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To The Neglected

  Dearest Friends and Loved ones,

the past six months have been an emotional and spiritual rollercoaster ride for the Ballard family. on February the 5th 2007 my daughter Chloe was born. A time of great Joy. we moved to Anderson, IN a few days later. a little or a month later i began working for the Tractor Supply Company Distrobution Center in Pendleton, IN. That was pretty cool, i was working and able to pay my bills and it was great being somewhere. At the same time though i felt a darkness slowly move over my soul like a shadow moving with the noon day sun.

I didn't really pray, and i didn't really know what to do. i went to church but more for my wife than for God or for anything else. there were some times when i felt pretty life less. Silence from God is all that i heard. i used this time to study. the bible though and other things relating to my faith. i definetly grew in knowledge. but at the same time i didn't feel that i could relate to anyone and that i didn't really belong to anyone. i have recently been talking with my wife about how i have been feeling. which that in itself has been a weight lifted of my shoulders. i have also talked with my pastor at my church some about it. i know what i must do. i know that there are things/issues in my life that i have not given over to my Lord. important things like for instance my destiny, life, and family. the past few months i have worked and been out of work.

i lost my job at tractor supply and was with out work for about a month. then i started working at a gas station. and that doesn't pay the bills. i have really gotten behind on some of them. and i am looking for a new job in order for us to stay here in indiana. God has opened some doors though for us recently. one of these doors is an opportunity to move back to kansas and to work and live there thanks to my mother who has offered to let us her house, since she wants to move to topeka to go to school. the other is a possible job performing qoutes for a company here in indiana. i really want to leave this one up to God. every time i talk to my mom she reminds me of this. but yet some how i forget. part of me feels as though this black cloud is soon to pass and God and i will patch up our relationship. but as usual it isn't God that has to change to make things work out between us it is me.

when i was in high school i had so many good friends to help me out when i was introuble emotionally, spiritually and everything else in between. i feel as though i have neglected my friends and they have turned away from me. i haven't heard from hardly anyone in a long time and i know that is mostly my own fault, do to my own stubbornness in some situation and the fact that i am terrible at keeping in touch with people.

i have so many fond memories of my friends back home. Lewis Smith and Larry Taylor, two men who encouraged me to be all that God desired for me to be. they mentored me and showed fatherly love that i hadn't really had in my life. i wanted to be like them. to follow in there foot steps. i know that i supprised them when i made the decision to get married right after my freshmen year in college i'm pretty sure i supprised alot of people. but i felt that was what was right for me and i didn't want to listen to anyone on the subject i made up my mind even though i may not have been 100% ready to make that kind of a leap. i know that if i had waited to get married things right now would be alittle bit easier. my first year of marriage was a bit hectic. the first month in we find out that we are going to have a baby. exciting and yet scary. mostly unprepared for that. then we move to moberly things start out good but andrea gets sick. we have to have the baby 3 weeks early, and the house that we lived in was run by a not so nice man and we ended up moving to indiana to live with my mother-in-law who i don't always see eye to eye with. then i get a good job , the i loose a good job. now i am trying make my car payments and find a new job before the end of the month.

But even though it has been a crazy year very little of it would i change. the distance i have felt from God and the distance from my Mom and my friends. yeah i might change that. But love and friendship that i share with  my wife and daughter not on your life. they are a blessing and a support that God has put in my life. it is something to be said about that verse in Genesis. "For a man leaves his fathers home to be joined to his wife and the two become 'ONE' flesh." it is a very true statement. we want to grow together in the Lord and raise our daughter Chloe to know Jesus and to seek his face.

i guess the reason that i wrote all of this is to say this one thing. I love you all, even if i havent seen or spoken to you in almost a year. i am sorry that i have neglected a very important asset in my life; my friends. thank you all for the prayers that you have given to me and my wife and daughter. you are all very special to us. even though we don't often say it. Shalom and Good night.

Seeking after His way,

Matthew Benjamin Ballard

P.S. "The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lordlift up his countenance upon you and give you peace."

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WATCH THIS, IMPORTANT!!!!

anyone who wants to see the historical struggle of the jewish state of israel against its neighbors should watch this slide show. God will prevail for the jewish people and the messiah shall bring them back into the fold and none of the enemies of God can stop what God has set in motion. the redemption of israel and the return of Yeshua/Jesus.

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened/

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Ello Ladies and Gents,

it has been a crazy two months that is for sure. let me start here. february. number one amazing blessing. My amazing/cranky/grouchy/funny/happy/playful daughter is born february 5th, 2007. before the birth of my daughter about a week or 2 we don't have any water in our apartment because the pipes froze in the empty apartments next to us according to our landlord. the week she is born still no water and no heat cause i could get the heat hooked up until the water pipes were fixed because they flood the basement of the apartment where the furnace is. tell my landlord whats going on. landlord says he wont fix the pipes until we get the water put in our name which takes a hundred dollar deposit for money that i don't have. no heat no water. new baby. can't bring my daughter home to that. so my wife and i decide to go and stay with my mother in law for alittle while until we can get back on our feet. our slum lord was very angery that we moved out. i call him a slum lord..well i guess you would of had to meet the guy and see our aparment. he actually had our water shut off. he had fixed the pipes but not cleared out the water in the basement before we left but he did fix the pipes and have our water shut off and didnt actually tell us. any way enough about the landlord.

so we moved to indiana the saturday after my daughter chloe was born. and we have been here for about 5 weeks. and we were affraid that we wouldn't be able to support our selves and pay our bills but thankfully we have a Father in heaven that provides for us daily. andrea had insurance checks from her work come that we didn't think we would get because her doctor had forgotten to fill our some forms. but we did end up getting them and my mom sent me money and other relatives to help us out and for the baby. who has more clothes than she can wear.

