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T H E V O I C E magazine’s mission is to advance Christian life and culture.

For Freedom’s Sake F

ifty-six

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Declaration

Independence. John Hancock,

president of the Continental Congress, was the first to sign. Edward Rutlede, 26, was the youngest. Benjamin Franklin, 70, was the oldest. They all had one thing in common: The believed in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They also understood the dangers of tyranny and a corrupted government. Standing up for liberty put their lives, fortunes and families in great peril – but they did it anyway. That same revolutionary spirit lives on in the U.S. today. There is a grassroots stirring in the hearts of God’s patriots that I have never seen in my life time. The awakening has begun!

Politicians – both Democrats and Republicans – have been violating the U.S.

Constitution for years and ignoring the will of the people. Many regular “Joe-the-Plumbers” feel government is not serving their best interest but plundering them as tax surfs to save the ones who led us into financial crisis to begin with. Despite the fact that the U.S. has the worst debt-to-GDP ratio, our Congress continues to pass fiscally irresponsible bills – without even reading them. To me, that’s criminal.

Over 30 percent of mortgage holders are upside

down on their mortgages.

The Federal Reserve continues devaluating our currency. The July unemployment rate is 9.5 percent. That represents an entire lost decade of gains! For many Americans, Washington D.C. has offered nothing more than hype, vain words, political rhetoric, check-writing bailouts, socialist program funding and bigger government.

Has the leftist

agenda overplayed its hand?

As Christians we need to make our voices heard. Many

are calling for prayer.

That’s true, but we must also speak to our leaders and hold them accountable to the Word of God. When God called Moses, He did not tell him to pray for Pharaoh but to speak to him. When God called Elijah he did not tell him to pray for Ahab but to speak to him. Yes, we need to pray but we must also speak to our leaders. this issue of

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PUBLISHER Jonas Clark EDITOR Jennifer LeClaire MANAGING EDITOR Melanie Madon CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Dr. Gary Bradt David Coker Dr. Vera R. Jackson John C. Maxwell Michael E. Platt, M.D. Dr. Arthur Robinson John Velluco ART DIRECTOR Brian Burke DIRECTOR OF ADVERTISING Karen Ledbetter EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Elvera Baker Rhonda Clark

Some believe so and the battle

is raging. Christians across the land are waking up to the fact that God has an expectation of us to take a stand for liberty once again. This nation belongs to God and His will shall be done regardless of the plans of the enemy.

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T H E V O I C E Magazine Endorses Judge Roy Moore By Jennifer LeClaire

W justice for all. If you could sum up ith liberty and

Judge Roy Moore’s stance on politics, those six words would work nicely. Like

the prophet

Daniel, Moore

has

taken an uncompromising stand on the Word of God. He has put the Lord ahead of everything – including his position as Alabama Supreme Court justice. Moore lost his seat on the bench when he refused to stop acknowledging God.

Now, Moore is looking to resurrect his

public service career with a run for the governorship of Alabama in 2010. Moore would bring integrity, morality, and leadership to Alabama that is much needed in this hour and set an example for other states looking to rebuild trust in uncertain times.

I have talked to Judge Moore at length. He is passionate about Christ, passionate about the Constitution, and passionate about our nation. He is not afraid to stand up to those who publicly decry that America is no longer a Christian nation, nor does he cower from the

JUDGE ROY MOORE mingling with supporters at the launch of his Alabama gubernatorial campaign. challenges to restoring our Christian heritage in the face of cruel human secularism.

Alabama needs Moore in its top office.

He will not bow down to the socialistic agendas of the Obama administration, nor will he bow down to the immorality in the land. Moore is God’s man for Alabama in this hour. He is well-prepared to usher in new liberty to the Southern state and inspire other Christians in politics to do the same.

Moore’s opponent is Rep. Artur Davis, a

friend of President Barack Obama’s. Davis is supporting Obama’s agenda and would likely

bring the same brand of politics to Alabama. What’s more, Davis is expected to receive tremendous support from Obama Democrats. Moore needs our support, and The Voice magazine is proud to endorse him.

You

can help Judge

Roy Moore

in his

campaign by visiting his Web site, www. Moore2010.com, donating to his campaign, and purchasing his book, “So Help Me God.” It’s also important to keep Moore in your prayers. He has faced tremendous opposition in the past and there’s every reason to believe he will come under attack for his Christian beliefs during the campaign. God bless you, Judge.

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Health

Judge Roy Moore is rising again, but will the Republican party resurrect itself with a return to its conservative roots? Or will liberalism continue to erode our liberties?

NATURAL PROGESTERONE The Miracle Hormone Cure for Women By Michael E. Platt, M.D.

BY JENNIFER LECLAIRE

10 Spiritual Growth

TIMES AND SEASONS

Discerning the seasons of your life to maximize your spirital maturtity

ASSAULT ND ON THE 2 AMENDMENT How the Obama administration and

By David Coker

21 Faith & Prayer

Congressional leaders are on a crusade to destroy the Second Amendment.

DEFEATING DOUBT’S DESTRUCTIVE POWER

The subtle voice of doubt could be robbing your prayer answers, healing and destiny. By Jennifer LeClaire

BY JOHN VELLECO

NAPOLITANO

Marketplace

LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE

ON THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY

Fulfilling your Kingdom assignment in the marketplace By Dr. Vera R. Jackson

Judge Andrew Naplitano shares how “we the people” can re-establish freedom in America again.

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EXCLUSIVE INTEVIEW BY JENNIFER LECLAIRE

PATRICK HENRY

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GOD IS IN THE RUBBLE

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see” (2 Corinthians 5:7). By Dr. Gary Bradt

16 CAP & TRADE: AN ECONOMIC BOMB

Cap-and-trade is a hidden tax disguised as an eco-friendly initiative. Find out what it’s going to cost you. By Jennifer LeClaire

50 Leadership

THE LAW OF EMPOWERMENT By John C. Maxwell

43 Personal Finances

GETTING OUT OF DEBT

By Crown Financial Ministries

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COLUMNA

POWER, LOVE AND A SOUND MIND

Tracing fear to its roots – and pulling it out by the power of the Holy Ghost. By Jennifer LeClaire

40 THE 9-12 PROJECT

Rediscovering the American Spirit begins with our shared values

DISCIPULADO CONTRA EVANGELISMO

Muchas veces los pastores tienen una nueva “iniciativa” para la iglesia, pero para implementar efectivamente la estrategia de Dios en la gran comisión se requiere una iglesia con una estructura con peso en equipos guiados por una visión. Por David Coker

COLUMNS

CARACTERÍSTICA

Education

GOBERNADO LOS ASUNTOS DE LOS HOMBRES

TEACHING U.S. GOVERNMENT RIGHT By Dr. Arthur Robinson

Es el Evangelio del Reino de Dios Político? Que es política realmente? Por Jonas Clark

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The Miracle Hormone Cure for Women:

Natural Progesterone

By Michael E. Platt, M.D.

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t is surprising how little the medical

community knows about progesterone, especially the consequences of a progesterone deficiency. In many cases, these consequences can be prevented with the use of natural progesterone replacement. It is fairly easy to diagnose women with low progesterone levels because these women are the ones who have PMS, severe menstrual cramps, headaches with their periods, and breast tenderness. They will be estrogen-dominant and very often will wind up with complications such as fibroids in the uterus and fibrocystic disease of the breast.

A recent article in the British medical journal, The Lancelet, indicated that women with fybrocystic disease have a higher incidence of breast cancer. This is not surprising when you consider that fybrocystic disease is found in women with low progesterone levels. Low progesterone levels leads to an over-production of estrogen. Estrogen is known to cause cancer.

the pre-menopausal woman, administration

of natural progesterone eliminates PMS, menstrual cramps, headaches, and breast tenderness. In addition, it helps eliminate migraine headaches and allergies, including asthma. Progesterone prevents weight gain for several reasons. It is thermogenic – it helps fat burn. Progesterone helps the thyroid to function better. And, most importantly, progesterone prevents the overproduction of insulin, which is the main hormone that creates fat and keeps fat stored.

For those women who already have fybrocystic

disease or uterine fibroids, administration of natural progesterone cream will tend to make these problems disappear. There are 300 different receptor sites throughout the body for progesterone so it is easy to comprehend how important this hormone is. Women with low levels of progesterone often suffer from morning sickness when they’re pregnant and may have problems with miscarriages.

For those women in their menopause, natural progesterone

should be the primary replacement hormone and not estrogen as the usual case. Natural progesterone is more beneficial for osteoperosis than is estrogen because it both prevents osteoperosis, as well as helps bone to calcify. Estrogen is damaging to blood vessels, which is the reason why it is not recommended for women with coronary artery disease. Progesterone is very beneficial for blood vessels, and can even prevent coronary artery spasm.

As stated previously, estrogen is known to be carcinogenic. In

fact, first year Premarin was released, 60,000 women developed cancer of uterus. This is the reason why women who still have their uterus are given synthetic progestins, such as Provera, to prevent uterine cancer. Estrogen has always been a risk factor for breast cancer, and recently they discovered that Provera doubles a woman’s chance of developing breast cancer. Natural

Estrogen is damaging to blood vessels, which is the reason why it is not recommended for women with coronary artery disease. Progesterone is very beneficial for blood vessels, and can even prevent coronary artery spasm. progesterone, on the other hand, helps to prevent cancer of the breast, uterus, and ovaries.

In addition, estrogen and synthetic progestins are lipogenic –

they create fat and cellulite. Natural progesterone helps to eliminate fat. Progesterone is the “feel good hormone” for women and helps to enhance a woman’s libido – estrogen does not. There are several factors I want to leave you with.

1. PREVENTING DISEASE

It is a lot easier to prevent disease than it is to treat it. It is very likely that breast cancer can be prevented with the simple administration of a natural hormone.

2. HORMONAL BALANCE

It is extremely important for the body’s hormones to be in balance. A deficiency of one often leads to an over-production of others which can lead to unfortunate consequences. A simple blood panel can determine a person’s hormone status, and the judicious replacement or enhancement of various hormones can allow one to live healthier for a longer period of time.

