I LOVED this talk with Ari Whitten and Dr Kevin Conners. I literally had tingles while I was listening. Ari explains simply how simple health is. I wish everyone I know would listen to this short wisdom packed conversation. Dr Connors has his own incredible story of helping people find alternative routes to healing cancer of all kinds – including his own. What is health? How do we achieve it? How do we maintain it? This short conversation is packed full of powerful truth that anyone can implement!
There is a process of discipline required for spiritual warfare and spiritual transformation as described in Ephesians 6:10-20, 2 Corinthians 10:3-6, 2 Corinthians 3:18 and many other scriptures.
Our human nature is impatient with a slow process. We crave instant easy solutions. What if a touch of power from an anointed man will fix all my problems! A little prick will keep my child healthy. A prayer, a touch, and everything can be changed in a moment!
We don’t want to acknowledge our own weakness and contribution to our current circumstance. We don’t want to spend time developing spiritual muscles through prayer, reading and memorizing God’s word. We don’t want to take total responsibility for our health and our lifestyle choices.
We want an easy route. We want a relatively pain-free option. Instant healing.
Discipleship takes time. Maturity takes time. Resorting health is not instant. A daily connection with our holy God through His word – which is accessed and illuminated only through faith in our Lord Jesus Christ will lead us to truth, abundant life, and blessing on our family.
The original disciples spent three years in the daily presence of Jesus, yet they still lacked understanding. How can we expect a faster route? Jesus told the man he had instantly healed – stop sinning. Our problem is our sin. Our tendency to go our own way, respond to our natural urges, seek quick easy answers, and put ourselves first, rather than reflect on the character of God and seek His refinement of our heart.
Our human nature makes us vulnerable to those who offer easy answers. We succumb to a sales pitch for vaccines, statin drugs, knee replacements, psych drugs, etc. These seem to offer a simple solution and are easier than discipline, exercise, healthy food, and positive life-style choices. Natural birth, breastfeeding, and responsive parenting rather than day care or a nanny, seem too difficult. Cultivating listening to the Spirit of God seems like an unattainable goal.
We crave power. We want to see power and victory in our life. The power we need is the power over sin. Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would give us power to be witnesses to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This power must first be exercised on our own hearts.
Leaders must be careful not to bend to the desires of the people. People want a touch and a quick solution. Leaders feel pressured to provide it.
Colossians 2:23 makes it clear that true maturity does not come through following a lot of rules. “Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.” The root of our dilemma is sensual indulgence. How do we overcome that? The very next two verses are key, Colossians 3:1-2 “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set you minds on things above, not on early things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
Our challenge as leaders (and as parents) is to guide those we are responsible for into an understanding of how to overcome and restrain from sensual indulgence; fleshly indulgence, satisfying the flesh. We have to grow to maturity ourselves, and lead others to maturity by modeling the behavior.
“Therefore with minds that are alert and fully sober set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed. As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do. As it is written, ‘Be holy for I am holy.’” 2 Peter 1:13-16.
“We put no stumbling block (obstacle) in anyone’s way so that our ministry will not be discredited. Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way…in purity, knowledge, patience, kindness; in the Holy Spirit and in sincere love; in truthful speech and in the power of God; with weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;” 2 Corinthians 6:3-7.
The entire chapter of 2 Corinthians 6 is extremely instructive. God grants righteousness. This is described in Ephesians 6. The breastplate of righteousness is one of the weapons we require for spiritual warfare. Righteousness is produced over time as we allow the Holy Spirit to guide and control our thoughts and actions.
We need to encourage those we lead that they are God’s temple. God wants to do His work in them. God is able to nourish and protect His temple. They need to honor and protect the temple God has provided for them, not to poison it and expect a good outcome.
Looking for an easy quick solution usually backfires.
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
Our PRIDE can easily stand in the way of seeing where we have been wrong; where we might have believed lies.
