Before you read this study understand that we do not teach, we share and then ask all who read the following take it to God and verify it with Him. We believe a lot of the world is misled by the church of the world and religion vs the one true church. And to know the truth can only come from knowing, not just knowing of God, John 14:26, I John 2:27, Rev 3:19-22.
Many are called but few are chosen because many are misled by false teachers Matthew 7:13-15 so we help all who wants to know the truth how to find and know the truth of and by God and not of and by man.



Fireside Chat

Pastor J. R. Wilhite, author   Close Window

In the 40's President Roosevelt would have what were called fireside chats with the people to talk to them, inform them, etc. This is what I am doing here. I will cover a wide range of things.

It does not matter if you are a Christian or not, a male or female, conservative or liberal, black, white, brown. What really matters is if you are you happy, at peace, really joyful, healthy, and prospering in relationships with others. These things are what truly matter. No one will go their entire life and be able to say they had none of these, but since they are a black/white/brown liberal/conservative they are happy.

We all have the same basic wants and desires. Be honest with yourself no matter if you are with anyone else. Seek in yourself what you really want and desire not what television or movies have sold you that you want.

Any parent that has a sick child will tell you the same thing. They would give anything for their child to be healthy. I can honestly say my greatest joys have been when my family and I have been together and healthy.

I have been well off and poor. I have had awesome health and poor health. I have been in one marriage that never should have happened and one that is awesome. I have had more surgeries than most of you ever will have, over 200 hours on the operating table. If you saw all my scars you would be reminded of the old Frankenstein movie. My first wife had an affair and as a result had a child that I tried to raise as my own. Out of fear that I would not be healthy again she divorced me while I was in the hospital. No she is not evil or bad; I was as much at fault as she was and maybe more. I have had one son go through chemotherapy for cancer at age 16 and another serve in the Army in Korea and then Iraq. I can not work now because daily I have to take 90 Mgs of MSContin and 1000 mgs of Vicodin just to be able to have some mobility without pain so bad that I can not move. The pain is from back problems. Every time I get over one injury someone runs a red light or shoots out of a pMarking lot high on drugs and hits my car.

I have had a total of 5 accidents in 20 years due to just that, then 2 accidents due to animals. One time a deer miscalculated trying to jump the road and hit the top of my car. Another time I was driving home, no lights on the road it was pitch black out, and I saw cows all over the road. So I drove into a ditch to avoid them just to hit one that blended in with the dirt. I have come through all the surgeries and each time came back due to the stripes Jesus took for me (I Peter 2:24), but then something else would happen. July 27, 2003 a man drove out of a pMarking lot into on coming traffic and hit me.

So I am at home and it takes me 1 - 3 hours before I can even do anything in the morning. Then by mid-day I take a booster (Vicodin). That takes me till bedtime then I take pills to be able to sleep; they overcome the affects of the pain pills. I never get high from any of this and tried to quit in September and was doing well. I could not do as much, but I stopped. Then my blood pressure (the high end) went off the board due to pain so I had to start again. That just means I am not addicted to the painkillers.

Even with all of this said (if I told all that has happened it would take many pages more than I am sure you would want to read) the point is I have been married since 1986 to the most wonderful woman in the world. She loves and cares for me, not pity, not sorrow, but true love and she and I have the most awesome relationship any two can have. I have a 16-year-old daughter and 3 sons, one 24, one 23, and one 21 (the one who went through cancer). Between my relationships with my family and friends, the hours daily I have somewhat pain free, and the fact we are able to stay above water when it comes to our income makes me happy and I do know joy and peace.

No we are not rich. We do not even have the money for a vacation. If anything major were to happen, we do not have any cushion to speak of and we have debt on the house and a credit card. I can honestly say that every time I have had a need it has been met, but that is not the point. The point is today with as high paced a life as most live, so much time driving to and home from work, and work itself or school there is very little time left. What time is left seems for most to be less enjoyable because the money is not there to do things.

The main point here is the fact that we have all been sold a bill of goods. The world system wants us to believe that to enjoy life we have to either get in debt more or be rich.

That is a lie straight from Hell itself.

Some of you may have heard the story of how a man was sad because his shoes were old and starting wear out until he met a man who had no feet. We seem never to realize what we have until we lose it; then we grieve over the loss, no matter if it is a thing or a person.

If you do not start living for today and realizing how blessed you are then when will you? How old are you? Have you gotten any closer to the dreams you had or desire that seem always so close yet so far away?

