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Sunday, October 26, 2025

Seven Types of CHURCHES Displease God Republicans!

It's time to ask, "WHAT'S GOING ON IN AMERICA?" You already know the answer, right? Where is the CHURCH when it comes to this administration? You know that answer too.

If you know anything about Christianity, then you know God can be displeased with CHRISTIANS. Did you know that he can also be displeased with CHURCHES

If you watch Turner Broadcasting Network, you will notice right away, they teach Donald Trump instead of God. They repeat the phoney media stuff just like MAGA. Somehow, they have the FALSE idea you can CREATE a Christian country by getting rid of the poor and minorities who are responsible for all the ills of America. They have LOST their way. But are they like any of the seven churches named in the book of Revelation in the Bible?

The seven churches in Revelation did wrong in various ways, such as the Ephesus church for leaving its "first love," Perga, Pergamun and Thyatira for tolerating FALSE teachings and immorality, Sardis, for being spiritually dead, and Laodicea for being lukewarm and self-suffecient, The churches of Smyrna and Philadelphia were praised without significant rebuke. 

The church is forgetting about Jesus and God it seems. It has turned it's back on the poor, widow, foreigner, and fatherless. They only see dollars and racism. Sunday morning service on television is gripes of old white men with white women nodding in agreemeent. White men are joining the church in droves, bringing their complaining and hate along with them. The disgruntled has found an listening ear in the church and Donald Trump. The rest of America has to suffer from their idea of who is good and who is bad. The Democrat party has been labled as not Christian. The church joins in calling anyone NOT Republican not a Christian. Judge not least you be judged. If I'm lying, tune in and listen for yourself. TBN is fanning racism and hate for the poor and non-Whites. There is no brotherly love going on over there even though they PROFESS IT with gentle language appearing safe and innocent.

Back to the churches. Ephesus wrongdoing: left their "first love" and lost their initial passion for God. The church has a PASSION for Donald Trump now as a savior figure. Excusing his horrible character with, God selects flawed people to do God's work such as King David and the Apostle Paul. David had AN affair and murdered an man. Before and after the incident, he was totally faithful to God. Paul killed Christians until his CONVERSION. After, he was the most effective disciple of Jesus. Trump is a DAILY horror show!

Smyrna's wrongdoing: No rebuke was given to this church. Praise: commended for their spiritual richness despite poverty and for enduring persecution and slander. Who is holding the church accountable for supporting Donald Trump and his underqualified lying administration? Christians are supposed to ENDURE persecution, not eradicate the country of non-Christians or who they label as bad people. They complain like they have no hope in the Lord. Their hope lies in Trump now.

Pergamum"s wrongdoing: Tolerated those who held to the teaching of Balaam and the Nicolaitans, which led to moral compromise and idolatry. Christians are a new creature in Christ. They do not do what the world does. They are called to separate themselves from the world, not deport people in a cruel way and terrorized cities trying to find people in the country illegally. There is a Scripture about the foreigner.

The Bible commands the entertainment of foreigners, emphasizing that thishospitality is the tenet of faith rooted in the Isrealite's own experience as foreigners in Egypt. That is not the example of Isreal given by American preachers on TBN. Key passages like Leviticus 19:33-34 and Deuteronomy 10:19 instruct believers to love and treat the foreigner as themselves. New Testament passages, such as Hebrews 13:2 and the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25, reinforce this by urging the practice of hospitality and linking kindness to strangers with service to God.   

Thyatira's wrongdoing: Tolerated "Jezebel," a false prophet who misled people into sexual immorality and idolatry. Praise: praised for their love, faith, service, and patient endurance. Pastors are standing in pulpits on Sunday's promoting Republican ideology, leading people to the Republican party instead of God. Their ideology does not line up with the Bible no matter how they spin it. Even if it does, it's not for the pulpit. Leading people in a political way, where their salvation is put in question if they don't go along with "Cleaning up America" for God. No Christian has been told that. They are to count themselves BLEESED if persecuted for Jesus name. Persecution is too close to living like MINORITIES for them. They say they are targeted and by Democrats and they are FIGHTING back. Forget the turn the other cheek that Jesus taught. They are fed up and not going to take it anymore just like the disciple Judas who demanded government reform. How'd that work out?

