CSN Sunday - LightWing Messages for 3/20/2022
No Greater Love
“As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.
You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is My command to you: Love one another.” John 15:9-17 (Berean Study Bible)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Most of what I had hoped to convey today will show up in the message I am offering in this edition. With a world seemingly being “shaken to the core” there is much room for exercising faith in such a time as this. Many words are flying back and forth regarding “wars and rumors of wars…” Many conceptions of the Last Days are being bantered about. Yet, there is a serious lack of individual accountability and personal responsibility in such a time as this. It is more than obvious that people can point fingers and wagging them self-righteously, they can assign blame for all the ills plaguing our planet right now.
It takes exceptional people who can look inward and examine the person in the mirror to see if we as a people in our current civilization bear any responsibility for the messes we currently find ourselves in here in our nation and throughout the world. If nothing more can be gleaned from all the clamor and confusion and noise around us, it must be understood that all that has been lurking in the shadows for some time is now in the light of day. But, once the darkness has been pierced with the light, what are God’s children to do? The answer may elude some, but it is quite
simple for those people of genuine faith – especially Christians. Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus came to bring the Kingdom of God. He requested those who would follow him, to do as he had
asked us. What is truly eluding many is that this is a time of great tribulation and a time of great judgment – for everyone across the entire globe.
My LightWing Message for today pivots off of the life of St. Patrick since St. Patrick’s Day came and went and is now gone for another year. I take some time to delve deeper into his impact
on a deeper level than the normal frivolous celebrations on such a holiday. I would hope that people could take some time to consider his real life and think about how there are lessons in his experience for individuals today. For instance, during COVID, did folks just bow down and obey the state mandates, or did they just bellyache and bitch to one another about how difficult their lives were? Or, did people take time to pray each and every day of this unusual period of activities in such a time as this? It is certainly not too late to take our tribulation more seriously.
Our return to our Heavenly Father is an individual responsibility. He is moving upon the Earth right now. What are we doing? What will we do about such a phenomenon?
These words are being freely offered and are being sent to you as part of the “LightWing Mission.” Please receive this message as a gift from those who care. They are only words that are being offered, freely, but some contain a deep message of faith, or a deeper expression of heart that readers can hopefully receive into their hearts. As it was written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
May we humble ourselves, seek His face, repent, turn from our wicked ways - even if that may mean to become more serious about what was most important to God that he needs all of those who love Him to put into practice His Words and His Will. May we seek His Kingdom and His righteousness more fervently in such a time as this.
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“St. Patrick and an Escape to True Freedom”
By Dennis Jamison
3/19/2022
In reflecting on the passing of St. Patrick’s Day with more muffled celebrations in the wake of the COVID lockdown mandates, an opportunity exists to embrace a true view of St. Patrick rather than myths and clamorings of magic surrounding the man who became the patron saint of Ireland.
For people of faith, during times of distress or tribulation, the true story of St. Patrick can provide people hope. In fact, the real St. Patrick offers vision, inspiration, and courage to transform harsh circumstances into a more rewarding relationship with God. St. Patrick’s life is a true story of a man who chose to give his life to Christ and God and to serve humanity. To understand how his story is relevant for this time, people need to dispense with the contemporary lenses they use to appraise the past.
All wanna-be-Irish celebrants are often shocked to learn that St. Patrick initially went to Ireland as a captured slave. Many historians have speculated that young Patrick lived along the western coast of Roman Britannia somewhere between the border of present day Scotland and Hadrian’s Wall, which was built by the Romans to keep the ancient Picts away from the “civilized” Roman domain. So Patrick was not Irish – nor was he Scottish. It would have been where he had been kidnapped.
Baby Patrick was born to Calpurnius and Conchessa, Roman citizens who gave their child an appropriate Roman name: “Patricius” meaning “noble of the patrician class,” referring to the class that had ruled Rome since the early Republic. Though it is not clear exactly when he was born, much speculation leads to the year of 387 AD, during the reign of Roman Emperor Theodosius I (r.379 to 395), who, after his own conversion, converted the entire Empire to Christianity in 380.
Patricius’ father, Calpurnius, was a Decurion (a cavalry officer), in command of Roman soldiers, originally sent to the northern area of Britannia to keep order on the outskirts of a Roman Empire in decline. Roman troops would have had to deal with the Picts of Scotland and the Celts in Ireland, who were never conquered by Rome. Calpurnius had held a position as tax collector for the Roman government and also served as a deacon in the Catholic Church. St. Patrick’s grandfather, Potitus, was a Catholic priest, and had likely maintained some persuasion over the family in religious matters.
Although young Patricius was raised a Christian under his family’s guidance, St. Patrick’s later testimony reveals that he cared little for his family’s religion. But when he was about 16, his life changed forever. One ominous day, Celtic slave raiders stormed his family’s country villa near the coast and captured Patricius along with other potential slaves while his parents were in the nearby village. The slaves were taken back across the Irish Sea to Ireland. Milchu, a Druid Chieftain, enslaved young Patricius as shepherd over his flocks of sheep on land in northeast Ireland believed to be in an area known today as County Antrim, near Belfast. Supposedly near Slemish Mountain, Patricius was enslaved for six years.