3. PROGESTERONE IS NOT A DRUG

One last thing to keep in mind. I realize that people reading this piece would think, “If natural progesterone is so beneficial why don’t we hear about it?” Please keep in mind that business runs this world. Pharmaceutical companies are big business. They cannot patent a natural product and thereby have no interest in natural hormones. Pharmaceutical companies support most of the drug research in this country, which is the main source of articles published in medical journals. This is the reason most doctors are unaware of natural progesterone, or other natural hormones, which can be replaced. This allows Premarin, and drug known to cause cancer and in damaging to blood vessels, to be the largest selling drug in the world. Dr. Platt is the author of the award-wining health book The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones: How I Lost My Fatigue, Hot Flashes, ADHD, ADD, Fibromyalgia, PMS, Osteoporosis, Weight, Sexual Dysfunction, Anger, Migraines., ect. His web site is www.drplatt.com

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Look for the consistencies in your circumstances.

TIMES AND SEASONS

LOOK AT THE WEATHER. We

Discerning the seasons of your life to maximize your spirital maturtity

By David Coker

often think of how spring is such a lovely time of the year, but we’ve also seen some pretty nasty storms. Just because it’s a great time of the year, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some “issues” that come with it. Too often in our life we get excited about a new season and then have our hopes “dashed against the rocks” at the first sight of a storm. We think we’re back in the old season again and that we’re never going to change. Recognize that when things start to change, the weather may get rough but that doesn’t make it a bad season.

The very rain that has been

so wonderful this spring season has been accompanied by the windy storms and the booming thunder. They will uproot things in our lives that aren’t stable and securely rooted, but that’s just part of the spring season.

Learn to measure the seasons

ow often do we change

seasons in our lives and never take the time to stop and look around and recognize what season we are in? The Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes that there is a time for every season and a time for every thing under heaven: a time to plant, a time to sow, a time to build, a time to grow, a time to plow, a time to reap. There are all kinds of times! However, how do we know what the times and seasons of our life are? Here are three basic ways we can measure the seasons of our lives.

WHAT ARE OUR ROO T S TELLING US? We often get caught up with a “new” revelation, and we try to move beyond the foundations of truth that God’s

Word and God’s leaders have established in our lives. In this season, get back to your roots! What is your foundation trying to tell you to do? Is it pushing you to expand and grow, or is it in a time of having you contract and protect what’s inside of you? Are we even connected to our foundations enough to know what they are telling us? If you are disconnected from your roots, you’ll never know what season you are in.

WHAT ARE OUR RESOURCES GIVING US? For some people,

the recent “economic crisis” has been the best thing to ever happen; they are actually more financially stable now than they were a year ago! For others, the resources may seem a little scarce right now. What are your resources telling

you about the season you are in? If it’s raining outside and it’s sunny and warm everyday, then the trees begin to act as if it’s a spring season, but if the resources are a little dry, a little cold, and a little dark all the time, it might be a winter season… a time to contract and prepare for the next spring.

On a side note here, recognize

that a single day change isn’t a season change. I remember a few days back in winter when it bumped 70 degrees outside, but that didn’t make it spring. Wait to see if the circumstances around you are consistently different or if it’s just a temporary change. Don’t start acting like it’s winter because of one cold day, and don’t start spending like it’s “spring” just because of a few warm days.

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in your life. By looking to our roots and listening to what they are telling us, by evaluating our current resources, and by looking at the “weather” of our life, we can begin to recognize exactly what the season of our lives is and how can we maximize our own growth during this season!

DAVID COKER is a 1985 Rhema Bible College graduate, the founding apostle of Gateway Believers Fellowship in Carnesville, Ga. He is the founder of Breakthrough Apostolic Ministries Network (B.A.M.) He can be reached at www. gatewaybelievers.com.

GOD

By Dr. Gary Bradt

is in the Rubble

ichard got his big break when a tornado roared through town and damaged much of the inventory in his small chain of highend electronics stores. Rather than bemoaning his bad luck, Richard and his team immediately began digging for the ‘golden ring of opportunity’ they knew was buried beneath the rubble. They quickly organized a tornado sale, where they discounted their remaining inventory and let customers pick it right off the shelves of their undamaged warehouse.

“Faith is daring the soul to go beyond what the eyes can see” (2 Corinthians 5:7).

The sale was a huge success, so much so that Richard eventually changed to a discount warehouse model permanently. At the time of the tornado, the chain had about fewer than a dozen stores. Today, it has over 1400 all over the world. You may have heard of it – it’s called Best Buy. You could say Best Buy got its start when its founder, Richard Schulz, was nearly wiped out by a tornado.

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effects of a virtual tornado that has torn through our economy with awesome strength and fury. Jobs have been lost, mortgages foreclosed, cars repossessed, bills left unpaid, and relationships strained to the breaking point. A survey of the daily headlines points to doom and gloom, and hope seems faint and scarce.

But there is good news amidst the ‘rubble’

of change, or the disruption, fear, and uncertainty left in the wake of this economic storm: Change always creates opportunities. There is always a ring in the rubble, but you have to go find it, and I’m going to share with you how. Below are some tools to help you dig through the rubble of change in your life to find the golden ring of opportunity that lies within.

Handling Change

Recognize change is not a bad thing. Change, in and of itself, is not bad. In fact, change is the essence of life. As William Safire once wrote, “when you’re through changing, you’re through.” It’s how we handle change that makes all the difference. If we see it as an opportunity to grow, we will. Conversely, if we see it as an obstacle to growth, it will be. That’s not to say change is always easy—far from it.

Change, especially surprising or unwanted change such as losing a job or loved one, can be very difficult and extremely painful. But if you believe there is good to be found in a bad

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There is no change that is too big for Him to handle. When change hits, rather than bemoaning your fate or staying stuck where you are, trust Him and get digging for that ring instead. situation, you give yourself a chance to find it. It may be helpful to remember that God is always in the rubble, too. There is no change that is too big for Him to handle. When change hits, rather than bemoaning your fate or staying stuck where you are, trust Him and get digging for that ring instead.

You Are Not Alone

Use painful change as an opportunity to get closer to God. When life is easy and things go the way we want and expect, we may begin to take our blessings for granted. Therefore, use

painful change as an opportunity to get closer to God. It’s when we need God the most that He wants to comfort us the most. Let tough times remind you that you are not alone, that you can’t do it alone, and that He is always there, through good times and bad. Pray that He will be right there digging for the ring along side you, and His presence will sustain you. And, when time passes and things change for the better (as they always do), carry that strengthened relationship forward and build it from there.

Looking to God, Not Man

Don’t expect loved ones to provide the peace and comfort that only God can provide. Change can create pressure, and as the pressure builds, we naturally turn to those we are closest to for comfort and emotional support. But recognize that change is very likely impacting your loved ones too, and they are also feeling the pressure. Unlike God, our emotional reserves can run dry. We may have little left over to give one another. Therefore, rather than turning to each other for sustenance, together turn towards God and pray for His strength and guidance as you dig for the ring. Pray for His power to help build your relationship during times of strain, and that you will not look to others to give you the comfort that only He can provide. By so doing, He will sustain you and help you grow closer to one another, as together, you grow closer to Him.

Letting Go

Forgive: Let go of whatever is holding you down or holding you back. It is practically impossible to grasp new opportunities when we are clutching onto old wounds and resentments. It is natural to feel anger and perhaps bitterness at first when you feel wronged, perhaps by a company that has let you go, or by a personal relationship turned sour. Holding onto that anger or bitterness only hurts you over the long run. Potential employers may shy away from hiring someone with a soured attitude, and new relationships may become contaminated before they’ve begun.

Forgiveness is a powerful tool for letting

go. Pray that God will lift the burdens you carry, by helping you forgive those whom you perceive burdened you to begin with. Forgiveness brings freedom, and freedom brings energy, and energy brings life. Forgive others to free yourself.

Unchanging Truth

Latch on to your core values and what matters most. While change is the essence of life, some

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focus on a cause larger than yourself, your problems will begin to fade in significance. It’s possible, even, that God has us experience painful change so we can learn from it to help others when they go through something similar. Helping others get through change is one of the best ways I know to help yourself get through it, too.

Change is the great equalizer. It impacts

It’s possible, even, that God has us experience painful change so we can learn from it to help others when they go through something similar. things should never change. Your core values fall in that category. When times are tough, the hour dark, and you are not sure where to turn next, your core values will guide you. As Christians, of course, we find those values and practical guidance in the eternal word of God, passed on to us via the Bible. While regular Bible study is always a good idea, it is particularly important and comforting to rely on God’s word and unchanging truth when it seems as if everything else in your life is changing and your world has been turned upside down.

Returning to the Word again and again

is like returning to a safe harbor. It is a place of refuge and revival that will support you when change has begun to wear you down and wear you out. With daily Bible study and reflection, you’ll begin your dig anew each day with the confidence that God’s truth reigns in life, come what may.

This is Bigger Than You

Focus on a cause larger than your self. Repeat after me: I am not the center of the universe. When change hits it is easy get caught up in our own experience and believe no one else has ever gone through anything like it before. In fact, nearly the opposite is true. Whatever you are going through, others likely have gone through it many times before. We all experience health and sickness, gain and loss, life and death. As we have seen, it is how we respond to that change that makes all the difference.

One

of the best ways to respond is to

reach out beyond yourself to help others. When you focus on helping someone else, when you

us all. God is the Great Ruler, and He loves us all. Where He creates rubble, He also creates rings. If we trust Him and dig for the ring He has provided, even the most difficult change and times of our lives will eventually lead to us to something good and something better. God is there in the good times, and He is in the rubble too. Digging for the ring only brings us closer to Him. DR. GARY BRADT is a keynote speaker on leading change and the author of The Ring in the Rubble: Dig Through Change and Find Your Next Golden Opportunity (McGraw-Hill, 2007). Go to www.GaryBradt. com for more information.

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Cap-and-trade is a hidden tax disguised as an eco-friendly initiative to make the world a better place for the next generation. Find out what it’s going to cost you. By Jennifer LeClaire

God

gave man dominion over the earth

–

and

did – then why are legislators on Capitol Hill issuing 300-pluspage bills at 3 a.m. in an effort to give earth dominion over man?