What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that the prior conclusions remain in tact. Warren Buffet
These ideas were inspired from a talk given by Amandha Vollmer as part of The End of Covid, a 90 part lecture series covering a wide range of topics. Her talk on Paradigm Shifts resonated and got me thinking. We can always benefit by reflecting on these concepts and asking ourselves probing questions.
We prefer cognitive short cuts. We don’t want to do the hard work.
A simple example, we read the product ingredients and compare products and conclude which is best so that next time we just reach for what we know. Or we trust the front label that says “all natural” and buy it without bothering to check the ingredient list. Or, we assume that if it is sold in the grocery store, it must have been approved and checked by someone.
We give special weight to information that allows us to come to the conclusion we want to reach.
It’s very uncomfortable to think about things we hold dearly. I know of people who have decided there is no hell because they have lost loved ones that were not in a good relationship with God. When we are faced with a challenge to our idea about something, we should ask ourselves, is there a reason I WANT this to be true?
Many highly educated people have such confidence and pride in their own education process – especially those with advanced degrees – that they automatically and unquestioningly accept conclusions by academics in other fields. They assume that the most highly educated and outspoken in a particular field must be right. They’ve been trained to respect the academic process. To challenge the legitimacy of an ‘expert’ in a different field challenges their own level of what they think they know in their own field. They automatically assume the person bringing the challenging idea “has no idea what they are talking about” because they are not ”trained in that field”. This is a logic fallacy. Ideas should be judged on evidence, not upheld because of appeals to authority or “the way it’s always been”. The more strongly held ideas in society are probably the ones that should be examined the most, but are often the hardest to be objective about – for instance, the shape of the earth and the origin of everything.
Studies are manipulated to prove what sponsors want to prove in order to achieve future grant money.
There are two outspoken [former] editors of scientific journals that both reach similar conclusions: up to 50% of all data and results published in ‘science’ can’t be trusted. But they are ‘Peer Reviewed’ everyone shouts. These editors describe how the peer review process has been corrupted. This leaves the average person struggling to know who or what to believe, especially in the area of what drug or procedure will actually bring benefits. There are so many voices, so much conflicting and competing information, what can I trust? Do I trust my dear sweet doctor who receives regular visits from Pharma reps, reads the medical journals, is trained in all the latest wonder meds, and abides by the “standard of Care” practices of their medical system? Do I trust those selling natural products and supplements?
Of special consideration for Christians…
There are evil people that want to deceive us. The enemy comes to steal, kill and destroy.
But, God is greater and stronger and delights to give wisdom to His children.
[His servants] will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads. There will be no more night. They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.Outside are the dogs, those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood. Revelation 22:4-5; 14-15
The question is not “Do I love lies?” The real question is “HOW have I loved lies?” “Where in my life do I cling to lies?” “Can I fully seek and accept TRUTH?” “How can I draw closer to God, seek fully His wisdom and guidance, so that I am protected from lies?”
I just read this morning a wonderful promise from Jesus:
“But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth.” John 16:13
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
If car seats had warnings about causing my child encephalitis, anaphylactic shock, SIDS, febrile seizures, chronic illness, lifelong neurological impairment, etc., I wouldn’t use them.
If my doctor told me to use the same car seat for newborns, toddlers, older children and adults, regardless of size or medical status, I would remember we don’t treat other products or medications as one-size-fits-all and I wouldn’t try to put an infant into a seat too large for an adult.
If my doctor said the exact compilation of harnesses, the direction the car seat is facing, and the type of car it fits into, all make the car seat not only safe and effective but necessary to prevent death, and then I found out they’ve NEVER studied the multiple factors together, AND that the car seat manufacturers had no liability WHATSOEVER for their products, I would question the knowledge and loyalties of my doctor and not follow the recommendation.
If I asked for more information on the car seat and my doctor gave me two pages that said the car seat works great, but failed to give me the full data sheets that showed the car seats were actually quite dangerous, haven’t been studied in babies, and have contraindications in many of the groups doctors use them in, I would at the very least find a new doctor.
