A Modern-Day Joseph: How God Moved on the Front Lines - JARED LASKEY CHARISMA MAGAZINE

A Modern-Day Joseph: How God Moved on the Front Lines

 4/21/2016 JARED LASKEY  charisma magazine

With the help of men like Jared Laskey, God is moving mightily on some troops deployed on the front lines in the Middle East. (Wikimedia Commons )

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I was with my family, whom I hadn't seen in 13 weeks, and was soon to graduate from the Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego, California, when a man walked up and thanked me for helping his son return to the Lord.

While in the service, I found myself witnessing in many non-traditional forms. I led a prayer group at boot camp and marched recruits to chapel services, all as a previously burned-out youth pastor with plans to become a chaplain.

Later, while I was training for deployment to Iraq as a field radio operator, a close friend of mine gave me the call sign "Preach," which stuck. The call sign was a term of endearment as well as a fresh reminder of God's call on my life. I was amazed to experience firsthand the fulfillment of the prophecies in Joel 2:28-29 and Acts 2:17-19.

Wherever I went, I witnessed God speaking to men and women in uniform. He even spoke in dreams to fellow infantrymen while they were on training operations in the field leading up to deployment.

During my 2007-2008 deployment to Iraq, word spread that I interpreted dreams, so Marines would come to me and tell me their dreams. Like Joseph and Daniel in the Bible, I told them that it is God who interprets dreams and mysteries, wanting to give credit to whom credit is due (Genesis 40:8; Daniel 2:27-30). I offered Scripture to support the interpretation I sensed from the Holy Spirit, encouraged them to spend time with Jesus, and gave them reading material.

I was humbled as I saw God communicate with those literally on the front lines for our nation. During one conversation with a spiritually hungry Marine, I shared personal experiences of things I had seen God accomplish and then asked him if he wanted more of God. He said yes, so we prayed together and he was marvelously baptized with the Holy Spirit. I cried because I felt that in my spiritually dry state I was unworthy to be part of such an experience.

In 2009, I had the privilege of watching a fellow sergeant in my platoon be baptized in water. He was possibly the first Christian in hundreds of years to be baptized in the Helmand River Valley of Afghanistan. Though we were surrounded by darkness and hatred in a combat environment, God's Spirit was moving on people, bringing His light.

One time we escorted the battalion chaplain to officiate field memorial services for fallen Marines. While returning to base, one of the first remote controlled improvised explosive devices (IEDs) detonated in our area of operation. Thankfully it detonated prematurely, but right in front of my platoon. (Up until this time, the IEDs we encountered were pressure plate detonations.) I looked back at the chaplain and his assistant in my truck and said, "Sir, God is watching out for us."

God is talking to our men and women in uniform in direct and wonderfully supernatural ways. And He has placed incredible chaplains and other Christians in uniform with them to be part of the harvest within our military and to plant seeds of faith (1 Corinthians 3:5-8). Some of my fellow service members committed their lives to Christ even after deployment, during their transition to the civilian world. The seeds had taken root.

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Pray for our sons and daughters in uniform to overcome the challenges they face daily. Pray for the ongoing outpouring of the Spirit upon them, especially as they return from serving and need support and healing. 

Serving in the Marine Corps from 2006-2011, Jared Laskey was the personal radio operator to the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines. Some of his unit's missions are recorded in the movies To Hell and Back Again and The Hornet's Nest. He has also co-written a book called Veronica's Hero, soon to be published with Lulu Publishing.

The original article was printed in the March/April 2016 issue of The Message magazine.

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WATCH: Did Yeshua Celebrate Passover or Die just Before Passover? - Ron Cantor Messiah's Mandate

Yeshua and His Last Passover(s)? Shalom!  How could Jesus/Yeshua eat the Passover with disciples (as we read in the first three Gospels) and die just before Passover (as John says)? I would like to present an interesting theory. If it is correct, then Yeshua died on Thursday afternoon, just before Passover and it means that the events that took place after his arrest, lasted for at least 24 hours, as opposed to a few hours. This makes sense, as it gives more time for Yeshua to be taken from the high priest to Pilate and for Pilate to waver. To be clear, it is just a theory. I am not dogmatic.   You can read my new book FREE on Amazon.  "Must-reading for every believer in this election year." Dr. Michael Brown

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TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles & Michael Snyder | Discussing the Pre-Trib Rapture

TRUNEWS 04/20/16 Michael Snyder | Discussing the Pre-Trib Rapture

  

What does the Bible teach about the end times tribulation? 

