Presidential Executive Order

     Below are some excerpts from an e-newsletter by US Congresswoman Kay Granger from the 12th District of Texas.

     “On March 16, 2012 – President Obama issued an Executive Order that gives an unprecedented level of authority to the President and the federal government to take over all the fundamental parts of our economy...all of our water resources, construction services and materials, our transportation system, food and health resources, our energy supplies, even farm equipment, can be taken over by the President and his cabinet secretaries. Under this Executive Order the Government can also draft U.S. citizens into the military and force U.S. citizens to fulfill “labor requirements" for purposes of “national defense/emergencies.” There is no Congressional oversight on this Executive Order.”

   

     Listen: Congress must act within 90 days or this Executive Order automatically becomes law, and time is running out.

     I believe this President is putting the Federal Government above the law, which is never supposed to happen. This type of Martial Law imposes a government takeover on U.S. citizens that would typically only be reserved when national defense/emergencies already exist.

          So where is the outrage here? Come on America let’s Wake Up our Nation is in serious trouble with leadership that is selling us out – God help us is my prayer!

    

      I would hope that those of you, who still believe in the Nation’s Founding Fathers principles (God, Family, and Nation in that order) which are the very essence of America’s freedom and life, would follow God’s Prescription. In 2 Chronicles 7:14 God tells us “If My people, which are called by My Name (meaning believers in Christ), shall humble themselves, pray, and seek My face (Please understand this is referring to Prayer of Repentance); then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." (This is God’s prescription for spiritual sickness).      
     You see this is America’s problem; we are spiritually bankrupt as a Nation, in need of national healing. Let me ask you can God depend upon you to do YOUR PART – PRAY? Or will you just sit back with your head in the sand, tweeting and texting about things which really have no eternal value.

Speech (Does it Matter?)

     If you recorded yourself, what would the playback reveal concerning your speech at the end of the day? Our conversation can reveal much regarding our spiritual commitment. Do we truly believe in and live by the truth of the Scriptures, or does our language mirror an ordinary worldview? A positive confession, based on the Scriptures, bolsters our faith and encourages others.

     We may be in a bad financial situation. Do we complain about our personal state? Or do we confess the truth that our “God shall supply all (our) need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19)? Listen: Our confession in such circumstances mirrors our genuine belief in the power of God and His Word which sustains us (and others), encourage, and build truth into our lives.

     A positive confession is a testimony to others. As they hear our trust in God verbalized, they are confronted with the truth.

     Our words and lives are sermons that preach to everyone around us. What we say can point an unbeliever to Christ while keeping our spiritual compass fixed on Him.

     Let your speech be an accurate sounding of God’s truth.

Forgiveness “Who Me”!

    

     What if the person who needs to be forgiven is myself? What if I am the transgressor?

     Forgiving ourselves is often more of a dilemma than forgiving others. After all, we have to live with ourselves twenty-four hours a day.

     Perhaps some misdeed that I participated in years ago, even as a child, still haunts me today, causing a tremendous sense of inferiority and insecurity. “Can God forgive me for what I did? I caused so much pain to others that I’m just not sure He can pardon my iniquity. “My anxiety is dispelled only as I realize that I forgive myself on the same basis as I forgive others – through Christ’s forgiveness of my sins on the cross.

     We forgive others because God no longer holds their sins against them. We forgive ourselves because God no longer holds our sins against us.

     God had forgiven Paul through the sacrifice of His Son. Paul, therefore, had no right to not forgive himself, neither do you.

     If you are a believer, you are a forgiven person. Worship God for His grace. If you turned to God for the forgiveness of your sins, come to Him for salvation by acknowledging His death for you and receive a full pardon for eternity.

     Read: Philippians 3:4-16 – Let me address verses 9-14 “And be found in Him (meaning to be united with Christ by living Faith, which has as its object the Cross of Christ), not having my own Righteousness (in other words; not having any Righteousness which can be called my own), which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of Christ, the Righteousness which is of God by Faith: 10) That I may know Him (again referring to what Christ did at the Cross), and the power of His Resurrection (refers to being raised with Him in “newness of life” [Rom. 6:3-5]), and the fellowship of His sufferings (regarding our Trust and Faith placed in Him), being made conformable unto His death (to conform to what He did for us at the Cross, understanding that this is the only means of Salvation and Sanctification) 11) If by any means I might attain unto the Resurrection of the dead. (This does not refer to the coming Resurrection, but rather the Believing sinner being baptized into the death of Christ [refers to the Crucifixion], and raised in “newness of life,” which gives victory over all sin) 12) Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect (we can’t claim sinless perfection); but I follower after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. (Paul was saved by Christ for the purpose of becoming Christlike, and so are we!) 13) Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do. Forgetting those things which are behind, reaching forth unto those things which are before, 14) I press toward the mark (this represents a moral and spiritual target) for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (means the manner and means in which all of this is done, which is the Cross).