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Christian books are among the most preferred literature for children and adults alike. They not only tell miraculous stores but teach lessons for life.

There are quite a lot Christian books published nowadays. If you are already into this type of literature, you will easily find your way among the bookshelves of any book store. If Christian literature is new to you, read the reviews of some of the most popular titles.

Karen Kingsbury is among the most popular authors in this field. Ever After is one of the most requested books. This novel continues the tale of Shane and Lauren in present years and is for every one who’s looking for a new start in life. Forever is another book by Karen Kingsbury that treats almost the same subject, although the emphasis is on love and relationships.

Facing Your Giants by Max Lucado is a novel based on the life of David. It’s a humorous book that teaches the readers to face their fears and not let any obstacle control their lives.

If you are looking for a Christian book about marriage look for the Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas. The book will give you a different view on marriage matters and will help you overcome the hardships. Another book treating the same purpose but targeted to men is the book of Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker - Every Man’s Marriage. It gives men a powerful tool to understanding women that is designed to help in their day to day life n couple.

Our list of some of the best Christian books will not be complete if we do not mention some of the best books for heaven. In Light of Eternity by Randy Alcorn is selected by many readers to be the best one in this section. It is helpful for anyone who lost a close person and tries to cope with his grief. Heaven is another highly preferred book by Randy Alcorn. It provides a research on the biblical description of heaven, answering many questions and many issues of interest.

Christian book lovers can also look for Christian magazines. Some of the best ones are Christian History & Biography magazine (focused on the historical facts of the Christian faith), Christianity Today (news, advice and entertainment both online and in the printed version), CCM (Christian music issues), Today’s Christian Woman (Christian women magazine), New Man Magazine (Christian men magazine). In fact there are many more. You can make a quick research online or ask your friends to recommend you the best ones.

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When most people think of bikers, they think of rough looking, scruffy, hell raising men and women dressed in leather clad. These bikers can be intimidating to look at and gangs like the Hell’s Angels and Mongrels have had their stories made into countless TV shows and movies. While this grizzly type of a biker is a stereotype, there is a growing segment of the biker population who may still look scruffy and wear the leather, but these men and women are different, they are Christians.

Many of these bikers have always been Christian, others became Christian after years of partying had landed them in rehab where they found their higher power, and others became Christians in prison as a result of prison ministry.

Since bikers come from a culture that is territorial, loyal, and mainly patriotic and known for their all night parties, many bikers feel embarrassed at many mainstream churches because they feel they don’t fit in and may be the subject of ridicule. As a result of this, there are biker friendly Churches and Ministries popping up around the world.

Today, there are Christian biker organizations with chapters that cover the globe. One of the larger organizations is the Christian Motorcyclists Association or CMA. The CMA’s main purpose is as an outreach ministry, but not exclusively to the motorcycling community. The CMA’s noble mission is “To inspire their leaders and members to be the most organized, advanced, equipped, financially stable organization, full of integrity in the motorcycling industry and the Kingdom of God”.

CMA has partnered with three other ministries which are the Jesus Film Project, Missionary Ventures, and Open Doors to spread God”s word across the world. In 2006 alone, CMA donated $681,044.00 to each of these three ministries from money raised at their Run for the Son fundraiser.

Another big Christian biker association is the Christian Biker Missionaries or CBM. CBM is a non-profit organization based out of one of the motorcycle capitols, Daytona Beach. Their missions is “To Spread the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the biker community by recruiting, placing, and supporting biker missionaries in the field to bring hope to the highways.”

Christian bikers are international. An international association is the International Christian Bikers Association, or ICBA. The ICBA organizes special biker rallies and runs and are also active in prison outreach ministry.

There are also websites dedicated to serving Christian bikers. Christian Bikers Online is a site dedicated to helping Christian bikers to stay in touch while online. They like to think of their site at a cyber club house. At their site you will find a forum, gallery, dating system and resources for Christian rallies and rides.

There is no doubt, Christian bikers are a growing movement. They can be found in your local church, on the road, at rallies and around the world. They have a noble purpose to save the souls of their fellow bikers.

So next time you see grizzly leather clad biker, don”t be too quick to judge. That biker may just be your brother in the Lord.

The author is publisher of the Online Christian Shopper Christian biker clothing and jewelry Web portal.

