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What does the Book say?

My take on things with some interesting if not unusual perspectives from the Bible that are either not considered, or little known about.

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"TELL FRANCIS I MISS HIM"	Feb 10, 2008 10:36 pm Mood: grateful, 255 Views
"TELL FRANCIS I MISS HIM" By Francis Frangipane Weariness In Well-Doing If Satan cannot distract you with worldliness, He will seek to wear you out, even using the good works you are doing for the Lord as a means of draining your energy. In fact, Daniel speaks of a time at the end of the age when the enemy will attempt to "wear down the saints of the Highest One" (Dan. 7:25). God never intended for us to do His will without His Presence. The power to accomplish God's purpose comes from prayer and intimacy with Christ. It is here, closed in with God, where we find an ever-replenishing flow of spiritual virtue. In the early 1970s, during the beginning of my ministry, the Lord called me to consecrate to Him the time from dawn until noon. I spent these hours in prayer, worship, and the study of His Word. I would often worship God for hours, writing songs to Him that came from this wonderful sanctuary of love. The Presence of the Lord was my delight, and I know my time with Him was not only well-spent but well-pleasing to us both. However, as my life began to bear the fruit of Christ's influence, the Holy Spirit would bring people to me for ministry. In time, as more people would come, I found myself cutting off forty-five minutes from the end of my devotional time. On occasion, ministry to people would extend into the night, and I stopped rising as early as I had. Church growth problems began to eat at the quality of my remaining time; ministerial expansion, training younger ministries, and more counseling and deliverance crowded the already limited time I had left. Of course, these changes did not happen overnight, but the months and years of increasing success were steadily eroding my devotional life. In time I found myself in a growing ministry but with a shrinking anointing to sustain it. One day an intercessor called who prayed regularly for me. He told me that during the night the Lord spoke to him in a dream concerning me. I was eager to hear what the Lord had revealed to my friend, thinking perhaps He was going to increase our outreach or maybe supply some needed finances. I asked Him to tell me the dream. What the Lord said had nothing directly to do with the projects and priorities that were consuming my time. He simply said, "Tell Francis I miss him." Oh, what burdens we carry -- what weariness accumulates -- when we neglect the privilege of daily spending time with Jesus. I cried as I repented before the Lord, and I readjusted my priorities. No longer would I counsel people in the mornings. I would spend this time again with God. Yet, I thought I might lose some of the people who had recently joined the church. These were people who had come specifically for personal ministry. I knew I would not have the same time for them as before, but I had to make my decision for God. The next Sunday morning I announced to the congregation that my mornings were off limits, consecrated to God. "Please," I said, "no calls or counseling. I need to spend time with Christ." What happened next shocked me. The entire church rose and applauded! They wanted a leader who spent more time with God! They were tired of a tired pastor. As we enter the days of His Presence, our primary activity will be to minister to Christ. Certainly there will be increased pressures. There will also be times of great harvest and spiritual activity. No matter what circumstances surround us, we must position ourselves first and continually in the Presence of God. For to miss our time with Jesus is to miss His glory in the day of His Presence.
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Best Pic of Independance

Feb 1, 2008 12:16 am
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Another one bites the dust

Jan 30, 2008 10:33 pm
Mood: cold, 275 Views

Maybe my ex-wife is right. She says I am very hard on cars.
I've blown 3 engines in the last two years, and now my back up work car, the 92 Nissan has bought the farm too. PTL that it wasn't the Saturn again. I just replaced it's engine last year, and broke it in on my trip to Nashville last summer when I met Speeritwoman.

It sure is strange that these things seem to happen late at night, on my way home from work, when it is at least 10 below zero, (real temp) with minus 60 degree wind chill factor.
I was stranded in the cold for nearly an hour and half with no heat on Monday night.
PTL for cell phones, and winter survival kits.

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UNITY IS SPREADING!!

Jan 26, 2008 10:29 pm
Mood: blessed, 222 Views

I just got home from another very hot worship service out at the Midwest Prayer Center.

This evening we received a visit from the youth group of the Center Point United Methodist Church and their parents. 42 people in all, and 22 of them were the kids.
Center Point is a small town about a half hour's drive north of my city. It is so small that to get 42 of anything there is unusual, let alone getting 42 people from one church to come all the way down here. But we were blessed to have them, and made them feel very welcome, Wind & Fire Ministries style.

Now something needs to be made clear to show the significance here. I think everyone knows that the United Methodist Church is one of the more conservative, if not the most conservative of the mainline Protestant churches. I think they are among the few churches that still have someone play an organ, still sing from the old dusty hymnals, and have choirs that still wears robes.
I'm not saying they are wrong, or that anything about them is wrong, but for those who are looking for old style church, like it used to be, most will point to your local Methodist Church.

Wind & Fire is pretty much non-denominational, BUT clearly has a very strong Charismatic flavor to it. Generally the Methodist's and Baptist's would rather attend an exorcism then a Charismatic church service.
When they hear of someone who speak in tongues, they will run, not walk to the nearest exit.

