Friday, October 19, 2018

Is It What It Seems?

  • This life we have been given is not to be squandered or to live 'half hearted'! It's meant to be lived with the fullness of discovery and adventure! God expects us to live it with lots of energy and excitement, if at all possible!  Of course God knows that we all have struggles and hardships, as does everyone we know, and he knows what our future holds for us, already!  None the less, he stills watches and 'roots' for us to make it a good life, filled with new adventures and discoveries of our own potential and that of those we meet everyday! It's not complicated at all...God wants us to win! We are born to be winners! Born to be overcomers and encouragers as well and he has equipped us to do this! This thing we call 'life' can be fascinating, curious and terrifying at the same time with situations and circumstances which are out of our control, but we are still meant to live it! For those suffering from physical illness or disease, you may question the purpose of your own life and that's certainly understandable! It's quite a different existence when one is physically disabled or ill, but you can still find your purpose, your calling! Being sick or disabled is NOT your calling and you are NOT limited in your purpose! There are things you may not be able to do, and perhaps, much you can't do, but you still matter and you can add something unique and powerful to society! There are those you can reach that someone with good health may not be able to! You can still 'live'! God isn't done with you yet! With your own, personal gifts, you can serve other's and contribute much to this life! On a spiritual and an emotional level, we are all different! There are areas of humanity that we are just now beginning to explore and to discover! Areas of the brain that we have never attempted to utilize as yet! Indeed, our brains may hold the key to much of our existence! I'm not necessarily talking about anything physcic or para-normal but on a spiritual level! After all, I am convinced that God created us and since that is my belief, I am sure that our brains are probably the most complex and technical computer in the entire world! How can we fully know it's capabilities? There must be an endless amount of new information just waiting to be unlocked within our very own brains! Perhaps the cure for every disease is waiting in the fabric of the human brain! Maybe a new technology which would allow mankind to travel the stars or inventions waiting to be discovered that would revolutionize the way we travel here on the earth or in space! It could be that the most dynamic mathematical equations are pushing their way forward inside this tiny brain, waiting to be discovered! So much is possible and much has been learned about mankind's brain that is quite exciting!  Whether you are a map-maker, a fireman, a doctor, a librarian or a writer, you have something to offer which could be the spark that lights the next 'big' thing to come in scientific or medical all discovery! No matter what we may have been told by someone who "doesn't know any better" tells you that you aren't going to amount to much, you must ignore these words! You were miraculously and wonderfully created and you have a specific 'assignment' to complete and, most likely, it has much to do with helping others! We are all here for each other, despite what we have learned by the life we have been 'made' to live!  I say 'made' because the so-called 'powers that be' have dictated to us! Those people are what I call, "life suckers" or "dream stealers", and they have no claim on our lives!  God is ready to reveal to us the plans he has made for each of us before we were even born! A perfect plan to prosper us and not to harm us (Isaiah 26:11) and he is just waiting for us to realize it! No matter what stage of life you might be in, you are ordained by the Almighty to succeed and proceed, ahead, 'full steam'! Today is the day and your journey is just beginning!


Did Timothy Alberino Just Discover The Image Of The Beast?

Friday, September 21, 2018

Our Battle part 2

  It certainly seems like Christians worldwide are immersed in many forms of persecution and trials today! So many of friends and aquaintances of mine have expressed their own, personal struggles and attacks from every side, it appears, and much of the trials touch the area of health! I can't help but think of Job who became a target of satan in his attempts to mock God and tempt Job to turn his back on God! Neither attempt succeeded! In fact, Job was such a 'godly' man that he was blessed abundantly by God after going through a 'hell on earth, including a wife who wanted him to "just curse God and die"! She didn't have the faith that Job had and he called her a 'foolish woman for her unbelief and stupidity! The devil had to tuck his tail and run away after that miserable effort!