The Reform Catholic Church (RCC) is a worldwide conglomerate of churches that were created in the 1960’s, however, the concept was created long ago.

The name was chosen out of hundreds of options in an effort to maintain a connection to traditional Orthodox and Catholic churches and beliefs systems while, at the same time, realizing the necessity for an ongoing reform of the methods used by the Church to communicate with its members. Many Reform Catholic organizations use acronyms as their names.

It was Roman Catholic priests that first bound together to form the RCC, as well as Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox who, in some way or another, were displeased with some, or many, of the activities and decisions of their churches.

This led them to search for a more fulfilling way to practice their beloved Christian religion. As one of the goals, the founders looked to create a Christian church that was inclusive, tolerant and quenched the spiritual thirst of the todays people while making the life of Christ as described in the Bible more meaningful to them.

As an example of the beliefs of the RCC, it encourages membership or transition to Orthodox, Catholic and other Christian churches, because of it’s belief in the communion of those Christian churches.

For the most part, the RCC adheres to the religious beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church. However, one difference is that the RCC believes, if qualified, both men and women have the right to become clergy members, due to their inherent spiritual equality.

Clergy are allowed to marry in an effort to allow them to more fully participate in the normal daily lives of the people around them. This, actually, is no different than the faith of the Roman Catholic Churches, since many of them who are in full communion with the Vatican allow their clergy to marry, as well.

At this point you may be wondering what type of prayers the RCC uses. For the most part, it uses the same ceremonies and prayers that you would find in the Roman Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches.

Various methods of birth control are accepted. However, as a general rule, abortions are disapproved of. In truth, it is understood that there may be certain circumstances in which an abortion would be justified.

The sacrament of marriage is performed as it is in many other churches, in such that God, through His clergy, joins together the couple who want to be married.

Divorces, as well, can be granted to those who want them. Divorce, however, is not looked upon favorably and only a married couple that are fundamentally incompatible and in which a true marital relationship does not exist will be granted one.

Learn more about the Reform Catholic Church and it’s religious beliefs and practices

I believe we create our own luck, whether it’s good or bad. Consciously, or unconsciously, we may have ourselves at some time or another, produced our current conditions, either in our bodily health or other circumstances.

Because not much happens by chance, most things, good or bad, comes into our lives as a result of the thoughts we engage in, or by what God ordains to get our attention.

It’s easy to blame someone, or something outside of ourselves, and make excuses as to why we may be experiencing certain unpleasant situations. But, we must be mature enough to take full responsibility for our own lives and quit playing the part of the victim. It’s liberating when you can say, “I got myself into this, and with God’s help, I can get out.” There is no power in acting like a victim.

There is no easy way out of trouble, but there is a simple way. Think rightly instead of wrongly, and conditions will begin to improve.

What is thinking rightly? It’s what the bible says about you, your circumstances, and God. It is the truth. Thinking wrongly has to do with our emotions. Since emotions are inconsistent, they cannot be trusted. Unfortunately, this is where most people make major choices in life, during an emotional high or low. It’s a recipe for disaster! A person should never make a decision based on emotion.

As long as we go on thinking wrongly about ourselves and our lives, the same sort of difficulties will continue to harass us. Every seed must inevitably bring forth after its own kind, and thought is the seed of destiny.

When we think rightly, by doing and saying what God’s Word says about our situations, sooner or later, all ill health, poverty, loneliness, and inharmony must disappear. Proverbs 23:07 says, “As a man thinks, so is he.”

John 10:10 says since Christ died, we may have life and have it to it’s full, but also in this same Scripture, it says the devil comes only to steal, kill, and destroy.

Life is a battle. As long as there is a devil out there we must constantly be aware that he is always trying to influence our thinking in one way or another. He wants us to agree with him so he can control us. If you’re speaking garbage out of your mouth, then the devil’s got you right where he wants you. That’s why we must speak God’s Word in faith concerning every aspect of our lives. We need to agree with God!

Even though life is a battle, it’s also a glorious adventure, full of choices. There used to be a bumper sticker that read, “God is my co-pilot.” Later, someone created another one that read, “If God is your co-pilot, switch seats.” No, it was right the first time. God has put you in the drivers seat. He said, “I set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore, choose life” (Deut 30:19).

