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Lighten Up With Laughter

10/31/2018

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​Paraprosdokians, things smart people say

Paraprosdokians (Winston Churchill loved them) are figures of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected, frequently humorous.

1. Where there's a will, I want to be in it.

2. The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it's still on my list.

3. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

4. If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.

5. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.

6. War does not determine who is right--only who is left.

7. Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

8. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

9. I didn't say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.

10. In filling out an application, where it says, "In case of emergency, Notify:" I put "DOCTOR."
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Rabbi cites Jesus in prayer for synagogue victims with Vice President Mike Pence

10/31/2018

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I want to thank Ronald and Mary Vaughan for this website. They are avid readers and contributors to Hugh's News.
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Wednesday brought a new challenge for Melvine Stewart Morgan

10/31/2018

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PictureMelvine Stewart Morgan
Jeanette Herndon Phillips, one of our dearest friends who is like a daughter to us, graciously volunteered to give me a day off by taking Melvine to see our dermatologist, Dr. Joy Chastain. Melvine has had a sore on the end of her nose for some time. It has been treated before.

When Dr. Chastain examined Melvine's sore with a scab, she diagnosed it as a possible basal cell carcinoma. She took a biopsy of it and has sent it off for the laboratory to make the precise determination. It will take 7 working days to get the results. Surgery may or may not be needed.

Jeanette took Melvine to the doctor's office in her new family Cadillac they have recently purchased. 

After the doctor's visit they went to Bone Island Grill and had lunch. Melvine ordered cheese grits, fried scrimp, corn bread, and the house salad that is given to every customer, and it is good. Melvine brought some of her lunch home, and we enjoyed it for supper. 

I was able to go to do my exercises at St. Mary's Wellness Center and worked out for an hour. To my amazement, my free membership lasts until December 1, at which time I can purchase the program for three month membership. I call that favor, the favor of God. I really thought I would have to pay for three months today. The last time I exercised there was September 6.

I got home prior to Melvine and Jeanette getting home. I had made an appointment to have Windows by Andersen send out a representative or salesman to measure several windows. I knew I could not afford the five windows that it would be good to replace, but I did want our two master bedroom windows done. They make it easier to have three windows done almost as expensive as the two. So, I chose the window in our family room next to our fireplace to be replaced. I was able to make a down-payment on the total costs with the option of paying the entire cost in a year without interest. So, it looks like we can have three custom built windows with a double sash installed by Thanksgiving. These windows will make our home more energy efficient, and our master bedroom warm for Melvine and me.

Today, we have to get up at the crack of dawn to go to the University Cancer and Blood Clinic for a double dose of chemotherapy. We will see Dr. Jane Huang our oncologist first. The session will be about 5 to 6 hours. We have learned that every Thursday Melvine will be having chemotherapy. We had to cancel our cleaning ladies who do deep cleaning. Melvine likes a neat, clean, and well-ordered home.

Bonnie Patch Bender, a retired LPN and dear friend, will not be able to go with us today. I am confident I can handle it. Melvine will sleep most of the time she is there. We don't know how this double dose will effect Melvine. That remains to be seen.

We need your continued prayers. We believe God is at work bringing about the desired healing and causing Melvine to be clean or free from all cancer cells in her body. Our prayer is that every cancer cell will come into alignment with God's order of health. Nothing is impossible for God. Our trust is in Him, and Him alone. God uses doctors, nurses, chemotherapy, surgery, etc. to bring about healing. He has never failed us. God can do anything but fail.

Please keep sending Melvine those get-well cards. She loves them, and has them neatly placed in a large basket to keep them all together.

You may write Melvine at this mailing address:

Melvine Morgan
17 Sweet Apple Lane 
Winder, GA 30680

May God bless you for your kindness to my darling wife, Melvine.

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Have you made the plunge to commit to becoming an ELITE member of the Pentecostal 120 monthly contributors/Partners to Hugh's News, Inc.

10/31/2018

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PictureThe Rev. Dr. Hugh H. Morgan, Evangelist, Christian Journalist, Pastor, Former College President, Retired Air Force Chaplain
​I was born in Birmingham at the Hilman Hospital, now a small building in the massive University of Alabama Medical Center. I grew up in Birmingham, known as the Pittsburgh of the South because of our steel mills.

The youth of Birmingham flocked to Cascade Plunge every summer to swim. It had an enormous swimming pool with a 15 or 20 feet high diving board. I never had the courage to dive off that platform, but I did muster up enough courage to jump off it, and I did so multiple times. 

Howard Alexander was my best friend. We both had newspaper routes where we made money throwing the newspaper, The Birmingham News and The Birmingham Post Herald.

Howard, his sister, Juanita, and I rode our bicycles to Cascade Plunge from Woodlawn were we lived on 10th Avenue and 47th Street to East Lake. It was breath taking for us. I consider Juanita my little sister, and we called her Sis. Howard and I went all out to protect her and see after her welfare and happiness.

As I have reflected on the challenge I have given you, my dear readers, I have revised the number of people we need from 150 to 120. I did that to make it come into alignment and agreement with the number of disciples that were present on the Day of Pentecost in the Upper Room in Jerusalem when they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

Hugh's News needs 120 people to give $10 per month to support a growing newsletter.

Here is how it can happen for you:

Allen Clark, a Vietnam hero, has this to say: "I decided years ago to support Dr. Hugh Morgan's work through a personal monthly contribution. It is easy to accomplish for me because I set up with my bank a fixed amount each month that is called a draw and mailed to Hugh's News, Inc., 17 Sweet Apple Lane, Winder, GA 30680. My Bank of America has a service in which they send out payments for my personal bills also. Readers, who appreciate Hugh News, could do the same with whatever amount, however small, on a monthly basis."

The Bible declares this truth:

Galatians 6:9
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
KJV

I know something about gardening and farming. I have done both. What a joy it is to see crops produce 100 fold and more, and some less.


