Be Prepared Keep Looking Up

- Keep Looking Up! - 

Be prepared! 

Do not be ignorant of what is happening and is about to happen in this World. Open the Holy 

Bible and let the LORD JESUS show you the way and the truth.

Just scroll down and read and enjoy the Awesomeness of it all. 

This is the most powerful message I think I have read in a long time.

~He Is God~ 

He is the First and Last,

The Beginning and the End! 

He is the keeper of Creation and the Creator of all!

He is the Architect of the universe and the Manager of all times.

He always was, He always is, and He always will be ...

unmoved, Unchanged, Undefeated, and never Undone! 

He was bruised and brought healing!

He was pierced and eased pain!

He was persecuted and brought freedom!

He was dead and brought life!

He is risen and brings power!

He reigns and brings Peace!

The world can't understand him,

The armies can't defeat Him,

The schools can't explain Him, 

and The leaders can't ignore Him.

Herod couldn't kill Him, 

The Pharisees couldn't confuse Him, 

and The people couldn't hold Him!

Nero couldn't crush Him, 

Hitler couldn't silence Him,

The New Age can't replace Him, 

and "Oprah" can't explain Him away! 

He is light, love, longevity, and Lord.

He is goodness, Kindness, Gentleness, and God.

He is Holy, Righteous, mighty, powerful, and pure. 

His ways are right,

His word is eternal,

His will is unchanging, 

and His mind is on me.

He is my Savior,

He is my guide, and He is my peace!

He is my Joy,

He is my comfort,

He is my Lord, and He rules my life! 

I serve Him because His bond is love,

His burden is light, 

and His goal for me is abundant life. 

I follow Him because He is the wisdom of the wise,

the power of the powerful, the ancient of days, 

the ruler of rulers, the leader of leaders, 

the overseer of the over-comers, and is to come. 

And if that seems impressive to you, try this for size. 

His goal is a relationship with ME!

He will never leave me,

never forsake me,

never mislead me,

never forget me,

never overlook me and

never cancel my appointment 

in His appointment book! 

When I fall, He lifts me up!

When I fail, He forgives!

When I am weak, He is strong!

When I am lost, He is the way!

When I am afraid, He is my courage!

When I stumble, He steadies me!

When I am hurt, He heals me!

When I am broken, He mends me!

When I am blind, He leads me!

When I am hungry, He feeds me!

When I face trials, He is with me!

When I face persecution, He shields me!

When I face problems, He comforts me!

When I face loss, He provides for me!

When I face Death, He carries me Home! 

He is everything for everybody everywhere, 

every time, and every way. 

He is God, He is faithful. 

I am His, and He is mine! 

My Father in heaven 

can whip the evil of this world.

So, if you're wondering why I feel 

so secure, understand this... 

He said it, I believe it and that settles it.

God is in control, I am on His side,

and that means all is well with my soul.

Everyday is a blessing for GOD Is! 

Love the Lord 

and thank Him for all that He has done

I Saw Three Ships

Closer 2 Jesus

God Bless =)

Turn 2 God

Recent Virginia Church Service Stimulus Sermon

I would love to give the Pastor of this predominantly black church in Virginia three cheers. This guy is obviously a leader. Perhaps we should each decide who our real leader is... It is amazing to see that very little has changed in 4,000 years. 

Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis. We'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27. 

Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us? ... (reading) .... Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray. So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt , and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.

So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock - their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkey - to barter for grain, and verse 17 says that only took them through the end of that year. But the famine wasn't over, was it? So the next year, the people came before Pharaoh and admitted they had nothing left, except their land and their own lives. "There is nothing left in the sight of my lord but our bodies and our land. Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh." So they surrendered their homes, their land, and their real estate to Pharaoh's government, and then sold themselves into slavery to him, in return for grain.

What can we learn from this, brothers and sisters?

That turning to the government instead of to God to be our provider in hard times only leads to slavery? Yes... That the only reason government wants to be our provider is to also become our master?

Yes. But look how that passage ends, brothers and sisters! Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt , in the land of Goshen . And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly." God provided for His people, just as He always has! They didn't end up giving all their possessions to government, no, it says they gained possessions! But I also tell you a great truth today, and an ominous one.

We see the same thing happening today - the government today wants to "share the wealth" once again, to take it from us and redistribute it back to us. It wants to take control of healthcare, just as it has taken control of education, and ration it back to us, and when government rations it, then government decides who gets it, and how much, and what kind. And if we go along with it, and do it willingly, then we will wind up no differently than the people of Egypt did four thousand years ago - as slaves to the government, and as slaves to our leaders.

What Mr. Obama's government is doing now is no different from what Pharaoh's government did then, and it will end the same. And a lot of people like to call Mr. Obama a "Messiah," don't they? Is he a Messiah? A savior? Didn't the Egyptians say, after Pharaoh made them his slaves, "You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh"? Well, I tell you this - I know the Messiah; the Messiah is a friend of mine; and Mr. OBAMA IS NO MESSIAH! No, brothers and sisters, if Mr. Obama is a character from the Bible, then he is Pharaoh. Bow with me in prayer, if you will..

Lord, You alone are worthy to be served, and we rely on You, and You alone. We confess that the government is not our deliverer, and never rightly will be. We read in the eighth chapter of 1 Samuel, when Samuel warned the people of what a ruler would do, where it says "And in that day you will cry out because of your king, whom you have chosen for yourselves, but the LORD will not answer you in that day..." 

And Lord, we acknowledge that day has come. We cry out to you because of the ruler that we have chosen for ourselves as a nation. Lord, we pray for this nation. We pray for revival, and we pray for deliverance from those who would be our masters. Give us hearts to seek You and hands to serve You, and protect Your people from the atrocities of Pharaoh's government. In God We Trust...

Closer 2 Jesus Dear Friends

Dear Friends,

I don't know the author of the story below, but from reading it, I am assuming,
since they went to medical school, he or she is a doctor. I have often read the verse in:

"Psalms 33:6 The heavens were made when the Lord commanded it to happen. All of the stars were created by the breath of his mouth,"

and I thought how amazing that GOD SPOKE AND THE HEAVENS WERE MADE, AND THE STARS CAME FROM THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. I know that we will have to take the Bible as the true WORD OF GOD, to believe this. But honestly, to me it takes more faith to believe, that we evolved from one cell, and that the heavens and earth came from a "big bang," than it does to believe that there is a GOD IN THIS UNIVERSE, WHO LOVED AND CREATED A WORLD AND MAN, SO THAT HE COULD HAVE COMMUNION AND RELATIONSHIP WITH US.

"Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created."

This is especially easy for me to believe, since I have had a personal relationship with the Creator, as MY HEAVENLY FATHER, since I was 7 years old.

(Below is the Message, that I rec'd today: from author unknown. Take the time to read it.

It is well worth 60 seconds of your time, just to be reminded, "HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD"):

A couple of days ago I was running (I use that term very loosely) on my treadmill, watching a DVD sermon by Louie Giglio...and I was BLOWN AWAY! I want to share what I learned....but I fear not being able to convey it as well as I want. I will share anyway.

He (Louie) was talking about how inconceivably BIG our God is...how He spoke the universe into being...how He breathes stars out of His mouth that are huge raging balls of fire...etc. etc. Then He went on to speak of how this star-breathing, universe creating, God, ALSO knitted our human bodies together with amazing detail and wonder. At this point I am LOVING it (fascinating from a medical standpoint, you know.) .....and I was remembering how I was constantly amazed during medical school as I learned more and more about God's handiwork. I remember so many times thinking...."How can ANYONE deny that a Creator did all of this???"

Louie went on to talk about how we can trust that the God who created all this, also has the power to hold it all together when things seem to be falling apart...how our loving Creator is also our sustainer.

And then I lost my breath.

And it wasn't because I was running my treadmill, either!!!
It was because he started talking about laminin.

I knew about laminins. Here is how wikipedia describes them :"Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the structural scaffolding of basement membranes in almost every animal tissue."

You see....laminins are what hold us together....LITERALLY. They are cell adhesion molecules. They are what holds one cell of our bodies to the next cell. Without them, we would literally fall apart. And I knew all this already. But what I didn't know is what laminin LOOKED LIKE.

But now I do.

And I have thought about it a thousand times since (already)....
Here is what the structure of laminin looks like...AND THIS IS NOT a "Christian portrayal" of it....if you look up laminin in any scientific/medical piece of literature, this is what you will see...

Note from friend, who forwarded the above message to me:
Amazing. The glue that holds us together....ALL of us....is in the shape of the cross. Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind:

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him. He is before all things,
and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER."
Colossians 1:15-17

Thousands of years before the world knew anything about laminin, Paul penned those words. And now we see that from a very LITERAL standpoint, we are held together...one cell to another....by the cross.

You would never in a quadrillion years convince me, that this is anything other than the mark of a Creator who knew EXACTLY what laminin "glue" would look like, long before Adam even breathed his first breath!!

Brilliant! My Mom sent this coolness to me and just had to share!

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me

Closer 2 Jesus Build Your House On The Rock Not The Sand

The parable of building your house on the rock instead of the sand at first may seem a bit confusing or get you going huh?

In further discovery of what Jesus meant by this and reading it again you will get the cooralation going and the analogy of what exactly would happen if we built a home on the sand? And then a big storm (such is life) would come. The house would not have much protection and would be very damaged.

Alternatively, if you have a solid foundation, and protection like a Rock, and a storm comes, no worries.

Well, Jesus is the Rock! He is the foundation that will strengthen your inner foundation and getting Closer 2 Jesus will do just that. Then, when the "Storms" come (challenges in life) then our Peace comes from knowing the Lord!

Luke 6:47 "Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them, I will show you whom he is like:

Luke6:48 "He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock."

Luke 6:49 "But the one who has heard and has not acted accordingly, is like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great."

Build Your Foundation with Jesus

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me

Closer 2 Jesus Through Prayer

JESUS is a friend, companion, author, speaker, writer, love, Saviour, the One, The Only, The Way, The Truth, The Life.

Jesus Through Prayer

Closer 2 Jesus Through The Power of Prayer

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter

Closer 2 Jesus Love Your Neighbor

Love Your Neighbor As You Would Love Yourself

Luke 10:27

The Parable of the Good Samaritan
On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. "Teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal life?"

"What is written in the Law?" he replied. "How do you read it?"

He answered: " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself."

"You have answered correctly," Jesus replied. "Do this and you will live."

But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"

In reply Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead.

A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.

So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.

But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.

He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. 'Look after him,' he said, 'and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'

"Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?"

The expert in the law replied, "The one who had mercy on him."
Jesus told him, "Go and do likewise."

Closer 2 Jesus Do For Others

Do For Others Only What You Would Have Others Do For You.

Do Unto Others Only What You Would Have Others Do Unto You.

Whoever is only forgiven little, shows little love.

Two men owed debts to the tax collector, one man owed 500 dollars and the other 5000, both were forgiven their debts, which would be more grateful?

The seed is the word of GOD... are yours among the path, the rocky ground, thorns, or good soil?

Along the path, the devil comes and takes the fruit away...

The Rocky Path stand for those who hear and receive but until time of testing they fall away

The seeds that fell among the thorns got choked and tempted by worldly things

The good soil seeds are the ones who hear, receive and hold fast to the Word of GOD.

Closer 2 Jesus For Children

http://www.jesusfilm.org/languages/indexjc.html
I found the Jesus For Children in all languages movie page and just had to share! This is the coolest thing ever!

Ephesians 2:8,9

"By Grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that so no one should boast".

We receive Christ by personal invitation:

Revelation 3:20

(Christ Speaking) "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any hears MY voice and opens the door I will come into him."

Jesus Loves The Little Children

Stephanie Haile aka Wavecritter Google Me :)

Closer To Jesus Praise God

This is my son singing Amazing Grace at FUMC along with his friend Autumn.

Stephanie Haile Google Me ;)

God Is Like...

A fifth

grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV
commercials and see if they could use them in some way to communicate
ideas about God.

Here are some of the results: scroll down.

God is like......

BAYER ASPIRIN
He works miracles.

God is like.
a FORD
He's got a better idea.

God is like.
COKE
He's the real thing.

(This is great)

God is like.
HALLMARK CARDS
He cares enough to send His very best.

God is like.
TIDE
He gets the stains out that others leave behind.

God is like.
GENERAL ELECTRIC
He brings good things to life.

God is like.
SEARS
He has everything.

God is like.
ALKA-SELTZER
Try Him, you'll like Him

God is like.
SCOTCH TAPE
You can't see Him, but you know He's there.

God is like.
DELTA
He's ready when you are.

God is like.
ALLSTATE
You're in good hands with Him.


God is like.
VO-5 Hair Spray
He holds through all kinds of weather..

God is like.
DIAL SOAP
Aren't you glad you have Him? Don't you wish everybody did?

(that one is my favorite)

God is like .
the U.S. POST OFFICE
Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor ice will keep Him from His appointed destination.

God is like.
Chevrolet. . . .the heart beat of America

God is like
Maxwell house. . .
Good to the very last drop

God is like.
B o u n ty . . . .

He is the quicker picker upper. .

can handle the tough jobs. . .

and He won't fall apart on you