Reflecting on this time, St. Patrick later explained he accepted enslavement because he had committed a serious crime in which he broke religious laws (possibly one of the Ten Commandments). Because of this, he felt no desire to escape. Yet, while tending sheep, he spent much time in prayer, repairing and re-developing his relationship with God. He shared in his “Confessio” his pathway:
… and the faith grew in me, and the spirit was roused, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers, and in the night nearly the same, so that whilst in the woods and on the mountain, even before the dawn, I was roused to prayer and felt no hurt from it, whether there was snow or ice or rain; nor was there any slothfulness in me, such as I see now, because the spirit was then fervent within me.
St. Patrick testified that as he continued to pray, he began to develop a relationship with God that fundamentally changed his life. He confessed eventually he heard God’s voice telling him that he could leave Ireland. When he first heard the voice, he dismissed it, as he could not believe he heard it (long before psychiatrists would describe it as “denial”). However, when Patricius heard the voice repeatedly, he surrendered his resistance. He wrote the voice was quite clear: “Behold, your ship is ready.” The voice also instructed him how to find the ship, but he had to walk across Ireland to do it.
He explained that he felt he had received permission to walk away from slavery, but not permission to break the Ten Commandments. Thus, as he planned his escape, he also determined not to steal food from others. But, he had fasted quite often during captivity, so he was used to going without food. Yet, Patrick explained the hardest part was not the journey, for he was a healthy young man and had endured all kinds of weather over the years he tended flocks. He feared Ireland’s fugitive slave laws. When fugitive slaves were caught, they were taken to the local king, punished, and returned to their masters, who punished them again. For fear of opening his mouth, Patrick realized that he could not ask for help. If people heard his non-Irish accent, he would be exposed a run-away.
After six years in captivity, Patrick overcame fear of fugitive slave laws. One night, he stuffed his pockets with food his master would have provided for his daily meal and he made off on his journey. The 200 mile trek from the north to the south and west of Ireland was treacherous because he traveled by night through marshland that could have swallowed him. Amazingly, obedient to the voice, he found the ship. However, Patrick explained the most difficult portion of his journey was to reveal himself to the crew and to persuade the ship’s captain to provide him passage home. He was at their mercy.
Patrick had needed to be very clever with the last part of his escape. The ship’s captain could easily turn over the scrawny young man with a foreign accent to local authorities, or take him aboard intending to sell him as a slave for personal profit. Hiding in the woods, watching the crew load the ship, he recognized the captain as the one ordering others around. He waited patiently until he felt that the ship was ready to leave port, without any time remaining to report him to authorities. He went right to the captain and asked to join his crew. The captain refused. One can imagine Patrick’s devastation. He had trusted in what he believed was God’s voice, and obeyed the directions, only to fail at that crucial point.
Yet, as Patrick walked back to where he had been hiding, he continued praying, and suddenly, one of the crew called to him to return. It was here he had a serious choice: Were they going to capture him, or offer him passage with the crew? He trusted his faith, and walked back to face the captain again, who offered him a position with the crew. Patrick was able to sail away from his emerald prison, and eventually made it back to his home. It became a new start, not an end. But, the six years as a slave had changed him forever.
St. Patrick’s testimony later in his life reveals his transformation:
God used the time to shape and mold me into something better. He made
me into what I am now – someone very different from what I once was,
someone who can care about others and work to help them. Before I was a slave, I didn’t even care about myself.
When Patrick went back to Ireland as a Bishop of the Church, he had no fear of Druid religion, nor any fear of barbaric methods of intimidation toward other religions from the Druid priests and chieftains who controlled the country. Beyond this, while enslaved, he had fallen in love with the land, but more importantly, he had fallen in love with God on the Emerald Isle,
In reflecting on the true story of St. Patrick, there is great meaning for us, who have been enslaved by ignorance and fear over the past years in an illusion of the “Land of the Free.” Patricius sought a genuine relationship with God in the midst of his slavery. He repented for his past sins, whatever they were. He summoned courage and God provided Patricius with a clear plan - to escape from his bondage by totally trusting in God and taking action in alignment with God’s Will for him – a cooperative covenant.
Such is the blueprint for our own deliverance, not by magic, not by some mysterious manifestations beyond natural law. When God’s Providence is carefully examined, His hand throughout history surely works in mysterious ways, but He works through people of absolute faith who put into practice what He asked them to do. Americans must resist and reject the lies, walk away from the illusions of freedom painted by those who lust for wealth and the power hungry who would enslave others by whatever means necessary. We must seek His face, but more. I am absolutely certain that our Heavenly Father will help His children when we place our trust in Him, freely express our love for Him, and demonstrate our obedience to His Will, especially through genuinely loving all His children.
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Onward and Upward!
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Podcast - From ULTIMATE MEANING: Contend The Structure of Reality & Wrestle With GOD | Jordan Peterson's Way of Believing - 3/5/22
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American Minute by William J. Federer: American Minute for March 18 - Johnny Appleseed, a missionary whose name was John Chapman, famous for planting plants and trees and dealing kindly with Indians, died on this day in 1945.
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Recommended Reading…
From The Christian Post: Canada's crackdown on religious freedom is a wake-up call for Americans - 3/17/22
From The Christian Post: Denzel Washington says his gifts were given by the ‘grace of God’ - 3/18/22
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From New York Post: GOP fury at Big Tech, Dems after NYT admits Hunter Biden laptop is real - 3/18/22
From The Gateway Pundit:
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What affects one, can affect all!
* News From The Growing Free Union -
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* News From Our Canadian Neighbors -
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News From California -
From California Globe: SF Employees Fired After Religious Exemptions Denied Over Mandate Suing City – 3/17/22
News From Michigan -
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News From Utah -
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News From Vermont -
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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
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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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