Urgent Praise

Breaking news for Christians this is an urgent request: We must worship God for who He is, and praise Him for the lives and bodies that He gave to us for we are fearfully and wonderfully made by the Creator of the universe, and us. Praise King Jesus for you. If you do not have a great voice praise Jesus, if you do not know how to play an instrument, praise Jesus, if you do not have a rhythm or a beat, praise Jesus!!

We are loved by Jesus Christ, blessed with different disabilities that we can use to help others with the same type of physical ailments and to be used to bring people to Christ. We are blessed with different voices to bring the love of Christ Jesus in to the world. We are blessed with different talents to help, encourage, preach, pray, love, and bring the lost into a right relationship with Jesus Christ.

So when you ever feel down because of rejection by someone who you thought liked you but you were totally mistaken and they really did not, if you are ever discouraged because of people laughing at you for believing in Jesus Christ and saying that you're not one of those religious people, if you are ever feeling tired of the burden of taking the Good News of Jesus into the world, then please, please read the Word of God, pray to God who wants to hear from you, be in fellowship with other Christians, and love others so that Jesus Christ will shine.

To all my brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ who I know, or have not met yet, or have ever been angry at or caused pain to I truly and deeply apologize for not being an example of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who blessed me with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

I love you all and want you to know that I am here to encourage and to love on you,
Your Brother in Jesus Christ,
Mark Cannon

Today is the day!!!!

According to the Scriptures we as Christians must go into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature -Mark 16:15 and we must according to Matthew 28- 18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."

This is not a once in a lifetime deal and you are done because Jesus says once everyone has heard the Gospel then He will return to the earth to judge the righteous who have faithfully followed the teachings of Jesus and He will judge the unrighteous who denied the existence and the reality of Jesus Christ being the creator and sustainer of the world of whom there is no one greater. He is the righteous judge and King of all.

So if you have not spoken about the hope that lies with in you because being the Lord Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit sent from God the Father in the last month, week, or day, then please speak about it, facebook it, myspace it, sing it, read it aloud, and live it out for the glory of King Jesus!! Today I was listening to Allan Houston speak to Liberty University a few years ago and he said that we might be the only Bible that people see. So please let your words and your actions reflect Jesus Christ and if you do have a rough time in times of hardship, persecution, and trouble, then call upon the Lord for strength, and be there for someone else who needs, love, compassion, a help up, a friendly smile, a kind word of encouragement spoken softly so that it turns away wrath, and to plant a seed in their life so that when they are dying or are in need they will never be able to say that you were not there for them to encourage them and give them the truth of the Gospel in a loving way that Jesus demands of us to do.

So why must we serve King Jesus? Well simply put, look at His life. He was born humbly in a manger which is a feeding trough for the animals. He was teaching the Pharisees and other religious teachers of the day. So when you say that you are to young or do not know enough please look preach the Word of God anyways because the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say. Jesus taught in parables or everyday speech which was common to the people, so we do not have to use big complicated words although it is nice to use complex Christian terms we do not have to do so as long as the Gospel is being taught in a Biblical manner. Jesus was spit upon, mocked, laughed at, whipped 39 times, had to carry His own cross to Calvary where He was crucified, bled and died for our sins to bring life that is everlasting to those who accept Him as Savior and trust only in Him.

So if we are ever in doubt of the love that Jesus showed us, please look to the cross on which Christ sacrificed Himself for our iniquities bearing the shame, pain, and wrath of God Almighty that we deserve so we can live free from our sins.

Please seek Jesus Christ and His power, love, grace, and joy so that you can shine like the stars for Him.

Your brother in the King Jesus Christ,
Mark Cannon

please pray

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Christians in professional sports

Dwight Howard, Kurt Warner, Derek, Fisher, Reggie White, Kaka, Michael Redd, Lance Berkman, Albert Pujols, Matt Holiday, John Kitna, Tim Hightower, and Charlie Ward are all solid men of God in professional sports. Athletes have a huge platform in this world and I am so thankful to see such bold men following after God. I pray that those in professional sports who are Christians and are not using their platforms as boldly for Jesus as they can, will start to do so, and that Jesus will be glorified.

