Concerns and Issues (part four)

Spiritual Battle: Taking back what the enemy thinks he’s stolen (originally posted December 2007)

just came out of an awesome prayer session with the Lord, and am feeling very strong about some things of a spiritual nature…as usual;)

the enemy has been wreaking havoc in Christians’ lives, and casting his spirits of depression, defeat, anger, etc on us..and i feel as though we need to take a stand, reclaim that ground that we’ve already won in the Lord, and His blood that was shed for us.

His blood not only covers our sin(s), but it also heals, and it destroys strongholds. i am claiming the blood of our Saviour, and binding the enemy in the lives of my brothers and sisters in Christ today, right now!

Matthew 16:19 “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Ephesians 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.

As Abraham Kuyper states: “If once the curtain were pulled back, and the spiritual world behind it came to view, it would expose to our spiritual vision a struggle so intense, so convulsive, sweeping everything within its range, that the fiercest battle ever fought on earth would seem, by comparison, a mere game. Not here, but up there-that is where the real conflict is waged. Our earthly struggle drones in its backlash.” 2 So, the first message of this chapter is: We are in the midst of a spiritual war, not a physical one.

We often get so caught up in the mundane that we forget what the real issues are.

Second: As believers we have the hope and comfort that comes from knowing that victory is already His, therefore we have no need to be afraid. We always can go to the Lord for the reassurance and resources that come from being His child. God is in control, be it in the physical or spiritual realm. His forces will ultimately prevail.

Third, our role is to be one of the prayer warrior. We are involved in the work of heaven, just as Daniel’s prayers receive the response of heaven.

National ID: Coming soon to a state near you…(originally posted December 2007)

At large, the American people are still unaware of the issuance of the Real ID card forthcoming in May of 2008. This new national/international ID card, and its interactivity with national/international databases, can access our medical, financial, driving, Social Security, license(s), firearms registrations, and political status inside its high tech/little nano brain. In essence, it holds our private lives on a swipe-able card that is then privy to any organization, retailer, or person requesting our identification or our money. In other words, our life histories accessible upon command from one 2X3 inch card. Having no choice but to comply, most American people will accept their new national/international ID card.

It is my understanding that without the card, we will be denied bank accounts in the United States of America, a driver’s license, and the right to fly on airplanes unless we have been issued a Real ID card. One might imagine that global retailers might require the Real ID to purchase food and gasoline. Take a look at your current driver’s license. Check the expiration date. 2008 would be a good global guess. For those of us who have seen United Nations military vehicles in the United States, and who have also noticed convoys of military tanks being transported through the wilderness areas of our nation – the same areas that have been locked down and away from the American people via Biosphere Reserves and conservation corridors – we have realized for a great many years that, as one patriot stated, the “stage was being set” for difficult times on American soil – the key issue that mass media ignores at its professional finest.

So, with stages being set, one must also look to the timing of the Real ID card, and to 2008 in general. Let us not forget all the other paramilitary systems in our nation, like the Department of Homeland Security, FEMA, Citizens Corp groups, Neighborhood Watch groups, C.O.P.S. (Community Oriented Policing Services), the militarizing of law enforcement departments, and the many new for-hire corporations that offer private armies with weapons for a price. And then, of course, there are the U.N. peacekeeping forces, which the American military has been actively involved with for many, many decades while, simultaneously and incrementally, our “leaders” have been closing our homeland military bases during these same decades. The professional timing of the Real ID card in 2008, and its mandatory issuance, brings to mind several forthcoming coincidences and issues.

The collecting and databasing of all personal information of every American adult – coinciding with the CFR’s North American Community – and all global government infrastructures in place and play, one must consider the following: • How are “domestic terrorists” determined and identified? • Who will be held in the Civilian Labor Camps on American soil? • What is the real issue behind the “identity theft” propaganda? • Why are the off-limits American wilderness areas crawling with secret military operations? • And why the mandatory issuance of an ID card that sums up every American citizen with one swipe? One cannot help but to almost laugh when it comes to considering how directly global intentions rest beneath our noses. So easy to see, yet so blindly the public goes about its merry and dull way.

On that note, the Real ID card will ultimately seal your fate. You will be a compliant and completely identifiable slave to the New World Order, or you will be its enemy – and your Real ID will determine which global creature you shall be. Therefore, America, let us not in-fight. The fact of our demise as free people exists no matter whose research is right or wrong. The stage is, in fact, being set for our nation’s conquering.