In yet another political victory for President Barack

Obama, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the cap-andtrade bill, also known as the American Clean Energy and Security Act, in late June. The vote was a slim 219-212. In the guise of cutting U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases, the bill violates God’s Word: “Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]; and have dominion…” (Genesis 1:28 AMP).

At the heart of the American Clean Energy and Security

Act is the controversial cap-and-trade program. Here’s how it works: In order to emit greenhouse gases, a company needs government permits equal to the number of carbon dioxide tonnage it wants to emit. The federal government plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by issuing fewer permits each year. Specifically, the bill mandates U.S. emissions be cut by 20 percent below 2005 levels by 2010, 42 percent by 2030 and 83 percent by 2050.

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BOMB

promise of cap-and-trade is to stimulate innovative

ways to produce goods and services using less energy from carbonbased fuels. But it comes at a great cost to American consumers and flies in the face of Scripture. Indeed, some characterize cap-and-trade as nothing more than a hidden tax on the American people while the poor get poorer and Wall Street gets richer. The good news is the American Clean Energy and Security Act hasn’t passed through the Senate yet. That means there’s still time to enforce God’s Word on the earth.

THE REAL COST OF CAP-AND-TRADE A

recent

MIT

study showed that cap-and-trade energy

tax proposals would cost the average American household $3,900 a year. Climatologist Dr. S. Fred Singer has called cap-and-trade the “equivalent of an atomic bomb directed at the U.S. economy – all without any scientific justification.” Experts insist capand-trade would raise taxes, raise the cost of energy, raise the

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number of companies that go bankrupt, raise unemployment, and raise poverty. Again, God’s Word says that man has dominion over the earth. The cap-and-trade program clearly gives the needs of the earth priority over the needs of man.

“Obama’s proposed cap and trade policy is

a prescription for another economic debacle,” says Bob Chapman, a former U.S. Army counterintelligence agent. “Sure, his administration talks of resulting emissions reductions, but they also point out the estimated revenues they expect in excess of $3,000 per household. But this is an average, mind you. The brunt of that tax expense will fall on the working families in the Midwest, South and the Great Plains . . . the middle class Obama vowed during his campaign to fight for, and the same middle class already hurting in this economy.”

William Redpath, Libertarian National

Committee Chairman, calls cap-and-trade legislation the offspring of bad science and bad economics. As he sees it, imposing massive new taxes on carbon production destroys jobs and

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Studies suggest electric bills could rise by an inflationadjusted 90 percent. The price of gasoline could rise by an inflation-adjusted 74 percent. That would add $1,500 to the average family’s annual energy bill, which hits the poor and the elderly the hardest. drastically increases consumer prices with no proven effect on global temperatures.

“Cap and tax compounds the suffering of

so many in this economy, with no scientific evidence whatsoever it helps the environment,” Redpath says. “The research is in and the

PROTESTING FOR THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY: Citizens protest Cap and Trade and out of control government spending at a Fort Lauderdale, Fla., TEA PARTY on July 4, 2009.

economic toll of cap and tax is inescapable. With cap and tax, job losses will rise by an additional 1,105,000 Americans each year. In the worst years, 2,479,000 will lose their jobs annually under cap and tax.”

Studies

suggest electric bills could rise

“There

is never a good time to impose

by an inflation-adjusted 90 percent. The price of gasoline could rise by an inflation-adjusted 74 percent. That would add $1,500 to the average family’s annual energy bill, which hits the poor and the elderly the hardest. The increased costs of energy also force any business using energy to raise their prices, making food, medicine and other essentials more unaffordable. billions of dollars in new taxes on job creators that send consumer prices skyrocketing and job prospects plummeting,” Redpath says. “But in this economy, voting for cap and tax is an easy way to send a member of Congress to an early retirement. Even worse, it has virtually no effect on the environment.”

CRIPPLING U.S. MANUFACTURING

Cap-and-trade is not just going to cost the American people more of their hard earned money, it’s also going to drive up the federal debt. According to the Heritage Foundation, the federal debt would rise to about $30,000 per person by 2035. That means the next generation would see higher energy costs, less income and fewer job prospects, says David Kreutzer, a senior policy analyst in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation, a public policy research institute in Washington, D.C.

“This bill is supposed to be for the benefit

of the next generation,” Kreutzer says. “But cap-and-trade reduces temperatures only five one-hundredths of a degree by 2050. I don’t think I want that deal. My family would owe $115,000 more and it’s not much cooler. What people need to realize is that cap-and-trade works like a tax. This is an energy tax – and it’s a big one. All taxes discourage economic activity.”

w o r k s l i k e a t a x b e c au s e t h e

manufacturers will pass the cost of cap-andtrade on to consumers through higher priced goods. Once again, bad science rules the congress and no thought is given to the law of unintended consequences, according to John Spisak, president of SolaRover, a mobile solar power generation company in Denver. It would seem intuitive that draconian carbon taxes

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hey unanimously voted with their entire party against President Obama’s stimulus bill in February, and did so again in April opposing the President’s debt-laden 2010 budget. Yet these eight Republican House members broke ranks on Friday, awarding victory to the Democrats in narrowly passing the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). For the record, their names are:

Representative Mary Bono Mack (R-CA)

Representative Mike Castle (R-DE)

Representative Leonard Lance (R-NJ)

Representative Mark Steven Kirk (R-IL)

Representative Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ)

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would be great news to the renewable energy industry. However, Spisak says, as with everything government tries to control in the marketplace, the consequences are almost always worse than the original problem. disproportionately on the lowest income people and drive up the price of everything that is manufactured, making the U.S. non-competitive against India and China. In fact, Spisak says to think that these taxes will drive everyone into wind and solar is “folly.” He predicts the prices of all the commodities that go into the development of solar and wind projects – steel, copper wire, glass – will skyrocket making these projects even more expensive.

Carbon brokerages like Evolution Markets and Climate Wedge are poised to benefit if carbon trading becomes the next big trend on Wall Street. Meanwhile, Corporate America is preparing for what many think is the inevitable. Business software firm SAP announced it would acquire Clear Standards, an enterprise carbon management solutions firm, in May. Clear Standards helps organizations accurately measure, optimize and report greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental impacts across internal operations. SAP expects to accelerate its ability to meet the carbon management requirements of organizations in this time of increasingly stringent government regulations and expectations for better transparency by the public.

“There is no guarantee the hypocrisy in

One of the reasons why such potentially

Spisak

s ay s t h e s e t a x e s w i l l fa l l

all of this will stop there – what about bio-diesel and seaweed fuels?” Spisak asks. “These may be enviro-darlings, but they also pour CO2 into the atmosphere when consumed. Will they be taxed just like oil? The U.S. needs a balanced energy mosaic and the playing field needs to be level. Our future depends on it.”

STOPPING CAP-AND-TRADE

The move toward the hidden taxes that are capand-trade didn’t spring up overnight, and the root runs deep into the green movement. Environmental activists have been driving toward this type of sweeping climate legislation for the past 30 years. The goal is to reshape the way America uses energy, according to Andrew M. Langer, President of The Institute for Liberty, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization focused on the impact of federal public policy on small business and entrepreneurship.

“We can stop cap-and-trade. The more we Representative Chris Smith (R-NJ)

Representative John McHugh (R-NY)

Representative Dave Reichert (R-WA)

With a final vote of 219 to 212, they could have buried this bill while saving Americans from dramatically higher energy prices, as well as the certain elimination of many manufacturing jobs. Instead, they voted largely for personal political reasons.

Take action today and call you senator to voice your opinion. Click Here. See the full roll call here.

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raise the issues with moderate Democrats, the more we bring them to our side. We have to make people realize this is not an emotional issue. This is a rational issue and the case is against cap-andtrade for many rational reasons,” Langer says. “When people realize that Enron was the company that came up with the concept of cap-and-trade to create an artificial marketplace of tradable commodities based on nothing, they’ll begin to see the light. Enron collapsed because capand-trade wasn’t the only artificial marketplace they were trying to create, but unfortunately the concept of cap-and-trade lives on.”

What Americans don’t know is that Wall Street is looking to profit from cap-and-trade. More Related Articles Online: Economy

dangerous legislation has gotten so far is ignorance. When Abraham and Lot had so much cattle that the land could no longer support it, they did not enact legislation to restrict the grazing to protect the interests of the environment. In other words, they didn’t violate the covenant to be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it and have dominion. They found another solution. The same holds true of Jacob and Esau after they reunited. These men of God were faithful not to violate the Word of God.

Again, the problem is ignorance. The gap

between Capitol Hill and Main Street is huge when it comes to the so-called “cap-and-trade” legislation being considered in Congress. So wide, in fact, that few voters even know what the proposed legislation is all about, according to a May Rasmussen poll. Given a choice of three options, just 24 percent of voters can correctly identify the cap-and-trade proposal as something that deals with environmental issues. A slightly higher number (29 percent) believe the proposal has something to do with regulating Wall Street while 17 percent think the term applies to health care reform. A plurality (30 percent) have no idea.

God gave man dominion over the earth. Cap-and-trade forces man to submit to the environment. Can you see it? You are no longer ignorant. You see the costs, you see the lack of evidence to support global warming, you see the damage this hidden tax would cause our nation. Now it’s up to you to stand up and speak out. You can get contact information for your Senators here. Take action and stop this bill in the Senate now, or pay more taxes tomorrow.

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DEFEATING DOUBT’S DESTRUCTIVE POWER I

needed a healing. I had several

prayer-answer-track-record is poor, then it gets harder and harder to believe that God wants to answer you the next time you pray. The devil introduces doubtful disputations to your mind. It becomes a vicious cycle that only faith can break.

“medical conditions” in my physical body that manifested in a string of strange ways. The root of it was a whacked out sympathetic nervous system that caused my heart to beat too fast and my blood pressure to rise up to the point that I would become too dizzy to stand. I was taking medications for this “condition” for which there was no cure, and the medications, of course, caused more unwanted symptoms. I needed a healing.

As F.F. Bosworth

When I got saved, someone told me God

could heal people. They told me testimonies of seeing limbs grow out of stubs, blind eyes opening, and other miraculous works. They told me of ministers like Benny Hinn and Oral Roberts. They told me healing is for today. I decided to give it a try. (That was my first mistake. You don’t give God’s Word your best shot. You give it your whole heart.)

asked

G od

to heal me .

