Did I get your attention? It’s all about clicks. Words have become currency to seduce the reader to check out the post. These words are not used because they best describe the story. They are used to amplify the story beyond its actual importance. Today I am straying from news commentary to the way words are misused in the news. Here is my list for just the last two days. You could add ten more of your own.
INSANE! STUNNED! NIGHTMARE! UNPRECEDENTED! SHOCKING! MASSIVE! INCINERATED! DEVASTATED! DECIMATED! OBLITERATED! Help me, I can’t stop… ANNIHILATED! DISINTEGRATED! RAVISHED! SMASHED! CRAZY! Okay, I’ll stop. Do you see what I mean? This is all over the news and Facebook and every internet poser. Do you remember something called “civil discourse?” Can’t we communicate anymore without such exaggerations? Seriously, this is a real problem.
There was a popular subculture movie that became a cult classic back in the 1980’s called The Princess Bride. One character kept saying each unfolding event was “inconceivable!” Finally, another character observed: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” It just didn’t fit each event. All these sensational word examples are real words; they just don’t apply as often as they are used. Only use the words that truly apply. Today’s culture is lazy, using MASSIVE exaggerations instead of the truth. The Bible warns us about this kind of speech.
“But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:36-37
“Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk,” 1 Timothy 1:5-6
“For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error.” 2 Peter 2:3
“But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” Matthew 5:37
Words matter. I believe the Lord would have us be precise in our communication, strong, but clear. People need to trust our words. Let us resolve to speak honestly and with love to one another that God is glorified.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and specifically pray for the Iranian citizens as they proceed to take back their country from the jihadist Islamic occupiers of the last 47 years. Those blessing Israel will be blessed!
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President Trump has given several indications of his timeline, but does the Bible agree? When he met with Bibi Dec 29th in Mar-A-Largo they spoke of a “two month timeline.” Today he spoke of a 
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4 06 2026People all over the political spectrum are freaking out about Iran delays. Anti-war folks are upset. Free Iran folks are upset. Even the middle ground is shaking. Believers are facing a strong temptation to give up on President Trump. That is a mistake. Of course, we should never fully trust any man. “Trust but verify” applies to leaders as well as treaties. Only God is perfectly faithful and true, but He still uses men.
“Do not put your trust in princes, Nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help. His spirit departs, he returns to his earth; In that very day his plans perish. Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in Yehovah his God,” Psalm 146:3-5
“Now I know that Yehovah saves His anointed; He will answer him from His holy heaven with the saving strength of His right hand. Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of Yehovah our God.” Psalm 20:6-7
So, we trust God that He has raised up this president for “such a time as this” to carry out God’s plan. Trump is a man and will not always get it right. But the overall trajectory is in the hand of Yehovah God. He is able to give us course corrections in the middle of battle. I find this true in my own life! That’s why I pray for our president to “hear from God, have courage, and do the right thing in God’s timing.” Remember the complete change in wicked King Nebuchadnezzar at the end of his life.
They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, “What have You done?” At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my honor and splendor returned to me. My counselors and nobles resorted to me, I was restored to my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added to me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.” Daniel 4:25, 35-37
Don’t panic and become a “sky is falling” panican. Calm down and rest in God. He has already told us His plan in Jeremiah 49:34-39. Don’t put your trust in man, especially the propaganda news. Stick with Scripture, the comfort of the Holy Spirit, and Yeshua, the Prince of Peace and our Messiah!
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Les Lawrence, a voice of Christian Zionists (Read more)
Watch my video prophecy podcast on YouTube HERE.
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