The other week ago I kept singing a song in my mind called “A new day.” I wrote the song many years ago. Then when I turned the page on the calendar and saw when Passover was, I realized that it was God’s New Year that I was celebrating in my mind. God told Moses when the New Year started, and on the 14th day of the first month was Passover. (Exodus chapter 12 in the Scriptures).
Today is Passover, and I wish you all a belated Happy New Year according to God’s calendar.
Hank Snow introduced by Hank Williams
Today as I was looking at the news on the YouTube, I was shocked to see the story of a guy going to a hospital in Pennsylvania with a gun, and shooting people. His name is Diogenes Archangel-Ortiz. I sometimes wonder what drives people to do all these crazy things, so I did a bit of research on the guy. They say he had mental problems, and that his girlfriend died in that hospital. So I guess he was getting revenge on the hospital for killing his girlfriend. I saw another story on the news about a guy with mental problems, and something about the police messing with his body. It seems like a lot of people in the world seem to have mental problems, and want to kill other people.
When I heard Hank Snow singing this song, after having been introduced by Hank Williams, it started a chain reaction in my head. Although I have never been blind, I have always felt that my parents never really loved me. Words in that song like: “No Mother’s kisses and no Daddy’s smile” just hit it me right in my heart. Words like: “No Mother’s arms to hold me, or soothe me when I cry” just hit home to me. I always felt that I had to earn my parent’s love. When I was little I used to draw pictures, or paint pictures, and show them to my parents to try and earn their approval.
All over the news is the death of Gene Hackman, and everyone is saying what a great actor he was, etc. I have watched many of his movies, but one movie troubled me. It is called: “Enemy of the State.” In that movie he keeps taking Christ’s name in vain. Did he repent of that before he died? Jesus told a story of a rich man who died and went to hell, burning in the flames. It is wonderful to make millions of dollars, but is it worth your soul? Jesus said: “What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”
I sometimes wonder what will happen to everyone on the Day of Judgment, when we are told of our fate. Will God be satisfied with us? Jesus said: “Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” (Matthew 7:14 – King James Version). For most people, it will be bad, for Jesus said: “And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.” (Matthew 7:23 – King James Version). So beloved, we must smarten up, and do right, and believe right. May God help us!
Footnote
It is now a couple of days later. I lay in bed last night thinking of King David. Did he ever feel like he was a rejected child? God sent the important prophet Samuel to his town and he invited Jesse to the ‘barbecue’ together with his sons. But Jesse left his son out in the field with the sheep. He wasn’t important enough to be invited. He was a “Nobody’s child” too.
Here is a link to one of my other websites if you want to check it out: Country Gospel and Bible.
Here are some of my favorite love songs sung by Miss Patti Page. Her real name is Clara Ann Fowler. She was a big hit in the “old days” before I started listening to the radio, and she sings some real nice songs. I hope you enjoy my selection.
A poor man’s roses (or a rich man’s gold)
Accentuate the affirmative – with Jo Stafford
Country and western hits – Dark moon, Faded love, Just because, Jealous heart, Mom and Dad’s waltz, Walking the floor over you, Have I told you lately that I love you, Please help me I’m falling, I walk the line, You all come, Crazy arms, Release me.
Don’t fence me in – With Perry Como
How much is that doggie in the window
I want to be a cowboy’s sweetheart
Mockin’ Bird Hill – On the ‘Country Road’ show – when she is older
Precious memories – with George Jones
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Scarlet ribbons (for her hair)
The rose – My favorite love song by Patti Page
What a friend we have in Jesus
Patti Page has a lot more favorite love songs on the internet that I have not heard yet, so happy searching, if you like her singing and personality. I also have other web sites and I invite to to visit this one: Country Gospel and Bible
The first time I heard the song “White silver sands” was at a friend’s house in Bulawayo, when I was a teenager. It was on a record by Bill Blacks Combo. So I never heard any words, but the music and the title gripped my interest. Now with the internet, we have access to so many songs, and this has become one of my favorite love songs. The version I like the most is by Don Rondo. I never heard of him when I was growing up, because I didn’t grow up in America. However, some people have made such lovely videos of his version, with all the waves and kissing, etc. So, I hope the song makes you happy. I long to be by the sea again, and listening to songs like this gives me a lot of joy. A long time ago we were at a beach near Pensacola, and the sand was whiter than any beach I have ever seen.