Recently, this thought came to me while talking with a friend about the financial needs of Hugh's News, Inc.:

"Hugh, God would have you trust Him to give you 120 subscribers or readers of Hugh's News to give $10 a month by using an automatic bank draft/draw from their banks to be sent to Hugh's News, Inc., 17 Sweet Apple Lane, Winder, GA 30680.

If you are willing to respond to this challenge, I would like to request that you write me of your decision. You may write me at hugh@hughsnews.com. I need your support as we expand this newsletter in days to come.

It is my desire to expand Hugh's News by adding two associate editors of this newsletter to help me with the writing of these newsletters. We have many gifted writers in our church. We have talent that needs to be released and utilized for the glory of God and to bless the people.

I need your help financial help now, even today, the first day of November.

I have been the editor of Hugh's News for 21 years. In all of those years I have never taken a salary. 

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May God give back to you a blessing that you will be able immediately to recognize it came from God.

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John Moody Presley,92 has finished His Course, fought a good Fight, and now he is in heaven to live eternally

10/31/2018

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It has been my personal experience to have known the Presleys all my life. I. H. and Willette Presley, the parents of Jackson, Moody, and Charles were my contemporaries. They were somewhat older than I am. 

Word came to me in late afternoon on Wednesday, October 31, 2018, that John Moody Presley, whom I called Moody, had died peacefully in the hospital. It was Dr. Michael Stewart who sent me an email of Moody's death.

Moody's birthday was on Tuesday, October 30. Family and friends came to celebrate his 92nd birthday. Moody was born on October 30, 1926. Moody said, "Jane, I made it."

Moody Presley was a contemporary of the late Bishop J. Floyd Williams. They were close friends and preached together.

Moody was a graduate of Asbury College. He was president of the student body. He was born to be a leader. He was a great musician, and played trumpet like Gabriel. 

Funeral announcements are to be announced later this week. Jane, his wife, will be making arrangements at the funeral home on Thursday, November 1.

Moody and Jane Presley have supported Hugh's News monthly with a financial contribution for a number of years. Their investment has helped me to keep on keeping on in producing Hugh's News.
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Veterans Day is Sunday, November 11, 2018

10/31/2018

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PictureWe, as Americans, honor and respect the American Flag
This year Veterans Day will be on Sunday, November 11. It is a special day when we can give special attention and focus on the brave men and women of these United States who have served with honor and distinction in the Armed Forces of the greatest nation in the world.     

It is important that we show our gratitude to these young Americans who have volunteered to serve our country to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States and if necessary to give their lives in service to God and country to preserve our freedoms.    

As the editor of Hugh's News, I am always interested in what our local IPHC churches are doing, as well as those churches with other faith groups or denominations.

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Pastor Rick Haug sent this photo of what they did at Living Word Church in the Cornerstone Conference for Veterans Day on Sunday, November 8, 2015.  He gave the credit to Karen Arndt of their congregation for designing their annual display of vets from their church family.

It is so important for pastors to get as many people as possible involved in planning and carrying out an appropriate tribute to the men and women who have faithfully served in the Armed Forces of our nation.

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Daylight Savings Time Ends Sunday, November 4, 2018

10/31/2018

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PictureIn the fall, we Fall backwards
In the Fall, we fall backwards
Change your clocks on Saturday evening, November 3

Daylight Savings Time Ends Sunday, November 4

Remember to set your clocks back one hour on Saturday, November 3rd so you will be on time for Sunday school and Sunday morning service, November 4.

In the fall, we Fall backwards; in the Spring, we spring forward.

The Psalmist wrote, "I was glad when they said unto me, 'Let us go into the house of the Lord'"(Psalm 122:1, NKJV).

Psalm 122:1
I was glad because they said to me,
"We will go to the Lord's temple." 
(from The NET Bible®, Copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C., Dallas, Texas, www.bible.org. All rights reserved. Used by permission.)


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Get Ready to Vote on Tuesday, November 6, 2018

10/31/2018

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ELECTION DAY

Tuesday, November 6, 2018
It's time for the Church to make her voice heard across our land. Pray and vote! 

Regardless of your preference for Political Parties I would like to encourage you to vote in this mid-term election. 

This may be the most important mid-term election in our nation's history. The future direction of our country is at a crucial moment. 

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Harvest Train 2018 Promises to be the Best Ever

10/31/2018

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​It is my distinct honor and privilege to announce the 2018 Harvest Train Celebration in Falcon, North Carolina on Tuesday, November 20, 2018.  What a joy it is for me to serve Joey Leggett and Harvest Train. My father and mother, the Rev. Hugh Henry and Julia Payne Morgan, many long years ago traveled on behalf of Falcon Children's Home to raise awareness and finances for this great orphanage.

God's Holy Word says this: "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world" (James 1:27, NKJV).
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The theme: "The Greatest Show of All" promises to be the best program and drama in it storied history.

The Emmanuel Singers will be ministering in the Royal Home Ministries Program in the Synan Chapel on Monday night, November 19th. You will want to hear them. They are under the direction of Trés Ward, a gifted and talented musician and preacher.

Also, we will again be live streaming the Harvest Train Program to allow people around the globe, who are unable to physically join us, to log in and participate with us.  As soon as I have that information I will share it with you.

I just learned that former students and singers from Southwestern Christian University will be ministering in song just prior to the program. This will be an added blessing from our university in Bethany, Oklahoma.
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A Miracle in Pakistan -- and a Few More are Needed

10/31/2018

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“A miracle just happened. The Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled today that Asia Bibi, a Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy –- a capital offense under Islam’s totalitarian Sharia code –- is not guilty after eight years on death row.

“Particularly miraculous was the courage of the three Pakistani justices who know full well that, in freeing Mrs. Bibi, they have probably signed their own death warrants.  Other senior officials there have been murdered simply for speaking up for her and against blasphemy restrictions.

“We must now pray for a few more miracles. Extracting Asia and her family safely from Pakistan will probably require an operation as stealthy as the one that liquidated Osama bin Laden there. And let the hand of God be upon other Pakistani Christians who will stay behind and are likely to be targeted for intensified persecution following her acquittal.”
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Will You Let the Breath of God Do These Four Powerful Things in Your Life? by Karen Schatzline

10/31/2018

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Will You Let the Breath of God Do These Four Powerful Things in Your Life?
 Karen Schatzline

I recently began a new video blog (vlog) on Facebook called "The Breathing Room." Its purpose is framed in Job 33:4, "The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life." God's breath gives us life. We need His breath.

