A Special Meeting Called

My good friend, Dan D. sent me this email:

SATAN'S MEETING:
Satan called a worldwide convention of demons.
In his opening address he said, "We can't keep Christians from going to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their Savior. Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken. So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.." "This is what I want you to do," said the devil, "Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered. "Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow. Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work! Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice. Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ. Fill the coff ee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products, services and false hopes.. Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night. Give them headaches too! If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere. That will fragment their families quickly! Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas. Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death. Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted. Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead. Keep them busy, busy, busy! And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences. Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."

"It will work!"
"It will work!"
It was quite a plan!

The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.
Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives. I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes? You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

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-Unless the Lord builds the house, it's builder's labor in vain." Ps. 127:1

No amount of success in any field of endeavor, can compensate for failure in the home.

WIN OR LOSE, Part 1

Having been born in societies with few opportunities to progress and get ahead, without law and order, societies in which the absence or scarcity of the most basic and necessary satisfactions prevail, many of its inhabitants hope and are willing to immigrate to a mirage, a land of opportunity, the so-called American Dream.
Many of these desperate people do not realize that they are coming to a different country, in which, true, it is a blessed land, due to its Christian origen and foundation, full of abundance, opportunities and beauty, it is experiencing an ungoing increase of problems.
The chances of success in the new country are far better for those immigrants that already have a relevant christian faith since they will never be alone, they will always have a guide book, a standard, a path to follow, a perspective and conduct in life that will help them reach their goals. They will be more prone to blend into their new society, to contribute and become an asset to their new communities instead of another problem.


The Phrase of the Day:

The desires of the flesh versus the desires of the Spirit. Walk in the Spirit.

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GANAR O PERDER, 1a. Parte

Conforme convivimos y nos desarrollamos en sociedades carentes de oportunidades para progresar, donde la inseguridad y la injusticia prevalecen. Paises donde la escasez y carencia de las mas básicas y necesarias satisfacciones son comunes, muchos de sus habitantes se deciden a emigrar a un espejismo, a una tierra con abundantes oportunidades, el llamado Sueno Americano.
Muchas de estas personas no se ponen a pensar que este pais aunque es mucho mas desarrollado, donde hay seguridad y muchas oportunidades, también tiene sus problemas, que también van en aumento a pesar de la abundancia y las bendiciones de las que goza basadas en sus orígenes y cimientos cristianos.
Si algún imigrante ya es crisitano, sus probabilidades de éxito, son mucho mayores, debido a su conducta, sus perspectiva, su disciplina, su forma de vida y su Fé, todo esto lo conduce al verdadero éxito y a alcanzar sus metas con certeza. Ellos están mas dispuestos a integrarse y contribuír en su nueva sociedad mejorándola en lugar de convertirse en un problema mas para la misma.

La Frase del Día:

Los deséos de la carne, versus los deséos del Espiritu. Caminemos en El Espiritu.