N othing

happened. I went to the church to have the elders lay hands on me. Nothing happened. I drove 300 miles to attend a Benny Hinn conference, determined to get my healing. Nothing happened. (Determination alone won’t deliver results. You have to believe from your heart and speak with your mouth over and over again.)

needed a healing, but all

wound

up with was disappointment and that disappointment led me into the death grips of doubt. The devil really had a heyday in my mind. He filled my head with all sorts of doubt; doubts about the truth of healing for today, doubts about God’s ability to heal this rare “condition,” even doubts about my own salvation. Once you entertain one doubt, you invite a ballroom with guests like uncertainty, misgivings, qualms, distrust, suspicion, skepticism and, of course, unbelief. It’s time to crash the party with your faith and send those rascals home so you can see God move in your life.

said , ‘ believe your

beliefs and not your doubts.’ But make sure you’re believing God’s Word without wavering. There have been mountains of books written on mountain-moving faith. We won’t review all those truths here. What I want you to see in this section is why your prayers ultimately go unanswered.

Assuming you are asking (the Bible says

The subtle voice of doubt could be robbing your prayer answers, your

– and your destiny.

healing

you have not because you ask not) and assuming you aren’t asking so you can consume it upon your lusts, and assuming you are praying in line with God’s will, the reason you are not getting prayer answers is because you are believing your doubts instead of believing your beliefs. You are believing the circumstances instead of believing the Word of God. You are believing what you see with your eyes rather than what you hear by the Word.

Maybe

Your

By Jennifer LeClaire BREAKING DOUBT’S VICIOUS CYCLE My healing testimony is one example of how the doubting devil sets us up: If you’ve been praying for the same thing for years and you haven’t received an answer, or if your More Related Articles Online: Faith and Prayer

you don’t even know what the

Word says about your situation, so you don’t have a Scripture to hang your faith on in prayer. If we pray according to God’s will, we know that He hears us and we can believe that He will answer us (1 John 5:14-15). Doubt comes in when we aren’t sure what the will of God is. prayers aren’t getting answered

because you are wavering from faith to doubt to unbelief to fear to faith to doubt to unbelief to fear – it’s that vicious cycle we talked about earlier. It can only be broken by unwavering faith. Faith that refuses to doubt God’s Word no matter what your physical body or your soul screams. What forces the devil to flee? Faith that arises from your spirit because you’ve

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sowed the Word in your heart and spoken it out of your mouth with conviction.

believe you’ve got it before you get it. But if you doubt you’ve got it – if you’re like Doubting Thomas and demand to see it before you believe it – you’ll never get it.

“If any of you is deficient in wisdom,

let him ask of the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him. Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind. For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord.” (James 1:5-7 AMP)

mountain that faith can move. But why create a mountain of doubt to begin with? Doubts will come, but why use it as evidence to build a case against the Word of God? Faith is the evidence of things hoped for, and your expectation shall not be cut off (Proverbs 23:18). If you believe you receive and refuse to back down from what the Word says, you will see the promise manifest.

finally did receive my healing.

got my healing by meditating

like this verse .

Y ou

could put

any Bible promise in place of the word “wisdom” in that verse and it would still ring true. If any of you lack – provision. If any of you lack – healing. If any of you lack – peace. If any of you lack – whatever you lack God is willing to provide all of your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus. But He doesn’t respond to your needs. And He certainly doesn’t respond to your doubts. He responds to your unwavering faith. The storms will come, but they won’t blow you hither and thither if your faith is unwavering.

you don’t doubt

It’s been said that doubt makes the

God’s Word

whatever storm you find yourself in, you can simply cast the care, take care of your responsibility in the matter, and take a nap like Jesus did (Matthew 8:23-27).

DOUBT WILL DESTROY YOUR PRAYER LIFE The Apostle Paul used doubt and wrath in the same breath when he gave his spiritual son Timothy instructions for godly behavior. “I desire therefore that in every place men should pray, without anger or quarreling or resentment or doubt [in their minds], lifting up holy hands” (1 Timothy 2:59 AMP). Resentment, quarrelling and anger will hinder your prayer life – but doubt will destroy it.

You don’t have to take my word for it,

but you do have to take the Word for it. Jesus said, “Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall

Do you want to know how? It wasn’t in a prayer line; it wasn’t by calling the elders to anoint me with oil and pray for me. There’s nothing wrong with having a point of contact with God and I encourage the laying on of hands. But that’s not how I got my healing. It wasn’t from a conference. It wasn’t from a TV show.

Build up your faith in whatever area you are believing for before you pray. Get that truth in you solidly before you release your prayer. Then stand on His Word and defy doubt. believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith” (Mark 11:23).

Would

it be fair, then, to read it this

way?: Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; but shall doubt in his heart, and not believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall not have whatsoever he saith. Indeed, it is fair. That’s the message Jesus is trying to get across. You’ve got to More Related Articles Online: Faith and Prayer

on what the Word of God says about healing. By confessing healing Scriptures out of my very own mouth. By praying in the Spirit to build up my most holy faith. By pleading the blood of Jesus. By thanking God that His Word is true. By faith and patience. And, at the same time, by casting down imaginations when symptoms would arise. By binding up those symptoms in the name of Jesus. By resisting the devil. By fighting the power of doubt and unbelief until the devil got so tired of hearing the truth come out of my mouth that he fled seven ways. Ha! You can do the same.

Build

up your faith in whatever area

are believing for before you pray. Get that truth in you solidly before you release your prayer. Then stand on His Word and defy doubt. Whatever things you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive (Matthew 21:22). you

This article was excerpted from Jennifer’s new book, “Doubtless: Faith that Overcomes the World.” You can order it online at www.nextlevelprophetic.com.

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od has not given us a spirit of

fear. So why do we fear? Where did fear first manifest in the soul of man? Like many other problems that plague mankind today, fear can be traced all the way back to the Garden of Eden. Fear’s first manifestation comes shortly before Adam’s fall from dominion. In fact, it had a role to play in Eve’s poor judgment. If we read Genesis Chapter 3 through that lens, we find a perspective on fear we may never have considered – and one that may positively impact our lives.

Indeed, by taking a fresh look at Genesis

3 we’ll see that fear first entices us not to trust God with its subtle whispers. If we act on that distrust, a different flavor of fear follows as a result of our disobedience. This destructive cycle continues as fear attempts to keep us from taking responsibility for that disobedience so it can continue to torment our unrepentant souls. Fear doesn’t fight fair. I see it as the enemy’s wickedest strategy of all. I am convinced that fear is the master spirit the devil uses to steal, kill and destroy. It is a perversion of faith and it seeks to discredit the love of God at every turn. Without a revelation of the love of God, we cannot mature to the full stature of Christ.

Tracing fear to its roots – and pulling it out by the power of the Holy Ghost. By Jennifer LeClaire

So let’s go back to the very beginning and

look at fear’s first manifestation. We learn in Genesis 3:1 that the serpent (through whom the devil was speaking) was subtler than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. He demonstrated that subtlety with his clever interrogation of Eve. “Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?” the serpent asked. Eve told the serpent she and Adam were permitted to eat of the from any tree except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If they ate from that tree, she explained, they would die.

Fear Challenges God’s Will

The serpent wasted no time in challenging God’s Word in Eve’s life. “You shall not surely die,” he said. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:5). The Bible doesn’t reveal what was going on in Eve’s mind, and there are many layers of revelation about the fall of man and the circumstances leading up to it. But I submit to you that fear played into the equation of Eve’s fateful decision.

Eve feared that God’s plan, God’s will,

God’s commandment, might not really be the

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best thing for her and her husband. Eve feared that God was holding out on the young couple. Eve feared she would miss out on something good if she took God at HisWord. That fear of missing out clouded her judgment to the point that she never considered the consequences of following another voice. Eve’s sin was ultimately unbelief. But it was fear that led her to doubt’s doorway and into that sinful realm of unbelief. The Bible says whatever is not of faith is sin (Romans 14:23). Eve’s decision was not of faith. In other words, her choice was not based on believing the Word of God. It was based on what I call the “fear of.”

Most people have a “fear of” something,

but most people don’t have a “fear of ” everything. It is possible to be full of faith in one area and full of fear in another. I speak from experience. Many American, red-haired, freckle-faced women would “fear” traveling to a Muslim nation alone. Some would fear glacier flying in a tiny plane in Alaska. Others would fear speaking to congressional representatives on Capitol Hill about the need to stand with Israel against its enemies. I did all of that and feared none of it. But I had a “fear of ” other things that caused me not to embrace God’s master plan for my life for years – and I didn’t even know it. Remember, the serpent was subtler than any best of the field the Lord God had made. His master weapon, fear, is often just as subtle. It has to be. Once we can see it, we can defeat it by deciding to believe the Word of God rather than the word of the devil.

Saul’s Fearful Fate

But let’s get back to Adam and Eve. We see that Eve’s fear of God keeping something good from her caused her to disobey God. Let’s strip out the storytelling and say it this way: Fear leads you into disobedience. Need another witness? Fear caused Saul to disobey God’s established priestly authority. King Saul’s fall occurred just before what looked to be a fierce battle between the Israelites and their archenemy, the Philistines. The Philistines gathered themselves to fight with Israel, with 30,000 chariots, 6,000 horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude (1 Samuel 13:5). The Bible says the Israelites were distressed and even trembling with fear.

Saul had his orders. The Prophet Samuel

had instructed him to wait there for seven days. Samuel was going to fulfill the priestly duty of sacrificing to God before the battle. Seven days came and went and Samuel didn’t show up at

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Gilgal. Saul’s army began to give into the fear and scatter. That’s when fear led Saul into disobedience. Instead of waiting for Samuel to show up, Saul took matters into his own hands and offered the burnt offering himself. Wouldn’t you know it? Just as soon as he’d finished his act of fearful disobedience, Samuel showed up asking for an explanation. As the story goes, Saul admitted he was fearful. Samuel called him foolish and told him his kingdom would not continue. Ouch!

the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve had new knowledge alright, but it wasn’t the pleasant experience they may have expected. The first revelation they had was that they were naked, and they were ashamed. They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves clothes. Suddenly, they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Adam and Eve hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.