The world system wants us all in debt up to our eyeballs. It will keep telling us we are not happy until we own the latest car, television, house, etc. The truth is none of that brings joy or peace. It might bring momentary happiness until it breaks down or is out of date or we forget about it. Think about what you have bought in the last year. Try to remember what you spent your money on and how much of it even matters now. We always seem to desire that which we can not have. Either we do not or we go into debt to get it and realize it was not as desirable as we thought.

Come on! You know this is true. How often have you window shopped for things and thought, "When I get some money I am buying that." Then when you do get the money you do not. Either you forget about it by then or there is something else you want even more.

Think of what it would be like to have all the money necessary. How much then do you think you would really desire or even want?

I have gotten more joy and peace from watching a sunset or looking at a flower or butterfly than I have from anything I ever bought and these things can not be bought.

Anything that can be bought is never worth what you pay for it, and it never lasts.

Those things which you can not buy, that are free, are what life is worth living for, the birth of a child, the love of your spouse, a sunset.

Then of course when it comes to relationships we seem to always want one with someone out of reach and it tears us apart. Those I have known who have gotten those relationships have all said the same thing, "It was not as enjoyable as I imagined."

My wife is beautiful inside and out. She is almost 50 and looks as good to me now as when I first met her twenty years ago and in some ways even better. But even if she were hideous on the outside I would still love her, because love is about something more and deeper than looks.

A man or woman with a hideous body but beautiful inside would appear to a blind person the same as one who is not hideous. Sometimes I have learned from the blind that a beautiful person outward is hideous inwards. How is it that we are such superficial beings? We judge people based on their looks and not who they are. How many people have you missed knowing because they were too fat, too skinny, a different color, etc? In doing so how many awesome relationships and friendships have you lost?

When you are sick in a hospital you find out fast those who your friends and even loved ones are. When you are suffering from an accident or sickness you do not care if they are fat, or skinny, hideous or not. When they come to visit and try to uplift you, to be there for you, that's what counts.

I have known many that married because of sex. The sex was great but that was all there was to connect them. The problem there is that sex only accounts for a very small percentage of the time you spend with a person. If you can not talk to them, be with them, enjoy things together then life can be miserable.

I heard a person say that most people who vote for a president choose the upbeat happy person over the one whom is doom and gloom. Forget the issues or what really counts; they choose just on personality.

Then there are those who vote based on the pocket book. I don't mean the person who will actually make positive influences on their pocket book but the one who says what they want to hear to help their pocket book.

Are we really this superficial that we can not even vote for a person based on their issues and what they actually stand for and are about?

I do not think so. I believe we have been fed such a lie and most if not all of us have bought it. We are so busy (or at least think we are) that we do not have the time to find out for ourselves so depend on people we do not even know for the facts.

My point is this - slow down. Smell the roses. Do not judge at all. Go on facts not judgement calls. If a new person comes into your life do not even consider a thing about them until you get to know them, really know them. I do not mean sex; I mean who they are and do this by shutting up and listening. Take the time to watch a sun rise or sun set. Take a walk in a garden or pMark and enjoy the beauty of nature while getting a little exercise (we all need more exercise). Treat your spouse even better than you expect them to treat you, and take time to listen to them and your children. One day the kids will be grown and gone and your spouse is not forever either. Do not let another minute go by without really living life to the fullest. That does not mean buying the latest car or technology that comes out. If you do this you will discover joy, peace and love.

If you take the time for another you may be surprised to find they will take even more time for you. God is the same way. Give Him 30 minutes a day and He will give you back the rest of the day in ways you never imagined.

I have heard pastors and ministry leaders say they are too busy doing God's work to spend an hour in prayer. How sad is that? A person thinks they have to do the work for the creator of all to the point they can not even spend 5% of their day with Him! We are all the same way with God, each other, and life. That is until it is too late; then we regret it and wished we had not been so busy.

Tonight my wife wants to go for a 1/2-mile walk. It will hurt like the dickens for me, but I would not miss it for the world because it gives us quality time alone and I want all of that I can get with her.

Mothers and fathers let me ask you one question. How many of you wish your children would listen to you or as you get older spend more time with you? Well there is an old saying "What goes around comes around." So to get time with them spend time with them while they are with you. To get them to listen start by listening to them now.

What ever in life you want first invest time in it. Do not expect all will do it first. Be the first; make the first step.