Can the Body of Christ have an honest debate about pre, mid, 

and post rapture doctrine without erupting into virulent opposition? 

That’s the subject of today’s edition of TRUNEWS, as Rick Wiles is 

joined by author and publisher Michael Snyder; to discuss how we 

can best serve the Lord until our last days.

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47 Percent Of Americans Cannot Even Come Up With $400 To Cover An Emergency Room Visit - Michael Snyder THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

47 Percent Of Americans Cannot Even Come Up With $400 To Cover An Emergency Room Visit

Posted: 20 Apr 2016   Michael Snyder  THE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE BLOG

If you had to make a sudden visit to the emergency room, would you have enough money to pay for it without selling something or borrowing the funds from somewhere?  Most Americans may not realize this, but this is something that the Federal Reserve has actually been tracking for several years now.  And according to the Fed, an astounding 47 percent of all Americans could not come up with $400 to pay for an emergency room visit without borrowing it or selling something. 

Various surveys that I have talked about in the past have found that more than 60 percent of all Americans are living to paycheck to paycheck, but I didn’t realize that things were quite this bad for about half the country.  If you can’t even come up with $400 for an unexpected emergency room visit, then you are just surviving from month to month by the skin of your teeth.  Unfortunately, about half of us are currently in that situation.

Earlier today someone pointed me toward an excellent article in The Atlantic that discussed this, and I have to admit that The Atlantic is one of the last remaining bastions of old school excellence in journalism that you will find in the mainstream media.  Of course I don’t see eye to eye with them on a lot of things philosophically, but there are some really hard working journalists over there.

The article where I found the 47 percent figure comes from The Atlantic, and it is entitled “The Secret Shame of Middle-Class Americans“.  It was authored by Neal Gabler, and he says that he can identify with the 47 percent of Americans that don’t have $400 for an unexpected emergency room visit because he is one of them…

I know what it is like to have to juggle creditors to make it through a week. I know what it is like to have to swallow my pride and constantly dun people to pay me so that I can pay others. I know what it is like to have liens slapped on me and to have my bank account levied by creditors. I know what it is like to be down to my last $5—literally—while I wait for a paycheck to arrive, and I know what it is like to subsist for days on a diet of eggs. I know what it is like to dread going to the mailbox, because there will always be new bills to pay but seldom a check with which to pay them. I know what it is like to have to tell my daughter that I didn’t know if I would be able to pay for her wedding; it all depended on whether something good happened. And I know what it is like to have to borrow money from my adult daughters because my wife and I ran out of heating oil.

To me, this is yet more evidence that the middle class in America is dying.

Last year, it was reported that middle class Americans make up a minority of the population for the very first time in our history.

But back in 1971, 61 percent of all Americans lived in middle class households.
So what happened?

Well, the big corporations started shipping millions of good paying manufacturing jobs overseas.  Millions of other good paying jobs were replaced by technology, and the competition for the good jobs that remained became extremely intense.

During the good times, the U.S. economy still created new jobs, but most of those jobs were low paying service jobs.

At this point, a majority of American workers have jobs that would be considered low paying.  In fact, 51 percent of all American workers make less than $30,000 a year according to the Social Security Administration.

And once you account for inflation, the truth is that our incomes have been going down for years.  According to a study that was released by Pew Charitable Trusts, median household income in the United States decreased by 13 percent between 2004 and 2014.

That isn’t “progress” any way that you slice it.

If you go all the way back to 1970, the middle class took home approximately 62 percent of all income in the United States.

Today, that number has fallen to just 43 percent.

So the fact that 47 percent of Americans can’t even pay for an unexpected emergency room visit is not exactly a surprise.  To be honest, a whole host of other surveys have come up with similar numbers.  Here is more from Neal Gabler…

A 2014 Bankrate survey, echoing the Fed’s data, found that only 38 percent of Americans would cover a $1,000 emergency-room visit or $500 car repair with money they’d saved. Two reports published last year by the Pew Charitable Trusts found, respectively, that 55 percent of households didn’t have enough liquid savings to replace a month’s worth of lost income, and that of the 56 percent of people who said they’d worried about their finances in the previous year, 71 percent were concerned about having enough money to cover everyday expenses.

