America - Home of the . . . ?

I grew up with the slogan that America was the "land of the free and the home of the brave". This statement is a foundation of this country for one basic reason: WE NEVER GIVE UP! The USA was founded upon Biblical principles embedded in the Declaration and the Constitution.

How many movies and documentaries have you seen where the enemy is closing in but we "never give up" and triumph in the end. We have faith in our God and in the country He gave us. We stand strong as proud Americans in the free world BUT there is now a strong underlying move to drastically change this country.

Do remember or maybe you never heard of the short concept of putting a frog in hot water and watch him immediately jump out. He recognized the danger but put a frog in cold water and slowly turn up the heat and he will become comfortable until he is dead. This what is starting to happen in America. It blows me away that the term "SOCIALISM" is even being discussed to change our country! Socialism is anti-democracy. It is also anti-God. Are we being put into a slow cooker of cold water waiting for the heat to come up? Well, I think the heat is starting to rise with candidates running as DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS"!

Where are the brave in this country? Yes, there are the first responders and our brave military but I am referring to the people of this country who need to get out and voice their opinion in the voting booth!

After watching Nancy Pelosi last night tear up Trump's speech in angry defiance shows exactly what we as a country are facing. These people don't want a free country. They have so much hatred for President Trump, it is blinding them. The Democratic Party is not the party I am familiar with of years ago. They have become a radical leftists group. Now is the time that we stand up for what is right in this country by VOTING!!! It appears that Trump will win the election but we can't be lazy and assume he will win and not show up at the polls.

This is a great country and we need to keep America great! Since I now have an online store, I custom design products and here are a few with respect to showing our pride. www.chaplainbobstore.com

MY STORE!

A couple of months ago I was reading the news feed on my Facebook when I saw an AD from a printing company. Usually, I just skim over all ADs unless they express things for graphics or video editing. Well, this day I was scrolling when this AD shows up and caught my attention. So, I decided to check it out and see what they were promoting.

As I was reading the material and watching their video, I was thinking this looked pretty easy. They were explaining how to start a business in "printing on demand" which I had never heard of before. I have been involved in graphic layout work for about 30 years covering all types of printing from business cards to billboards. So spent some time reviewing all the material but wasn't sure if I could do this when God reminded me of Pastor Ron Carpenter teaching from 2 Kings 4: 1-7. This scripture was talking about the widow woman and her 2 sons going to the prophet Elisha. She told the prophet how her creditor was coming to take her 2 boys as slaves because she was in debt. Elisha told her to get all these jars and
fill them with oil and sell them to get out of debt. Basically, the concept Ron Carpenter was teaching was to use whatever talent you have that God gave to make money to live on. Use whatever you have at hand. Money doesn't flow out of the sky but God gave us talents to use for His glory.

That's how it started. That scripture the Lord showed me said to use my graphic design ability to bring in more income. I live on a pension and it's always tight each month. I prayed and began to learn what I needed to do to get started. After several weeks of reading and watching training videos, I set up my online store. I chose what items I wanted to promote and began creating graphics for those items.

Today I have 'THE CHAPLAINBOBSTORE". Much prayer is going into it and I am standing on God's word that I will bring in serious income. I have a vision and I'm going with it! Check it out!
www.chaplainbobstore.com

My First Book!

I am so excited that I have written my first book! It's called, "PUT YOUR HANDS UP! AN ARREST WARRANT FROM GOD". It's my personal testimony about how I went from being an atheist cop to a Christian cop. The concept of the book is to show what type of environment I grew up in and how God brought me through circumstances to the point where finally someone approached me to tell me about Jesus.

We live in a world that is growing slowly away from God as the Bible had predicted  My home life was void of any Godly influence especially since my father was a German atheist! But my mother was an Irish Catholic! I can't explain that one! I won't go into it here basically because I want you to buy the book! The goal was not to make money but to get my testimony out as Jesus told us to do.

God created us with the ability of free choice and along with that attribute comes the ability to be influenced either by choice or by no choice. No choice doesn't mean to be forcefully influenced but influenced in a way that you might not be aware of. Just watching TV can influence you. Years ago there was a situation called "subliminal advertising" which is now illegal where movie theatres could put one frame of a picture of a particular refreshment they were selling in one frame of the film. Your eye couldn't see it but your mind did! It would make people thirsty or hungry where they then would go out to the lobby and buy the items! It still might be used in different places today.

But the point that I'm trying to make is that we are influenced, good and bad, and that influence will eventually show up in our lives. That is what happened to me. I was influenced by my father, school, the NAVY and college to believe that there was no God. So pick up the book and try to get it to someone who does not have a relationship with Jesus. Let the book influence someone! It is sold on Amazon right now. $9.99 won't break the bank! Here's a link to Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/s?k=put+your+hands+up+an+arrest+warrant+from+god&i=stripbooks&crid=SXM05WL5Z52F&sprefix=put+your+hands%2Caps%2C157&ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_14

30 DAYS TO LIVE

Sometimes in life events come our way that get us to open our eyes. These events are sometimes called "Life Altering". No one is immune to them and if you're not in one now, rest assured one will be coming your way. Jesus said that these events would come and that we must trust in him to either get us out of the event or that he would go through it with us to get us to the end. When these events come, the best case scenario for us is to gain wisdom and grow stronger for the next time.

