When God Steps In

Fear can make you feel very alone. Even worse is when you say you're trusting God for everything in your life, when what you really mean is "everybody in your life." 

I was telling my little cancer survivor who is now 28 years old, that she needed to be on high blood pressure meds and that she should go and get a physical. She told me no. When I began to "complain" about it to the Lord, I heard a little voice inside, as clear as day, say "How is it that you trusted Me with your little girl all those years ago, yet you don't trust Me with you?" 

Talk about God's timing? I just had the lumbar and cervical spine MRI's this afternoon. By the time I got home, my doctor had already scheduled me for next Monday, but I have another appointment I simply can't miss for another malady that popped up recently.

I really like my new doctor. He researched the furuncle situation, which is just another nice word for "MRSA" or Medically Resistant Staph. He put me on an antibiotic that nobody put me on before, and it was gone within one week! That now frees me to get the Enbrel shot I need for the Psoriatic Arthritis as well as the two surgeries I'll need for decompressing the lower spine, and the more dangerous surgery, which involves the upper spine, or the neck? It's a cord nightmare, or so I've read.

After I got home, I turned on the TV, but quickly got bored. I decided to listen to some Christian music from my iTunes play lists. When I heard this song, I began to cry. God has always had control over this situation. This song reminded me that He will never leave you or me, nor will He ever forsake us, the way we do Him! 

I need to get well, so I can get out there, get a job, feel some self respect again, gain back my dignity and start to live for the Lord, and I mean, live out loud for Jesus!

I hope this post will help the hearts of others who are facing difficult surgeries with uncertain outcomes. If you need prayer, please send me your prayer requests at BeABarnabus@Gmail.com.

Remember, when we see "broken beyond repair," God see's "healing beyond belief." I have a feeling the timing of all of this is just perfect, because God never makes mistakes. That means my testimony will be just crazy amazing!

God bless you all and thank you for reading this blog. I pray for all of you because even though I may not know you personally? God does!

The Final Warning!

"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth." (Revelation 3:15-16).

I've never heard a preacher say it, but I believe that this is the "final warning" to us as Christians who have one foot in Christ and the other in the world. Our God is a "jealous God!" (Exodus 34:14). He wants ALL of us, not just half! I believe this verse is a WARNING & time is growing short! "Let him who has ears to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Churches." (Revelation 3:22).

God wants to be in the center of your life. There's a saying that goes, "When you put God in the center? Everything else comes together." I love that quote, though I don't know who originally said it. 

What we all deserve is death and eternal separation from God. As believers in Jesus Christ, we'll receive a Crown of Life in heaven, which we will cast at His feet as we kneel before Him. He died a horrible death to save us! God sent Him here for that one purpose alone and "God made Him who had no sin, to be sin for us so that in Him, we might become the righteousness of God in Christ." (2 Corinthians 5:21).

Do you have one foot in the world and one in Christ? It's time to get rid of the "grey area's" in our lives and be fully committed to Jesus Christ! 

My prayer for all who read this post is that the Holy Spirit will convict you of your sin so so you can ask God to forgive you. There is an old saying, a quote, actually from A.W. Tozer."Complacency is the death to all Spiritual growth." So don't wait! He's waiting on you. God loves you and wants the best for you. Eternity!

You see, when we get stuck, with one foot in Christ and the other in the world? It puts us "Somewhere in the Middle."

Sunday Funnies!

It's Time for Sunday Funnies!

Remember: Laughter is the Best Medicine!

Enjoy David Farrell!

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God Bless!

Christian Videos of the Week!

Hope you enjoy these terrific video's and that the music melts your heart, and allows you to talk to Jesus like you never have before. He is always near. Just reach out for Him. He is with you! God Bless you all and have a terrific day/night, depending on where you are in the world and please share this post with your friends!

"Hurricane," by Natalie Grant

"The One I'm Runnin' To," by 7th Time Down

"Fix My Eyes," by for King and Country

"Always Enough," by Casting Crowns

"Through All of It," by Colton Dixon

9/11 - Never Forget

To this day, 15 years after the fact, I still break down and cry over the attacks on this country on 9/11 which killed close to 3,000 people. 

