jvega's Journal

While many define faith as a philosophical system of living, when you look thru various scriptures, to have faith means to "trust in God"... it is to confide in Him, that He will draw you onto His Path as established for your life, rather than the intent the enemy has sought to implement in your daily living... it is a struggle between Good and evil... what you need to do is choose the right side and ask for guidance... you don't need to be perfect... just be willing!  

For reference go to www.biblegateway.com and search key words Trust in the Lord.

God Bless you all, in the name of the Lord and Saviour Jesus, Amen! 

“So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!” Luke 11:9-13

Lord Bless you, thanks for the blesings provided while I am still away, His Love & Peace be with you!

The importance of posting information as this, is to bring awareness and vigilance to our surroundings, to be watchful of signs and how they interrelate with scriptural passages that are designed to warn us of events that will take place:  

Article from http://www.naturalnews.com/023362.html 

(NaturalNews) The number of natural disasters around the world has increased by more than four times in the last 20 years, according to a report released by the British charity Oxfam. Oxfam analyzed data from the Red Cross, United Nations and researchers at Louvain University in Belgium. It found that the earth is currently experiencing approximately 500 natural disasters per year, compared with 120 per year in the early 1980s. The number of weather-related disasters in 2006 was 240, compared with 60 in 1980.

At the same time, the number of geologically related natural disasters has held steady. Oxfam has attributed the increasing disaster rate to global warming

"We are talking about some very unusual floods in West Africa, very unusual floods in East Africa, extraordinary floods in Mexico and parts of Central America, and heat waves in Greece [and] eastern Europe," report author John Magrath said.

"This is no freak year," said Oxfam director Barbara Stocking. "It follows a pattern of more frequent, more erratic, more unpredictable and more extreme weather events that are affecting more people."

Between 1985 and 1994, Oxfam found that 174 million people were affected by disasters each year. In the following decade, this figure increased by 70 percent to 254 million people per year.

The increasing disaster rate has disproportionately affected the poor, the report noted. Although rich countries tend to distribute aid primarily in the event of high-profile emergencies, the increase over the past two decades has been mostly in small to medium disasters.

But it is precisely these smaller disasters, when they follow quickly upon each other with no opportunity for recovery, that can destroy poor communities' abilities to support themselves.

Magrath noted that those least responsible for causing global warming are being hardest hit by its effects.

"There is a basic global injustice in this," he said. "It seems to us that the rich nations of this earth have the historical responsibility to act first and fastest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to show an example and to lead the way."

--------

Excerpts from http://www.naturalnews.com/023251.html

Another question comes to mind when considering the events that have taken place here. Are all these so-called natural disasters really "natural" in the first place? Certainly, earthquakes, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis and other disasters have occurred from time to time on our planet, even long before humans came along and starting disturbing the climate, but one thing I've noticed in the last six years or so is an apparent acceleration of climate-related disasters.

Could it be that human behavior on our planet -- the poisoning of the air, the oceans, the land, the disruption of ecosystems and much more -- has put in motion an acceleration of climate-related disasters that are now striking populations in China, Myanmar and other regions? In other words, is our man-made disruption of the planet now resulting in a backlash of natural disasters?

If so, they should not be called "natural" disasters at all. They should be called "man-made disasters." If global warming accelerates in the years ahead, for example, and ocean levels continue rising, then when the coastal cities of the world are flooded, wouldn't it be incorrect to refer to those events as "natural" disasters? The rising of the oceans is clearly a man-made disaster, since it was put into motion by our own actions.

Could earthquakes also be impacted by human activity? I am not aware of any particular mechanism by which human activity could directly cause or aggravate earthquakes, but I do know this: Human activity is deeply intertwined with every system and cycle on our planet... often in ways we do not understand. Every action we take -- from detonating nuclear bombs in oceans and underground testing chambers (which the U.S. military has done numerous times), to HAARP weather control experiments -- has an unintended consequence. And many of those consequences, we are learning, can be quite catastrophic.

So while it is important to help those fellow human beings who have been harmed by natural disasters today, it is even more important to pursue a path of planetary change that can help reduce the frequency and intensity of similar "natural" disasters in the future. There is no question that man-made climate change is now altering weather patterns and contributing to floods, hurricanes, droughts and tornadoes. What I'm wondering is this: How much damage will we endure before we wake up and realize this is largely self-inflicted?

The planet, after all, is simply responding to things we have unwittingly unleashed through an unprecedented campaign of pollution and alteration of atmospheric chemistry. We should not be surprised in the least that the effects of our actions would lead to more radical weather patterns, crop failures, famines, infectious disease outbreaks and the like.

As much as the loss of life in the China and Myanmar is emotionally devastating, these events are but tiny blips on the radar compared to the planetary backlash that may be coming. The population correction that's on its way over the next century, due to famine, disease, soil failures, crop failures, fresh water scarcity, climate change, and other similar causes, could result in the loss of a billion human lives on our planet. It is that level of disaster that I hope we can somehow avoid by pursuing radical changes in CO2 emissions, reductions in the manufacture of toxic chemicals, agricultural reforms, ending genetic pollution through GM crops, and other such areas of concern.

Yes, the death of 150,000 people today in China and Myanmar is a massive human tragedy. And yes, we would be right to help those individuals in any way we can right now. But we must not lose sight of the much greater disasters that yet await our human civilization if we do not act decisively to end our rampant destruction of our planet's stabilizing ecosystems. If China, the United States and other prominent polluters of the world do not take immediate action to reverse the rise in carbon dioxide emissions and bring our planet back from the threshold of runaway climatic disaster, we are going to be facing centuries of disasters that make today's China quake death toll seem insignificant by comparison.

What's at stake here, friends, is nothing less than the future of human life on our planet. It is more fragile than you think, and it is endlessly frustrating to realize that the majority of human beings insist on pursuing a path that will inevitably lead to their own destruction.

So please, help those in need today, but don't lose sight of the far more significant goal of preventing the potential collapse of human civilization in the not-so-distant future. We may be able to save a young child from the rubble of a collapsed building in China today, but can we save ourselves from the collapse of a global ecosystem that simply refuses to support the size of the human population that now desperately inhabits the planet?