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Saturday, January 18, 2014
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Steven was Right
This is a little known scheme Hospitals are using to avoid medicare.
You could be out a LOT of money if you don't know about this. If you
think Obama and his cronies are looking out for you...forget it.
Medicare is collapsing along with our whole healthcare system. I know
this is going to be hard to understand.. but if you are on Medicare or
have parents on Medicare... they ARE out to get you.
This seems creepy, but YESTERDAY the USA took the FIRST STEP to doing this.
Remember the internet? Well it will soon no longer. People don't even
know this happened her in the USA. The government will control what you
can and cannot see. http://www.volokh.com/2014/01/14/winning-losing-net-neutrality-decision/
One of the new "laws" passed yesterday in Ukraine:
The decision to limit a user’s access to the Internet …is made based on expert opinion, reckoning the information provided by a certain online source is contrary to the law… reads the Draft Law #3879.
Under the Draft Law, the authorities have the right to oblige Internet providers to limit their subscribers’ access to the Internet sources, which disseminate information contrary to the adopted law, or to online news agencies lacking state registration. Providers’ failure to comply with the new rules will result in them being fined (200-400 tax-exempted minimums).
In addition, telecommunications operators and Internet service providers will be required at their own expense to procure and install equipment for “investigative operations”, maintain such equipment and facilitate said “operations” when ordered. Special licensing for providers is also required by the law-to-be.
The decision to limit a user’s access to the Internet …is made based on expert opinion, reckoning the information provided by a certain online source is contrary to the law… reads the Draft Law #3879.
Under the Draft Law, the authorities have the right to oblige Internet providers to limit their subscribers’ access to the Internet sources, which disseminate information contrary to the adopted law, or to online news agencies lacking state registration. Providers’ failure to comply with the new rules will result in them being fined (200-400 tax-exempted minimums).
In addition, telecommunications operators and Internet service providers will be required at their own expense to procure and install equipment for “investigative operations”, maintain such equipment and facilitate said “operations” when ordered. Special licensing for providers is also required by the law-to-be.
The Catcher IS the quarterback of the baseball team.
Tom
Brady was a Catcher. The pitcher HIKES the ball to him. Think about it. How often to
you replace a catcher during a game?
Big comedown. A few years ago he was the Messiah. Now simply an earthbound Apostle. Must be hard. SMH
Monday, January 13, 2014
Sunday, January 12, 2014
When Spiritual Maturity Comes
This is from John Garfield of RELEASING KINGS.
Here's a portion of what he says. It's worth reading.
Our dreams are very much a part of our personal identity and self-worth. When we contend for our land in the Kingdom, we also sign up for the warfare that comes in the form of resistance from other people or circumstances, and it feels very much like rejection.
Here's a portion of what he says. It's worth reading.
Our dreams are very much a part of our personal identity and self-worth. When we contend for our land in the Kingdom, we also sign up for the warfare that comes in the form of resistance from other people or circumstances, and it feels very much like rejection.
“We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,” Acts 14:22 NIV
When
our heart’s desires are unrealized, it’s often because there is a
Kingdom ingredient in what God writes in our hearts, and it naturally
draws opposition. It can be from religion, church, work, family or
friends. As Christians, we can even blame God for the feeling that what
is most precious in our hearts is dismissed by others or even by Him. It
is wounding and heart breaking.
Symptoms – The feeling of rejection is same hopeless resignation whether we are saved or not.
Justification
– the first symptom is that we retreat into theories to explain to
ourselves why our dreams have passed us by. We can become entrenched in a
negative view of life and close our hearts for protection. We become
opinionated, deaf to the hearts of others, unbending, unreasonable,
stubborn, self-righteous and self-centered. Our pessimism easily
identifies the bad in people on the opposing team. We subscribe to the
fear of conspiracy theories more easily, and a false prophetic anointing
is prone to express the will of the enemy instead of the will of God.
Contentious
issues in politics, religion or theology are defended with irrational
and unloving zeal (as opposed to Godly zeal). They are really just
rallying points for a militant fellowship around shared issues of
rejection… among people who are out of touch with their personal Kingdom
purpose.
Projection
– Our dream is still with us, but instead of working on it, we impose
our concept of how things should be on others, especially those from
whom we feel rejection. The church is a favorite target, but the same
projections can target work institutions, the government – any entity
that represents the source of our rejection. We project / preach the
theory of our imaginary utopia instead of living the example and
demonstrating the fruit that naturally flows from a healthy heart. We
become enforcers of our own law. The problem is there is no ministry of
“sheriff” in the Kingdom.
Countertrends –
Our heart is continually longing to prove itself right, and everyone
else wrong, so we naturally gravitate to counter-culture movements.
We’re trying to correct the imperfections in the institutions that
wounded us – out of our own dysfunction. In day trading, it is a
diagnosable tendency to trade against the trend and take huge losses.
It’s the same way in life… the more we try to counter the rejection we
feel in our hearts, the more rejection and defeat we experience.
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