By Margaret Karakas
As we take time to reflect upon the past year and count our blessings, gratitude, abundance of provision, health, and love we have for God, our spouse, family, friends, neighbors and country, it is important to recognize and understand how God’s infinite Grace has carried us through the challenging hardships and difficult times we faced in this past season, as well as the good times, successes, healings and “ah-ha” moments of being able to realize and achieve goals, dreams and to pursue our single most important purpose in life—God’s Great Commission.
Politics is yet one of many ways God spoke to our hearts in the Fall with the prompting to vote and the overwhelming election by popular vote, of Donald J. Trump and his mandate for real MAGA change with truthful solutions to the many difficult problems facing our morally bankrupt society created by the collusion of many global industries and a self-serving empowerment by a fake Uni-party system of governance. Of course, all of this is much more complex than the simple sentence stated.
The spiritual battle we are facing didn’t somehow just miraculously begin and end when Trump was first elected to be the 45th or even the 47th US President! Unfortunately, these issues will continue to plague us the rest of our waking lives as we live in a fallen and deeply flawed, secular world by many non-Christians, atheists and agnostics. But we do not have to accept this as the status quo. We serve a mighty God whom through, our prayers and petitions can and will move mountains! Don’t believe it? Test Him!
The article presented (below) by David Wolosik, keeps at the forefront in my mind, the importance of how a prayerful, purposeful and intentional life rooted in God’s Word can help us to overcome the derangement syndrome of a fallen world. The heinous event which took place New Year’s Day in New Orleans is but one example of the many evils with which our world is contaminated. As prayer intercessors, we have a powerful sword and tool in the arsenal of weapons we can all use to destroy the enemy and maintain a peace of mind that transcends all carnal understanding.
The men and women in government who are destroying our country with their single-minded conceited measures and objectives, have already sealed their eternal fate pending their admission, asking forgiveness and God’s repentance for the evils and atrocities they have unleashed against unsuspecting people. While we are called to pray for their forgiveness and repentance, chances are little that change will take place unless there is a miraculous softening and change of their hearts from within from an encounter with the almighty God Himself.
As one begins to walk in 2025, ask yourself what are you doing, or what changes can you implement to affect your eternal life today, tomorrow, the rest of the year, or your life while on earth? These are important questions of reflection to begin anew as they affect not only your physical life and well-being while on this earth but your eternal soul in either God’s Kingdom or damnation.
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The following is from David Wolosik in Substack – link here
“These Are The Times That Try Men’s Souls” – Thomas Paine. Wisdom From A Founder
This post title was originally titled “Happy 2025”.
I was going to focus solely on how the new year is a good time to take stock of your life. To assess your personal relationships and see if you are giving them your best. To clarify your objectives. To see how you have progressed with them. If you need to modify them. What are your dreams and aspirations? How much effort will they require? What are your personal demons and how will you defeat them?
Say a prayer for the injured and the families of those murdered in New Orleans this morning by this man
From a local source I was told BARRIERS THAT WOULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS TERROR ATTACK WERE NOT OPERATIONAL! ENOUGH NONSENSE!
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
―Thomas Paine,”The Crisis”, Dec. 23, 1776
Thomas Paine, The Pen Behind The American Revolution
“Without the pen of Paine, the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” ― John Adams Who was Thomas Paine?
Reflecting on a national level as an American, we have had arguably the most disastrous four years in American history under the Obama/Biden administration. Among the outrages, a full-blown invasion of our country by at least 20 million people, an event unique in all of history. An FBI and Department of Justice more focused on infiltrating Traditional Catholics because the hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center, named them as a terror group. Targeting and persecuting to this day, peaceful Jan. 6 2021 protesters, then obviously looking for potential terror threats in major U.S. cities on the notoriously dangerous New Years Eve!
The Obama/Biden administration brought us this outrage:
We dodged this disastrous nightmare on Nov. 5, 2024:
Yet the battle is only begun:
A plot is being hatched by Democratic strategists to deny Donald Trump his reelection. The plan was laid out Thursday in an op-ed in The Hill, revealing Democrats aren’t the protectors of democracy they claim to be.
When Congress convenes on Jan. 6 to certify the 2024 election results, a handful of rogue members will urge rejection of the votes cast by the electors for Mr. Trump. These lawmakers will argue he is an insurrectionist ineligible to serve under the 14th Amendment.
“The Hill”’s deceptively edited passage from the 14th Amendment:
No person shall … hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath … to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” This disability can be removed by a two-thirds vote in each House.
The actual unedited quote of the 14th Amendment:
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State,
The specifics of the deception:
- The 14th Amendment does not include the President or Vice President! Only their electors!
- The President and Vice President are not officers of the United States.
- Most notable, Donald Trump has not been convicted in any court of insurrection.
Be wary of what might occur on Jan. 6!
Do them proud.
The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
George Washington, First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789
