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Hi Mike,

I thank God for you and your family and hope you’re all well. I also thank God for your persistence in sharing the truths God has given you. I came across a video that I would like you to watch when you have the time. Pray about it, and let God’s will be done.

J____

Hi J____,

I am very thankful that you are “sharing in the truths” of God.
Thank you for taking the time to send me this link to Joseph Newman’s prophecies and his energy machine. I was reading about Joseph Newman’s energy machine back in the early eighties, when he was challenging any scientist to debate him on the principles on which his machine operated.
I have been to the Georgia Guidestones and read every word on them that is in English.
This is the part that I find very disappointing concerning Joseph Newman and his prophecies. Those guidestones very clearly ignore both God and Christ, and place mankind’s destiny into mankind’s own hands, and they call for the elimination of 90% of the earth’s present population. Joseph Newman agrees with that.
The Truth of God’s Word is that God is working all things after the counsel of His own will, and we are told that as “ambassadors for Christ”, we are to stay out of the affairs of this world.

2Ti 2:4  No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
2Co 5:20  Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.
Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
Rom 8:28  And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

What an incredible contrast between God’s Word’s of comfort, and the monstrous words of the Georgia Guidestones, whose authors will not even identify themselves. Instead of calling for the elimination of 90% of mankind, we are instructed to act as ambassadors for Christ and call for the reconciliation of all men to God.
In closing I will make one more contrast between scripture and this video. While Joseph Newman and the whole world are warning us about the end of the world in 2012, this is what the scriptures tell us (as translated in the CEV):

Mat 6:25  I tell you not to worry about your life. Don’t worry about having something to eat, drink, or wear. Isn’t life more than food or clothing?
Mat 6:26  Look at the birds in the sky! They don’t plant or harvest. They don’t even store grain in barns. Yet your Father in heaven takes care of them. Aren’t you worth more than birds?
Mat 6:27  Can worry make you live longer?
Mat 6:28  Why worry about clothes? Look how the wild flowers grow. They don’t work hard to make their clothes.
Mat 6:29  But I tell you that Solomon with all his wealth wasn’t as well clothed as one of them.
Mat 6:30  God gives such beauty to everything that grows in the fields, even though it is here today and thrown into a fire tomorrow. He will surely do even more for you! Why do you have such little faith?
Mat 6:31  Don’t worry and ask yourselves, “Will we have anything to eat? Will we have anything to drink? Will we have any clothes to wear?”
Mat 6:32  Only people who don’t know God are always worrying about such things. Your Father in heaven knows that you need all of these.
Mat 6:33  But more than anything else, put God’s work first and do what he wants. Then the other things will be yours as well.
Mat 6:34  Don’t worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself. You have enough to worry about today. (CEV)
Mat 24:36  But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

It really is “people who don’t know God” who are always worrying about the future. The future is in very good and capable hands. What we need to be doing is seeking to live as ambassadors of a heavenly kingdom today.

Mat 6:33  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

God true witnesses do not emphasize the future. God’s true witnesses always say “The Lord is at hand… the time is at hand… don’t worry about tomorrow.” So I am very confident in advising you and all who read iswasandwillbe. com, “Don’t worry about tomorrow. It will take care of itself.”

Mat 24:32  Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
Mat 24:33  So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Php 4:5  Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.

“At hand” does not mean tomorrow. It means today. Mr. Newman is warning you about an exploding star, while Christ warns us about the beast within us all, and He tells us that His sheep know His voice. The message of the Georgia Guidestones is not the voice of the True Shepherd. I hope you find these scriptures to be of some comfort and of some edification to you.

Joh 10:4  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
Joh 10:5  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Rom 15:4  For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Your brother in Christ.
Mike

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Why We All Struggle With The Subject of Prayer https://www.iswasandwillbe.com/why-we-all-struggle-with-the-subject-of-prayer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-we-all-struggle-with-the-subject-of-prayer Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:00:01 +0000 http://www.iswasandwillbe.com/?p=5685

Hello Mike,
 
Hope all is well, I am studying every day and learning something new each day!  Thank you so much for all your audios, what a blessing. And I learned how to use e- sword to compare words throughout the book and am learning a lot.
We are sure getting a lot of trials, and I am coming to a lot of realizations. All my life I have struggled with not rocking the boat because I have always been afraid of people not liking me. Specially with my Agoraphobia and not leaving my town in over 18 years, I wanted everyone to like me or it made me have more panic attacks. I am seeing all this as a trial of what I am working on to die to my self and then I always have to remember it’s not me doing the work but Christ working through me.
 
