News from the Jerusalem Prayer Team
In the last few days, major events that impact Israel and the Middle East have been ignored by our liberal media. In Egypt, a leading Muslim Brotherhood official called for the establishment of a united Arab caliphate with Jerusalem as its capital. An Iranian nuclear official boasted that they had “bypassed the red lines” that had been set up to stop them. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Ruler of Iran, has issued a fatwa-a binding legal opinion under Islamic law-that genocide against the Jewish people is justified. Khamenei said that the destruction of every man, woman and child in Israel is legitimate because of the threat posed to Iran by Israel. He said that Israel must be removed because it is the “cause of all our troubles.” In a statement that highlights the growing danger to the Jewish state posed by the increasing belligerence of Iran, one of the top hardline newspapers just published a column rejoicing over the fact that Israel has been “rejected by the West.” They cite the rumored willingness of the Obama Administration to accept Iran’s nuclear program (which Iran’s leaders still claim to be peaceful despite all the evidence to the contrary) in the upcoming talks.

The United States is leading the largest joint military exercises in the Middle East in more than ten years in Jordan. More than 12,000 troops from nineteen different nations are expected to take part in the drills, but Israel was not invited to attend. Eager Lion 2012 is focused on dealing with “unconventional attacks”-something Israel faces on a daily basis, but the United States did not see fit to include our closest ally in the Middle East in these exercises.

A disturbing news report out of Jordan reveals that satellite photos show evidence Syria is moving Scud missiles closer to its border with Israel. The government of Syria is fighting a widespread rebellion, during which it is believed more than 5,000 of its own citizens have been killed. The Assad regime is desperately clinging to power, and many analysts have fear that an attack on Israel might be launched to unify the country against an outside enemy. The report says that “hundreds of heavy missile launchers” were involved in the move-the type that launch longer-range missiles capable of striking anywhere inside Israel. The Israeli defense forces along the northern border have been on heightened alert recently.

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Radical Muslims and U.S. Government Rewriting Counterterrorism Training Materials
Act for America reports: The FBI is reaching out to ISNA (Islamic Society of North America) for input while it is rewriting its counterterrorism training materials. ISNA is a Muslim Brotherhood front organization and unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in America. CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) is mailing letters to law enforcement offices across America demanding to see how they conduct counterterrorism training, and offering to “review and improve” their counterterrorism training materials. CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood front organization connected to Hamas, and an unindicted co-conspirator in the same trial. The Pentagon recently announced that it’s reviewing its training materials to eliminate “offensive” statements. The Obama administration has purged all references to radical Islam from its national strategic threat assessments.

Watch this shocking video to learn why the Muslim Brotherhood Wants Obama Re-elected.

Best Buy Supports CAIR
RadicalIslam.org reports: A former Marine who served in Beirut in 1982-1983 and Iraq in 2003 looks into the camera and declares, “On behalf of myself and my family, we will no longer conduct business at Best Buy.” He cuts his card in half. The Marine joined over 8,000 others who have signed a petition to boycott Best Buy over the company’s financial support for the Minnesota branch of Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. Read more and watch video.

More Evidence that Obama was Born in Kenya
Vision to America reports: Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” Read more.

Arizona Official to Hawaii: Show Birth Verification
WorldNetDaily reports: – A state official in Arizona has asked Hawaii for verification of the information on Barack Obama’s birth certificate, the document that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s special investigative team has concluded may be a forgery. Members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party, who petitioned Arpaio to investigate Obama’s eligibility, say they are awaiting word from the state secretary of state regarding whether Obama’s name will be on the 2012 presidential ballot in Arizona. Secretary of State Ken Bennett had promised to ask Hawaii officials for verification of Obama’s documentation, vowing that if answers are not forthcoming, Obama’s name will not be on the ballot.
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Many people in Israel are committed to the idea that Judaism and Christianity do not and could never go hand in hand. They cannot accept the idea that Messianic Judaism is Judaism in every respect simply because their worldview denies this possibility. I find it interesting that in the first three centuries after Christ, many Jews believed in Yeshua’s (Jesus) Messiahship in one form or another. From their writings, many of them apparently found it difficult to imagine how a person could possibly believe in Yeshua without first being Jewish, since the claims that Yeshua that Yeshua is the Messiah are found, in their opinion, in the Tenakh (Jewish Bible).

