The Bell Tolls for Us!!! Get Ready America!!!

Really thinking tonight...conversing with husband of almost 44 years...hearing his concerns and disgust for what is going on in this nation....and just being still and knowing that my God is God!

This is a Selah moment for me! Remember how many times during the Psalms, the Psalmist would write selah?  Selah means to pause...and to meditate.  Reflection is what we say, today.

As a retired teacher, who taught American History, and as an active voter and one that believed in experiencing the 1st amendment firsthand!

I lobbied the Georgia General Assembly during hte battle over the Equal Rights' Amendment, and I debated the abortion issue more than once, standing for the rights of our unborn citizens.

I was raised by parents who changed from voting only as a democrat to voting for the person who stood on the issues that Christians have to defend.

I voted first at 18 years old, and I have continued to exercise that right!  I believe that I must vote, so I must know where each candidate stands on the issues.

That makes me an informed voter.

I vote for a pro-life candidate...so, I do not vote for a pro-choice candidate.  I vote for a person that believes in Holy Matrimony...that marriage can only take place between a woman and a man...in order that they are able to multiply and subdue the earth.

I know what socialism is and fascism and communism.  I also know capitalism and the free-market system.  

Socialism is when the government owns the busnesses and controls them.  Communism and Socialism are actually interchangeable or else the U.S.S.R. would not have been the name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Fascism is when business is privately owned but government run.  For years now, we have leaned in that direction with all the government rules concerning private enterprize.

Lately, banks being government-run...where to buy a house we make a bid...instead of an offer to an owner...we are very near to socialism.

We planned well together to be prepared when we retired.  We have been very blessed not to be under the oppression that so many our age are under today.

Though, blessed, we've been very busy...invested in the success of our children and grandchildren...so, it would be easy to just sigh and not speak out here...but I'm hearing the bell tolling...

Wednesday, the Benghazi hearings will be back in our faces! We can ignore these hearings...but we'd better not.

You know, I'm 63 years old, and I was appalled at the fact that our president, Bill Clinton, was involved in some questionable business adventures before he was elected, and that he had sexual relations in the Oval Office with a young woman that worked for him.

For this behavior, this nation almost impeached this man!

Years before this, Watergate took place.  I was so young ...in my early 20's...1971-72sh.  I liked Richard Nixon, and I believed him.  I listened to that South Carolina Senator, Sam Irvin, as he led that hearing.

They crucified Nixon.  The Media did their job.  They reported every single thing that happened.  Many were involved and prosecuted.  One went to prison, and he served his time...never giving testimony against his commander in chief.

Years later I taught students about Watergate.

That was a different time in this nation.  We had honest reporting.  We had true journalism.

After teaching American History for several years, I changed schools, and my 1st class was journalism.  One of the rules of journalism is that you do not have an opinion.  Reporting only facts...only evidence...and never being persuaded to taint the truth...to fabricate...embellish the facts...or just plain lie.

We are in a new age of reporting, today.

What is today called the Benghazi event...is actually the treacherous murder of a U.S. ambassador to Benghazi and three of our U.S. military.

There was a cry for help...in fact, there were cries for help and communication that was not attended to properly, that caused the deaths...and what looks like a cover-up of information.

Now, folks...American citizens...we deserve better than this.  So many have died and been maimed in order to keep this a nation of the free and the brave.

We have required truth to be served always!! We believe in justice!!!

It is very interesting to me that Hillary Clinton is the woman, the Secretary of State...and appointed by our president, Barak Obama, to this position...that needs to answer many questions...and needs to answer them honestly.

Ms. Clinton is actually considering her run for office in our next election.

She is the wife of the man who was nearly impeached by our Senate in the nineties.  The woman who made up the story about the video answered directly to Ms. Clinton.

Our president, who defeated Ms, Clinton, in the Democratic Primary, appointed her to Secretary of State, and he did not call her to account ...and the media has not called him to account.

If we, the citizens of the the greatest nation in the world...and I don't mean we are great because we are some special breed...I mean we are great because we have a great God and a great Constitution that I believe in...the law of our land!

I taught students about Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists.  I also taught them about Thomas Jefferson. These 2 men did not believe alike.

