On January 2, in the middle of the night, American military forces captured Nicolas Maduro and his wife, and they will be brought to justice. This was a great success for the American military and for Venezuela in stopping this criminal.
But we also now see a clear indication of many Americans who are “Democratic Socialists” (Communists). We see it so clearly by their signs and marches calling for Maduro’s freedom. This is what America has come to—wanting criminals to go free, and wanting drugs in our country.
Please, let us rejoice now in seeing Venezuela free from this bad guy. Pray for the Venezuelan people to now have their country back and free.
We have heard over and over again that the shooting was because of “political differences.” But I would rather say that it was due to hatred against God and His truth. And I think that it was mainly from a strong bitterness that was built up against what Charlie Kirk was saying against Robinson’s moral beliefs and against his romantic relationship with his roommate who was transgender (who was transitioning from being a man to a woman).
I have a feeling that that relationship, and what Kirk said about it, took him to a very dark place by which he felt compelled to act against Kirk. I can imagine that Robinson was hurt deeply by what Kirk said, and possibly was moved with revenge and rage by demons.
We know from the bible that immorality, especially homosexuality and other perversions, will produce in the heart wickedness (Gen. 6:5), degrading passions and a depraved mind (Rom. 1:25-29). In the end, these who do these things are filled with all kinds of unrighteousness, including “murder” (Rom. 1:29).
I watched a very enlightening and shocking You Tube video the other day. It was a speech by Senator Kennedy on what has been found at USAID (Agency for International Development). This agency is giving your tax dollars to certain organizations around the world. Some people are very upset that Musk is allowed to look at this information. But I think the American taxpayer has a right to know where a good chunk of their taxes are going. Would you like to know? I would. Well, here are just a few places where money is going.
To Afghanistan
To Yemen
To Syria
To support electric vehicles in Viet Nam
To a transgender clinic in India
1.5 million to a Serbian LGTB group
164 million to support radical organizations around the word, 122 million to terrorist organizations.
Millions to organizations in Gaza, controlled by Hamas
2 Million for sex change operations in Guatemala
20 million to produce a new Sesame Street show in Iraq
4.5 million to combat misinformation in Kazakhstan
10 million of meals to an Alkaid terrorist group
7.9 million to a journalist in Shirl Anka to teach people to avoid binary gender language
1.5 million to rebuild Cuban media
1.5 million to promote LGTB in Jamaca
3.9 million for LGTB courses in Macedonia
8.3 million dollars for equity and inclusion classes in Napal
Senator Kenedy was quick to say that some of our money may be very well spent. But a lot isn’t. I think USAID should be changed to USAIC (US Agency for International Corruption). It is bad enough that we are using our tax dollars for things we don’t agree with, but it is doubly bad that America is in the process of corrupting many other nations. It is shocking!!
I give my praise to Elon Musk for digging out this stuff. I do hope and pray that much of USAID is dismantled. I am in full agreement with firing all of the 10,000 working there. We cannot let this kind of stuff continue.
In the wake of America’s new administration—a new President with new policies—many people are afraid. Some are afraid of being deported. Some are afraid of being jailed. Many are afraid of the new President’s extremism: on immigration, on his supposed anti-environment beliefs, and his anti-woke beliefs, on all his Bidden reversals, and on what he will do to our country, The outgoing President is so afraid, that he has preemptively pardoned his entire family and many of his loyal supporters, like Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, and Liz Cheney.
While I was asking myself how anyone can overcome fears, I came across a number of Scripture verses that will give us a clear answer.
Scriptures That Will Help Us Overcome Fear
In the following five verses we will find that the reason we fear is because we lack something; we lack a relationship with God—a relationship that will give us a lasting peace with God, a trust in Him, a saving faith, a loving Heavenly Father, and an enduring love from God. Let’s look at these verses.
John 14:27
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
We need not be afraid of anything in this world if we have the peace that God gives us.
Psalm 56:11
In God I have put my trust;
I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?
If you put your trust in God you need not be afraid of anything.
Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?
If you will give your heart to Him to save you, you need not be afraid of anything. He will be your strength.
Romans 8:14-15
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
If you will give your life to Him, if you will trust Him to save you (if you will ask Him to forgive your sins and cleanse you and give you a new life), you will be His adopted child and will no longer have that spirit of fear in you. He will be your Father in which you can cry out to Him whenever you fear anything or have any needs.
1 John 4:18
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear.
If you are saved and are one of His children, you will abide in His love and will have no fear.