Sardis's wrongdoing: Spiritually dead, with only a few who were awake and alive in faith. To demonstrate faith in God, Christians shouldn't be getting rid of the "Deep State," so their lives will be better. This shows they will fix things along with the help of Donald Trump for Christians. No longer are they depending on God. Trump is the new God for many. They know it because they must lie no matter how foolish they look to support THEIR selected elected God.

Philadelphia Wrongdoing: No rebuke was given to this church. Praise: praised for keeping God's word and never denying Jesus, and promised a reward for their perseverance. Notice how the church earlier is looked down upon for not rebuking itself. The church is ACCOUNTABLE for what it does. It is a entity that should always be trusted. The church supporting such right-winged extremes, and encouraging their congregation to rally behind the pain being caused by Trump is RIDICULOUS and not CHRISTIAN no matter how they spin it. Churches are teaching Republicanism instead of the Gospel to a hurting land. They are teaching REVENGE instead of love. Don't believe me. Watch TBN, especially on Sundays.

Laodicea's wrongdoing: Were "lukewarm," lacking spiritual fervor, and self-sufficient due to their wealth, which resulted in a halfway faith. Praise: none. Spiritual ferver is for Trump among Christians. Right now Donald Trump has CONTEMPT for the POOR and the CHURCH supports him. Wealth is the GAME of Trump and the Republicans. Poor people should suffer because they are LAZY in their minds. They are mad at people being poor stating they are criminals and if they can't do better they need to leave the country or die. Bible scripture such as, "If a man doesn't work, he doesn't eat" make Pastor Hagee type Christians justified in their dislike for poor people who need assistance. The CHURCH builds and feeds people in foreign lands while detesting the poor and hungry at their doorstep. No reason is acceptable for people needing help from their country. This is the blanket they sleep with at night. Their WEALTH and desire for more wealth, has HARDENED their HEARTS.

The church is the body which contains the Christians. We all are sinners. No one can point to who is heaven bound or not, because God chooses who he chooses. And Black and Brown poor people will be in heaven. Where do they think thye go when dead? Their won't be a section for the rich and one for the poor. God said store up your treasures in heaven. Trying to make heaven on Earth is just as stupid as those who loved God trying to build a tower to where he was. 

I don't know what is on the minds of today's Christian. I know there is White fright of being a minority and having to live like minorities have done for years. They have gone back to the SUPERIORITY of Whites which is NOT Christian. And yes, they are asked to PERSEVERE through difficult times in a sinful world. There has never been a mandate to CHANGE the world. The commission is to share the Gospel, not Right wing ideation.

If I were these people sitting in church being led by such a pastor, minister, preacher, I wouldn't be clapping at their CRUEL jokes. In seminary, I noticed the cruel humor of many of the pastors getting their Master Degree. At the time Rush Limbaugh, the street drug addict was envogue. They would laugh at his mean-spirited jokes about Democrats and debasing people in the Democratic party. I listened to him too to the shock of many. My listening to Rush, was to confirm the ugly hearts of my fellow Seminarians. At seminary they asked enrollees not to watch TBN or mainstream media. Yeah. Listen and feed yourself with name-calling and cruel dry humor jokes, which the Right has happily adopted on Twitter. They only trust news that ridicule people nonstop and then point to MSNBC who has accredited journalist not opinion mongers. Opinions are facts on Fox News and TRUTH is FAKE news and attacks on main-stream media is encouraged. They turn every serious concern into a cruel dry joke that only they laugh at with their Christian hearts.

The Church and Christians are giving Christianity a black eye turning hundreds away daily with their laughing at human tragedy ways. Fox News feeds a steady diet of hate even though they were successfully sued for lible and slander, lying knowingly, even though peers asked them to stop. Did Fox lose viewership? No! Because who else will keep them fired up with hate, fear, demeaning talking points and lies about their opposition. With baited breath, they sue people without credible cause. If one person refuses to do as Trump want, they are fired. Men are NO LONGER men when dealing with Trump and they worry about the trans community. He emasculates them and abandons them. Sorry, he PARDONS criminals for LOYALTY. Christians love that too.