But suppose there won't be a "next time"? What if you went to your doctor for a checkup, he takes a blood sample and then sends you home. A couple of days later you get a call from the doctor's office for you to come in to see him review your lab results. Instead of getting the general good report from him he tells you that you have a very bad situation and that you probably only have 30 days to live and there is no cure!

After being picked up off the floor from the shock of the report, you head home in despair having not exactly prepared for such a report. So now, what do you do? There are a lot of choices you can make and roads that you can go down but really then what are your priorities in the days to come? A thousand thoughts enter your mind! What about this, what about that person? Where do you begin? Then comes the reality check about God! Yep, you will be finding out the truth very shortly! Is there a "God" and if there isn't, then not too much to worry about except the people around you. BUT, if God does exist, you could be swimming in fire and pain for eternity! Maybe it's time to check your relationship with God RIGHT NOW!!!

With this totally new life direction that has been placed upon you without warning, maybe it's time also to check our your relationships with the closest people to you and make amends because holding bitterness or anger towards someone no matter what they did to you, will potentially end your butt in hell according to God and his word, the Bible. So, take some time out and think about what you would do in this situation and ask yourself maybe I should be doing this anyway! Eternity, as you know, is forever. And by the way, yes, God does exist!

CLOGGED ARTERIES!

It is a well-known fact that when you eat certain foods, they will clog your arteries causing a heart attack over a period of time. I am guilty, having 2 stents put in my heart. When your arteries are clogged, your blood has a hard time trying to flow, thus causing a heart attack. When you put junk IN your mouth, you get the variety of results.

• • • It's the same with letting junk come OUT of your mouth! The more junk you watch and listen to, the more that junk will probably clog your mouth! Like your arteries, when your mouth is clogged with verbal junk, criticism, swearing, hate, controlling attitudes, anger, etc, the good, uplifting, affirmative, blessings, inspirational, loving, and helpful words cannot flow through your mouth! We all say the wrong things at times and sometimes regret it for the rest of our lives Words can hurt or heal, love or hate. The problem is, once those words are our, they cannot return. There is no undo button to push!

• • • God says, "Death and life are in the power of the tongue. Those who love it will eat its fruit". - Proverbs 18:21

Authority!

• • FROM THE CHAPLAIN'S OFFICE: Just because I gave my life to Jesus Christ 35 years ago and have gone to Bible college and seminary does not mean I know everything about God and the Bible. I have a long way to go but there is one thing I learned early in my walk: SATAN IS REAL!

• • It's a really sad state that many churches shy away from teaching the reality of Satan and what he does. We will never have all the answers to the situations that go on every day. There is one truth that I have learned in looking at these situations and that is I ask myself, "who gets the glory out of this?" Who gets the glory out of all these police officers being killed? Who gets the glory of abortions? Who gets the glory when we see our military being killed?

• • Friends, evil is evil! You can't stick your head in the ground and pray to God that everything will be OK. Read the Bible! Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy! Not God!

• • Jesus gave us the authority over all the power of Satan but the church is not using its authority in so many areas. The battlefield is in our minds and you can take authority over all your thoughts. If Satan had any power, we'd all be dead a long time ago but he plays with people's minds to convince them to do his bidding. One of his main mental battle plans is to convince you that he doesn't exist! Do you believe that he exists?

• • God created the heavens and all you see. All he wants is to have a relationship with you, his child. Seek him!

Dazed and Confused

It's now after Thanksgiving and headed for the Christmas holidays. 2017 has been some year, hasn't it? There has been so much depression, confusion, hatred, in this world from all the events that have occurred. Sometimes you get so burden heavy from all of this that you begin to wonder where is God in all this.

Stress has always been around and will continue because Satan is not going asleep. He prowls around seeking whom he can destroy with his demons. He looks for all the weak links in all of us. We all have them. That's because we are not perfect and need what is NOT perfect for us to be filled with help from God. That's a void only Jesus Christ can fill even though as humans in this world try to fill it with so much other stuff. When we do that, it causes confusion and chaos in our lives. You get to be dazed and confused. As the saying goes, "stuff happens". We can expect that stress will attack us almost any time and probably when we least expect it. As a police officer, I had to be as prepared for what I might encounter out in the street each shift. You just never know what to expect but you had better be ready. That's why training is so important. Officers need the right equipment and must be ready to fire their weapon at a moments notice.

Here's another example. Your out on a boat having a great time when the boat is rocked somehow and you fall overboard! You're splashing around trying to stay afloat when you're thinking, "Why didn't I have my preserver on?" Well, it's the same with everyday life! You know that the potential of some type of stress can happen to you when you leave home if you have not already encountered stress in your home! How do you prepare for stress? It doesn't matter what type of person you are because God says that if you trust in him, let him run your life, he will either get rid of the stress or get you through it and have peace at the end.

35 years ago I gave my life to Jesus Christ and there are no human words can explain the peace that I have experienced through major trials such as divorce and heart attacks. If you have not asked God to run your life, please consider today to do so. Just ask Jesus Christ to run your life and ask him to forgive you for all the sins you have committed. We all have sinned! There are no exceptions except Jesus. I know life is better because I put God in my life as a life preserver.