What Will Your Response Be?

An interesting article from www.ucg.org about an individual's response to crisis. This follows this post about the U.S. Debt Dilemma.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

What Will Your Response Be?


A blog post by Aaron Booth



Source: Photos.com"If you repent, I will restore you…" (Jeremiah:15:19Therefore thus saith the LORD, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.).



There is no doubt that the United States is experiencing a time of anguish. So much of the news reflects on economic woes and national troubles that seem to have no end or solutions. No matter what is decided in our nation's capital - there seems to be no good answer to the problem our nation is facing.



Our nation's leaders are searching for answers. The governor of Texas, Rick Perry, is calling for a day of prayer and fasting on Saturday, August 6, 2011. A big event called the "The Response" is being held in Houston to encourage people to ask God to intervene in our country's struggles. But will this help our nation in crisis?



Personally, you might be facing troubles of your own. Your finances might be stressed. Your health might be failing. Your marriage might be on the line of divorce. The thoughts overwhelm you as you wrestle in not knowing a solution to the personal difficulties you face.



You, America and the entire world needs a restoration. This is not a solution that comes from us but from our loving and merciful Father. The prophet Joel gave a strong warning message to ancient Israel (the same message can apply to us today) to "rend your heart" and "return to the Lord with your heart…that He may turn and have pity" and prevent further "calamities". (I would encourage you to read the whole book of Joel for the entire story.)



The only solution for the woes, problems, difficulties, turmoil (you choose the word) for the United States and you personally - is to humble yourself before God in fasting and prayer - and seek His forgiveness. This is called repentance - and it’s a start in turning your life around and making the relationship with God a number one priority. Can a nation change its ways? Yes. Read in the Bible how God spared Nineveh's destruction because the people turned from their evil ways (Jonah 3).



Don't wait for solutions to come from your government, leaders, friends, a religious revival - whoever. Start with the solution yourself. Follow the example of the apostle Paul when he wrote, "Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret…"(2 Corinthians:7:10For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.)



What will your response be?



If you are just starting to learn about prayer, fasting, humility and repentance - please read the related resources below or featured Bible Study aid booklets.







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Five (Fairly) Short Points about the Debt Ceiling Plans

A very interesting post from www.redstate.com about the debt ceiling plans. This follows this post about the Earned Income Tax Credit.  This follows this post about the House GOP's communication problem and this article about  the recent news about ending the ban on offshore drilling which would encourage American energy independence This is a key issue to prevent money from going to hostile countries such as Iran  and Venezuela. For more that you can do to get involved click HERE and you can read a very interesting book HERE!

Five (Fairly) Short Points




Posted by Michael Hammond (Profile)


 House Republicans are walking into an enormous trap. The Boehner plan is sufficiently similar to the Reid plan, in virtually all important respects, that its passage will lead to the following compromise:



• The adoption of Boehner’s ten years of sham cuts,which will be ephemeral beyond fiscal year 2012. Even John McCain said tonight that Gramm-Rudman (whose “sequestration” provisions are the enforcement mechanism for Boehner) became worthless because Congress just started declaring emergencies.

•A commission which will report out large tax increases which cannot be filibustered. The “deciders” on the commission will be six Pelosi/Reid people and one squish Republican, who will be corralled into submission by:

•A “trigger” which will make the pressure currently being applied to Congress seem small by comparison.

(2) Unless you can guarantee that it will go to the states, a guarantee of a losing vote on the balanced budget amendment is worthless.



(3) Dick Morris is correct that if Tuesday comes and goes, with only a shut-down of unessential government agencies, the American people will see Obama’s fear-mongering for what it is.



(4) Furthermore, as 2008 taught us, the GOP can sell all of its principles and spend the better part of a trillion dollars and the stock market will still continue to fall –- particularly since Standard & Poor’s is about to downgrade the U.S. for being too timid in debt reduction.



(5) Finally, Obama is currently reeling from his poor stewardship. For Republicans to capitulate and give him a “compromise” will reset him on a glide path to reelection. The liberal media is currently “spinning” that Republicans have won, but, after they lose, their surrender will be reported for what it was.



by Michael E. Hammond, former General Counsel Senate Steering Committee 1978-89.

Triple A Rating Is Not Forever: Moody's and S&P Warn of U.S. Debt Downgrade

An interesting article from www.ucg.org/commentary about the debt and deficits of the United States.  This follows this post about the End of the World.  For a free magazine subscription or to get this book for free click HERE! or call 1-888-886-8632.

Triple A Rating Is Not Forever: Moody's and S&P Warn of U.S. Debt Downgrade


By Howard Davis

Good News magazine writer, Portland, Oregon

Posted January 20, 2011

In just the last minute, the U.S. Debt Clock.org website showed the U.S. national debt increasing $1,400,000 and change—the digits fly by so fast they blur in front of my eyes. They not only boggle the brain, but the numbers seem meaningless as I sip coffee at my neighborhood Starbucks looking at a sea of late model cars in the parking lot.



The numbers dizzily flash upward. Debt per citizen: $44,998. Debt per taxpayer: $126,844, with $1.331776750 trillion added this year alone to the national debt.



Surrounded by global brand name stores beyond the parking lot, I watch the numbers mount up on the world's biggest name brand—the United States of America—as it lunges toward the greatest bankruptcy in history.



It could change. The U.S. people and their leaders could make the sacrifices needed to turn things around. But there is nothing so far—beyond rhetoric—indicating that the government will do what would be necessary.



But if the U.S. government doesn't change its gargantuan deficit spending, its credit rating could be downgraded in the next two years, according to senior spokespeople for Moody's and Standard and Poor's. Both are the world's leading credit rating agencies. They determine whether investors will buy the debt bonds of nations throughout the world and at what interest rates.



"We have become increasingly clear about the fact that if there are not offsetting measures to reverse the deterioration in negative fundamentals in the U.S., the likelihood of a negative outlook over the next two years will increase," said Sarah Carlson, senior analyst at Moody's.



If the rating is lowered, experts agree there would likely be a wholesale departure from U.S. debt, which means the United States could see a collapse of the dollar. This could quickly cause the global financial structure to explode or, just as dire for the United States, it could force all the rest of the world's leaders to quickly construct a new financial structure without the United States.



Then, all America's debt numbers would grind to a halt. The creditors would foreclose.



For analysis of the prophetic implications of the U.S. debt crisis, see "Debt Troubles Mount for Britain and America" and "Could the Dollar Fall?