Link Roundup Sunday

 

1. Plant Righteousness in Your Land

2. Poll Reveals 55% of Americans Don't Know Planned Parenthood does Abortions—Let Alone How Many

3. Pastor Saeed Suffering Organ Failure as a Result of Beatings

4. Syrians Ask Christians Worldwide to Unite With Them in Prayer

5. Pentagon’s New Consultant on Religious Tolerance Policy Warns against “well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans…”

6. The Momentum of a "Seismic and Atmospheric" Spiritual Shift

7. Obamacare’s Tax Hike Train Wreck Just around the bend.

8. Ears to Hear/Hearts to Obey

9. What the Lord is Saying Today – May 2013

10. The Father Says Today – May 2013

11. Greg Laurie to Gay Activists: 'I Won't Back Down'

12. And This Is How Tyranny Takes Hold – Insipid Stupidity…

13. Is being Wrong Prophetically mean someone made a Mistake...

14. Extravagance and Splendor

15. Pray for America

16. When Rock-Star Preachers Spew a False Gospel

17. Mike Huckabee: Why America Needs God More Than Ever

18. Persecuted, Imprisoned Pastor's Wife Asks Obama to Step Up

19. Kentucky Derby Triggers Spike in Human Trafficking

20. Pastor Greg Laurie Opens National Day of Prayer at Pentagon

21. North Korea Sentences "devout Christian" American to 15 Years Hard Labor

22. Amazing and Historic Springtime Snow Hits US Heartland

23. A Key To Friendship With God: Be Still!

24. PENTAGON MAY COURT MARTIAL SOLDIERS WHO SHARE CHRISTIAN FAITH

25. The Most Important Blog I Have Ever Written.

26. That I May Know Him

27. President Obama Calls on Americans to 'Reflect on Sacredness of Life' on Nat'l Day of Prayer

28. Ohio Air Reservoir Manufacturing Company Sues HHS Over Mandate

29. John Piper Lauds ESPN Analyst's Response to Jason Collins' 'Gay Christian' Claim

30. Shining the light of truth on the warfare taking place...

31. Your Gifting is in your Area of Temptation

32. God Deals Only in the Extraordinary

33. Israelis Display Strength in the Face of Terrorism

34. Jason Castro: Faith to Move Mountains

35. In Wake of Gosnell Atrocities, Delaware becomes First State Since 1973's Roe v Wade to Halt Surgical Abortions

36. Boston Bombing Car-Jacking Victim Speaks about Terrifying Ordeal: "God was with me"

37. A Prayer for America From Nigerian-American Christians

38. Destined For Greatness - "Will You Be Ready?"

39. HIGH SCHOOL TRACK TEAM DISQUALIFIED WHEN RUNNER GESTURES THANKS TO GOD

40. Your voice is weakening Obama.

41. OBAMA OK WITH MORNING-AFTER PILL SALES AT AGE 15

42. A Royal Blood Transfusion

43. The Dangers of Religion

44. Pastor Greg Laurie: 'We Have Forgotten God but He Has Not Forgotten Us'

45. Pentagon Denies Plans to Court Martial Evangelicals; Questions Remain

46. Bishop Tobin to Catholics of Rhode Island on "same-sex marriage"...

47. The Death Agenda

48. Let's Face Our Giants

49. Pentagon Defends its New Policy against "proselytization" in the Military—but their Definitions Raise Concern…Meanwhile, First Military Officer Steps Forward to Defy the Policy

50. Dan & Linda Wilson: Revival of Righteousness

51. A Sportscaster Comes Out As Christian.

52. Michelle Obama’s Bogus Claim School Children “Wake Up Fearing Death”

A Letter To Satan-Blair Wingo

 

I’m Just A man-Versatyle

 

Cowboy’s Prayer-David Allan Coe

 

This Little Light Of Mine

 

1 John 5

 

1 John 5

1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.

² This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

³ In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome,

⁴ for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.

⁵ Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.

⁶ This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

⁷ For there are three that testify:

⁸ the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.

⁹ We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son.

¹⁰ Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony.Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar,because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son.

¹¹ And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

¹² Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

¹³ I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

¹⁴ This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

¹⁵ And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

¹⁶ If you see any brother or sister commit a sin that does not lead to death, you should pray and God will give them life. I refer to those whose sin does not lead to death. There is a sin that leads to death. I am not saying that you should pray about that.