Many know me as an international evangelist and author, but you don't know my story. My entire journey has been one that can be defined as almost out of breath, then God would restore me. I call it "the shh factor": from shy to stunned to shoved to shelved to shouting from the rooftops!

You see, the first half of my life, I was hidden. Whether it was as a shy young girl, having my park-bench experience, desiring more in life, marrying a bold man, being an overwhelmed youth pastor's wife (lost at times in fear), being a sidelined evangelist's wife, discovering a desire to have another child, heading to China, being rescued by Abby, raising a family, fighting for our son—to speaking all over the world, writing the book Dehydrated and then Rebuilding the Altar with my husband, Pat; there were hidden moments long before there were stage moments. Listen to me: You will never become known until you are first hidden. I have spent more time in the hidden place than on the stage. As my husband, Pat, says, "the greater the anointing, the greater the isolation!"

I love this Scripture in Psalm 27:5: "for in the time of trouble He will hide me in His pavilion;
in the shelter of His tabernacle He will hide me; He will set me up on a rock."
Don't discount the hidden times.

Have you ever felt as though you are out of breath? I hate that out-of-breath feeling. I recently struggled with asthma and breathing issues (praise God for the healing He gave me), but I hate not being able to breathe in deep, having that feeling that you aren't getting enough air into your lungs. When you can't breathe deeply, it affects all aspects of your body and health.

The same is true of our spiritual life; we all need deep breaths and to breathe Him in deep. There are many "breathing rooms" in the Bible: Moses encountered a breathing room on the backside of the desert; Isaiah found his in a cave; the Shunamite Woman found hers in her son's bedroom; the disciples found it in an upper room. There are "breathing room" encounters throughout God's Word.

Let's talk about the breath of God. Genesis 1:2-3 says, "The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light."

He said, "Let there be light" and there was light. It's through your breath that words take form. God spoke, breath came forth—the Word of God was formed!

The Gospel of John says, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). The Word was God! They were separate but all the same—all one.

I think sometimes we miss things in Scripture by just trying to get our daily reading in. Look back at Genesis 1:2-3. If we just use the English word "spirit," we will miss what is being described here. The Bible is describing a scenario where breath is involved. The breath of God! The word "spirit" in the Hebrew is ruach, which means "air in motion" and is the same word for "breath."

The Greek word for "spirit" is pneuma, which means "wind or breath." So I think we can read in Genesis 1, "The earth was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the [breath] of God was hovering over the surface of the water. God said [or breathed], 'Let there be light,' and there was light" (Gen. 1:2-3).

God's Spirit or "breath" always brings life! The Bible says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being" (Gen. 2:7).

What about Eve? Has it ever struck you, as it did me, that it never says God breathed into Eve? Why didn't He have to breathe life into Eve? It just says, "Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man, He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man" (Gen. 2:22).

I don't know about you, but this bothered me. Why would God not have breathed into her? Then God revealed to me the answer. See, He didn't need to breathe into Eve, because life was in the bones (Ezekiel talks about bringing bones to life). But catch this also, we've heard that Eve was taken from Adam's ribs, why the rib bone? Maybe because they are called to walk side by side. Yes, but that is not all there is to it; what is the purpose of the ribs? The ribs protect the lungs. They house the breath. We must be protectors of the breath. Come on; that is powerful!
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So we know that breath is important and we need His breath, but just how important is it? Here are four things the breath of God does for us, and one thing we must do as well:

    His breath gives you life.

"The Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty has given me life" (Job 33:4). God's breath will give you life! "By the Word of the Lord the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth."

    His breath drives back the enemy.

"By His breath He has made fair the heavens; His hand has formed the fleeing serpent" (Job 26:13).

    The breath of God brings understanding.

"But there is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding" (Job. 32:8).

    His breath will heal your bones.

"Thus says the Lord God to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you so that you live" (Ezek. 37:5).

There are 150 psalms and the very last psalm, Psalm 150, declares this: "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. Praise the Lord!" Our breath is meant to praise Him; it is meant to be His echo here in the earth (as it was for Ezekiel) and to tell others of His goodness.

I want to create a room or a place where the wind and the breath of God blows freely at all times! God is about to give CPR to some of you (Christ, power and resurrection). Romans 8:11 says the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead will quicken your mortal bodies. We need His breath. I need His breath. In His breath is found life, freedom, understanding and healing!

Breathe Him in today and allow it to bring life to the places in your life that might be dead or dying. His breath can restore and replenish. And as He breathes into you, then become His echo and bring life to others.

Please enjoy the first episode of our Facebook Live series, The Breathing Room, and remember to breathe Him in!

[Karen Schatzline is an international Christian evangelist and author who, with her husband Pat, founded Remnant Ministries International in 1997. Karen ministers with passion and fire; her messages always deliver hope, freedom and a call to intimacy with the Father. Karen is the author of the powerful book, Dehydrated (Charisma House), which will lead you into a deeper encounter and intimacy with God. Together, Karen and Pat authored Rebuilding the Altar (Charisma House), a wakeup call to the church and believers to rebuild the place of encounter. Karen also hosts a bi-weekly video blog called "The Breathing Room," which has an online audience of tens of thousands and can be seen live on Facebook or through archived episodes on YouTube.

Karen makes her home in Fort Worth, Texas, along with her husband, evangelist and author Pat Schatzline and their daughter Abigail. Their son Nate and daughter-in-love Adrienne live in California, where they are youth pastors and have made Pat and Karen grandparents with their two sons, Jackson and Anderson.

This article originally appeared at karenschatzlineblog.com.
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​The One Secret Weapon David Used to Defeat Goliath by Doug Peterson/Just 18 Summers

10/31/2018

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The life of a giant is no piece of cake.