What all of these numbers tell us is that the middle class is disappearing.  I tend to compare it to a game of really bizarre musical chairs.  With each passing month more chairs are being pulled out of the circle, and those members of the middle class that haven’t fallen into poverty yet are just hoping that a chair will still be there for them when the music stops.
Even during the “Obama recovery”, we have seen poverty in America absolutely explode.  In fact, some brand new numbers just came out that are quite startling.  The following comes from another author for The Atlantic named Gillian B. White…

Recently, the Brookings Institution published a report looking at the same idea but giving it a different name. The paper, builds on research from the British economist William Beveridge, who in 1942 proposed five types of poverty: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness, and disease. In modern terms, these could be defined as poverty related to housing, education, income, employment, and healthcare, respectively. Analyzing the 2014 American Community Survey, the paper’s co-authors, Richard Reeves, Edward Rodrigue, and Elizabeth Kneebone, found that half of Americans experience at least one of these types of poverty, and around 25 percent suffer from at least two.

To underscore this point, let me just run five quick facts about the growth of poverty in this country by you…

–The number of Americans that are living in concentrated areas of high poverty has doubled since the year 2000.

–In 2007, about one out of every eight children in America was on food stamps. Today, that number is one out of every five.

–46 million Americans use food banks each year, and lines start forming at some U.S. food banks as early as 6:30 in the morning because people want to get something before the food supplies run out.

–The number of homeless children in the U.S. has increased by 60 percent over the past six years.

–According to Poverty USA, 1.6 million American children slept in a homeless shelter or some other form of emergency housing last year.

That last number really gets me every time.

How can “the wealthiest and most powerful nation on the planet” have more than a million homeless children?

This is one of the reasons why I hammer on our ongoing economic collapse over and over and over.  It is affecting real families with real children that have real hopes and real dreams.
This is not the way our country is supposed to work.

It is supposed to be “the land of opportunity”.

It is supposed to be a place where anyone can live “the American Dream”.

But instead it has become an economic wasteland where the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world is being systematically eviscerated.

So no, the U.S. economy is not doing “just fine” – anyone that tries to tell you that lie is simply peddling fiction.

*About the author: Michael Snyder is the founder and publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog. Michael’s controversial new book about Bible prophecy entitled “The Rapture Verdict” is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.*

Planned Parenthood is on the Run - CAROL TOBIAS/NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE CHARISMA NEWS

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards is on the run, thanks to pro-life efforts. (Reuters photo)

Planned Parenthood is on the Run

4/21/2016 CAROL TOBIAS/NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE  charisma news

Planned Parenthood's rhetoric would be a farce if it wasn't so tragic.

We must have really gotten under Planned Parenthood's skin, because last week they sent an unprompted tweet attacking National Right to Life for advocating laws that protect the lives of unborn babies by banning abortions.

What caused this outburst? Our success in passing laws in more states this year, like our model law to ban elective abortions at a stage by which medical evidence indicates an unborn baby is capable of feeling pain. There's also the law that bans brutal dismemberment abortions, in which babies are torn to pieces and bleed to death.

These laws are very popular. Polls show strong majorities of Americans want to protect these babies from the barbarism of Planned Parenthood and other abortionists.

That growing pro-life sentiment in America scares the daylights out of Planned Parenthood! So they attack us.

But we have to fight their brutality with one hand tied behind our backs.

Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar-a-year powerhouse, funded in part with money they earn from abortions and from your tax dollars. Every day, they lobby furiously to kill our life-saving bills.

National Right to Life doesn't have outside revenue streams worth more than 100 million dollars like Planned Parenthood does from abortion. We have to rely on the support of pro-lifers like you and me to step up to defend the unborn against their abortion machine!

So much depends on what we can do now, while legislatures around the country are still in session and we can save many more lives!