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We may have heard at some point in our lives that if we truly believe in something, having faith that it will happen, then it really will happen. Some people don’t completely accept that, but the Bible is clear; what you believe is what you get. Jesus said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

But, He didn’t say we would see the manifestation of our prayers immediately. We need to give God time to work things out, continue in our faith, and not doubt, “For a man who wavers is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord” (James 1:6-7).

Expectation is the key to receiving from Him. What good does it do to pray without expecting God to answer? You might as well be talking to a tree. The Bible says, “Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to Him must believe that He is God, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6).

Have you noticed that most people do not expect things to work out? In fact, most people have been taught to believe in negative outcomes. The reasoning is; “If things don’t work out, I won’t be disappointed.” There’s no logic in that! Even though one may not be expecting, one still at least hopes. The fact is, crushed hopes cause disappointment.

Having faith and expecting in the positive is vital to our success. If we could only believe that everything will work out and trust that what we want will happen, we’d have great results. Life would change dramatically. But, for some reason, most people just can’t believe that things will work out for them. They look at past results and judge their future based on that past.

It’s true that future results can best be predicted by past behavior. So, if your past behavior has been to not expect in positive outcomes, then change that behavior. It doesn’t take any more effort to believe in a positive outcome than it does in a negative one.

Faith is required to receive from God, and our expectation is proof of our faith. So, if we ask God for something, but then we don’t do anything on our part to bring it to pass, we must question our faith.

God will do His part for sure, but we are required to do our part as well. What is our part? Expect! Believe it, confess it, and anything else that could possibly be done on our part, for “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:20).

So truly believe in something! Have faith that it will happen. Again, the Bible is clear; what you believe is what you get. Jesus said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

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I riffled through the draw and unexpectedly my eyes caught a glimpse of a worn and tattered envelope. Inside the folds of the letter lay a dried rose. At once I gathered the tiny rose into my hand and began to read.

Tears filled my eyes as the words poured forth in perfect harmony, thoughts of love. It seemed like a dream, yet the feelings surrounded my being and penetrated my thoughts. So many years had past and yet each word brought memories so clear of the love I felt for my soul mate.

I love you with all my heart. I long for the times that we spend together. Each day I think of you with so much love that I feel like I am overflowing with joy. I praise God all the time just thinking of how wonderful you are and how you are so perfect for me. You are my ultimate valentine!

I looked at these words of love I once felt and I remembered. It was as if a dove flew in with the most wonderful gift for a certain amount of time and then departed. It’s hard to understand how the love I felt for my valentine had so many feelings, but now they had lost their passion for love.

This is not what God intended for love. God’s desire is for us to hold tightly to love and fight to keep it alive. God tells us that He is love.

1John 4:7&8, “Dear Friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

Too many people today think that sexual lust for another person is love. They don’t understand how important true love is to a couple. They don’t understand that they must have a secure foundation in God in order to maintain love.

In order to understand love we must have faith in God. God is the protector of love. We live in a world where people have been given the freewill to decide how they will believe and who they will believe in.

We are constantly being tested because we are evolving through the situations we face in life. Tests that open our eyes up to what kind of love is good and what kind of love is sin and an instrument of Satan.

Our feelings for each other make us determined to go forward in a relationship or stop us in our tracks. But the right kind of Love propels us towards life experiences that change the way we think about our world.

When we love deeply, then it gives us a determination to stay together no matter what. We are strong and we are not afraid of what others may think of our love. Love gives us the ability to be an unbreakable force, because the right kind of love represents God.

1 John 4:17&18, “Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ’s. There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.”

Love makes God’s children perfect. Love takes away our fear of the “what ifs” of life. Love is not afraid of punishment or suffering because love drives away all kinds of fear.

This is the reason why couples who rely on God can face the death of a child and remain together. This is the reason why when a natural disaster occurs and takes a families home, the couples who have love, remain strong and conquer the disaster with faith.

Because God is manifested in love, strong relationships grow stronger through the hardships they face in this world. While those who don’t have God, suffer and faint because of fear of being abandoned by their spouse when the times of testings come.

1John5:3-5, “For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us, because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith. Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”

I took this new found knowledge of love and began to look at how to rekindle the feelings I once felt for my spouse. Through prayer I sought God’s help to heal the distance that had developed from us not expressing the love we felt unconditionally for each other.

I prayed that God would forgive me for taking my marriage for granted. I asked the creator of love to reignite the passion once lost. I pleaded that God would give me the words to express my love.