I recently listened to a book about the making of the classic movie, The Princess Bride, which featured a humongous actor known as Andre the Giant. Andre was a gentle giant, according to the book's writer, Cary Elwes, who played a lead role in the movie. Andre stood 7 feet, 4 inches tall and weighed 520 pounds. But all of that bulk left him with an aching back. Imagine how your body would feel if you carried an extra 300 pounds around with you every day.

It was difficult for Andre to fit into many vehicles, and they couldn't find a horse that could carry him in the movie. Everywhere he went, people stared. When children saw him, they would either run toward him in delight or flee in terror, screaming.

But Andre took it all in good stride until he died in 1993 at age 46. (Giants also often live shorter lives.)

The tallest man in recorded history was Robert Pershing Wadlow from Alton, Illinois, who soared to the height of 8 feet, 11.1 inches. He weighed 490 pounds, but in photos he looks quite thin because the weight was spread across an enormous frame. He died especially young—at age 22 due to an infection.

Many giants, including Andre, suffer from acromegaly, a disorder that creates excessive growth hormones. Some have even theorized that Goliath suffered from acromegaly. In his book, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell wonders if Goliath might have had vision problems due to this disorder. Why else, he asks, did Goliath talk about David coming at him with "sticks" (plural) when David carried one shepherd's staff?

But who knows for sure?

One of my favorite stops in Israel was the Valley of Elah, the lush land west of Jerusalem, where David did battle with Goliath. We found a dry streambed running through the field, where tourists (myself included) routinely pick up five smooth stones—just as David did when he was looking for rocks to sling at the giant. Our tour guide told us the stones were probably trucked over to keep replenishing the streambed, so who knows where these rocks really came from. But I still keep them on my bookshelf because, after all, I had gathered them from the Valley of Elah, and that's good enough for me.

In David and Goliath, Gladwell quotes Eitan Hirsch, a ballistics expert with the Israeli Defense Forces, who calculated that a slinger could hurl a rock with a speed almost equal to a bullet from a gun. That's why ancient armies had entire units of "projectile warriors," who fired arrows and slung stones.

So David's sling was a more fearsome weapon than we often give it credit. What's more, David had the advantage of being fast and nimble because he wasn't weighted down with armor. (He wisely turned down Saul's offer to loan him his armor.) Goliath, in contrast, was like a lumbering tank, wearing roughly 100 pounds of armor.

The only vulnerable spot on Goliath's body was his forehead, which was unprotected. Any slinger worth his salt was highly accurate, so it's no surprise that David was able to strike him in the forehead and that Goliath died on the spot. Stones were so deadly that the Romans had a special tool designed solely for pulling rocks from the bodies of injured soldiers.
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These are all good reasons why Goliath was defeated by a younger, smaller opponent. But there were two even better reasons—reasons of the heart.

The first: Based on Goliath's taunting, he was probably suffering from a severe case of pride. "Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?" ( 1 Sam. 17: 43b) he teased the young David. Goliath was quite the trash talker, and after striking fear into the entire Israelite army, his head must've gotten quite big, and he became overconfident. Little did he know he was going to soon lose that head.

As Proverbs 16:18-19 says, "Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. Better it is to be of a humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud."

But most importantly, Goliath had another, even greater heart problem. He lacked the Lord.

David, who could do a bit of trash talking himself, shouted, "You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a shield, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have reviled" (1 Sam. 17:45b).

Notice the difference in their taunts. For Goliath, it was all about him. The Israelites had insulted him because they sent a boy "with sticks" to battle him. For David, it was all about God. David wasn't upset that Goliath insulted him. He was upset that Goliath had insulted God.

David had both humility and the Lord on his side. And it didn't hurt that he could sling stones with the best of them.

Looking at it that way, Goliath really didn't stand a chance.

[Doug Peterson has written 42 books for VeggieTales and is the author of four historical novels: The Disappearing Man, The Puzzle People, The Vanishing Woman, and The Lincoln League. His latest book is The Call of the Mild. Visit Doug at bydougpeterson.com.

This article originally appeared at just18summers.com.

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Is It Trump's Fault That We Are a Nation of Haters? written by J. Lee Grady

10/31/2018

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President Donald J. Trump, The United States of America
PictureJ. Lee Grady, Christian journalist, author, speaker, editor
Last Saturday at the Tree of Life Congregation in Pittsburgh, a man armed with an assault rifle and three handguns interrupted the worship service shouting, "All Jews must die!" He then killed 11 people, including a 97-year-old woman, Rose Mallinger. Her family fully expected her to live to be 100.

Before the first funeral of the Tree of Life victims had been performed, media pundits were blaming President Trump for the shooting—saying his caustic tone and hateful tweets have fueled today's climate of violence. They did the same the week before, when a 56-year-old former male stripper named Cesar Sayoc was arrested in Florida. He was accused of mailing a dozen crude pipe bombs to various critics of Trump.

So let's pose the question: Is our president guilty of throwing gasoline on this fire? Is he the reason there's so much hate in America these days?

I'll admit I often cringe when I see President Trump's insensitive tweets. But if I'm objective (and objectivity is something we lack these days in the media), I have to admit there is plenty of hate being thrown around on both sides of today's nasty political feud. Consider this summary of the past year and a half:

    Just hours after President Trump was sworn in as president, the singer Madonna told a crowd at the Women's March on Washington: "Yes I'm angry. Yes I'm enraged. Yes I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House." She then spewed so much profanity that CNN had to stop airing her speech. Something shifted that day. America's Era of Hate officially began.

    In June of last year, a crazed gunman from Illinois, James Hodgkinson, began shooting at Republican lawmakers on a baseball field in suburban Washington, D.C.—seriously wounding Congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana. Investigators searched Hodgkinson's online history and found that he was militantly opposed to President Trump and Republicans in general.

    Meanwhile, President Trump kept up with his insensitive tweets and comments. He used choice words such as "clowns," "dummy dope," "lightweight" and "low class slob" to describe his political enemies. He called Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky a "spoiled brat" and Meryl Streep "one of the most over-rated actresses." Then he described California congresswoman Maxine Waters as "an extraordinarily low IQ person."

