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26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”

27 So God created human beings in his own image.
In the image of God he created them;

Today, I am watching Fox News half the morning and at one point I was on "You Tube," yet when I resumed Fox they had a highlight or expose of the charity, "Mercy Ships." 

Well, this is one of my favorite Charities. 

Could I tell you why?

Well, you probably won't believe this, but one time I was in a church/cult, I am still trying to figure out which definition was more accurate? 

But I sort of lost it in my "preaching," who knows perhaps I said something about the Cult leader?

Or maybe it was when I tried to report a felonious assault on a young lady by it's members, who knows, but I wasn't liked anymore?

Some people can be so 'touchy.'

Nevertheless, I was kicked out of the place and found myself alone on the street in the middle of winter. And....well....it Gets cold in Kansas and Missouri.   

So, I only did what I knew to do and that was to head out by "hitch-hiking or catching rides with fellow truckers to get to Miami Beach. It was there where I would try to acclimate myself as a "Street Preacher." 

Well, one of the most interesting phenomena that I learned was that I was not a very successful street preacher. Perhaps, it will be a little different next time, nonetheless, I have learned that I can reach more individuals and that they will listen much more closely, so long as I am not 'screaming,' from a street corner?

At least this way, I can count more than five people who just might actually be listening to what I speak?

You know, it was like when I used to sell "Greeting Cards," from one of those ads in the Comic Books, as a kid. Mom always bought one, my aunties Emma and her sister, and sometimes Uncle Buck, if I could catch him walking out of a Bar at just the right time. And then on occasion my next-door neighbor might buy one, but that was about it. 

So, anyway, this is what keeps me going in the ministry, I'm pretty sure that I have at least five listeners, although I haven't made any more money than just before I had to return the other seven boxes of "Greeting Cards," for credit. 

Anyway, I stayed on the road for maybe the next five years. So, while I was on the road, many times, I would go where there had been a serious weather event, such as a Tornado, or Hurricane or whatever. Once, I was in New Orleans and because I had a CDL, I was able to help out delivering food or supplies from one camp or warehouse to various other destinations around the city. Another time, I had arrived at Joplin, MO, right after a Tornado had literally wiped out numerous neighborhoods, and destroyed a large part of town. So, I offered assistance there, as well. You see, I had to eat and so many times I would feel as if the Holy Spirit would lead me to such places. That way I could get fed as well as volunteering my time in whatever capacity would open up to me. 

Well, there was one place, and I can't even remember which city that it was in, maybe on the East coast somewhere, but as usual I would meet the kindest strangers from these charities that would minister to the people who were always in dire need. Normally, the people, as well, as the volunteers would be just great people. 

You see, eventually I saw a pattern among those who had suffered hardships. Soon these individuals or victims would show the most 'gratitude' of any others who I had met on the road. 

This is what hardship, and brokenness will do to a people, it will make you look back on your life from a new perspective. Generally, you become a kinder person and you are "THANKFUL," and for some they will lose everything, yet often you will hear the same people exclaim, "Oh I lost everything, but I 'thank God' that my family are all alive."

One time, I was in Georgia or Alabama, and many times I would have to "walk," across town. I recall one time on Easter Morning, and I was serving a pastor who had a "Tent Revival," yet I wanted to go to a church service at a "Spirit Filled Church" in the morning.  

The Evangelist had no service scheduled  for Easter morning. Well, the only "Spirit Filled Church," was on the other side of town maybe six or seven miles away. So, I grabbed my Bible in hand and began walking to church. I walked and I walked and I walked. 

Meanwhile, there were a number of Pick Up Trucks that would pass me by, as well as many cars which a number of them had a few Christian decals. Well, as I recall when I finally got within a mile of the church, a young Hispanic gal finally offered me a ride. I recall this because it seriously bothered me that I was passed by so many single men, who I guess were either afraid or just selfish, yet here comes this little young woman who obviously had a heart for the needy, yet rather than to "fear," she trusted in God and picked up a hitch-hiker. I swear she was just this tiny little thing, but huge in "Faith." 

