Pray For Israel! Pray For The U.S. As Well!

   Why is U.S. policy against Israel? Israel is not only a true friend to us, but one of our staunchest allies in the Middle East! They have every right to build in any area of Jerusalem. It is their capitol spiritually and physically! Regardless of what the U.S. does, God will ultimately protect them, for the Jewish nation is most precious to Him.  In Deuteronomy 32:10, speaking of Jacob/Israel, "In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him as the apple of His eye."
    Our present administration is raining curses down on the U.S. by not backing Israel's stance to build own their own land!

                                                     

Israel to continue building in east Jerusalem

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JERUSALEM – Israel insisted Friday it would continue building in contested east Jerusalem, taking an uncompromising stance against U.S. pressure following a tense visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington.
The refusal to change long-standing Israeli policy signaled that a high-profile rift between the U.S. and Israel remained wide, with stalled Mideast peace talks caught in the middle.
"The prime minister's position is that there is no change in Israeli policy on Jerusalem," Netanyahu's office said in a statement. Shortly after, he convened a previously scheduled meeting of key ministers to frame a response to Washington's demands for Israeli peace gestures.
Israeli soldiers, meanwhile, clashed Friday with militants inside the Hamas-run Gaza Strip in some of the fiercest fighting there since the January 2009 Gaza war.

Security officials with Gaza's Hamas-run Interior Ministry said Israeli soldiers were firing artillery and tank rounds near the southern city of Khan Younis. Footage broadcast on Al-Arabiya television showed ambulances that were unable to reach the scene of the fighting because of the gunfire waiting in alleyways as residents gathered around. Local medical officials reported that five civilians were injured.

The Israeli military provided no information on the clashes. The Hamas military wing's Web site said its gunmen were involved — a departure from the Islamic militant group's tendency over the past year to avoid confrontation with Israeli forces.
Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida told Hamas radio that Israeli forces "fell into an ambush" set by Hamas militants east of Khan Younis. He did not elaborate.

The outbreak of violence highlighted the region's volatility as the U.S. strives to get Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking back on track.
The Obama administration says Israeli construction in east Jerusalem undermines U.S. efforts to relaunch Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The Palestinians want that sector of the holy city for a future capital and view the expanding Jewish presence there as a challenge to their claim.
Netanyahu's meetings with President Barack Obama and other top U.S. officials did not appear to quell U.S. anger over a major east Jerusalem construction project whose announcement in the middle of a visit by Vice President Joe Biden touched off the worst diplomatic row between the two countries in decades.
The disclosure Wednesday that 20 new Jewish homes would be built in the heart of an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem only stoked the frictions.
In the Syrian capital of Damascus, tens of thousands of Syrians and Palestinians gathered Friday for a government-orchestrated "march of anger" against Israeli construction in Jerusalem's eastern sector.
Protesters waved Syrian and Palestinian flags and pictures of Hamas leaders as they shouted anti-Israel slogans, and senior Hamas official Mohammed Nazzal condemned what he called Israel's "brutal aggression" on holy sites.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem immediately after capturing it from Jordan during the 1967 Mideast war and does not consider Jewish construction there to be settlement activity. The international community does not recognize the annexation and equates the Jewish construction there with West Bank settlements.

Should Netanyahu decide at any point to bend on east Jerusalem, he would likely do so at the expense of watching his hardline government splinter. He could, however, replace his hawkish coalition partners with the moderate Kadima Party, whose leader, Tzipi Livni, is open to sharing the holy city.

Israel's unyielding stance earned Netanyahu a chilly reception this week at the White House. In what was widely regarded as a snub, the news media were not allowed into any part of the two meetings between Obama and Netanyahu. No joint news conference was held afterward, no statements were issued about what happened, and the White House did not even release a photograph.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also rebuked the visiting Israeli leader, saying expansionist Israeli housing policies erode trust and compromise Washington's position as an honest broker.

Netanyahu received a warm public reception from Congress, however, an indication that the administration might be limited in how much pressure it can apply. American Jewish backers of Israel are traditionally reliable supporters of the Democratic Party.
The fate of Jerusalem is the most explosive issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel captured east Jerusalem from Jordan in the 1967 Mideast war and immediately annexed the area — a move that has never been recognized internationally. The Palestinians want east Jerusalem as the capital of a state that includes the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Over the years, Israel has built a ring of Jewish neighborhoods in east Jerusalem to cement its control over the area. About 180,000 Israelis live in these neighborhoods and about 2,000 more live in Palestinian neighborhoods.

The latest plans for construction in east Jerusalem have thrown into question the fate of U.S.-mediated peace talks that the Palestinians and Israelis had agreed to just before the diplomatic feud erupted.