    Maxine Waters fired back last June. In a speech to supporters, she urged them to attack and harass members of Trump's administration. She was caught on video saying: "If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, in a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them." Fellow Democrats chastised her for encouraging mob violence.

    More celebrities jumped into the fray. In June of this year actor Robert De Niro went as low as possible when he launched a profanity-laced tirade at the Tony Awards in New York. "It's no longer, 'Down with Trump,'" De Niro declared. "It's [Expletive] Trump.'" The crowd cheered. The hate reached a boiling point.

    Earlier this month, Democrats were surprised when former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told CNN that there is no longer room for civility in politics. "You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for," Clinton said, noting that "civility can start again" when Democrats win the midterm elections.

    Even President Obama's former attorney general, Eric Holder, shocked his colleagues by striking an uncivil tone. On Oct. 7 during an event in Georgia, he said he could no longer abide by the rules suggested by former First Lady Michelle Obama, who famously said of her enemies: "When they go low, we go high." Holder said: "No, no. When they go low, we kick 'em. That's what the new Democratic Party is about."

There's no question that President Trump has poured fuel on this fire. But there's also no question that both Democrats and Republicans have taken hate to a new level in today's political war. It's no wonder that mentally unstable people are mailing bombs and shooting up synagogues. The hate is contagious. Our air is toxic from all the verbal venom that has been released into the atmosphere.

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I've prayed about what my response should be in this Era of Hate. The Lord took me back to the scene when the prophet Isaiah saw the Lord's glory in the temple. Isaiah said: "Woe is me, for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the middle of a people of unclean lips. For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts" (Isa. 6:5).

When Isaiah had his encounter with God, he didn't point a finger and blame anyone else for the ugliness around him. He knew he was part of the problem. He was convicted about his own words. He took responsibility for his own attitudes.

Ask yourself: Are you pouring the fuel of hate on the fire that is raging in our country? Are you an agent of division, or a minister of reconciliation? Are you part of the problem or part of the solution?

I can't stop President Trump from tweeting. I can't stop mobs from forming. I can't convince politicians, newscasters or late-night talk-show hosts from spewing their hateful sarcasm. But I can control my own tongue, and I can keep a lid on my own anger. And I can show a nation of haters that the love of Jesus is the higher way. I hope you will do the same.

[J. Lee Grady was editor of Charisma for 11 years before he launched into full-time ministry in 2010. Today he directs The Mordecai Project, a Christian charitable organization that is taking the healing of Jesus to women and girls who suffer abuse and cultural oppression. Author of several books including 10 Lies the Church Tells Women, he has just released his newest book, Set My Heart on Fire, from Charisma House. You can follow him on Twitter at @LeeGrady or go to his website, themordecaiproject.org.

J. Lee Grady is an ordained minister of the Gospel with credentials in the IPHC. He currently is the Executive Editor of Encourage, an online, digital magazine published monthly. You may go to www.iphc.org to check it out. 

J. Lee is a friend of mine and I hold him in high esteem. He has granted me permission to publish his articles in Hugh' News.]

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Will You Receive the Benediction?

10/31/2018

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John 14:1-6    The Way, the Truth, and the Life

14 "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.  2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.  3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also.  4 And where I go you know, and the way you know." 

5 Thomas said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?" 

6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me. 
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Lighten Up With Laughter

10/30/2018

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​​Teacher: Joey, if you put your hand in one pants pocket and found 75 cents, then you put your other hand in your other pants pocket and found 50 cents, what would you have?

Joey: I'd have somebody else's pants on!
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​Tuesday, October 30, 2018 was a day of God's favor and blessings for Melvine Stewart Morgan & her husband

10/30/2018

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Everyday now is a challenge for Melvine. Too many demands are being hurled at her at one time. There is just so much she can endure. Hopefully, we are learning together in our golden years how to take one day at a time.

We are so grateful for our local church, our pastor and his wife, and the good people who are coming to our rescue to help us.

Today, we saw Dr. Amit D. Shah, MD/PhD, FACC. He is  is the Director of the Electrophysiology Laboratory at St. Mary’s Hospital in Athens, Ga. Dr. Shah practices general cardiology and specializes in implanting pacemakers, defibrillators, and performing electrophysiology studies and ablations of arrhythmia. In fact, Dr. Shah implanted a pacemaker in my chest with success.

He examined Melvine's heart and talked with her about her current medications. He may change one or more medications for her benefit. He told her if she has any heart issues to call him directly and he will take good care of her. He said, Mrs. Morgan, you do not need to go to the emergency clinic. I will take care of you here in our offices. I can do an ekg and save you time and worry. I call that God's favor and blessings.

As always, when going to new doctor I am given the privilege of filling out the paperwork. I was so sleepy that I fell asleep several times and dropped the pen, clip board and papers. People near me in the waiting room were gracious to pick it all up for me. My handwriting had much to be desired and I am not sure anyone could read what I scribbled down.

Since it was lunch time I took Melvine to the Waffle House for lunch. Melvine isn't eating very much, her appetite is not good. She continues to lose weight. That concerns me as well as the doctors.

When we came home Melvine went to bed first. I finally gave in and changed clothes and climbed in bed. I slept for 5 solid hours. I was out of it. My body needed it and I needed it for my sanity and well-being.

Wednesday, is a day of activity. Jeanette Herndon Phillips is coming to take Melvine to see her dermotologist. She is Dr. Joy Chastain, MD, a dermatologist in Athens, GA and has been practicing for 17 years. She graduated from Tulane University School Of Medicine in 1997 and specializes in dermatology, surgery, and more.

I plan to travel over to St. Mary's Wellness Center to renew my exercise program. I have missed that weekly routine of exercise for three weeks now.

I have scheduled an appointment with a representative from Anderson's Windows to measure two windows in our master bedroom, and a few more. I want Melvine to be comfortable when she sleeps and the windows in this 20 year-old-house need replacing for the best in windows.

