IN THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:

TRUMPS VICTORY SHOWS THAT WE WHO ARE DISMISSED AS “CONSPIRACY THEORISTS” HAVE REJECTED THE LIES OF THE LEFT THAT FALSELY DEMONIZE TRUMP TO PEOPLE WHO BELIEVE THE LIES OF THE MEDIA, KAMALA HARRIS, JOE BIDEN, AND THE DEEP STATE. WHO DON’T RECOGNIZE THE CENSORSHIP OF FACEBOOK AND OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE IT DOESN’T AFFECT THEM OR ENDORSE THE CENSORSHIP OF THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH THEM BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE ONLY THEY HAVE THE RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH. TRUMP WILL NOT DO TO THOSE THAT HAVE PERSECUTED HIM WHAT THEY DID TO HIM. TRUMP SUPPORTERS ARE NOT WHAT KAMALA, BIDEN AND HILLARY HAVE SAID. WE LOVE THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH US AND WOULD LOVE A DISCUSSION WITH YOU THAT RESPECTS ALL PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO HAVE THEIR OWN POINT VIEW AND RESPECTING NO PEOPLE WHO WANT TO CENSOR OTHERS’ POINT OF VIEW OR FORCE ON OTHERS THEIR OWN POINT OF VIEW!

THIS MESSAGE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FIRST AMENDMENT (ATTACKED BY BIDEN HARRIS WHO SWORE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND IT):

Amendment I.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT (ALSO ATTACKED BY BIDEN HARRIS WHO SWORE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND IT):

Amendment II.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

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Nobody’s perfect (part II)

I am part of a team of people starting “HOPE” for Mental Health at Kentwood Community Church.  We are part of Celebrate Recovery founded by Rick Warren of Saddleback Church.  This group of courageous people, who admit their imperfections and trust Jesus to deliver them, have been a catalyst to me being able to confess my sins to another trusted person (or small group).  I read my Nobody’s Perfect post from August of 2013 tonight and realized I had promised to get back to you when I had put this into practice.

Much better late than never.

I had told Jesus my sins but telling another person with skin on freed me from most of the grip of satan in my life.  No amount of prayer has freed me as much as telling my sin to another person.  Sin loses power when exposed.

I have known for years that I was “supposed to” confess my sins to another.  But I made excuses and told myself it really didn’t matter.  I lost years of my life to satan’s influence simply because “I know more than God.”

God is not mocked.  I reaped what I sowed.

But I have learned.

Hopefully.

Jesus can make satan’s lies tell the truth

2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV84

 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

My mental illness doesn’t present itself as voices, either inside or outside my head.  What I contend with are feelings and thoughts.  Painful, hopeless, anxious feelings that sometimes leave me thinking that I should give up.  I call them satan’s fiery darts.  And I used to give in to them.  Then I battled them unsuccessfully.  Now, after thinking about the preceding verse, I ask Jesus to take these thoughts captive and make them tell the truth.

The truth is that Jesus loves us.  He has taken care of everything.  We do not have to perform up to standards for Him to accept us.  He accepts us just as we are.  When we trust Him to save us from the punishment we deserve, we become His children.  Two thousand years ago He took our shame and blame and suffered the punishment for it.  There is nothing else to pay.  He freely gives us His righteousness, Spirit, and life.  There is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

The evil one, satan, attacks us when we are weakest, and attacks the weakest part of ourselves.  That’s different for each one of us.  What is a constant though, is that satan’s attacks are lies.  They may contain some parts that are true, but the message that he conveys is always a lie.

Before I had a personal, intimate relationship with Jesus, I thought I was “pretty good”.  I thought I was a Christian, which was a lie of satan (I liked Jesus’ philosophy but I did not know Him personally).  I thought the few sins I had were no big deal, which was a lie of satan (they were not few and they were a huge deal).  Satan had me completely deceived and so satan just kept telling me I was “pretty good”, I kept believing him, and so he didn’t need to do anymore to insure I was going to hell.

But once I surrendered to Jesus satan went on the attack.  I was now a threat to him.  He couldn’t change my new eternal destination (heaven with Jesus) but he could try and stop me from taking anyone with me.  My experience has been that the more closely I follow Jesus, the more I notice satan’s attacks.  And it seems like most of the time those attacks are thoughts and feelings, that is, satan’s fiery darts.

Jesus dealt with satan by appropriately quoting the Word of God, the Bible.  We can too.  Next time, I’ll post some verses that I’ve found helpful.

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