When I was a little boy growing up in Salisbury, Rhodesia, I remember my mother singing lots of her favorite love songs while she was busy in the kitchen, and I heard them while I was outside playing with my toys. Songs like: When it’s Springtime in the Rockies, A kiss is still a kiss as time goes by, I’m an old cowhand from the Rio Grande, On the Isle of Capri, Down Mexico way, Be a little forgiving take me back in your heart, I’ll be loving you always, Don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me, and many, many more.
Then she got saved, and sang songs like: The lily of the valley, I tried the broken cisterns Lord, and Happy day that fixed my choice, etc. Then she wanted to get filled with the Holy Spirit, and as the preacher was on his way to pray for her, my brother and I were naughty, and she spanked us, and ended up in a very bad mood. When Pastor Price prayed for her she went into some kind of dream where she was in the sea, and the waves were coming over her. Then she felt she had drowned. (When she was young her daddy drowned in Illovo Beach, South Africa, while saving a girl from drowning).
Then it seemed like, far away someone was speaking in tongues. That person just kept on and on speaking in tongues for a long time. Then she got curious as to who was doing that. When she woke up, she found it was herself speaking in tongues, and she was lying on the floor! The pastor said she had a mighty baptism in the Holy Ghost.
Many years later when we were having house meetings in Bulawayo, every now and then she would speak in tongues, and expect someone to do the interpretation. But there was no interpretation. When I was a teenager I remember going with my mother to a ‘Keswick’ meeting somewhere outside of Bulawayo. There were about a hundred people there from all different churches. Then during prayer time, mother started speaking in tongues! I thought: “No mother, don’t do that here! These people don’t believe in that sort of thing!”
After the meeting, when we were outside, I remember seeing Pastor Bob Beatty speaking to my mother. He was a missionary from America. She told me later that he was asking her what languages she spoke, etc. Apparently she was speaking in some African language that he had learnt, to minister to a particular tribe in Rhodesia. Some years later, in the early 70’s, I remember Bob Beatty inviting me to sing at a mission station somewhere near Gwelo.
In the late 70’s I remember Pastor Marks inviting me to sing at his church outside of Que Que. I remember the church building being next to the main road between Bulawayo and Salisbury. There were banana palms behind the church, and the pastor’s house behind the banana palms. Before going to that church, the Holy Spirit impressed upon me the words of the Apostle Paul in the Bible. “Let him that speaketh in tongues, pray that he might interpret.” (1 Corinthians 14:13). Then I realized that my mother should have asked the Lord for the interpretations when she spoke in tongues. She had the anointing on her, so it was her responsibility to do the interpretations as well, and not expect someone else to do it.
In one of the meetings, I invited people to come forward for healing. I seem to recall there were six people. The last person I prayed for was a woman. I laid my hands on her shoulders and prayed for her. Then she started speaking in tongues. So I said to her: “Now, give the interpretation.” There was a bit of a silence. Then she said: “The Lord has forgiven your sins.”
Straight after that I gave an invitation for people to received Jesus Christ as their Saviour, and about twelve people came forward.
The next morning, my wife and I were sitting in their living room talking to Pastor Marks, when the phone rang. We heard half the conversation. Apparently some woman who was in the service the night before, was asking Pastor Marks what languages the other woman spoke when I prayed for her. He explained that she spoke English and a bit of the local African language, then he asked her why she was inquiring. She said that last night the woman spoke in Hellenic, and with her being Greek, she understood what she was saying. So he asked her what she had said, and she replied that she spoke in Hellenic, then she said the same thing over again in English!
So Pastor Marks explained to her what happened on the day of Pentecost, how the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke in various languages the people knew, who had come to Jerusalem from all different parts of the world. (Acts chapter 2, in the Bible).
Many times since then, the devil has attacked me, telling me that my sins are not forgiven. Beloved, the devil is a liar. Keep serving God, as best as you know how, and we’ll meet again on the streets of gold, in a land where we’ll never grow old!
When I was little, one of my favorite love songs was ‘Singing the blues.’ Later in life I have discovered it was sung by Guy Mitchell. Thanks Guy! Here are some of his songs, and I hope you like them.
I heard about Santa when I was a little boy growing up in Southern Rhodesia. I also heard about the snow and the reindeer, etc. However, it was the middle of summer in our country, and I remember hearing people say it was “A 100 degrees in the shade.” (Fahrenheit). Yet I heard about Santa, and the snow, and the reindeer, and the chimney, etc. Our chimney was too small for anyone to come down, and we never had any snow in our country, and we didn’t have any reindeer either! So it all felt like “fairy stories!”
Churches are also into all the “fairy stories.” There is no such word as “Christmas” in the Bible. That word may also be taking Christ’s name in vain, because Jesus never gave authority for his name to be used in that way. Jesus never gave authority for the use of his name in the word “Christian” either. In fact that is opposite to what Jesus taught. Jesus said: “Many shall come in my name saying ‘I am Christ’ and shall deceive many.” (Matthew 24:5). When I was a kid, I too was deceived. I read in the Bible that the disciples were called “Christians” first in Antioch, but some ‘unknown person’ is not a credible witness. (Acts 11:26). Jesus said: “By the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.” (Matthew 18:16). King Agrippa used the word “Christian“ right in front of Paul, but Paul never used that word. (Acts 26:28). King Agrippa is not a reliable witness either. His ancestors tried to kill baby Jesus, they killed John the Baptist, they killed James, and wanted to kill Peter. Peter is the only disciple in the Bible to use that word “Christian,” and he uses it in connection with persecution. “If any man suffer as a ‘Christian’ let him not be ashamed, but glorify God on this behalf.” (1 Peter 4:16). Peter got beaten by the leaders of Israel for believing that Jesus was the Christ. (Acts chapter 5). He got imprisoned a few times, and Herod wanted to kill him. (Acts chapter 12). Peter said: “Love the brotherhood.” (1 Peter 2:17). Jesus means “Saviour” and Christ means “Messiah.” There is only ONE Saviour and ONE Messiah, and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Faith in that name can cause the lame to walk, and dance with joy! (Acts chapter 3). All my life, I have basically had three teachers: 1. Church people. 2. The Doctor of the Bible School. 3. The Holy Spirit. I choose to follow the Holy Spirit, even though church people get very angry with me at times. I don’t want to tell any lies to try and please people, I want to go to heaven one day! All liars are going to go to the lake of fire! (Revelation 21:8). There is also no such thing in the Bible as December the 25th. There is nothing in the Bible about the shepherds being with their sheep on a cold winter’s night. A Rabbi on the internet said that the sheep in Israel only have babies in the springtime.
I am of the opinion that Jesus was born in the springtime in Israel. Let me give you my reasons. In Exodus chapter 12, God himself told Moses that His New Year starts 14 days before Passover. Then one year later at Mount Sinai, in Arabia, (Galations 4:25), God told Moses he must erect the tabernacle on the first day of God’s New Year. (Exodus chapter 40).That was when the glory of God came down from heaven into the tabernacle. When Jesus got born, the angels sang: “Glory to God in the highest.” When Jesus got born, that is when the glory of God came down to earth in the form of a baby. “A body hast Thou prepared me.” (Hebrews 10:5). We met a preacher that went to heaven and back, and he said that Jesus was born at Passover, and died at Passover. I have never been to heaven and back, so I didn’t argue with him, but it was in the “springtime” that Jesus got born, not in the winter.
The Romans believed in the sun-god, and when the days got shorter in the winter, they thought that the sun-god was dying. So, 25th of December is the day of the re-birth of the sun-god according to Pope Gregory’s Calendar. Sun worship is death penalty in the Bible. (Deuteronomy chapter 17). When the Israelites were in Egypt, God made the sun go dark, to show the Egyptians that the sun is not a god. (Exodus chapter 10). So beloved, I urge you to follow the teachings of God as found in the Bible, and forget all the pagan stuff that comes out of Rome. Paul even wrote to the church in Rome and said to them: Be not conformed to the world (Rome), but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2).
Jesus told the religious leaders of his day that their traditions made the word of God of none effect. (Mark chapter 7). Most people seem to be very bound by their traditions. They make their traditions higher than the word of God. Beware. One day there will be a day of judgment. There are only two places to go: the new earth or the lake of fire. (Revelation chapter 21).
It seems like every day people are making new songs for Elvis to sing using Ai (Artificial intelligence). It seems quite exciting hearing him sing some of these hit songs sung previously by famous singers. Some other songs have been taken from black and white songs on his movies and made into color with the help of Ai (Artificial intelligence). I like to spell it with a small “i” because it feels better for me. I am still a big fan of Elvis and my favorite love songs.
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