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Hello my name is Jerral Campfield and this web site is dedicated to Moral Recognition Therapy using Biblical principles. Please come back often to join me in understanding Gods hands are outstretched still to forgive. |
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Friday, 18 September 2020 |
Should Christians be Anxious about the Coronavirus? What now! Last Sunday was a very difficult time for me. Things like music was not a fluid as I would have liked, Communion was difficult, the message was not recorded so had to do it again while at home latter. But God spirit was present to encourage and empower us for service. We are seeing our President and Governmental agencies interested in the health of our nation as we have shut down places where people congregate. This is causing a lot of hysteria to where people are responding with fear, not knowing how to use common sense. This heightens concern and is real for it is the elderly and those with immune systems that are deficient that are likely to suffer the most. Proverbs 24:10 If you faint in the day of adversity, Your strength is small. Your strength is small. We as followers of Jesus should model compassion to what is going on. We are seeing this compassion by how people are accepting the encouragement from our Governmental officials. We are seeing people gracious towards others as they are responding to this crisis. We all want God’s wisdom and guidance as several including Franklin Graham has called September 26 as a National Day of Prayer for all involved in the battle against coronavirus and the lawlessness in America and around the world. This will be at the National Mall in WDC at noon where the will meet at the Lincoln Memorial and March down to the Capital, stopping at several points to pray this will take about 2 hrs. No Music or loud speakers, just praying. The question is what would God have me do as we face this growing international health crises? Should we close our doors. No we are going to comply with the orders of the Health Department so we do not have to fear the spreading of the illness? How are we going to help a panicked fearful world? We need to know that worry is not our friend and panic is not what we want. David said in Proverbs 24:10 “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.” May we never be controlled by fear of circumstances, but by faith in God who allows Satan to grip our nation and world with the fear of Man This is a time when the world needs sturdy people who are strengthened by God’s grace and selflessness by God’s power. Worry and fear accomplishes nothing except weakness of hearts and heads. While we are alert against viruses of doctrine or disease, worrying will not change our circumstance, or lower our chance of infection. Worrying about coronavirus, or anything else will only increase trouble. Why worry when you can pray, for Jesus calls us to pray and have faith in God, for He is the one that defeated sin and death. 1 Corinthians 15: 55-57. 55 “O[a] Death, where is your sting? O Hades, where is your victory?” 56 The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It takes the same amount of energy to worry as to pray. Let’s love people as we trust the Lord, and do good, dwelling in the land and befriend faithfulness. Psalms 37:3. Peter reminds us to press on in the mist of every evil. Whether persecution, or pandemic, we can trust the Lord, knowing, “It is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will than for doing evil.” Remember how the children of Israel were complaining in Numbers 21 about dying for lack of water and food and God cause snakes to bite them so they died and God said to Moses Make a fiery serpent and set it on a pole and it will be that anyone looking at the serpent will be healed, restored, rejuvenated which is the meaning of the snake(s) used as an emblem of the Medical profession: “Moses, around 1400 BC, used the bronze serpent on the pole to cure the people who were bitten by snakes. The other reasons why a serpent has been used is the shedding of the skin that indicated longevity and immortality. The snake's ability to change from a lethargic stage to one of rapid activity symbolized the power to convalesce from an illness.” A snake sheds it skin which rejuvenates its life. Jesus rejuvenates us from sin to righteousness. To day. That is the reason the medical profession has a emblem of a snake on a pole. Thank the Lord for the medical profession during this time for they have saved many lives. Worry is common to mankind. But God has called us to face troubles and threats with courage, leaning our weight on Him. Throughout history, Christians have often stood out because they were willing to help the sick, even during plagues, pandemics, and persecutions. They loved people and weren’t afraid of death because they understood that “to live is Christ and to die is gain” Philippian’s 1:21. By stepping into the mess of sickness and disease, they were able to demonstrate their faith to a watching world. It is not how can I stay healthy, but how can I help the sick? Let’s be quick to help and slow to hide in a basement. Let’s have our prayers infused with confidence, compassion and selflessness when talking about coronavirus. Just as our Savior put on flesh and stepped into our sickness, sin and death. He healed the sick and cared for the hurting, should we not do likewise? Let’s not be reckless, for God’s word is not reckless or careless, but promote obedience. Loving the sick does not mean we intentionally infect ourselves. Proverbs 22:3 “A Prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.”Responding to the coronavirus means, the healthy risk is low, when we take practical steps like washing our hands and staying home if we are sick. So, do we cancel our services or take care of the risk by caring cleansing our hands and encouraging others to wash and not touch unclean things? When others get sick care for them and seek appropriate medical care when necessary. Charles Spurgeon lived in the 19th century when thousands were dying of cholera and he visited homes to care for people. Now is the time we can share the hope we have in Jesus. 1 Peter 3:13 “And who is he who will harm you if you become followers of what is good? 14 But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you are blessed. “And do not be afraid of their threats, nor be troubled. 15 But [d]sanctify [e]the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear, 16 having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. 17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.” We are all going to suffer death sooner or later, but our hope and faith is in God who we worship and reverence to answer our prayers. So today we come with confidence, Jesus is able to see us though as we press on toward the Mark of the high calling in Christ. Let’s use our health to serve and not to hide, for Jesus is sovereign over it all. Blessings to you as an Ambassador for the Kingdom of God. I want you to feel free to do what God tells you, so blessing to you as you look forward to worshiping the Lord in your Church at home or a building! Now what are you going to do? I hope you’re going to ask the Lord to forgive you of any sins that Satan wants you to lust for, that you can be free of the addictions he forces upon you. God created us to be of goodwill and peace and gave us His Son Jesus to show us what we need to do, then just before He went back to heaven He said, I will give you the Holy Spirit so you can become empowered to be that Ambassador in My Kingdom of God. So abide in the vine; Jesus, so you can begin to produce love, joy and peace regardless of the circumstance.