If I knew the U.S. Supreme Court clearly declared car seats ‘unavoidably unsafe’ I would wonder why they aren’t making car seat manufacturers accountable for injuries and death, and I certainly wouldn’t make usage mandatory.
If I knew car seat manufacturer whistleblowers had come forward to expose data manipulation that implicated the manufacturers and the government agencies that recommended them, I wouldn’t use them and I’d call for a federal investigation rather than allowing the complicit parties to ‘investigate’ themselves.
If car seat ads accounted for 85% of mainstream media ad revenue, I would understand that they can’t be impartial with their reporting, I wouldn’t blindly trust their recommendations, and I would question all information supplied by mainstream media.
If car seat manufacturers continually paid out billions in civil and criminal fines for manipulating safety data, injuring and killing people with their products, yet the products were not recalled, I wouldn’t use them.
If car seat manufacturers used aborted babies in their manufacturing process, I wouldn’t use them.
If car seats caused the accidents they were meant to protect against, I wouldn’t use them.
If my child had a worsening reaction and decline in health every time I put them in a car seat, I wouldn’t use them.
If my doctor got paid an additional $400 every time I used a car seat, couldn’t tell me anything specific about the car seat, and saw these negative reactions following car seat exposure, but said it was ‘just a coincidence’, I wouldn’t use them and I’d get a new doctor.
If the available car seats used ingredients and schedules that were banned in other safer/healthier countries, I wouldn’t use them.
If I knew that after using a car seat my child might seem fine at first, but that car seats may cause infertility, cancer, mutagenesis, neurological damage and autoimmune diseases, I wouldn’t use them.
If people who didn’t use car seats were consistently healthier, I would at least do my own research.
If we weren’t allowed to do actual thorough standard scientific tests for car seat safety or ask ANY questions about them, if all dissenting views on car seats are censored — even personal accounts from parents who are direct eye-witnesses to the car seat damage — but the public is still urged, coerced and/or forced to use them, I would think maybe I should do some digging for myself instead of blindly accepting the research of the companies profiting from products known to injure or kill and for which they face no liability at all.
You can bundle the healthiest ingredients with the best of intentions, wrap them in poison and they’re still just poison. When you make an extremely profitable product liability-free, the result is that there is no incentive to make sure the product is safe or effective.
Don’t exchange liberty for a fallacious sense of security, especially at the expense of our children.
Based on writing attributed to Kristi Miller
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
Calvin Robinson, an outspoken Anglican deacon from UK, presents some extremely articulate TRUTH in answer to the woke culture. I took some notes while listening to a speech he gave.
Many members of society – perhaps the large majority, share the views of Calvin but may straggle to express these ideas as clearly and don’t always convey the compassion we feel.
A man is a man.
A woman is a woman.
You cannot change your sex, it’s in the entirety of your DNA, in all of your chromosomes; It’s in your emotional state; your mental state; it’s who you are.
The idea that someone can be in the wrong body is a misnomer. You are your body.
God made man and woman in His image.
Are there people who feel gender dysphoria? Yes. Should entire cultures bend to their feelings? No.
We can have tolerance without affirmation. They can live in whatever reality they choose, but they cannot expect others to join their reality nor allow them to push their reality on others.
When we wholeheartedly accept a false reality, we participate in grooming children towards sexual perversions.
An entire industry has mushroomed offering hormones, multiple surgeries, and medical care that will be required for life. People are profiting from the mutilation of children’s bodies.
This assault on children is a monstrous, demonic, wickedness. We do not condone chid grooming towards perversion, debauchery and degeneracy.
Compassion for people does not mean affirming their mental challenges, especially in schools.
No boundaries – If you accept that people ‘identify’ as anything other than what God made them, the boundaries are endless. They can identify as other genders, as a child, when an adult. Allowing such people in schools to influence children is extremely dangerous for children.
