CSN Sunday - LightWing Messages for 2/6/2022
“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Prayer
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. This, then, is how you should pray:
“‘Our Father in Heaven,
hallowed be Your Name,
Your Kingdom come,
Your Will be done,
on Earth as it is in Heaven.
Give us today our daily bread.
And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.
And lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.’
For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.’” Matthew 6:1-13 (NIV)
A CITIZEN SENTINEL’S MESSAGE:
God’s blessings to our readers today!
It is easy to look around and become disillusioned, even depressed about all that is happening. Is there any doubt that there is evil in the world? God’s word actually tells us that since the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, all people, yes you and I included, have a sinful nature. As such, evil is what comes naturally to us. Only faith in our Savior Jesus Christ will mount a defense against evil. Even more importantly, God assures forgiveness to all who trust in his Son!
Today, we have two related articles for our consideration. In the first, “Will America return to God?” Stephanie Mann reminds us of the evil that is around us and offers a remedy. In the second article, “Bringing God Into It,” Dennis Jamison reminds us of the blessing of prayer. Have you ever thought to yourself, “I’m so busy, I don’t have time to pray today?” That is our sinful nature speaking to us. With God’s help, our answer should always be, “Prayer is even more important today!”
God’s Word is rich with answers, both for ourselves and for our children. By His grace, faith has come to us. Faith is strengthened by reading Scriptures.
Today let’s pray for one another. Pray for our nation and pray that God would turn the hearts of all people to himself. God’s word is powerful and prayer is powerful. Let’s take maximum advantage of both!
We hope our readers will enjoy all of our features today. Absorb and share. May God bless each of us as we attempt to live up to God’s will for us! Keep forwarding faith into this year!
Will America return to God?
By Stephanie Mann
1/27/22
A society without a moral foundation will fail. Whether one will agree or disagree, let’s look at
the facts. Has crime and violence become acceptable as city leaders ignore looting stores and smashing windows to get “free” merchandise? How do you feel about police being gunned down in record numbers by criminals? Did we raise children to worship money and forget to focus on the importance of character and a self-protective conscience?
Ask yourself, why are so many young people taking drugs, shooting each other, and committing suicide? What changed our values from having a solid inner spirit to a drug culture where thousands of Americans cannot cope and live on our streets.
Do you think politicians are wise, truthful, and have your family’s best interest at heart? Why are they failing to have consequences for criminal behavior? What are we doing to stop sex traffickers from hunting down children on the internet? Why are city leaders attacking the police who work to protect our communities as drugs and illegals pour over our southern border? Are politicians misusing taxpayers’ money to seek power and control for themselves?
How many city leaders have said we must work together to stop child abuse, child sex trafficking, drug abuse, neglect of children, violent gangs, and focus on creating healthy homes and neighborhoods for everyone’s health and safety? When did Americans forget that children are our future?
My home, as a child, had three children who were exposed to alcoholism, anger, and divorce, with no mention of God. My mother and her boyfriend abandoned me in Mexico City when I was fifteen years old, and I did not speak the language. It almost killed me! Where do you turn when you have no one? Thankfully, I remembered my grandmother telling me when I was eight years old, “If you have a problem, ask God for help.” That is what I did, and I survived and emerged from my tragedy with a mission.
One does not need a church to talk to God! Like me, anyone can ask and find faith by listening to their inner power to discover the truth. Churches and synagogues should support families as we learn to listen to our inner wisdom.
Will we remain a free America? Where should we turn during trying times to find answers? The answers exist. You decide!
Stephanie Mann has been a crime and violence prevention specialist and consultant working with criminal justice agencies, politicians, police and citizen groups since 1976. She has helped city leaders strengthen families, support youth and restore community peace. Stephanie Mann co-authored, “Alternative to Fear: Guidelines to Safer Neighborhoods,” which helped launch the national “Neighborhood Watch” Program. Within 2 1/2 years, involved residents in her community (17,500 residents) decreased crime 48%,
KEEPING KIDS SAFE BEGINS AT HOME & IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS! www.safekidsnow.com
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Bringing God Into It!
By Dennis Jamison
2/4/22
In March of 2020, in the beginning of the COVID-19 panic, I wrote:
The times we are living in are quite turbulent, filled with personal trials and
national, as well as international, tribulation. Certainly, the specter of a raging
virus haunts people of the world. Americans, and people throughout the world
are struggling to deal with the daily realities of what has been identified as a
pandemic. Such times create fear and anxiety -- even panic. …uncertainty
and life-threatening concerns in such times often cause people to fall to their
knees in prayer. Such a time is this.
