God's Hurricane Report By: Joanne Lowe

“Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.”
1 Peter 5: 8 - 11
King James Version

During hurricane season when I turn on my computer in the morning as soon as I check my email, I go to the hurricane website and get the latest information regarding possible hurricanes where I live. There is another kind of hurricane report and it is God’s hurricane report. If we will go to God and get His hurricane report about possible hurricanes of life for that day before we even get out of bed in the morning, we would have a lot more peace and happiness in our lives.

We need to pray as soon as we open our eyes and ask God to please protect us from the sneaky attacks of satan. If we don’t ask God to protect us every morning before we get out of bed, we are open targets for satan because he will hurl his fiery poisonous darts of criticism, sarcasm and ridicule at us. It may start out to be a wonderful day when all of a sudden without any warning, we feel the sharp poisonous and fiery darts of satan in our hearts.

Sometimes it is our own fault that we have hurricanes of chaos and heartaches in our lives. God has told us not to go to certain places or do certain things but we do them anyway. When we go to these places that God has said not to go to and when we do these things that God has said not to do, not only do we cause our own hurricanes of life, we are being disobedient to Him. We don’t have any right to expect God to help us when we deliberately disobey Him. In fact, when we disobey Him, we should have broken hearts because we have hurt Him once again. We need to repent of our sins and go to Him and tell Him that we are sorry and ask Him to please forgive us and help us not to go to those places anymore or do those things again.

I have lost count of the emails that I have received over the last three and a half years from people who are living with someone without getting married first. These people have asked me to pray for them and ask God to bless their homes with peace, joy and happiness. When I prayed for them, I prayed that God would work in their hearts and make them understand that they are hurting Him by deliberately disobeying Him and bringing shame and disgrace to Him because they claim to be Christians but refuse to obey His commandment to get married before they live together.

In the first place, these people are living with someone without being married as God has commanded them to do. God can’t bless these homes with real happiness, real joy and a lasting peace because these people are deliberately disobeying God by not getting married before living together. Our Heavenly Father is a Holy God and He can’t look on sin much less bless their homes. One man made this statement “I guess I might as well marry her because she tells me what to do and spends my money.” What a rotten attitude that is and it stinks in the nostrils of Jesus!

However, it’s not just people living together without being married that hurts God and brings shame and disgrace to Him. It’s anything that we do that He has told us not to do. Sin is sin to Him. We are the ones who say that one sin is worse than another sin. We focus a lot on homosexuals, alcoholics and drug addicts and neglect the other sins that stink in the nostrils of Jesus. Our precious Saviour died an agonizing and cruel death for the one who lies and the one who breaks the speed limit just as He did for the one who lives with someone without being married.

We read in the Bible “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all. For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law” (James 2: 10, 11). If we have gone just one mile over the speed limit, the Bible tells us that we are guilty of all.

I think if we are honest with ourselves all of us will have to admit that there have been times in our lives when we have said unkind and cruel things to people and have killed their self confidence and their desire to keep going. We are just as guilty as the one who commits murder with a gun. It is time that we stop pointing the finger at other people and point it at ourselves. All of us are guilty of hurting God and disobeying Him at times.

Are you bringing hurricanes of unhappiness, confusion and heartaches to yourself by deliberately disobeying God? If so, repent of your sins, ask God to forgive you and help you to live the way that He wants you to live. If you continue to disobey God, He can’t bless your life with happiness, peace and joy. In fact, you can’t expect Him to do so when you deliberately disobey Him and continue to hurt Him day after day. Give your heart and life to Jesus and let Him direct your life. He will lead you down the right path and protect you from the hurricanes of life.

July 18, 2008

Author Resource:->God has given Joanne two ministries. One is doing Inspirational Writings, the other is Encouraging Pastors.
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U.S. Involvement in Israel 'Peace Process ' = Devastating U.S Hurricanes?

Just approximately a week after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits Israel and pressures them into signing a document that would divide Jerusalem (i.e., give away more land to the Palestinian State), we are once again in the harms way of an approaching hurricane that has the potential to be the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history. Call it coincidence if you want to, but there seems to be a pattern of the United States being afflicted by extremely devastating natural disasters every time we take major action to pressure Israel into giving up land. You may not see that as a big deal, but if you are a Bible believing Christian or a Torah observant Jew, then you should understand the warning that is in the scriptures regarding what happens when you try to take away land that was given to the Jews by God. The following 3 verses from the Bible explains God's position on Israel:

Now the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, From your family And from your father’s house, To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
-Genesis 12:1-3 (New King James Version)

I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
-Joel 3:2 (English Standard Version)

It shall be in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
-Zechariah 12:9 (New King James Version)

Still not convinced? Let me try to put this into perspective based on what has occurred in the very recent past. The following is just a very small example of how the most costly natural disasters in the United States took place right after we have, one way, or another, pressured Israel into giving up land. Surely you recall the devastation caused by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005? Those disasters are just a small, but a very real and tangible example of how the U.S. involvement in the Israeli "Peace Process" has preceded costly devastation in the U.S:

1. August, 2005, the Gaza Strip is given to the Palestinian State Resulting in 10,000 Jews losing their homes
   • The Gaza pullout was completed on 8/22/05
   • Hurricane Katrina then strikes exactly one week later on 8/29/05
2. September 2005
   • Early September 2005, Secretary Rice visits Israel and directs that they must give up more land and go back to the 1969 borders.
   • September 2005, Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States.

For further information on this, please take a look at the following links. Also, please pray for the safety of the people who are in harms way of Hurricane Gustav.

Palestinian media: Rice urging division of Jerusalem, Aug 29, 2008

JERUSALEM – In her visit here earlier this week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Israel to sign a document by the end of the year that would divide Jerusalem by offering the Palestinians a state in Israel's capital city as well as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to multiple reports yesterday in major official Palestinian Authority media outlets.

Gustav, Katrina’s Anniversary, Jerusalem and Judgement « Spirit Blog End Time Forum

A well written blog explaining the possible correlation of Hurricane Gustav and the current headlines at World Net Daily (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=73705) stating that Condoleezza Rice urged the division of Jerusalem during her visit to Israel during the week of 25 Aug 08.

Eye to Eye - Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel

2007: Nine Major FEMA Disasters and Two Major Crises Coincide with U.S. Involvement in the Israel 'Peace Process '- Bill Koenig

Gaza Pullout | Hurricane Katrina

Was the Hurricane Katrina evacuation with the loss of property and homes a direct parallel to the Gaza pullout (where a large number of Jews were involuntarily displaced), which was completed exactly one week prior to Hurricane Katrina making landfall? There are astonishing evidence of this being the case.

Will the Summer of 2005 Be Another Record-Setting Summer? - Christian News Reported from White House Focusing on Israel

Is Hurricane Gustav possibly correlated with God's judgment on America due to our continual willful pressure on Israel to give up land as part of the supposed "Peace Process"? See what was occurring in 2005 which was the same year Hurricane Katrina caused so much devastation to the gulf coast area of the United States.

US Actions, God's Judgments

Is Hurricane Gustav possibly correlated with God's judgment on America due to our continual willful pressure on Israel to give up land as part of the supposed "Peace Process"? See evidence of this being the case with past hurricanes and disasters in the U.S., including Hurricane Katrina.