Adults are the ones who must draw the line. Children are immature, have great imagination, and are naturally explorative. They need adults who can point them to reality. The loving thing to do for children is to protect them from assault – whether of body or mind, and point them to the truth. Children are especially loved by God. Jesus clearly stated a dire warning to anyone who would participate in the harm of children: “It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied round their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.” Luke 17:2
These are hard truths to express. Anyone seeking to follow Jesus has great compassion for those who have been tricked into harming themselves. We cannot truly love if we passively stand by and don’t share insight into this carnage.
What can we do? As followers of Jesus we can be ardently PRO FAMILY. Pro Biblical marriage. Support families raising children. Encourage the younger generations to have children and raise them to fear and honor God. Support and help families that are homeschooling. In everything seek to live for the glory of God and not in fear. “The god of this world has blinded the minds of unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” 2 Corinthians 4:4 We don’t hate the blind. We stand against the enemy, his servants, their works and the effects.
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
“There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any mental illness.” Dr Kelly Brogan
WARNING. If you are currently taking any psychiatric medication withdrawal can be tricky and should be tapered gradually with careful clinical supervision and a support network. Peter Breggin addresses this topic extensively.[1]
Joanna Moncrieff recently published an umbrella review of tens of thousands of subjects that failed to demonstrate that serotonin has anything to do with mood.[2]
On top of that industry, plays a dirty game…They can hide and manipulate data to gain approval for drugs.
Check out this:
Almost every single one of the positive studies are published. Only a fraction of the negative studies are published. The majority of negative studies are hidden, others are skewed as positive.
This is one of the many ways that we are led to believe – especially through direct to consumer advertising of prescription meds (DTC advertising is only permitted in 2 countries in the world) – that these medications actually work. Guess which country has the highest consumption of prescription drugs?
In 2006 a very important review was published called “Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?” The findings? “No evidence shows that antidepressants or any other drugs produce long-term elevation of mood or other effects that are particularly useful in treating depression.” [3]
AKA: There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any so-called mental illness.
Can you release anxiety and reclaim your health without the meds?
“It is a basic principle of pharmacotherapy that all drugs have beneficial and harmful effects.”[4]
“Unfortunately, in the balance between benefits and risks, it is an uncomfortable truth that most drugs do not work in most patients.”[4]
There has never been a human study that successfully links low serotonin levels and depression.
Joanna Moncrieff just came out with a very important review, summarizing a lot of this data, looking at: more analysis, cerebrospinal fluid, blood analysis, genetic markers.[2]
The findings?
There is no valid evidence for the chemical imbalance theory of any so-called mental illness. So if your brain sin’t broken, then what’s the problem?
Get to the root cause, and change your story, in a matter of weeks. Oh, and exercise could be one of the best treatments for depression, anxiety and distress. [5]
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
1. Are all psychiatric drugs too unsafe to take? “Whenever possible, psychiatric drugs should be tapered and withdrawn either as an inpatient or as an outpatient with careful clinical supervision and a support network as described in Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. Keep in mind that it is not only dangerous to take psychiatric drugs — it can be dangerous to withdraw from them. The safest solution is to avoid starting psychiatric drugs! It is time for a return to psychological, social and educational approaches to emotional suffering and impairment.” https://psych.breggin.com/are-all-psychiatric-drugs-too-unsafe-to-take/
2. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence.: Moncrieff J, Cooper RE, Stockmann T, Amendola S, Hengartner MP, Horowitz MA. The serotonin theory of depression: a systematic umbrella review of the evidence. Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Jul 20. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01661-0. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35854107. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35854107/
3. Do Antidepressants Cure or Create Abnormal Brain States?
5. Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews. Singh B, Olds T, Curtis R, et al. Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews. British Journal of Sports Medicine Published Online First: 16 February 2023. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2022-106195 https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/03/02/bjsports-2022-106195
#diedsuddenly A link to the documentary by Stew Peters is available at the end of this blog.
