amendment the United States Constitution.

#Alive #Forgiven #Exonerated – When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, GOD MADE YOU ALIVE WITH CHRIST. HE FORGAVE us ALL OUR SINS, having CANCELED the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood AGAINST US and condemned us; HE HAS TAKEN IT AWAY, nailing it to the cross. And having DISARMED THE POWERS AND AUTHORITIES, He made a public spectacle of them, TRIUMPHING OVER THEM by the CROSS. Colossians 2:23-15

Police Dogs, K-9’s, German shepherds. I never was a K-9 officer when I was in law enforcement, but I worked closely with some who were. That is when I developed a soft spot in my heart for German shepherds. K-9 officers always brought their dogs into the muster room with us as we all got our BOLO’s and district assignments, told, and listened to a few good jokes, passed on leadership tips from our sergeant, lieutenant, captain and sometimes the sheriff, but mostly our sergeant and lieutenant. There was nothing more pleasant than to see one of our shepherds coming through the muster room door and getting a chance to pet them.

It was so amazing to watch the loyalty of each K-9 to its assigned K-9 officer, handler. They always listened and watched for any cue their handler would give. No matter who was in the room, or what was happening on any traffic stop or crime scene it was their handler that they watched ready to do exactly as their handler told them. They spent endless hours in training with their shepherd’s, their K-9’s. The dogs would even live with their handler. It was like a forever bond. It reminded me of a “boy and his dog” stories where they were BFF, best friends forever.

Depending on the life of the dog and the handler sometimes they would retire the dog and the handler got to have them for the rest of their “dog’s life” which sad to say, is not as long as ours.  I had a German shepherd named Max. I miss him. His life came to an end, but his memory lives on. They say 12-13 years is an average of how long a shepherd would live.

There came times though when for some reason a K-9 Officer would have to give up their dog. Maybe it was a promotion, a transfer, or just not being able to meet all the requirements for the demand with all the training it takes to continue with their schedule, but in the end, the officer would give up their loyal police dog.

You’d think, wow, that dog was so connected to its handler, there is no way another officer could come in and become its new handler.  It just seemed, to the unknowledgeable eye, that that would be impossible. Yet, it not only is possible, it is done all the time. Shocker, right! I thought that dog was loyal to that one officer for ever, but not so fast.

This is what I understand takes place when they prepare a police dog to let go of one long time handler, to openly receive and be just as dedicated to a new officer to handle them.

They would take the shepherd, for instance, away from its long-time handler and put it in isolation where it would not see anyone, especially not who and what they were used to.  I guess you could compare it to how American’s have been “handled” in the last 24 months.  They would isolate the dog for a time, locked off from anyone (or few).  Then, after an extended time, they would have the new handler start coming in to feed the dog.  Over a period of time, with the police dog seeing “this is where my provision comes from now” they’d develop a loyalty to this new handler.  Before long, it was like their previous officer that handled them never existed and they were now loyal to this new officer who feeds and takes care of them.  If you forget they are animals with only animal instincts you might become offended.  It is important not to take it personally if they once seemed loyal to you as their previous handler.

In time, that police dog, say German shepherd, had a new BFF, this new officer was their new best friend and was just as loyal to this new one as they were to the previous one.

Sad, to say, many people are this way. They are driven by their animal instincts, just like these animals we called dogs, as spoken of in Jude 10 “These people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.”

We, as Americans, are “being handled” and many have been put in isolation and there has been a constant “one thing after another” to get many Americans to forget “how good things were” and how they were “handled” prior to all the chaos and isolation.

We are not animals, we are not dogs, yet we all have animal instincts.  We could easily give into them and just go where we are being fed, who pays us the most, where our bodies get the most satisfaction and follow that instinct, but we are more than a body. We are spirits (formed in the image of God), that have bodies, which possess a soul. Those who are sons of God, follow the Spirit of God, with their spirit. They renew their soul (what they think, want, and feel) and do their best, by God’s grace, not to follow their flesh (natural animal instincts).

It is difficult to say no to something that will make your flesh more comfortable or better off, yet, those who are led by the Spirit of God and not “handled” by men who seek to manipulate them by their animal instincts, truly live a life filled with great freedom, even if they are persecuted because of their refusal to respond to “handlers” who demand their obedience.

Communism and socialism are the greatest temptation to a person’s animal instinct. The promises being made by those who seek to be a nations “handlers” (masters) promise so many things that in theory makes one’s flesh think it can find rest and a “happy ever after.”

Remember 100, 100, 100!

There are over 100 NATIONS, who has attempted this in the last 100 YEARS and there were over 100 MILLION KILLED because of it. This proves every one of them were making promises they cannot deliver.  God will not let “a handler” take His creation under “their hands.”  The thing is, once you choose to make them your handler, that will be the last choice you will get to make.  That is a choice that says, “I give you my freedom” now “feed me.”

God offers a person freedom. Freedom from our sin. Freedom under His leadership. The adversary calls God’s freedom captivity and his captivity, freedom. Jesus came to set us free! Those who seek to take your freedom are not being led by God, but by your adversary. For He who the Son sets free, is free indeed!

Have you been tempted to change your handlers? Have you been being handled? Are you even scared to talk about such a matter because of what the proposed handlers are threatening? Remember, it is for freedom’s sake that Christ has set you free.

God does not “handle” anyone, He leads them by His Spirit. It is time for those who are followers of Jesus Christ to once again be “led by the Spirit of God.” For that is the kind of freedom that will lead a nation to the freedom God intended for America to have. One nation, under God, indivisible, and FREEDOM (Liberty) for all!

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