This is precisely the situation represented in Acts 15. The Church was, at that time, almost completely comprised of Jewish believers. The major topic of discussion at the Jerusalem Council was what to do with the Gentile believers who were coming into the fold. How things have changed! Now the Church is trying to figure out what to do with the Jewish believers coming to faith in Yeshua. Sadly, for the most part, the Gentile Church hasn’t done a lot better in integrating believing Jews than religious Jews have done in Israel.
I realize that the Jew/Gentile unification issue may be unfamiliar to many of you, especially if you do not live in a major Jewish population center. For some us, it may take a while to change our orientation from living in a totally “Christianized” world where Jewish people, saved or lost, are not even an afterthought. When most Christians hear the word “unity,” they think in terms of ending denominational or racial differences. The last thing on their mind is unity between Jewish and Gentile believers. This is why I am offering the companion book for my BECOMING ONE series for a reduced price of $6.95 for a limited time. It will introduce you to a subject that is close to God’s heart and should be close to ours.

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One particular sin stands out to me and certainly must cause God intense pain. I am referring to the treatment most messianic believers receive on a regular basis. Just as God’s heart must leap when a Jewish person receives Yeshua as Messiah, how it must break when his fellow Jews treat him as a “no longer Jewish” outcast. In a previous article, I highlighted several stories that reflect just how difficult life is for these believers in Yeshua (Jesus). This article presents a video that makes their struggles come alive. I would guess that many of my readers haven’t thought much about the plight of Jews who have opened their hearts to their Savior-Messiah. They are aware of what happens to Muslims who leave the faith, but Jews, not so much. Actually, Jews who have received Yeshua as their Messiah are not leaving the faith at all. They are simply living out what the Old Testament said about the coming Messiah, the New Covenant, and the new heart God would create in His people. Watch the video.

In the second chapter of Ephesians, Paul lays out God’s desire for unity between Jewish and Gentile believers in Yeshua. This is what my book series BECOMING ONE is all about. For a limited time, I am offering the companion book (which can stand alone in the series) for a reduced price of $6.95. It will answer a lot of questions and be a great way to introduce yourself to a subject that is close to God’s heart but may have been less than a blip on your radar.

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News from the Israel Project
The U.S. House yesterday overwhelmingly passed the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012, a bill that reaffirms U.S. support for Israel’s security. Read more.

Gaza terrorists last night fired yet another rocket at Israel, this time in the Negev region, as Jews gathered around bonfires and at cookouts to celebrate the Lag Ba’Omer holiday. There were no injuries, but the strike brings to 351 the number of rockets, mortars and missiles fired at Israel this year alone. As usual, the incident was largely unreported outside of Israel. See statistics on rocket attacks.

As fighting rages in Syria. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says al Qaeda is building a presence there. Intelligence reports says the group may have been behind yesterday’s massive twin suicide bombings outside a military headquarters in Damascus which killed 55 people and injured 372 others. Read more about this alarming development.

Old Video Tells Today’s Story
Jerusalem reports: Watch this fascinating film of scenes from Israel’s cities in 1913. It is worth pointing out the Hebron footage, which appears here. The local Muslim population prevented the Jews from entering the Mearat Hamachpela — the Cave of Machpela, the Tomb of the Patriarchs. As such, Jews can be seen praying only OUTSIDE the walls of the building, while Muslims freely enter the site. Only since 1967, when Israel recaptured Hebron, could Jews enter and pray within the Holy site. The scene serves as a chilling reminder of what would happen — in Jerusalem and elsewhere — should the Palestinians ever gain control of Christian and Jewish Holy sites. (The video is narrated in Hebrew, but the images tell the story.) Watch video.

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Textbooks Full of Serious Distortions
Act for America reports:
“Christians and Jews had full religious freedom” [under the rule of their Muslim conquerors]. World Explorer – Medieval Times to Today, Prentice Hall, 2003, p. 20

The quote above is a typical, untrue example of how the history of Islamic jihad and conquest is portrayed as tolerant in the textbooks used in our public schools today. We have received a number of positive email responses to the report from school board members across the country, and we are getting reports from chapter leaders who are meeting with local and even state school officials. Great work everyone! Click here to see a full report.

Guy Rodgers, ACT! for America Education Executive Director, recently appeared on the Stakelbeck on Terror program to discuss the report. Please take the time to watch the video of this interview. It is a real eye opener.

