Coffee With Jim Holmes

For those that could not find it or did not read a better edit, here is how it appears on my blog. This is the last cmobination blog I will be writing, I think.

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION

Ephesians 4:8: “When he ascended on high, he led captives in his train and gave gifts to men." NIV
Most present-day Christians that I know believe that as Christ ascended He led sinners from the captivity of sin and as He did he gathered gifts from heaven and dispersed them then and is dispersing them now to believers.

Now I believe and I many friends, that believe with me that all men are instilled with gifts and talents that may not be for the purposes of God, but was part of his original creation. I am speaking of all those things that we feel innately, that we have the ability to do. Then when these human traits are exposed in a person and that person is led from captivity or as most Christians state are saved to live now and with Christ eternally in place. That person will move higher are better in his gifting’s. Success is not measured by how much money you make or high you rise in your occupation. It is measured by a person’s commitment to God and His teachings. That person is at peace with himself and his fellow man. When we step off into something that we have no business in we create chaos and turmoil. And most Christians believe that the purveyor of chaos and turmoil is the evil adversary, the devil.

Well, with this in mind I Believe in; Obama has led this nation right to the point that many believe he wanted too. I partially believe he had goals in mind that were to weaken the country; and bring us into the image that he has for us. But I believe there is something that we are not looking at entirely I have heard some other commentators speak of it. But I’m not sure enough attention has been paid to it.

We can list the continuing scandals that his administration is facing. And they are growing by the day. But what good does that do. The major problem that Obama and his Cabinet and Advisers have is ineptness, and I’ve been. Think back to the 2004 Democrat National Convention; and there was a very stately, polished, young African American, with very light skin at the podium. You easily became enraptured with his voice. He is telling you things that you like to hear. He is a young Senator freshly elected to the United States Senate. Where had this young man come from? How did he display such poise and confidence?

After graduating from law school (where he was an adjunct professor) he had been found in the streets of Chicago as a community organizer. His political star began to rise when he ran for the State Senate. Serving one term for the fine folks in his district in Chicago; he decided he could help them better by being a United States Senator. He was elected and started running for President of the United States of America. He probably was laying the speech at the 2004 Democrat Convention, as another rung on his meteoric rise to political fame. But his fame was only in Illinois and basically Chicago and possibly the Northeast. A well played political game had him elected to three offices even though he had had no political EXPERIENCE, with him serving only nine years in the first two. Nor had he had any administrative or managerial Experience.

Now this writer has no problem with a well played political plan, as long as it is legal. And I’m not implying that there was anything illegal in the campaigns that the Democrats ran for Obama. But everyone knows that he had very little input into it. Why you ask? Ok, I will ask you, do you know anyone that is capable of coming from a position of community organizer to being President of the United States in less than 10 years EXPERIENCE.

Now the above point can be argued in the opposing view. But in this case a 10 year straight shot to the presidency is a little rough to swallow; when there is no FOUNDATION for governing or managing. Now it has been suggested even in this article that Obama is being managed. I have never known a President in my lifetime that was not managed to some degree one way or another. And I have seen several. That is the American political system. But in most of the Presidents I have known in my lifetime: Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton Bush and Bush 43 had exhibited the capability of governing and/or managing. In 2008 Obama had done neither. And all we could get out of him now seem to be that he wanted to spread the wealth around.

Well while he has been attempting to use spread the wealth around; the nation and the world has gone to h____ in a handbasket. The nation is obvious. I know he inherited a financial mess that did not jump up overnight. It had been accruing through several of the previous Presidencies; all the way back to Jimmy Carter. Not many economists probably may agree with me (and I’m not an economist); but the mess that Jimmy Carter left us in has been attempted to be managed by the following after him. But recent Presidents have not had the boiling pot that Carter left us with. They had been trying to manage it, but probably did not want to bite into the Apple because they felt they would be committing political su***de. They had not wanted to do the hard things; make the hard decisions that could bring our spiraling debt under control. Maybe if they had he would have resolved many issues that exploded 2008 and 2009.

So the result was that when George Bush handed the reins of government over to Obama he was inexperienced, evidently did not have the gifts to govern. And it is clear now that the handlers of this particular President do not know how either. Example, this past weekend the President left Washington and spoken at a commencement then he played several rounds of golf. While all the time, Iraq was boiling over. At this very hour we have Americans in harm’s way that are civilians and not military. Now I know he moved the aircraft carrier and other assets and to the Persian Gulf this weekend. And I know with all the communications that a President has access to; he can have his fingers on all types of buttons. But what galls me is the fact that this is been building for over three years. Many analysts have been predicting this. Additionally, the optics of his absence shows his lack of engagement.

The above simply In My Opinion goes to prove his ineptness to govern. And the fact that his close circle of advisers had not seen this coming means that he surrounds himself with people that are inept at governing. Or maybe this is part of their plan for chaos. There are many fine generals and admirals in the service today that have told him or sent messages that this was about to happen. But Obama tended to ignore it because it didn’t fit his game plan. He had pulled out of Iraq; the war was over; and the entire world is at peace. Again and that miss on the part of his handlers, whoever they may be, proves that he has surrounded himself with inept officials.

For a long time and even in the beginning of my ministry I felt like that it would be a concerted effort on the part of somebody to set in motion actions that would signal the return of Christ. I have seen in two years how the world could fall into anarchy. How situations can be caused not by a direct act with the intent to bring the world to its knees. It’s like a husband that knows how to of push his wife’s buttons and make her mad and he does it. Or does it happen accidentally?

It is My Humble Opinion that the world could enter the end times; not by a direct act of volition. But by the actions of people in each country that have drifted into a state of feed me take care of me from the crib to the grave. This allows inept people to get into positions of authority. Because they offer the handouts; even though there’s no way to pay for them.

I said earlier the beginning of this article that God gives gifts to men and women so that they can carry out both things that He wants them to do and things that they have a desire to do. I have seen the same, in many different levels of government. Men and women gifted for government, serving admirably, but also taking these gifts to do things along the lines of their desires. We cannot expect any better condition in our world or our nation; with people that do not know God and that do not know what it is to have gifts from God.
Posted by COFFEE WITH JIM HOLMES at 6/17/2014 1

I have decided that I'm going to divide my energies between this page for politics and J&H Ministries for my offerings of the spiritual nature I would've published this week's offerings probably on this page as well as J&H Ministries.

The truth is I don't know that I'm an expert enough in either field to be telling others what to think or believe. But now as I write I am using a dictation device which allows I believe the flow of the Holy Spirit in both the political and the spiritual offerings. My typing has been average all of my life, however, the older I get the bigger my fingers get. This causes great frustration, and does not allow my brain, which is older also, to let the Holy Spirit flow.

So be patient with me and join me on both pages and I promise to attempt to put something up on each one of them every week. Thank you for your wonderful friendship, wherever I know you from. Also of those that follow me that don't know me I thank you also. A writer's greatest reward is to know that he are she is read.