Real tough guys in some of our Southern states? Normally, you can tell by how big their "Pick Ups," are?

Or perhaps, that is just what they want you to think...

So, let me refresh the situation, I was showered, nice and casually dressed, as I always did a weekly laundry on the road or would "hit," my storage, maybe every six months to refresh what I wore or carried on the road. This was why I was able to use a four Star Hotel's facilities if I needed, in an emergency type situation. Most other times, I would shower at the truck stops all over the country.  Or even in these Charity Organizations which would set up public showers for those who had lost all of their belongings or homes. 

But there I am on a bright Easter Morning, sun shining, and carrying a large Bible, obviously looking as if I was on my way to church. And as I walked at least five to six or more miles, I was being passed by single men in their F-150 or Dodge Ram brand new "Pick Ups," and by many whose trucks I would later see in the churches parking lot, identified through their Christian Fish or decals of Christ suffering on the cross, perhaps? 

Then there was another time, that I recall so vividly. I was in the same situation just walking down the road with my thumb out hoping to get to a Truck stop where I would sit, shower, and shave. Then afterward, I might catch a ride to somewhere across the country. Nevertheless, as I was walking a guy in a newer Pick Up passes me by, then he gets about 500 yards up, turns the vehicle around and then comes back asking me if I would like a ride. 

Well, I get in the truck, and we are a little way down the road, and he says to me, "You know, I don't usually pick up hitchhikers, in fact, I'm not sure that I ever have, but maybe once or twice." 

He continues, "Nonetheless, I was a victim of those Tornados which just came through and demolished all of those houses and neighborhoods." He goes on, "I lost everything that I had, but my wife took my daughter into the bathroom and got in the tub and somehow they survived the entire event." 

Next, he said, "but I don't care about the house, I have my wife and daughter alive, and I am so thankful to God." You see, normally whenever I would accept a ride my opening remarks would be an introduction and then an explanation as to my purpose on the road of "sharing the Gospel," in my future destinations. This way if someone was a little "strange," it wouldn't be an issue. Anyway, so then he said, "My heart just couldn't pass you by and that was why I came back." 

You see, this is why God sometimes allows Satan to bring or allow suffering in your life. It can change people into being much better human beings. 

Please, I don't lie, I never lie on my websites, unless the stories are so obviously exposed as ridiculous, but all of these stories today are true. 

And could I tell you something?

You can't learn these things through a University, a Bible School, or a Semitary. 

Now, could I get to my whole purpose of posting this message today? 

As I said, I was somewhere, I believe on the East Coast. Well, they just had a flood, a hurricane or something. As usual, I saw and met some wonderful volunteers from "Samaritan's Purse," as they were at every catastrophe in which I visited. Nevertheless, there was another ministry that I was helping just doing whatever I could to earn a few meals and to be able to use their showers, in what I felt was a temporary 'mission' in which God had for my life. 

This organization was called "Mercy Ships," and I recall that I had some familiarity with the top guy. Either I had heard him preach before or had been in a few meetings, perhaps at the ICBM at ORU. 

So, it was now about my third or fourth week working with a few of these volunteers, just basically trying to assist them in anything that I could do. 

Meanwhile I had been on the road for probably a year or so, and gradually my storage fee, was growing before the place was going to take steps to either salvage it all for themselves or to place it for auction where I would lose it forever either way.

So, there I was for a few weeks with the devil on my back constantly whispering in my ear, "You're going to lose it all, John, this is the 2nd month that you have missed. It'll just be a few more days, and you lose it all John." 

Well, it was a lifetime of special things that I had accumulated over the years. I have been using "Storage Facilities," for probably a total of fifteen to twenty years of my life. 

Nonetheless, the devil was just destroying my "walk with God" and my Faith. 

He would say. "Yes John, God has allowed you in this situation all for this coming day, you are going to lose that 14 karat Gold Watch which you love so much. Your mechanic tools, your Wooden Machinist Tool Chest, as well as those few Machinists tools you still have, a few drills, a Propane Camping Heater, John."

