True Hope Churches & Ministries

Volume 2, Newsletter12March 31, 2011

Hello,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ!
God is still God and God is still good!
Every once in a while we need to stop and take notice of what God has done in our lives and is doing in the lives of those we care about ... then stand up and SHOUT!
Recently the Lord reconnected us with friends first made over 30 years ago but have been out of touch for more than 15 years.  And to hear how the Lord has moved so strikingly similarly in both of our lives is just awesome!
As wonderful as that is, one of our licensed ministers sent us a text last Sunday that their spouse came to Christ Jesus as Lord - PLUS their son re-dedicated his life to Christ's Lordship!
These are but two things that we have to rejoice for in Christ Jesus!  I could share many more but this isn't about me and mine, but about all of us and ours ... and to encourage us all to pay attention in the midst of all of this world's distractions as to just how good God is and the fact that He IS - - GOD!

Many Blessings!

TRUE HOPE TIMES

From Dr. Timothy
 WHO IS DOING YOUR LAUNDRY?

Recently while in a conversation with Steve Carroll, Pastor of a congregation in Rockmart Georgia, the question came to my mind, who is doing our "laundry"?

We were talking about how we can so easily slip into the snare of doing good works to stay in good with Jesus, and that in fact so much of religious Christendom teaches us to do just that! 

We come to Christ in order to receive what only He can provide, salvation, and soon thereafter we begin to think that there are works we must do to "clean up our act" or to "compensate" for our wrongs; or to, well, stay on God's good side!

The fact is that apart from being obedient children, there is nothing we can do "for" God and in fact, apart from Christ we cannot even be obedient children! 

While we were talking, the Scripture came to my mind that "... we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away."  Isaiah 64:6

Then I got the picture of God's children standing over those old time laundry tubs with the wash boards, just slaving away trying to clean their own filthy rags - - and thinking that they are really doing something!

The truth is, if we are trying to do our own "laundry", we are only going to always fail so miserably!  Why?  Because if we could, then we simply would not need what only God can do!  We would not need Jesus!

And, dear friends, our lives can only - - must be - - only about Jesus and what HE has done for us and never what we have done for Him!

When we "witness" for Jesus, are we showing others how much we love Jesus and how we are washing our filthy rags for Him? Or, are we showing others how much Jesus loves us (and them) and what Jesus has and is doing with our filthy rags?

And what IS Jesus doing with our filthy rags?  HE IS NOT CLEANING THEM, HE IS DISCARDING THEM!  He is giving us NEW garments to wear, NEW lives to live, NEW creations to be!  See:  Isa. 61:10; Romans 6; 2 Cor. 5:16-21

If we would but just begin to see the reality of this, I wonder how much more peaceful our hearts would become and how much more impact our witness of Christ Jesus the Lord would have in the lives of others!

May our Father give us the revelation of this truth for transforming our realities!
Many Blessings!
Dr. Timothy


PROPHET'S CORNER
  Fretting and fear is not the purpose of "Prophet's Corner", rather we publish this section for our encouragement to "LOOK UP" for the soon appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ as He comes to redeem His Church from this world!

Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire
Global Economy

http://www.mrc.org/

Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start - and no one seems to have noticed.
On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency system." It's all according to a plan laid out in a Nov. 4, 2009, Soros op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order."

The event is bringing together "more than 200 academic, business and government policy thought leaders' to repeat the famed 1944 Bretton Woods gathering that helped create the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Soros wants a new 'multilateral system," or an economic system where America isn't so dominant.

More than two-thirds of the slated speakers have direct ties to Soros. The billionaire who thinks "the main enemy of the open society, I believe, is no longer the communist but the capitalist threat" is taking no chances.

Thus far, this global gathering has generated less publicity than a spelling bee. And that's with at least four journalists on the speakers list, including a managing editor for the Financial Times and editors for both Reuters and The Times. Given Soros's warnings of what might happen without an agreement, this should be a big deal. But it's not.

What is a big deal is that Soros is doing exactly what he wanted to do. His 2009 commentary pushed for "a new Bretton Woods conference, like the one that established the post-WWII international financial architecture." And he had already set the wheels in motion.

Just a week before that op-ed was published, Soros had founded the New York City-based Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), the group hosting the conference set at the Mount Washington Resort, the very same hotel that hosted the first gathering. The most recent INET conference was held at Central European University, in Budapest. CEU received $206 million from Soros in 2005 and has $880 million in its endowment now, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

This, too, is a gathering of Soros supporters. INET is bringing together prominent people like former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown, former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker and Soros, to produce "a lot of high-quality, breakthrough thinking."

While INET claims more than 200 will attend, only 79 speakers are listed on its site - and it already looks like a Soros convention. Twenty-two are on Soros-funded INET's board and three more are INET grantees. Nineteen are listed as contributors for another Soros operation - Project Syndicate, which calls itself "the world's pre-eminent source of original op-ed commentaries" reaching "456 leading newspapers in 150 countries." It's financed by Soros's Open Society Institute. That's just the beginning.


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