You Are Good

Awesome song by Jeff Deyo. Take a moment to listen and be blessed! Be sure to turn off my music player!

Call2Fall

Today is a day set aside by a national prayer initiative called Call2Fall. I encourage each of you to take a personal time on your knees and cry out the words of this prayer to our Lord which I printed off of their official website. May this be the prayer from our hearts today, joining in with believers across the nation:

Heavenly Father,

Lord, You are good; Your steadfast love endures forever, and Your faithfulness to all
generations (Ps 100:5, ESV).We come on bended knee to acknowledge our utter dependence upon You, our Creator,God, and Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ. You are God of the Old and New Testaments.

Your Covenant of love with us who believe is sealed by the blood of Your Son. Your
promise to bless us if we believe, honor and obey You and to judge us if we do not,
continues in force (Ps 95:6-7; Rom 5:8-9; Heb 8:10)
Lord, today, we unite with fellow Christians across America, from many denominations
and backgrounds, falling to our knees before You, asking You to help us humble
ourselves, not only today, but every day. Hear our prayers, forgive our sins and heal ourland (2 Chr 7:14)!

We have been proud and arrogant, as individuals, families, churches and as a nation. Youhave singularly blessed us, but we have taken Your blessing for granted (Jas 4:6Pet5:5-6)

You are worthy of our love and devotion. Instead, we have forgotten You and ignored
Your word. We have not esteemed You as Almighty God, nor have we honored, served
and obeyed You as we ought (Ps 18; Rev 4:11).
Few of us are walking in pure devotion to You, worshiping wholeheartedly, praying
without ceasing, and daily feeding upon Your word. Too few of us have given ourselves
enthusiastically to do Your will and labored diligently to finish Your work. Rather wehave forsaken You, the Spring of Living water, and imbibed the stagnant waters of ourmodern culture (Pr 12:24; Jer 2:13; Mt 4:10; Jn 4:34; 1 Th 5:17; 2 Tim 2:15).

You call us to be a light, to live holy lives, to walk in Christian love and carry the gospelof Christ to the nations. Instead, we have withheld the grace of Yougospel from ourfamily, friends, neighbors and co-workers, allowing far too many to face a Christ-less eternity. You command us to bring up our children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, yet our youth are abandoning the faith in unprecedented numbers. While we ignore Your command to preach the gospel, those who serve false gods zealously proselytize,trapping millions in eternal darkness and confusion. We have been complacent, apathetic,lazy, disobedient, and unfaithful to Your call (Mt 5:14-16).

You charge us to be salt to our culture, to preserve truth and all that is godly and pure.Yet we have allowed the rot of godless media and entertainment to fill our homes. Insteadof permeating our culture with vital Biblical truth, instead of filling our homes, churches,schools, businesses, halls of government, and thus our nation with eternal truth andreality, we have allowed them to be infected by lies and spiritual darkness. Instead ofchanging the world, the world has changed us. We seem impotent. Having failed to be thesalt of the earth, we are fast becoming good for nothing except to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men (Mt 5:13).

Lord, the living faith of our Forefathers, their love and devotion to their children, and their commitment to future generations compelled them to sacrifice their lives for us. Yet we have become the “me generation.” We elect leaders, not for their righteousness, but their promise to give us benefits. Absorbed with our own lives and material possessions, we have lost sight of all that is important: God and family, our neighbors, our fellow countrymen and the people beyond the seas whom You love and for whom You gave Your Son (Pr 29:2; Ex 18:21).

Now, our nation is under judgment; natural disasters pummel our cities and countryside;we face war on two fronts; rogue nations hate us and international terrorists have penetrated our borders. Economic collapse cripples entire regions, millions are out of work; preachers and politicians are put on display for their acts of corruption and immorality; our leaders mortgage our children’s future to build political monuments to themselves. Our jails and prisons are filled to overflowing. Our children are enslaved by unthinkable sins, sex, drugs and alcohol. Abortion and sexual immorality have become protected rights, and legislators, judges and governors impose homosexual “marriage” upon their citizens. Our schools teach that “marriage” between a man and a man ismorally equivalent to holy matrimony between a man and woman; evil is called good,and good is called evil. The curses you warned would come to a disobedient people have all come upon us (Dt 8:11-20; 28: all; Is 5:20)

Unless You, Lord, intervene and bring revival to the Church, Awakening to the nation
and spiritual reformation to our culture, our once God-blessed nation will go the way ofancient Carthage, Greece, and Rome. Persecution will surely become our lot (Ps85:6;94:17; Mt 5:13b).

Lord, we cry out to You today. Hear our cry. Help us to seek Your Face. Show us Your
Face, and help us to turn from our wicked ways (2 Chr 7:14).
Lord, Heal our Land. Show us mercy! Forgive us our sins and cleanse us! Revive Your
churches. Set our pulpits aflame with righteousness. Purge compromise from our pews
and cause Your word to go forth to every city and town in America. Make Your people
salt and light again. Raise up godly leaders in church and state and grant that we mightlead quiet and peaceable lives in godliness and honesty. Help us to return wholly to Youand return, Lord, to us. We pray in the Name of Jesus, knowing that Your word declares,“The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." (2 Chr7:14; Is 40:8; Joel 2:15-18; Mal 3:7a; 2 Cor 7:1; 1 Jn 1:9)

In Honor of My 30 and 40-Something Friends Today

Today, my hubby and Micah and I were dancing to the 80's in the living room of our home. Yes, we looked quite goofy and probably even the fly on the wall was laughing hysterically, but it sent me wandering joyfully down memory lane. I thought of all the hours I spent with my record player playing 45's and singing, dancing and DJ'ing in my room. Those are sweet memories. So, I thought I would honor all of you X-generationer friends by compiling a music list on my Playlist just for you today.

Take a few minutes to just kick back, have a chuckle and listen to some REAL music, right? The music of today cannot even compare to the greatness of the 80's! Agree?

Enjoy the tunes. I would love to hear of some of your favorites growing up that I might have missed on here. I will try to add them. Also, any stories you would like to share would be most welcome and entertaining! We must stick together! Gen X! Gen X! (chanting...arm in the air, fist and all) Love to you all!

(Okay, I might allow the late 20's youngsters to get in on this honor, although you really don't fully understand!!!)

Sobering Words from C.S. Lewis

God is going to invade this earth in force, but what is the good of saying you are on his side then when you see the whole natural universe is melting away like a dream and something else, something it never entered your head to conceive, comes crashing in; something so beautiful to some of us and so terrible to others that none of us will have any choice left?

For this time it will be God without disguise; something so overwhelming that it will strike either irresistable lve or irresistable horror into every creature. It will be too late then to choose your side. There is no use saying you choose to lie down when it has become impossible to stand up. That will not be the time for choosing. It will be the time when we discover which side we have really chosen whether we realized it before or not.

Now, today, this moment is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It will not last forever. We must take it or leave it.

--C.S. Lewis

Prophetic Voice from the Past

"If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering...But if we or our posterity neglect it and its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity."

--Daniel Webster