Fear’s Failing Excuses

Adam and Eve lost their kingship because

Why

wanted to know. “And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself ” (Genesis 3:10).

perfection or they would have simply confessed their sin and received forgiveness. Do you know what? I believe God would have forgiven their sin and cleansed them from all unrighteousness. But instead of admitting to God what happened and repenting, fear led them into another sin: blame.

Adam

Listen to how Adam responded when the

Eve bowed to the “fear of.” Likewise, Saul lost his kingship because he gave in to the “fear of.” What about you? How is fear robbing you from the fullness of your kingship? Thank God we are in a time of grace. God is not going to strip us of our kingship for falling into the disobedience based on fear if we repent.

Is Fear Robbing Your Kingship?

But that leads me to the next strategy of fear: irresponsibility. The same fear that tempted us to disobey will also try to convince us to blame the disobedience on another person or on circumstances. In that way, fear attempts to keep us from repenting so that we continue to walk in darkness instead of seeing the light. Fear, then, continues to have its way. And fear’s way is torment.

Let me show you this pattern in the Word.

We see it with Adam, Eve and Saul. Let’s begin at the beginning with Adam. Shortly after eating

did they hide ?

That’s

what

admitted he was afraid.

Why

God

else

would you hide? One definition of “hide” is to “seek protection or evade responsibility.” Both made up Adam’s motivation. He knew all too well he had disobeyed his Creator. He knew he blew it. He didn’t want to face the living God because he wasn’t sure what God would do to him. He knew God had the power to give life, and he probably knew God had the power to take it. But Adam’s response to God shows me that Adam and Eve didn’t really know the heart of God. They didn’t really understand His nature or His character. If they really knew Him, they wouldn’t have been so quick to disobey His command, which was for their own good, and then hide in fear.

If they really knew Him, they wouldn’t have been so quick to disobey His command, which was for their own good, and then hide in fear.

How do I know that? Because the Bible says: “There is no fear in love [dread does not exist], but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and [so] he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love [is not yet grown into love’s complete perfection]” (1 John 4:18 AMP).

Adam and Eve had not grown into love’s

Lord asked Adam and Even how they came to eat the forbidden fruit: “And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat” (Genesis 3:12-13).

Adam

and

Eve

lost their kingship, were

expelled from the garden by the mercy of God, and failed to fulfill God’s master plan for their lives. What was that master plan? To be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth (Genesis 1:28). In other words, to use that blessing to turn the whole earth into the Garden of Eden.

Fear

also led

Saul

to make excuses for

his disobedience. When Samuel asked Saul why he had offered the sacrifice, something kings were not anointed to do, he answered: “Because I saw that the people were scattered from me, and that thou camest not within the days appointed, and that the Philistines gathered themselves together at Michmash; Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering” (1 Samuel 13:11-12).

Notice Saul

said he

“forced

himself ”

because Samuel didn’t show up on time. Saul had the unmitigated gall to blame Samuel for his disobedience. Why? Because Saul knew he blew it and he was scared. Fear led him into disobedience and fear caused him to shirk the

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Our will power alone is no match for the spirit of fear, but the Spirit of Truth is more than capable throwing fear to the mat and keeping it down for the count. responsibility to avoid punishment. But by shirking the responsibility, I believe Saul brought upon himself a greater punishment. We have to remember that God is slow to anger and abounding in mercy. He is long-suffering and kind. He doesn’t keep His anger for ever. I believe if Saul had taken a repentant attitude about his mistake, he could have held on to his kingship. Instead, fear besmirched his legacy.

Fighting Off the Spirit of Fear

What about your legacy? Will you stand in the face of fear no matter what form it takes? Or will you allow this wicked spirit to outmaneuver you? We must learn to recognize fear at its onset – and we have to overcome or it will overcome us. Maybe you are like me. Maybe you’ve had some run ins with fear that almost took you out of God’s will. Or maybe you’ve failed to receive God’s promises because fear’s subtle voice caused you to doubt He’d do it for you. Or maybe fear manifests through anger, stress or some other emotion. Make no mistake, fear is at the root of many of our ungodly thoughts and feelings.

So how do we overcome fear? Well, the

Bible says God has not given us a spirit of fear, but He has given us three things to combat it. He’s

given us power, He has given us His love, and He has given us a sound mind. Here’s what the Lord showed me: We overcome fear with the power of the Holy Ghost. It’s with this power that we resist fear and cause it to flee. Our will power alone is no match for the spirit of fear, but the Spirit of Truth is more than capable throwing fear to the mat and keeping it down for the count. God has given us His power, His authority, His anointing. It’s up to us to use it in the face of fear.

Likewise, God has given us His love. God’s

love is perfect. It’s the revelation of this love that casts out fear and its torment. When you begin to feel fear (nobody ever said you wouldn’t feel fear but that doesn’t mean we have to act on it) begin to confess God’s love for you. Remind yourself of God’s perfect love for you and you will trade your anxiety for the peace of God that passes all understanding. Finally, God has given us a sound mind. I like to look at it this way: God has given us the sound mind of Christ. Christ feared nothing. The world has tribulation, but we aren’t supposed to fear. We are supposed to be of good cheer because Christ overcame the world. We have the mind of Christ, and this is the victory that overcomes the world – and the fear that runs rampant through it – our faith.

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ASSAULT ON THE 2

Obama

Pelosi

Kerry

By John Velleco

The Obama administration and Congressional leaders are on a crusade to destroy the Second Amendment. F ueled by a violence-obsessed media, politicians are blaming American firearms for killings by lawless Mexico drug cartels, and they are pushing for sweeping new gun control laws that will punish law-abiding gun owners in the U.S. During a recent trip to Mexico, President Obama pledged to stop the “southern flow of guns.”

“As [Mexican President Filipe] Calderón and I discussed, I am

urging the Senate in the United States to ratify an inter-American treaty known as CIFTA to curb small arms trafficking that is a source of so many of the weapons used in this drug war,” said President Obama in Mexico City.

AMENDMENT

The CIFTA

treaty, officially titled the

“Inter-

American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives, and Other Related Materials,” was signed by President Bill Clinton, but never ratified by the Senate.

Supporters of the treaty hope the large Democrat

majority in the Senate will lead to a quick vote for ratification. But while proponents claim the treaty is not a threat to the Second Amendment, GOA warns Congress that approval of CIFTA will be an abrogation of its duty to uphold the Constitution.

Holder

Mora

ratified and the

U.S.

is found not to be in

compliance with any provisions of the treaty – such as a provision that could outlaw reloading ammunition without a government license – Obama would be empowered to implement regulations without Congressional approval.

Obama is not alone in pressing for more gun control, and more than an anti-gun treaty is on the table. (Visit www.gunowners.org to get the facts about how the treaty could affect your gun rights.)

At congressional hearings in El Paso, Texas, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-MA) called for another ban on semi-automatic firearms and to take aggressive action in the U.S.

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Pelosi’s

comments give a strong boost to

H.R. 45,

draconian gun owner registration and licensing bill introduced in Congress by Chicago-based Representative Bobby Rush.

THE NEW PROPAGANDA MACHINE

The frenzy to pass more gun control is being driven by a misinformation campaign that would have made Joseph Goebbels proud. “More than 90 percent of the guns found in Mexico are not bought [in Mexico], but in the United States,” President Obama said during his Mexico trip.

That 90 percent number has been echoed by the media and anti-gun politicians on both sides of the border thousands of times, leading many people to accept it as fact.

However, William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott set the record straight in a FOXNews.com report. “It’s just not true,” they said.

According

to their report, the

Mexican

government

Gun control laws do not reduce crime rates in the U.S. and it is absurd for politicians to suggest that restricting the gun rights of Americans will have any impact on the Mexico situation.

sends to American authorities only those firearms that might have been in commerce in the U.S. The majority of crime guns recovered in Mexico are never sent to the U.S. for tracing.

Senator Kerry,

For example, according to the FOX report, many of the 150,000

giving the impression that gun dealers here

are as much a problem as the cartels, wants Mexican authorities to work with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to “identify and shut down the sellers, who are almost always on our side of the border.”

Sen. Diane Feinstein is also aggressively pushing for the renewal of the Clinton gun ban, using Mexico as her excuse. “I am prepared to wage the assault weapons battle again and I intend to do so,” Sen. Feinstein told America from the Senate floor.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder

took his seat on

the “blame America” bandwagon. “[T]here are just a few gunrelated changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstitute the ban on the sale of assault weapons. I think that will have a positive impact in Mexico, at a minimum,” Holder said.

And

a s i f ba n n i n g g u n s a n d e n t e r i n g i n t o a n

international gun control treaty is not enough, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi offered up her own gun control proposal: “We want [firearms] registered,” Pelosi told Robin Roberts on ABC’s Good Morning America. More Related Articles Online: Culture & Politics

Of the firearms traced by the U.S. in 2007-2008, only about half

were done so successfully. Of that number, 90 percent were traced to this country. That amounts to about 17 percent of the total number of crime guns that are confiscated by Mexican authorities, a far cry from the 90 percent touted by the Obama administration. And even that number is inflated. Many firearms are sent to the Mexico government legitimately in shipments approved by U.S. authorities, but these guns often are filtered to the cartels through disaffected military personnel in Mexico. Mexican soldiers who deserted the Army in the last six years took their weapons with them.

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check, when they can buy boatloads of fully automatic M-16s and assault rifles from China, Israel or South Africa?”

potentially could get caught in the crossfire?... The United States will not surrender our Second Amendment rights for Mexico’s border problem.”

The Los Angeles Times

Mexican

reported in

March

that the cartels

often use weapons not even available at U.S. gun stores, smuggling them through “Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors.”

The

cartels also evade the law through corruption in the

Mexican government. An article in the New York Times late last year noted that, “One of Mexico’s most notorious drug cartels made huge cash payments [$150,000 to $450,000 each] to officials in the Mexican attorney general’s office in exchange for confidential information on anti-drug operations…. The cartel might have had an informant inside the American embassy.”

Gun control laws do not reduce crime rates in the U.S. and it is absurd for politicians to suggest that restricting the gun rights of Americans will have any impact on the Mexico situation.