The Federalists actually wanted George Washington to be a king, even though we had fought the Revolutionary War, in order to no be a under the rule of one man.  The sons of liberty and the tea party...with Sam Adams, and his cousin John Adams...our 2nd president.

Those of Hamilton's persuasion didn't think that anyone should be allowed to speak out against the president of he United States, while the freedom riders...and the tea partiers...and the sons of liberty...and the daughters of the revolution...they believed in the freedom of speech...which by the way still is part of our 1st amendment rights...right along with the freedom of the press to speak the truth whether the administration likes it or not.

Today, in this era of greed and lasciviousness, quite frankly, America is experiencing a time much like the time 1st sons of liberty and the 1st tea party.  Funny that I am saying those names more than once...but isn't it ironic to live in such a repeat of history.

I mean there might not be tea being pored out in the Massachusetts bay, as it was in the 1770's, but the time we live in is certainly analogous to that time period.

We are taxed to death in the United States!! It's true that there are nations taxed much more than us, but it doesn't change the fact that our taxes are increasing even though we are being told they are not.

The value of our homes have been reduced to a point that many American citizens...good, law-abiding citizens, who in good faith bought their homes...spending much money...are now experiencing  great loss...and for what?

Because our government ...our executive branch...and our legislative branch...and our judicial system...have decided that the rich are our enemy.  How crazy is that?

Without the bright vision and the money to build great businesses...without the vision and the funds to allow the vision to be accomplished...where would we be?

I believe that the rich in this nation are the givers.  They build great companies, and they provide jobs, and they pay their employees salaries.

Everyone can't be the boss!  We are not all the same.  As a teacher, I knew that I would have children prodigies in my class...that I would teach children the basics...and they would go on to be the professionals.

There was no envying and jealousies...no wanting to teach only the children with high IQ's or low IQ's or only the middle...I loved that I had those who would do their best regardless of what mental capacity they had.  Of course, there were always those who didn't use what they had in all 3 categories.

It takes us all to make the world go round! We can't all do the same thing!

Taxing the people that provide the jobs and the benefits so high that they have to lower the salaries...or hire less people...or provide less benefits...or all of the 3 things listed here...does that sound like a better way?

I know that if we level it all out...and we make us all own everything, then,  none of us will own anything...just like the Communist Bloc countries that existed during most of my life...until 1989-1991.

I am sounding this alarm today...tonight actually as I go to bed in a few minutes...

Watchmen...prayer warriors on your wall!!!

Pray for justice to prevail in these hearings!!!

Speak out loud and clear...that there is no one above the Constitution of this great land!!!

Not our Secretary of State!! Not our Senators!!! Not our Congressmen!! Not our Judges and Justices!!! Not our Governors!!! Not our President!!!


In Jesus' Name...

Amen and Amen

Dreamin' Again...

I am not a dreamer...I have seldom dreamed throughout all my life...and I will be 63 tomorrow.

Most of the few dreams that I've had made no sense when I awakened...only a few have I ever remembered.

I've dreamed...or seen pictures...some might call visions...but I write...and I taught Language Arts for many years...so I think in analogies...word pictures...and teach making connections so students can understand.

I love the parables in the Bible.  I love that Jesus taught that way...and it may just be Him in me teaching and thinking like I do...

I was reminded of the last dream that I had...and I remembered writing about it...so I'm placing the link to the last dream right here:

http://www.womenwhopray.net/wordpress/wordpress-3.1/wordpress/?p=214
(right click on the address and then scroll down and click on to open)

The dream caused me to wake up three, maybe more, times...because I'm speaking loudly...even shouting...

I'm outside and I'm trying to gain the attention of a number of people.  They don't seem to be paying any attention to me...to what I have to say.

It's not like a yard or a small place...but a massive expanse of outside...not meadows...or mountains...or desert...but not the city...like a wilderness? or some such...

I do not have a microphone...so I'm shouting...

I can tell that I'm feeling some anxiety come over me...feeling a bit frantic...that I have this message...or warning maybe...but no one is tuned in it appears.

I wake myself up with my loud voice...I am preaching!!!

The last dream...I was the teacher and messenger...

This time...I'm the preacher.

I realize that I'm hearing myself not be concerned that they all aren't paying attention...I begin to realize that I'm preaching whether anyone listens or not...

