Amazing Grace is more than a song . . .

From Anita Schneider via email and shared with permission because as she said – “Yes, it is to be shared!!!”

Thought I should share a portion a Bible study with you as it ministered to my heart greatly about my own “complaints”.

***I have been meditating on Numbers 11 again, and I just wanted to share with you how I’m constantly amazed at God’s unmerited and unearned grace in this Bible account.

One of the things that the Israelites did repeatedly when they were in the desert was to complain. For example, when God fed them with manna from heaven, some of them said, “We remember the fish which we ate freely in Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our whole being is dried up; there is nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!” (Numbers 11:5-6)

It was as if they had forgotten that God had delivered them from slavery and the whips of their harsh Egyptian taskmasters. Instead of appreciating the manna from God, they despised it and longed for the foods that they had eaten when they were slaves. Yet, one of the most touching things I found in this passage is that when they went to sleep, the manna fell – “when the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it”. (Numbers 11:9) In other words, God kept on providing the manna despite their complaining!

You may have been complaining a lot lately. Perhaps it’s because you are going through a tough time. And because you know that your attitude toward God hasn’t been very good, you believe that God is ignoring you. My friend, I want you to know that like the manna, His mercy drops are still falling on you regardless of your attitude! (God’s blessings are based on Jesus’ finished work alone – this is indeed His amazing grace!)

Also, notice that the manna fell during the night. The night speaks of your darkest moments. In your darkest moments, YOU ARE NOT ALONE – God is right there caring for you, watching over you and working things out for good!

Whatever the trial that you’re going through, know that God is able to work all things out for good, an that His Father-heart desires to give you good things. (Romans 8:28, Matthew 7:11)

As God’s beloved, you have a different spirit today – you have the Spirit of Sonship, and you are an heir of God through Christ! (Galatians 4:4-7)

God wants you to look to Him, and cast all your worries and cares to Him, for He cares for you! (1 Peter 5:7) You Father is infinitely ineterested in your total well-being!***

Be Blessed and Know that we serve a LIVING GOD!
Your Sister in Christ,
Anita

[Editor's note: Anita and I met years ago and grew up in the Lord together. We've laughed and cried and prayed together through the years. She is faithful to call us to prayer and unite us in prayer often even now and from a distance. She is a prayer warrior for sure. But I must tell you that no one can sing Amazing Grace like she does with her voice and with her life. Blessings dear one and thank you for sharing this call with us and for letting me share it with everyone here. May God give it into the hands and hearts who need to hear it both now and evermore! Lots of love/Sandie]

References: John Newton and the lyrics to Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace: The Story of John Newton (includes song)

Gun Owners of America Ex Dir Larry Pratt on a Special Episode of the CLC Gets Grizzly

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The Constitutional Liberty Coalition Gets Grizzly radio show will have a special episode.

Larry Pratt, the Executive Director of Gun Owners of America will join Sandra and Shelli for a discussion of how GOA works to protect Second Amendment and other rights.

Conversation will focus particularly on Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor and what approving her to this lifetime seat on the Court would mean to our Second Amendment and other rights.

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Take my DNA – I have not committed any crimes by Doug Newman

“Take my DNA – I have not committed any crimes” – by Doug Newman

[Editor's note: Shared with the author's permission and taglines included with links gladly -thanks for a terrific post.

Some of the formatting is mine for this venue, hope you like!/sc]  originally posted on Facebook  June 6, 2009 at 1:42pm

I was going back and forth on a discussion thread the other evening and someone made the above remark.

My first thought was to quote my favorite motivational speaker, Matt Foley: “Well la-de-frigging-daaaaaaa.” Such is the nonchalance with which so many Americans are relinquishing what is left of their liberty.

If this woman who posted this remark is so willing to ignore her Fourth Amendment rights and to have her body violated, would she also submit to, say, a strip search in front of God and everyone at the local shopping mall? How about a cavity search right in the middle of the main intersection of her town?

Time and again, in the Patriot Act world, people tell me “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.”

I have plenty to hide: my life, my privacy, my dignity, my self-respect. If you have probable cause that I have done something wrong, get a judge’s warrant and then we will have something to talk about. Otherwise, leave me alone.

