“They took Jesus with them in the boat…
and other boats were with Him.
A violent squall came up and waves were breaking over the boat,
so that it was already filling up.
Jesus was in the stern, asleep on a cushion.
They woke Him and said to Him,
"Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?"
He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea,
"Quiet! Be still!" The wind ceased and there was great calm.”
(Mark 4:36-39)
Dear Friends –
A minor incident is hidden in this fantastic description of Christ’s power to control the storms of life. The Apostles on board the boat with Jesus were in fear for their lives and they asked Jesus to come to their rescue, and He did… BUT… at the same time, His action additionally rescued the other boats with them. The other boat people in the storm benefitted from the Apostle’s request without ever knowing the source of their salvation. That can be just like when God answers one of our prayers which benefits us directly, while there are all sorts of peripheral benefits applied to others unbeknownst to us or them. 
Take, for instance, a worker suffering under a cruel or unqualified boss; he asks God to please get rid of this horrible person or get him another job… in time the boss is relocated, obviously Thanks be to God! The point is, that one person asks God, and the other secular members of the department are also relieved of the horrible boss. One Christian, in any group or association, can make things better by asking God for help which can end up with far-reaching implications; that is the power of prayer to Almighty God. IF NO ONE ASKS GOD, NO RESULTS ARE OFFERED! We may think God is “asleep” and not paying any attention to our needs, but rather, I believe Christ wanted us to understand that the Blessed Trinity, while cognizant of everything that happens, does not interfere where not asked. We have free will – to ask God or not – He does not impose His will where unwanted.
Sharing answered prayers with secular friends is one way to introduce Almighty God to them. If they know you are praying for them, and “favor” falls their way, such a shocking coincidence can make them a believer. I did this with a friend suffering 
from cancer who wanted desperately to get into a particular limited program; when she was finally accepted, she saw it as an answer to my praying for her. Attending the funeral of a friend, I overheard her grandchildren say, “Who is going to pray for us now?” Secular grandchildren all over this world are being prayed for by Christian grandparents mainly because their own sons and daughters gave up on God; consequently, they will not let their grandchildren be abandoned and so their constant prayer is for God to intercede in the salvation of those souls dear to them. Yes, we can, with God’s help, get salvation for those who don’t ask for it themselves… don’t even know they want it… and they obtain it certainly not by their own efforts, but from the effort of a Christian asking God The Father on their behalf.
We are so often caught up with our own prayer list for family needs, we fail to find prayer time for all the world’s needs. We should be praying daily for those poor people caught up in 
the evil wars in Ukraine and Israel, so when you hear a status report on the news, say a silent prayer immediately for God to please help end that evil. When you see a fire engine go blaring by, say a quick Our Father Prayer to help the fireman in the danger that they are encountering as well as all parties involved. The same for policemen anywhere trying to contain the radical and irrational demonstrators of these chaotic days. So many people in the midst of tragedy need our peripheral prayers to survive disaster with God’s help… don’t hesitate, pray immediately… your asking God can save another drowning in the sea of life.
SHAME ON YOU EVILDOERS
DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Voting time is upon us, and my immediate concern is to emphasize to Christians how wrong and conflicting are The Democratic Party’s ideals with the commandments of God. His children turn to Him for whatever their needs may be, however, The Democratic Party wants to supplant that relationship and make the government the sole provider for everything. The growing far-left liberal democrats constantly push for bigger government control in all areas of life, ever striving toward a complete socialism takeover. 
These grandiose politicians promise anything and everything to get your vote when the actual implementation of these promises is practically impossible or stretches the government so thin, that its efforts are ineffectual. The main issue of abortion is a high-priority concern to the dominating secular women of the world, and true Christians must vote against a democratic ticket that endorses killing unborn babies, even those who survive an abortion. This is an abomination to God, and you cannot remain a Christian if you do not fight this with Him! Vote a straight Republican ticket so the far right can continue working to keep this abomination from growing. You will be helping to turn the soul of this nation back to Almighty God where it rightfully belongs, and Whose tenets rightfully established its rock-solid foundation.
Our founding fathers were God-fearing men with integrity and honor as an integral part of their makeup… not so with the current Democrats who deceive for their party’s betterment at the expense of the nation’s best interests. The 25th Amendment states that “whenever the Vice President and a majority of 
either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, will transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.” The founding fathers could foresee the necessity to remove a president from office, but they could never comprehend their words would be deliberately ignored to maintain an incompetent in office for political party advantages over the best interest of the country. Men of integrity and honor would place the country first, but Kamala Harris and other cabinet members, who had access to Biden daily and certainly knew of his degradation, deliberately chose to conspire in a cover-up and ignored their required commitment to the 25th Amendment! These devious people must not be allowed to hold office for another four years to continue immoral, self-aggrandizing behavior … vote them out…they may claim to be Christian, but their “fruit” of lies, conspiracy, and underhanded deceit proves they are the work of the devil, completely untrustworthy. If you vote for them you are complicit in enabling and continuing sinful behavior… Shame On You!
The Harris/Walz ticket is one of the most far-left socialistic duos possible and they will continue the Biden policies that have brought this country to near ruin. Harris contributed to the demise of San Francisco and the great exodus from California due to her time as DA for San Francisco, 
CA Attorney General, and Senator where her progressive policies enabled crime to run rampant, while her additionally advocating for the defunding of police in a sanctuary city added to migrant criminal activities. And she wants to do the same thing to Washington DC where she has already contributed money to that cause for defunding its’ police and making it another sanctuary city! Put in power, she would make this a sanctuary nation! with defunded police forces! How can anyone with common sense not see the threat she poses? There will always be voting idiots who just want a woman president and don’t care about her abilities; or those who want a person of color in office regardless of qualifications; and all the non-thinking, uneducated air-heads who are for her should have their stupidity confronted… Shame On You!
Assigned to the border crisis as VP, Harris accomplished nothing; during her four years in office, she followed behind Biden, giggling the inarticulate, word-salad rhetoric of an imbecile. She couldn’t pick a VP of stellar credentials with honor and integrity, but a similar buffoon who won’t upstage her, for he only adds to 
her zany leftist behavior. Democrats who recognize this lunacy should reevaluate their priorities and change parties; sufficient history has elapsed to prove the pitfalls of bigger and bigger government, and that the rising astronomical national debt must be curtailed, not continued. We recently experienced the inadequacy of the Secret Service spread thin by demand for service, just as the Capital Police being incapable of stopping or controlling the rioters that are disfiguring our national monuments… government growth, control, and handouts must be restrained… vote Republican and pray Almighty God delivers our nation from the evil democratic party.