Chris Christie as Romney’s VP?
Read this revealing article by Godfather Politics. It reinforces my fears that Gov. Christie is way too Muslim friendly to be a responsible part of the Republican ticket.

Obama Fortifies Jihadists around the World
ChristianResponsAlerts.com reports: Frank Gaffney, the head of the Center for Security Policy and an expert on Islam, believes that the Obama Administration is doing all it can to fortify the Islamic Jihad movement around the globe. Gaffney says the Obama Administration is “fundamentally misconstruing the nature of the enemy” and is engaged in a “wrecking operation” in respect to our military’s capability to project power in the world. Read more.

UK Muslims Gang Raped White Girls because they weren’t Muslim
Debbie Schlussel reports: So, a large group of Muslims in the United Kingdom wants to celebrate a birthday, etc. They decide that the most Islamic way to do this is to gang rape White, non-Muslim women for the very reason that these women aren’t Muslim. And they make one of them have sex with 20 of the Muslims in one night. (It’s not the first or last time “Western” Muslims have done this. Remember when Shamrez Rashid, Amar Hussain, Adil Saleem, Jahbar Rafiq, and Amer Islam Choudhrey-all of them also Brit Muslims-repeatedly gang raped two teenage girls to celebrate the Eid (Islamic religious festival)?) And that’s why they call it the “Religion of Peace,” right?…One of the gang rapists is a religious studies teacher at a local mosque. Read more.

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Israeli naval officials were on hand in Germany earlier this week as the INS Tanin, Israel’s fourth Dolphin-class submarine, was lowered into the water for the first time. This submarine fleet, described as having the most advanced diesel-electric submarines in the world, is a key element in Israel’s deterrent strategy against a nuclear attack. The stealthy submarines also would be capable of playing a crucial role in a potential Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear weapons program. They provide an option to reach distant locations that are beyond the reach of Israel’s air force.

As the murderous Assad regime clings to power in Damascus, many analysts fear Syria could launch an attack on Israel in an attempt to divert the protestors who are threatening to bring down the government. As a result, top Israeli military officials recently conducted surprise drills to test the readiness of the army and air force to respond to a sudden Syrian attack. Though the greatest threat to Israel remains Iran’s nuclear program, there are other, even closer dangers to face as well.

Despite being shunned by the international community and saddled with severe United Nations and international sanctions, Iran’s defense minister says the Islamic Republic is now ready to export Iranian weapons to those who want them. Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said Iran has spent years developing its own weapons and this has “given it the ability to help other countries,” the FARS news agency reported. Read more.

The commander of Iran’s top military college admitted that knowledge was gleaned from western textbooks, but that Iranian soldiers had now switched from western textbooks to locally produced Iranian military texts. Read more.

The former head of Israel’s Counter-Terrorism Bureau revealed recently that jihadist groups around the world have joined together to attack Israeli targets and Jewish people wherever and whenever they can. General Nitzan Nuriel said that Iran is pushing these terrorists, many of whom it has funded and trained, to launch these attacks as an attempt to derail a possible military strike against their nuclear program. The brutal murder of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in France not long ago was the latest and most deadly in a string of recent attacks.

AS I SEE IT
It’s easy to look at the threat to Israel through earthly eyes, comparing militaries, weapons, strategies, and leaders. That’s a mistake. None of Israel’s previous military victories had been because of military might. The accounts of Israel’s victories against overwhelming odds seem more like chapters in an action-adventure-suspense novel than reality. That’s good news for Israel since the number of weapons pointed at her far exceeds her number of defensive weapons. Looking back on her victories reveals on thing above all else-the hand of God-the very thing Israel’s enemies have ignored.

God’s word, name, and reputation are at stake here. He has made promises to Israel and her enemies that He will keep regardless of Israel’s rebellion or her enemies’ hatred of her and her God:

For the Lord will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the Lord has been pleased to make you a people for Himself (1 Samuel 12:22).

We must never forget that God is sovereign in the affairs of men and that nothing that happens will catch Him by surprise. He will use every event to accomplish His will, and everything that happens will be right on schedule. Despite Ahmadinejad’s rantings, Psalm 2 still lives on:

Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples devising a vain thing?
The kings of the earth take their stand, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against His Anointed:
“Let us tear their fetters apart, and cast away their cords from us!”
He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them (Psalm 2: 1-4).