I ask all Christians to examine your heart. Pretend you are standing in JUDGEMENT before God. Explain to him why the Republicans are Christians and the Democrats are sinners to God. Tell Him how you took matters in your own hands supporting Trump and ICE and MAKING lazy people work and illegal aliens deported in a humiliating and embarrising way for fun. Tearing families apart. Not following the law of the land. The Bible said, Jesus gave Ceaser what was due Ceaser. Jesus didn't break laws and lie as he demonstrated how to live a holy life on Earth. HE STOOD WITH THE POOR.

I rebuke the churches. I say that mandatory legislated Christianity is not GODLY and you know it. You no longer evangilize to those needing salvation, you evangelize more for soldiers into the Army of Trump preying on the vulnerable saying how the CHURCH is going to straighten out America with the help of Trump not God.

The Republicans are against anything labeled 'woke' which they label everything these days. The Christian Republicans on social media are NASTY and RACIST proclaiming God and how superior they are to others. Yes, they say a country with Black people should not be taken seriously. I ask practicing Christians, who have not forgot their first love to persevere knowing there is damage being done to our faith. Only our Christian example, exampled by Jesus, will save Christianity. Speak up about the abuse of the church that is occuring now being led by Right-Wing Republicans instead of God-fearing Christians. 

You know God when you see him. You know people by their fruit. But you are never called to CRUELTY and RACISM. There is no excuse. I don't care who all you name as CRIMINALS. You have been warned by the ONE book of the Bible that says not to add or remove a word. In Revelation 22:18 this verse offers a stern warning not to add to the words of Revelation; the next verse also condemns those who would attempt to censor it. Adding to the book of Revelation brings God's judgment: plagues will fall on the one who adds to Revelation. The Church is an ARM of Trump's using the SAME buzz words given to the Republican party on FOX NEWS each morning with smiles and jokes. America is not laughing at how the Church USES God.

It's time to call out the Church, especially Evangelicals for their actions on the public stage. Spreading the Gospel has become SECOND to spreading Donald Trump. SHAME! I know what my eyes SEE and my ears HEAR.

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Friday, October 24, 2025

I'm A Good Black Person, Promise

You would have to live in a cave with no social mediia not to know about the activity of ICE or whoever is under the masks trying to hide their identity. There have been horror story after horror story of ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS being snatched off the streets and taken who knows where, being CHEERED by MAGA. When ever a minority speaks up, they are name called and/or accused of hating whites. Well, get ready to say those same things about me.

Many people say they are getting what they deserve coming to America illegally and then committing crime. And we DO have an immigration problem and a cruelty problem. Other ethnicities are watching the callous and at times vicious way Hispanics are being treated. There are many illegal immigrants in America, there is a large Russian population in Oregon. Those immigrants are not checked for documentation nor targeted in any way. If you are an African American, your antenna should be up. Blacks were FORCED immigrants and once their FREE manual labor was not ALLOWED by law, white's no longer had an appetite for Black people and called for them to be, "Sent BACK to Africa."

Just like Hispanics and other Latin people are just being sent away SOMEWHERE, Black people are wondering, will the call for them to be deported to another country be raised again. In an compassionless and lawless Trump administration, this fear may become reality.

History no longer wants American History to include slavery. The narrative is being changed, slaves were HAPPY, even thankful to be housed and fed by Christian-oriented Masters. Republican officials have floated that the slave was happy to have work, food, housing, and work. They were taken care of and thankful. Only a white person WANTS to believe that.

The history of the slave, or Black American is being rewitten. Those who accept a different accounting of American history are name called. They have been put in the WOKE catergory which is believing the opposite of the Republican mindset. As with DEI where the white people claim any position which requires education must have been given to an unqaulified Black person over a entitled white person. The white person's intelligence or competency is never questioned. If a white person applies for a job, then they ARE quaslified. End of story. There was not even a call to see if Black people ARE qualified for a job, its assumed they are NOT.

