Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address
he said,
"We can't keep Christians from going to church."
"We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."
"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with
their savior"
"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is
broken."
"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish
dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a
relationship with Jesus Christ.."
"This is what I want you to do," said the devil:
"Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that
vital connection throughout their day!"
"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.
"Keep them busy in the nonessentials of life and invent innumerable
schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.
"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."
"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to
work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty
lifestyles."
"Keep them from spending time with their children."
"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape
from the pressures of work!"
"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small
voice."
"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player whenever they drive."
"To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home
and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays
non-biblical music constantly."
"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."
"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."
"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."
"Invade their driving moments with billboards."
"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs,
sweepstakes,
and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering free products,
services and false hopes.."
"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their
husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll
become dissatisfied with their wives. "
"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night."
Give them headaches too!
"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin
to look elsewhere."
"That will fragment their families quickly!"
"Give them Santa Clause to distract them from teaching their children
the real meaning of Christmas."
"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection
and power over sin and death."
"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."
"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."
"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation.
Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and
movies instead. "Keep them busy, busy, busy!"
"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip
and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences."
"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek
power from Jesus."
"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their
health and family for the good of the cause."
"It will work!" "It will work!"
It was quite a plan!
The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians
everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.
Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.
I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?
You be the judge!!!!!

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okay -- this is for lara, because she obviously is a little backwards --- THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY!  
but for the record, THIS IS THE DAY THAT THE LORD HAS MADE, I WILL REJOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT ........ even the rainy days. another day to live breathe and most importantly glorfiy God is all i am asking for. sunhine or not, although i prefer to have the sunshine.

last day of school for the week! and i only have 2 classes today! woo hoo.
i have to do a lesson plan today too ... on a book called PRUDENCE'S GET WELL BOOK. its cute, read it some time. good lesson about GERMS aaahhh! haha.

well for all the craziness - have a happy day ya'll! (did i just say ya'll!!?!??!?!?!)

love and hugs!

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 good morning all. what a dreary day again. or as lara says "Easy on the eyes" .... wedding day forecast 70 and sunny, YIPEEEEE  thats going to make for a most beautiful day for our most beautiful bride!  we love you andia! by the way -- i still dont know what dress to wear!

okay so the count down is this: 3 more weeks of school can you believe it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WOOOOOHOOOOOO. of course theres work and summer classes for me but in 3 week i will be half way done with college guys!!!

well maybe later today i will find some fun tidbit for my page. for now i must go, almost time for BIO II woohoo (that was a sarcastic woo hoo in case you were wondering)

love and hugs!

oh and the animatrix -- not too bad all things considered, a little odd and little off in some places - but what are you going to do?

check this out .... hahahaha ......