I wish I wasn’t posting this link to a one hour video released on 21 November 2022. I’m not sure everyone should watch it. The contents are extremely disturbing, yet I believe many facts are presented that we need to ponder.
My hesitation in sharing is at least two fold. Firstly, many people are not ready to be exposed to this information. The presentation, even if 100% factual and accurate, is designed to cause alarm. People with absolute faith and trust in the current authorities and government institutions may be unable to process the facts contained in this documentary. Others may be too squeamish or sensitive to experience the realities presented. Further, there is a lot of extraneous video footage which would be hard to verify and seems to be compiled as a method of ‘piling on’ to incite fear. Fear and anxiety were what drove a LOT of people to accept the experimental jab. Is purposefully perpetuating fear the best way to share truthful information?
Secondly, I believe the makers of this documentary left out some vitally important information. There isn’t much hope in this presentation. We are not given any solutions or any direction at the end. Many people who were duped, tricked, cajoled, or coerced into accepting the experimental jabs may react to this information with extreme despair or hopelessness. They may even react in anger at those who share it and blindly continue to believe the experimental medical procedure was their best decision – all in an attempt to ‘save face’. Others of us, who have loved ones that got jabbed, may despair about their prospects for life and health. The part of the story missing is “Can anything be done to ameliorate the consequences of the jabs?” I believe the answer is yes, and the producers of the documentary would have done us a better service if they had at least pointed in the direction of the many health professionals helping victims of the jab to recover. Steve Kirsch, who features in the documentary, has been interviewing many alternative health care providers on his weekly VSRF podcast and explores how they are actively helping people recover after they recognize their injuries.
However, with those warnings in mind, I believe this information needs to be available for people to make informed decisions. Some parts that impacted me most profoundly:
The evidence from many independent embalmers of strange anomalies in the blood is profound and should be carefully considered. Is there any other explanation for the bizarre appearance of these previously unknown clotting substances? This information is not freely available to the general public and has not been conveyed through any media. While extremely disturbing, the reality of the facts must be squarely considered.
I found the statistics and facts about the rates of still birth extremely chilling. A California nurse whistleblower describes how prior to the experimental shot availability they would see around one still birth per month. The same hospital began seeing around 20 per month and sent an email out to staff with the expectation that the rate would increase. To think that ‘health care’ providers are still recommending this shot to any woman before or during the child-birthing age is unconscionable. We need to warn women and girls of the very specific clear harms to their future ability to bear children.
So how do we view this information? My dominant thought after watching the World Premiere: Died Suddenly was “Lord God, Help us to recognize evil and STAND in YOUR VICTORY!”
The documentary traces the reality of many facts of history and the plans of powerful people who have stated publicly their desire to reduce population. Christians are well aware that we are in the midst of a spiritual battle. However, many Christians are completely unable to see how the evil forces are actively at work in the world today. Jesus’ warning has never been more relevant: “Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside are ferocious wolves.”
My suggestion: Watch and pray. Jesus also told us to do that. After watching, pray and ask God to direct you in how best to respond. My daily reading included Exodus 23 where several principles stuck out to me:
Don’t go along with the crowd.
Don’t spread false reports.
God promises to be with the Israelites as they enter and live in enemy territory. Jesus reiterates this promise in John 14 when he says the Holy Spirit will be given to His followers after He leaves. The Spirit is our Counsellor and Helper.
God’s promise was that He would be the protector and healer of His followers. Medical science is not our savior.
Worship the Lord your God, and His blessing will be on your food and water. I will take away disease from among you, and none will miscarry or be barren in your land. I will give you a full life span. Exodus 23: 25-26
We are living in a society that has become dominated by forces that align with spiritual darkness and God’s adversary. However, Jesus forever conquered the enemy. We can live in victory as we walk securely following God. For those who did accept an experimental jab – for whatever reason – perhaps the most important decision to be made is to repent. We can acknowledge that only God can truly protect us from illness. Fear is a tool of the enemy of our soul. After repentance, our next decision is to stand firm and accept no further jabs. Millions of people were threatened with the loss of a job, but what is a job if you have lost your health? Or lost your life? There are ALWAYS more jobs, but we only have one life.
