Day 18199

Day 18199 - Trying to stay focused!
Distractions can be hard to avoid!

Was in the tag of an email I received:
"I always know ..... God won't give me more than I can handle.
There are times I just wish He didn't trust me quite so much."

Freedom

I wanted to share a few ideas on Freedom.

We are not free because of our own doing. Freedom in the Lord is because of Jesus Christ. He came to seek and save the LOST of which I was one. I was a person who walked deep in the philosophy of the world and did not know or understand God. Jesus changed that one night, and although there were many things that lead to that exact moment it was a secular song on the radio that finally opened my eyes to the true reason Jesus came; To do what I could not, take away my sins if I only believed in who he was and what he had done and turned to trust him as Lord and Savior.

Next Freedom in our country is not free. Many hundreds of thousands of men and women have died for the freedoms we enjoy. If we do not stand up and protect them we will loose them.

So I ask in both cases what I you doing about the Freedom that has been given to you?

Isa 61:1 (NIV)

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me, because the LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,

Luk 4:16-21 (NIV)

He went to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, and on the Sabbath day he went into the synagogue, as was his custom. And he stood up to read.
The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. Unrolling it, he found the place where it is written:

"The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed,

to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."

Then he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant and sat down. The eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fastened on him,

and he began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

Gal 5:1 (NIV)

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

Eph 3:12 (NIV)

In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Jas 1:25 (NIV)

But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.

1Pe 2:16 (NIV)

Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

9th Circuit Court

http://www.alliancealert.org/2009/06/30/u-s-supreme-court-looks-over-9th-circuits-shoulder

U.S. Supreme Court looks over 9th Circuit’s shoulder

Carol J. Williams writes at the LA Times: “This term, justices reversed, at least partially, 94% of the Western appeals court’s rulings. Part of the reason, experts say, is the court is perceived as liberal and partial to the underdog.”