The words had barely left my lips when a dove of love came floating in with God’s compassionate reply:

Dear Children, You are my Valentine. Your love for each other creates stars that shine forth in love igniting the Universe with light. Love between two people are like bright shiny rays of light reflecting my heart for man. Love fulfills your destiny and inspires those who are lost to seek the light of understanding given them by Me. My love for you is never ending and always available to all those who are destined to find Me. Seek love, long for love, and your journey in this world will be proven to be of the purest gold. Gold refined by the fire of life. Love inspired through never giving up or giving into evil. I Love You, God has spoken.

My heart jumped for joy and the love that had once grown dormant shone brightly for my love. Suddenly everything about our life made since again. My Valentine that once was lost, has now been found!

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Two weeks ago my daughter, Christy, and I were having a conversation. She stated that most girls have the kind of mom who share a spa day with them, who invite them to go get their nails done together or try out a new hairstyle.

We both laughed at her words, because I was opposite from this kind of mom. In fact, my daughter ended the conversation with the statement, “Instead I get a mom who wants to save the world. And on top of it you dragged me into doing it too!”

I don’t know what I would do without my daughter, I trust her completely. She edited my book. She edits every article I write and of course made some of the article writing hers. Three of the titles were her ideas and she also is building my website

Christy has three children. Samuel is always reminding me that he is going to be four very soon. Paige just turned 2 and Sofia is 6 months. All are very energetic and Christy must give up sleep in order to work for me.

Her faith in God is great and she endeavors to teach her children the same principles. She is all about living a Christian life and being a faithful and loving wife to her husband and a loving and good mom to her children. I tell her all the time that she comes from a long line of great Christian mothers.

You would never believe that Christy had ever experienced anything but good in her lifetime. Most people believe that you can’t be so grounded and be such a good person if something bad has ever happened to you. You just had to have lived a charmed life!

The common phrase we always hear is ‘bad things always happen to bad people’. Yet what people think is truth is often a lie. The real truth is that bad things happen to good people because our world is under the rule of Satan.

John 5:19, “We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.”

When Christy was five and attending kindergarten the worse possible thing happened in her life. Her parents divorced and she and her brothers became the ponds in a huge custody battle.

I suppose this custody fight wouldn’t have been so traumatic if it weren’t for the fact that our family was so religious. Her dad was an ordained deacon and his father was a Baptist minister. My own sister and her husband were in full time ministry and I our family came from a long line of ministers and missionaries.

Everything Christy was ever taught was about obeying God and serving in church. You see in 1986 divorce was a very big sin! Yet there is a sin that is bigger than divorce and that is the sin of being gay! I would go as far as to say that for the church it is even bigger than murder!

Churches preach that homosexuality is wrong! Using Sodom and Gomorrah as a story illustrating God’s hatred of gays. But they quietly leave out scripture that leaves out the real reason for the destruction of these cities.

2 Peter 2:6, “God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.”

The scripture specifically states that it was not about sexual sin, but about godlessness. Never the less churches, families, and society throw out their gay family members because the churches skip these scriptures.

Because Theologians and religious historians refuse to set the record straight, homosexuals are deprived of their children and denied justice in the courts. They are humiliated, persecuted, killed and despised all in the name of God.

Ezekiel 16:48-50, “As surely as I am the living God, the Sovereign Lord says, ‘your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done. She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged. They were proud stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.’”

They say, love the sinner but hate the sin. But Christy can tell you that this is not true! You can not love what you hate. It is like telling Satan that he has to love God and we all know how impossible that would be!

Because people have been misled by the church, everything I did as a good Christian mother was counteracted by me falling in love with a woman. It didn’t matter how much I loved my children or how diligent I was in teaching them about God and doing service in my church.

Because of false teachings, a huge tug-of-war began not just between husband and wife, but with husband, church, family, friends and society all against me. A battle that was so tipped in favor of her dad that Christy struggled to love me regardless of what they said about me.

In fact, Christy and her brothers became so entangled in the fight for who had the right to be custodial parent that you would have thought that they would have never had anything to do with God ever! Because God was the reason they were not to love their mother.

They were told they couldn’t love me because I was living a life of sin. They were confused by strangers who told them how unlucky they were to have a mom who had fallen from God’s grace and chose to live an ungodly lifestyle. From church to school to the small town they lived in, they were constantly the center of unwanted attention because of their Satan possessed mother.

