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Feb 01, 2007

NOT ABOUT WINNING
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NOT ABOUT WINNING
 
“For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.”
 
Proverbs 23: 7
King James Version
 
I just read a true story about a young man who was never able to make a basket when their team played.  One day during a game, all of the players on both teams kept giving him the basketball so that he would have a chance to make a basket.  The scorekeepers and everyone in the audience was cheering him on.  He finally made a basket and everyone rejoiced with him.  His team lost but I know that Jesus watched with tears of joy and happiness in His heart to see the love that was given to this dear young man. 
 
O’ dear friends, it’s not about winning in this life or how much money we can make.  It’s not even about being recognized for our accomplishments; it is all about loving Jesus and others.  Even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written if everything that Jesus has done was recorded.  What is recorded is how much He Loves us and how precious we are to Him.  The love that we show to others is what Jesus is recording and what touches His heart.
 
I have received countless phone calls, emails and regular mail from people who have asked me to publish the writings that Jesus inspires me to write.  I receive emails almost every month from pastors and missionaries on the mission field who ask me to mail my book to them.  I have had to tell all of them that these writings will never be sold as they are a free gift from the heart of Jesus.  If God moves and I come into a lot of money, then I will have the writings printed and bound into a book and give the books away. 
 
It is not important to me that people know that I wrote these writings; what is important to me is that they know how much Jesus Loves them and how much I love Jesus.  Without Jesus, life doesn’t make any sense and is meaningless.  We can have all the money, possessions and fame in the world but if we don’t have Jesus in our hearts and if we aren’t telling others how great Jesus is, then all of that is in vain and stinks in the nostrils of Jesus.  The only thing that touches Jesus is the condition of our hearts.  This is what life is all about; the condition of our hearts before a Holy God.  What does God see when He looks in your heart?  Does He see love for others or does He see selfishness and greed?
 
Joanne Lowe
January 11, 2007
 
 
 
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HE SEES YOUR TEARS
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HE SEES YOUR TEARS
 
“Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.  Selah.”
 

Psalm 62: 8

King James Version
 
I received twenty one emails today from people who are hurting and desperately need to know someone cares.  O’ my friends, Jesus cares, He sees the tears in your heart that nobody else can see.  This verse says to pour out your heart before Him.  He already knows the pain and heartache you have, but He wants you to come to Him like a child would go to their parents. 
 
If there was ever a time that we need to be loving each other with the Love of Jesus and encouraging one another, it is now.  So many broken hearts and broken homes!  It is not the will of God for us to be unhappy.  Jesus died so that we would have a victorious new life in Him.
 
Climb up on the loving lap of Jesus and let Him put His Arms of Compassion around you.  Only Jesus can kiss away the tears in your heart.  Your loved ones can hug you and kiss the tears on your face, but only Jesus can heal the hurt in your heart.
 
My heart wept again and again as I read the emails that were sent to me today.  I so long to be able to put my arms around you and give you a hug, but since I can’t, allow Jesus to hug you.  His hugs are so precious.  He hugs me every night when I go to bed and holds me in His Loving Arms all night long.  There is no one like Jesus.  There is no Friend like Jesus.  No one understands like Jesus.  Without Him, life doesn’t make sense.
 
If you don’t know this Beautiful Jesus, I urge you to invite the Christ of Calvary into your heart right now.  Don’t wait another minute because you may not have another minute.
 
Joanne Lowe
April 20, 2006
 
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THE CHRIST OF CALVARY
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THE CHRIST OF CALVARY
 
“And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.”
 
Luke 23: 33
King James Version
 
Who is this Christ of Calvary?  He is the Saviour of the world who shed His precious atoning blood for us that we might have the forgiveness of our sins and be assured of a home in Heaven with Him for all eternity.  There was no room for Him when He was born, and even today in many people’s hearts and lives, there is still no room for Him.
 
Our merciful and loving Saviour endured ridicule, criticism, scorn, heartache and abuse when He was here on earth.  May God forgive us, even now He is enduring these things because of the way we treat Him.  We tell Him that we trust Him to take care of us when we pray, but often as soon as we have prayed, we start worrying about the very thing we just gave to Him.
 
Why is it that we think that we are more powerful than Jesus?  We can do nothing in our own strength.  We are powerless against the attacks of the world and satan.  If we could defeat satan on our own, Jesus would not have had to suffer such a horrible, agonizing death for us.  Thank God for the mercy and protection of the Christ of Calvary.
 
Do you know this Christ of Calvary?  Have you made a heart commitment to Him?  If you have just acknowledged Him with your intellect and your words, you are lost in the darkness of sin.  There must be a time in your life when you invite the Christ of Calvary into your heart to be your Saviour.  All of us need forgiveness for our sins and it is through His precious blood that was shed for us at Calvary that we have this forgiveness.
 
