I apologize for the all-caps paragraph in the last blog…I didn’t mean to shout! I write this using word because I have a full screen to work with, whereas blogger is about ¼ of the screen, and for some reason, when I copy and paste from word to blogger, something happens to the formatting. It looks okay in the “preview” mode, but when I click “publish” it goes back to all caps. If anyone knows what the problem is and how to solve it, please let me know!
I also forgot to mention last time that I changed my Blog profile…I went back and re read it, and realized that it was not applicable to this Blog. (I had just copied and pasted it in order to save time when I first set up the Blog, so I apologize for that as well.
I Believe! (Proof that God Exists)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtExxkW0ws
When you come right down to it, The Secret…The Law of Attraction, is really about God...He wants to give us the things we ask Him for! In Church this past Sunday, Pastor Jim’s message (sermon) was “Prayer”, and I felt just like I was watching The Secret movie, while I was listening to his message! He quoted the Scripture passages in the Bible where God…and as Pastor Jim said, “Commands us…not asks us, or says, “pretty please”, but Commands us, to ask Him in Prayer for whatever it is that we want.”
BIBLE: Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth
Bible verses about Asking:
1 Kings 3:5-13
5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”
Matthew 7:7-11
7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
9 Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?
11 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 21:22
22 And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.
Luke 11:9-13
9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.
10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
11 If a son asks for bread[a] from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?
12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?
13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!”
John 14:13-14
13 And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
14 If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
John 15:7
7 If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
John 16:23-24
23 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you.
24 Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
James 1:5
5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
1 John 5:14-15
14 Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, 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 the petitions that we have asked of Him.
It doesn’t get much clearer than that!
Awhile back, a friend posted one of those Eagle web cams on Facebook…If you’ve ever watched one of them, it shows the eggs hatching, and one of the adult Eagles feeding the chicks…I love this...it’s another testimony to God and His Creation!
An eagle can see a rabbit about 1 mile or 1760 yards away...and is also able to focus on a tiny piece of food that a chick drops while being fed, pick it up, and put it back into the chicks beak...what a pair of bifocals!
I also received an email about The Amazing Camel:
The Amazing Camel
(http://www.modernchristianissues.org/)This has been going around in email for a while. I have not investigated every claim, but I’ve read enough about camels to know that it is not out “in left field”.
The Amazing Camel and Its Creator
(From Moody Press)
If you ever doubted that God exists, meet the very technical, highly engineered Dromedary Camel.When I’m hungry, I’ll eat almost anything- a leather bridle, a piece of rope, my master’s tent, or a pair of shoes.
The Amazing Dromedary Camel
My mouth is so tough a thorny cactus doesn’t bother it. I love to chow down grass and other plants That grow here on the Arabian desertI’m a dromedary camel, the one-hump kind that lives on hot deserts in the Middle East.
My hump, all eighty pounds of it, is filled with fat- my body fuel- not water, as some people believe. My Mighty Maker gave it to me because He knew I wouldn’t always be able to find food as I travel across the hot sands. When I don’t find any chow, my body automatically Takes fat from the hump, feeds my system, and keeps me going strong. This is my emergency food supply.
If I can’t find any plants to munch, my body uses up my hump. When the hump gets smaller, it starts to tip to one side. But when I get to a nice oasis and begin to eat again, My hump soon builds back to normal.
I’ve been known to drink twenty-seven gallons of water in ten minutes. My Master Designer made me in such a fantastic way that In a matter of minutes all the water I’ve swallowed Travels to the billions of microscopic cells that make up my flesh. Naturally, the water I swallow first goes into my stomach. There, thirsty blood vessels absorb and carry it to every part of my body. Scientists have tested my stomach and found it empty ten minutes after I’ve drunk twenty gallons.
In an eight hour day I can carry a four hundred pound load A hundred miles across a hot, dry desert And not stop once for a drink or something to eat. In fact, I’ve been known to go eight days without a drink, but then I look a wreck. I lose 227 pounds, my ribs show through my skin, and I look terribly skinny. But I feel great! I look thin because the billions of cells lose their water. They’re no longer fat. They’re flat.
Camel with Hump Depleted
Normally my blood contains 94 percent water, just like yours. But when I can’t find any water to drink, the heat of the sun gradually robs a little water out of my blood. Scientists have found that my blood can lose up to 40 percent of its water, and I’m still healthy.Doctor’s say human blood has to stay very close to 94 percent water. If you lose 5 percent of it, you can’t see anymore; 10 percent, you can’t hear and you go insane; 12 percent, your blood is as thick as molasses and your heart can’t pump the thick stuff. It stops, and you’re dead.
But that’s not true with me.
Why?
Scientists say my blood is different.
My red cells are elongated. Yours are round.
Maybe that’s what makes the difference
This proves I’m designed for the desert, or the desert is designed for me. Did you ever hear of a design without a Designer?
After I find a water hole, I’ll drink for about ten minutes and my skinny body starts to change almost immediately. In that short time my body fills out nicely, I don’t look skinny anymore, and I gain back the 227 pounds I lost.
Even though I lose a lot of water on the desert, My body conserves it too. Way in the beginning when my intelligent Engineer made me, He gave me a specially designed nose that saves water. When I exhale, I don’t lose much. My nose traps that warm, moist air from my lungs and absorbs it in my nasal membranes.
Tiny blood vessels in those membranes take that back into my blood. How’s that for a recycling system? Pretty cool, isn’t it. It works because my nose is cool. My cool nose changes that warm moisture in the air from my lungs into water.