As for this photo? You may or may not remember it. They found two beams that were in the shape of the Cross in the debris of the Twin Towers.

The metal hanging on the left side made me think of a large wooden cross we used to put up at our church on Easter. We had a long purple sash that hung over each side with lilies all around it as do most churches during the Easter season.

With all the turmoil in the world, I've begun to turn to God's Word to help me figure out where we are on the timeline of Jesus coming for us, and it's going to happen at any time. All prophecies regarding Jesus and His return have happened. I urge you, if you're fallen away or have never met the Lord, get right with Him now? I wouldn't want anybody, not even a mortal enemy left behind to go through the living hell that God is about to pour out onto this earth out of His wrath. 

This song was written at the request of President George W. Bush. Michael W. Smith tells how the song came about in a video on YouTube and was asked to play it at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

I hope you will remember this great country's heritage as being the greatest country on earth and making her great, once again. 

In his speech in 1964, entitled "A Time for Choosing," Ronald Reagan said, "If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." Reagan gave this speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater who was the Republican nominee for President. Every American should watch this speech!  "A Time For Choosing". It's amazing that the things he spoke of in this particular speech in 1964? Well, they're all happening again!

Please pray for our country. We're more divided than ever, and we need another "Uniter in Chief," like Reagan. I loved him, and wish he was still here running the show. I doubt that I'm the only one. We miss you Ronnie.

God Bless you all and may God, once again, Bless the United States of America.

"If my people which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sin and heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:14).

You Are Not Alone!

"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or tremble at your enemies for the Lord your God is the one who goes with you. He will never leave you, nor forsake you." (Deuteronomy 31:6).

There have been times in my life in which I felt completely abandoned. No, nobody ever left me on the side of the road wondering where my parents went or anything like that, but there were other things that made me think nobody cared about me or loved me. 

I know that I'm loved, it's just that sometimes, Jesus seems really far away? I even had a crisis of faith last year. I literally was beginning to think God didn't care, exist, etc. Then a friend reminded me that the pain I was "feeling" was making me "miserable," and that one emotion, "misery," is the devil's favorite emotional snare! 

Some days are harder than others. Some days are absolutely exquisite due to a complete interruption in pain for an entire day! Just hoping to one day, feel that way every day, not just once in awhile. I'm not worried, and I'm not afraid. Whatever it is I face, no matter how many surgeries to correct my spine? I know Jesus will be there and He'll hold my hand and never leave me while I'm going through it. He'll never leave me PERIOD! 

"On Christ the Solid Rock I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground is sinking sand." 

I know that sometimes when stuff piles up on top of us, that it's hard to breathe, feel okay, be okay, and know you're going to be okay? All I have to do is say the name of Jesus, and the spirits of despair, depression, fear, etc., are"poof!" Gone! "You believe that there is one God, you do well. Even the demons believe, and they tremble." (James 2:19).

"There's a Sweet Sweet Spirit in this place, and I know that it's the presence of the Lord."

Time to go and sing, and praise Him for everything I'm going through in this particular storm. And Jesus? 

Jesus will be with me the whole way!

Christian Music Video Night!

Please pray for this blog. It's reaching people all over the world. I never thought it could find that kind of following, but it has! It's a miracle that God is doing! All I do, is write down what I hear Him saying in my heart and soul. 

Are you ready to Worship?

"A New Hallelujah," by Michael W. Smith

Lord Jesus, I Surrender to Your Will!

"I Surrender," by Hillsong Worship

Praise Him in everything you do!

"Do Everything," by Stephen Curtis Chapman

Do you see the lost people around you?

Time to start sharing the Gospel! 

We're runnin out of time!

"Does Anybody Hear Her?" by Casting Crowns

Do you see the people who don't know Jesus

around you? Why aren't you telling them about Jesus?

"Asleep In The Light," by Keith Green

The Lord Jesus will be returning for His Bride, the Church, very soon! We are literally running out of time to reach the lost & I think it's time we do something about it! Don't you? I want to be found "Worthy!"

"Even so Come," by Passion/Kristian Stanfill