From then until now, it seemed as if God departed from America. And, as we proceed into 2022, millions of Americans reflect on how they have been adversely affected by evil events since that foreboding beginning of this tribulation. In recent years, God’s children can sense that there are many no longer in possession of their right minds, without any common sense. In 2020, as winter lay dying I wrote:
It is obvious that a civil society is more harmonious when people are in their
right minds, or when each individual is in possession of a healthy conscience.
It is obvious that when more people are more inclined to follow the dictates of
conscience, more people naturally promote the general well-being of the civil
society. At the core of such logic is the understanding that each individual
having a healthy conscience, is able to more readily discern the difference
between right and wrong and to have the conviction or courage to act upon
such wisdom.
So, how does one develop a healthy conscience? That March, I explained I had discovered a blueprint through earnest and intense prayer during the period my wife battled with cancer. In the Lord’s Prayer, I found that Jesus provided a blueprint to strengthen one’s conscience. The key lies in strengthening one’s personal relationship with God. As one increases knowledge of God through study of His word and strengthens one’s personal relationship with God, a healthy conscience develops and is strengthened simultaneously. One’s conscience is like a ‘spiritual umbilical cord’ to Heavenly Father.
Just as a baby in a mother’s womb receives life-sustaining energy through an umbilical cord, as we truly connect to God, we fortify our “spiritual umbilical cord” through prayer, study, and practice of His Will. God has endowed us all with a conscience, just as we all are born into a physical body. Yet, when one’s physical body is neglected, one’s health can suffer. Yet, it is more possible to ignore one’s conscience. Certainly, one’s conscience grows weak and can suffer tremendously when not consciously or purposefully strengthened.
Especially, the words in the Lord’s Prayer provide a launching pad for deeper and more openly personal prayer. In his instruction, Jesus teaches us a proper way to acknowledge God as “Our Father in Heaven.” We need to know we speak to a person because He is a living being, which means it is not a script we recite to “the gods.” So, the more sincerely and more frequently one converses with Him, as one’s heavenly parent, the more one comes to know Him more truly – because He too wants such a relationship. Yet, Jesus showed that several levels of relationship could exist between God and His children - levels of faith maturation.
Genuine respect is important in coming before our Heavenly Father, and a willingness to listen or receive what our Father in Heaven will share with His children is crucial to His reply to us. If one truly listens carefully in a quiet environment, He will give us our “daily bread.” God never fails to teach us what we seek to know -- if we will listen to what He teaches. This is much like listening to our parents, to our spouse, or our children -- it’s called reciprocity.
Once formalities of addressing our Father in Heaven are established, there are various levels of growth in relations between God and His children. The request for God to give us daily bread is the first. Jesus knew that his people had been provided with manna from Heaven during the Exodus, and this refers to physical sustenance in that manner. However, Jesus reminded Satan that “Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.” Matthew 4:4 This applies to us. This level of relationship is one of dependence upon God for sustenance - whether it be physical or spiritual ‘bread.
A second level of development is expected as Jesus explained that people needed to forgive others their debts, or trespasses. This level is one that requests deeper understanding and greater ability to practice Jesus’ request of loving one another. At this level, one is no longer only in a receptive position to God. At this level, a greater degree of maturity of faith is required of God’s children - manifesting love and forgiveness is not receptive; it is proactive. Jesus had requested his followers put faith into action. Jesus stated: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." John 13:35
Forgiveness is one of the strongest behaviors requested of Christians – a genuine expression
of love, but there is another level of maturity required. Once a greater level of heart develops,
Christian are requested to pray that God not lead them into temptation. More than Christians have had trouble with such a request. For instance, what parent would lead their own children into some temptation? Yet, Jesus gave the instruction. I took extra time to pray over this. This level requires greater strength in resisting temptation and seeking deliverance from evil.
But honestly, why would people have to beseech parents to not lead them into temptation? This level requires asking God to not lead one into temptation; people interpret it to mean to resist encountered temptations. But, Christians continually succumb to temptation. Eve and Adam, God’s original children, gave in to temptation. Is that not how we arrived at this sin-filled world? God gave Adam and Eve everything, but it did not stop them from falling into temptation. Yet, the answer I received when I asked Heavenly Father about it was that Jesus already had shared the answer in the Sermon on the Mount: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” Matthew 5:48 Once we give God dominion over us, in love of the Father, our Father within us guides us to resist and reject temptation.