Bible breakdown

In Genesis 30 Rachel envied her sister Leah because she had did not bear any children to her husband Jacob and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die." Rachel gave her maid Bilhah to Jacob so she could have children through her. Bilhah conceived and bore Jacob a son.
6 Then Rachel said, “God has judged my case; and He has also heard my voice and given me a son.” Therefore she called his name Dan.[a] 7 And Rachel’s maid Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8 Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.[b]
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped bearing, she took Zilpah her maid and gave her to Jacob as wife. 10 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a son. 11 Then Leah said, “A troop comes!”[c] So she called his name Gad.[d] 12 And Leah’s maid Zilpah bore Jacob a second son. 13 Then Leah said, “I am happy, for the daughters will call me blessed.” So she called his name Asher.[e]
14 Now Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
15 But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”
And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”
16 When Jacob came out of the field in the evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come in to me, for I have surely hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” And he lay with her that night.
17 And God listened to Leah, and she conceived and bore Jacob a fifth son. 18 Leah said, “God has given me my wages, because I have given my maid to my husband.” So she called his name Issachar.[f] 19 Then Leah conceived again and bore Jacob a sixth son. 20 And Leah said, “God has endowed me with a good endowment; now my husband will dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons.” So she called his name Zebulun.[g] 21 Afterward she bore a daughter, and called her name Dinah.
22 Then God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her and opened her womb. 23 And she conceived and bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.” 24 So she called his name Joseph,[h] and said, “The LORD shall add to me another son.”

Jacob’s Agreement with Laban

25 And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, “Send me away, that I may go to my own place and to my country. 26 Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go; for you know my service which I have done for you.”
27 And Laban said to him, “Please stay, if I have found favor in your eyes, for I have learned by experience that the LORD has blessed me for your sake.” 28 Then he said, “Name me your wages, and I will give it.”
29 So Jacob said to him, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock has been with me. 30 For what you had before I came was little, and it has increased to a great amount; the LORD has blessed you since my coming. And now, when shall I also provide for my own house?”
31 So he said, “What shall I give you?”
And Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep your flocks: 32 Let me pass through all your flock today, removing from there all the speckled and spotted sheep, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the goats; and these shall be my wages. 33 So my righteousness will answer for me in time to come, when the subject of my wages comes before you: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the lambs, will be considered stolen, if it is with me.”
34 And Laban said, “Oh, that it were according to your word!” 35 So he removed that day the male goats that were speckled and spotted, all the female goats that were speckled and spotted, every one that had some white in it, and all the brown ones among the lambs, and gave them into the hand of his sons. 36 Then he put three days’ journey between himself and Jacob, and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
37 Now Jacob took for himself rods of green poplar and of the almond and chestnut trees, peeled white strips in them, and exposed the white which was in the rods. 38 And the rods which he had peeled, he set before the flocks in the gutters, in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink, so that they should conceive when they came to drink. 39 So the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth streaked, speckled, and spotted. 40 Then Jacob separated the lambs, and made the flocks face toward the streaked and all the brown in the flock of Laban; but he put his own flocks by themselves and did not put them with Laban’s flock.
41 And it came to pass, whenever the stronger livestock conceived, that Jacob placed the rods before the eyes of the livestock in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods. 42 But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put them in; so the feebler were Laban’s and the stronger Jacob’s. 43 Thus the man became exceedingly prosperous, and had large flocks, female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Dinah, Joseph, and Benjamin were all sons of Jacob and they became the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Bible breakdown

In Genesis 29 Jacob walked over to a well in a field where there were 3 flocks of sheep drinking the water from the well. He then found the shepherds who were taking care of the sheep and Jacob asked them,
"My brothers, where are you from?"
"We're from Haran," they replied.

5 He said to them, "Do you know Laban, Nahor's grandson?"
"Yes, we know him," they answered.

6 Then Jacob asked them, "Is he well?"
"Yes, he is," they said, "and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep."

7 "Look," he said, "the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture."