I'm preaching repentance!!

I hear me saying that it is not ok to hear the message...to look like you're on the path...and then go home and sleep with someone you are not married to...

Or you can't cheat or take something not yours...both are stealing...

I began to sing a song the LORD gave me a long time ago!

Repent! Repent! the Kingdom of God is at hand!
Repent! Repent! the Kingdom of God is at hand!
Sound the trumpet!
Sound the trumpet!

I sang it over and over...

And...I could hear the song I love to hear Judy Jacob sing, The Days of Elijah!

The part that says, "...We are the laborers in Your vineyard, declaring the Word of the LORD!!

I was standing in the spirit of John the Baptist...and knew it...in the dream!

I was preparing the way...I was saying Behold He Comes!!!

I'm not sure that I've written it all...not sure that was it...do know that I got up just after 4:30 a.m. because the I in my dream wasn't letting me sleep.

Last night, someone said to me...Mama Teddi or Aunt Teddi they call me on the Womenwho Pray page on facebook.

She said, "God has sent you to be the light of our world."  I said, "Yes, we are lights, reflecting His light...and we must fan our flame that it not only not go out...but that it be so bright that all come to Him.."

I'm sort of sleepy today...going out to celebrate my birthday with my family tonight...my husband, sons, and their girls...4:30 is early even for me...as I arise daily at 5 a.m.

I was amazed that I may have been loud enough to wake myself up...but by the third time, it was easier for the me in the dream to preach the coming of the LORD...

I was preaching repentance like John recorded John the Baptist doing...

I was telling people how to repent...how to have works for repentance...

I pray that you prepare to meet our God!

He's coming soon!!

Teddi

Eleventh Hour

Last year...about this time of year...or maybe a little earlier...I wrote to you about the coming year...2012.

I let you know that I am not Mayan, and I was not concerned about any Mayan prophecy about the year 2012.

I did let you know, however, that the number 12 is the number of divine order in Biblical terms.

It is also one of the numbers of perfection or wholeness.

On October 24...10/24/2012...my friend, sister in Christ, and prayer warrior partner every day pointed out to me that we were praying Thursday's Prayer Blanket Day...our warfare prayer day of the week...and, we were praying Psalm 144...a warfare Psalm 144...12 X 12.

She did not know all it meant, but she knew that the LORD pointed out a lot of 12's.  Ten also is one of those numbers of perfection and completion like 3 and 7.

Here's a link for that Numbers book on line...http://philologos.org_/eb-nis/...Number in Scripture: Supernatural Design and Spiritual Significance.

I was given the book as a gift years ago...and every once in awhile...I am aware that a number I'm looking at is very important.

Well, today, during our daily praise and prayer time in the morning...an every day occurrence for soon to be 10 full years in June...the number 11 was every where.

The date is November 11...or 11/11/2012.

Also, for the 1st time since we began praying together in June of 2003, today's Psalm and Proverb were both the 11th chapter of each book.

11 In the Lord I put my trust;
How can you say to my soul,
“Flee as a bird to your mountain”?
² For look! The wicked bend their bow,
They make ready their arrow on the string,
That they may shoot secretly at the upright in heart.

³ If the foundations are destroyed,
What can the righteous do?

⁴ The Lord is in His holy temple,
The Lord’s throne is in heaven;
His eyes behold,
His eyelids test the sons of men.
⁵ The Lord tests the righteous,

But the wicked and the one who loves violence His soul hates.
⁶ Upon the wicked He will rain coals;
Fire and brimstone and a burning wind
Shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For the Lord is righteous,
He loves righteousness;
His countenance beholds the upright.


This got my attention for real!!! I mean, I'm one who sees the foundations of my nation being destroyed...I'm in the secret place ...looking down on my sinful nation...

I can hear the voice of the prophets throughout the Old Testament...saying to Israel..."you sinned...I allowed you to be in bondage...you cried out...I delivered...you sinned...I allowed the bondage...you cried out...I delivered...then, you cried out and I did not hear...

Sound familiar? I hear the same voice of God...who has been speaking to me at least 30 years...and so many before me...and about me...We hear the voice of our Shepherd...and He has not changed...

