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Fast and pray for America.

We need to pray for revival, a Third Great Awakening — that God would pour out His Holy Spirit and work repentance and revival in our land and give us the knowledge and fear of the Lord.

Fast and pray for America: Our Founding Fathers called numerous fasts. Christians should fast and confess personal and national sins in the spirit of 2 Chronicles 7:14: If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land (ESV).

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephesians 6:12). We can’t lose. They can’t win.

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In April of 1775, the British Royal Military Governor of Massachusetts, General Thomas Gage, sent 800 British Army Regulars, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, on a preemptive raid to seize guns from American patriots at Lexington and Concord.

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April 18, 1521: Martin Luther’s speech at the Diet of Worms (an imperial assembly at the city of Worms, Germany, also known as the Here I Stand Speech) is considered one of the greatest pieces of oratory in world history. It was given in response to the council’s questions on whether Luther would stand by his doctrine or recant. His refusal to recant is a classic defense of personal freedom.
“Since your most serene majesty and your highnesses require of me a simple, clear, and direct answer, I will give one, and it is this: I cannot submit my faith either to the pope or to the council, because it is clear that they have fallen into error and even into inconsistency with themselves. If, then, I am not convinced by proof from Holy Scripture, or by cogent reasons, if I am not satisfied by the very text I have cited, and if my judgment is not in this way brought into subjection to God’s word, I neither can nor will retract anything; for it cannot be either safe or honest for a Christian to speak against his conscience. Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. (Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.) Amen.”

 

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Men must meet a LONG list of biblical qualifications to preach and teach in the churches in 1 Timothy 3:1–7 and Titus 1:6–9. Show me the list that women must meet in order to preach and teach in the churches.

 

My purpose is NOT to discourage men from getting married. My purpose is to teach women how to be good wives. No one is teaching them! It’s not being modeled to them either. They have no clue how to be good wives, so they’re led around by their lying and fragile emotions, moods, and feelings.
I’ve been married to the same man for over 43 years. I learned how to be a good wife 20 years ago. Thankfully, we both knew divorce was out of the question. We loved our children enough to stick it out through the hard times. Yes, hard times will come to every marriage!
But, now I know how to treat my husband. I love and care for him. I am kind, and I never give him the silent treatment nor try to manipulate him to get my way anymore. There is peace in our marriage. We love being married and seeing the many incredible blessings of staying together: growing old together, raising four children, and now enjoying 18 grandchildren.
Young women NEED to be taught how to love their husbands. Yes, many are revolted by what I teach, but MANY tell me they have wonderful marriages since they learned how to be good, godly wives!

James 2: 5-6 (ESV): Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him? 6 But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court? 7 Are they not the ones who blaspheme the honorable name by which you were called?

 James 2:8-13 ESV: If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself,” you are doing well. 9 But if you show partiality, you are committing sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors. 10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. 11 For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law. 12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty. 13 For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

On this date in history

April 18

168: The Governor of the Dominion of New England, Sir Edmund Andros, is arrested and imprisoned by an angry mob of Bostonians when they became aware that King James II was deposed in England. Andros was the royal governor of New England who lifted the Puritanical ban on Christmas eight years earlier.

1775: Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.

1797: The Battle of Neuwied – French victory against the Austrians.

1864: Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.

1897: The Greco-Turkish War is declared between Greece and the Muslim Ottoman Empire.

1906: An earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California.
1912: The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1915: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.

1923: Yankee Stadium, “The House that Ruth Built,” opens.

1930: BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.
1942: Pierre Laval becomes Prime Minister of Vichy France.

1942: World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan. Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.

1954: Gamal Abdal Nasser seizes power in Egypt.

1980: The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country’s first President. The Zimbabwe Dollar replaces the Rhodesian Dollar as the official currency.

1983: A suicide bomber destroys the United States embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 63 people.

2007: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision.

 

My wife and I are the proud parents of an autistic 30-year-old son. Despite the love and support of family and friends, autism leaves us exhausted and devastated. We do not know why our family suffers with autism other than that we live in a fallen world. Some would ask why God permits such things, but we pity those who suffer such things and do not know the Lord. We look forward to that day when Christ “will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4). We pray that God will be glorified in healing our son in this life, but we know that he will not be autistic in heaven.

 

Faith Without Works Is Dead

James 2 ESV

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? 17 So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. 19 You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! 20 Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his works; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness”—and he was called a friend of God. 24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.