Samson and Esther!

 Acting on faith for the right Time?

In the book of Esther God is not mentioned, while in the life of Samson, many thought he was a crazy guy and yet they knew they were in the will of God, but their respective timings had to be right!

We can gain much of a lesson from these two people, patience and perseverance are key to working with faith, but also we can learn much from others like Noah, Abraham and the Apostle Paul, if not John who out lived all surviving a death camp!

Each of us is an individual and through the power workings of the Holy Spirit we will be lead in a different way, some will have to stay put like the mad man that Jesus healed and others go out like Phillip to being translated?

Judges 14:1-12, 16:26-30, The Book of Esther, Matthew 7:7-8, John 3:8, Hebrews 11:32, Revelation 3:20.

LOVE!

 Something the world could do with a lot of?

From the Ukraine to Turkiye, from the Philippines to Africa and South-America wars and conflicts are continuing along with natural disasters, storms, floods, droughts and terrible earthquakes that have killed over fifty-thousand people!

World leaders are acting like petty children looking to make trouble at the cost of the peoples of nations and seeking fame in history for their own selfish ambition?

Meanwhile God is mucking up their plans, economically and militarily with the middle-east, with many nations not cooperating with the United States or Europe, while others are moving into new alliances and leaving behind four hundred years of slavery and colonial exploitation!

Only those who do the right things in relation to God, will get justice and those who seek to oppose God, will soon find that He will remove them and the whole board game will change colours!

Numbers 23:19, Judges 3:1-3, 2 Samuel 14:20, Psalm 55:19, Daniel 7:25, Zephaniah 3:9, Matthew 21:32, Luke 6:27, John 3;16, Galatians 3:8, 1 Peter 4:8. 

Two months of illness.

 Life is Fickle?

One was going along well and then out of no where came illness and the ability not to do much, but rely on others for the basic needs and lay flat looking at the ceiling!

Many believers end up this way, the enemy does not like us serving God and seeing souls saved from His clutches and so accidents, crime and various forms of illness is sent to try and stop us!

Job was a righteous man and he lost everything, but he did not give up on God, when God allowed Satan to strike him. Job knew he had done nothing wrong and those three friends turned out to be miserable losses to him as companions?

Today we have a better comforter the Holy Spirit, who is our friend, helper and guarantee of our Salvation!

Job 1:6-22, 2:1-13, Psalm 41:3, John 11:4, 2 Corinthians 1:22, 5:5, Ephesians 1:14.

The Christmas season Approaches!

 Great Opportunities?

Christmas and Easter have the biggest times to share the Gospel message in the hope of leading the world to the truth and understanding what it's all about, rather than the commercialism and gluttony of the seasonal holiday?

We know the truth of this time, but how to get it over to the world can be tougher, since they are blinded by Satan and His lies to what we have to say to change their hearts to receive the true light of the star of Jacob, the morning stare, the, 'I Am the light of the world!

Numbers 24:17, John 12:46, 2 Peter 1:19.

We also know the story and this with a few verses may be enough to reach them, love being a key factor since this is what people long for in this society of rejection, indifference and ignoring the truth of real like for that of feelings and constant fantasy?

Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1:23, Isaiah 9:7, Luke 1:32-33, Amos 5:4, Matthew 7:7-8, John 3:3-18, Acts 4:12, Romans 3:22-23, 6:23, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26.

No Trust!

 With the Police?

This is a problem world wide and not only is limited to black people, but also to many other communities based on ethnicity and on sectarian divisions, there are many examples that we could take from the travelling nomad's to religious divisions i Iraq, India, Myanmar, N-Ireland, the Ukraine and Israel!

We humans have a real problem with hating each other and not trusting the legal system or authorities and much of this stems from a white dominated police forces in the U.K. and the United States, but these same issues are also found in Mexico and Brazil and in many parts of the African continent too?

Sin once it takes hold of us it does not let go and it will drag us down into situations that our pride will giver over to others that will, not might exploit our situations?

Trusting in Jesus is the only way for us who have faith to go, the letter of 1 Peter is all about living through hard times and keeping fixated on the Lord who has saved us from our dark pasts and allowing us to live in His Light!

John 3:3, 17-20, 8:12, 9:5, 1 Timothy 4:1-5, Hebrews 4:12-13, 9:26. 

International Trafficking!

 Big Money?

The movement of people fleeing all sorts of situations has always paid well for the traffickers and the prostitution gangs, but not all who are fleeing have been persecuted, many are criminals who seek a better life of more likely crime in the U.K., where there is also a good market for the exploitation of the welfare system!

One might say that there is more money in handling people than say narcotics today and no matter how hard the border agencies work, many will be paid off in this lucrative business?

Slavery is nothing new, it continues with many Gypsy and Nomadic communities around the world and there is always a demand for woman to work in servitude if not prostitution!

Romans 6:15-22, 2 Corinthians 11:20, Galatians 4:9, Titus 3:3, 2 Peter 2:19.

Unbelievable?

 Blacks for Trump!

We have been here before, but now it is surprising in the light of all that has happened that there are people who cannot see through him and what might become of black people in the United States and other places under his potential dictatorship?

Sleepy Joe has done much, but not enough since he is always trying to appease the Republican voters and not really address black issues as he promised he would! Meanwhile many black leaders are pulling with this idea of waiting for the, 'Right Time?

Today is the appointed time of your salvation, only Jesus can save us from the coming destruction and faith in Jesus will set us free from relying on others in government and authority who tell lies and never do what they say they will?

Matthew 7:24-27, Romans 15:8-13, Hebrews 9:25-28.