i started applying for jobs here. and at first i didnt' look that good. and then last week i got a call back for a place called Tractor Supply Company Distrobution Center. and i got the job there and i started on wednesday and i really like it there. andrea and i also applied to a school here and we are working with them to see if we can take some summer courses. although we are in the process of praying and discussing on whether or not to return to moberly in the fall to resume taking classes there. i think that i would like to go back and finish there i am hoping and praying that God will open and/or close doors for us. to show us which directions we should take. we are currently looking for a church here. it is a strenuous process but im sure we will find a good one. we are going to a church on sunday called living water community church. it looks pretty nifty. we'll check it out and see how that goes.

i would just like to thank everyone who was praying for us. it really means alot to andrea and i . im glad that God has blessed us with such a large family of Believers and our own flesh and blood as well. with our your prayers and God's blessing i don't think we would have made it the last few weeks. we are still struggling but the burden doesn't seem as big. just thanks again to everyone.

In Christ's Love,

Matt Ballard

borrowed from a friend to get the word out

this is a repost of a post that a friend of mine named Beshert posted on my space about a very interesting man.

I saw Jesus getting a tattoo on TV !!!! #1
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I saw Jesus getting a tattoo on TV !!! #1






This is Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda. Also known to many blind followers as "Papi or Daddy".

This Puerto Rican preacher first started out in 1988 by announcing that he was the reincarnation of the Apostle Shaul (Paul).

In 1999 he started calling himself "the Other", a spiritual being, sort of like John the Baptist that would pave the way for the second coming of Messiah
( Mashiach / Christ ).

Finally in 2004 he proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ ( Yeshuah haMashiach ).
Many members, the ones with some brains, left his movement after this declaration....including, his first wife Nydia and his son Jose Luis Jr, who has his own church in Puerto Rico.

Now we move forward to 2007.
Jose Luis is no longer Jesus Christ... but has declard himself to be "the" Antichrist !

On February 24, 2007, Jose Luis along with 30 or more cult members ( did I mention this is a cult ? ) stood in line at a South Beach tattoo parlor infront of news cameras and got matching tattoos of their "prophet's" symbol: 666.




Most Christians have branded Jose Luis as a cult leader. And you don't have to be a Christian or a Messianic Jew to see that this guy is 100% CON ARTIST.

His followers tattooed the number 666, and the letters SSS ( the initials stand for Salvo Siempre Salvo - in English "Saved Always Saved" ) on their forearms, heads and other body parts.

The number 666 is spoken of in the bible's New Testament. The verses are as follows:

Revelation 13:16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

Revelation 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. (666)

His followers took this tattoo as a show of faith in their leader Jose Luis and in all his teachings. They believe that this tattoo does not connect them with Satan because Jose Luis has replaced the teachings of Jesus with a new gospel.

This false Messiah, like any other cult leader, has one important thing in his mind. The bling !!

His followers lavish him with $5000 Rolexes and give him 40% or more of their salaries.

He started his church in a Hialeah warehouse 20 years ago and today he commands a global movement from his Doral headquarters. He has 335 education centers, 200 "pastors", 287 radio programs and a 24-hour Spanish language TV network that is available to 2 million homes. The only ones allowed to preach, despite this "200 pastors" are Jose Luis and his right hand croney, Carlos Cestero.

His sermons emphasize wealth and success as a sign of God's favor. Nevermind that the bible teaches that it's easier for a camel to go thru the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter heaven. ( Matthew 19:24 )

Many of his blind sheep are business owners that fill his pockets with the "favor of God".

This past January (2007) Jose Luis took off his coat and revealed that he had 666 tattooed on his own arm.

So now he is " the Antichrist".

Well, finally this charlattan speaks truth. He is definately "a" antichrist but not "the Antichrist".
He's just a conartist with very well speaking skills, that knows how to milk stupid people out of their money. He's another Jim Jones, another David Koresh, etc.

The saddest yet most angering thing is to see the children on his website, giving their testimonies on how "daddy/papi" changed their lives.

Some of the kids are like 3 years old. Obviously they have been brainwashed by their parents.

Jose Luis takes the scriptures and twists them to his own needs. Like many false prophets, he was told by an angel that he was Jesus Christ. He gets no points on originality on this one.

I'd say that this guy is a moron, but he's no moron. The morons are the foolish adults that with bible in hand, sing (literally) sing praises to him and give him their hard earned money.

I'm going to start posting more blogs and articles on this con-man. I'm going to post links, and also articles in Spanish since for now, all his followers seem to be Hispanic. He preys on the poorest of the hispanics of Latin America and they're all following him on a one way ticket to hell.

I hope you will also help me spread the word on this MAN.
You don't have to be a Christian, or a Messianic Jew. I'm sure that regardless of who you are, you don't want to continue seeing people being dooped by this scumbag.

Feel free to repost, email, forward, add to your own blogs, anything that I write concerning Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda. CON MAN !!

I want to thank Anti Islam Troll for bringing this to my attention. It's not just Islamic Terrorism that we have to fight, but any cult that tries to take advantage of people's lives and livelihood...especially the children, the most innocent victims of all.

Introducing Chloe Breanne Ballard

Our daughter was born Today at 1:32 P.M. this February 5, 2007, at a weight of 7.1 lbs. and 20 inches long. andrea is doing good she is still in the hospital . i posted some pictures for her. The baby's name is Chloe Breanne Ballard

thanks to all matt