God is always faithful to keep his word and he does so even today! We don't need to doubt our creator! When he says he will " never leave us nor forsake us", that's just what he means! During the fiery, horrible trials of today's Christian lives, we can still count on the rock-solid promises of our heavenly Father! The Lord Jesus very often reassured new believers that he would never leave them or turn away from them, and he never did!  His word was always kept and is still, today, at this moment of our lives, as rock-solid as it was thousands of years ago! Much of what we read in testimonials has to do with a particular, or several, physical illnesses, and our health is just about the most immediate need any of us have! Jesus always met someone at their greatest need, health! The woman with the 'issue of blood' for over much of her life comes to my mind! While she saw Jesus walking among a crowd, she said to herself, "if I can only touch his clothes, I will be healed"! She had great faith! When she approached him and finally was able to touch the edge of his garment, Jesus 'felt' strength leave him and he turned to see who had touched him, though he was well aware of it all along, and he saw the woman! She was made well from that moment! Her faith made her well! The lepers that Jesus beheld and had mercy on were all healed, though only one came back to thank him! After seeing the grief of Mary and Martha, Lazarus' sisters, and grieving himself for his friend, The Lord raised Ladurus from the dead! Wow! Are you kidding me? Nope! He actually healed a man from death and made him live! Now, I would say that that is the best doctor in the world to have around! Wouldn't you? God is full of mercy and he will not change anything in his character! He is our healer! Our doctor! He is ready to heal us when we are ready to believe it! Faith is the key that opens the supernatural doors!  Jesus also raised up a man's precious daughter when she had fallen ill and died! Her father was grieved but he knew, by faith, what to do! He had to get to the only one who could give life back! He had to get to the doctor!  To Jesus! 

So in todays world, among all of it's excruciating troubles and trials of sickness, money-woes, family breakups and death, we can still go to the 'true doctor' of our souls, Jesus, and get the spiritual medicine we need from his word! He doesn't change! Hebrews 13:5 let's us know that! The Lord will not change, ever!  He is the very same healer, father, best friend and advocate (lawyer, if you prefer) today as he was when his good friend, Ladarus, had died! No different!  Our battles have not changed either in all that time! Scripture is very clear when speaking about this situation, as well! The battle is not in the 'physical world', though that's where we live but its in the 'spiritual world'!  We fight against our friends, co-workers, government (my pet peace) and against our loved ones when that is not the true area of conflict! The bible is a supernatural book, as my friend, L A Marzulli often says, and the war we are constantly in is a spiritual one! We can only gain victory in that world by weapons of faith! Not faith in 'faith' but faith in the power of God! He is the mighty King and warrior, not us, after all, and its only through his power and might that we can trust to get us through the most difficult days and moments of our life! One of my favorite bits of scripture is found in Hebrews 11 verse 1, which states it all clearly...."NOW faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"! It's the "NOW" kind of faith which leads us to see where the victory is...in Jesus! It's not in us! It could never be in us! We are weak and mortal and we aren't very trustworthy, let's face it! But in Christ, Job was victorious, as was Lasarus and the woman with the issue of blood! It works the same way for us who are modern day believers! Our warfare is "not carnal, but mighty THROUGH GOD, to the pulling down of strongholds"! (kjv) and when we realize that crystal-clear truth, we will be able to move ahead into this thing called life and nothing will stop us, short of death, which is only temporary anyway!


Be encourage believer and stay in faith!  Walk forward not backward in your faith!  We win!

Thursday, June 28, 2018

Space Race 2018; What's All The Fuss?

With President Trump announcing his plans for a sixth branch of the military, his Space Force, and Elon Musk revealing further plans to travel through our galaxy in order to colonize Mars and other planets along with news from the Japanese orbiters on Mars revealing some "interesting discoveries", it certainly seems like a brand new 'space-race's is about to break out!


That's quite interesting and compelling to me! I am old enough to recall the first 'space race's of the 1960's between the United States and Russia and how volital it was! Many people still believe we (the U.S.) got there first, when in actuality, the Russians made it to space before we did! That seems a little academic at this point but one could say that the tension to realize the dreams of some and the mandate of other's (Trumps initiative) can be likened to the previous race!

We would do well to mention here as well, that, in recent year's encounters with ufos and alien species has greatly increased, reportedly! Sightings of ufos is certainly nothing new to our society or to many other societies for that matter and the number of reported abduction cases has also been on the rise as well! We should not be at all surprised, given the reports, that a renewed sense of urgency has prompted several governments of the world to quickly jump into 'warp-speed', if you will, and grab hold of the lead in the revived space race! It makes for a very interesting and engaging summer for those of us who enjoy news concerning space, astronomy, exploration and, maybe, most importantly, Star Trek, and to get just a little excited!

Here is to the race to space and to the adventures ahead!  Warp speed everyone!