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The MB (along with other political factions) is working on a new constitution as promised to the people at the time of the overthrow. However, chances are good that the resulting document is a far cry from what the people expected. As the MB continues to grow and gain more power, the constitution will likely look more like a fanatical religious pronouncement with few, if any, freedoms attached.

If this isn’t bad enough, the MB has openly vowed to destroy Israel. They see Israel as an affront and a curse to the Muslim religion and sharing a border such scum is unacceptable. The expulsion of Israel’s ambassador to Egypt was the first step in severing all ties with Israel. They have also informed Washington that the Camp David Accords would soon become a thing of the past and would no longer be honored.

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In case you fail to see what all this has to do with us in America, here’s some food for thought. Despite the MB’s strong anti-Israel stance, President Barack Obama has announced that the US would resume sending Egypt military aid as they had prior to the overthrow of Mubarak. In essence, the US will resume arming the militant Muslims in Egypt for their inevitable attack on Israel.

Despite his comforting words to Jewish groups, Obama’s actions are those of one ready to join Egypt in completely severing all ties between with Israel, while setting the stage for the attempted annihilation of the nation of Israel and her people. Once Israel is destroyed, America is next. Just look at the ways this administration has been bending over backward to give the Muslim Brotherhood a prominent voice in every facet of American government, especially our judicial system and our national security. This is why I write so much about the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama must be defeated in November and a thorough housecleaning needs to take place. Please help spread the truth before it’s too late.

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Is my decision consistent with Scripture?
This one is easy to understand. Simply determine what the Bible says on this issue. You’ll likely end up convinced that your specific issue isn’t dealt with anywhere in the Bible. Then you must determine if it violates any biblical principles. Avoid the temptation to try to make the Bible conform to your decision. We can make God’s word say just about anything if we take verses out of context, so be true to the author’s intended meaning.

Is this decision consistent with the way God has uniquely created and gifted me?
Once we have diligently completed the first question, we must see how our decision meshes with your uniqueness. Does it seem like a natural fit for you” Will it allow you to capitalize on your spiritual gift(s)? Does you decision excite your spirit or your flesh? Does it promote you at the expense of what God seems to be doing in and through you? This question can be difficult. It will take some hard work and some soul searching to reach the “correct” answers, but it will be worth the effort.

Is this decision consistent with godly counsel?
This is the easiest of the three to do, and the easiest to avoid. It requires you to go to some of your “wise and godly” friends to see what they have to say. Hopefully, you won’t have trouble finding three or four people in this category. If you can’t, you’re travelling with the wrong crowd and some drastic changes are in order. Like it or not, we become like our “companions,” so if we want to be godly, we’ve got to be hanging out with godly people. Once you’ve found your group of confidants, have the courage to ask them their opinion. This is extremely important. They can likely see through our smokescreens and nail the real issues. If we seem to have received a green light on every question so far, but our friends say, “Not so fast…” we had better take another look.

AS I SEE IT
If you’re like me, you’re wondering why this whole will determining thing has to be so difficult. Why doesn’t God lay it out for us, saving us all the hassle? Deep down, we know better. We are commanded to seek so we will find, and if we become dedicated seekers, we end up finding more than we ever thought possible. God is looking for people who are willing to work to know Him and His will. He is looking for people whose primary goal is to be an Ambassador for Christ-someone who has determined God’s will for him and is actively ministering in some way to fulfill that will.

If you’ve made it this far and you’re still waiting for me to make it even more simple, here it is: If you’re unsaved, God’s will is that you be saved. If you’re saved, God’s will is that you first of all, seek to know God above all else. Then, and only then, you are to go and make disciples (share your faith and help the new believers to grow in the faith). There it is-as simple as it gets. If you’re doing this, everything else will fall into place (as long as your love for God overshadows your service for God.)

The good news is that it’s never too late for us. Our past failures are of no concern to God, so they shouldn’t be important to us either. What we did or didn’t do yesterday is of far less concern to God than where our heart is today. I hope this series has ministered to you and given you some practical steps to take to keep you in the safest place on earth- in the center of God’s will.

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Temple Mount Excavation Uncovers a Rare “Treasure”

The Israel Project reports: A gift from God? That’s what workers excavating a Roman-era

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drainage tunnel near the Temple Mount uncovered this week in the form of a small stone seal that’s at least 2,600 years old. The stone bears the Hebrew inscription of its owner, a man named Matanyahu, meaning “gift from God.” Read more.