We're about to enter the year...2013...

We're at the end of 2012...at least very near the end...but today, the LORD, speaks in 11's...

Proverbs 11 is full and long...so let me show you just a little that jumps out with me...especially after reading Psalm 11...

⁴ Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
⁶ The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, but the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
⁸ The righteous is delivered from trouble, and it comes to the wicked instead.

¹² He who is devoid of wisdom despises his neighbor, but a man of understanding holds his peace.

¹³ A talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter.

¹⁴ Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety.

¹⁷ The merciful man does good for his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

²⁵ The generous soul will be made rich, and he who waters will also be watered himself.

²⁷ He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to him who seeks evil.

²⁸ He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like foliage

.³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.

³¹ If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner.

I told you it was full, and I only used 13 of the 31 verses...loaded with Truth!

It may sound like I'm running a rabbit trail...but I'm not! The LORD has been reminding me just about daily in the last couple of weeks...1 Corinthians 13: 5, says, Love ⁵ does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil...

When I've had my feeling hurt with one of my sons...or my husband...or a friend...I've heard the Word in my heart speak...Love thinks no evil!

If you'd been having a Bible Study called Loving the LORD With All Your Mind, by Elizabeth George, you would have been studying Philippians 4:8, which says, 

Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

Teddi, does this mean, that when I'm hurt, or disappointed, or licking my wounds, then, I'm not meditating on these things and, therefore, thinking evil!??!

Let me return to my morning...I left the prayer group...knowing a couple of things that I haven't mentioned...yet...

It turns out that the number 11 means the one more than the perfect 10 and one less than the perfect 12...and where 12 is completion and order...11 is the opposite...it is disorder...and chaotic even...the book refers to all the 11's in the Bible just like the 10's and 12's...

So, this morning...and well, today is the 11th hour.  It is the 11th day of the 11th month in the year of divine order.  

To me that means that I've been reminded that if there's any ordering I need to take care of before 2013 gets here, then, it's time to do it!! Not to talk about it!! Not to think about it!! Not to hide my head in the sand...but to do it!

Now, that's where I was, when 2 that I prayed with this very morning sent me the Bible Verse for today that they receive...and it is of course, an 11.

Duh??????  Helllooooo!!!!!! Teddi, if you weren't listening already...if you didn't already intend to meditate on Psalm and Proverbs 11 today...then, here is another 11!  One of my favorites!!!

Hebrews 11:1:

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

This is where I was until 8:30 a.m.

Being under the weather as I've been lately, I was home watching Joel Osteen...a regular for me if I'm here  and not in Church...I am always blessed!

My husband just moves out and lets me have the tv when he comes on...he goes about being busy ...sort of in and out of here...but leaves me to enjoy the message.

Well, today, I'm not sure I enjoyed it at all.  Little did I know that from the moment it started, Joel was talking directly to me...minding my business...digging in deeply with the sword...I had surgery without any anaesthetic...taken totally by surprise.

You see I'm a friend of God!  I mean I spend most of my waking hours each day before Him...certainly reading, writing, praying...remaining in the Secret Place of the Most High!

In fact, those were my words as I left my prayer partners...precious women of God...this morning...I was declaring that I am under the shelter of His wings...abiding...residing...not moving...

This week has been tough...the last several have been...the election this week...flu and upper respiratory mess throughout my family...right after 2 skin cancers removed in the last few weeks...physically drained...

Then, emotional trials...not able to mention here...but the LORD knows...and He knows I've had my feeling hurt...and been disappointed...placing those things away...trying not to meditate on...but when I've discussed at all...feeling sad, disheartened, oh, you name it...pity party all over me.  

I've had some precious prayer partners...who love and respect me and my position as prayer warrior...who've loved on me as they would since I'm their sister...and maybe mentor...but we're family...

But, this allowed me to hold iniquity in my heart!  Not their fault...who would have known...not me for sure...

LORD, it was me that declared I'd not move from this spot of protection...declared Arise, Shine, for the Light is Come...even this morning...

And, Your glorious light just about burned me up this morning...

I saw that I had not shown mercy every time...in every thought about these circumstances around me!!

You came in and dusted all the cob webs out LORD...You scourged me...until I'm raw inside out...I don't know that anyone on this earth knows what has happened in my heart today...but I do!!! 

