Hello My Name Is – Child of the One True King

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Chaplain Dan

Hello My Name Is
by Matthew West

Verse 1: Hello, my name is Regret
I’m pretty sure we have met
Every single day of your life
I’m the whisper inside
That won’t let you forget

Hello, my name is Defeat
I know you recognize me
Just when you think you can win
I’ll drag you right back down again
‘Til you’ve lost all belief

These are the voices,
these are the lies
And I have believed them,
for the very last time

Chorus: Hello, my name is Child of the One True King
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed,
and I have been set free
“Amazing Grace” is the song I sing
Hello, my name is Child of the One True King

Verse 2: I am no longer defined
By all the wreckage behind
The One who makes all things new
Has proven it’s true
Just take a look at my life

Bridge: What love the Father has lavished upon us
That we should be called His children
I am a child of the One True King
What love the Father has lavished upon us
That we should be called His children

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Alcoholics Anonymous was a Christian program, when the goal was to introduce people to the One True God who could set them free and give them a new identity in Christ. Over the years, the goal changed to helping addicts control alcohol and the program lost sight of the One True Healer who makes all things new.

Yes, we need to repent of whatever sin has been allowed to control us. It is okay for someone new to the program to say, “Hello my name is ______ and I’m an alcoholic.” But once the person repents and turns to Jesus, it is not appropriate to continue to be owned by the addiction.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.   (2 Corinthians 5:17)

A Christian will get drunk by choice, not because they are owned by the addiction.  A Christian’s new owner, the Holy Spirit, will work in their life to convict of sin, bring repentance, and the power to make them new.

Instead of “Hello my name is ______ and I’m an alcoholic.” This implies that the person is still owned by the addiction but trying not to practice it.
Consider … “My name is ______ and I’m a Child of the One True King.” This proclaims the truth that I have been set free, and I am no longer owned by the addiction. I have a new identity and I am part of a new family. God will do His good work and replace the cravings with a new craving for truth, love and desire for relationship with the One True King.

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REDEEMED PARENTS INSTRUCTIONS FOR TRAINING THEIR GODLY CHILDREN

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Chaplain Dan

From Reverend Ralph Porter

1. THE REDEEMED TRAIN THEIR CHILDREN IN THE WORD OF GOD

Hosea 4: osea6 (Lord‘s warning for neglecting to train your children in the Word of God) My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be no priest to me: because you have forgotten the law of your God, I WILL ALSO FORGET YOUR CHILDREN.

Isaiah 59: 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and MY WORDS which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendant’s descendants, says the LORD, from this time forth and forever.

Isaiah 38: 19 the living, he shall praise you, as I do this day: the FATHER TO THE CHILDREN SHALL MAKE KNOWN YOUR TRUTH. (Moses in the desert teaching the Israelites)

Deuteronomy 6: 1, 2  Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go to possess it: 2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, you, and your son, and your son’s son, all the days of your life; and that your days may be prolonged.

Isaiah 59: 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says the LORD; My spirit that is upon you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your descendants, nor out of the mouth of your descendant’s descendants, says the LORD, from this time forth and forever.

Deuteronomy 6: 4 – 9 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: 5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your  might.

6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart: 7 And you shall teach them diligently unto your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. 8 And you shall bind them for a sign upon your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 And you shall write them upon the doorposts of your house, and on your gates. (Moses instruction of the Ten Commandments to the nation Israel)

Deuteronomy 6: 20 – 25 (Redeemed parents instruct their children on the commands and blessings of our Lord) And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our God has commanded you? 21 Then you shall say unto your son, We were Pharaoh’s slaves in Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: 22 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and grievous, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes: 23 And he brought us out from there, that he might bring us in, to give us the land which he swore unto our fathers. 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. 25 And it shall be righteousness for us, if we observe to do all these commandments before the LORD our God, as he has commanded us.