Well, the only running that was going on were the children that ran back and forth playing 'follow the leader' across the front during the worship part of the service.
But this time they were joined by many of the children from Center Point. Others yet were learning how to do the in-line-like dance that some of the folks up front do. It really is beautiful to watch when a bunch of people are coordinated with doing this complicated 12 part multiple step and movement dance.

The Groothuis family with their 10 children, (5 of which were adopted from Liberia) were mixed and matched with more of the Center Point children.
What started out as one big group that occupied about a third of one section, isolated from everyone else, ended up spread out all over the prayer center, at the front, in the aisles, and at the coffee shop tables mixed among the regulars.

They had heard before about our prayer center that hosts more then 64 different local churches from diverse denominations and came to see it for themselves. Many of them left with business cards, or slips of paper with phone numbers, and/or E-mail addresses of the new friends they made at the Midwest Prayer Center.

Pastor Ric Lumbard led us in giving them a departure none of them will soon forget. In unison, everyone in the Prayer Center literally prayed over their group, their church, and their children as future leaders of their church, in their community, and where ever they go.

I look forward to seeing those folks again.

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Why did I have that root channel ?? !!	Jan 25, 2008 12:24 am Mood: agony, 304 Views
Two root channels, three crowns, and two more workups. And still half a dozen cavities to fill. What was I thinking? And now I can't even sleep for the pain. This prodding, poking, and pain is getting real old. Then the thing with the cold feeler nearly put me right through the ceiling. Not to mention expensive. So far over a thousand dollars, and I still got over thirteen hundred to go. The other day I spent over 4 hours in the dentist's chair, and when I got home, the bill was already in my mailbox. Now how'd they do that? The bill literally beat me home!! Maybe I should corner the novacane market. Getting dentures is beginning to look like a better deal. But at least the nurses at the dentist's office are pretty.
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Happy Birthday Speeritwoman	Jan 18, 2008 11:45 pm Mood: amused, 222 Views
Yes, it is Sunday someplace on this globe, so with that to my big sister Rev. Barb.. HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Your Children Will Return	Jan 18, 2008 1:46 am Mood: pleased, 175 Views
This message was originally written by Pastor Frangipane's oldest daughter, Joy. It since has become part of the material in Francis' book, This Day We Fight (published by Chosen Books). Being mindful of the warfare ensnaring many of our readers' children, we thought this word would be particularly timely. Your Children Will Return by Joy Frangipane Marion No one can tell me that fathers and daughters can't have close relationships, or even become best friends. People are almost envious of the love my dad and I share. The only time we argue is about who loves who the most. But our relationship was not always this warm. There was a time when I felt I had lost my ability to love my father. I was a teenage Christian in a public high school. My Christian background made me different. I was new, craving acceptance. My father's rules seemed to be the source of my rejections. Fueled by my insecurities, in my eyes my dad became the root of my problems. While I set an adequate standard and struggled to live by it, he was strict. I was angry because he refused to back down from the standard he knew was right. He refused to appeal to my ignorance in order to keep my acceptance. Things were going from bad to worse during those years. We hit bottom the day I looked him square in the eyes and told him that I hated him. They were harsh words, but it was a hard time. I didn't really hate him. I hated me. I felt I wasn't bad enough to be accepted by my friends and not good enough to be accepted at home. When these feelings take over your life, you search for something--anything--to blame. I chose my father. He carried the blunt of my pain. He even became my enemy. In my heart I knew I didn't hate him. I was angry and confused. I felt he wasn't concerned with how I felt. It seemed he had made no room for compromise with my situation. He risked losing my love to save my soul. It was a hard time for us both. He suffered the pain of rejection as I did. He suffered the hurt and the loss, but from a different angle. His fear of the Lord withstood his fear of pain. He loved me, but he had a higher obligation than my favor and my approval. I'm sure at times he wondered if he was doing the right thing. There must of been times when he felt like his prayers were hitting the ceiling and bouncing back at his feet. At times I'm sure he considered lowering his standards. It would have made things so much easier than wrestling with the power of an independent, strong-willed child. These considerations may have come, but he never gave in to them. He stood firm and prayed harder. The prayers of a righteous man availeth much. Many times he cried out to the Lord in anguish and in frustration: "What have I done wrong?" My father has a wonderful ministry to God in prayer. I think I had something to do with the character God worked in him during those days. Before he ever prayed for cities and nations he was on his face praying for me. “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” That verse was a promise that he would hold on to. "Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy" was another promise he stood upon. He had given me to the Lord, set a godly standard and held God to His word. At the same time, I was wrestling with my salvation. My desire to be accepted by my non-Christian friends at school warred against my desire to be with the Lord. James speaks of a double-minded person being unstable in all of their ways. I was completely unstable. I walked on a line between heaven and hell. I wanted the best of both worlds and was satisfied in neither. Although I had been brought up in the church, the world had taken its toll on me. My eyes had been blinded to the sin in my own life, further separating me from God and parents. It was so hard for me to see my way out. When a child is brought up in a Christian home, regardless of what may happen, there is a seed that has been planted in their heart that continues to grow. It's an amazing seed because it can grow in the dark without water; it can even bloom in adversity. The reason we can never outrun God is because He is that seed growing within us. Once you have tasted the presence of the Lord, nothing satisfies you like He can. Sometimes those who seem to be running the hardest from God are doing so because He is so close to them. On the outside my witness was weak, and I was in bondage to my unsaved friends. But inside, my heart cried for oneness with the Lord. I hated my double-mindedness as much as my father did. My whole life I wanted strong Christian friends to save the world with me. I wanted the support, I just never had it. I did the best I could, but I lost my sensitivity to sin, and the more I was with non-Christian people the more deceived I became. Paul warns, "Do not be deceived. What fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousnes?" I didn't realize the impact my unsaved friends had on me. The more I was with them the more I conformed to them. When I look back, I know, unless my parents had been praying for me, I would have been on my way to hell. Sin has a way of moving in and taking control. But love is as strong as death and many waters cannot quench love; love never fails. And prayer is the highest power through which love is released. I had to relearn how to love. My love had become completely self-centered and conditional. I had failed to realize that my father and my Lord loved me unconditionally. I had only to try. I had only to bridge the communication gap to understand that God had loved me before I was even aware of His standards. And my dad loved me for me alone, not for something I had to become. My relationship with my father is wonderful, and that's the truth. God has proven faithful in the working of both our lives. The Lord has bridged the gap and filled it with love. It took me leaving my environment and being planted with Christian people who faithfully loved me. It also took my will to change, but it did happen. Listen, please don't give up on your teenagers. Don't sacrifice God's standards of righteousness to appeal to their carnal nature. They can't respect you for it and God won't honor it. Your children were not consecrated to Satan; they were dedicated to the Lord. He has had His hand on them and He will not forget them. He has heard your prayers and He is faithful to your cries. He is God. Prayer works. I'm living proof of it. I look back now and see how many times nothing but the miraculous dedication of loving parents took me out of hopeless situations. The Lord will not forsake His children. He will not turn His back on them. We are never too far from His reach. Believe the promises of the Lord. He is not a liar. He honors a steadfast heart. Hold on. Your children will come back to the Lord.
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Mr. Spock's Home Planet?