I am going to share another area with you while I am opening up. It is about taxes, elections, and criminals.

Criminals

I believe that if a person breaks the law and goes to jail they should not be treated better than those who obey the law are treated. If a person breaks the law and has to spend time in jail then they should work to earn an income and it should be split 3 ways. One third to pay toward the overhead of the prison, food, clothes medical, etc. One third to support their family while they are in so the family does not have to starve or depend on the state. One third to their victim or the family of their victim to offset what was done to them.

I know some of you are thinking this is heartless, but is it? Does anyone pay for your roof, food, medical, clothes, or supply you with entertainment for free? What do they lose? Their freedom? I am not sure about that. I know a lot of people struggling to make ends meet and do not have it so well and are less free than those in prison. How are they less free? They are slaves to the bills they have to pay the job they have to work, etc.

I am not suggesting we should torture them or hurt them, but make them responsible for their actions. Prison as it is now does not. All it does is make it more desirable to return for those who get out. Maybe this is why so many are repeat offenders within 30 days of their release.

It would make it less desirable for anyone to go to jail and in turn could reduce crime and the cost of crime on the comunity in 3 ways.

  1. By supporting their overhead that reduces the cost of the prison system.
  2. By having to support their family that means less on food stamps and federal aid
  3. By making jail time less desirable it would mean fewer comitting crimes in the first place which would reduce the cost of the police, the courts, the prisons, etc.

Not to mention those who go to jail would come out with a trade and a job they could continue on with after their release. I do not mean making license plates or smashing rocks.

Taxes

If you have not read any of the studies on the lie or about how we get thoughts from one of two places only (either they are forced on us by Satan or we seek it from God) then do so now. Otherwise this will not make sense and could offend you.

Taxes bother me, not just paying them but the entire way it has gotten out of hand. Can you spend more than you bring in? No of course not but our politicians feel (not all, just most) that if they do not have enough they can either raise taxes or take from next years income to pay this years. It sounds to me that if those elected can not even balance a budget then they should be voted out and replaced. This should be done until we get a group that can.

The idea of 40-60% of our income going to support the government is a sin. Even God who deserves it all only asks for only 10%. So why can't the government do it on 30%? That is still 3 times what God asks for. One-third would go for federal, one-third for state, and one-third for local.

The one single largest area taxes go to is support of those who are not working. Then it would seem logical that if they were working then the largest area could be used for a few years to get rid of debt and then cut taxes back to where everyone could live on more of their hard earned money.

Over taxing companies and those who create jobs does not help create jobs but does the opposite. I once had a business and I understand this well. The idea is that the government gets from one business taxed as they are with 10 employees is less than it would get if that business converted that tax money for more jobs and then have 25 employees. The government would get more from the 25 employees than it did from the business and the 10 employees.

It is not giving a break to the rich or corporations as some say but it is good economical sense. Most who advocate taxing the rich and cause this class separation as they do for the most part are brain washed and do not fully understand the benefits of a healthy economy growing due to lower taxes. They may also be very cynical people who are trying to share the guilt they feel for their lives with everyone else. They are just puppets of Satan and do not realize it.

Think of this as well; those who have more money will spend or save more money. Either way everyone benefits. When the government has no control over itself and has more it wastes more and no one benefits.

I truly believe the federal government should only supply the military protection needed from an oppressor government and keep the infrastructure in place. Then it is the state's job to take care of all of the state needs; that is everything outside of the cities, police, fire, roads, etc. It is local government that should maintain all that is inside of the cities.

With a 30% flat tax on all that is earned $30,000 and above there would be more than enough to do this and some left over. And that would mean the poor and all who earn up to $30,000 would not be taxed at all.

Guess what is called the fair tax? They want a federal sales tax of 21% on everything.

That is not fair because the poor would pay more because the rich could buy everything outside of the country and pay nothing. So it would take from the poor and give to the rich. The only way to prevent it would be to have a 21% import tax but that could still be side stepped by not reporting what they bought. No not all would get away with it but a lot more would than you can imagine. If we were to start a new department of the government that would search everything coming into the country it would cost more than would ever be realized by as much as 50 times.

Elections

The US has gotten to a point where if it is an idea suggested by a republican then the democrats are against it and if a democrat suggests it the republicans are against it. Both parties (one especially) is trying to divide us and trying to bring in class division that will take us to the same place this country was in 1859 before the civil war. What are they divided over? Not the truth but some old men who have the idea they know what is best for everyone.

