Thanksgiving is Family Time. That doesn't mean to say that everything is always perfect. There are often relationships within families that need to be healed. This can be a time for forgiveness, healing, and restoration. And this is what our God is all about.

Because God is God, He is a God of justice and judgment. We don't receive God's forgiveness until we come to Him in repentance and humility. But when we take the first step of repentance God comes running as He reveals in the story of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32).

Isaiah 55:7 says, "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for HE WILL ABUNDANTLY PARDON." God not only forgives, but ABUNDANTLY forgives and pardons. In the Hebrew it actually means that He will MULTIPLY THE PARDON!

We should have the same spirit. Let's not hold back forgiveness when someone shows even the slightest turning toward us. Let's be like God and ABUNDANTLY forgive. When they take the first step, let's take 99 steps towards them!

There is nothing so beautiful as humility, forgiveness, healing, and restoration. It is the lifestyle of the kingdom of God.

Love from Nancy

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Speaking recently about the liberal agenda (those who promote abortion, same-sex marriage and radical socialism) and those who stand for a biblical agenda, and life and marriage, a well-known minister and author espoused that we really have so much in common. I am sorry, but I have to take issue with this statement. I cannot see one foundation for this statement in the Word of God.

I know we are all a bunch of sinners. We are either a sinner needing God's salvation, or a sinner who has received God's salvation. We have either received the down payment for eternal life in glory, or we haven't (1 John 5:11-12. We either belong to the kingdom of darkness or the kingdom of light. We are either lost or found. Our minds are either blinded by the god of this world (including believers and unbelievers) or illuminated by the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 4:3-4).

1 Corinthians 6:14-15 asks the question, "What fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord (harmony) hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?"

There is no middle road. We are either serving God's kingdom or the devil's kingdom. It's time for those of us who say we are believers to truly believe and stand on God's side. For if we are not standing on His side, there's only one other side.

As parents, we must know where we stand, for we must raise children who know where they stand. May God save us from raising wishy washy children who don't really know what they believe, who take on the devil's ploy of tolerance which is destroying the power of the church of God today, and who don't have any idea of hating evil and loving righteousness.

Ezekiel 44:23 says, "They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean." And, Jeremiah 14:19 says, "If thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth."

Love from Nancy

Some Scriptures to check out and read with your family: Psalm 97:10; Jeremiah 15:19; Amos 5;15; Matthew 6:24; John 15:19; 17:14-16; Romans 12:9; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 10:21; 2 Corinthians 6:14-18; Galatians 5:19-21; Ephesians 5:1-12; 2 Timothy 2:19; Hebrews 1:9; James 4:4; 1 John 2:15-17; 4:5-6; Revelation 21:27; 22:11-15.

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Have you noticed that many people who are deceived regarding God's truth are actually very loving and kind people? Some of them don't believe in God; others are "believers" who don't believe! But, they are still lovely people. That's where we can easily be misguided. Because they are nice we can think they are right!

However, truth has to be determined according to God and His living Word. Satan knows he cannot deceive us with blatant evil. He comes as an angel of light. He makes his philosophy look pleasant, nice, and wise as he did in the garden of Eden (Genesis 3:6). Deception is so close to the truth.

2 Corinthians 4:4 says, "The god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not." When we do not believe, we give a foothold for Satan to blind our eyes. I am always challenged by Paul's statement in Romans 3:4, "Let God be true, but every man a liar."

This is the bottom line. Do we believe God and His Word? If not, what are we believing? If it doesn't line up with Gold's truth, it is a lie! Only God is truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:3 says, "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first."

May God save us and our children from falling away from truth. Dear mother, one of the greatest tasks of your high calling of mothering is to infiltrate and penetrate your children with God's living Word. The Word of God, richly filling our lives, and the lives of our children, is the greatest deterrent to deception.

Believe God, or believe a lie!

Love from Nancy

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Are you facing a difficult trial at this time? Are you suffering an affliction? Are you being persecuted for walking in God's truth? Please don't despair. There is more happening behind the scenes than what you realize!

After telling the Corinthian believers about the troubles and persecutions he was facing, Paul states, "For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" (2 Corinthians 4:16-18).

When you are going through something, it seems endless, but God reminds us that in the light of eternity it is only transitory. He also reminds us that it is working for us a great reward in the eternal realm. In fact, He uses five adjectives to describe the glory that will be revealed in us. Count them--FAR, MORE, EXCEEDING, ETERNAL, WEIGHT OF GLORY!

The CEB translation says, "Our temporary minor problems are producing an ETERNAL STOCKPILE OF GLORY for us that is beyond all comparison."

The answer is: don't keep your mind fixed on your problem. Don't let it consume you. Instead, fix your gaze on the unseen, on the eternal, on what God is working in you. The difficulty you are going through is only temporary, but the work God is doing in you is eternal.

You are STOCKPILING for glory. You can rejoice!

Love from Nancy

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