8 "We can't," they replied, "until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep."

9 While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep, for she was a shepherdess. 10 When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban's sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle's sheep. 11 Then Jacob kissed Rachel and began to weep aloud. 12 He had told Rachel that he was a relative of her father and a son of Rebekah. So she ran and told her father.

13 As soon as Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he hurried to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, and there Jacob told him all these things. 14 Then Laban said to him, "You are my own flesh and blood."

Jacob Marries Leah and Rachel
After Jacob had stayed with him for a whole month, 15 Laban said to him, "Just because you are a relative of mine, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be."

16 Now Laban had two daughters; the name of the older was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. 17 Leah had weak [a] eyes, but Rachel was lovely in form, and beautiful. 18 Jacob was in love with Rachel and said, "I'll work for you seven years in return for your younger daughter Rachel."

19 Laban said, "It's better that I give her to you than to some other man. Stay here with me." 20 So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

21 Then Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife. My time is completed, and I want to lie with her."

22 So Laban brought together all the people of the place and gave a feast. 23 But when evening came, he took his daughter Leah and gave her to Jacob, and Jacob lay with her. 24 And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter as her maidservant.

25 When morning came, there was Leah! So Jacob said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? I served you for Rachel, didn't I? Why have you deceived me?"

26 Laban replied, "It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older one. 27 Finish this daughter's bridal week; then we will give you the younger one also, in return for another seven years of work."

28 And Jacob did so. He finished the week with Leah, and then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife. 29 Laban gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant. 30 Jacob lay with Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. And he worked for Laban another seven years.
Jacob's Children
31 When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren. 32 Leah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Reuben, [b] for she said, "It is because the LORD has seen my misery. Surely my husband will love me now."

33 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too." So she named him Simeon. [c]

34 Again she conceived, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons." So he was named Levi. [d]

35 She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said, "This time I will praise the LORD." So she named him Judah. [e] Then she stopped having children.

Laban deceived Jacob into marrying Leah instead of Rachel, but Laban said it was the tradition of the culture that the oldest girl in the family would get married before the youngest girl. Leah bore Jacob 4 sons named Rueben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah and she praised the Lord after Judah was born.

Great men of God in the Bible

I want to talk about great men of God in the Bible. The first of these bold men of God is Benaiah. You might be asking who this person is as I did. I read 2 Samuel chapter 23 and I found out how radically bold for God this man was!!
2 Samuel 23: 20-23
20 Benaiah son of Jehoiada was a valiant fighter from Kabzeel, who performed great exploits. He struck down two of Moab's best men. He also went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion. 21 And he struck down a huge Egyptian. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club. He snatched the spear from the Egyptian's hand and killed him with his own spear. 22 Such were the exploits of Benaiah son of Jehoiada; he too was as famous as the three mighty men. 23 He was held in greater honor than any of the Thirty, but he was not included among the Three. And David put him in charge of his bodyguard.
Wow!!!!! This man took a Biblical leap of faith, conquered his fears, and went out there on a snowy day and killed a lion!!!!! Now we may not be able to kill lions, but these lions are what we fear. We may fear people, but we must be like Benaiah and go out by trusting God, and giving Him our fears of the people who make us angry or scared and faithfully serve the great God of this universe. We are stronger than we think as Christians because we have the power of Christ in us, so be not afraid because God is with us until the end. David respected Benaiah so much that he made him the leader of his army!!!

The next 2 people who were bold men of God are Joshua and Caleb.
Numbers 14:
6 Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had explored the land, tore their clothes 7 and said to the entire Israelite assembly, "The land we passed through and explored is exceedingly good. 8 If the LORD is pleased with us, he will lead us into that land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and will give it to us. 9 Only do not rebel against the LORD. And do not be afraid of the people of the land, because we will swallow them up. Their protection is gone, but the LORD is with us. Do not be afraid of them."
Joshua and Caleb saw the land and that is was ready to be taken for God. They were not afraid of the giants because they knew that God was with them.
20 The LORD replied, "I have forgiven them, as you asked. 21 Nevertheless, as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the LORD fills the whole earth, 22 not one of the men who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the desert but who disobeyed me and tested me ten times- 23 not one of them will ever see the land I promised on oath to their forefathers. No one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it. 24 But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly, I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit it. 25 Since the Amalekites and Canaanites are living in the valleys, turn back tomorrow and set out toward the desert along the route to the Red Sea. [a] "
God blessed Caleb for following Him wholeheartedly. We must follow the Lord our God wholeheartedly, because He is worthy of all of our praise and our absolute best effort.

