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Steve Crook:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/05/25/katrina.insurance.ap/index.html

I just felt like sending out a request that we pray for these people. Sometimes I just can not believe how insurance companies treat people after years and years of honestly paying for something that makes the insurance companies pockets deeper while leaving honest folks fitting the bill. in the end. USURY IS EVIL in my opinion.  It saddens my heart terribly.

Worse yet, and not related to insurance at all, I read yesterday about the poor souls being raped and ravaged in the Congo. It is more sad than anything I can concentrate on right now. One story included a young man that was trying to protect his sister from rape, again, from the supposed army there. She was 14 the first time she was raped repeatedly for days, almost lost the ability to walk, but the Lord saved her legs.

Now, 5 years later, after returning to her village and healing and all, she is now in the same hospital worse off than when she was 14. The description of the colon bags filling the hallways and the bowls of human waste in the hospital, where so many are being treated for rape, is well, more distrubing than my brain wants to articulate into images. The girl who I was just talking about had a 15 year old brother who tried to protect her, who then had 12 men turn on him and do him the same way.

Brothers and sisters, I personally do not know how to take in a lot of the world, but I do know that I can pray that the Lord's Will be done and done quickly. I just thought I would ask all of you to add an extra prayer in for all those un-named souls out there that are experiencing the wrath of God in their lives, and might not know that is what is happening.

It is so saddening, but I know our Father is in control. How blessed are we to be able to sit and type on a computer keyboard, eating food and drinking water, all while casually chatting about different things on our minds, on a day to day peaceful basis.

If anything else, PLEASE thank the Lord this evening that he blessed you to be YOU. I have many stories I can compare with you all, but I count it but dung considering the blessings I have, especially knowing the Lord has started to pull us all aside and reveal His TRUTH to us. I sometimes feel others are suffering the pains they have so that others can have their blessings. Of course, that is probably my carnal thinking....

Be thankful and praise His name all, be thankful.

God Bless

gmik:
Sometimes it doesn't seem fair that our judgments are internal and all spiritual  and yet we hear of people who are definitely suffering physical torment, and yet I am here in America as God wills......

My husband went to Russia a few years ago and the Christian folks he talked to had no desire to come to America...too lukewarm, too soft and easy a life-they were afraid they would get all lazy and carnal....The couple he stayed with had never had an ice cream cone and pretty much subsisted on boiled potatoes. They were nervous about impending persecution any time the government so chose...but they were very dedicated in their love and service to Jesus....

I agree it is sad, but it is also as God wills....

Gill:
Wow Steve,

You know, i know that God's people go through much tribulation but in reality it seems like nothing compared to what much of humanity experiences in this age.  It tears me up too ...when i let myself think about it  :oops: .  

I don't understand it but i do believe that as the elect bring in the rest of humanity into God's family ...part of that will include healing ...else what are the 'and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.' (Rev 22:2) for?  Its something that i need to resolve over time (God help me  [-o< ).

You know, when we think about what the elect will be doing in the ages to come ~ i think its all too easy to only focus on judgement.  Surely, there is more?  I can't really word this properly ...its not something i understand but something tells me that there is something special awaiting those who have gone through unimaginable sufferings.  And shouldn't God's people be tender and consider it a joy to see them have it?

I will pray ...if i can get the words out  :cry:

Steve Crook:
Yeah, gmik, the only comfort I have is knowing our Father is in control. It all just seems to weigh down on me from time to time. As in, "Why me, oh Lord?" Ya know?

Gill, yeah, I too believe that those who suffer a lot fo physical torture in this life will also have a special reward, at least I hope :) I also can't truly "think" on it too much as it is a hard thing to think on. I feel that, in America especially (I'm biased because I live here of course), we fill our lives with so much to do, so that we DON"T have to think on much of anything, except our ownselves, and even that is not well thought out for most of us, or Americans wouldn't have so many drugs, lol.

From what I see from the forums and the map associated with it, most of the folks here are from America. I think about that, and our easy lives (compared to others in the world, even our poor are rich, and my family was very poor when I was growing up), and I truly have to end with saying, "Thy Lord's Will be done" LOL, that's all I can say or think. His ways are truly above ours and unsearchable by our minds.

I think the hardest thing I try to do in my life currently is to mediatate and let the Lord's voice be heard. I occasionally think I can't be the only one in this boat, so that's why I feel the urge to post messages such as these. Our lives are SO full of the adversaries devices that it is truly a miracle of the Lord that he has shined through all of that to us all and made us wake up a little.

This is getting a little long, but man there is no one else to talk to. Most people think I am depressed, when in actuality I am at more peace than I have ever been. Thinking on the old ways of the Lord and trying to hear His voice, makes the world think I'm boring.

Well, BORING I AM :) I want to KNOW the Truth, face to face.

God Bless

chrissiela:
I'm surely not looking forward to another hurricane season but I would rather face another Katrina then suffer as much as some of those people in parts of Africa (and elsewhere).... whose suffering goes almost unnoticed by the world, it seems sometimes. 'Aide' is slow in coming (if it ever arrives) and yet we can find the money for the most frivolous of things.  :cry:

At least we can see a hurricane coming, though even that doesn’t guarantee that you have some place to ‘go’ for awhile until it is safe to return. That is why so many people stay. Lack of funds…. not to mention  a sense of complacency, I think. A sense that that ‘big one' that they keep ‘warning’ you about year after year (and that ‘never’ happens) WILL NEVER happen.

I know. I have lived in New Orleans most of my life and we NEVER evacuated. But believe me, I will never take an evacuation order ‘lightly’ again. I know too many people who lost EVERYTHING and some who have not yet even heard from their insurance companies yet. It’s really a shame.

Might not do much good to pray for peace and love and understanding, but I think I will ANYWAY.

Chrissie

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