Torn From The Headlines

I was on yahoo earlier today, and actually this has been up there all day, there was an article with the Headline that read something like, "The one actor Bill O'Reilly Won't Watch." I thought it was odd that the newsday was so slow that Bill O'Reilly was on yahoo news, yahoo's homepage all day long.
The main thing though is that the article is a pretty descent sized interview with Mr. O'Reilly and of that entire interview, only about 3-4 lines are given to the actor he won't watch. It's Sean Penn by the way, understandable. But of all the things that were said, the sensationable, not the newsworthy was placed as the header for all to see.
In case you didn't know it, the news media isn't out to sell you news. It's out to sell you papers, advertisements, time, thousands of other things, and don't forget, a point-of-view. The last thing on the list is the actual news. Remember that when the anchor man comes on to tell you about what great things President Obama has done today, or what this politician has to say, or what is hot in Hollywood.
The truth is something that is far from the newsroom nowadays, no matter what your point-of-view may be, right or left. It seems that in the mass majority of mass media, our only hope is either how close to the truth we can get, or which viewpoint we prefer.
Hitler once said, "what luck for rulers that men don't think." God bless. And don't be an automaton.

Your Faith, Your Confession

Faith and Confession

So Jesus answered and said to them, “Have faith in God. For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.
(Mark 11:22-24)

I was praying earlier and God just directed me to some scriptures on faith and confession. I graduated from RHEMA Bible Training Center-a school ordained by God and spoken into existence through the faith-filled words of Kenneth E Hagin. The ministry of Kenneth E Hagin and RHEMA was built upon the scriptures above. Those were the words given by God to Brother Hagin when he was laying on his death bed. And those were the words that raised him up from that death bed so he could fulfill all that God had called him to do.
Those words-believe that which you speak, that which you pray, believe you receive them as you speak, and they will be yours--should be the foundation of any Christians life. God has told us that we are to walk by faith and not by site. He wasn't just saying that to put a few more words in a book. Those are to be foundational principles to live ones life as a Christian.
We are to walk by faith. And faith speaks. The confession of faith is prominent in the Bible, though most of which the church world hears is about the confession of sins.
If we are to live our lives as God intended, to live victorious in this life as we make our way to the next, we must follow God's principles for it.
1.) Get in the Word of God and find out what He has promised. Built your faith on those scriptures.
2.) Continually confess those promises over your life-day and night. (Joshua 1:8)
3.) Believe you receive whatever you need when you pray the first time. All other times you speak out the situation, either confess the Word over it or give thanks to God that it is already done.
4.) Continually strengthen your faith with the Word on the situation and watch God deliver you.

-Krist