I believe there are two awesome documents that should be taken absolutely and never be altered. First is the word of God, second the constitution of the USA. When either are altered it is always to get a small segment of society over on all the rest. The problem is and has always been that a small segment runs this country, the churches, and everything else.

In actuality it should be you and I who run this country. We do it by the vote and if you do not think your vote counts look at the Bush - Gore Presidential elections where in some areas the difference was as small as a few hundred and others only as high as 6 thousand.

The institution of Term limitations is the worse thing we could have done. We already had term limitations; it was called the vote. Now if a politician knows he is out in the next election he can use the 2-4 years padding his pocket, setting up favors for himself, doing all he or she can to benefit themselves and nothing to help us. When they have no real idea that it is their last term of office then they have to at least appear to be trying.

I honestly think that if the people of this country who can vote would spend a small amount of time researching the issues and people running (how they voted, what they said, and how they act) and then got out and voted, the country would turn around in less than 8 years. The problem is a minority is in control now. Between the media with its own agenda and the small groups of those who do not stand for the majority lying to us the public has fallen asleep at the wheel and is allowing those small groups to vote and control it all. If this country does not wake up we will all, one day very soon, find ourselves in a country nothing like what we want and then it will be too late.

1 Thessalonians 5

1. But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

2. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

3. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

4. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

5. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.

6. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.

7. For they that sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

If you do not think the above refers to us today in the USA think again because it does.

Revelation 3

15. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

16. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

The above from Revelation refers to us today as the USA and the church as a whole.

Most agree we are in the end times, maybe not the last days, but the end times. Well guess what? Revelation is not about Tribulation only; Tribulation is only apart of it.

The first 3 chapters refer to the church in the end times, not the last days. Out of the seven churches Jesus said only one is right with Him. The other 6 churches or 86% are not. What do you think the odds are that you could be attending one of the 86% of churches that are not right with Jesus?

We control the church of this world by our attendance, donations, and involvement. The church Jesus refers to as His own we do not control and it is not a religion or a denomination or non-denomination, group of buildings, or anything of such. It is based on a relationship with God. When we are listening and hearing from God then He will reveal to us who Jesus is as His Son and the Christ and then we are a piece of the church and not until then.

The word for Peter in Matthew 16:18 that everyone reads as Peter is Petros in Greek and means a piece of the rock. Jesus said to Simon you are now a piece of the rock and upon this rock (REVEALED knowledge from God of who Jesus is) I will build my church.

Do not be like those 2000 years ago who attended church weekly to listen to a man of God, gave of their tithes, and offered their services. Listen for and to God's voice and be obedient. From hearing you will know what is right or wrong, whom to vote for, and where to praise and worship God. Jesus gave plenty of verses in the Gospels for us to read to know we are not just able to listen to and hear from God but it is our responsibility to do just that.

Jesus said my sheep will know my voice, and in John 14:26 He said we are to be taught all things, not just those of God, but all things by the Holy Spirit. In John 4:24 we are told God is a Spirit so that means Jesus was referring to God. Also in John 4:23-24 we are told THE ONLY TRUE WAY TO WORSHIP GOD is in THE SPIRIT.

We have an enemy who has been around along time and knows us better than we know ourselves and he knows how to deceive and manipulate us. Paul warned us in II Corinthians 10:5 to cast down all imaginations that are not of God. He used the word imaginations so we would not be limited to just thoughts. Read it in the King James, not any other VERSION of the Bible.

We can blame the generations before us for our mess and say we would not be in this mess if they had done what I have said to do. If they had taught better we would know better, but the truth is blaming anyone is counter productive. There is only one thing left to do and that is to get it together here and now.

Before you get the idea I have another agenda or I am just trying to bring division between you and a church you attend, or get you to join mine know this my message is:

"Do not listen to any man including me, go to God and only listen to Him"

How can I benefit as I stated above if I tell you, "Do not listen to me. Seek God and listen to Him only?" I can not, and as far as the church you attend it may be fine. Then it may not. That is not my call, but God's. He will tell you if it is worth going back to or moving on.

By the way I think everyone who is not registered to vote should register and then go out and vote. Do not think anyone here will tell you whom to vote for or who is of God or not. That is between you and God ONLY.

No matter what you do or who you are do it with all the glory going to God. No one is right or wrong; they are just obedient or disobedient.

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