Ana's update/comments from Daniel

"While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease" (Genesis 8:22).

"While the earth remains..." The inference here is that the earth won't last forever, but in the words that follow, God promises that as long as the earth remains, there will be certain constants: seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, day and night. We have confidence in these promises of God. We don't lose sleep at night worried that it might not dawn a new day tomorrow.

Jesus said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you" (Hebrews 13:5), but sometimes we worry that He just might do so. Just as we have great confidence that God will keep the earth spinning, we should also have confidence that God will supply all of our needs.

I think God intended these promises to remind us daily of His faithfulness. Every morning when we wake up and see it is getting light outside, we should say, "Is God ever faithful!" Every evening as the sun sets we ought to say, "Wow, God sure keeps His Word, doesn't He?"

God will keep His promises whether we believe them or not. When troubled, we can become anxious and fearful, or we can have a victorious attitude. We can have victory because God is going to take care of us. He promised.

I love this verse in Genesis, it really gives me confidence in my Lord when we see how everything in the world seems to be upside down. Reading, or watching the news, can really get one worried. Just a few headlines to prove my point.

The deadliest bush fires in Australia's history are still raging across the south of the country, leaving hundreds of homes destroyed and towns decimated.
Described as “hell on earth”, Victoria is currently ablaze with 26 fires, including one with a 60-mile fire front. They began yesterday amid record-breaking temperatures and left a trail of death and devastation across the state, burning through 350,000 hectares. 50 fires are also now burning across the border in New South Wales, where temperatures reached 46C today.
The fires are now officially the worst in Australia's history, surpassing the death toll of the Ash Wednesday fires which claimed 76 lives when they tore through Victoria and South Australia in February, 1983.
John Brumby, the emotional Victorian Premier, said it was one of the “darkest days in Victoria’s history” and described the deadly inferno as “hell on earth”.
Islam group urges forest fire jihad
AUSTRALIA has been singled out as a target for "forest jihad" by a group of Islamic extremists urging Muslims to deliberately light bush fires as a weapon of terror.
US intelligence channels earlier this year identified a web site calling on Muslims in Australia, the US, Europe and Russia to "start forest fires", claiming "scholars have justified chopping down and burning the infidels' forests when they do the same to our lands".
The posting - which instructs jihadis to remember "forest jihad" in summer months - says fires cause economic damage and pollution, tie up security agencies and can take months to extinguish so that "this terror will haunt them for an extended period of time".
"Imagine if, after all the losses caused by such an event, a jihadist organization were to claim responsibility for the forest fires," the web site says. "You can hardly begin to imagine the level of fear that would take hold of people in the United States, in Europe, in Russia and in Australia."
LONDON -- Documents recovered from a remote area along the Pakistan border have revealed that Osama bin Laden wants al-Qaida to launch a "global fireball" by lighting forest fires in Europe, the United States, Australia and South America.
The documents, uncovered during an operation led by the British intelligence service MI6, have been described by experts in that agency as "the most worrying [plot] that the world is facing."
California is facing the most significant water crisis in its history. After experiencing two years of drought and the driest spring in recorded history, water reserves are extremely low. With the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta ecosystem near collapse, court-ordered restrictions on water deliveries from the Delta have reduced supplies from the state's two largest water systems by twenty to thirty percent.
This year's drought has already significantly damaged California's economy. Agricultural crops are being plowed under, housing and business projects are being delayed, and regional water authorities are instituting mandatory water rationing to a reliable water supply. Due to California's water shortages, thousands of jobs are lost and construction projects are on hold because a water supply cannot be guaranteed. In addition, drought conditions have created a situation of extreme fire danger, already the worst fire season in the State's history.
The catastrophic wildfires would not only produce an environmental disaster but would stretch emergency services often beyond their limit and leave insurance companies facing multi-billion-dollar claims for damages that could effectively destroy the already shattered economies of a number of countries.
The security situation in Mexico has been dire for some time. Now the global financial crisis threatens to push the country into uncharted territory as the government struggles to prop up the economy while fighting a war against some of the wealthiest and most organized criminals in the world.
The most vulnerable aspect of the Mexican economy is its exposure to the declining U.S. Market — particularly in Mexico’s export sector. Over 80 percent of Mexico’s exports go to the United States, and the emerging U.S. Recession is sure to throw this trade relationship into chaos.
Mexico is also heavily linked to the U.S. Economy through remittances. Mexicans working in the United States send approximately $24.3 billion per year back home — or about 3 percent of the gross domestic product. Declines in reported remittance rates have already been reported throughout Central American states, which rely heavily on these wealth transfers. As the U.S. Economy shrinks, and competition for low-wage positions increases, illegal immigrants will be pushed out of the job market, and remittances to Mexico will decline even further.
Yes, it's official and public news for the whole world to see: Government is the worst-run business on the face of the planet. We've known it for a long time--we're just now facing the monetary music.
America is broke. Wall Street is going out of business. The government is borrowing and bailing like there is no tomorrow. Americans anxiously await the full impact of a second Great Depression. And we are longing and looking for solutions and saviors.
Yes, it seems like I have become a 'news junky' like my husband. He sends me reports he finds interesting, as he is always comparing, or trying to find links with current world events and prophesies in the Bible.



Anyway, knowing we belong to a great and awesome God that has promises us that 'while the earth remain there will be winter and summer, seedtime and harvest, day and night,' we can face each day relying totally on Him that sustain the Universe.
I started a Bible study in JusibampoTuesday morning. It was a blessing to be there again. We had one young lady, Alma, come for the first time, (really, first time for her in a Bible study period), and she was moved to tears as she was touched in her inner being by the Lord. I had prayed that morning for the Lord to be present with us, as we don't want to go anywhere, or share anything if the Lord is not going to be there leading. Who would want to? There would be no point. We want to lift His awesome name up high for all to see!

Daniel & Obed's perspective...
Take a look at Revelation 6 together with the headlines and you will see why we are excited about Jesus soon return. Wars breaking out all over and peace being taken from the earth, economic nightmares? Read on and think about what Peter said, 2Pe 3:11-16 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, without spot and blameless; and consider that the long suffering of our Lord is salvation as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand, which untaught and unstable people twist to their own destruction, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures.
Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus...Maranatha!God bless you all as you seek Him first,
Daniel & Ana