Israel Celebrates its 64th Independence Day
David Zauber reports: Israeli’s celebrated Yom Ha’atzmaote (Independence Day) on Thursday with massive fireworks displays, family barbecues, parades and other traditional activities. At the Jerusalem International Convention Center (Binyenei Ha’uma) in the capital, the Israel Prize was bestowed on ten individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the country in various fields, including science, literature, the arts and journalism. Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar made the traditional presentations, which also included lifetime achievement awards for citizens who had made non-academic contributions to the state. Meanwhile, many in Israel’s Arab community joined with Palestinians in marking the day as the “Nakba” or “catastrophe” with a funeral like atmosphere in several Arab communities and angry speeches by Israeli-Arab leaders, including members of the Knesset.

News from the Jerusalem Prayer Team:
The liberal media buried the news last week as well as they could, but the announcement by President Obama that he was overruling Congress to send another $192 million in US tax dollars to the Palestinians should outrage every single American citizen. Our elected representatives rightly put a hold on aid to the Palestinians after they unilaterally tried to get United Nations recognition of them as a state last year. But their judgment is being ignored. The Administration’s claim is that this money is to support the “moderates” in the Palestinian Authority. Let’s look at that claim.

The head of the Palestinian Authority is Mahmoud Abbas. His term as president expired more than two years ago, but he refuses to allow another election because he knows that he would lose. This is the same man who provided the funding for the Black September terrorists who murdered the Israeli athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympics in 1972. The Obama Administration wants to prop this man up and thinks he is a moderate? It would be a joke if the consequences were not so deadly serious.

Reports surfaced from Iran yesterday that the Oil Ministry and the Kharg Island refinery (Iran’s major export hub) had both suffered an attack from a computer virus like the Stuxnet virus that slowed Iran’s nuclear enrichment last year. No official confirmation of this attack has yet been given, but it appears that Iran was forced to disconnect both facilities from the Internet in order to prevent the virus from spreading.

Another dangerous effect of the Egyptian revolution is playing out day after day along the Israeli-Egyptian border in the Sinai Desert. The peace treaty between the two nations and Egypt’s willingness to control their side of the border allowed Israel to focus more on the Palestinian threat. Now all that has changed. Since last year’s successful terrorist attack in August that left eight Israelis dead, the number of people caught crossing into Israel has doubled-and no one knows how many others escape detection.

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Obama Steals Thunder from SEALs
Newsmax reports: Current and former US Navy SEALs have joined the attacks on President Barack Obama for attempting to take credit for killing Osama bin Laden and using them and Special Forces members as ‘ammunition’ for his campaign. Author and former SEAL Brandon Webb told Newsmax that Obama’s White House predecessor, George W. Bush, deserves much of the praise for taking out the world’s most wanted man. Read more.

Navy SEALS “Too White,” Seek More Arabs, Muslims – Why Anti-Semitism Was Added to “Act of Valor”
Debbie Schlussel reports: On the one-year anniversary of the Navy SEALs assassination of Osama Bin Laden, the Navy has announced a special effort to recruit Muslims into the SEALS, setting up shop in Dearbornistan. And DebbieSchlussel.com has learned that this is the major reason that a Navy SEALs movie, “Act of Valor,” had a Jewish villain who planned a major terrorist attack on America and why an starkly anti-Semitic line was added to the script of the movie, which was meant as a SEALs recruitment tool. In fact, the Navy SEALs has begun a Dearborn Swim program for kids in an effort to recruit Muslim Arabs. Read more.

Military Reviewing Training Material to Remove Anti-Islamic Content
Chris Lawrence of CNN reports: The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has ordered the entire U.S. military to remove all anti-Islamic content from its training materials. Gen. Martin Dempsey sent a letter to the directors of military education institutions, combatant commanders and the heads of all branches of service instructing them to review all relevant training materials to make sure it does not have anti-Islamic content. The order was precipitated by an elective course called “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism,” offered at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia. Read more.

