Happy Thanksgiving to Whom?

While I wish each & every one a most joyously, happy & safe Thanksgiving, I hope we truly realize to Whom we're giving thanks. How many across our globe are giving thanks to some fictitious deity, or to no one really at all? How many know to give thanks to YHWH God in Mashiach Yashua (Christ Jesus)? To give thanks to the true God of creation, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?

I hear multitudes of Americans speaking of giving thanks, but no mentions of  to Whom? We must be specific, because YHWH God is specific:

"You shall say this to the sons of Israel, YHWH the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial from generation to generation." Ex 3:15

"You shall have no other gods before Me." Deut 5:7

"And you shall not turn away from all the words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other gods, to serve them." Deut 28:14

"YHWH made a covenant with them, and commanded them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them." II Kings 17:35

"Because your fathers have forsaken Me, says YHWH, and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshiped them, and have forsaken Me, and have not kept My law." Jer 16:11

"I will thank YHWH according to His righteousness, and will praise the name of YHWH most high." Ps 7:17

"...let them know Your name is YHWH, that You alone are the Most High over all the earth." Ps 83:18
" So nations shall fear the name of YHWH, and all the kings of the earth Your glory." Ps 102:15

"then I call on the name of YHWH: O YHWH, I beseech You, deliver my soul!" Ps 116:4
"To whom then will all of you liken me, or shall I be equal? says the Holy One." Is 40:25
"I am YHWH: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images." Is 42:8

"that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I YHWH am the LORD; and beside me there is no savior. I have declared, and have saved, and I have showed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore you are my witnesses, said YHWH, that I am God." Is 43:10-12

"For whoever shall call on the NAME of YHWH shall be saved." Joel 2:32, Rom 10:13
"Praise YHWH! Give thanks to YHWH, for He is good; for His mercy endures forever." Ps 106:1


I would say that's pretty definitive, doesn't leave any room for ambiguity. Lest you get miss the point in Christ Jesus, the Son always retain the name of the Father. In the shortened form, YH, or Yah, He is the great I AM, and "'ha-shua, or ho-shua" is our Salvation. Ergo, The great I AM is our Saviour...Yahshua...God is our salvation. Adonai Yahshua ha' Mashiach (Lord Jesus the Christ): Almighty Lord God, the great I AM, your Saviour, the Holy One, the Promised One, your Redeemer, the Word made flesh.
Give thanks to Him accordingly; Praise His righteousness, His grace, His mercy, His everlasting love.

The Love We Scorn, The Love We Neglect, The Love We Require

"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the propitiation for our sins." I Jn 4:10

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in him SHALL NOT perish, but have everlasting life.  Jn 3:16

"But God demonstrated his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." Rom 5:8 

During our journey through life, however short or long, and especially in these times of constant, hectic bombardment of every onslaught imaginable, we may often find ourselves complacent, inured, skeptical, even apathetic. It becomes all too easy to be critical of everything and everyone. We may lose our joy of life, our joy of love, our joy of salvation. Then, it is way past time to recount, reconsider, and meditate on what really matters in this life:

"Let all those that seek you rejoice and be glad in you: and let such as love your salvation say continually, Let God be magnified." Ps 70:4 

" O how I love your law! it is my meditation all the day...I will delight myself in your commandments, which I have loved." Ps 119:97,47

" I love the LORD, because he has heard my voice and my supplications." Ps 116:1

" I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. " Pr 8:17

"Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit." Ps 51:12

"And my soul shall be joyful in Yahweh; it will rejoice in His salvation." Ps 35:9

" I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh. My soul shall be joyful in my God. For He clothed me with garments of salvation..." Is 61:10

These days our constant Adversary offers a sugary, honey coated pill of bitterness to all who would partake. Those who take his pill savor the initial sweetness, find delight in its beginning, and merrily continue thinking its flavor will last. But hidden in the coating is the numbing drug of faithlessness, unbelief, doubt, and restlessness. This makes the inner core of bitterness entirely palatable, so that it takes hold almost unawares. Once the seed of bitterness is implanted, it grows and springs forth its fruit in abundance. One of its primary objectives is to supplant, replace and cause forgetfulness of the need for the Love of God.

