Give me a Simple Life

Written by Anonymous

Satan called a worldwide convention. In his opening address to his evil angels he said, "We can't keep the Christians from going  to church. We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth. We can't keep them from conservative values. But we can do something else. We can keep them from forming an intimate abiding experience  in Christ. If they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken.


"So let them go to church, let them have their conservative lifestyles, but steal their time, so they can't gain an experience in Jesus Christ. This is what I want you to do, angels. Distract them from gaining hold of their Savior and maintaining that vital connection throughout the day!"


"How shay we do this?" shouted his angels."
"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent unnumbered schemes to occupy their minds,"  he answered.


"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, then borrow, borrow, borrow. Convince the wives to go to work and the husbands to work 6 or 7 days a week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their lifestyles. Keep them from spending time with their children. As their family fragments, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressure of work."


"Over stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still small voice. Entice them to play the radio or CD player whenever they drive, to keep the TV and the DVD's going constantly in their homes. And see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays music constantly. This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."


"Fill their coffee tables with magazines and newspapers. Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day. Invade their driving moments with billboards. Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, sweepstakes, mail order catalogues and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering, free products, services and false hopes."


"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive. Have them return from their recreation exhausted, disquieted and unprepared for the coming week. Don't let them go out in nature, send them to amusement parks, sporting events, concerts and movies instead. And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip ans small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences and unsettled emotion."


"Let them be involved in soul-winning. But crowd their lives with so many good causes that they have no time to seek power from Christ. Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family unity for the good of the cause."


It was quite a convention in the end. And the evil angels went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busy, busy, busy and rush here and there. 


Has the devil been successful at his scheme? You be the judge.

THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS

Before doing anything.. READ THIS.. something we don't usually hear or read but is so essential.

For the next 60 seconds, set aside whatever you're doing and take this opportunity! Let's see if Satan can stop this.

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THE (SCIENTIFIC) DEATH OF JESUS


At the age of 33,
Jesus was condemned to death .

At the time

Crucifixion was the "worst" death. Only the worst

Criminals were condemned to be crucified. Yet it was

Even more dreadful for Jesus, unlike

Other criminals condemned to death by

Crucifixion Jesus was to be nailed to the

Cross by His hands and feet.

Each nail

Was 6 to 8 inches long.

The nails

Were driven into His wrist. Not

Into His palms as is commonly

Portrayed. There's a tendon in the wrist that

Extends to the shoulder. The Roman guards knew

That when the nails were being hammered into the

Wrist that tendon would tear and

Break, forcing Jesus to use His back

Muscles to support himself so that He could

Breath.

Both of His feet

Were nailed together. Thus He was forced to

Support Himself on the single nail that

Impaled His feet to the cross. Jesus could

Not support himself with His legs because of the pain

So He was forced to alternate between arching His

Back then using his legs just to continue to

Breath. Imagine the struggle, the pain, the

Suffering, the courage.

Jesus endured this

Reality for over 3 hours.

Yes,

Over 3 hours! Can you imagine this kind of

Suffering? A few minutes before He died,

Jesus stopped bleeding. He was simply pouring water

From his wounds.

From common images

We see wounds to His hands and feet and even the spear wound

To His side... But do we realize His wounds

Were actually made in his body. A hammer

Driving large nails through the wrist, the feet overlapped

And an even large nail hammered through the arches, then a

Roman guard piercing His side with a spear. But

Before the nails and the spear Jesus was whipped and

Beaten. The whipping was so severe that it tore the

Flesh from His body. The beating so horrific that His

Face was torn and his beard ripped from His face. The

Crown of thorns cut deeply into His scalp. Most men

Would not have survived this torture.


He had no more blood

To bleed out, only water poured from His

Wounds.

The human adult body contains about 3.5 liters

(just less than a gallon) of blood.

Jesus poured all 3.5

Liters of his blood; He had three nails hammered into His

Members; a crown of thorns on His head and, beyond

That, a Roman soldier who stabbed a spear into His

Chest..

All these without

Mentioning the humiliation He suffered after carrying His own

Cross for almost 2 kilometers, while the crowd spat in his

Face and threw stones (the cross was almost 30 kg of weight,

Only for its higher part, where His hands were

Nailed).

Jesus had

To endure this experience, to open the

Gates of Heaven,

So that you can have free

Access to God.

So that your sins

Could be "washed" away. All of them, with no exception!

Don't ignore this situation.

JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOU!

He died for you! 

It is easy to pass jokes or foolish photos by e-mail, but

When it comes to God, sometimes you feel ashamed to forward

To others because you are worried of what they may think

About you.

God

Has plans for you, show all your friends what He experienced

To save you. Now think about this! May God bless your life!

60 seconds with God...


For the next 60 seconds, set aside what you're doing and take this opportunity! Let's see if Satan can stop this.