Melvine turned down the opportunity to have physical therapy in our home today. Hopefully, they can come next week when she is feeling better. 

We will have to cancel our cleaning ladies on Thursday since Melvine will have her second chemotherapy.  This one will be a double dose, the big one. I believe Melvine is at the point where she will ask Dr. Jane Huang, her oncologist, to order a port to be surgically implanted as an outpatient at St. Mary's Hospital. She will not have to be stuck over and over again. In the long haul, it is wise to take this action now. It is decision time for sure.

Continue to remember us in your prayers. We need a lot of prayer.

Please continue sending Melvine get-well cards.

You may write Melvine at this mailing address:

Melvine Morgan
17 Sweet Applel Lane
Winder, GA 30680

She loves the cards and special notes.

May God richly bless all of you for your concern, compassion, correspondence, and prayers for Melvine's healing as well as strength, stamina, vim, vitality, energy, and perseverance. When you lump them all together I call it Spizzerinctum.

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The Holy Spirit in the Incarnation of Jesus written by Dr. Frank G. Tunstall

10/30/2018

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PictureThe Rev. Dr. Frank G. Tunstall, Contributing Writer for Hugh's News, and the Resident Online Scholar of Hugh's News School of Biblical Theology
The Holy Spirit overshadowed the Virgin Mary in a miraculous and sinless conception of Baby Jesus, with God as His Father (Luke 1:35). The angel Gabriel had told Mary that her baby would be the Son of God. An angel told Joseph, who was engaged to marry Mary, not to be afraid to take her as his wife, because her pregnancy was of God.

The birth of Jesus lives to this day as one of the greatest miracles of all time. It ranks with the miraculous power revealed in the creation, as well as Jesus’ crucifixion and resurrection, His ascension and the advent of the Holy Spirit.
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We can only begin to imagine the awesome spiritual power required to conceive a child without a physical union, and get the DNA perfect. As you continue to read and think about the incarnation of Jesus, let yourself consider the sovereign dominion and divine genius of the Holy Spirit that was required to make the incarnation possible.  

Mary’s senior adult relative, Elizabeth, lived in the hill country of Judea. The angel Gabriel had visited Zacharias, her husband, in the temple while he was offering incense and told him his wife would conceive Messiah’s forerunner. They “were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless” (Luke 1:6). Gabriel said John would go to the people of Israel in the spirit and power of Elijah, “to make ready a people prepared for the Lord” (Luke 1:17; Matthew 3:3).

The angel Gabriel told Mary that Elizabeth was in her sixth month carrying Messiah’s forerunner. If Mary needed any confirmation of what Gabriel had told her, making the trip to Elizabeth’s home would be a fool-proof way to verify the angelic prophecy.

When Elizabeth was in her sixth month carrying the baby who would be named John, Mary did just that – she made the long trip from Nazareth to visit Elizabeth. Luke does not tell us if anyone accompanied her, but we can be sure the Holy Spirit protected her. Elizabeth and Zachariah lived in a town in the Judean hills, about ninety miles to the south.
When Mary walked into Elizabeth’s house, Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and began to prophesy. John the Baptist, a six-month baby in Elizabeth’s womb, at the same time leaped in Elizabeth’s womb for joy (Luke 1:36, 41). John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Spirit from His mother’s womb (Luke 1:15).  

Zechariah, John’s father and a Levitical priest, was filled with the Spirit and began to prophesy when the infant John the Baptist was circumcised and given his name (Luke 1:67-69).

The recognition that John was filled with the Spirit from his mother’s womb tells us 21st century children can receive the Holy Spirit too.

Mary made the long trip back home. Then, a few months later, when she was “greatly with child,” Mary made a second trip from Nazareth, this time to Bethlehem (perhaps ten miles shorter). Baby Jesus was born on this trip (Matthew 2:5).
When Jesus was eight days old, His parents took Him to the temple for circumcision (Luke 2:21-24; Leviticus 12:8; Exodus 13:1-2, 12). John the Baptist was about three months old when Baby Jesus was dedicated.

A man named Simeon, who was “righteous and devout,” was in the temple. He was “waiting for the consolation of Israel… the Holy Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord's Christ.” Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts and was present at the exact time Joseph and Mary brought Baby Jesus to the temple (Luke 2:25-27). Simeon took Jesus out of Mary’s arms, and holding the infant, began to speak a prophecy of praise to God:

"Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen Your salvation, which You have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to Your people Israel" (Luke 2:29-32).

No one is ready to leave this world until he has “seen” the Lord’s Messiah.

Simeon’s prophecy was very specific that God had given him a promise he would see His Messiah before his death, and it was fulfilled in those moments in the temple. It must have been minutes of ecstasy for Simeon to realize by the Holy Spirit that he was holding His Messiah in his arms. This Godly man prophesied that Mary’s Baby would have a ministry to Israel and to the Gentile world. Mary and Joseph could only marvel hearing the prophecy.

Simeon then blessed Joseph and Mary, and began to prophesy again, this time speaking to Mary:
"This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too" (Luke 2:34-35 NIV).
One can wonder if the prophecy was like a hit in the stomach to this teenage mother. At a minimum, it was surely a prophecy Mary would never forget.

Some thirty years later, on crucifixion morning, an unnamed person brought the news to Mary that her son had been nailed to a cross.  In the moment she heard it, she must have yelled the piercing scream of a mother’s mortified heart. It is also possible in her shock she remembered Simeon’s prophecy again. The sword had indeed pierced her soul. No mother should ever have to go see her bloody and mangled son hanging on a cross; the dagger must have hurt Mary beyond words. It was surely a memory she never forgot as long as she lived.

Another of the Lord’s saints, an elderly woman named Anna, was also in the temple when Baby Jesus was dedicated.  
“She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying. Coming up to them at that very moment, she gave thanks to God and spoke about the child to all who were looking forward to the redemption of Jerusalem” (Luke 2:37-38 NIV).