Psalm 78: 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children who should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments: 8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

THE REDEEMED ENTER THEIR FAMILY INTO A COVENANT WITH OUR LORD

Nehemiah 10: 28 – 31 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; 29 They joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; 30 And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: 31 And if the people of the land bring in wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would forego the crops of the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

THE TEN COMMANDMENT COVENANT WITH HIS REDEEMED

Deuteronomy 4: 9- 19; 23 – 26 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons’ sons; 10 Especially the day that you stood before the LORD your God in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.  11 And you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. 12 And the LORD spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire: you heard the voice of the words, but saw no form; only you heard a voice. 13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. 14 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it. 15 Take therefore good heed unto yourselves; for you saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire: 16 Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female, 17 The likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air, 18 The likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: 19 And lest you lift up your eyes unto heaven, and when you see the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, should be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD your God has apportioned unto all nations under the whole heaven.  23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you. 24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. 25 When you shall beget children, and children’s children, and you shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger: 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over Jordan to possess; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.  (Moses in the desert teaching the Israelites)

2. REDEEMED PRAY FOR THE GENERATIONAL BLESSINGS IN THEIR CHILDREN

I Chronicles 28: 9 (David’s prayer for his son, Solomon) And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found of you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever. 10 Take heed now; for the LORD has chosen you to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

II Chronicles 22: 11, 12 Now, my son, the LORD be with you; and prosper you, and build the house of the LORD your God, as he has said of you. 12 Only the LORD give you wisdom and understanding, and give you charge concerning Israel, that you may keep the law of the LORD your God. 13 Then shall you prosper, if you take heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which the LORD charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

Job 1: 5 (Redeemed father confesses the sins and the Blood of Christ Jesus cleansing and protection over his children) And it was so, when the days of their feasting were finished, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

Job 1: 10 (Redeemed father prays for a hedge of protection around his children from the attacks of Satan) have not you made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions are increased in the land

3. REDEEMED SHARE THE TESTIMONY OF OUR LORD WITH THEIR CHILDREN

Psalm 78: 4 We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he has done.

Isaiah 38: 19 The living  he shall praise you, as I do this day: the father to the children shall make known your truth.

4. REDEEMED PARENT AND CHILDREN RELATIONSHIP BEFORE OUR LORD

Ephesians 6: 1 – 3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor your father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3 That it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth. 4 And, you fathers provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

I Chronicles 28: 20 (Encourage your children in their callings in our Lord) And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you, until you have finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.

II Chronicles 22: 5 (Father assists his son in His callings in our Lord Jesus)  And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, of fame and of glory throughout all countries: I will therefore now make preparation for it. So David prepared abundantly before his death.

THE REDEEMED IMPART THEIR FAITH TO THEIR REDEEMED CHILDREN

Jeremiah 32: 38, 39 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

Deuteronomy 5: 29 O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children forever!

Psalm 25: 12 – 14 What man is he that fears the LORD?  Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. 13 His soul shall dwell at ease; and his descendants shall inherit the earth. 14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.

Psalm 112: 1 – 5 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD that delights greatly in his commandments. 2 His descendants shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures forever. 4 Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. 5 A good man shows favor, and lends: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

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Try to Discourage Her From Seeing the Baby

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Chaplain Dan

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May 14, 2013

Pro-abortion groups are reacting to the Gosnell verdict with predictable spin. It’s all the fault of those anti-choice people, they say. If more women had greater access to free abortion, things like Gosnell’s abattoir would never have happened, they claim.

Brenda Pratt Shafer is a nurse who once worked in a facility that does late-term abortions. In 1996, she testified under oath before Congress about what a day is like in one of those well-appointed, well-lighted, clean, approved centers, the kind that are being offered to Americans today as the answer to Kermit Gosnell’s filthy house of horrors.

The abortionist in Nurse Shafer’s story did not want his patient to see what he had done to her unborn child. “Try to discourage her from seeing the baby,” he said.