All you have to do is:

1. Simply pray for the person who sent this message to you
2.Then, send this message to people.. The more the better.
3. People will pray for you and you will make that many people pray to God for other people.
4. Take a moment to appreciate the power of God in your life, for doing what pleases Him.


If you are not ashamed to do this, please, follow Jesus' instructions.

He said (Matthew 10:32 & 33): "Everyone therefore

Who acknowledges me before others, I also will acknowledge

before My Father in heaven; but whosoever denies Me

before others, I also will deny before My

Father in heaven".


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I just want to share this story to you... 

           

          There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small New England town. One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit. Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak...'I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage. On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, 'What you got there, son?' 'Just some old birds,' came the reply.

'What are you gonna do with them?' I asked.

'Take 'em home and have fun with 'em,' he answered 'I'm gonna tease 'em and pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm gonna have a real good time' 'But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do?'

'Oh, I got some cats,' said the little boy. 'They like birds. I'll take 'em to them.'

The pastor was silent for a moment. 'How much do you want for those birds, son?'

'Huh?? !!! Why, you don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old field birds. They don't sing. They ain't even pretty!'

'How much?' the pastor asked again.

The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, '$10?'

The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed it in the boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone.

The pastor picked up the cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free.

Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story.

One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. 'Yes, sir, I just caught the world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all!'

'What are you going to do with them?' Jesus asked.

Satan replied, 'Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!'

'And what will you do when you get done with them?' Jesus asked. 'Oh, I'll kill 'em,' Satan glared proudly. 'How much do you want for them?' Jesus asked

'Oh, you don't want those people. They ain't no good. Why, you'll take them and they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don't want those people!!'

'How much?' He asked again.

Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, 'All your blood, tears and your life.'

Jesus said, 'DONE!'

Then He paid the price.

The pastor picked up the cage he opened the door and he walked from the pulpit.

Notes:

 Isn't it funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

Isn't it funny how someone can say 'I believe in God' but still follow Satan (who, by the way, also 'believes' in God).

Isn't it funny how you can send a thousand jokes through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing?

Isn't it funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

Isn't it funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

I pray, for everyone who sends this to their entire address book, they will be blessed by God in a way special for them.

And send it back to the person who sent it, to let them know that indeed it was sent out to many more.

13 REASONS WHY WE NEED TO STOP SINNING

"Heal the world.. Make it a better place.. For you and for me and the entire human race..."

Yes, sinning is one of the things people do. But how can we stop doing it? What could be the consequences of doing  sin? The following may convince you to stop sinning:

---> Sin does not satisfy. (Hebrews 11:25)

---> Sin leads to more sins. (Proverbs 5:22)

---> Sin leads to worse sins. (Ephesians 4:17-19)

---> Sin enslaves. 

             * Sin enslaves to its last. (Proverbs 5:22)

             * Sin enslaves to the flesh. (Romans 7:14-24)

             * Sin enslaves to demons. (Matthew 12:43-45)

---> Sin degrades and humiliates. (Proverbs 6:32)

---> Sin steals joy. (Psalm 16:11)

---> Sin steals our confidence before God. (Genesis 3:6-9)

---> God will punish sinners in this world and in the world to come. (Revelation 3:4-6)

---> Sin hurts the Lord. (Luke 19:41-44)

---> Sin hurts the sinners. (Proverbs 4:18-19)

---> Sin hurts the sinners' family and friends. (Hebrews 12:15)

---> Sin puts the sinner on the side of the devil, demons and the world. (John 15:19)

---> Sin blocks the blessings and the promises of God. (Deuteronomy 28:15-16)

After knowing all those consequences of sinning, are you still going to do it again?
             

The Pleasure of Beautification

I know people all around the world is doing this. They beautify themselves and I will be hypocrite to deny that I myself is doing it. But if we are going to compare the beautification of the males and the females, we can see that the females do it more often than the males. Now, let's focus on the females or the women. Why do the women do all this beautification. Is it just the pleasure of doing it or there is something else? Maybe the following points are some reasons:

• Women do beautify themselves to attract some opposite sex. A good example for this is a wife fixing herself to be noticed by her husband.
• Woman beautify themselves to look clean and of course, beautiful. Well, maybe an example for this is the daily routine and hygiene like taking a bath, cutting some fingernails, fixing the hair and a lot more.
• Beautification on women adds personality. Just like what professional women are doing. They beautify themselves to be able to out stand the profession that they have.
• Lastly, they make some beautification because that's their hobby. Simple as that.

But aside from the reasons above, I can personally say that the beautification on us women really generates some pleasure within us. We don't even think how much we spend on each of the process of beautification and also the time we are able to accumulate by just staying in our favorite salon. And indeed, beautification also helps us feel comfortable within ourselves that no men can ever understand.