You've shown me what Joel said...that I have a choice every time news comes my way that I don't like or am offended by...to douse it with fire or water...

Remember, Proverbs 11: 25, He who waters will also be watered himself...

He who covers the sin...the one who shows mercy!! He will receive mercy!!!

LORD, Matthew and Mark in the last 2-3 weeks, that I'm reading through the Bible with Shinegirls...it spoke of the parable of the King showing mercy to his servant...and in turn the servant did not show mercy to his own servant...the King tormented him afterward until he paid all his debt.

I thought I was merciful...because I wasn't saying anything...keeping my mouth shut, I thought...

But, LORD, as You've reminded me to do over and over...to think no evil...to meditate on only those things you listed for us.

I told my friends this very morning...that the road is narrower by the day...by the hour...that Galatians 2: 20...that says, We are crucified with Christ!  It's no longer us who live, but Christ lives in us!  And, the life we now live in the flesh...we live by Faith (Hebrews 11: 1)...in the Son of God...who loves us and gave His life for us.

I knew that I was being drawn closer...and my prayer warrior friend that I talk to every day has talked about shepherding and sheep...and warrior angels...and who knows what else...about being drawn to a newer level...

And as I've cried out and held on...and remained in ...abiding ...staying...

You, LORD, have revealed to me this day that to be in order in this 11th hour for me...I had to lay down...I can't even hardly say the words...

Unforgiveness LORD?? I was holding unforgiveness and didn't know it?  I mean I teach it...I pray it daily...

He was so sweet, y'all!! Last week He made me totally silent as I was first with flu in my body and he let me feel the waves of love...I mean I wrote about it just last week on my website...www.womenwhopray.net...

Jesus, lover of my soul...just whelmed me with His love for me!!! 

I could not even talk about it without tears...and with no voice anyway...just wept with the waves of LOVE!!

And, today, He says to me...let it go, Teddi!!! 

I love you soooo much...and your desire is to be in the Secret Place full-time...you must let it go!!!  

All your hurt from children and friends...hurt feelings and disappointments...you've allowed them to make you sick...physically sick...emotionally sick...and....

I love you so much!!!  I uncovered you today so that you can see that LOVE covers a multitude of sin!

Family, friends, even church family who voted against me...they're all my problem and not yours...

You tell them, Teddi, that love...the love that you felt...covered in these past days...is the love I want you to love them with...

I believe that I am forgiven...not only for the sin I was born in...but for the sins of my tomorrows...

I am sooooo full of God's love that I had to write this today!!!! Not tomorrow!!!! 

I pray you not allow any more hidden unforgivenesses dwell in you either!!!  

We're coming to an end of the year of divine order...

We're entering a year of the unknown...

My husband and I keep looking at each other and saying this is not the nation we were raised in...we've been infiltrated...and there's a new order here...

But thanks be unto God...He is in charge!!!  I will receive the blessings of the righteous because in order for those in the darkness to see me shine...I must allow my LORD JESUS to burn away the dross...

I'm still being refined!!!  He's the potter and I'm the clay!!! 

He's not finished with me yet!!!

I am including a link here for a song that I kept hearing after I heard Joel...and allowed God to create in me a clean heart!  

Judy Jacobs is the one I had heard sing it on a cd I have...but on youtube I found it sung by the one who wrote and 1st performed it.

I pray it blesses you as it did me!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=X8SLfoVbcCI&feature=endscreen

Mercy did indeed say NO!!!!!!!  Wooooooo Hoooooo!!!!!!!

Until the next time....

Teddi

  

Election of 2012

Really having a rustling in my spirit the last couple of days...may be longer...about all of the chaos...

I believe it is time to get some of these thoughts down...so bear with me...I am only in the roughing out process...as I begin this blog...

There's just a lot going on in my life...what about you?

First, looking at the family scene...and not even going into details...or people's privacy...

