God loves you. You may find it hard to believe but it is true. I created a Bible study this month as a sermon I will be delivering. I wanted to prove despite our pain God still loves you. It is like this site. After quite some time working continually often around the clock I am starting to see numbers and people are arriving to my site. I haven't gotten any comments yet but the fact is a fact things are on the up and up. I can now Google my web site and find it under different categories. I am still at a loss for exactly what I want to do, but I am figuring it all out. I know the numbers will only increase with time. Since I am working on organic Search Engine Optimization, please click on my site whenever you find it under Google. This will only increase my rankings.What excites me is that I have been working hard facing a Goliath of a problem and things are working themselves out. I am still poor as can be but hey things are looking good. I guess if I can continue to keep this site hosted everything else will follow. It won't be what it should be but God has His reasons. I want you to know it is true God does have his reasoning. To me what I see is Satan wanted to do the same thing with a web site. The difference is that Satan did it all the wrong way for all the wrong reasons. Rather than blessing God and giving credit to his maker, Satan gave credit and glory to himself. Satan could have bragged up a storm how metal turned to bone inside his damaged arm as he got his feeling back. Satan never glorified God for all the things God did for him. Yes Satan is a man, and he does reside in this world. God comes to our aid ensuring us we will not die...
(Jdg 6:23) And the LORD said unto him, Peace be unto thee; fear not: thou shalt not die.
(Job 13:15) Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.
So knowing this throughout the hardest times in life the LORD is there. I have seen more miracles in my own personal life than I can count. Often I forget them all thinking in my heart, "the LORD has forgotten about me," but that is a lie from Satan himself. God does love you and that is all that matters. How do you know you are loved?
God expresses his love in different ways. Sometimes it is the pain in life and the troubles where God's victory shines. See for example I truly think God has allowed Satan to take full advantage of me taking every bit of money I owned or ever had. Perhaps it is to show God's glory all over the pages of this site as a living testimony that God's love is real.
Why do you say this you might ask? Because God wants to show the world that a broken down man, with nothing going on in life can make it. All too often you hear the success stories that God made such a difference in someone's life. Do you remember or have you seen the movie "Facing the Giants." It was a great story about how a man was facing about every difficulty he could imagine. In the end God prevailed victoriously over his life. The same was true with the movie "Fireproof." Their marriage was in turmoil and once again God prevailed. God wants credit where credit is due. When we are at a meal in a fancy restaurant or Burger King, at home or in a prison chow hall God's glory wants to be seen in our lives. I fully believe I have created a monster of a problem in which God can prove victoriously. I am going to let God's glory and honor shine before me. I thank God for my problems because in the end I know it is God's victory that will shine.
On the other hand I personally ran into Satan in different forms. He is the opposite of what I am doing. I gave all my money to him. I wanted to prove to this man, Satan, that no matter how many tens of thousands he had he could not do what I am doing now. I am running this ministry on what is left after Satan left me financially devastated. It was his ploy to stop me dead in my tracks, but I am realizing now Satan's folly. Money and the lack of it didn't destroy me, prison didn't stop me, two computer crashes just gave me reason to create new and better things, and discouragement empowers me. God gave me the money I needed to give to Satan so that in the end Satan can never say that he didn't have a fair chance at making it. On the other hand a Christian with absolutely nothing has more to prove and that is the way our lives go. God will ensure to give us more grief and more pain, not because God hates us, no instead it is because God is love. God obviously loves me because my life is a living hell. So rather than be burdened by problems and hardships, I know there is a true God of peace, who gives victory to all the hardest problems. Rather than continually cursing and lashing out at God because of the situation of my life, I need to know it is God who loves me, and His love is real. I need to learn to accept what I can't change and turn to God. I need to stop opening emails about how I "won some great reward" or how some bozo thinks he can help my life by selling a trinket and a surprise lie. I need to get right with my Maker if I ever want to get anywhere in life.