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Dream Home

Well, I did not win the HGTV Dream Home 2010 that I entered numerous times! Wow - what a home! I have a home with a beautiful view here in the mountains, what would I need with a huge home like that anyway, right? The Bible tells us to be content with what we have (Hebrews 13:5) and I know I am guilty of wanting more! A lady that survived Katrina won that home, and I am glad for her! Lord, I am thankful for so many things that you have allowed me and my family to have. My home may be small, but the love makes it bigger! I pray that you will help me to realize how much I do have and to be content Lord!

Defeat The Health Care Fiasco!!

   Please pray for the defeat of this fiasco of legislation that is before our senators & represntatives this weekend! Not only will it over tax present & future generations, it will allow for federal funding of abortion!
  "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be." Psam 139:13-16.
  We need to re-vamp our health care system, but not this way!

Ask For Help!

"Ask,and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you." Matthew 7:7

 Did you ever try to do something that was in your heart, but didn't have any experience or known which way to turn just to start? That is how most meaningful tasks get accomplished. With your will lining up with Gods' will; He can make a way for you to overcome circumstances, lack of funds, and other obstacles in order to achieve the goals He has set for you! Don't sell yourself short, be an overcomer in Christ!!

Birthdays in Heaven

Today, March 15th, is my mother and my oldest sister, Cathey, birthdays! Yes, both on the same day - very special - you see today, they are celebrating their birthdays together again, like always. Except, today, it is another birthday celebration in Heaven as they died within a year of each other - My mom died in 2006 and my sister in 2007. No more pain, no more worries, no more fears - Tears---- still for me, but they are full of joy and celebration! I will Praise you Lord for Your Love - Your Peace - Your Glory - I Celebrate You Today - Tell My Mom and Sister that I miss them!

Mud

All the snow melts and turns into mud out where I live - dirt roads, dirt driveway, now mud and ruts! Sometimes it seems like our lives get alot of ruts and we get stuck in our own 'mud"! I was really complaining yesterday about the mud and yet this is where I live - this is home! How can I complain so much when I am really so thankful - yes, thankful! I have so much more than so many people - I have a wonderful husband and a beautiful healthy daughter! I have friends and family that care about me and love me! But most of all, I have a loving Father who gives me life and hope! One day there will be streets of gold!

It is snowing now, covering up the mud for now, until the sun melts it once again. Forgive me Lord, for complaining about such small things, in such a wonderful life that you have given me!

Lord, "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow". Psalm 51:7

The Return

  "For many shall come in my name ,saying, I am Christ; and shall decveive many." Matthew 24:5
  "And you shall hear of wars and rumours of wars...and their shall be  famines,pestilence,and   EARTHQUAKES, in divers places" Mathew 24: 6a & 7b.
  Two more earthquakes this week, Chile, and Taiwan! We just had Haiti, and the week befor Haiti, a 6.8
quake off of Northern California! " All these are but the beginning of sorrows." Matthew 24:8.

  With all of these end times signs so close together, can Jesus' return be near?
"But of that day and hour knoweth no man,no, not the angels of heaven,but my Father only." Matthew 24:36.

  Let us be diligent in our adherence to our Lord Jesus Christ. He could come at any time! Will He find you
ready or not? If you don't have a relationship with Him in your heart, you won't be ready! God loves us and made us in His image. He wants to fellowship with us. Please, consider receiving His grace and forgiveness
today! It only takes a moment to pray to the Lord. If you're thinking you have to be perfect first, you won't make it. He is the only perfect one! In your silent prayer to Him, ask Him to help you in your unbelief!
 
 

Life Is Happens While We Are Making Other Plans!

        "A mans heart devises his way: but the Lord directs his steps."---Proverbs 16:9

     So many times we plan & dream & save to accomplish something that seems so important to us at the time.
However, down the road circumstances seem to re-arrange themselves and throw various hindrances our way.
Our reaction to these "road-blocks" can be a source of drawing closer to God, or moving farther away from Him. God gives us a free will, it is up to us to use it for His glory. So many times in my life I have thought I knew which direction God wanted me to take, only to be challenged with unforseen delays & closures. At these times it is up to us to remember, He is always with us, trying to guide us if we will just listen to His "still, small voice"
& get out of His way.

Trust in the Lord!

Just thinking about how the world is today - I am currently unemployed, as so many others, wondering just what my future will be now. I have always wanted a job that would allow me to be there for my daughter, for the summers and the times that she will not be in school. It took me a long time to have a child, and I only have one. I went to alot of doctors with no success in having a child, and when we moved out into the middle of nowhere in the country, I actually became pregnant! So now, as an older mom, I want as much time with her as possible!

I find myself at home alot, especially during these winter months, wondering if this is where God truly wants me to be now. I have to trust in Him for direction and guidance, for so many things , that somehow seem so distant. I know that God loves me, and cares for me. I need to trust in Him and believe that He knows the desires of my heart, and cares.

Proverbs 3: 5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.

Make my paths straight O Lord, I pray!