Jan 15, 2008 10:57 pm
Mood: adventurous, 169 Views

This is an artist's concept of a Jupiter-mass planet orbiting the nearby star Epsilon Eridani. Located 10 1/2 light-years away,(approximately 63 trillion miles). It is the closest known planet outside of our solar system. The planet is in an elliptical orbit that carries it as close to the star as Earth is from the Sun, and as far from the star as Jupiter is from the Sun.

Epsilon Eridani has long captivated the attention of science fiction writers, as well as astronomers.
In the fictional "Star Trek" universe, Epsilon Eridani is considered to be the parent star for the planet Vulcan, Mr. Spock's home.
No Vulcan or any other alien could live on this gas giant planet. If moons circled the planet, they would spend part of their orbit close enough to Epsilon Eridani to have surface temperatures like that of Earth, and possibly liquid water. However, the planet's orbit also would carry the moons far away from the star, a distance separation from the Sun, where oceans would freeze.

The star itself is smaller then our Sun, (about 3/4 as big) and significantly cooler, as told by it's orange color, compared to our Sun's yellow.

In order to have life, a rocky Earth like planet would have to be orbiting at a distance of about where Venus is from our Sun.
So a year would be somewhere between 7 and 9 months long.
From such a spot, the life giving star would appear from the planet to be almost three times larger then our Sun, but not nearly as bright.
It would be orange to orange/red in color.
The brightest part of the day would be about like it is here in the last hour before sunset, and the sky would not be blue such as our's, but bright purple. Under the most idea conditions.

However, the planet found here is much larger, and also farther away. Also, a large dust and asteroid belt is known to be present as well, which has a lot more asteroids then our asteroid belt does. That means a lot more meteors, enough to make this place a shooting gallery.

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SIZE MATTERS part 6

Jan 10, 2008 1:31 am
Mood: impressed, 166 Views

And now a special surprise. I'd been looking and looking, and finally found an illustration of a hyper-giant star, complete with a forming planetary disk which is where planets come from.

This gargantuan star, called R 126 is located in the Milky Way's nearest neighbor galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Called hypergiants, these blazing hot stars are aging descendents of the most massive class of stars, referred to as "O" stars was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope a couple years ago. The star itself would extend about halfway between the planets Uranus and Neptune making it about 3 1/2 billion miles wide.

Astronomers estimate that the stars' planetary disks are spreading all the way out to an orbit about 60 times more distant than Pluto's around the sun. The disks are probably loaded with about ten times as much mass as is contained in the Kuiper Belt, which is the outer region of our solar system where the comets reside.

No doubt about it folks, this is just about as big as they come. (as far as we know)

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I got em working!!	Jan 10, 2008 12:01 am Mood: jubilant, 190 Views
I finally got my pics to upload for SIZE MATTERS part 4 and SIZE MATTERS part 5
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