All selections for the new administration need our prayers. Prayers at this time are especially needed for the team of director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth. They are going to be under constant attack from the left to be removed. But according to former speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich, this country really needs them.
“I’m watching President Trump create the most reform-oriented Cabinet in my lifetime,” Gingrich told “The Cats Roundtable” on WABC 77 FM-N.Y. on Sunday morning.
The disruptor nominees are long needed to conduct “a complete overhaul” at the Pentagon, Gingrich told host John Catsimatidis, adding that the choices for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and Hegseth would make an “amazing team.”
But Trump’s Cabinet picks are going to face potentially historic obstruction, particularly in Hegseth, according to Gingrich.
“It’s going to take enormous courage and resilience on the part of Pete Hegseth to survive over there because the whole old order is going to try to destroy him,” Gingrich warned. “I’ve been actively involved in thinking about and working on defense for an extraordinarily long time: And I can tell you, the building needs a very complete overhaul.”
All of the three- and four-star generals should be sent out and given retirement papers, a source told Gingrich.
“I had one senior person in the military who retired, who was working with Trump, who said he would recommend the president have every three and four star general retire — and then go down to two stars to pick a whole new generation of leaders,” Gingrich said.
“He thinks between Obama and Biden, the whole system has just been undermined and corrupted.”
Trump is reportedly weighing an executive order to conduct external reviews of U.S. military generals — potentially having them interview to keep their jobs in the Pentagon that might lead to their dismissals after the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal and wars raging in Ukraine and the Middle East.
Gingrich also spoke about the overhaul of Congress, including new Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.
Gingrich said Thune is a “good guy” who “bridges everybody” and Johnson has the “hardest job in Washington today” with the slimmest of margins with a presumptive 220-213 majority with two races left to call.
“I think one of Trump’s commitments ought to be to try to turn the cities red so that they actually have jobs, have safety and have decent, honest government,” Gingrich concluded. “Now, that’s a pretty good project.”
Donald Trump’s New Administration
As President-elect Donald Trump nears inauguration for his second administration, he has announced several individuals for key positions. Among them are:
Chief of Staff: Susie Wiles
Deputy Chief of Staff: Dan Scavino
Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy: Stephen Miller
Deputy Chief of Staff for Legislative, Political and Public Affairs: James Blair
Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications and Personnel: Taylor Budowich
Assistant to the President/Director of Communications: Steve Cheung
Assistant to the President/Director of the Presidential Personnel Office: Sergio Gor
Assistant to the President/Staff Secretary: William Owen Scharff
National Security Adviser: Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla.
White House Counsel: William Joseph McGinley
White House Press Secretary: Karoline Leavitt
Attorney General: Matt Gaetz
Secretary of State: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Secretary of the Department of Defense: Pete Hegseth
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem
Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services: Robert. F. Kennedy Jr.
Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs: Doug Collins
Secretary of the Department of the Interior/Chairman WH Council of National Energy: Doug Burgum
Secretary of the Department of Energy/Member WH Council of National Energy: Chris Wright
Secretary of the Department of Transportation: Sean Duffy
Immigration/Border Protection: Tom Homan
Director of National Intelligence: Tulsi Gabbard
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: John Ratcliffe
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency: Lee Zeldin
Ambassador to the United Nations: Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y.
Ambassador to Israel: Mike Huckabee
Special Envoy to the Middle East: Steven C. Witkoff
Department of Government Efficiency: Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: Brendan Carr
U.S. Attorney for Southern District of New York: Jay Clayton
Deputy Attorney General: Todd Blanche
Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General: Emil Bove
Solicitor General: Dean John Sauer
Commerce Secretary: Howard Lutnick
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator: Dr. Mehmet Oz
It’s a very foggy day. God is being kind, giving the Dem’s a place to hide. It will take a while for them to face up to the MAGA victory. But soon, hopefully, they will see some great economic results. This next few years may be the last stretch of grace this country has before all hell breaks loose. We must pray that many will see His kindness and receive Him before it’s too late. May the kindness of God lead us to repentance (Romans 2:4).
Today I read the familiar story of Daniel in the lions’ den (Dan. 6:16-28). I was especially struck by the parallel I saw between this story and what is happening to Donald Trump. In Daniel’s story jealous, fellow administrators were unable to find anything against Daniel so they had to concoct something related to his beliefs. In Trump’s case too, it is very hard to find anything against him (because his records are so clean). So, they concocted some bogus case and now they intend to throw him into the lion’s den—or so many years in jail!