The Democrats and Republicans have seen to this fact and have worked steadfastly to raise their one-world government. They knew from the beginning that people with property, firearms, and rights were their primary problems, or in other words, the people of the United States of America and other westernized nations.

Our “leadership” is not what they seem. The public acceptance of the Real ID in May of 2008 seals the deal. It will be more than interesting to see which of our friends, neighbors, and family members will willingly sign onto their fate as new “citizens” of the global police state. Just keep telling yourselves that you voted them into office. So did I. As such, we have a lot of soul searching to do and very, very little time – about 21 months.

Are we going to continue to allow our “representatives” to march off with this nation and our Constitutional freedom, or are we going to unite and reclaim OUR nation? Ignorance is never bliss. It is abject slavery, and this time, the enslavement is backed by a system far greater than concepts or perceived notions of freedom. It’s past time to do more than wave flags, wear patriotic tee shirts, hats, and pins. It’s time to serve through action and duty to this nation. Start an A.C.E. (Americans for Constitutional Enforcement) chapter in your neighborhood NOW. Request an information packet (contactus@a4ce.org) and create your local chapter. It’s YOUR job and Constitutional duty to save our nation and to preserve freedom. We have been betrayed. For the sake of your children, open your eyes and act. The only potential answer is to UNITE for freedom and to command that freedom with one voice. Then, as a nation UNITED in knowledge, we can rid ourselves of our “representative” globalists. Now, please stop the bickering and bitching, especially of the partisanship flavor, and get to WORK.

Global government is non-partisan minus the master-slave divide. Is the national ID card the next step toward the imposition of the biblical “mark of the beast” Christians believe will be required to buy and sell during the Last Days? That’s the contention of a growing group of believers who are working to turn back the approval of the Real ID Act by Congress last year. Public Law 109-13 requires the national ID portion of the plan go into effect by May 2008.

“There is a prophecy in the Bible that foretells a time when every person will be required to have a mark or a number, without which he or she will not be able to participate in the economy,” states the Christian website NoNationalID.com. “The prophecy is 2,000 years old, but it has been impossible for it to come to pass until now. With the invention of the computer and the Internet, this prophecy of buying and selling, using a number, can now be implemented at any time.

Has the time for the fulfillment of this prophecy arrived?” The site asks visitors to sign an online petition vowing not to vote for any candidate who does not commit to repealing the Real ID Act. The goal, states the site, which is sponsored by Endtime Ministries, is to get 100,000 signatures on the petition. On the site is a link to purchase a DVD entitled “666 – How Close? Will the National ID Become the Mark of the Beast?” Americans choosing not to carry a national ID, the site warns, will be prohibited from driving a car, boarding a plane, train or bus, entering any federal building, opening a bank account, or possibly from holding a job.

“This is probably our last chance to head off the mechanism before it is actually implemented as the mark,” states the site in the FAQ section. “It truly may be now or never.” The Real ID Act requires states to participate in a federal data-sharing program when issuing driver’s licenses, making those licenses de facto national ID cards. Touted as a tool of the war on terrorism, the ID card provision of the law, which also includes border-security measures, has attracted the most negative attention.

After May 11, 2008, “a federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver’s license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements” specified in the Real ID Act. While states can issue non-federal ID cards, they would not be accepted by the Transportation Security Administration for travel purposes, grounding those who don’t carry federally approved cards. The data required to be included in each card are, among other things, the person’s full legal name, date of birth, gender, driver’s license number, a digital photo, the person’s address and machine-readable technology so the information can be ready easily by government or banking personnel.

Each state must agree to share the data on the cards with every other state. Supporters of the law say it does not require a “national” ID card because each state issues its own cards, not the federal government. But detractors note the cards are virtual national IDs since the federal law has dictated what data must be included and that each state must share its database with the others. The New Hampshire Senate yesterday voted to reject a bill to rebel against the Real ID system and not participate in a pilot program for which the state had been tapped.

The state House of Representatives passed the measure last month, but the Senate instead voted to study the driver’s license requirements. U.S. Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is urging his home state to give Real ID a try, saying it’s needed to keep terrorists and illegal aliens from entering the country. According to the Manchester Union Leader, Gregg argues that New Hampshire residents will find it difficult to get on airplanes or enter federal buildings if New Hampshire doesn’t embrace Real ID. Groups opposed to the Real ID Act are making strange bedfellows, with Christians like those running NoNationalID.com fighting on the same side with the American Civil Liberties Union, which sponsors the website RealNightmare.org.