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of over 40 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as ten grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.
What do stats show about facts? Analysis of VAERS data by experienced statisticians shows some alarming patterns. What can we be sure of?
“Countries that have authorized experimental injections for the alleged treatment or prevention of the alleged bundle of symptoms called “Covid-19” have given immunity to Big Pharma. That means, no prosecution or damages for harm caused.
In that environment, it has been discovered that Big Pharma has been conducting “lethal dose” “trials” on human beings by hiding “toxic” and “super toxic” experimental drugs of all kinds in among the lots of “Covid” injections with intent to kill, and gather data on the killings.
Big Pharma has labeled these hidden batches with code numbers so they can track the expected deaths to the batches, so they will know which experimental drug at what dosage has done the killing.”
A discussion of these facts and the implications with German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich and Dr Sam White from the UK can be found here. More videos on this topic can be found here or here.
I have friends (in multiple countries) who are thoroughly persuaded that everything that has been presented to them through the media and government sources is true. They also state that accepting the vaccine is a good idea for their personal health, protection, and freedom to participate in society. They stress that getting the jab is the virtuous, caring responsibility of all people and imply – directly or indirectly – that those who are not willing to participate are being selfish.
They do not want more information and seem impervious to questions that do not endorse or support their way of thinking. I wanted to put this information together in a post for those who are interested in understanding some of the statistics that you will not find in the mainstream. If you want to take a deeper dive into the statistics involved in the vaccine discussion, this 2+ hour video interview with Dr Mike Yeadon, former scientific researcher with Pfizer, will be enlightening:
The group of statisticians investigating the VAERS data has released a website where you can get specific toxicity information on the individual vaccine lots. Doctors and pharmacists should be asked to check out the toxicity all lots of the vaccines they are providing. How Bad is My Batch?
While it is true that the concept of vaccines is never mentioned in the Bible, the Bible gives us a foundation to understand what we are facing today. We have an enemy. His aim is to steal (life and happiness), kill (our bodies and spirits), and destroy (individuals, families, society) by any and all means (John 10:9). He is an expert liar (John 8:44). But he, and his minions, are not able to directly inflict harm on us. As children of God we have protection from God. But the enemy is able to trick God’s children into their own demise. He promises life and freedom. The enemy never delivers on his promises. The enemy uses fear to push us towards his agenda.
We do not need to cower in fear of the enemy. He is not powerful. He uses tricks to get us to agree to his plans. But, His tactics are repeated, making them obvious when you know what to look for. He told Eve that God was holding out on her and that there was much more to be gained by accepting his offer and eating the forbidden fruit. Adam stood silently by, watching his woman accepting the trick. Read, or re-read, Genesis 1 – 3 to understand the foundation of the devil’s tactics with mankind from the beginning.
Christians need to be aware of the evil. How often have we stood idly by in order not to face harassment in this PC dominated culture? But evil has propagated. Evil has always been attempting to lead the population into fear and destruction. These Time Magazine covers chronicle the recent attempts to generate such fear.
These modern day attempts to inflict a virus on the population at large did not gain the traction that we see worldwide from 2020. There are probably many reasons for this. Social media has played a role. Indebtedness on an individual and country level plays a role. People with power to protect, careers to protect, etc. will go along in order not to experience personal sacrifice. Pride, greed, and systemic corruption all play roles in the ability of the enemy to propagate lies to so many innocent, trusting people throughout the world.