Christy didn’t want this kind of attention! She just wanted her mom. She didn’t care what the church had to say, she just wanted to live with her mom. She didn’t understand why everyone was in such an uproar, because she saw me as the same mom who loved her and had taken care of her since birth.

So you can see that her childhood was not peaceful. She was taken away from her mom and given to her dad. I was given no visitation and as a result I fled with my children and was arrested and put in jail while Christy endured being put in the hands of the SRS.

Christy saw her mother attacked by her father, while the pastor and a deacon watched. She saw her mother being stalked by church members in the name of God. She saw her grandparents turn their back on her mother and wish her dead.

She was forced into counseling as a small child. She was forced to go before a judge and tell him who she wanted to live with. Even after she stated she wanted to live with her mom, the judge ignored her words.

Time and again she was involved in one court proceeding after another while her testimony to live with her mother was disregarded. Whenever visitation resumed with her mother she was interrogated by her father, councilors, and family.

It is amazing today from the persecution my daughter endured from church, society and family members that she came through fifteen years of childhood holding onto her faith regardless of whether her prayers were answered or not.

It took until my daughter was an adult and able to make up her own mind that she began to see the mother that I really was. A mother who loved her and wanted the best for her and her family. Today our bond is strong because of our mission to tell the world the truth about God and love!

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to jump off a cliff and fly like a bird? Wouldn’t it be fun to breath under water and explore the ocean. No, I’m not talking about airplanes or submarines, I mean exploring the world with this kind of freedom in the our human bodies of flesh and blood.

If I could choose, I would be impenetrable so nothing could ever hurt me. I could walk through fire, stand barefoot on the Arctic ice, or stand in the middle of a gunfight. Unfortunately, these things are impossible, because this world has limits. But why?

I unexpectedly received the answer to this question. The night was calm and I peacefully slept undisturbed. My dreams were tranquil and in a moment a vision emerged from the Spirit of the Almighty God.

A massive rock stood prominently behind a tiny housing development built into a valley. Many smaller rocks were scattered uniformly throughout the landscape.

I was standing on a path looking and wondering what this scene was all about. Suddenly a kind eyed middle aged man appeared and asked me about what I was seeing.

I quietly said I did not understand and the man smiling at me stated that the rocks are limits.

Immediately my dream changed and a light of understanding flooded my thoughts. God was the prominent rock and from His throne in Heaven He oversees the world and all of it’s vastness.

God created the world and everything in it and He has given it limits. Limits written down before the beginning of time. Limits that require that we must believe in Jesus in order to win in the Great Game of Life.

1Peter 2:1&2, “Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language. Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved.”

We are placed in this world to do service for God. In order to serve we must let go of this present age. We must gain wisdom from the suffering and persecution we face and allow these growing experiences to make us stronger.

No one has the ability to navigate this world separate from God. We must hold onto the rock of Jesus and allow Him to work in us.

1Peter 2:4-&5, “Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by man as worthless but chosen by God as valuable. Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.”

The tiny houses are people. They have been given the message of salvation and have accepted their calls. They have taken their human temples and grown in knowledge from the limits God placed in their lives through the experiences they have faced.

Why did God give me this vision. Many people do not understand why God does not show Himself to the world. They want a God that is concrete and not spiritual.

They want God to walk beside them in human form and not a God that is invisible. They don’t understand that a human God has the same weaknesses as man.

God came as a man in Jesus Christ. He walked beside people loving and healing them of all the pain inflicted on them from Satan. But as a human being Jesus was limited!

When God is Spiritual He has no limits. He can talk anytime He wants to His children on the earth. He can walk within them giving them supernatural strength and the ability to fight against Satan and win this world for God.

When Jesus walked this world He realized that the only way that God’s children could win was through the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He called the Spirit the comforter, helper, and the counselor.

John 16:5-8 “But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going. And now that I have told you, your hearts are full of sadness. But I am telling you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove to the people of the world that they are wrong about sin and about what is right and about God’s judgment.”

Because the church refuses to teach people more about the spiritual aspect of the world many people have given up on faith in the unseen God. They look at religion as a crutch for the weak because they don’t understand they we are in a world game.

A Spirit has the ability to strengthen and help people in their individual fight against Satan. If God were just a man He could only help a few people at a time, but as a Spirit, He has the ability to help billions at a time.