My final bold man of God is Gideon.
Judges 7
Gideon Defeats the Midianites
1 Early in the morning, Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) and all his men camped at the spring of Harod. The camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh. 2 The LORD said to Gideon, "You have too many men for me to deliver Midian into their hands. In order that Israel may not boast against me that her own strength has saved her, 3 announce now to the people, 'Anyone who trembles with fear may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.' " So twenty-two thousand men left, while ten thousand remained.

4 But the LORD said to Gideon, "There are still too many men. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say, 'This one shall go with you,' he shall go; but if I say, 'This one shall not go with you,' he shall not go."

5 So Gideon took the men down to the water. There the LORD told him, "Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel down to drink." 6 Three hundred men lapped with their hands to their mouths. All the rest got down on their knees to drink.

7 The LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hands. Let all the other men go, each to his own place." 8 So Gideon sent the rest of the Israelites to their tents but kept the three hundred, who took over the provisions and trumpets of the others.
Now the camp of Midian lay below him in the valley. 9 During that night the LORD said to Gideon, "Get up, go down against the camp, because I am going to give it into your hands. 10 If you are afraid to attack, go down to the camp with your servant Purah 11 and listen to what they are saying. Afterward, you will be encouraged to attack the camp." So he and Purah his servant went down to the outposts of the camp. 12 The Midianites, the Amalekites and all the other eastern peoples had settled in the valley, thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the sand on the seashore.

13 Gideon arrived just as a man was telling a friend his dream. "I had a dream," he was saying. "A round loaf of barley bread came tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent with such force that the tent overturned and collapsed."

14 His friend responded, "This can be nothing other than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has given the Midianites and the whole camp into his hands."

15 When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped God. He returned to the camp of Israel and called out, "Get up! The LORD has given the Midianite camp into your hands." 16 Dividing the three hundred men into three companies, he placed trumpets and empty jars in the hands of all of them, with torches inside.

17 "Watch me," he told them. "Follow my lead. When I get to the edge of the camp, do exactly as I do. 18 When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, then from all around the camp blow yours and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.' "

19 Gideon and the hundred men with him reached the edge of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, just after they had changed the guard. They blew their trumpets and broke the jars that were in their hands. 20 The three companies blew the trumpets and smashed the jars. Grasping the torches in their left hands and holding in their right hands the trumpets they were to blow, they shouted, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!" 21 While each man held his position around the camp, all the Midianites ran, crying out as they fled.

22 When the three hundred trumpets sounded, the LORD caused the men throughout the camp to turn on each other with their swords. The army fled to Beth Shittah toward Zererah as far as the border of Abel Meholah near Tabbath. 23 Israelites from Naphtali, Asher and all Manasseh were called out, and they pursued the Midianites. 24 Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth Barah."
So all the men of Ephraim were called out and they took the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth Barah. 25 They also captured two of the Midianite leaders, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb at the winepress of Zeeb. They pursued the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was by the Jordan.
Gideon had so much faith in the Lord God who told him to cut down the size of his army so that the only men who were fighting were those bold men of the Lord who were willing to give up their lives to fulfill the purpose of God. It was 300 people total in the army of the Lord and they defeated their enemies because they were faithful, bold, and served the Lord without doubting His power and His will.

Where are the Benaiah's, the Joshua's, the Caleb's the Gideon's of this world? Where are the men and women of God Almighty who will step out of their fears and into the power of God the Father, God the Son, the Mediator Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit who guides our paths into the battle of eternity against Satan and his minions of evil and wickedness. Be bold for the Lord, conquer your fears in the power of God.