But Blacks did well for themselves. The number and rate of Black Americans graduating from college increased significantly after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The act helped dismantle many of the systemic barriers that had historically blocked access to higher education for Black Americans, such as segregation and unequal funding for schools. While the Voting Rights Act primarily addressed voting rights, it was part of a larger civil rights movement that, along with subsequent legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and affirmative action policies, created new opportunities for Black students. Blacks are still considered uneducated and only criminals.

Historically and currently, Black people have achieved excellence in all fields despite significant barriers. A wide range of professions have been transformed and advanced by the ingenuity and talent of Black individuals. Artists like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kara Walker, and Kerry James Marshall have gained international acclaim, while earlier pioneers such as Augusta Savage and Jacob Lawrence were central to the Harlem Renaissance. 

Medicine: Trailblazers include Dr. Charles Drew, who developed blood storage techniques, and Dr. Alexa Canady, the first Black female neurosurgeon in the United States. Aerospace: Dr. Mae Jemison was the first Black woman to travel in space, while Katherine Johnson's mathematical calculations were critical to early NASA missions. Invention: Inventive minds have shaped daily life. Garrett Morgan invented the three-position traffic signal, and Lonnie G. Johnson, a NASA engineer, invented the Super Soaker water gun. 

Many would say, this DEPORTATION scheme began because of Barak Obama's presidential win. The truth of Black intelligence was being DISCREDITED every day a Black man who was NOT the accepted diffinition of a Black person. The nation, saw INTELLIGENCE, charisma, and moral grounding in the Black man who was to be considered dumb, shifty, lazy, and violent. Obama caused PANIC among the whites. Their lie/propaganda exposed. The religious Right hatched a plan to make minorities ANIMALISTIC again as the SLAVE had been without protest. Law: Thurgood Marshall became the first Black Supreme Court Justice, and lawyers like Fred Gray were central to the Civil Rights Movement. Politics: Barack Obama served as the first Black President of the United States, and Kamala Harris is the first Black and first South Asian Vice President. Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to Congress and to run for president with a major party. 

Despite historic obstacles, Black entrepreneurs have built successful businesses across various sectors. Historic Businesses: Madame C.J. Walker built an empire as a haircare pioneer in the early 20th century, though her business isn't listed in the search results. Modern Business: Today, Black-owned businesses are thriving in sectors such as healthcare and social assistance, professional services, and transportation. Robert Johnson became the first Black billionaire by founding Black Entertainment Television (BET). There are approximately 1.79 million Black millionaires in America, according to recent estimates, making up about 8% of the country's total millionaire population. This number has grown significantly since 2020, with the amount of African American millionaires increasing over fivefold from 260,000.  

Despite the accomplishments of Black people, social media shows most Americans, Republicans, believe only MINORITIES receive government assistance and want lazy Black people to get a job.White people make up the largest racial group among SNAP recipients, with estimates ranging from about 35% to 45% of all participants. While white individuals represent the largest share in terms of raw numbers, other racial groups, such as Black and Hispanic individuals, have a higher percentage of their total population participating in the program. 

Food Research & Action Center and Peterson Foundation reports show that White participants are the largest single group. For example, one report lists White participants at 37%. Despite being the largest group, White individuals have a lower per capita participation rate compared to other racial groups. This means that while white people are the biggest group of recipients, a larger proportion of the total Black and Hispanic populations use SNAP benefits. Depending on the source and the year of the data, the exact percentage can vary slightly. For example, one source cites 35% for White participants, while another cites 44.6% of adult recipients. 

Approximately 39.6% to 42% of Medicaid enrollees are white, non-Hispanic, with recent data showing around 39.6% and older data indicating about 42%. White people make up a significant portion of Medicaid recipients, though the percentage varies by state, with some rural states having as many as 86% white enrollees. White people make up approximately 75% of Medicare beneficiaries, making them the largest racial/ethnic group in the program. Black and Hispanic individuals together represent a smaller but significant portion, each making up about 10% or slightly less.