John 16:9-11, “They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me; they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me anymore; and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.”

My vision started with God showing me how important it is for people to put their faith in Jesus. Jesus is a solid rock who loves people and directs a person’s life to the truth about this world.

That is the reason He is called the Light of the world. He parts the darkness of evil placed here by Satan and He teaches people the right path that leads to understanding the difference between good and bad.

Satan is a demon who goes throughout the world to devour people. He has taken the world that God created and destroyed it by using evil human beings who do his will. These are people who are so corrupted by the desires of this world that they will do whatever the devil demands.

Because Satan is king of this world, he hides the good and replaces it with bad. That is the reason why our world is full of injustices. Satan has multiple personalities and he will even back stab the very people who do his will. His ultimate goal is to destroy all people in order to defeat Jesus from saving the world.

He uses the earths resources to destroy human life. He does this though drought, floods, earthquakes and all forms of disasters. Drought produces poverty, floods breed diseases, earthquakes destroy families and displace cities.

When an evil god reigns, corruption builds evil governments and societies that place bad people in control. People who only care about money and not human life. The courts become corrupt and evil people are allowed to murder, commit incest and perpetrate all forms of injustices on good people.

Jesus, in human form, was limited in time and space according to the boundaries of the world, but Jesus in Spirit form has the ability to aid his followers and win the fight against the evil god of this world. Jesus has the ability to take on the Spiritual realm and crush the demon forces of Satan.

This is the reason why our world has a limited time. God will not lose the battle and He will not allow His servants to be defeated. God created all things including the devil and from the very beginning of time He has known the outcome of the battle of the great world game of life.

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to keep things organized and running efficiently in your life, unexpected things happen that threaten to completely undermine your sense of well-being.

These upsets can be big or small, ranging from identity theft to losing your car keys. Yet they are enough to make you feel that they completely ruin everything for you. They hit you emotionally like a punch in your stomach, knocking the wind out of you.

I’m not sure why life throws these curves. Is it a product of our own thinking coming to attack us, some type of karmic rebound? Is it random misfortune? Or is it some weird cosmic “test” of our mettle. It is almost impossible to find the cause. Focusing on the cause is one way to become confused and unglued.

However, understanding the cause may not be necessary. Instead, dwell on the solution. This is the mature way to keep your sense of balance when the ground has been pulled from under your feet.

Here are some emergency steps to take:

1. Release the frustration and all the other emotions. Do this immediately. You can do this through deep breathing and imagining letting it go, talking with a friend to get some perspective, or simply taking a long walk until you calm down.

2. Assuming you are now calm, the next step is to regain your control. Here is where you regroup your resources. It may help just to start tidying and organizing things around you, thus restoring your faith that order can be regained. In other words, you will get a sense of order by doing some routine ordering in your environment.

3. Now that you are calm and in control, make a list. Start with a question that asks you what to do about the situation. Then answer that question by making a long list of possible answers. Do this quickly, without thinking too much about it. What you want is to push past your conscious ideas and dig up some original insights. This is why speed is important.

4. Refine that list. Hone in on your best possible choices.

5. Take action. Do what you can. Make things happen. This will make you feel a whole lot better. If it is a theft, file a police report. If it is a financial issue, find ways to get money flowing into your life again. And so on.

Sometimes the situation may be really bizarre, where you have no idea what to make of it. Yet you also find you need some insight before you can take any type of meaningful action. In this case, at step 3, ask your question then leave it blank and go do something else, including taking a long nap. You can even do step 3 just before bedtime. Your subconscious mind will now work on resolving it.

A farther way to deal with this upset is to imagine the opposite. If for example, someone stole your credit card, think about how the bank has restored your balance and sealed off the card from future use and how it is engaged in issuing you a new one.

Doubtlessly, fearful thoughts will start creeping in throughout the day. If you respond to them, they will force you to go on all sorts of nightmarish mental safaris. Do not go there.
Depression, helplessness, emotional outbursts, behavioral acting out is not the solution.

Bad stuff happens to all of us at some time or another. The trick is to grow stronger, not to fall apart. As Nietzsche said, “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

There is no point in futile analysis, “why me?” “why now?”

You have to keep reassuring yourself by thinking of a new scene, where you not only envision getting what you lost but even better things are showing up for you.