¹⁷ All wrongdoing is sin, and there is sin that does not lead to death.

¹⁸ We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them.

¹⁹ We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

²⁰ We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true.And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

²¹ Dear children, keep yourselves from idols.

Psalm 3

 

Psalm 3

¹ Lord, how many are my foes! How many rise up against me!

² Many are saying of me, “God will not deliver him.”

³ But you, Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, the One who lifts my head high.

⁴ I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.

⁵ I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the Lord sustains me.

⁶ I will not fear though tens of thousands assail me on every side.

⁷ Arise, Lord! Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.

⁸ From the Lord comes deliverance. May your blessing be on your people.

Numbers 9

 

Numbers 9

1 The Lord spoke to Moses in the Desert of Sinai in the first month of the second year after they came out of Egypt. He said,

² “Have the Israelites celebrate the Passover at the appointed time.

³ Celebrate it at the appointed time, at twilight on the fourteenth day of this month, in accordance with all its rules and regulations.”

⁴ So Moses told the Israelites to celebrate the Passover,

⁵ and they did so in the Desert of Sinai at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. The Israelites did everything just as the Lord commanded Moses.

⁶ But some of them could not celebrate the Passover on that day because they were ceremonially unclean on account of a dead body. So they came to Moses and Aaron that same day

⁷ and said to Moses, “We have become unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be kept from presenting the Lord’s offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

⁸ Moses answered them, “Wait until I find out what the Lord commands concerning you.”

⁹ Then the Lord said to Moses,

¹⁰ “Tell the Israelites: ‘When any of you or your descendants are unclean because of a dead body or are away on a journey, they are still to celebrate the Lord’s Passover,

¹¹ but they are to do it on the fourteenth day of the second month at twilight. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

¹² They must not leave any of it till morning or break any of its bones. When they celebrate the Passover, they must follow all the regulations.

¹³ But if anyone who is ceremonially clean and not on a journey fails to celebrate the Passover, they must be cut off from their people for not presenting the Lord’s offering at the appointed time. They will bear the consequences of their sin.

¹⁴ “‘A foreigner residing among you is also to celebrate the Lord’s Passover in accordance with its rules and regulations. You must have the same regulations for both the foreigner and the native-born.’”

¹⁵ On the day the tabernacle, the tent of the covenant law,was set up, the cloud covered it. From evening till morning the cloud above the tabernacle looked like fire.

¹⁶ That is how it continued to be; the cloud covered it, and at night it looked like fire.

¹⁷ Whenever the cloud lifted from above the tent, the Israelites set out; wherever the cloud settled, the Israelites encamped.

¹⁸ At the Lord’s command the Israelites set out, and at his command they encamped. As long as the cloud stayed over the tabernacle, they remained in camp.

¹⁹ When the cloud remained over the tabernacle a long time, the Israelites obeyed the Lord’s order and did not set out.

²⁰ Sometimes the cloud was over the tabernacle only a few days; at the Lord’s command they would encamp, and then at his command they would set out.

²¹ Sometimes the cloud stayed only from evening till morning, and when it lifted in the morning, they set out. Whether by day or by night, whenever the cloud lifted, they set out.

²² Whether the cloud stayed over the tabernacle for two days or a month or a year, the Israelites would remain in camp and not set out; but when it lifted, they would set out.

²³ At the Lord’s command they encamped, and at the Lord’s command they set out. They obeyed the Lord’s order, in accordance with his command through Moses.

The Suffering Christ

 

Isaiah 53

1 Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?

² He grew up before him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

³ He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.

⁴ Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering,
yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted.

⁵ But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

⁶ We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

⁷ He was oppressed and afflicted, yet he did not open his mouth; he was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before its shearers is silent, so he did not open his mouth.

⁸ By oppression and judgment he was taken away.
Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.

⁹ He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

¹⁰ Yet it was the Lord’s will to crush him and cause him to suffer, and though the Lord makes his life an offering for sin, he will see his offspring and prolong his days,
and the will of the Lord will prosper in his hand.

¹¹ After he has suffered, he will see the light of life and be satisfied; by his knowledge my righteous servant will justify many, and he will bear their iniquities.

¹² Therefore I will give him a portion among the great,
and he will divide the spoils with the strong, because he poured out his life unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Army Of The Lord-Jason Upton