Actually, gun control proposals such as reinstating the ban on semi-automatic firearms will make Americans less safe, especially if violence spills over to this side of the border.

As pro-gun Wyoming Senator John Barasso pointed out during

the El Paso congressional trip: “Why would you disarm someone when they

authorities like

President Calderón

and

Attorney

General Eduardo Medina Mora have their hands full with corruption and violence in their own country, but they continue to call on the U.S. to change its gun laws.

Mr. Mora

even lectured that

“The Second Amendment

was

never meant to arm foreign criminal groups.” Outrageously, many shameful American office holders who swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution are all too eager to bow to the wishes of “blame America first” foreign politicians.

All three gun control proposals – ratifying the CIFTA treaty, renewing the Clinton gun ban and registering all gun owners – will do nothing to combat the violence in Mexico, but will go a long way toward eroding our Second Amendment rights. John Velleco is a leading expert on the politics and legislative history of gun control. On staff with Gun Owners of America since 1993, John currently serves as the organization’s Director of Federal Affairs. His responsibilities keep him on Capitol Hill on a regular basis, and he has also appeared on various news programs on NBC, ABC, FOX, CNN and C-Span.

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TEACHING

U. S. GOVERNMENT RIGHT Our children should not be taught to “trust and parrot.” By Dr. Arthur Robinson

s our children go through life, they will continually

interact with government. Under present conditions in the United States, government will confiscate about half of everything they ever earn – through direct taxes on their wages and taxes on the people and institutions with whom they conduct business. Government regulations and bureaucrats will limit their activities in business, recreation, home life, and even in the exercise of their Christian faith. Government may draft them to fight in war. Virtually every newspaper they read will be filled with reports of the actions of federal, state, and local government.

C learly ,

our homeschools must teach children about

government. This education is complicated by the fact that we have essentially two classes of governments – the ones that Americans have agreed to under the federal Constitution and Bill of Rights, state constitutions, and local charters and the ones that we live under, which

are quite different. Perpetuated by now vast bureaucracies and often unprincipled politicians, these governments have assumed roles that are not specified or permitted by agreement with the people. This second class – the government we have today – continually spends vast resources “educating” the people with propaganda activities. About which class of government should we teach our children? The practical answer must be both.

LEARNING FROM ORIGINAL WRITINGS

In the early years of homeschooling, education about American government can be restricted largely to the study of history. The minds of children who are still too young to comprehend the details of government documents can learn the underlying concepts through the eyes of those who created them. This can be done by studying appropriate history books or by reading biographies, autobiographies, and other writings about and by those who created our government. I much prefer the teaching of history through autobiographies.

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keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions

in the conduct of the British ministry for the last 10 years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss.

of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is

the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been

comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort. ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its

purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing.

We have held the subject up in every light

of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted?

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us not ,

beseech you , sir , deceive

ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne!

In vain, after these things, may we indulge

the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending â&#x20AC;&#x201C; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our More Related Articles Online: History

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Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. contest shall be obtained â&#x20AC;&#x201C; we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!

They

tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so

formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot?

Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a

just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to

desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry,

Peace, Peace, but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! More Related Articles Online: History

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THE LAW OF EMPOWERMENT By Dr. John C. Maxwell

iographers universally agree that

personal insecurity factored heavily in the downfall of former American President Richard Nixon. Rather than empowering others, President Nixon clutched at power so tightly that he lost all sense of morality and ethics. Obsessively fearing his critics, Nixon authorized a domestic espionage group to spy on his political opponents. When members of the group

were caught burglarizing the Watergate Hotel, Nixon tried unsuccessfully to cover up the incident. Eventually he resigned in shame, having left a dubious legacy of scandal.

Nixon’s

behavior in office violated the

Law of Empowerment: Only Secure Leaders Give Power to Others.

Today, at a time when managers must do

more with less – less people, less budget, less margin for error – leaders have no choice but to empower followers to share the load. Insecurity simply isn’t compatible with survival. Even so, human nature resists empowerment. Let’s look at three common tendencies that make empowerment a tricky task.

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THE THREE OBSTACLES TO EMPOWERMENT 1. DESIRE FOR JOB SECURITY

The number one enemy of empowerment is the desire for job security. Weak leaders worry that they will become expendable if they train up talented subordinates. As a result, they retain a monopoly on select knowledge in the hopes of positioning themselves as irreplaceable. Some misguided leaders even go as far as undercutting those they perceive as potential rivals. Not wanting to be surpassed, they intentionally make others look bad from time to time.

The purpose of power is to be distributed, not hoarded, but only secure leaders are able to give their power away. Recognize and resist the natural inclinations to keep a tight grip on power. In the long run, you’ll be rewarded for letting go. Insecure

leaders who prize job security

are fiercely territorial. They stake out their turf and refuse to delegate. They want to be the goto-guys so badly that they may senselessly refuse to train and empower others who could offer them assistance.

The

truth is that the only way to make

yourself indispensable is to make yourself dispensable. In other words, if you are continually able to empower others and develop them so that they become capable of taking over your job, then you will become so valuable to the organization that you become indispensable.

2. RESISTANCE TO CHANGE

Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck asserted, “It is the nature of man as he grows older to protect against change, particularly change for the better.” By its very nature, empowerment brings constant change in that it encourages people to grow and innovate. Change is the price of progress.

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Insecure leaders view change as a threat

rather than an opportunity. They fear change rather than inviting it. As a consequence, insecure leaders have been known to act coldly toward newcomers. They cling to the established order and generally resent anyone who may disrupt it. Instead of empowering incoming personnel, they avoid working with them.

3. LACK OF SELF-WORTH

Many people derive personal value and esteem from their title or position. When either is threatened, they feel as if their self-worth is under assault. Accordingly, they will firmly resist anyone or anything that could reduce their status.

On the other hand, author Buck Rogers

says, “To those who have confidence in themselves, change is a stimulus because they believe one person can make a difference and influence what goes on around them. These people are the doers and the motivators.” They are also the empowerers.

Enlarging others makes you larger. The

purpose of power is to be distributed, not hoarded, but only secure leaders are able to give their power away. Recognize and resist the natural inclinations to keep a tight grip on power. In the long run, you’ll be rewarded for letting go.

I’ll close with a quotation on empowerment from decorated war hero and former vice presidential candidate, James B. Stockdale:

“Leadership must be based on goodwill... It means obvious and wholehearted commitment to helping followers... What we need for leaders are men of heart who are so helpful that they, in effect, do away with the need of their jobs. But leaders like that are never out of a job, never out of followers. Strange as it sounds, great leaders gain authority by giving it away.”

This article is used by permission from Dr. John C. Maxwell’s free monthly e-newsletter, ‘Leadership Wired’ available at www.injoy.com. Dr. John C. Maxwell is the founder and chairman of The INJOY Group he created to partner with people by helping them to maximize their personal and leadership potential. He is an expert on leadership, speaking to more than 250,000 people a year on growth, leadership and personal development.

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THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY Judge Andrew Naplitano Shares How We Can Re-establish Freedom in America Again.

udge Andrew Napolitano is a freedom fighter, a libertyseeker, and a straight shooter. He’s the youngest lifetenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey, the host of Fox’s Freedom Watch show, and the author of four books, including “Constitutional Chaos,” “The Constitution in Exile,” “A Nation of Sheep” and his latest effort “Dred Scott’s Revenge.” Napolitano understands that our personal, civil, financial and religious liberties are under attack – and he understands what true freedom is. When you want insight into how to turn our country around, the judge is among the best people to ask. The Voice magazine sat down with the judge to discuss his new book, “Dred Scott’s Revenge,” as well as the roots of big government in America, and some practical measures ‘we the people’ can take to fight for liberty and justice for all.

THE VOICE: In “Dred Scott’s Revenge” you address the role of the government and the denial of freedoms based on race. What did you learn about true freedom while writing that book? JUDGE NAPOLITANO: I learned some uncomfortable truths. The country was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. Our rights are inalienable and they come from God. Jefferson wedded to the national soul the idea of the natural law, which basically says our rights come from our humanity. We are created by God in His image and likeness and since He is perfectly free we are perfectly free. And that doesn’t depend upon the consent of the government or even the consent of our neighbors. Your right to think as you wish, to say what you think, to write what you say, to travel where you want, your right to be left alone,

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your right to worship, your right to personal intimacy, these are as natural to you as the fingers on the ends of your hand.

pursuit of happiness in the Declaration of Independence – the same generation that wrote in the Constitution that no person shall be denied life, liberty or property without due process of law – changed that for a class of people based on the color of their skin. They preached natural law and enforced it for themselves, but followed positivism for blacks.

The opposite of this view is called positivism. Positivism is the ugly school of law that says the law is whatever the law giver says it is. So if an Adolf Hitler is validly elected, and if his Reichstag validly enacts racial purity laws, those are valid laws that may be enforced. Now you may think that can’t happen here. Well, of course, it did happen here. That was the lesson of Dred Scott’s Revenge. One of the first pieces of legislation that the father of our country, George Washington, signed was the Fugitive Slave Law which said that any white person or any free black in the North could kidnap a runaway slave with impunity and return the slave to the slave’s owner for a reward. And that to knowingly allow a slave to escape or to help a slave to escape made you liable to the owner of the slave.

So the very same generation that said “all men are created equal” and are endowed by

their creator with certain inalienable rights and that among them is life, liberty and the

Now you might say, “This was 200 years ago. Could it happen again?” There are some dark clouds on the horizon. Dred Scott himself was born a slave in Virginia and he was taken to Illinois by his masters where he claimed that he was free and he filed a lawsuit demanding the court to recognize his freedom. Ten years later, because he moved around from master to master and the lawsuit followed him around wherever he went, he ends up before the Supreme Court of the United States. The Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott case could have said “once a slave always a slave” it could also have said “once set free you are forever free.” Instead it came down with the most horrific resolution

VOICE OF FREEDOM: Judge Napolitano lecturing on constitutional issues at a Foundation for Freedom Institute conference.