• almost 3 wks ago...2 extremely important people in my life died on the same day, my aunt and my sister's husband...and we had a week of family gathered at funeral homes and funerals...  
• about 1/1/2 weeks ago I was told the biopsis taken on my arm and thigh at the dermatologist were cancer...I was given options and chose to have removed Mohs procedure...which took place this week on Monday...
• during the same week...last week...2 grandgirls had strep...2 others had virus...which seemed to go through family nabbing several...anyway...lots of sickness before the procedure, including me...
• we're all in the aftermath of all that...and I'm awaiting sutures being removed from thigh...and the other place on my arm being removed 
• aunt who died's son diagnosed with Lou Gueriq's disease...and another son's wife with a new lesion on her femur...more myeloma...and on 2 chemo meds
• husband busy besides his business...fixing up rental house
• I've busily filled in where needed for each son's family...making busy week...lots of traveling...but time to think   

Now, that's a very light and un-wordy description ...there was more... but I wanted to preface what I'm writing with the fact that I'm in this world like everyone else and there's a lot of chaos going on around me as well as all of you.  

This writer is not out of the trials and tribulations that are going on in every family.

How do I know everybody is stressed? Well, I have a prayer ministry...and the prayer requests have climbed to an all-time high...you can check me out on facebook...at womenwho pray...:)

Were we promised a bed of roses? Or, did our LORD through His Word to us say, "Ye shall endure tribulation!!"

Now, the good news is that He said we will endure!!! Glory to God!!! Therefore, let me add right here, this is why we can "count it all joy!!"

To continue with my thoughts…I have been very concerned with the Church...

We are the Church of the Last Days!! We are not the Latter Day Saints, but we are the Church Triumphant and we are in the Last Days!!!

If you do not recognize this, please turn to Matthew 24, where the disciples were asking Jesus what to look for at the end times.

I think it is ironic that I have read this chapter for oh so many years...that I can quote a great deal of it from memory...I certainly know when I hear words from Matthew 24 and 25 that I know their location in the Bible.

Wars??  Rumors of Wars?  Earthquakes?  Perilous times?  Persecution of the saints galore!!! 

What to do? Run around saying there’s a lion in the street…oh my! Like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz…lions and tigers and bears, oh my!!

We are told to look up!! Why? Because our redemption draweth nigh!

I’ve heard from several people I know about how they are going to vote or not vote in this election…and, listening to the news…though I must say it is hard to call American news news, anymore…

I taught journalism in middle school one year…and, quite frankly, we don’t have any journalism today, according to its definition…according to its rules…and like all good and orderly things in the United States of America…journalism has rules.

There are things you can do and things you can’t do in journalism…just like there are rules in any real or true meeting…with guidelines like Robert’s Rule of Order.

A journalist has the responsibility to report the facts and only the facts!  They are not to have any persuasive or opinionated argument in their voice at all…not tone.  Isn’t that hilarious?  How long ago has that been?  Since we heard only the facts…the truth…where has integrity gone?

You would think that this new millennium of people…where we don’t need to spell or use cursive writing…or we don’t have to have any manners…any rules of order…any dress codes…any code of conduct…any recognition of authority …that somehow we just got here on our own...

We created ourselves.  We raised ourselves.  We rule ourselves.  Let’s see, I believe that is defined as anarchy??

Now, this is another sign of the last days…Malachi says when we’re running to and fro…Matthew 25 says,…like in the days of Noah…eating and drinking…giving and taking in marriage…and the flood came…and took away those not prepared in the ark with Noah!!

I have to be totally honest here.  Before I was 30, I believed hook, line, and sinker in the fact that I would not be here …during this time.

I taught it to others.  I have had to confess as sin my part in the deception that the Church is not going through trouble!!

I am a believer! I believe that Jesus Christ is LORD and I am saved…and, I am here!!!

I have not left …and for several years the words all about the meek and the righteous inheriting the earth has taken on new light…

I have had to ask God what I am to do, since, I am here, and unless something happens, America is in trouble!! ...and, let’s face it, saints of the Church of America…we have made a mess of our nation!!!!!!!!

It is our fault.  Now, bear with me and hear me out.  Then, comment all you want to…but that is what a Democratic Republic is…in fact Federal Republic is what we are called in many places…but I have the freedom to voice my opinion. 

I do not have the right to hurt you…or to take your rights!  I actually don’t have the right to publicly berate you or stretch the truth about you.  Slander and liability don’t seem to exist anymore. 