But how does my nose get cool? I breathe in hot dry desert air, and it goes through my wet nasal passages. This produces a cooling effect, and my nose stays as much as 18 degrees cooler than the rest of my body.
I love to travel the beautiful sand dunes. It’s really quite easy, because My Creator gave me specially engineered sand shoes for feet. My hooves are wide, and they get even wider when I step on them. Each foot has two long, bony toes with tough, leathery skin between my soles, are a little like webbed feet. They won’t let me sink into the soft, drifting sand. This is good, because often my master wants me to carry him one hundred miles across the desert in just one day. (I troop about ten miles per hour.)
Camel's "Webbed" Feet
Sometimes a big windstorm comes out of nowhere, bringing flying sand with it. My Master Designer put special muscles in my nostrils that close the openings, keeping sand out of my nose but still allowing me enough air to breathe.
Camel's Amazing Nose and Eyes
My eyelashes arch down over my eyes like screens, keeping the sand and sun out but still letting me see clearly. If a grain of sand slips through and gets in my eye, the Creator took care of that too. He gave me an inner eyelid that automatically wipes the sand off my eyeball just like a windshield wiper.Some people think I’m conceited because I always walk around with my head held high and my nose in the air.
But that’s just because of the way I’m made. My eyebrows are so thick and bushy I have to hold my head high to peek out from underneath them. I’m glad I have them though. They shade my eyes from the bright sun.
Desert people depend on me for many things. Not only am I their best form of transportation, but I’m also their grocery store. Mrs. Camel gives very rich milk that people make into butter and cheese. I shed my thick fur coat once a year and that can be woven into cloth. A few young camels are used for beef, but I don’t like to talk about that.
For a long time we camels have been called the “ships of the desert” because of the way we sway from side to side when we trot. Some of our riders get seasick.
I sway from side to side because of the way my legs work. Both legs on one side move forward at the same time, elevating that side. My “left, right left, right” motion makes my rider feel like he is in a rocking chair going sideways.
When I was six months old, special kneepads started to grow on my front legs. The intelligent Creator knew I had to have them. They help me lower my 1000 pounds to the ground. If I didn’t have them, my knees would soon become sore and infected, and I could never lie down. I’d die of exhaustion.
By the way, I don’t get thick kneepads because I fall on my knees. I fall on my knees because I already have these tough pads.
Camel Knee Pads
Someone very great thought of me and knew I needed them. He designed them into my genes.It’s real difficult for me to understand how some people say I evolved into what I now am. I’m very technical, highly engineered dromedary camel. Things like me don’t just happen. They’re planned on a drawing board by Someone very brilliant, Someone very logical.
Do you know HIM?
The Amazing Camel Was no Accident
Another great example in nature that I like is the Electric eel:
The electric eel generates its characteristic electrical pulse in a manner similar to a battery, in which stacked plates produce an electrical charge. In the electric eel, some 5,000 to 6,000 stacked electroplaques are capable of producing a shock at up to 500 volts and 1 ampere of current (500 watts). Such a shock could be deadly for an adult human. (Electrocution death is due to current flow; the level of current that is fatal in humans is roughly 0.75A.)
And all the time while swimming around in water! There again, this is not the result of a big accident (The Big Bang theory) or evolution (of course there is such a thing as evolution…life does evolve…but it was not responsible for all of Creation!)
Big Bang theory: God spoke and “Bang!” it happened.
(Nothing existed, and then, just like that, in the blink of an eye, everything existed…you gotta expect some commotion and noise, I would think!)
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
It kills me when I hear about people who, either don’t believe in God, or have stopped believing in Him…for whatever reason…“A wink is as good as a nod, to a blind horse!” Some of these people say that they can’t believe in a God, who could allow such pain and suffering in this world. The sick; the poor; the hungry; the homeless…and the list goes on and on. Well, the truth of the matter is that God has provided us with an abundance of resources…and it is up to people to distribute those resources…so don’t blame God! There is such an abundance of food on this planet, that no one should be hungry…there is such an abundance of materials, that no one should be homeless. The problem is people…not God! The problem is greed, sin (at the heart of sin is the letter “I”), selfishness, ethics, morals, corruption, and the like. And the terrorists’ and extremists’ groups really blow my mind! They don’t worship God as they profess…they worship Satan…because only Satan preaches hate, violence, killing, destruction, death, sin, etc. (SIN = Soul In Need)
You may have seen the email entitled, “THIS IS NOT A HOTEL IT IS A HOUSE!” Here is a perfect example of what I’m talking about:
The people who run these countries live like this…while many of their own people are starving!
And speaking of Earth…how is it that we are so lucky (I call it “Blessed”) that we have this incredible, beautiful planet for our home…and not Jupiter, or Mars, or one of the other planets? How is it that we have an abundance of everything that we could possibly imagine…and even not imagine? Instead of just one kind of food, like manna, we have an abundance of varieties, like meats; fish (fresh water as well as salt water); fruits; vegetables; nuts and seeds; grains; eggs and dairy products; teas, spices and herbs; beans and legumes; poultry; natural sweeteners…and the list goes on and on…it boggles the mind! (Can you imagine a world without your favorite foods?) How is it that we enjoy having an incredible abundance of varieties and species of animals; birds; creatures; insects; plants; trees; flowers; sea shells; metals; minerals; rocks; precious gems and stones; vitamins; energy producing resources; chemicals, and so on, and so on…you name it! We have been provided with everything we need to build with like woods; metals; glass; rubber; plastics; fabrics, rocks. That was some accident, if you ask me!
Don’t forget…we only see the back of the Tapestry…
While God can see the front
And always remember:
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