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What’s the lesson for all of this? The lesson is that when the government fails to protect the natural law, when it fails to protect our natural rights, when it thinks it can take our rights away from us by a simple act of legislation or a command from the president....” – Judge

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in the 1600s to the election of Barak Obama as president of the United States. THE VOICE: What can we do as Americans for fight for liberty in an era of big government? What can “we the people” practically do?

Napolitano possible when it said that we can’t hear this case because Dred Scott is not a person and only persons may file lawsuits. So black people in America were obviously not persons. They were not intended to be under the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. Now this ruling enabled legislature in the North to enslave free blacks because they were no longer persons. You may say, “This was 1857 and that’s not going to happen in our lifetime.” But it did in Roe vs. Wade when the Supreme Court said that babies in the womb (we refuse to call them babies we call them fetuses because that sounds less human) are not persons and therefore, (A) no one can sue on their behalf, and (B) they have no legal rights, so (C) they may be murdered up to the moment of birth. What’s the lesson for all of this? The lesson is that when the government fails to protect the natural law, when it fails to protect our natural rights, when it thinks it can take our rights away from us by a simple act of legislation or a command from the president, or an opinion from a court, then we have lost everything that we stand for including our humanity. Dred Scott’s Revenge is the analysis of this through the prism of race, through what happened to African Americans from the slave trade

JUDGE NAPOLITANO: The easy thing is to vote these people out of office, but they were just elected. The Obama folks were just elected with a huge majority. It wasn’t just the Obama folks that got us here. It started with both parties. If you really want to know when this started, it started with Abraham Lincoln. Because Abraham Lincoln enacted illegal income tax, fought an illegal war, and arrested people because they disagreed with him. After Lincoln was dead you would need a permit from Washington to have a carriage go across the street or build a house if you were in a southern state. So it goes way back. But George W. Bush in the Patriot Act destroyed our rights to privacy by letting federal agents write their own search warrants. The TARP program destroyed freedom of contract and destroyed the freedom to fail by borrowing money from the Chinese so that the government could bail them out. Barak Obama in the legislation and the executive orders he has issued has destroyed freedom of contract and has also destroyed the freedom to fail and is thus destroying free enterprise as we know it. It’s not likely these people, if voted out of office, would be replaced by people that disagree with

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them because its just a Republican version of big government vs. a Democrat version of big government. People like Ron Paul who understand the natural law, who understand the footprint that the constitution lays out for the federal government, who respect that footprint – Jefferson called it chains outside where the federal government

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nose at the leaders of the Republican Party and win Republican primaries, or they need to run as third-party candidates. Until enough people like that get in the government, this is only going to get worse. Jefferson himself predicted that in the long run government always grows and freedom is always diminished. A sad prediction, but true. THE VOICE: Indeed. Hopefully, this interview will inspire some folks to rally around candidates who are for smaller government and for the rights of the people and the states.

The Verdict: Judge Napolitano delivers his analysis about the Obama administration’s expansion of Federal Reserve’s powers.

“People need to run for office who believe in freedom and they either need to thumb their nose at the leaders of the Republican Party and win Republican primaries, or they need to run as third party candidates.” Judge Napolitano

can’t go – people like that need to get into the government. But candidly Jennifer, people like that don’t get into the government. People that think like you and I do typically don’t run for office. Most people run for office because they like the government, they like to exercise power and they want to control other people’s lives. Only Ron Paul and Barry Goldwater publically stated that ‘I’m running for office because I want to shrink the government.’ There are some practical things we can do, but they are nearly impossible. If we got rid of the 16th amendment we would starve the government. That would bring it to its normal size because that would deny it the

right to tax our incomes. If we got rid of the 17th amendment that would allow state legislatures to elect senators and then the senators would be very loyal to the states that sent them. Otherwise they would lose their jobs they covet so much and they wouldn’t enact legislation that impaired state sovereignty. But amending the Constitution is difficult and cumbersome. It’s been done 27 times but usually in areas that the public didn’t care about or overwhelmingly and ardently wanted. So the bottom line answer to your question is people need to run for office who believe in freedom and they either need to thumb their More Exclusive Interviews Online: Interviews

JUDGE NAPOLITANO: You know one of the things to do is to understand the natural law. A lot of my conservative colleagues supported the Patriot Act because they thought that it kept us safe. It’s a big argument as to whether giving up your freedoms keeps you safe. I would argue that it doesn’t. But when you think about it, it is a simple piece of legislation that lets federal agents violate the Constitution. If the American people understood that, there would be no Patriot Act. I myself have spoken to members of Congress who said to me ‘I didn’t know the Patriot Act let federal agents write their own law, their own search warrants. I would never have voted for it if I knew that.’ Then I ask them a question that I already know the answer to. “Did you read it before you voted for it?” The answer is no. What did they read? They read the summary. Who prepared the summary? The summary was prepared by the Justice Department. Well the Justice Department wants these powers. They are not going to tell what they are. So, (A) we have a government that doesn’t respect the constitution, (B) we have a government that assaults the constitution, (C) we have a government that assaults the Constitution without even understanding what it’s doing to assault the Constitution, and (D) we have less freedom with every tick of the clock. But when people understand the natural law, understand the dangers of positivism, understand how dangerous a government can be when it can write any law, address any problem, enact any remedy, it’s a step in the right direction. Understanding is always a step in the right direction.

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Columna Cinco Veces Ministerio

Discipulado Contra Evangelismo

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POR DAVID COKER

amas y Caballeros en la esquina derecha, pesando

2 toneladas, el que provee las necesidades, proveedor de cuidados y que dice oraciones por los pecadores, el campeón mundial de pesos pesados… EVANGELISMO y a la izquierda, con 50 lbs., pero midiendo 40 pies de alto, el constructor de liderazgo, retador de gente, cargador de visión…DISCIPULADO

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Uso humor para introducir este tópico.

Porque es aterrador como desbalanceado el cuerpo de Cristo se ha convertido La mayoría de las Iglesias se centran en una de estos dos campeones del mundo. Algunas Iglesias viven para evangelizar mientras otras se dedican a discipular. Terminan 100 millas de ancho y 1 pulgada de profundo O’ 40 pulgadas de profundo y 1” de ancho. El reto viene cuando tratas de hacer los dos. Dios ha diseñado a su Iglesia para tener un balance! Muchos pastores luchan con: entreno a la gente que tengo, retándolos a que avancen o enfoco en traer a más gente nueva y dejo que las cosas resbalen? Hacer ambas cosas es dificultoso.

Cuando

empiezas a hacer a la gente

responsable y seguidores disciplinados de Dios, el lado evangelistico de la iglesia se disgusta pensando que has herido a los que han traído. Enfoca en evangelismo y terminaras con una iglesia llena de gente que no paga su diezmo ni sus deudas, ni viven vidas santas. De alguna manera debemos encontrar un balance, una estructura que pueda soportar ambos discipulado y evangelismo.

pastor administrativo cría reses .

Recientemente una de sus vacas tuvo gemelos. Los gemelos parecían y actuaban muy diferente. Uno de ellos era salvaje, corriendo a través de la cerca cada vez que alguien se acercaba (parece evangelistico no es así?) Mientras el otro era más pegado a la madre (como un buen discípulo). Sin embargo la misma madre fue capaz de criar ambos terneros. Cualquier vaquero que ha criado gemelos te dirá que no todas las vacas pueden tolerar esto. Usualmente el ternero más agresivo crece grande y el otro se queda atrás. Aun cuando la madre tiene suficiente leche para ambos, ella pierde mucho peso para dar un soporte efectivo.

Como ministro, puedo

relacionarme con

la vaca Dios ha llamado a la Iglesia a ser madre de gemelos y como los terneros el más agresivo toma más leche. Muchos ministros se han dado por vencidos. Debido a dolor, frustración y soledad muchos ministros caen en un modo de sobrevivencia. Ellos han tratado evangelismo y fueron golpeados porque su estructura no era diseñada para discipular aquellos a los cuales alcanzaron. Otros trataron discipulado y la gente se fue porque no fueron capaces de ser responsables. Algunas veces ministros tratan de

4:16 Dios dice que cada articulación suple. El crecimiento del cuerpo descansa en las articulaciones y no solamente en el ministro!

El Nuevo Testamento

se refiere a la

Déjame decirte algo. Dios te ha llamado

debemos de desarrollar la

DAVID COKER es un Graduado de la clase de 1985 de Rhema Bible College, y el Apostol de Gateway Believer’s Fellowship in Car nesville, Ga. Tambien es el fundador de la Red de Breakthrough Apostolic Ministries (B.A.M.). El se puedo encontrar a www. gatewaybelievers.com.

gran comisión diferentemente en Marcos y en Mateos. En Marcos dice que “vayan a todo el mundo y hagan discípulos,” Mateos dice “prediquen el Evangelio a todas las naciones, bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre, del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo.” Dios nunca quiso que la Iglesia escogiera uno o el otro. El nos llamo a ser un cuerpo estructurado por un crecimiento constante a través de evangelismo y crecimiento espiritual a través de discipulado.

Nosotros

estructura de la Iglesia para que soporten ambos discipulado y evangelismo. Muchas veces los pastores tienen una nueva “iniciativa” para la iglesia, pero para implementar efectivamente la estrategia de Dios en la gran comisión se requiere una iglesia con una estructura con peso en equipos guiados por una visión. No solamente nuevas iniciativas. En Efesios wwww.thevoicemagazine.com

a conquistar ambos. Donde el Señor te guía El provee! Si tú sientes que tu pastor esta solo “sobreviviendo” te aconsejo que ores por El. Tú puedes cambiar la atmosfera. Tú puedes conectar con la visión y soportar con tus palabras, tiempo y dinero! Enséñale que estas a su lado no solo detrás. Dios no lo llamo solo a él a cargar el peso solo. Volvamos el poder de Evangelismo y Discipulado en un equipo efectivo en lugar de competitivo!