My principal in high school taught us: “Your right ends where my nose begins!!”  All of us under Ray Jackson that learned that…have been good, abiding citizens of this great nation.  We were told to register to vote, and I believe most of us do! 

We were taught that voting is a privilege and is our voice in America.  We all have one vote…and should take it seriously. I believe who and what we vote for matters to the LORD.

I am trying to stay focused here and write down what is bothering me…what is stirring up in me…

It has been awhile…back several months ago…that I spoke about about getting ready…that the LORD was returning…and it was time to set thing in order.

After the months of all the republican candidates rising and falling in the media…I made a decision and voted.

There were those who voted the same way and ones who did not…all of us voting for a candidate of the same party…Republican.

I had listened to all the debate.  I had changed my mind more than once. 

I had voiced my support for Herman Cain, and I was very sorry that he was not still a candidate when I voted.  Truly the smear campaign on him was amazing.

You see, Herman is a black man.  I had listened to him via radio for a long time, and I like what he had to say.  I liked the name…Tea Party…as I taught U.S. History…and the Revolutionary War was one of my favorite times to study and to teach…with Samuel Adams and the Sons of Freedom.

Herman is a Christian…not because he says so…but because along with confessing Jesus Christ as LORD,  he is pro-life…he is pro-Israel…pro-family, and pro-America.  My husband and I planned to vote for him.

Living in the south all my life…deep south, in fact…in the Bible belt…and certainly growing up with all of the separation of blacks and whites when I was in grade school…it was amazing that we were going to vote for a black man…at least to people looking on.  I mean my parents grew up in Atlanta, with the white neighborhood and the black one back to back, and no locked doors. I grew up with a maid in my home, who by the way I loved dearly).

When Obama ran for office, I did not vote against him because he was black.  I mean, I’m an educated woman…and I was a teacher in the public school.  His skin color and national origin did not matter to me.

What he believed in his heart did!  Obama was a member of a church, whose preacher preached against America.  He is married to a woman who spoke out against America publicly before the election. 

Our president is pro-abortion and proud of it…has said so many times.  He is not pro-Israel.  Much prayer went up against all the consideration of supporting Palestinian Jerusalem…which he spoke in favor of.  Let’s see Muslim Jerusalem…isn’t that an oxy-moron??

I believe in my Constitution…it is the law of this land.  More than once decisions made by Mr. Obama have shown that he does no support the 1^st or 2^nd amendment.  How can a Catholic hospital…a religious hospital…be forced to allow abortions in the hospital? According to who?

If that were to come into effect, what would stop our government from making decisions about churches and church schools?  Nothing…that’s what!!

Now, it is not the first time that this nation has had presidents deceive us.  President Carter ran on the fact that he was a Southern Baptist Sunday School teacher.  He deceived many people…some friends of mine.

I was in Texas years ago with a feminist rally going on that had several of the president’s wives on stage condoning some pretty extraordinary behavior going on.  Much of the material that I gathered as I slid behind the lines and went to the meetings said socialism and feminism on the same pages…linking them.

I was president of Mothers On the March a pro-family, pro-life organization and aligned with Phyllis Schlafly.  Many of us were members also of Eagle Forum.  We defeated ERA in 1982…Georgia was one of 4 states that held this back.

What I hear today sounds so much like those days!  What was held back then is on us now.  Trust me…I wish it were not so…but it is.

Back a few months ago, there was a slight mention in the news of a treaty.  My sister sent email to me and posted on her facebook page about it.  I was listening but busy. 

This last week, with our Ambassador and our military being murdered…and then seeing our U.N. delegate defend our lack of outrage…and seeing the U.N. president…I was reminded that our president was in favor of that treaty…don’t remember the name of it right now…

But, Saints of God, do you know that that treaty will supersede the jurisdiction of our nation.  Does this ring in your ear like mine?  Have we heard of a world tribunal…or world court…or one world government. 

So, I guess, I’m going to sort of nail it down for you where I stand….since it seems that that’s what we are doing.

I also want you to know that you do not have to agree with me.  I respect your right to have a different opinion.  I respect your right to put as many signs for your candidate in your yard as you want to.  That’s is what our Nation is about.  We have the freedom to speak…though my niece and I both lost signs that were torn up by people who are not voting for our candidate.  Those people do not believe in the same liberty I do.