Satan is wanting to control and soon the Church is going to be raptured and be free of all trouble as they join in marriage to the Groom, athen this World that is left behind goes through the 7 years of tribulation. Now trust and obey the Lord and resist lusting for evil; OK! I am appalled at the amount of partying going on and how sexuality is flagrant today on the internet in theaters, the paper and in many churches. Lord help us to see some of the reasons God hates idolatry We have seen the Altar of Baal set up in Washington DC and in New York’s twin tower As Jonathan Cahn, the author of the book The Paradigm, has pointed out that Baal was a god of power, fertility and child sacrifice, A reconstruction of the ancient Arch of Palmyra, Syria was set up in Washington, DC last October 2018 to celebrate global cultural heritage, according to the Institute for Digital Archaeology. The arch has been also been displayed at various locations around the world including New York City, London, and Dubai. It is amazing New York and Washington, DC are the two key cities behind abortion-on-demand in America. Baal is mentioned more times in the Bible than any other ancient false deity. In a video released online, Jonathan Cahn points out a spiritual connection between the circumstances in ancient times during the age of Baal worship and what is now taking place in America. Cahn also points to the reconstructed arch as being a gateway, and may have been placed as an open invitation to the entity or other entities associated with the original arch. Lord help us to make sure we are not serving idols, or pastors and priest, but God who created us to be healthy and wise, so we can produce love, mercy and grace in our lives every day of our lives. The Largest Baal Worship Service on the Planet is in America August 27, 2017 by Andy Roman “They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.” Daniel 5:4. America has fully embraced paganism as 70,000 Wiccan, Satanists, nudists, new agers, sorcerers, earth-worshippers, party revelers and curiosity seekers descend to Black Rock Desert in Nevada for 8 days of debauchery and spiritualism starting back in 2017 The annual “Burning Man Festival” is the largest gathering in the world where revelers from around the globe dance the nights away as loud music blasts a wide range of music, from hip-hop, techno and electronic. The all night dance parties include invoking on the pagan deities, nudity, unrestrained sex and drug use, while during the day partygoers are treated to “artistic” displays and “spiritualistic” exercises, which include worshiping pagan gods. Every occult practice is on full display. This is a revival of the Old Testament worship of Baal. The national, mainstream media is covering this event but they are reporting it simply as an “arts” and “music” festival. What they don’t tell you is that the biggest draw for the party-goers is the free, casual sex that is absolutely rampant at the Burning Man Festival. And it isn’t just one on one sex that we are talking about, they actually have an orgy tent or temple that is always open. This is what is on full display in America. Every manner of perversion is glorified. This month we have seen Net flex feature teenage and younger girls dancing a flaunting their bodies as sex objects. We are living in a time Satan is doing all he can to addict people into the traps of lusting for sin. Lord Help us to make sure we are keeping our focus on the Love of the Lord so we do not go stray and miss God’s blessing for our lives and those we love. Romans 3:23 all have sin and come shot of the Kingdom of God. Then Romans 6:23 The wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord! This festival has become so popular that other nations are following in America’s footsteps and have launched their own free-love and free-spirited events in Israel, Africa, Spain, England and Australia. They all follow the same principles and philosophy as the Nevada gathering. Many ancient cultures such as Greece, Babylon, Rome, Sodom and the antediluvians ceased to exist for participating in these same displays of reckless revelry and sensuality. God won’t be mocked. He is about to bring the curtain down on all this nonsense which America has bought into the world since the sexual/cultural revolution of the 1960s. The Scriptures point to a sexual and moral depravity that will exist in our world during the last days, the period just before the time of the end. Our generation is witnessing the fulfillment of this end time sign in an unprecedented way. The sexual revolution of our time has no parallel in history. “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God” 2 Timothy 3:1-4. How long will God allow this pagan perversion to continue? The Scriptures reminds us that there is a limit to God’s mercy. “And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish. As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 8:19, 20. “And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers: Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands…And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.” Micah 5:12, 13, 15. “And I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, who have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, and worshipped the works of their own hands.” Jeremiah 1:16.
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