All of the EDC items, such as various knives or gadgets, and every one of your School Transcripts. The few Photos and other documents you have. 

How are you going to prove that you ever went to one school, let alone six or seven? As well, I had some other Personal papers, External Hard Drives, Thumb drives, my larger Laptop, with various Soft and Hardware, a portable Thermal printer, an inkjet printer.  And other computer paraphernalia. A small tote filled with Bibles of all sizes. Many really compact Bibles, as I used to use these as I would travel by motorcycle around towns where I lived. A number of Bibles on CD, or MP 3, a few reference books. 

  I had a few lamps, a portable dresser, a couple of large totes which held my clothing, a few winter leather coats, a leather Blazer, a few Irish Tweed jackets, Maybe six or eight mostly brand new Levi's, probably ten Oxford Shirts, something like six or eight pairs of shoes, either a Sperry's Boating shoe, or Timberland waterproof leather Boots, name brand Athletic shoes, Sleeping bags good for 10 or twenty below zero, yet folded to maybe six by twelve, and special Ground Cloths, or Thermalite accessories, good for below zero degree weather. A tent, three or four luggage Carts priced at one hundred to four hundred dollars. A Panasonic Microwave, an almost brand-new Convection oven, 

My Professional Kitchen Knives, other Kitchen utensils. 

You just can't imagine all that I had and although much of it had been used for a few years, and it would be little or non-essential to many, these were all personal to me. They were all the things that I used and would need in life when I was settled within a community. They were like all that I had in world, and I had come within a day or two of losing it all.

So, you know, you're not supposed to show your emotions, lest someone think that you are "hinting," that you may need 'help,' from another person, but I couldn't help it, I went to help a few of the guys from "Mercy Ship," one day, and apparently my deep worry and concern was obvious to at least one guy. 

So, he says to me, "Hey John, what's up, you don't look like your normal self today." 

Well, I just needed for it come out of my mouth, I couldn't understand why "God was going to let this happen to me," and I did what I seldom do, but I just shared my heart with this almost complete stranger. 

I no more, than get done and the guy says to me, "So that's it?" 

"You just need like three or four hundred dollars, here let me write you a check." 

And that's my story, absolutely the truth. 

Also, let me share this, most of these people on the ship are volunteers, they do not get salaries., as I recall. 

I think up until that time, I had never received more than five or ten dollars from a brother or sister "in the Lord." 

But I say that because coincidentally Fox News did a special broadcast this morning on the organization, "Mercy Ships," therefore, I felt as if God wished for me to share my experience with those wonderful people.  

This is definitely one of my favorite charities and when you "Give," to this organization you are not just giving to all of the incredible "works," which they do for the "outcasts," of this world, but you are helping to support an entire Ship of the most gracious and kindest Christians, whom I have ever been "Blessed," to share my stories with or about. 

Do you understand what I am saying?

One day, I will be telling this same story in heaven, as I greet all of these wonderful "Saints."

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! 

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Lastly, let me add something the Lord placed on my heart earlier. This last weekend I heard the usual, concerning the selfishness and the crime in our Nation. I don't believe in any other time in history has our country ever suffered from the incompetence from many who hold Political Power in our Nation. 

Trust me the Forefathers of our Nation could have never imagined the "wickedness," of those who would come after them and to be so inhumane or incompetent. You see, in the days they lived the morals, and the ethics were constantly in "Play" during their Earthly lives. Many of those men and women were Christians and they knew that their purpose in life was to help create a model built on Biblical morality and godliness, lest they lose the future lives of their children. 

Well, because such recent and wicked men have been on a mission to completely deny the Goodness, Morality and Ethics of our most generous God, our country is worse today ethically, morally and even in terms of "Goodness," if it could be measured. 

We have become a third world Nation or a Banana Republic, yet from a godly standpoint, we have evolved to an even lesser degree than many of those throughout the world. 