The what? Didn’t he let his mask slip here? Isn’t he supposed to maintain the fiction that it is just a fetus? A mass of cells? A clump of tissue? Or is it alright to call it a baby after the unborn child’s dead body has been removed from the womb and thrown in a cold metal pan?

The late ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings once reminded us of how you are supposed to talk about such stories. In one of his evening broadcasts, Jenningsdescribed a new advance in pre-natal surgery. Through ultra-sound, it was determined that an unborn child had a condition known as hydrocephaly, water on the brain. Mr. Jennings said the fetus was surgically removed from the mother’s womb. A shunt was placed in the skull of the unborn child, relieving the pressure on that child’s developing brain. The unborn child was replaced in its mother’s womb. And the woman carried the fetus to term.

Fetus—Unborn child—Fetus, it all depends on where this baby is at the specific moment we are talking about him. In the following testimony, Nurse Brenda Shafer takes us inside a late-term abortion center, just like one of those facilities operated and approved by Planned Barrenhood and blessed by President Obama.

Nurse Shafer’s sworn testimony:

…This one particular lady didn’t want the abortion. She had this Downs Syndrome baby, she was unmarried, her boyfriend didn’t want the baby, and her parents didn’t want the baby. She cried the whole three days she was in there. So we did her first to get her over with. We brought her in, prepped her, started an I.V. of Valium to calm her down. We did not use a general anesthesia and knock her out. …We brought the ultrasound machine in and hooked it up to her stomach.

I could see the baby…

I could see the baby. I could see the heartbeat. And the doctor wanted me to stand right beside him, because he wanted me to see everything there was about partial-birth abortion. So I stood there. He went in, guided by ultrasound. He took a pair of forceps and went in and turned the baby because it wasn’t in this position at the time. He found a foot and he pulled the baby’s foot down through the birth canal, bringing it down and grabbed another foot, and literally started pulling the baby out, breech position, feet first. And he kept pulling it down, and I’m seeing this baby come pulled out of the mommy, his butt, his chest, and then, he delivered both these arms. And the lady’s in stirrups, just like you have a baby or just like you’re having an ob/gyn examination. And the baby, the only thing that was supporting the baby was the doctor was holding it in with his two fingers, holding the neck so the head was just inside the mommy.

And the baby was kicking his feet, hanging there, moving his little fingers and his little arms. I couldn’t believe — I don’t know what I thought killed it in three days, but he was moving and I kept watching that baby move. And I kept thinking to myself, this isn’t happening and I thought I was going to pass out. And I kept telling myself, I’m a professional, I can handle this, you know, this is right, this is supposed to be, and I supposed to handle this, I’m a nurse. He then took a pair of scissors and jammed them into the back of the baby’s head. And the baby jerked out, like a startle reflex, like a baby does if you throw him up a little bit and he jumps. And then the baby was real rigid. The doctor then opened up the scissors to make a hole. He took a high powered suction machine with a catheter and stuck it in that hole and suctioned the baby’s brains out. And the baby went completely limp.

I’ve seen that in my mind a thousand or more times…

And I have seen that in my mind a thousand or more times, of that baby, watching the life just drain out of it. And like I said before, I’ve seen babies die in my hands, I had people die in my hands. But it wasn’t anything like seeing that vision of watching this abortion. And I almost threw up all over the floor. I was literally just breathing and saying, “Don’t throw up, don’t throw up, you’re gonna be embarrassed if you do this.” So I tried not to.

He pulled the head out, he cut the umbilical cord and threw it in a pan, and delivered the placenta and threw it in the same pan, he covered it up and took it out. Well, this mommy wanted to see her baby. And the doctor told us ahead of time, he said, “Try to discourage her from seeing the baby.” He doesn’t like that. But she had the right to see it. So they cleaned it up and we cleaned her up, and we walked her out of the operating room, and took her to a room and handed her the baby.