None of these steps are easy to take, because your natural inclination is just to rant and rave and progressively fall apart. You feel as if there is a huge hole in your chest. However by taking these common sense steps, you get your common sense back. By taking the best action you know how, you can either mitigate the problem or even resolve it in a meaningful way.

Even when really bad stuff happens, know that you are a powerful person and will not let it ruin your life. Focus on what you still have left. Focus on the new way that has opened up for you.

Sometimes out of the worst situation, miracles come out of nowhere. Who you are is greater than the misfortune life may sometimes throw at you. When you cleave to a mature view, you will come out of your upsetting situation and regain your sense of personal power.

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A sparkling white dove floated down leaving a trail of sunbeams in it’s flight. It’s wings were spread out and it’s eyes showed a determination to bring a urgent message of love from Jesus Christ.

The dove transcended the dimensions of the earthly realm and ignited into tiny lights. Lights of knowledge for all of God’s children. Understanding they would not have found without the whisper of God’s voice.

James 1:17&18, “Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning. By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.”

People wonder why our world is filled with so many people suffering from incurable diseases like cancer, aids or ALS. They believe that if there is a God why would He allow such evil to hurt people’s lives?

They don’t understand that our world is imperfect because Satan has been given dominion over the earth. Satan has the power to hurt people. He is the anti-Christ, whose only goal is to destroy faith from ever taking root in a person’s life.

That is the reason why Jesus came as a man of flesh and blood. He came to destroy the devils work by placing the Holy Spirit into His children’s lives. A Spirit that is a voice of good. A Spirit that directs people to understand that the troubles they are facing is Satan and not God.

1 John: 11&12, “The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.”

When you live in a corrupt and evil world, naturally evil things will happen to good people. That is the reason we must get a grip on why there is suffering and death.

Cain illustrates how temptation can pull you in and make you an instrument of Satan’s will. When Satan is in control of a person’s life then that person becomes an opponent for everyone who does God’s will.

This is the reason why our world is filled with jails and prisons full to capacity. Evil people under the influence of Satan will commit mass murder, rape, steal, lie, and deceive people who are trying to live a godly life.

These people give themselves to Satan and love the world and everything it gives them. They are arrogant, selfish and full of lust. These are people who betray friends, brothers, and anyone who gets in the way of their pleasures.

This is also the very reason why sickness and all kinds of diseases are released into the world. For every sin that is committed a punishment comes down from the Spirit world to bring judgment for this sin.

Earthquakes and floods are direct repercussions of how evil can take a perfect world and demolish it. How we treat people to how we live our lives, spur on huge tidal waves, hurricanes, and tornadoes full of destruction. These are natural disasters that reflect the punishment that comes on all men, good and bad alike.

This is the very reason why Christians must be aware of why bad things happen to good people in this world. We live in an evil and corrupt world that preys on good in order to persuade all people to do evil.

1 John 3: 4-6, “Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God’s law, because sin is a breaking of the law. You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him. So everyone who lives in union with Christ does not continue to sin: but whoever continues to sin has never seen him or known him.”

The only way that good people can walk away from the pain and suffering they face in life is by understanding that ignorance of God’s laws brings condemnation on all people. We must keep close to God so we will not be pulled into the sin that others commit so easily.

We must run to our Savior when we have been pulled into sin and Christ will forgive us if we have a humble heart towards Him. We must understand the purpose behind grace and rise above this world so we can become instruments of God and not Satan.

1 John 3:7&8, “Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous just as Christ is righteous. Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.”

Belief in Jesus Christ gives us the ability to stand up to temptation and say no! Just like Jesus came to destroy the Devils evil work, Christians everywhere have been sent out throughout the world to do the same.

Suffering for evil brings judgment and death. Suffering for good brings reward and success in all things of this life. Suffering because we are Christians defeats the evil plans of Satan.

To know the truth about our world is to walk freely into a new light of understanding. With knowledge of how the game of life works we are able to defeat the plans Satan has to overthrow our lives.

With wisdom we can overcome the pain of having cancer and all forms of diseases. With the knowledge that I am on the side of the Lord, I can rise above all forms of natural disasters no matter what Satan might do to bring me to my knees.

The beams of light opened my mind to revelations. Ideas and dreams that were meant to inspire me and give me strength to stand my ground no matter what I face.

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