I believe that God is asking me to ask those who are reading this, to cry out for our country and to pray for those individuals on the "Left." that they may come to their senses and to wake up to the reality of a Holy God. 

Unfortunately, many of those have become as animals and to understand such a strong statement, all one has to do is to look at the crimes, which are committed in our "BLUE," controlled cities and to see how they plan to deal with it. 

"Oh, I forgot, they don't give a "rip," about our crime ridden cities and few have any plans to deal with it."

You see, for them to "Deal," with it, they would have to acknowledge that they have been WRONG, and most men's PRIDE will not allow that. 

You see, that is why God had to banish one third of an innumerable number of angels from Heaven, just as these man and women will also be banished from the Earth when Jesus comes to set up His Millennial Kingdom on Earth. 

No, most of these will suffer an Eternal fire in the Bowels of Hell for all of time which there will never be anymore. 

Do you understand?

"Time is measurable, but once it ceases, there will only be "FOREVER." 

Therefore, many of these will forever be in Damnation. 

Sorry fellas, no end of sentence!

Eternity!

There were a number of shootings and killings across the country, this past weekend, which was typical of many weekends, but the one thing that just sickened me was this incident which happened in Chicago. A man with something like 72 previous arrests, and fifteen convictions, as well, as being monitored by an ankle bracelet had thrown gasoline on a woman of only twenty-six years old and who is struggling this holiday season in a hospital fighting for her life. 

You know, as you listen to these reports, some just become personal to you. As I thought of the entire incident, I was like telling God, "God I have lived a full life, I really would if I could, exchange places with the woman, if she could only be granted a life completely free of any effects of what happened. 

This is a woman who just happened to be on or near a rail and now has to go through life suffering the aftereffects of what these politicians and selfish 'leftist,' judges and prosecutors are desperately trying to do to America.

They wish for crime, such as this, to be the norm in American society, so they can feel 'great' in wielding their Power yet doing nothing to change anything for the good. 

You see, they are consumed with "feelings," of Power, and as long as they do nothing to change anything for the good of mankind, they believe that they are of some kind of "WORTH," to the human race. 

They want the people to feel the need for their worthless acts and allowances that they believe are valued. 

Well, gentleman and ladies, you are a CANCER on the human Race because all that you do is to steal, KILL, and to destroy any semblance of godliness in a society. 

Please pray for the "Left."

God can save a few, I believe it and then I will accept you as a brother or a sister in Christ. 

Well, these things are happening all over America, in mostly Blue Cities where the towns are run by Leftist Politicians and I don't understand that. 

Do these people not know that one day they will stand before the one who created them and will be accountable for all of the blood on their hands? 

Nevertheless, this society is the outcome of all of those radical liberals, who were intent on doing away with the Bible. 

"Hey, I guess, you were successful!"

That is right up until the day when you stand before Jesus!

Lastly, I want to make one more comment, and I am as serious as ever as I can be. 

Recently, I have been tired of all of the negative crap that is reported every day on the hour concerning our society, so what I will do is to turn on an old "Western," to just relax and to watch an old fashioned movie where there is a plot, , some good characters, and a theme which always leaves a godly principle or lesson of virtue concerning mankind. 

Some of my favorites are the Television serials from the fifties and the sixties. I recall right after that era in the seventies, I guess, there was a 'big to do,' about "guns." All of the feminist women, bored from their constant accusations against men, decided to go after children's programming. 

"Why, look at our precious children being exposed to men carrying guns.

"Oh my God, Oh Lord, help us for the children's sake." 

And so, what they did was to criticize and to turn society from the evils of those movies or scripts when Television first began. 

Well, last night, I was thinking about the situation. 

I came to the conclusion that in almost every one of those shows back then in the fifties and sixties, although they had guns and shooting after shooting, at the end of each show in every situation, "GOOD" triumphed over "EVIL."

Or there was always a lesson on "virtue, masculinity or the roles of man as defined Biblically. Each one displayed a principle of morality, ethics or goodness displayed by the main characters. and when they ever approached the subject of themes such as masculinity, they presented a biblical concept of how God created both men and women and what his expectations for both were.  