Can anyone deny the Holy Spirit understood the time had come for Messiah to be revealed to the world? (Galatians 4:4). The Spirit foreknew all of the people in the drama would be in place (and they were), ready to fulfill their roles and act out of their own free will.  Since all firstborn males in Israel were to be brought to the temple for dedication and circumcision, it is reasonable other babies were in the temple at the same time. Guided by the Holy Spirit, both Simeon and Anna got it exactly right and picked out Baby Jesus.

Biblical prophecy; 100 percent accurate. Amazing!

Jesus was warmly received as a child of twelve in the temple (Luke 2:42-49). But when He launched His ministry, it must be noted that He never had a pleasant, conflict-free visit to the temple Jesus described as “my house.” Jesus also indicted the temple as “a den of thieves” (Matthew 21:13; Isaiah 56:7 Jeremiah 7:11).

At Jesus’ birth Simeon and Anna were living, but they were not temple officials. During Jesus’ ministry years no one in the temple system recognized Him as the Messiah and welcomed Him, and no “Simeon” or “Anna” was living to affirm Him either. Temple worship had moved far afield from the God of Abraham. Yes, Abraham, Moses and David would have been aghast at what had happened to the nation.

John the Baptist, the Forerunner of Jesus

The Bible does not tell us about John the Baptist’s upbringing, but growing up as a Holy Spirit-filled child in a priestly family with Holy Spirit filled parents must have made for unusual parenting. Jesus was not born into a priestly family; instead, He was from the tribe of Judah (Matthew 1:1-6; Like 3:31-34). Without doubt, each of these parents began pouring the Scriptures into Baby John and Baby Jesus, beginning in infancy, and surely before they were old enough to talk.

John’s baptism in the Jordan River was a baptism in which he called on the people to “bring forth fruits worthy of repentance,” and stop their false reliance on Abraham as their father (Luke 3:8). He insisted on personal repentance before God grounded in personal faith, if they were to make straight paths for the Messiah (Matthew 3:3; Mark 1:3; Luke 3:4).

John did prepare the way. He foretold the Lord’s coming, and then announced to the crowd at the Jordan River that Messiah had arrived. John also baptized the Lord in the Jordan “to fulfill all righteousness” and Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit without measure (Matthew 3:1-3, 13-15; Mark 1:7; John 1:29; 3:34). Jesus Himself said no other prophet was greater than John the Baptist (Matthew 11:11; Luke 7:28).

This Spirit-filled man foresaw more than Messiah’s incarnation. John also prophesied the advent of the Holy Spirit which the Heavenly Father would give at Jesus’ request. As Moses had wished for a thousand years earlier, and as Joel had foreseen perhaps 800 years before Jesus’ birth, John the Baptist prophesied the Holy Spirit would be given to the masses of the people, and not to a select few (Numbers 11:29; Joel 2:28). Addressing the throng at the Jordan, John said, “He that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (Matthew 3:11; John 1:15, 27, 30-33 KJV).

“He that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire” (Matthew 3:11; John 1:15, 27, 30-33 KJV). 

The dream was coming true. Messiah was on the scene ready to save the world with a plan only God could have conceived.
The Triune Godhead had framed it in eternity and its day had arrived.



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​Blaming Jews for the Synagogue Slaughter Written by Michael Brown

10/30/2018

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​It's one of the foundations of anti-Semitism. The Jews are guilty. Always. Even when Jewish blood is shed by a demented mass-murderer. This is the fault of the Jewish people.

It's one thing for anti-gun advocates to raise their voices again in the aftermath of the synagogue slaughter: "We must get guns off the streets! Without our current gun laws, this massacre would never have taken place."

We can understand those sentiments, even if we disagree with them.

In the same way, we can understand why President Trump called for armed guards at synagogues and churches. People may scoff at this idea as well, but it too is understandable.

Some, however, go even farther, using the tragedy to make a very strong political statement.

A small group of "progressive" Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh blamed President Trump directly for the massacre.

They wrote, "For the past three years your words and your policies have emboldened a growing white nationalist movement. You yourself called the murderer evil, but yesterday's violence is the direct culmination of your influence."

They made clear that Trump was "not welcome in Pittsburgh" until "until you fully denounce white nationalism . . . until you stop targeting and endangering all minorities . . . until you cease your assault on immigrants and refugees . . . until you commit yourself to compassionate, democratic policies that recognize the dignity of all of us."

Either these liberal Jewish leaders spoke with prophetic insight, or they made an extraordinarily ugly and irresponsible statement claiming that the violence was the "direct culmination of [his] influence." (See here for perspective.)

Others made the bizarre claim that it was Trump's moving our embassy to Jerusalem that caused the bloodshed.

Julia Ioffe, who writes for GQ, tweeted, "And a word to my fellow American Jews: This president makes this possible. Here. Where you live. I hope the embassy move over there, where you don't live was worth it."

And how, pray tell, does she know this? The vast majority of the Muslim world has gone quiet about the moving of our embassy, and it has not produced the level of backlash we were told to expect for years. Yet Ioffe somehow knows that a Nazi-loving shooter in America slaughtered Jewish men and women—one of them 97 years old—because President Trump had the courage to move our embassy.

But Ioffe remains confident, stating that "... pogroms didn't happen without the person at the top, the tsar, the president, condoning it either tacitly or explicitly."

Not only is this irresponsible. It is inaccurate. The pogroms in Eastern Europe happened repeatedly because the anti-Semitic governments looked the other way (or worse). President Trump, a proven friend of Israel with close ties to the Jewish community (right within his own family), wants to do everything possible to prevent another such attack in America.

But who cares about facts when a political point can be scored? And who cares about the fact that violent, anti-Semitic acts have taken place during the administrations of quite a few American presidents? (Speaking of anti-Semitic acts, in Skokie, Illinois, conservative journalist Joel Pollack, himself an Orthodox Jews, writes, "The fight against the Nazi march took place when Jimmy Carter was president; the statue was defaced under Ronald Reagan; the shooting took place under Bill Clinton; the vandalism happened under Barack Obama. Anti-Semitism knows no party.")

And yet there is more, and now it gets even uglier.

