Is it the Pain, or the Pills?  theunfetteredpreacher 

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I don’t know whether it is the pain or the pills that are making it hard for me to study and to write.

I read,  and a verse catches my eye, I begin to search out the word and the brakes,  self apply. 

My mind seems to close, I have lost my way.  My train of thought has fallen off the tracks.  

My drive wheels, are just spinning,  moving fast, going nowhere, and going there slowly.   There is grease on the tracks.   

I cannot think, I cannot write.  

Like my desire for a platform, a pulpit, a people to share the word, I am going nowhere.

Like this post.   Lord, help.   Amen

Praise ye the Lord:  Day 148/2017:  theunfetteredpreacher 

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The message today, is PRAISE YE THE LORD.  It does not matter who or what you are, mountain,  river,  star or beast, angel or man, king or slave.

The Lord demands PRAISE.  For a long time, I believed effective Praise, came mainly by song.  I was wrong. 

We can and do Praise, when our song lifts up the Lord, exalts the Lord, thanks the Lord.  The problem is many of our songs, concentrate on us.

I have come to believe effective corporate and private Praise, is just lifting our voices, not in unison,  but each individual as they are lead.

Example:

Me:  I love you Lord, I exalt You, I Praise Your Holy Name, Holy, Holy, Holy are You Lord, ect

At the same time, you:  I exalt You Lord, I magnify, You Oh Awesome God, I love You, ect.

When a group of people lift up their Praise…  God is Exalted on High.  We get His attention.   He hears and enjoys our Praise.

I encourage you to try it….  we experience His Presence. 

Amen

Thank You, EMT’S:  theunfetteredpreacher 

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This thank you, is long overdue.   I should have written it, a few years ago and again, another one a few weeks ago.

A Special Heart Felt, Thank You, to the Carteret County’s EMT’S.   They have cared for us, more often, then we would like.

They certainly, are a very present help, in times of trouble. 

My wife and I are both, Diabetic. 

My wife for 50 years.  She is in excellent health, and is more afraid of high blood sugars than low.

She keeps careful watch, but there are times that things slip by, and suddenly her sugar is too low for me to bring her around.   

A very scary time, the EMT’S, calmly, carefully administer, that which I can’t, and  She usually bounces back quickly.  (Thank you).

Myself, on the other hand, do not have the long history of Diabetes. 

I have adult onset, Diabetes.   I am not the guy that stops  3 or 4 times  a day,  to check my blood sugar, (my error).

I figure out what I  should take, and what I should eat, and run with it.  

This has not always worked out, as planned. 

I have been carried to the hospital a couple of times with low sugar, (After being rescued, from places, the EMT’S,  really had to work at, to reach me, . … sorry, …  nothings ever easy).

To eventually be released, from the hospitals  wonderful  care, later that night…  sugar leval, corrected.   

I have gotten better at keeping track, but honestly, if it can happen to my wife, as carefully  as she keeps track, I am concerned,  how easily low sugars can occur. 

The EMT’S, have also given me a ride to the ER, a few times for pneumonia.  They again, have given excellent care.

I cannot praise Carteret Health Care, staff, and all the EMT’S in the area, enough to truly thank them, and I thank the Lord, that they are here. In our times of need.

Once again, THANK YOU. 

REMARKABLE!   theunfetteredpreacher 

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Another great post from my friend Nelson. 

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This morning while eating my breakfast cereal,  Kellogg’s Mini Wheats Little Bites, I happened to read on the back of the box their “Colorful Clues” question: “How are Little Bites like a dry erase board?” Answer: “They’re both remarkable.” A play on the word “remarkable” causing me to think that the question could also have been, “How are WE like a dry erase board?” Same answer. “They’re both remarkable.” Spelled another way is what I think is a better answer, RE -markable. Like a dry erase board humans have been written on by others or our own self talk and life choices and events. BUT also, like the dry erase board we too can erase and re-mark our lives when we choose to.

I heard the News today,.. oh my:  theunfetteredpreacher 

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I am a talk radio junkie.  For the uninformed,  it almost naturally follows, that I am a Christian, Conservative.

We the people, (regardless of our politics), cannot avoid hearing the main stream media, all the time, everywhere we go.

Since it is what we hear, all our lives, it appears to be, and most of us, accept it, as Truth, the  Normal, both Reality Based and Sane.

