It is a testing of our faith, and a demonstration of God's power, when a table is set before us in the presence of our enemies.

The greatest fulfillment of this promise will take place when the trumpet of the Lord sounds and the victorious saints of all ages are raised from the dead and the living overcomers are changed into immortality. At that time Antichrist and the wicked of the earth will stand by helplessly as the Lord's army is caught up majestically to meet the Commander-in-Chief in the air.

The Lord Jesus anoints our head with the Holy Spirit. It is a good thing too because the battle today is for the mind. Communication technology is developing at a pace that could not have been envisioned fifty years ago. Every sort of information is being channeled into the mind. No doubt the continual watching of television is having an effect on the human mind and body that has not been recognized as yet.

We are transformed by the renewing of our mind, the Apostle Paul tells us. It is of extreme importance today that we pray carefully so we may know what we should be seeing and listening to and what should be avoided.

There is "death in the pot" as far as television and the Internet are concerned. This is particularly true concerning children. It is an endless amazement that American people cannot awaken to the fact that the media to which the children are exposed, with its emphasis on lust and murder, is causing the children to act in antisocial ways.

Because of our love of comfort we are unwilling to demand that all such programming cease. But we must understand that until we do remove from the children and youth the media that glorify lust and violence we will have an increase of perversion and murder. To maintain that the orgiastic presentations have little impact on the behavior of young people is absolute nonsense. The youth are only acting out what is being fed to them constantly.

God told us to teach His ways to our children from the earliest possible age. When we do this with love and skill, the results are rewarding. When we turn them over to the moneymakers of the entertainment industry the results are catastrophic as we sit in court while our boy or girl is charged with murder.

We make the decision and our young people bear the consequences.

Our cup overflows when we follow the Lord faithfully. The higher the rank in the Kingdom to which we have been called the more time the Lord spends establishing the foundation. Many years of deferral of our desires may be required and we must hold steady in faith.

But when the building has been completed, our cup indeed will overflow. God has promised us limitless joy. Such shall come to pass in our life if we do not turn aside from the path set before us.

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. (Psalms 23:6—NIV)

When we are living in God's will we notice the little evidences of God's goodness and love that keep appearing at unexpected times.

To be continued.