Any way I have a question, I am understanding all that you teach and am really starting to get it, I mean the lord is letting me get it! I was wondering did you go through a time where it was hard to pray, I almost feel like I have no feelings at all and when I try to pray it’s like I have nothing to say or it feels weird.
 
One more thing, I am having trouble with how to deal with people and would like your input on this, I have a sister and brother  in- law and they are big time in Babylan. Now when I talk with them they say my husband and I are a cult, so they just don’t want to talk to us about it. What do we do; do we stay away from them or is that just meaning keep them out of our spiritual house?
 
And as far as uncalled people like my brother and lots of others we know are we supposed to stay away from them and love them from a distance or can we talk to them like always? I know we are to just judge people on their doctrines and not their lifestyles.  Boy, I tell you we feel so blessed having had our eyes opened, but knowing how to deal with people has just not come to us yet.
 
My husband says keep trying with all them, but I tell him the bible says 2 times and then put them out of your midst.
 
Any advise on how to live would be great. We have no money and down to 1 car but no gas for it ever, bill collectors calling 20 or more times a day since my husband ruptured a disc in his back, and I still feel like we have too much, we are so blessed with love and our 3 little babies that I couldn’t ask for more.
 
Sorry this was long, I hope to meet you all someday and I will if it be Gods will to lift my fears and panic so I can travel down there.
 
I can tell you that since I found out that all I have been suffering with for all these years has been a growing time from the lord that I am able to handle all the depression and such so much better because I know now it’s not me who has to get myself better, I just have to be patient and wait on the Lord.
 
I would be greatfull if you would pray for me and my family, because the prayer of saints would help a lot.
 
I was also wondering if you might be able to give out my email address to others so maybe I could keep in touch and get to know some of you, it’s lonely up here in North Dakota even though I can never be alone since Jesus is with me.
 
Bless you, Mike, and hope to hear from you.
 
With love,
 
T____

Hi T____, 
In time the Lord will grow you to the point that you will honestly be able to ‘rejoice in tribulation.’

Mat 5:10  Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11  Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
Mat 5:12  Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

1Pe 1:5  Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe 1:6  Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season , if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
1Pe 1:7  That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

The most wonderful thing and the most valuable benefit of being given eyes to see the total sovereignty of God in all things, is the peace of mind that comes with having so many conflicting questions answered. Peace of mind cannot have a price placed upon it. It is the most wonderful thing to know that Christ is working all things together for our good.
But there is always this same trial that accompanies this priceless blessing of Christ’s peace of mind. That trial is the inability to maintain a zealous, diligent, sober and vigilant spirit. It is common for us all to struggle to see the need for “effectual, fervent prayer” after coming to see that God is working all things after the counsel of His own will” and actually has our entire lives written in “His book… all the days ordained for us, even before there were any of them.”

Eph 1:11  In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Psa 139:16  Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance; And in thy book they were all written, Even the days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was none of them. (ASV)

In His time you will be brought to understand that God’s sovereignty even encompasses a fervent, diligent and vigilant spirit. In time you will see that the very desire to pray is placed in our hearts by Christ, who knows what we have need of before we ever ask, and yet He insists that we humble ourselves and gratefully make our petitions known to Him who knows them already:

Mat 6:8  Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Phil. 4:6  Don’t worry about anything, but pray about everything. With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God. (CEV)

You seem to have just such an attitude, and I thank God for that.
I hope this has helped you to understand why you are struggling with the concept of prayer, and I hope you are encouraged to go before your heavenly Father importunately, fervently, diligently and make your requests known, always praying “with a grateful heart… according to His will.”
Your brother in Christ.
Mike

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