I heard this on the way home from work and it disturbed me. I’m more and more convinced we are already where we didn’t want to be as a country. This is just more proof. And as I have said before, it may not appear that way to you yet, but that is just because it takes time to process 300,000,000 people. But they are getting there and support is falling in place faster than you can imagine.
Please listen and spread far and wide.
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Jesus . . . gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. – Matthew 10:1
Jesus granted the twelve disciples God’s divine authority to do exactly what He Himself had been doing. To do the kinds of works Jesus did would demonstrate they were sent by Him, just as what He did demonstrated He was sent by the Father. The book of Acts catalogs the very works Jesus gave them the authority to accomplish.
The apostles cast out many unclean spirits and healed every kind of disease and every kind of sickness. Peter and John healed a lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the temple (Acts 3:2–8). Their ministry became widespread: “At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people. . . . Also the people from the cities in the vicinity of Jerusalem were coming together, bringing people who were sick or afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all being healed” (Acts 5:12, 16). To the man in Lystra “who had no strength in his feet, lame from his mother’s womb, who had never walked,” Paul said, “‘Stand upright on your feet.’ And he leaped up and began to walk” (Acts 14:8, 10).
The apostles manifested the kind of kingdom power that their Lord had mani-fested, and by their faithful obedience they turned Jerusalem and then the world upside down (Acts 17:6). Jesus promised they would do even “greater works” than His (in extent, not power), and His words began to be fulfilled.
Are your words and expressions of faith pointing others to Christ? Are they reflective of His distinct power and the presence of His Holy Spirit within you? If you sense yourself burning low in the power tank, where do you think the leak is occurring? Be sure that what you do points to Christ.
From Daily Readings from the Life of Christ, Vol. 1, John MacArthur. Copyright © 2008. Used by permission of Moody Publishers, Chicago, IL 60610, www.moodypublishers.com.
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clipped from news.yahoo.comNEW YORK (Reuters Health) – High school students who catch up on sleep over the weekend do worse on attention tests in school than kids who don’t get extra shuteye, according to a new study from South Korea.
Researchers say the findings suggest “sleep debt” accumulated during the week might be taxing the teens’ intellectual resources.
“It’s like a bank — they are on constant, huge sleep overdraft,” Dr. David Gozal, an expert in childhood sleep problems at the University of Chicago, told Reuters Health.
“If this is the way you manage your credit card, you will be bankrupt very soon,” Gozal, who was not part of the study, said.
On average, the Korean teens — some 2,600 high school students — only got five hours and 42 minutes of sleep on weekdays. During the weekend, however, they added nearly three hours of shuteye per night, based on questionnaires.
Those who slept more on weekends — indicating they were sleep deprived during the week — did worse on computerized attention tasks in class, Dr. Seog Ju Kim of Gachon University of Medicine and Science in Incheon and colleagues found.
Although their results don’t prove that lack of sleep is to blame, they could not be explained by differences in age, sex, depression or snoring, the researchers report in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
Attention problems were not tied to the number of hours teens slept during the week, however. Gozal said that makes sense because some children may thrive on little sleep, whereas those who don’t will try to catch up on their sleep debt over the weekend.
To Gozal, the findings are just one more piece of evidence showing that cutting back on sleep can take a toll on youngsters — even if they’re spending the extra waking hours doing homework.
“Attention and executive function is the first step of academic success,” he said. “There is enough evidence from animals that shows the need for sleep is not something we can circumvent.”
Gozal explained that while Korean students might be getting less sleep than their American peers, sleep has also become a scarce commodity in the U.S. — among teenagers, adults and even babies.
According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, school-age children and adolescents should sleep at least nine hours per night, although some do fine on less.
“In a society that is very driven by academic performance,” Gozal said, “a child or adolescent that needs to catch up on sleep during the weekend is probably a child at risk.”
SOURCE: http://bit.ly/oF7DiZ Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, September 5, 2011.