Friday, July 11, 2014

A Kamikaze For Christ


One of my best friend's husband told me I was a kamikaze for Christ. He knows I write many things that are completely politically incorrect in this day and age. He knows I get blasted for it. {Do you know how many times I have been called "judgmental" for teaching God's ways?} The "world" hates anyone to tell them that their deeds are evil and to testify to the Truth {John 7:7}. Just saying the name of Jesus offends many.

Ten years ago, I almost died from a brain tumor. It was removed successfully and the doctor told us there was only a 6% chance of it ever returning. Five years later, I was bedridden and had to have my neck fused. It took a year after surgery to finally be able to get out of bed. Last year, we found out my brain tumor had returned. We went to USC again and I had brain surgery. Several months later, the doctor told me he only could remove 40% of it. I had to endure Cyber Knife. Now, we wait to see what the long term consequences of this treatment will be for me.

Through all of this, it has been made painfully clear to me that this is not my home. The life we live here is only a speck in the scheme of eternity. Our lives are meant to share the love of God and His ways. When we live according to God's Word, we are preaching the Gospel with our actions.

I want women to submit to and be obedient to their husbands, so they can have strong, solid marriages. I want mothers to be keepers at home, so they will raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord not giving the enemy any chance of snatching them away. I want women taking good care of their homes and families and fixing nourishing food so they will be the healthiest they can be. They need all the energy they can get so they can speak God's Truth to a dying world.

I want women to dress modestly, so they won't be stumbling blocks to others. I want them to be made aware of feminism's lies so they won't fall into its ugly trap and destroy their marriages and families with its so-called "liberation." I want women to be feminine with gentle and quiet spirits and allow their husbands to lead their families.

I can care less if I am politically incorrect. I know God's ways and have lived them. They are FAR superior to man's ways. I don't want women blaspheming God's word anymore by the way they treat their husbands, leaving their homes for hours everyday, not disciplining their children properly, and dressing immodestly. 

Life is short. Time on this earth is ending. We will all have to stand in front of God someday and give an account for how we lived our lives and how we used our talents. I know my talent is teaching so I want to teach God's ways until my last breath, whenever that may be. The only thing that matters is the Lord saying to me, "Well done, good and faithful slave. You were faithful with a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master."{Matthew 25:23}


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Susan Taft · 559 weeks ago

Hurrah for courageous witnessing for Christ! Thank you for your words of wisdom each morning - it starts my day off in the right direction. God bless you - and enable you to continue for many years to come.
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
VERY well said!!! I couldn't agree more! I feel the same as you and often get the "judgment" card placed on me (or legalism). Thank you for your witness!
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
Thank you for your posts that are helping to teach me the right ways, God's way. I am becoming ever more disappointed in my church that they do not teach ALL of God's ways. During preaching, if a topic is "too sensitive", it is passed over with merely a sentence, if that. It is sad our wonderful Pastors (one who started the church 25 years ago and has grown it to 1,000 attenders) do not have the courage to teach ALL of God's ways. I pray that your health only improves.
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
Powerful testimony Lori! (Rev.12:11 "And they overcame him (Satan) by the blood of the Lamb & the word of their testimony & they did not love their lives unto the death.") I have found in my life so many things I would not have chosen ( children & grandchildren with "issues & special needs", old age & singleness combined, rejections, isolation, etc.) The INCREDIBLE thing, that I didn't see coming, is this AMAZING JOY that the Lord has given me! (Truly, nothing else matters! Paul said it's all "rubbish" compared to knowing Jesus!) Also, there is great peace in knowing & trusting that all our issues are part of our testimony, God will use it all for HIS GLORY! Children are a BLESSING from the Lord! There are many verses about joy in the Bible & it is a fruit of the Spirit but here is one that a few years ago, I believe the Lord spoke to me through it as a promise for old age: Isaiah 55:12 "You will go out with joy & be led forth with peace, the mountains & the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you, & all the trees of the field will clap their hands..." God has AMAZED me with His joy! Love & prayers, in Jesus, Cynthia
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Cheryl Larson · 559 weeks ago

I too am very happy you are willing to be politically incorrect. We attended a service at another church a couple of months ago where the pastor was telling the congregation not to be judgmental of others. It all boiled down to if they think its ok then we are we to say differently. Was so sad to hear this pastor preaching like this.
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
I wonder if you mean martyr instead of kamikaze?

Kamikaze isn't a nice term. This is what they called Japanese suicide bombers who attacked Allied ships during WWII. Suicide bombers set out to kill and destroy.

Martyrs, on the other hand, simply seek to follow their beliefs. They may not always be popular, but they don't try to hurt anyone. They stay true to their beliefs even if others harm them.

So, how would you describe yourself?
5 replies · active 558 weeks ago
AMEN!!! Lori, thank you so much for your courage and for confronting us with the truth of Christ and His Word--I testify that you are speaking the truth, because your words convicted me that my heart was worth listening to; and through the help of the Spirit living inside of me and inside of you, you have helped to save my marriage and to snatch my children back from a world that is all too eager to indoctrinate them against His ways. You are out there, making straight the path for the Lord and His return. I thank God for women like you, even when your words are difficult. Thanks to feminism, there are so few women out there to guide us. Thanks to the deterioration of many of our churches, we don't even have pastors to guide us in the truth of the Word, but rather pastors who undermine His Word with their post-modern, reactionary subjectivity. Please keep fighting the good fight--we are counting on you!!
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
I think you are doing a wonderful job of being faithful. Well done. Truth is refreshing, most people are afraid to say anything anymore. Thank you :D
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
helo from sweden with joy to write and telling my experince in to learnd from the lord bearing his witnes in love and in the Holy Spirits power with freedom andi npeace and growing in power and in faith ,thanks and bless and pray,keijo sweden

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