I realized these three levels of faith development in the Lord’s Prayer, help one to gradually grow faith and strengthen become one’s conscience. We become perfect as our Heavenly Father is perfect. As we become stronger, we become more capable of loving one another, and we may grow the strength to resist and reject Satan’s temptations.
Obviously, this may seem too obvious, but it is not God’s responsibility to not lead us or not lead us into temptation. It was, and still is, His children’s responsibility to practice Jesus’ commands. If we can continually invite God into our midst through pro-actively using Jesus’ blueprint, we could start a revolution of prayer that could transform the world!
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Onward and Upward!
From Fitah Rasendrahasina: The Lord's prayer by H. Malotte by Fitah Rasendrahasina - 3/25/2011
From Rev. Thomas Wang: America, Return to God - 4/2/2010
From Audrey Assad: Audrey Assad — Be Thou My Vision Official Music Video - 6/7/2016
From Hatikvah Films - via Sidney Powell: Stephen Briggs speaks at The Renewal - 1/26/22
From The Victory Channel - FlashPoint: Canadian Trucker Movement | Mandate Freedom! - 2/2/22
From The Vancouver Children's Choir: O Canada by the Vancouver Children's Choir - 5/2/2014
From Jordan Peterson: Oh Canada - 2/5/22
From The Virtual InstaChoir: O Canada 2020 - by Virtual InstaChoir - 7/1/2020
From Mike Huckabee: DESPERATE Hypocrite Trudeau Throws the Sink at Trucker Protestors | FOTM - 2/4/22
From Steeljaw Scribe - YouTube: “Once to Every Man and Nation” -5/24/2008
From Valuetainment: Is Justin Trudeau A Coward For Fleeing Canada During Freedom Convoy Protests - 2/6/22
Independence Day Tribute: "This Is My Song” Independence Day Tribute: "This Is My Song" - 7/4/2011
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American Minute by William J. Federer -American Minute for February 6 - Ronald Reagan was born on this day in 1911. Hear a fascinating summary of his life on today's American Minute.
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From Hillsdale College - Victor Davis Hanson: The Failure of Globalism - Victor Davis Hanson traces the history of Globalism from ancient Greece to today and shows why attempts to rule the whole world always end in failure. - 2/4/22
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Recommended Reading…
From The Christian Post: Are you truly desperate for God’s presence? - 2/6/22
From CBN News: 'Freedom Convoy' Truckers Pause to Say the Lord's Prayer Amid Protest - 2/1/22
From CBN News: Backers of 'Freedom Convoy' Cite Overcoming Communism in Their Support of Canadian Truckers - 2/6/22
From The Christian Post: When your faith makes you an enemy of the state - 2/6/22
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From Breitbart: Genocide Games: How Pelosi Reined in Criticism of 2008 Beijing Olympics While Her Family Was Bagging Cash in China - 2/4/22
From Breitbart: China Keeping Winter Olympians in 'Unreasonable' Quarantine Conditions - 2/5/22
From CBN News: 'Contempt Towards Americans Who Prioritize Faith': 55 US Agencies Now Tracking Religious Exemption Requests - 2/6/22
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What affects one, can affect all!
* News From The Growing Free Union -
From FaithWire: Calling All Christians: Persecution Watchdog Launches Olympic ‘Prayer Boycott’ to Combat China’s Brutal Communist Regime - 2/4/22
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NBC San Diego (Channel 7): San Diego Students Site Gov. Newsom For Not Wearing Masks - 2/2/22
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News From Pennsylvania -
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Recommended Resources - follow the links…
Excellent Election Education Resource: US 2020 Election Fraud at a Glance
Excellent Non-Partisan Election Resource: Election Integrity Project California
Excellent Citizen-Patriot News Resource: Steve Bannon's War Room
Excellent Citizen-Patriot News Resource: From Frank Speech - the Home of Free Speech
Excellent Citizen Comprehensive Resource: David Horowitz Freedom Center
Excellent Citizen Activist Resource: Precinct Strategy: Home
Excellent Christian Homeschool Resource:
https://ed-exit.com/
Excellent Guide to Protecting Families: A Guide to Protecting Your Family From the Coming Insurrection and Violence 1 ARE YOU SAFE?
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