Asking questions is vital. Critical thinking is seeking to believe more true things and believe less false things. We need to be able to understand contradictory information and discern truth. I believe Jesus Christ when He said “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” He healed many blind people. Even His disciples who spent so much time with Him, didn’t fully understand the meaning of all of His teaching. They were not able to grasp it. As ‘modern’ Christians our pride can cause us to think we know everything. We need to humbly ask God to open our eyes. May we say with the blind begger, “Lord, I want to see.” (Luke 18:41)
We also desperately need the Holy Spirit to lead and guide every thought and every decision we make. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit would be given to those who accept and follow Him. I search the ancient Scriptures to learn more of the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives. John 14 and 1 John are good places to start.
I don’t have all the answers, but I do know that God wants His people to stand against evil. “Have nothing to do with the godless deeds of darkness, rather expose them.” (see more from Ephesians 5 in the turquoise box).
Here is a pastor who faced a tyrant in Zimbabwe who has insight into how Christians can discern and respond to tyrants.
“Once tyranny reveals itself, you know you are on a trajectory that will only intensify.”
Why it is important to recognize where we are at and what these indicators are pointing to.
“The way to fight against darkness and evil is with truth and light.”
We are all responsible before God to pursue truth and righteous.
There are many places in Scripture where evil was rampant in the culture and society. Some instances I’ve read recently include Josiah, as king of Judah (2 Kings 23); Daniel, inscripted into the enemy advisory force from a young age; and Nehemiah, serving a foreign king and learning of the heartache and suffering of his people in Jerusalem. These leaders had a surprising response. They all prayed with personal repentance and confession of sin. They claimed a shared responsibility for the evil that had taken hold in their lifetimes. They then sought to hear and obey God’s direction in their life. They played important roles in leading people to seek and honor God.
We desperately need revival. We need to be part of God’s work on the earth at this time. He is still building His kingdom and inviting people to receive forgiveness of sins and life through Jesus’ death and resurrection.
Repentance is the starting point.
We can proclaim this truth to a lost hurting world. More people are seeking truth than ever before. I pray you will be given power, just as promised by Jesus in Acts 1, to be God’s faithful witness to every person God brings across your path. God will open ears, minds, and hearts. We are privileged to proclaim the truth of His love and goodness.
To open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me. Acts 26:18
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved from the life of a rebel. I’ve been blessed with a husband of 41 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as nine grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world. Please subscribe (below) so you don’t miss any future blogs!
Give yourself a gift for Christmas: make a commitment to do something quick, easy, fun and VERY BENEFICIAL for yourself ALL YEAR LONG!
Introducing the 4 minute nitric oxide boost exercise workout: 4 exercises, performed with precision 10 times each in sequence, repeat the sequence 3 times, while breathing through your nose. Over time you can increase the pace and increase the number of reps. I’ve been doing this for several years and now do 20 reps repeated 4 times – but I didn’t start there.
This workout is HIIT (high intensity interval training) and provides many benefits. Make this simple routine a priority in your morning and notice that you have increased energy, greater mental clarity, improved immune protection, and muscle toning. I believe you may even experience more positive food choices, better self-control, and better sleep. HIIT workouts can help stimulate the body’s production of hormones like HGH that can help you lose fat and build lean muscle. You can do this workout anywhere (I’ve done it in airports, while pumping gas, and while waiting outside stores for more avid shoppers!). For increased benefits, repeat multiple times throughout the day. Your body will thank you!
If you are new to exercise you can start with five reps of each exercise and repeat 3 times, gradually increasing. In this short video Dr Zach Bush introduces each exercise demonstrating correct movements.
If you want the background information about WHY this is such an effective workout and WHAT the body does during this time, watch Dr Zach Bush explain in the following 2 miniute video.
The following video describes the same routine with some modifications especially for women of all ages.
I’d love to hear about how you incorporate this exercise in your schedule!
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of 41 years, and five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as nine grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world. Please subscribe (below) so you don’t miss any future blogs!
There is a saying that it’s easier to fool someone than to convince someone that they have been fooled.
There is another saying that it’s easier to convince people of a huge lie than a small one.
Once our thinking is built on a foundation of lies or half truths we have a hard time discerning truth. How do we know?