The ACLU site decries the fact that a motor vehicles department staff person will be required to ask for immigration-status papers from those applying for driver’s licenses. “REAL ID will inevitably cause discrimination against U.S. citizens who may ‘look’ or ’sound’ foreign to a DMV bureaucrat,” states the site. “REAL ID requires DMV employees to decide whether someone is a citizen or foreigner before issuing a driver’s license. The law demands that DMV bureaucrats distinguish among citizens, permanent resident immigrants and other non-citizens in deciding who is eligible for a license and what type of license may be issued.

“Based on past experience when similar requirements were imposed on employers, widespread discrimination resulted against citizens who ‘looked’ or ’sounded’ foreign.” The civil-liberties group also slams a requirement of the law that some immigrants be issued a temporary “tier-two” license that has a prominent expiration date. U.S. governors also have come out against the law, saying it is a huge unfunded mandate imposed on the nation’s states.

The National Conference of State Legislatures is equally opposed to the Real ID Act, saying, “Federal legislators and rule makers are negating state driver’s license security efforts, imposing difficult-to-comply-with mandates and limiting their flexibility to address new concerns as they arise. In other words, decades of state experience is being substituted for a ‘command and control regime’ from a level of government that has no driver’s license regulatory experience.”

Endtime Ministries’ Irvin Baxter, a radio host, believes the national ID is a precursor to the forced embedding of radio-frequency chips under the skin. Baxter told the Concord, N.H., Monitor: “That’s where we are headed right now. The prophecy states that you will have to receive a mark on your hand or in your forehead.” Homeland Security officials released long-delayed guidelines that turn state-issued identification cards into de facto internal passports Thursday, estimating the changes will cost states and individuals $23 billion over 10 years.

The move prompted a new round of protest from civil libertarians and security experts, who called on Congress to repeal the 2005 law known as the Real ID Act that mandates the changes. Critics, such as American Civil Liberties Union attorney Tim Sparapani, charge that the bill increases government access to data on Americans and amplifies the risk of identity theft, without providing significant security benefits. “Real ID creates the largest single database about U.S. people that has ever been created,” Sparapani said.

“This is the people who brought you long lines at the DMV marrying the people at DHS who brought us Katrina. It’s a marriage we need to break up.” Homeland Security officials point to the 9/11 hijackers’ ability to get driver’s licenses in Virginia using false information as justification for the sweeping changes. “Raising the security standards on driver’s licenses establishes another layer of protection to prevent terrorists from obtaining and using fake documents to plan or carry out an attack,” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in a press release.

The 162 pages of proposed rules (.pdf) require: * Applicants must present a valid passport, certified birth certificate, green card or other valid visa documents to get a license and states must check all other states’ databases to ensure the person doesn’t have a license from another state. * States must use a card stock that glows under ultraviolet light, and check digits, hologramlike images and secret markers. * Identity documents must expire before eight years and must include legal name, date of birth, gender, digital photo, home address and a signature. States can propose ways to let judges, police officers and victims of domestic violence keep their addresses off the cards. There are no religious exemptions for veils or scarves for photos. * States must keep copies of all documents, such as birth certificates, Social Security cards and utility bills, for seven to 10 years. However, many difficult questions, such as how state databases will be linked or how homeless people can get identity documents, were left unanswered by the proposed rules. Citizens of states that don’t abide by the guidelines will not be able to enter federal courthouses or use their identity cards to board a commercial flight. Sophia Cope, a staff attorney at the centrist Center for Democracy and Technology, says the rules only mention privacy once.

“The Real ID Act does not include language that lets DHS prescribe privacy requirements, so there are no privacy regulations related to exchange of personal information between the states, none about skimming of the data on the magnetic stripe, and no limits on use of information by the feds,” Cope said. The Real ID Act, slipped into an emergency federal funding bill without hearings, originally required states to begin issuing the ID documents by May 2008. The proposed rules allow states to ask for an extension until Jan. 1, 2010. Cope wants Congress to step in and rewrite the rules.

The ACLU and Jim Harper, a libertarian policy analyst at the Cato Institute who specializes in identity and homeland security issues, agree. “With five-plus years behind us, now is the time to be looking at what works and what doesn’t work,” Harper said. “Students of identification know that a national ID does not help with security.” Maine has already declared it will not follow the rules, and other states are close to joining that rebellion. In Congress, a bipartisan coalition is forming around bills that would repeal portions of the Real ID Act, but it is unclear if today’s rules will slow or accelerate these efforts.