"The wicked shall be turned to Sheol, all the nations forgetting God. " Ps 9:17

"So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:" Job 8:13

Even those who have called upon His Name are not immune:

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: seeing you have forgotten the law of your God..." Hs 4:6
"Beware that you forget not the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day." Deut 8:11 

May each of us take a moment every day to contemplate and remember God's Love for us. It was His Love that creates us, His Love that delivers, redeems, strengthens and sustains us. Let us drink daily from the Living Water of Life...

Wake Up, America !!?!?!!

Calls to arms (figuratively) & repentance toward Almighty God of Scripture seem to fall on deaf ears nowadays. While many true born again believers in Christ ARE waking up to the Holy Spirit's alarm bells, more than a few appear directionless and/or subdued inre what to do about it. The lost, degenerate world system and all its followers have sped up the pace to usher in the New World Order, the One World Economy & currency, and eventually, the One World Religion. No Bible believing, Christ loving, child of God can look at what's going on in the world today and not know that our Lord's Return is imminent. But in the meantime, spiritual warfare will intensify, become increasingly more violent & bloody, and wreak greater havoc upon the lives & souls of men, women & children all across the globe.

"Peace, Peace, Peace & Prosperity" is the mantra cry of world leaders, financial powerbrokers, and media pundits, and echoed by billions who depend upon them. In their minds, ergo, all their efforts are directed toward this end as the sole solution to mankind's preservation & future. Sadly, though, they've left out the One Person who IS the author of peace, God in Christ Himself. WHEN YOU LEAVE GOD OUT OF THE EQUATION, THE SOLUTION FAILS...

The United States of America IS undergoing CHANGE, change she doesn't quite understand or comprehend, nor is she wholly prepared for. The fundamentals and foundations upon which she was built are eroding away beneath our feet and before our very eyes; Faith in God, national unity & independence, Constitutional adherence, personal liberty, freedom, property ownership, economic opportunity and self-determination, are all diminishing moment by moment. Very few Americans, or Christians, know what to do or how to prepare for the uncertainty, the upheaval, the devastation, the Godlessness, which will prevail across our land. The social, political, financial, economic AND spiritual calamities will destroy many in the months & years ahead.

In Washington, our leaders claim the worst is over, albeit, the road back to prosperity is rough, but we're showing signs of improvement. WHAT A FARCE! WHAT AN OUTRIGHT PACK OF LIES! In a courtroom, a judge would rule, "The truth is not in evidence!"

If you pay attention to not just the news, but dig deeper into documents provided by our gov't itself, and look around you, the picture is entirely different from the one they're painting: Unemployment, bankruptcies, foreclosures, homelessness, senseless crime & violence, cities & states collapsing, depression, obesity, disease, and hosts of other maladies have reached never before seen highs, and continue as such.

Those who've been listening & reading my thoughts for the last decade know I gave America roughly a 30 year timeline. So, now, we've got about 20 years +/- before we see our beloved nation implode. But, even in the meantime, we shall continue to see & experience radical & fundamental changes in how our country operates, functions, lives & breathes. One of the last "straws" is when the Gov't (no longer "ours") seizes all personal property; We will all belong to the "State". Taxation will have long passed being a viable means for gov't to regulate social engineering and monetize the American worker. Their indebtedness, greed, avarice & corruption will mandate greater control over every aspect of our existence...

The Watchman on the Wall is screaming out the warnings, but there's no reaction. The listless mass of zombies continue on as though they're blind and deaf...
_______________NEWS_________________

US banks failure toll reaches 123 so far in 2009

FDIC Operating in the Red: "...a negative fund balance does not affect the FDIC’s ability to protect insured depositors or promptly resolve failed institutions,”                  

Pfizer to shutter six out of 20 R&D sites 

MBIA loses $728 million as slowdown hits bond insurer           Bond insurer pays $638.4 mln in third-quarter net claims on mortgage securities

Sprint to reduce up to 2,500 jobs by end of 2009

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10 states face looming budget disasters

Gold Futures Rise to Record on Dollar's Decline 

Shadow Government Statistics: Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting