Old but still funny and still TRUE!
You can do it! You can get out of debt, leave a legacy, and use money as a tool for better discipleship decsions! Don't quit! :)
Revelation 4
Rev 4:1-11 ESV
After this I looked, and behold, a door standing open in heaven! And the first voice, which I had heard speaking to me like a trumpet, said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." (2) At once I was in the Spirit, and behold, a throne stood in heaven, with one seated on the throne. (3) And he who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian, and around the throne was a rainbow that had the appearance of an emerald.
(4) Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads. (5) From the throne came flashes of lightning, and rumblings and peals of thunder, and before the throne were burning seven torches of fire, which are the seven spirits of God, (6) and before the throne there was as it were a sea of glass, like crystal. And around the throne, on each side of the throne, are four living creatures, full of eyes in front and behind: (7) the first living creature like a lion, the second living creature like an ox, the third living creature with the face of a man, and the fourth living creature like an eagle in flight.
(8) And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!" (9) And whenever the living creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever, (10) the twenty-four elders fall down before him who is seated on the throne and worship him who lives forever and ever. They cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
(11) "Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created."
A Good Watch and Some Encouraging Quotes
This is Historian David Barton. Long talk...but a really, really good historial overview containing good history lessons about the nature of history in general, God's providence in history, the role of Scripture in early America, and some vewy vewy (Elmer Fudd voice!) interesting information concerning the faith of the founding fathers, particularly Thomas Jefferson. Seriously...WORTH sitting down and watching the whole thing. Perfect for July 4th! :)
“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”
--George Washington
“We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writing, that ‘except the Lord building the House they labour in vain that building it.’…I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business…”
--Ben Franklin, 1787
“It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded freedom of worship here.”
--Patrick Henry, 1787
“The highest story of the American Revolution is this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
--President John Adams
“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally—I do not mean figuratively, but literally—impossible for us to figure what that loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards towards which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves. “
--President Theodore Roosevelt
“The fundamental basis of this nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis for our Bill of Rights comes form the teaching we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasis that enough these days."
--President Harry. S. Truman
“The choice before us is plain, Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as American citizens. The time is come, and now is, when we ought to hear about he duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America’s future depends upon demonstrating God’s government."
--Peter Marshall, Chaplain , U.S. Senate, 1947-1949
“In God We Trust!” – On every piece of paper money in your pocket! :)
“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!” –Psalm 33:12
The First Prayer Offered in Congress
September 7, 1774 by Jacob Duche
Oh Lord our Heavenly Father, high and mighty King of kings, and Lord of lords, who dost from thy throne behold all the dwellers on earth and reignest with power supreme and uncontrolled over al lthe Kingdoms, Empires, and Governments;
Look down in mercy, we beseech thee, on these our American States, who have fled to thee from the rod of the oppressor and thrown themselves on Thy gracious protection, desiring to be henceforth dependent only on Thee...Give them wisdom in Council and valor in the field; defeat the malicious designs of our cruel adversaries;...constrain them to drop the weapons of war from their unnerved bands in the day of battle!
Be Thou present, O God of wisdom, and direct the councils of this honorable assembly; enable them to settle things on the best and surest foundation. That the scene of blood may be speedily closed; that order, harmony, and peace may be effectually restored, and truth and justice, religion, and piety, prevail and flourish amongst the people...
All this we ask in the name of and through the merits of Jesus Christ, Thy Son and our Savior. Amen.