While there is no single, official figure for the percentage of white people on Obamacare, recent enrollment data shows that a significant number of white individuals are enrolled in ACA plans. In the 2024 open enrollment period, white consumers represented a large proportion of the total growth in marketplace plan selections. Data from various sources indicate that among those with private insurance, white people had the highest rates of coverage in some recent years, and white individuals also make up a significant portion of those on Medicaid or other public coverage plans. 

The Trump administration and the Republicans are willing to cause ALL Americans to suffer in their effort to HURT minorities. Their telling the people to hang on and trust Trymp. They will be happy in the end. Black people say, "We have always been targeted and have to struggle in a country that DESPISES us and keep their feet on our neck." I say we are NEXT after the HISPANICS and an ATTEMPT will be made to deport Blacks. African billionaires were allowed in passing the immigration laws. Rich WHITE people are being allowed entrance to the country and those HERE are being sent elsewhere.

The churches involvement in the Trump presidency is alarming. Slavery was sanctioned using biblical SCRIPTURE in the past to allow cruelty of another human to be acceptable. Never have Noah been so important to Christians. The IDEA the CHURCH and CHRISTIANS used the Bible to sanction INHUMANE treatment of humans lets anyone know the DEPRAVITY of a soul. The church, they say, was silent during that time. Now the CHURCH is the number one supporter of CLEANING up America, returning it to its former glory. That time of glory, WHEN WHITES HAD ALL THE MONEY AND POWER.

Education is being attacked and intelligence is the ENEMY. EDUCATION has always been the equalizer that's why slaves were not allowed to learn to READ. On the popular television show, "Handmaid's Tale." On this patriarchy gone insane show, women are not allowed to read. It is happening AGAIN. Education is be crafted to fit an agenda for whites.

Black people, I just want to say, you've done well for yourself. The NARRATIVE has always been, "They need to LEAVE OUR country," and we have felt it for decades. Black people being able to get up everyday and face RACISM white people mockingly say DOESN'T exist, is commendable and made us into SURVIVORS. We've been GOOD people under terrible circumstances. There are those who are angry and bitter at being disdained for the color of their skin alone before they say a word. It's a campaign white people are united in. Their ILL ways are covered over with lies or distraction from them, have always been deployed.

The threat of a white woman saying she is afraid of a Black alarms an entire county and state. It is whipped up, PROTECT THE WHITE WOMAN! It is always employed to bring FEAR in the white community. Yes, the "protection of white women" has been, and continues to be, used as a powerful tool in racist ideologies and actions. This has been particularly evident in the United States, where the concept has historically served as a pretext for racial violence and the maintenance of white supremacy. 

The white woman's fright has been used to justify criminal acts throughout history against different races including Asians, Native Americans, and Italians. Trump is sending in the military so WIVES can safely walk down the street without their husband's protection.

So, Black person, you have been good and continue to be. Guns sales rose to an incredible number after Barak Obama's election to the presidency. Gun sales increased significantly after Barack Obama became president in 2009. The trend was driven primarily by gun owners' fears that the new administration, along with other Democrats, would pass stricter gun control legislation, so they said. Immediately following the election, gun stores across the country reported that sales had doubled or even tripled. A similar, though less dramatic, spike in sales occurred after his second election victory in 2012. While the primary driver was concern over gun control, other factors contributed, including rising anxiety during the economic downturn and increased sales in general. I believe they believed Obama being Black, would pay them back for the autrocities committed and continue to be committed against Blacks. White's were afraid of retribution like what Trump is handing out. Obama, a Black man, showed the WORLD, he is a BETTER man.

Even though I've been what whites would consider a good Black, I read the comments of many White people saying I'm lazy, an immoral product of my CULTURE, looking for government handouts. So far from the truth for the majority of my PEOPLE. It doesn't matter. America is waiting on the SECOND CIVIL WAR. They are armed and have a racist president to do THEIR dirty work and the CHURCH is on board with this. After evangelizing the Blacks into a religion that said they are slaves, the church is abondoning its converts again. Hispanics tend to be more religious than non-Hispanics, but religious affiliation is shifting, with a growing number of Hispanics identifying as religiously unaffiliated. While Catholicism remains the largest religion among U.S. Hispanics, its share has declined significantly over the past decade, and there is a notable increase in evangelical Protestants and other Christians, reports Pew Research Center. PROBLEM.

