OUT OF THE BOX

  Dear Friends, I am re-posting these three articles on abortion because of the seriousness of this issue. As you will remember, New York recently enacted a law allowing babies to be aborted even during the 3rd trimester, which would be right up until the time of birth. This law also allows them to kill the child if the aborted baby is born alive. Now California’s governor just signed into law a bill that will allow the death of the child up to 28 days after birth. This is child sacrifice. This is a cruel and wicked abomination. It is these practices that will bring the judgment of God upon our nation. It is time for Christians to pray and for pastors to speak up in the pulpits. --- Billy Long   PART ONE THE BRUTALITY OF ABORTION BODIES IN JARS Excavations of pre-Israelite Canaan uncovered a large number of jars containing the remains of children sacrificed to Baal. Other excavations discovered many jars containing the remains of infants who had been sacrificed to Baal during King Ahab

  Dear Friends, The following article is one I have posted before. I am repeating it here because the Holy Spirit spoke to me during a recent conference of Christian leaders. Looking over the gathering I saw men and women who have sought to please the Lord and to do His will. They have their gifts and strengths, but also their weaknesses and struggles. I asked the Lord to help me truly appreciate the saints, and not despise or have a cold heart toward the people of the Lord. Help me to love them as You do, to be patient with them as You are, and to walk humbly before them, knowing there are treasures among them, people who are better than I am. We need revelation to see the true people of God and to see the beauty of the Lord upon them and the blessings we receive from them.     The Psalmist said we should “mark or take note of the blameless man.” It seems we tend to give most of our attention to the one who stumbles or fails. We also tend to approach people suspiciously. I’ve alwa

  Dear Friends The following article is a testimony of how Jesus healed me of a mental oppression that followed me from elementary school until the week before my senior year of high school. I cried out to the Lord at that time, and HE healed me. Billy Long   MY TESTIMONY: HEALED OF OCD AND PANIC ATTACKS Panic Disorder No one knew the mental torment I was going through, and I managed to keep it hidden from my parents, sisters, and friends through all my years in elementary, junior high, and high school. The problem was a blend of some sort of panic disorder accompanied by an obsessive-compulsive disorder. I first experienced it in the car returning home from my tonsillectomy surgery. As the car approached our home at the crossroads in Longs, SC I suddenly felt different and strange in the head. I thought to myself, “Something isn’t right.” I was only eleven or twelve years old and did not have the maturity or vocabulary to explain this strange mental aberration to anyone. I suffered wi