There is another concept I’ve encountered that goes something like this, “Those who control the present, control the past. Those who control the past, control the future.”
Schools throughout the world teach history. Rarely will the curriculums from one country to another align. Sometimes different regions of a country have different history. Information about the past is transmitted to the next generations via curriculum for a variety of reasons. Many Christian homeschoolers carefully choose curricula that will support their Biblical world view. As a resident, turned citizen, of South Africa from 1983 to 2013, I heard a lot of discussion about educational curriculum in light of the profound changes the country experienced. Many past events were revised with a new understanding in light of the release of Nelson Mandela from prison and his election as President of the country that had once considered him a dangerous terrorist.
Rarely is history as clear as we’d like to be able to teach our children. Many of us grew up hearing lots of dates and facts in history class and lost interest in the topic. The intrigues of nation against nation and political rise and fall doesn’t captivate very many. Learning early on that history is boring, we put our attention and energy into areas that are more captivating.
As a retired homeschool mom [all five have long since graduated], I’ve grown to be very intrigued by history and explored a variety of different sources. The reality of the role of propaganda throughout history is undeniable, yet none of us wants to admit we have been a victim of propaganda! Could much of our early education and exposure to media have been part of a tactic to influence or control my thinking? We pride ourselves on our independent thought, yet how independent is my understanding of world affairs both past and present?
One thing I have learned in light of recent crazy events, God’s word is a great place to place my trust. The old testament accounts sound amazingly similar to what we are witnessing first hand today. God’s word is true. God is trustworthy. As I view current events in light of God’s eternal truths, I have more understanding. I also have confidence in our all powerful God!
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities: All things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1:15-17
God is still in control. All things are working for His purpose and for our ultimate good.
I found this lecture/interview with Professor Mark Crispin Miller from NYU quite profound. He is a student and teacher of propaganda throughout history. He makes some pretty startling statements in this 30 minute interview.
Mark Cripsin Miller: “It seems to me that the year 2020 and the first half of 2021 have comprised a global propaganda spectacle of unprecedented scale and sophistication. I for one believe that we were subjected to a series of carefully planned psychological operations over the course of 2020 and just beyond. I think it started with the roll-out of the virus. This particular instance of fear-mongering is the most persuasive, the most compelling, the most devastating kind of fear-mongering that’s ever really been used in the history of propaganda and that’s really saying something. We’ve seen the fear propaganda move from the Hun to Communism to Terrorism but now it makes the crucial move to the thing itself. The thing with which previous enemies have been compared. The evocation of The Virus Is All Around Us was enough to turn the wits of millions of highly educated people. It’s a very easy matter to get people to do what you want. Just convince them they’re under attack and that anyone who argues with that claim is putting them at risk.”
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government,” wrote Edward Bernays [in 1929], the father of modern propaganda. In part one of Episode 17, Mark Crispin Miller, professor of Media Studies at New York University, discusses the propaganda onslaught that defined the year 2020, when what was dismissed one week is confirmed the next, and why questioning official narratives “necessarily means taking ‘conspiracy theory’ seriously.”
We can feel uneasy and unsettled when faced with such information. Sometimes we prefer to bury our heads in the sand and pretend our fantasy picture of the world is accurate! Understanding that there is something not quite right about the narrative we’ve been presented can actually open up our faith and cause us to grow as we seek to know God and call on Him to guide us as we navigate life with a new understanding. God is faithful. He is calling His children to trust Him. He is still at work building His Kingdom. We need to re-evaluate our tightly held ideas about the world and re-examine everything in light of God’s unfailing truth.
Ultimately we can no longer live in a fantasy world. The adage, “What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you,” is changed to “What you do know won’t hurt you.”
Becky Hastings collects information on health and tries her best to discover and share truth. “By God’s grace, through Jesus Christ, I was saved, blessed with a husband of 40 years, and have five precious babies all grown up. I now get to delight as nine grandchildren grow! Together we can help each other discover a healthy path in this crazy upside down world.“