This Christmas…(originally posted December 21, 2007)

well, it’s the weekend before Christmas and i wanted to take a few to tell y’all how much my correspondence and friendships with each of you mean to me. some of you i’ve had the opportunity to get to know really well, and others not quite yet(but there’s a new year around the corner for that)..

i hope that, through all the festivities and chaos, that you’re all able to get breaths in every once in awhile and enjoy this time with frenz and family. i’m going to try my best to get some personal messages out to some of you over the next few days as well, but knowing the timeline and what lies ahead here this weekend, that may be a little ruff..thus the message here;)

for those that are able to be with the ones you love and like, enjoy yer time..and remember those that aren’t and can’t be with theirs this Christmas…

to those serving in any and all the armed forces around the world, wherever you are..know that yer in the hearts, thoughts and prayers of many of us back here at home..and at the risk of sounding like a skipping cd, thank you again so much for yer service, commitment and sacrifice on behalf of all of us.

God bless each and everyone of you this Christmas! d

So This Is Christmas…(originally posted December 24, 2007)

…the house is filled with laughter; friends and family everywhere, Christmas music can be heard playing in the background..

kids running everywhere, all jacked up on the sugar in their veins, playing with as many of their new toys as possible; you look around and see the images of Christmas everywhere you turn, this is all a memory in the making..

you try hard to smile through the feelings that are sitting just below the surface, those old, familiar pangs of loneliness, resentment, pain and sadness..

the house is filled with the scent of cookies made fresh the night before, and of the food being prepared for the dinner celebration..with so much commotion and activity, you find it hard to see how those feelings of unrest can even be present on a day such as this..

..your mind wanders miles away to where yer family is, and wonders what they’re doing right now as you think of them..is there joy, is there laughter? or is there that shared sense of disappointment and uneasiness that somehow manages to keep itself latched onto you, like a piece of tinsel caught in the fibers of yer clothing..

you find yerself longing for peace, for comfort…and joy.

knowing that you’ve come out of a past where alcohol and drugs were the temporary fix for what you were dealing with, and knowing you didn’t and couldn’t go back to any of that again..

knowing the negative outcome of what such abuse would bring. instead, you find yerself on yer knees, crying..crying out to the Lord to just get you through this.

this holiday is about Jesus’ birth, and the gift that God gave to us when He sent His Son to become our saviour and king..a time that should be filled with such happiness and joy yet, millions the world over, spend these next two days in a mindframe that He would never want for His children..

when this day should be about joy and sharing and love, its often found to produce sorrow and selfishness and hate.

the enemy has come to steal our joy..however he can manage it; he has come to cause separation, to create tension, and to take from us the very thing that God offers each of us(not only at Christmas, but every day of our lives)…and that is His love, His peace, His gift of love..

the spirits of the enemy have been dispatched among us, to wreak havoc and help to destroy the true meaning of Christmas..

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How the enemy stole Christmas…(originally posted December 25, 2007)

this has honestly been one of the roughest Christmases i’ve ever known.. things changed in my plans about a week ago, when my mom(who i was planning on being with over the two days) informed me that she wasn’t up to the visit, or celebrating this year at all, and initially i even found strength through the Lord with the situation, knowing it was all in His hands, and no matter what that there had to be a reason for it..

so the next few days were alright.. then friday of last week, a friend of ours came a day early for our celebration on saturday, and two of us in the house really felt the presence of some kind of something.

she felt a spirit of lewdness, and i detected spirits of complacency and despair.. the house was hopping on saturday, but there was still this overwhelming sense of something..and even being surrounded with lots of friends, i felt utterly lonely and kept trying to shake it..and even through prayer, something still has lingered all the way thru today.

at what should be one of the happiest times of the year, i’ve had four or five of the hardest days of my Christian walk to date…been on my knees, in prayer, in tears..and still have felt completely overwhelmed.

i try so hard to have broad shoulders thru all this, and have gone to the Lord with it each day feeling incapable of making it thru this. i’m sorry to lay this on ya, it’s been so rough..and normally, i’d take it to Him and leave it there, without even mentioning it to anyone..

i know He’s there, i know He hasn’t left my side..and yet, i just haven’t been able to shake this feeling that the enemy stole my joy this year..i dunno, anyways, thx for hearing me on this..