After attending Seminary, I discovered most American Christians have disdain for Catholics. Most Christians recognize Catholics as fellow Christians, but some views differ due to varying doctrines and practices. Common points of contention include the authority of the Pope, prayer to Mary and saints, confession to a priest, and differing views on salvation, while others focus on shared beliefs like the Trinity and Jesus's death and resurrection, viewing these commonalities as more significant. Iv'e heard a pastor and professor call them, "The cult of Mary."

In 2015, 14% of U.S. infants were multiracial or multiethnic, nearly triple the share in 1980. In 2018, roughly 4% of all children in the U.S. were multiracial, a figure that is growing along with intermarriage rates. By 2020, the number of people who identified as multiracial reached 10.2% of the U.S. population, an increase from 2.9% in 2010, due in part to improved data collection methods. Infant statistics (2015): About one in seven infants were multiracial or multiethnic, a rate that has almost tripled since 1980. This growth is linked to the rise in intermarriages. Overall child population (2018): Roughly 4% of children under 18 were multiracial. The share of nonwhite children is growing and, as of 2018, was just over 50% of the total child population. PROBLEM.
There is a noted increase in men joining the church now. The church supports their IDEOLOGY of hate of Black and brown people and WHITE SUPREMACY. If whites are in charge then the United States will be a better place. The problem is they are religious and demonstating evil ways. Do they really want EVERYONE to be like them? Yes! WHITE and in their reality RICH. But white people are NOT procreating producing more whites. In fact, they are dying faster than being born. BIG PROBLEM.

My advice is, keep doing you Black person and KNOW you have been right all along, you are hated in your own COUNTRY. And it's not just whinning as I've read on social media. Why were Blacks not included in this MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN plan? Because it doesn't include us. How long are Black people to prove, we are GOOD people? All ethnicities have people of ill-repute and criminals. Why are WE the ones labled BAD from BIRTH? How long are Blacks to PROVE we should NOT be HATED? We need to ban together and reassure ourselves of our worthiness and not be cowared. We must stand in unty in pride. We ARE survivors and we WILL survive this administration. Stand in your HONOR and DIGNITY. Pay attention to how brown people and Black people are being treated. And like Kamala Harris said, "We Won't Go Back!"




Monday, January 24, 2022

TEXAS: Civil War/Secession

The great state of Texas, where everything is bigger, is in the spotlight. The Supreme Court gave a ruling they found out-of-line regarding their problem with illegal immigrants entering their country. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, January 22, 2024, ordered Texas to allow federal border agents access to the state’s border with Mexico, where Texas officials have deployed miles of concertina wire to prevent people from crossing the border. Texas is REFUSING to comply.

Twitter has been on fire with posting saying Texas should secede, leave the Union or launch a Civil War. The point has also been made that when the Supreme Court struck down Roe v Wade, there was not such an extreme reaction of defying a federal ruling or threats of "war."

The chatter Texans (and others) are making, draws attention to their "RED" state and the character of those who loudly and proudly identify themselves as Republican and Conservative. The Republican Party has been labled as being comprised of 'extremists' and with tendencies of being violent. Because of these particular labels, government tends to handle them with kid gloves. Their tendency to be 'extreme' makes it difficult to prosecute their chosen "instigator" Donald Trump, least they become completely unhinged as demonstrated by the attack on the Capitol January 6, 2021.

No matter how softly people tread when dealing with the ALT RIGHT, they seem hell bent on forcing their wants, without consideration for others, on the United States. There is something fundamentally OFF about the MAGA section of the Republican Party. When will they be seen as the danger they truly are? 