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"An Altar to God" ✡ Movie Trailer: Astounding Reenactment of Biblical Scenes - ISRAEL365

And Abram moved his tent and came and dwelled in the plains of Mamre which are in Hebron; and he built there an altar to God. Genesis 13:18 (The Israel Bible™)   וַיֶּאֱהַל אַבְרָם וַיָּבֹא וַיֵּשֶׁב בְּאֵלֹנֵי מַמְרֵא אֲשֶׁר בְּחֶבְרוֹן וַיִּבֶן שָׁם מִזְבֵּחַ לַי-הוָה בְּרֵאשִׁית יג:יח va-ye-e-hal av-ram va-ya-vo va-yay-shev b'-ay-lo-nay mam-ray a-sher b'-khev-ron va-yi-ven sham miz-bay-akh la-a-do-nai

Today's Israel Inspiration One of the first things that Abraham does after receiving God's eternal promise to inherit the Land of Israel is offer thanks to God in the holy city of Hebron. According to Biblical tradition, Abraham lived in Hebron for 35 years, and, along with his wife Sara, was buried there. Today Abraham's city is home to 700 devoted Jews who keep the holy sites open to all faiths. Learn more about Hebron, the second holiest city in the Land of Israel, in a FREE eBook from the Hebron Fund. Yes, I want to more deeply understand the City of our Forefathers » Movie Trailer: Astounding Reenactment of Biblical Scenes Hold onto your seats as you go back in time to the biblical Jacob adjuring his twelve sons to bury him in the Cave of Machpelah, as the Bible comes to life!   Watch here » Passover Miracle in Jerusalem as Bus Bomb Leaves No Fatalities Earlier this week, a bomb went off in a crowded bus in Jerusalem, showering passengers with deadly shrapnel and setting it ablaze. In what can only be described as a miracle, no one was killed. Read more » Priestly Purification Five Coin Necklace Wear a piece of biblical history from the City of David in Jerusalem! This stunning necklace includes five coins, modeled after fascinating archaeological finds. Included are silver seals which replicate coins of the era, and two are 22K gold plated replicas of seals. One of the coins is a replica of a specific coin belived to have been used by priests when inspecting the viability of a product for the Temple as it was entering the grounds. If it was fit for use, it would be marked “pure”. The silver coin at the center is an exact replica of the priestly seal bearing the words “deka leyah” which is the aramaic for “pure for God”. It hails from the Second Temple period.   Get this Great Deal » Today's Israel Photo Today's photo features the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron. The Hebrew word "makh-peh-LA" means "multiple," a reference to the four holy couples buried there: Adam & Eve, Abraham & Sarah, Isaac & Rebecca, and Jacob & Leah.   See more Scenes of Israel » Thank You Please help us continue to spread the beauty and significance of the Land of Israel!   Sponsor a day in honor of a loved one » “Makes Me Feel Closer” It’s great to hear from so many of you - stay in touch and let us know where in the world you are enjoying Israel365!   Stay in Touch » I enjoy reading your posts each day from Irvine, Kentucky, USA. May God bless Israel.- Roger Richardson Dear Rabbi, I too just found your website. I received the first email yesterday. Seeing the Hebrew writing and translation makes me feel closer to your glorious land.  May God bless you continually.  Chuck S., North Carolina USA Shalom, Rabbi Tuly Weisz RabbiTuly@Israel365.com

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NASA Astronaut is 'Fascinated by this view' - Israel Today Staff

NASA Astronaut is 'Fascinated by this view'

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Even from space, veteran NASA astronaut Jeff Williams can feel the pull of the Holy Land.

Williams is currently aboard the International Space Station, from where he has been posting stunning photographs of Earth to Facebook.

Earlier this week, as the space station passed over the Middle East, Williams uploaded a breathtaking shot of Israel and its neighboring countries under the headline “I have been fascinated with this view.”

“Every time we pass over,” Williams expounded, “I have been fascinated with this view considering it contains the vast majority of Biblical history.”

Williams suggested that fascination stemmed from an appreciation for history instilled in him by his father, a high school history teacher.

But that’s only part of the story.

It is well known that Williams is a committed Christian.

In 2009, after his third spaceflight, Williams wrote the book The Work of His Hands: A View Of God’s Creation From Space in which the astronaut reflected upon the “vivid lessons about the meticulous goodness of divine providence, God’s care for His creation, and His wisdom in ordering the universe.”

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