I had a hard time at first picking my candidate for the same reasons that some of my very close friends and brothers and sisters in Christ have had…because there is seemingly no candidate to vote for that is a righteous man. Righteousness means right with Christ.  Jesus is his LORD!

As I look back, over all my years…soon to be 63…and on back when my parents voted…there is only one that I felt that way about.  History tells some pretty hair-raising stories of our presidents.

We are not a nation that wants or needs a king.   That’s why we fought for our independence.  I think people have forgot that.

I remember, when I saw Reagan for the first time at a Christian conference in Texas…that the believers wanted him to be…I don’t know…Baptist…Methodist…Pentecostal…Catholic…or??  But, he wasn’t.

I was president of MOM and pregnant with my youngest.  We got behind him because he was pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Israel, and pro-America. 

I know that Obama says he’s a Christian…like Carter did…but he does not walk the walk or talk the talk.  He speaks socialism…which I taught students and warned against for years before I was a teacher…during the MOM years. When we all share everything...it means that we all own everything and no one owns anything. SCARY!!!! U.S.S. R. was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

When he condoned gay marriage…another oxy-moron…he is the only president ever to do so…and, in fact, the only head of any nation to do this! Woe, woe, woe, Saints of God!!

I have had gay friends…I have friends with gay siblings or gay children…I’m not against the person.  However, I am very much against what I know by God’s

Word to be sin to be lifted to the same place as God’s 1^st institution…the Family!!!

Male and female created He Him and told them to multiply and subdue the earth.

Let me also say that the platform that our president stands on…the democratic platform…is pro-abortion, anti-Israel, pro-gay marriage, and…this very year…tried to throw out the name of God and Israel. 

Wake up Church!!

As a believer, I recognize that Mormonism is a cult.  That means that they do not believe that Jesus is God.  The WORD says that according to who we say Jesus Christ is…not a prophet or good man…but God, Himself…makes us a believer or not.

I will share some experience here if you’ll bear with me a few more minutes…during the MOM days, we received some criticism from Christians because we did not have a requirement to join MOM.  We had many different denominations, Catholics, and Mormons…all working together to defeat the ERA.

Mormons printed our material more than one time at no cost to us…we were tiny and it only cost people $7 to be a member…and then, printing costs were much higher than today. 

As a pro-life believer and one who puts feet on my beliefs…I’ve had churches, even my own, not let us put out pro-life material from Georgia Right to Life.  Let me say clearly that not only is the material welcome by the Catholic churches as you’d expect, it has always been welcome by the Mormons.

I remember having someone say years ago, if your house was on fire…or if there were snakes in the front yard…would you ask the neighbor that came to help if they were mormon? Or Hindu? Or Muslim? Or????? I think not.

So, in conclusion:

·         I will continue to pray for the salvation of both of these two men because it is not God’s will that any perish but all come to repentance.

·         I will vote because it is a right and a privilege that many nations do not have.  I can vote my heart’s convictions without fear of being shot down or arrested because I live in a free nation where my husband, my son, my father and father in-law, and both grandfathers served this nation.  I have a bff whose son is in now, and my great-nephew is in Afghanistan as I write. My parents and in-laws, and grand-parents are cheering me on. 

·         I am not compromising when I vote  for a man of a different faith than mine.  I’ve known of no Bapti-costals like me running for president. J

·         The LORD told me as I published to you earlier that we are not voting for a man but against the anti-Christ spirit.  I can’t vote for anyone standing on the democratic platform as it is blatantly anti-Christ. God is pro-life…Children are a heritage of the LORD. He created male and female to populate the earth…Israel is the Apple of God’s eye…He has created us equal and given us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

·         I learned many years ago, that if I was not sure about the man or woman, I could be sure about the platform. 

·         The Republican platform is more pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-marriage between a man and woman, pro-Constitution, and pro-God than ever.

·         Mitt Romney is not a Christian but he supports Christian values…he is pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-marriage between a man and woman, and he was a conservative governor.

·         I will vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket proudly.

·         I will respect your choice to vote the same or vote differently.

May the LORD bless you in all that you do in the Name of the LORD!

Until the next time…

Teddi