The ACTIONS of Americans, regardless of political affiliation, if it is a threat to the democracy, should be handled as a threat. Remaining SILENT and hoping "this too shall pass" is not the way to handle potentially dangerous threats made towards the government or its citizens. If the people are opperating SEDITIOUSLY under the guise of religion, the danger is even greater in my opinion. 

How does the everyday CHRISTIAN or American CITIZEN recognize a person is using religion in a way that is dangerous and for their own gain? Well the Bible has not left us without clear discernment of BAD fruit. It is time for Americans to operate in wisdom and that means acknowledging the facts and making decisions and choices based on those PROVEN facts.

Excerpts from my book: "The Politics of Prayer"

     WISDOM Truth, knowledge, and wisdom are only effective when put into action. 

Luke 2:52 states Jesus increased in wisdom, stature, and in favor with God and man. Wisdom was his intellectual growth, stature was his physical growth, favor with God was his spiritual growth, and favor with man was his social development. Wisdom was a major part of Jesus’ life and should be a part of every Christian’s life as well. It takes wisdom to pray for our leaders and ourselves. It takes wisdom to make the right choices when engaging political issues. When making choices on political issues we may ASK ourselves: 1. Does it help my witness for God? 2. Am I motivated by a desire to help others to know Christ? 3. Is it against a specific command in Scripture and would thus cause me to sin? 4. Is it the best and most beneficial course of action? 5. Am I thinking only of myself, or do I truly care about the other person? 6. Am I acting lovingly or selfishly? 7. Does it glorify God? 8. Will it cause someone else to sin? 

WISDOM QUOTES “A wise old owl sat on an oak: The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?” “The highest form of wisdom is kindness.” The Talmud “Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” David Starr Jordon “A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.” Gian Carlo Menotti “We must become the change we want to see.” Mahatma Gandhi “Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.” Kahlil Gibran “The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” Cicero “One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.” John Kenneth Gilbraith “The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.” William James “The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom is a happy mind.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox “Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” Mohandas K. Gandhi “Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.” Norman Cousins “Patience is the companion of wisdom.” Saint Augustine “The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to question, and by seeking we may come upon truth.” Pierre Abelard “I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.” Thomas Jefferson “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln “By three methods we may learn wisdom; first, by reflection, which is noblest, second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third; by experience, which is the most bitter.” Confucius “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.” Chinese Proverbs.

King Solomon of the Bible, was considered the wisest man on Earth. God gave Solomon his wisdom along with a promise: “As for you, if you will walk before Me as your father David walked, in integrity of heart and uprightness, doing according to all that I have commanded you and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, just as I promised to your father, David saying; ”You shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel” (I Kings 9:4-5). 

Solomon should have been a man to be envied. He was the first king to sit on the throne of a kingdom at peace. He had been given divine wisdom by God. He built a temple for God (a center of Jewish religion), and he was richer and more prosperous than any king in any surrounding nation. This should have been enough for the man who had it all, but it wasn’t. 

Solomon’s downfall came from within the walls of his home; his many wives and their many pagan religions. He married 700 hundred women for political reasons and consorted with 300 concubines (I Kings 11:3). Solomon, in his old age, began to do as his wives did and worshipped pagan gods and built high places of worship for those pagan gods. For Solomon’s sin, God said he would take the kingdom from the hands of his son; all but one tribe would he leave for his son for the sake of his father David. The lesson to be learned is to be mindful of our associations and how we conduct our private lives. Solomon was his own worst enemy in a time of success and grandeur, he destroyed himself. It is easier to blame our problems on government or others, but we must also look at ourselves.

James 1:5 “If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.” 

Proverbs 3:16-18 "Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with herLong life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her; those who hold her fast will be blessed.

REFLECTION I encourage you to incorporate prayer for your leaders into your daily prayers asking God to give them wisdom to lead. Wisdom goes beyond just knowledge; it encompasses the ability to make the right choice at the right time. Wisdom is only effective when put into action. Pray that your leaders, as well as yourself, will have the ability to know what is right and to do what is right. Make a PRAYER LIST FOR THOSE WHO NEED WISDOM, but recognize bad fruit, and throw it out.

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