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The makers of the Constitution conferred, as against the government, the Right to be left alone; the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized men. – United States Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States (1928)

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There is one other and far more important issue here: the presumption of innocence. Are you going to make a criminal out of me if I refuse to submit to a warrantless search? After all, my refusal to submit MUST mean I am hiding something.

A minute ago, I was just walking along minding my own business. Now, you are going to totally interrupt my life and make a criminal out of me because I just want to be left alone?

And if you are so nonchalant about your 4th Amendment rights how about your other Bill of Rights guarantees? How about other things such as Habeas Corpus, Bills of Attainder and Ex Post Facto laws?

When we disregard the presumption of innocence, we lose America.

I see way too many parallels between America in 2009 and Germany in 1933. Hitler did not get elected on a Monday and start loading the Jews onto box cars on Tuesday. Bit by bit by bit he persuaded the German people to give up their liberty, and bit by bit by bit they went along.

Oh sure, they got it back in 1945.

For decades in America, the powers that be have been telling the us that we need to give up our liberty and the American people by and large have complied. This creeping tyranny is always implemented for some noble-sounding reason. The left always tells us it is “for the children” or to fight global warming. The right always tells us it is to fight drugs and terrorism.

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The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus

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America, “the land of the free”, now has the world’s highest incarceration rate. All 10 policy planks of the Communist Manifesto have been part of the law of the land for years.

I write this on D-Day, June 6. The more I live and learn, the more I believe most of America’s wars have been staged contrived events. Be that as it may, the average soldier, sailor, airman and marine believes he is leaving home and hearth for your and my freedom. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps over a million, Americans have given their lives over the last 234 years so that you and I can live and breathe in freedom, relative freedom thought it may be.

And how do people like this woman who said “Take my DNA – I have not committed any crimes” thank them? How do they “support” them?

“Oh, I’ll give up my freedom.”

Don’t tell me about Jane Fonda at the Hanoi Hilton and don’t tell me about the dozen or so people every year who desecrate the American flag. Have a good long look in the mirror!

It is bad enough that our troops have been lied to in the way they have. It is even worse when so many people take their liberty so lightly.

If America ever comes under totalitarianism – and it is on a bobsled ride in that direction as we speak – it won’t be because of some dorko in a cave in Afghanistan with a diaper on his head. And it won’t be because of Big Crock Obama. It was because of people on your street, people next to you in the checkout line, people next to you in church and people with whom your kids play little league. The American people in 2009 – left-wing Obama groupies and right-wing Bush groupies alike – are just like the German people of 1933. They will give away their freedom.

I used to say this to left-wingers who wanted the government to solve all their problems and provide cradle-to-grave economic security. Now I say it to right-wingers who are willing to give up their civil liberties in the name of freedom and security. MOVE TO CUBA! That is where they do things YOUR WAY!

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“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” – Ecclesiastes 1:9

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The times, technology, terminology and actors on the stage may change, but human stupidity doesn’t. Don’t let history repeat itself.

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Should you post, copy or share this in any way – who knows why you would?–please acknowledge me, Doug Newman, as the author.  And if you post it off of Facebook, please include this URL: http://www.geocities.com/fountoftruth/mydna.html.

Thanks!

Editor’s note:  It is just as dangerous to share your biometric image as your DNA – the central databases are not secure and it is simply not right to collect and use this data to monitor a free people.  Wake up America!/sc

Ron Paul warns of Worldwide Economic Collapse!

Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) Warns of Worldwide Economic Collapse.The following video is from C-SPAN’s Congress Coverage, broadcast on March 12, 2008.

[Editor's note: we are waking up now - hope there is time to save the nation - Ron Paul is trying to warn us and help us before it is too late! Please digg and share if you agree!!]/sc

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Announcing Constitutional Alliance to Freedom Lovers Everywhere

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The launch of the Freeople website ushers in a new era of political activism. The site provides easy-to-use tools to help the American people, and those around the world, to promote the cause of freedom.

Site members can organize into groups, promote events and collect donations.

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