When you saw the shootings, many times done by the heroes of the shows they were for justice and righteousness, not with the motives that are displayed each weekend on the streets of our cities. 

You see, when television began, they had standards. For instance, if an individual or couple were to be filmed on a bed, there was a standard that said, "He or she has to have at least one foot squarely planted on the floor."

The same was true in terms of the themes of the shows, I believe. A show could not just glorify a wicked man and to leave his example on the screen as if that was acceptable to society. 

This is why I can watch almost any TV show from my childhood and then walk away from it feeling "Good: as well, as CLEAN.

I am serious, whether it was Davey Crockett, Jim Bowie, Bat Masterson, the Lone Ranger, Zorro, Have Gun will Travel, in any one of them it was always the "Good, the Moral, the Ethical" who were the heroes. I can't recall some of the others at the moment, but there were many more and all ended the same way where the "righteousness," of godliness was glorified, not some evil.  

So, I was telling God, last night, "What would happen if these leftist judges and ignorant Prosecutors were to instead of letting men and women go free without any repercussions for their seventy or ninety crimes, instead sentenced them to watch a few days of Old serial Westerns?" 

And the same with Gens T, U, V, W, X, Y, and Zed, right along with Gen Alpha? 

All we would need to tell them would be that when they looked at Davy Crockett or Jim Bowie, just to think of him as an Alien or a Superhero from another Galaxy? 

Who knows, perhaps they could acclimate themselves to actually think in terms of a reality and with a virtuous ending embedded in their brains? 

Seriously, I can't imagine what present day society is leaving in the brains of some of these "Blue city," hoodlums, as well, as their politician friends?

What I do know, however, is that most of these Politician's from the "Left," obviously grew up watching such shows, as,

"Who's the Boss,"

"Happy Days," 

"Freaks and Geeks," 

"Laverne and Shirley," 

and lastly, Sex and the City?"

Yes, I believe that most radical "Liberals," are the product of the "Who's the Boss," era of television. 

Not a one has a "clue," as to "who the boss really is," they think it is men, such as Joe Biden who they elect to office, as the Nation's leader?

And we have more on the way, Funny though, now it just looks as if they are going to be "loud mouthed filthy women?"

Can I say that on the internet?

Just a word to the mothers of today, If you would like your child to grow up somewhat normal in today's society, don't listen to the Feminist, or the Liberals who are slowly being drawn into the "Far Left," nut clubs, but go out and start buying those Gun Toting Shows of yesteryear where they had standards that always left a good taste in your mouth. 

Where the heroes are born out of a society of the righteous, not from some Communistic indoctrination, or a controlled and glorified, uneducated society as we have at present. 

Go ahead, why not subject them to where they could get some kind of reference to Morals, or Ethics. Perhaps, some may even start to get an inkling of what "Goodness," is inside a soul." 

You know what I mean?

Yes, for you ladies, maybe it isn't the "Guns," that you see which has eroded society, but it is the attitudes of those who don't have the discernment to get to the root of society's problems.

Think on these things and then, who knows, you may be spared from the Eternal Damnation which our society is bringing on itself every day. 

Just a thought!

Isn't it funny that in that generation where you could watch a Gun toting show almost every night, the society back then had absolutely no recognition of today's society of 'deniers of wholesomeness' and almost if not the most wicked of all societies in which have gone before it?

Author's note: I started this yesterday and just finished a few minutes ago. 

Right before I began it, I had the ultimate non pleasure of witnessing a typical event which happened in our Nation's Capital. It seems as if a couple of pathetic sick individuals targeted some National guard members who were only doing their jobs. You know helping to support ICE, as they are trying to rid our Nation of the "scum," which coincidentally gunned them down.  

Or as we like to call them politically, "Best Friends of the "Leftist" politicians". 

God help our Nation!

Please pray for those who are today, the sickest of all societies, as well as their constituencies.

As well, Pray for the victims and the families of these unfortunate soldiers, America's best. 

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