How does Satan live in this life? Well Satan flourishes and he can thank and extol one good Christian man for blessing him and lavishing him with gifts greater than he can imagine. I blessed this Devil and had to actually learn to hate this pastor that did me so wrong. I cared for him so much, just as I care for so many, that I opened the store houses of my life and this pastor I fully believe and know is the Devil himself, I blessed in every way imaginable. Why did I do such a thing? Well I wasn't thinking well to begin with. Also I knew what he was from careful observations. So I therefore blessed him more and more. I blessed my enemy because his extreme hatred for me. I blessed him because he was jealous of me. I knew one day both of us would face God one day. So I did my all to bless him and others. I gave of what I did need and though it angers me, for one thing feeling used so much, I know in my heart I did the right thing. I have always been a giving man blessing others along the way. What hurts so bad is now after all the blessings after Brock reached as deep into my pockets as he could do so, scraping every last penny and more, I don't have the money to even run my own ministry. I have to take money from my food and clothing and other allowances to make this ministry come alive.
In my life I proved a lot of things to the Devil. For one thing I proved to him I don't quit. And though this site has about two weeks before it is disabled, I am doing my all to keep it maintained and worked on. Tenacity could have been a middle or a surname because I just don't know how to quit or to give up. On the other hand the devil gave up without even trying. All the money in the world could not finance his ministry. See Satan is a failure. He can't do anywhere near all the things good Christian brothers and sisters could do. Satan is a liar and a fool. Though I befriended Satan once in the form of Todd Jessie Garton and now in the form for Brock, he can't win. All Satan is, is a liar a murderer and a thief. Satan robbed me, murdered my best friend Carole, done at the wicked hand of Todd Jessie Garton, and lied to me about anything and everything. Though Satan wants you dead and repaying him in hell, God has the keys of hell and death.
(Rev 1:18) I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Satan does not control our final destiny. He can throw a lot of potholes in the way however, the only dead end is the final end and God controls that as well. God controls things going around in our lives. Satan would gladly take credit for this but ultimately he can't. I recall two friends telling me it was not Satan that was stopping this web site dead in its tracks, but rather God love. I had to go back to the Bible and do some study to see if this was true. It did not take me long to determine the answer. I knew my friends were right and God did shut me down. In fact God shut this entire computer down. It crashed hard multiple times and even now several things it is supposed to do are not working. I blamed Satan and it is true Satan had a hand in my failures just as he did in Job and other Bible characters, however, God ultimately decides if he wants Satan to have his way in our lives. See for Satan, to have his way in our lives he must have God's permission. A great example of this was when Satan enticed King David to count the fighting troops. It says in the Bible two different things but which one verse is right you might ask?
(1Ch 21:1) And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.
(2Sa 24:1) And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
This verse used to always confuse me as to who did what? So God was angry so He gave Satan a foothold in David's life. God used Satan as a tool to allow David to fall. I am not putting God as the bad guy I am saying that often in the Bible and in our lives God allows Satan to get a foothold just to try us. Put life in another perspective. Suppose you are designing a military vehicle. You drive it lightly under ideal conditions to test us. Then one day an unexpected war breaks out. Your vehicle you designed gets on the front lines and is facing every impossible situation from mud to sand to salt water, bullets heavy loads and more. In addition to all that you are driving hard, fast, and under hot and cold enviroments. Pretty soon your air filter will clog, in mud and sand the engine will bog, while driving fast the engine and tranny don't last, in the cold and heat the engine coughs and sputters and you are soon on the retreat, tires pop and soon the vehicles comes to a grinding halt. And why did the vehicle die, because it wasn't tested no one did even try.
OK so this is the point I am making. Unless we are tried we don't know our limitations. We don't know if we are going to last. Similarly God tests us to find out when and how long it takes us to break down and rightfully so. God wants to know do you love me? The question will be answered after a complete testing. Can we handle extreme calamities and find out if we still remain strong to God. That is the ultimate question. Can you survive prison's cruel hatred and beatings, mockings and more? It is not just if you will survive but will you remain strong to God? Look at my trials? I have had many yet I still hold strong to the love of God. Yes I have been angry but ultimately I still love God. Satan has tested me in every way he possibly can yet God is love and has prevailed in my life. I still love Jesus and I always will. I may not spend the time in God's word like I originally had however, I do all I can. God is still the number one priority on my list even after so much evil has occured all around me. God is the reason I get up in the morning. Jesus is the reason for my well being. Its all about love and the reality of God. I don't go around wondering if there is a God, but rather I have turned to him. God is the reason I am here and the reason I live. So I thank him for all he ever did for me.
Just remember God loves you and you are a great person. Because you have come to this site for the answers, know the answer is God is love.
Dale Lee Gordon
former athiest and one time crime member...