The mother held her dead baby in her arms…

…She held that baby in her arms and she screamed and prayed to God…to forgive her, and for that baby to forgive her, and she held it and rocked it, and told him that she loved him. And I looked in that baby’s face, and he had the most angelic perfect face I’ve ever seen, and I just kept thinking, he’s an angel now, he’s in heaven. And I couldn’t take it. In all the years I’ve been a nurse, [for the first time] I lost it. And I pardoned myself and excused myself and I ran to the bathroom and I cried and prayed.

…I saw two more that day, about 25 weeks. But I was in shock. I stood there and I knew what was happening but I didn’t want to be there. I was walking on a beach in Hawaii somewhere, trying to get myself out of that room. …The other ones were perfectly healthy mothers with perfectly healthy babies. One was a 40 year old woman who had a 19 year old son and she was getting a divorce so she didn’t want the baby. The other was a teenage mom who hid the pregnancy from her parents…

The abortion technique described by Nurse Shafer in the above passages was outlawed by the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act passed by Congress in 2003 and signed by President George W. Bush. That law was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007 on a 5-4 vote.

That law was strongly supported by Family Research Council and the vast majority of Americans. Now, the law relies for its enforcement on the administration of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. The president is required by the Constitution to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” We will see if there are any prosecutions under that law.

When he spoke to Planned Parenthood recently, President Obama did not see the baby. Or any of the 334,000 unborn children these traffickers tell us they killed in 2011. They went unmentioned and unseen in his lavish praise for the group.

Even now—especially now—the abortion forces and their liberal cohorts are trying to discourage all Americans from seeing the baby. What the Gosnell verdict does is to lift the bloody curtain and let us see.

From the Family Research Council Blog

http://www.frcblog.com/2013/05/try-discourage-her-seeing-baby/

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Seven Pointed Attack to Confront Abortion

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Chaplain Dan

Goal: Remove the lies that self‐motivate the genocide of our neighbor’s children.

Government

  • Call on authorities to reverse laws that say abortion is legal and safe. God says that it is murder. God has spoken, therefore, we lose when we try and lie to our citizens that killing babies is good and safe.
  • Use the justice that God designed to provide compensation to those hurt by abortion. Those who profited should be called upon to provide for the injured.

Church

  • The church should lead the way to returning to God’s truth and design for strong families.
  • The church should pray that the strongholds of Satan’s lies in our culture would be exposed and overthrown.
  • The spiritual weapons God has given us should be deployed in the attack.

Family

  • Fathers should lead the way in protecting their daughters, instead of letting their daughters get taken advantage of twice (First by the man who exploited her sexually, and second by the doctor who profits from the murder.)
  • Mothers need to teach girls virtue and to wait for a man to commit in marriage to provide for her and her children, before he gets the reward of sex.

Schools & Education

  • Schools need to be held accountable to teach the truth, that there is no condom for the soul or family.
  • Teach that sex outside of marriage results in broken hearts and chaos in the family.
  • Schools need to teach the blessings of waiting for marriage and the sociology of strong families built on life‐long commitment. Stable families are more prosperous and are the most beneficial to society.

Arts

  • Film and drama needs to portray those who expose abortion as heroes in our community.
  • Men who get married and stay with their wives through difficult times need to be portrayed as heroes.
  • Men who don’t protect and provide for their wives and children emotionally and physically need to be vilified.

Media

  • Media needs to expose the doctors and those who promote sex outside of marriage as the villains they really are. The abortion industry plans to profit from sexual chaos and abortion at the expense of ravaged women.
  • Employees of Planned Parenthood need to flee for their reputation. They need to get new jobs, before the name Planned Parenthood on their resume is abhorred by all.

Finances

  • Stop the tax subsidies and donations to Planned Parenthood and abortion providers.
  • Stop the flow of funds that teach fornication (sex outside marriage) in public schools.
  • Teach job skills, so that families will be more confident in their ability to provide for a large household and flourish.

Children are a blessing from the Lord. (Psalm 127:3‐5)

 

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