GOBERNANDO LOS ASUNTOS DE LOS HOMBRES Es el Evangelio del Reino de Dios Político? Que es política realmente? Por Jonas Clark

odo creyente nacido de nuevo

tiene una naturaleza espiritual gobernante. Es debido a que tenemos la naturaleza de Cristo en nosotros. Cuando Jesús ascendió al cielo él le dio cinco dones a su Iglesia. Nosotros le llamamos los cinco dones de asunción, profetas, evangelistas, pastores y maestros. Estos dones fueron dados por el

apóstol fundador de la Iglesia. A través de estos dones el Espíritu Santo entrena y habilita a los poderosos guerreros de Dios para invadir, ocupar e influenciar al mundo para Cristo. Comparando esto al tibio, apático y diluido modelo de retirarse, evadir lidiar y escapar del mundo. La naturaleza de la Iglesia de Cristo es como su fundador: construir, restaurar y gobernar. Estas tres wwww.thevoicemagazine.com

palabras proveen definición para nosotros y por ellas entendemos la medida de nuestro propósito en la vida y en el ministerio.

C uando J esús

dijo que construiría su

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la oscuridad batallando contra la reconstitución del reino de Dios en la tierra a través de la Iglesia de Jesucristo (Efesios 3:10). Como ciudadanos del Reino de Dios tú y yo somos parte de la restitución de todas las cosas y participantes de la revolución más profunda de todos los tiempos (2da.Corintios 5:18).

hacia una guerra espiritual por el dominio que no ha terminado... Nuestra oposición no está limitada solo al realmo espiritual. Esto tiene que repetirse una y otra vez. Los cristianos deben ser proactivos en su fe. Algunos han acusado a los cristianos de inefectivos porque solo están dispuestos a orar y no mucho mas.

En Salvación

Por

te convertiste en miembro

de la revolución de justicia de Cristo. Cuando fuiste salvo, te arrepentiste de tus pecados, pediste a Jesús que fuera tu Señor y Salvador y te volviste de tus caminos malvados. Fuiste también trasladado sobrenaturalmente de un gobierno al otro. En este nuevo gobierno descubrirán una nueva forma de pensar y de comportarse. Cuando fuiste trasladado fuera de la oscuridad fuiste nacido de nuevo y convertido en una nueva creatura en Cristo Jesús. No un Adán salvado, pero una nueva creatura en el último Adán, Cristo. Fuiste sacado de la oscuridad al reino de Cristo. Ahora las cosas empezaran a ponerse muy excitante para ti.

E stimados

dicen que hay más de dos

billones de ciudadanos viviendo en el Reino de Dios. Sin embargo, tengan en cuenta que aun después de salvación y el cambio de gobierno espiritual, ustedes siguen en la tierra. Ahora es el tiempo de despertar y entender que estas envuelto.las cosas van a ser diferente a lo que eran antes. Estas en el mismo mundo pero con dos diferentes reinados batallando por dominio. La batalla por dominio esta a todo tu alrededor. Es parte de la vida y no hay escape. Ahora, listo o no eres participante de la naturaleza divina y la agenda de tu rey. Tu Rey, Jesucristo es el Rey de un gobierno, Su Gobierno. Ese gobierno del Reino es aquí en la tierra guerreando contra los reinos de la oscuridad a través de su cuerpo hasta que todas las cosas se sometan bajo los pies de Cristo (1 Corintios 15:28). Las Escrituras confirman” este evangelio del Reino (no simplemente el evangelio de la cruz) será predicado en el mundo como un testimonio de que el fin vendrá” (Mateo 24:14).

supuesto es triste

esta apatía es

verdad entonces todo creyente debería de vencerla. El éxito de la guerra espiritual debería ser visible en lo natural. Cuando ganamos la guerra de los reinados, compartimos valores cristianos por ejemplo, estamos envolviéndonos en los asuntos de gobierno de los hombres. A menos que nos envolvamos como sal, luz y representantes del Reino, el malvado continuara gobernando sobre nosotros. Es eso lo que quieres para tus hijos y nietos.

POLÍTICA Y LA NATURALEZA GOBERNANTE DEL CRISTIANO

Un día recibí un correo diciendo: “Jonás, predica el evangelio solamente y retírate de la política.” Usted también podrá recibir sugerencias como esta de amigos y familiares que le aprecian. Esta fue una propuesta muy interesante que me trajo muchas preguntas a la mente. Por ejemplo,

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que es la política? Deberíamos como creyentes, quedarnos fuera? Examinemos la recomendación del personaje más detenidamente.

Para redactar la sugerencia necesitamos

sacar la definición de política. Política no es solo votar en las elecciones locales o nacionales por un candidato Demócrata o Republicano. La definición de política es esta: El gobierno de los asuntos de los hombres. Todos debemos de parar un momento y digerir esta definición.

La palabra política es usada con frecuencia

intercambiablemente con Gobiernos Locales, Estatales o Federales. Esto es un error porque la política no es limitada a esas arenas. Política, el gobierno de los asuntos de los hombres, es practicado en corporaciones, en la iglesia, en la familia y cualquier otra organización de hombres trabajando por un propósito común. Si política es el gobierno de los asuntos de los hombres, entonces como un ciudadano del Reino de Dios puede evitar el ambiente político? La respuesta es no. La política es una parte integral dentro del Evangelio de Cristo. Por lo tanto, esta definición tiene una sola conclusión para el ciudadano nacido de nuevo del Reino de Dios. El Evangelio de

En naciones libres el pueblo consiente ser gobernado por su libre voluntad y confidencia en sus oficiales elegidos. De otra manera seria a través de esclavitud.

Yo escribí acerca de esto en mi

libro “Vida en el Reino” Otra escritura declara que” los reinos de este mundo se han hecho los reinos de nuestro Señor y de su Cristo y El reinara para siempre.”(Revelaciones 11:15). Todas estas escrituras apuntan wwww.thevoicemagazine.com

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nuevas creaturas, deben escoger someterse a ser gobernados voluntariamente. Cuando lo hacen bendiciones del convenio son manifiestas. Si no lo hacen, ya sea por ignorancia de la Palabra o por rebelión las bendiciones del pacto son retenidas.

El evangelio del Reino es dado, y por la

virtud del diseño gobierna dentro de los asuntos de los hombres porque consiste de dos elementos básicos, autoridad y poder. Las leyes de Dios son dadas para ayudar a guiar nuestras vidas a justicia, para mantenernos fuera de peligro y para que podamos llenar el mandato de Dios de ser productivos, crecer, subyugar y tener dominio (Génesis 1:2). Porque servir a Dios es voluntario es posible romper sus leyes y sufrir las con secuencias. Cuando las Leyes de Dios son violadas, por ejemplo, la ley siempre esta activa-estés o no de acuerdo con la Palabra de Dios-como lo que siembras cosechas. Así pues la Ley de Dios hace lo que es mandado a hacer. Aunque la persona se someta o se rebele la ley produce consecuencias.

Mientras el mundo cae en un abismo de confusión y caos ellos finalmente se volverán a Dios buscando por liderazgo. El liderazgo vendrá a través de la Iglesia de Cristo y su gente. Jesucristo es un evangelio político. Tú no puedes separar, por ejemplo, el Evangelio de Cristo del gobierno de los asuntos de los hombres.

No solamente es el evangelio una fuerza

política, Cristo tiene un Reinado y una Iglesia. Dentro de la Iglesia reside su gobierno, leyes, Espíritu y ciudadanos representativos. La iglesia es el asiento de autoridad gubernamental en la tierra (Génesis 28:17). Cuando atiendes la iglesia correcta tu puedes ser habilitado y equipado para el avance del Evangelio del Reino. La Iglesia que Cristo está construyendo no puede ser vencida. Reinos han venido y se han ido a través de la historia pero la Iglesia de Cristo permanece.

DIVISIÓN DE GOBIERNO: AUTORIDAD Y PODER. En la República la Constitución de los Estados Unidos divide autoridad y poder a través de varias ramas de gobierno el ejecutivo, legislativo y judicial. A los elegidos como líderes políticos se les otorga ciertos poderes y se les da autoridad para ejercitar

la ley dictada por la Constitución. En el Reino de Dios, en cambio, la palabra de Dios es la regla de la Ley. A diferencia del gobierno de los Estados Unidos los ciudadanos del Reino de Cristo no pueden elegir a su líder.

líder es

C risto

y el no puede ser

cambiado por otro aunque sea por unanimidad. El es el fundador y Rey. El también es Supremo. Como ciudadanos del Reino de Dios sin embargo, ellos pueden compartir en Su delegado poder político. (Gobernando en los asuntos de los hombre) y usar su delegada autoridad a como es deletreada en Su Palabra. Jesús dijo, por ejemplo, “Les doy a ustedes autoridad…” (Lucas 10:19) y “cualquier cosa que ates en la tierra es atada en el cielo” (Mateo 16:19).

En naciones libres el pueblo consiente ser

gobernado por su libre voluntad y confidencia en sus oficiales elegidos. De otra manera seria a través de esclavitud. Es lo mismo dentro del reino de Cristo. Los ciudadanos del Reino de Dios, wwww.thevoicemagazine.com

Nuestra

s o c i e da d

moderna

está

experimentando un incremento en rebelión contra Dios y su Ley. La agenda socialista por ejemplo niega la necesidad de un Salvador y cree en un progresivo enriquecimiento de conocimiento que crea al hombre utópico. Ignorar a Dios y su Palabra no hace a su Palabra inefectiva. Si mantenemos su Palabra somos bendecidos; si la rompemos, sufriremos los resultados. Nuestra nación está cosechando los efectos de ignorar la sabiduría de Dios mientras continúan abrazando una agenda de secularización.

T odo

esto me lleva a un punto .

Evangelio del Reino es político. Gobierna los asuntos de los hombres. No hay escape. Nuestro Dios es Soberano. Sus leyes fueron dadas para nuestra protección y felicidad. Cuando oímos el término “separación de Iglesia y Estado “de ninguna manera significa que no nos involucremos como Cristianos en los asuntos de los hombres. De manera que cada vez que la gente sugiera que te mantengas alejado de la política recuerda que Jehovah tiene una expectación de sus hijos e hijas. Es más las Escrituras declaran que el mundo está esperando la manifestación de los Hijos de Dios. Mientras el mundo cae en un abismo de confusión y caos ellos finalmente se volverán a Dios buscando por liderazgo. El liderazgo vendrá a través de la Iglesia de Cristo y su gente. En tu naturaleza nacida de nuevo esta la habilidad de gobernar. Ocúpate de influenciar tu mundo hoy!

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