It almost certainly  isn’t. 

The News Media,  with the help of our Godless Politicians, have claimed normalcy, for gay marriage,  transgender, transracial, and white privilege, ideas, all to be acceptable, and we must embrace them.

These things, are neither normal or true.  Free speach, is not hate speach, as it is quickly being labeled. 

It doesn’t matter what Bruce or Bradley do, or think,  they may call themselves females, but they will always be males.

Rachel and Elizabeth are both Caucasian, and women.  

Black lives do not matter more then Blue lives, or any, human life.

I am sorry to break your bubble,  but practising homosexuality, is sin, and not an acceptable activity.  (Believe it, or not).

I do not dislike, or hate any of above believers of the lies of the left.   

We the people have heard these lies so often, that when we hear, a different opinion, it is easy to reject it.   

We must search, to find an alternative to the main stream media.  To find the truth.

For people who have been taught to be offended by flags, statues and speach,  these different opinions, facts, philosophy,  must be false, seem hateful, even scary.

In todays world it is not hard to search, the official government records, to find the truth, to review the statistics, to know voting records.

Instead, we are removing Confederate Statues, Confederate Battle Flags,  changing the names of buildings, roads, and towns, trying to erase our history.  

Like changing our skin color, or gender, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE,  IT IS WHAT IT IS, WE ARE WHO WE ARE.  

If we hide it, deny it, or if we haven’t been taught truth, we are left with the lie.  Soon we will repeat the history we are scrambling to  scrub from our lives.

I understand Treasury Agents, study real money, so that they might recognize, the counterfeit.   We must learn to do the same.

Whether it is when life begins, to the statistics on shooting deaths.  The history of our political parties on civil liberties, or the truth on climate change.

We must go beyond the information we are fed daily and search for the truth.  Read, listen, question,  opposing views.  

Have an open, not an empty mind.

As a Christian,  I do not just accept what I am taught.  I have studied the Word, I believe, I trust, I  pray, that I would and will recognize the counterfeit. 

We must do the same, with the information, the News, we hear every day.  Know the source,  consider the motives, use your head.

Think, do not allow feelings, to override intelligence. 

End of rant, thanks for reading.   Any comments? 

Bible Study 5/24/17:  theunfetteredpreacher 

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Here are some verses we should both memorize, and learn the addresses.   If your Bible has a concordance start there.

I will have several on hand if needed.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.

That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him.

These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things, which thou knowest not.

For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
O Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.

I will call upon the Lord, who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

 How shall we sing the LORD’s song?  2:  theunfetteredpreacher  

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Psalm: 137. 4. 

“How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?“

As I was writing the first post with this title,  I had a revelation about these verses in Matthew. 

Matthew: 11. 28-30

 “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 

 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

When my wife was young, her Dad still farmed with a team of horses.   He had tractors, but had kept the livestock.  (Sentimental reasons, and to show, I’d guess).

He would put a yoke on them and lead them, or drive them to the field to work.  

They would do the heavy lifting,  the hard work of breaking the ground, or pulling a wagon full of hay.   

They would be wet and tired after a day in the field.  They needed to be cooled, brushed and fed.

Unfortunately,  some people seeing the verses above, are afraid to put on the Yoke of Christ. 

Afraid it is a heavy burden,  hard sweaty work, exhausting, thankless work.

Read it again, and realize this…

WE VOLUNTARILY TAKE HIS YOKE, He does not place a Yoke on us.

NO, HE IS ON THE OTHER END OF THE YOKE.

We put it on.

He doesn’t lead, or drive us to the fields.   He is beside us.   His Yoke is easy, the Burden is light.

Only, then do we find the rest we are promised. 

When we learn to walk with, not before or after, by with and in His time, in His direction.

What does that have to do with,

“How shall we sing the LORD’s song in a strange land?“

When we learn to walk with Him, the song shines through.  It does not matter the Denomination, or the style of Worship,  His love shines through.

I have been frustrated.  

The Lord, put a Psalm singing, tongue talking, power of God desiring guy, in a quiet, Rituals, oriented, and heavily structured Church.

I cannot understand why singing scriptures does not interest them.   I never will, but I acknowledge they love the Lord, and serve Him as they have been taught.

I long for the day the Lord allows me to lead His people to the throne room of grace, where the  power of God is present to heal, comfort and save the lost.

Lord, come…