It is amazing that in every time and in every culture we find evil men who are intent on doing evil against good men. I guess it is the nature of evil to always want to drag a good man down to your level.
I pray that the end for Trump will be much like it was for Daniel—that God would send His angelto shut the mouths of the lions and that instead the evil men would be found out and judged.
I understand when people—good people—say that Israel should stop the shooting; that there has been enough killing. I heard a good man the other day say that there is anger and hatred on both sides—from Hamas and Israel. I have heard also that the war is senseless; also, that the Palestinians have a right to live there in peace.
Well, I sort of understand; but I don’t think that these people quite understand Israel’s situation. Israel wants to live in peace and they have been giving the Palestinians every chance to live in peace in Israel. But the Palestinians, and especially Hamas, are a people of war and terror. They hate Israel and constantly plan to some day push them into the sea—to destroy them and claim all the land. But Israel’s land was promised to the Jews by God (Gen 12).
Ever since God gave them the land many waring nations have come against them and terrorized them—like the Philistines and the Amorites. And it is the same today. Hamas and the Palestinians (backed by Iran) have been terrorizing them with rockets; and they hide in tunnels ready to pop out with surprise attacks.
In Israel’s history, under the leadership of king David, Israel was constantly at war with their enemies. And God was in favor of it. In fact, He commanded it. War for them was absolutely necessary to keep them at peace, to keep them safe. Solomon even wrote in his book of Ecclesiastes that there is “a time for war” (Ecc. 3:8).
I think we should recognize now in this day that God has given the leaders if Israel wisdom in seeing that for them it is also “a time for war.” They know that they cannot sit back any longer to let their enemies terrorize them. They must protect themselves. They must rid themselves of all those who are hiding in every corner and in every tunnel with every intent to kill them. We have heard that it will take a good year longer to wipe them out and finish the war. I don’t know why we (US) and the rest of the world can’t back them up and support them in this war effort (or at least leave them alone. This war is a good work they are doing, and from God!
The US, Egypt, Qatar and others are pushing Israel for a two-state solution, with the Palestinians to rule in Gaza. But Israel, esp. Netanyahu says, “No! that will not bring peace to Israel.” Israel knows that the Palestinians still hate them and will continue to plan their destruction— “From the river to the sea.” Which is true!
I have heard many church people ask, “What about the Palestinian Christians?” I do sympathize with them, but they should not ever side with the Palestinian government and against Israel. The Palestinian government has declared their evil intent on Israel. If these so-called Pal. Christians are in fact true Christians, they must separate from the Pal. Authority and from the Muslim faith and seek to join the Christian church in Israel and to be under the Israeli government. In doing this they will be safe.
It is unfortunate that many nations are pushing for a Palestinian state and authority in Israel. This of course is against what Israel wants because they know that there can be no peace if that happens. And of course, we know that they are on the side of God and His promises to them, that He has promised them the land according to Genesis 13:14-17.
The Lord said to Abram after Lot had parted from him, “Lift up your eyes from where you are and look north and south, east and west. 15 All the land that you see I will give to you and your offspring forever. 16 I will make your offspring like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone could count the dust, then your offspring could be counted. 17 Go, walk through the length and breadth of the land, for I am giving it to you.” Genesis 13:14-17.
Still, many nations refuse to let Israel have what God has given them. Read the following article:
WSJ says plan would see gradual release of all hostages in return for Palestinian security prisoners, and full normalization for Israel and its neighbors; PMO refuses to comment
21 January 2024, 5:10 pm The US, Egypt and Qatar are pushing Israel and Hamas to accept a comprehensive plan that would end the war, see the release of hostages held in Gaza, and ultimately lead to full normalization for Israel with its neighbors and talks for the establishment of a Palestinian state, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The plan, whose complete implementation would take 90 days, would reportedly bring all fighting to an extended halt, during which time the Palestinian terror group, in the first stage, would free all civilians. Israel would simultaneously release hundreds of Palestinian security prisoners, pull out of Gaza’s cities, allow freedom of movement in the Strip, cease drone surveillance over Gaza, and double the amount of aid entering the Hamas-controlled territory. The next stage would see Hamas release female IDF soldiers and bodies of kidnapped Israelis, as Israel releases more Palestinian prisoners. The third phase would have Israel pull back troops to the Gaza border, while Hamas frees the last hostages — soldiers and fighting-age men it considers soldiers.
Stephen Nielsen 