A Messianic Jewish friend of mine sent me this note today (Monday, Oct. 29). She was shaken and shocked: "A couple of people, both Jewish believers [in Jesus], after a dynamite message by our pastor [on Sunday], mentioned that they were saddened by the fact that he had not mentioned the synagogue shooting.

"I responded that he very rarely mentioned anything that might be construed as political, which now pretty much includes everything.

My non-Jewish hostess then said 'Well, he probably avoided it because people might think differently about it because they were ... you know ...Jewish."
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In other words, this wasn't like a church shooting or a school shooting. The victims were, you know, Jewish. That makes things a bit more controversial. Best not to mention it from the pulpit.

Seriously?

Even if this was not what the pastor was thinking, the fact that this Christian woman had these thoughts was telling enough.

But it gets even uglier.

Baroness "Jenny Tonge, a British House of Lords lawmaker with a history of making anti-Semitic statements, suggested that the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting was the fault of Israel's policy toward Palestinians."

She posted on Facebook on Saturday—so, just hours after the massacre—"Absolutely appalling and a criminal act, but does it ever occur to Bibi [Netanyahu] and the present Israeli government that it's [sic] actions against Palestinians may be reigniting anti-Semitism?"

She added, "I suppose someone will say it is anti-Semitic to say so?"

Yes, Baroness Tonge, it is anti-Semitic to say so.

But it is nothing new.

It is classic anti-Semitism, restated with the latest flavor of the hour.

When Jews are killed, it is the fault of the Jews, since the Jews are always guilty.

In one generation they are guilty of deicide, a nation of Christ-killers.

In one generation, they are parasites, bleeding their host country dry.

In another generation, they are trying to take over the world.

In another generation, they are guilty of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.

But in every generation, they are guilty. And when they are killed, it is ultimately their fault.

This is the heartbeat of anti-Semitism. To call it evil and satanic would be quite fair.

[Dr. Michael Brown (www.askdrbrown.org) is the host of the nationally syndicated Line of Fire radio program. His latest book is Donald Trump Is Not My Savior. Connect with him on Facebook or Twitter, or YouTube.]

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​Prophecy: What to Expect After Jewish Massacre in Pittsburgh written by  Jennifer LeClaire

10/30/2018

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I was shocked. It was unexpected, but tragedies like the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting always are.

I learned of this horrific event during my School of the Prophetic. I instructed my students to do a prophetic exercise I call "Current Events" where they prophesy into a news headline.

While they were praying, I decided to look at the news headlines to find an example so I could demonstrate. To my surprise, I read headlines about a massacre in a synagogue in Pittsburgh. It shook me as I saw what the enemy was planning next.

The massacre left 11 dead in an attack during worship services. According to CBS News, the victims ranged in age from 54 to 97, the latter of whom was a Holocaust survivor.

Police sources tell KDKA's Andy Sheehan the gunman, Robert Bowers, walked into the building and yelled, "All Jews must die."

According to 2016 FBI statistics (the most recent year data is available), there has been a nearly 5 percent hate crimes increase since 2015 and 10 percent since 2014. The FBI reports 1,273 crimes committed due to religious hatred—half those were against Jews.

Anti-Semitism is rising in the U.S., and this is just the beginning. The Holy Spirit showed me Ant-Semitism is going to ramp up. Most people aren't aware that there are nearly as many Jews in America as there are in Israel. America is a stronghold for the Jewish people and therefore will become a greater target of terrorism in the years ahead.

In my School of the Prophetic, I heard the Lord say:

"This is indeed a day of demarcation where you will begin to see more public, more vicious attacks upon My people. You will see them targeted for abuse and targeted for discrimination. You will see this because I am preparing a way for the Aliyah. I am preparing a way for them to return to their land. I am preparing a way in an unwelcome environment.

"As for you, you shall stand for them and you shall bless them and curse them not. You shall bless them with your prayers and you shall bless them with your words. And you will not be known as a people who tears down a people that I am building. For My heart is still with My chosen nation. My heart is still with My people.

"And I am charging you today with a renewed response of intercession to press in for My people, to bless Israel and to pray for the peace of Jerusalem but not just the Jerusalem that is in the Middle East but the Jerusalem that is here, represented by My people that are round and about you.
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"They need know My Son. They need to know Him as Messiah, the one that came to sacrifice His blood and His body on the cross for their eternal redemption So begin even now to press into strategies to see My people saved because I am bringing them to a new place even as the attacks against them begin to arise. I will place a hedge of protection around them according to the intensity of your prayers because I want them to come into the knowledge of the truth."

Prayer points:

—Pray for the salvation of the Jews.

—Pray for the Messianic movement around the world.

—Pray for the Aliyah.

—Pray against Anti-Semitism.

—Bless Israel and the Jewish people.

—Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and the Jews around the world.

[Jennifer LeClaire is senior leader of Awakening House of Prayer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, founder of the Ignite Network and founder of the Awakening Blaze prayer movement. She is author of over 25 books. Find her online at jenniferleclaire.org or email her at info@jenniferleclaire.org.]
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​NYC Pastor Carter Conlon: Pray for Love And Unity That Only God Can Bring

10/30/2018

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PicturePastor Carter Conlon
‘We Must Get Together Now and Ask for God’s Love and Truth to Abound in Our Cities Once More—It’s Time to Pray’

NEW YORK—As the nation learns more about the 11 victims of the tragic shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, New York City pastor Carter Conlon’s Times Square Church is praying for the community.

“Our sincere condolences and the heartfelt prayers of the Times Square Church congregation are being lifted up to the throne of God for the families and friends of the victims in Pittsburgh,” Conlon said. “It is now imperative that we join together in prayer for the comfort of those affected and for the love and unity which only God can bring to touch our beloved country again. We have been spiritually awakened as a people throughout history. We must get together now and ask for God’s love and truth to abound in our cities once more. It’s time to pray.”

Conlon is the author of the new book, It’s Time to Pray, which will be released next week. In it, he dedicates an entire chapter to “Praying for Peace.” Times Square Church in Manhattan is an interdenominational congregation with over 10,000 people in attendance who represent 100 different nationalities.]

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