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Well, the madness continues, only now it’s in Egypt, which is inching closer and closer to coming completely under the control of the Muslim Brotherhood. Wow! Who could have seen that one coming? Anyway, ignoring the aid requirements in the West Bank worked so well that our State Department is trying it in Egypt. Despite the congressional law requiring that foreign aid funds in the Middle East be tied to the “Democracy Movement,” Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have authorized $1.3 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt. So, what’s the problem? The Muslim Brotherhood is as interested in Jeffersonian democracy as China is concerned over human rights.

Despite Cairo’s failure to meet the required “pro-democracy goals,” the Obama administration rationalized the aid for Egypt by claiming that “U.S. national security required continued military assistance.” According to State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, “These decisions reflect America’s over-arching goal: to maintain our strategic partnership with an Egypt made stronger and more stable by a successful transition to democracy.” The brilliant rationale continues as U.S. officials said the decision to release the aid also avoided “disruption of existing defense contracts,” which could have led to expensive termination costs that could have exceeded $2 billion. Clinton further certified that Egypt is meeting its obligations under its peace treaty with Israel, an additional requirement for U.S. aid to flow.

AS I SEE IT
Are Obama, Clinton, and Nuland on crack, or do they think we are? Egypt’s transition to democracy? Egypt is meeting its treaty obligation to Israel? Are they kidding? Egypt is on the verge of “trashing” the treaty, and the situation on the border with Israel is as volatile as it has ever been. Egyptians are blowing up Israeli pipelines, instigating terrorist attacks, and cutting off gas supplies to Israel.

What happened in Iran in 1979 took the Carter administration completely by surprise. It was a stealth movement that went unnoticed until it was too late. Egypt is a different story. The Muslim Brotherhood has been completely upfront about its intentions, and they are not to work arm-in-arm with the United States in any way, shape or form. The MB’s goal is for America to become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law. So why on earth would our State Department continue its love affair with the Brotherhood?

Did you know that Secretary Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin (the wife of

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Anthony Weiner), has direct ties to the Brotherhood? Her mother, Saleha Mahmood Abedin, is associated with the Muslim Brotherhood, and her brother, Hassan Abedin, has been working with Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal on the project of promoting the Muslim agenda in the West. As Clinton’s Deputy Chief of Staff, Huma Abedin has access to most, if not all of the State Department’s records and operations. Do you see a problem here? How can this be happening? Where are the outcries? Are 50% of voting Americans really willing to allow this to continue for another four years? Has America gone mad?

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Once again, I’d like to share how I’ve personally been dealing with this issue. Many of my readers may not be aware that I am an architect by trade. All of my writing is done as a second career. I would love to be able to devote all my time to my ministry of writing and speaking, but so far, that’s not been financially possible. My wife and I still enjoy eating and paying our bills on time. Unfortunately, the lousy economy has taken its toll on the construction industry. It’s been a very lean year. A few months ago, I got a call from a friend I hadn’t heard from in years, offering me the opportunity to prepare the working drawings for a large home in one Hilton Head’s premier “plantations.” I soon learned that if I wanted the work, I’d have to agree to a set fee CONSIDERABLY less than what I would normally charge. Desperately needing the work, I agreed. As the project has progressed, it has become more involved…a lot more involved than we had anticipated.

You can imagine the thoughts that have been going through my mind-how I was being used and taken advantage of, etc. etc. This is where the lesson of this post comes into play. The Lord keeps bringing a verse to my mind:

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men (Col. 3:23).

Trust me, this is an attitude changer. As I have thought and prayed my way through this issue, God has reminded me that His hand is in this. He has bigger issues in mind than how much money I will make. I don’t know what He’s up to, but I’ve started trusting in the truth of Matthew 6:33- if I focus on His business, He’ll meet my needs. Having worked through this, I am now happy for the work, and I’ve been pouring myself into this project, trusting in the realization of God’s will.

While your situation is probably different, the principle is the same. God is more concerned with what we do in our situation than the situation itself. He wants us to bloom where we’re planted. Maybe that first job is a far cry from your “ideal,” but so what. Mine certainly wasn’t. It was horrible, but it was a character builder. It was preparation. The key is to look for open doors and to leave the results to God. How we respond to our current situation will determine what door God will open next. Analyze your performance. Have you been following the mandate of Col.3:23, or have you been just getting by until something better comes along? If the latter is the case, you may have a long wait. The bottom line- give it your best, no matter how tough the challenge, and God will open a door. Joseph made the best of a miserable situation and all Israel ended up being blessed.

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