Joanne Lowe

July 29, 2006

 
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Jan 17, 2007

What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:33:34 -0600
 
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What Thomas Jefferson learned from the Muslim book of jihad
By Ted Sampley
 U.S. Veteran Dispatch
January 2007 
Democrat Keith Ellison is now officially the first Muslim United States congressman. True to his pledge, he placed his hand on the Quran, the Muslim book of jihad and pledged his allegiance to the United States during his ceremonial swearing-in. Capitol Hill staff said Ellison's swearing-in photo opportunity drew more media than they had ever seen in the history of the U.S. House. 
 
Ellison represents the 5th Congressional District of Minnesota. The Quran Ellison used was no ordinary book. It once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States and one of America's founding fathers. Ellison borrowed it from the Rare Book Section of the Library of Congress. It was one of the 6,500 Jefferson books archived in the library. 
 
Ellison, who was born in Detroit and converted to Islam while in college, said he chose to use Jefferson's Quran because it showed that "a visionary like Jefferson" believed that wisdom could be gleaned from many sources. 
 There is no doubt Ellison was right about Jefferson believing wisdom could be "gleaned" from the Muslim Quran. At the time Jefferson owned the book, he needed to know everything possible about Muslims because he was about to advocate war against the Islamic "Barbary" states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Tripoli. 
 
Ellison's use of Jefferson's Quran as a prop illuminates a subject once well-known in the history of the United States, but, which today, is mostly forgotten - the Muslim pirate slavers who over many centuries enslaved millions of Africans and tens of thousands of Christian Europeans and Americans in the Islamic "Barbary" states. 
 
Over the course of 10 centuries, Muslim pirates cruised the African and Mediterranean coastline, pillaging villages and seizing slaves. The taking of slaves in pre-dawn raids on unsuspecting coastal villages had a high casualty rate. It was typical of Muslim raiders to kill off as many of the "non-Muslim" older men and women as possible so the preferred "booty" of only young women and children could be collected. 
 
Young non-Muslim women were targeted because of their value as concubines in Islamic markets. Islamic law provides for the sexual interests of Muslim men by allowing them to take as many as four wives at one time and to have as many concubines as their fortunes allow. 
 
Boys, as young as 9 or 10 years old, were often mutilated to create eunuchs who would bring higher prices in the slave markets of the Middle East. 
 
Muslim slave traders created "eunuch stations" along major African slave routes so the necessary surgery could be performed. It was estimated that only a small number of the boys subjected to the mutilation survived after the surgery. 
 
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria. 
Because American commerce in the Mediterranean was being destroyed by the pirates, the Continental Congress agreed in 1784 to negotiate treaties with the four Barbary States. 
 
Congress appointed a special commission consisting of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, to oversee the negotiations. 
 
Lacking the ability to protect its merchant ships in the Mediterranean, the new America government tried to appease the Muslim slavers by agreeing to pay tribute and ransoms in order to retrieve seized American ships and buy the freedom of enslaved sailors. 
 
Adams argued in favor of paying tribute as the cheapest way to get American commerce in the Mediterranean moving again. Jefferson was opposed. He believed there would be no end to the demands for tribute and wanted matters settled "through the medium of war." He proposed a league of trading nations to force an end to Muslim piracy. 
 
In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain. 
 
The Americans wanted to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress' vote to appease. During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts. 
 
In a later meeting with the American Congress, the two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise." 
 
For the following 15 years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages. The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to 20 percent of United States government annual revenues in 1800. 
 
Not long after Jefferson's inauguration as president in 1801, he dispatched a group of frigates to defend American interests in the Mediterranean, and informed Congress. Declaring that America was going to spend "millions for defense but not one cent for tribute," 
Jefferson pressed the issue by deploying American Marines and many of America's best warships to the Muslim Barbary Coast. The USS Constitution, USS Constellation, USS Philadelphia, USS Chesapeake, USS Argus, USS Syren and USS Intrepid all saw action. 
In 1805, American Marines marched across the dessert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all American slaves. 
 
During the Jefferson administration, the Muslim Barbary States, crumbling as a result of intense American naval bombardment and on shore raids by Marines, finally officially agreed to abandon slavery and piracy. 
 
Jefferson's victory over the Muslims lives on today in the Marine Hymn, with the line, "From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country's battles on the land as on the sea." 
 
It wasn't until 1815 that the problem was fully settled by the total defeat of all the Muslim slave trading pirates. Jefferson had been right. The "medium of war" was the only way to put an end to the Muslim problem. Mr. Ellison was right about Jefferson. He was a"visionary" wise enough to read and learn about the enemy from their own Muslim book of jihad.
 
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