Can Anyone Make Sense of Why the Cost of Goods and Services are Continually Going Up?

"If Americans ever allow banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless." -- Thomas Jefferson

Why do prices go up? Why is a 2000 sq ft home in 1919 and 2007 not the same price? One would think that with the advances in technology that a 2007 home would be cheaper and assembled much quicker. This is true but has nothing to do with inflation. A gallon of milk in 1919 and a gallon of milk in 2007 are both a gallon of milk. But today’s price (about $3.00 per gallon) is over a 1000% increase from 1919 prices (approximately .25¢), according to an inflation calculator. Why was a $20 gold piece and a $20 bill an equal exchange in 1919? Why is that same coin, in 2007, worth around $800? Does it have to do with the answers we’re getting from the mainstream media? Is it because Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden are on the prowl and going to get us at any minute? Is it because of some fake news or phony terror alert that the government and the news are reporting? Illegal immigration? The mortgage debacle? The war and regional instability? Britney Spears? The democrats social programs or the republicans tax breaks for the wealthy? Certainly our elected officials and beloved newscasters wouldn’t steer us wrong. Well folks, these ridiculous excuses are analogous to them having you watch their left hand wave at you, while they sucker punch you with the right fist. I am a good messenger, so along with my good news I must give you some bad news, to boot. The bad news is that if you have been listening to Katie Couric, Suze Orman, the Faux (Fox) News Network, or most of the mainstream media for that matter for your steady diet of current events and analysis, then please know that the information that you receive is about as reliable as a broken tooth. But the good news is that your humble friend BG will help you use the good sense that God gave each one of us to figure out what’s really going on.

The mainstream media has an agenda to report the news in such a way in order to get a controlled response. They study you and they know that most people are very passive and respond like sheep to instruction and information. They know that people either don’t care about what’s going on, ignore what’s going on, or they obey and do what is suggested on television by the fancy guy or gal with the nice smile and slick outfit.

Economics 101

You’re not going to believe how simple this is. When you finish reading and understanding this article, you should turn off your television and be upset that those silly politicians that convinced you to vote for them. Then you should be even more upset because of the lies that your school told you about real economics, and you should also be displeased with the minions on the news broadcasts who pulled a 365 day a year April Fool’s Day joke on you about economics. Oh well, at least you want to get informed or else you wouldn’t be reading this far. Let’s use a natural illustration to explain the money/pricing situation.

In your country, gold and silver are the valuable commodity of choice. Everyone recognizes it as a valuable medium of exchange but it’s too heavy and inconvenient to carry around. So in order to do commerce, it is agreed that paper bills will represent the proportionate amount of gold and silver in store. It is agreed that the gold and silver will be represented by twenty $1 bills. These 20 bills represent the entire wealth of the nation (the gold and silver in store). Commerce is conducted and everything is fine.

One day, some people in the community decide to create some duplicates of the paper bills and use them to do commerce, as well. The problem is that they didn’t add anymore gold or silver to the store. Remember, the bills represent the value of the commodity (gold and silver) in store. They added 20 new $1 bills and commerce continues as usual. What, in actuality, has happened to the economy? Where there were 20 bills, there are now 40 bills, and this means that the wealth of the nation has spread equally from the 20 bills to the 40 bills. The currency has been devalued (weakened) or each dollar is made to be worth less. To further illustrate the point, if you have a full glass of milk, you pour out half of it and replace the poured out milk with water, you have in essence weakened the integrity of the milk. When more dollars are added to the economy without a commodity to represent those new dollars, it weakens the other dollars. The 40 bills (20 original and 20 added by counterfeiting) may have $1 printed on them, but they are actually worth .50 cents now, instead of one dollar. By doubling the quantity of paper bills, the 40 bills equal the entire wealth of the nation, whereas before it was only 20 bills. Keep the milk illustration in mind. Understand? Remember, the dollars represent the available commodity (gold and silver) in store. Another example: What if you only had enough food prepared to feed 10 people, and then 10 more people came over? The 10 new people didn’t bring any food to cook; they just wanted to eat your prepared food. That means that if everyone is going to eat, then everyone is going to get ½ a serving when they originally expected to get 1 full serving. Understand? The point is that you get less quality when you add more quantity. More dollars, less value; more water, weak milk; more people, everyone gets less food.

Today’s Economics

If you need to re-read the above-mentioned illustrations again, please do so. But let’s move on to a topic with which we are all familiar: gas prices. Are gas prices high because of the war? Well, did peace make the value of the dollar go down in the above-mentioned illustration? No. The answer is simple. Let’s just follow the principle that dollars are supposed to represent a fixed amount of wealth. Today, big businesses watch M3, the money supply data. What is M3? The Federal Reserve tracks and publishes the money supply measured three different ways-- M1, M2, and M3.

These three money supply measures track slightly different views of the money supply.

The most restrictive, M1, only measures the most liquid forms of money; it is limited to currency actually in the hands of the public. This includes traveler’s checks, demand deposits (checking accounts), and other deposits against which checks can be written.

M2 includes all of M1, plus savings accounts, time deposits of under $100,000, and balances in retail money market mutual funds.

But that is all small potatoes, M3 includes all of M2 (which includes M1) plus large-denomination ($100,000 or more) time deposits, balances in institutional money funds, repurchase liabilities issued by depository institutions, and Eurodollars held by U.S. residents at foreign branches of U.S. banks and at all banks in the United Kingdom and Canada."

In other words, M3 tracks what the big boys are doing with the money. This includes US dollars held in banks in Canada and the UK (called Eurodollars) not to be confused with the Euro which is the standard currency of Europe.

I am going to keep this simple and short because in order to understand the bigger picture, you have to understand central banking, fiat money (which is as valuable as the confidence people have in it), the Bretton Woods Agreement, supply and demand, and the US Constitution for starters. The politicians, bankers and the mainstream media are all complicit in running a game on our economy and our standard of living, at our and our children’s expense. I am totally convinced that the national, insider politicians are very much aware of the real reason why things are the way they are. So don’t be a sheep and follow the news babble. Many people, Christians especially, get suckered into that sheep mentality because Jesus refers to His followers as sheep. But Jesus is a good and faithful shepherd who is worthy to have us follow Him in blind obedience. No one else deserves that type of honor, so WAKE UP!

OK, so big business pays attention to the money supply, and they know that if too much money is in supply that the value of each of the dollars is going to be worth less. So in order to keep up with inflation or a devalued currency, the seller has to require more dollars (increase prices) to offset his/her losses against the devalued currency. In other words, the seller will require more of that watered down milk. Understand? So if the seller requires more money, then you might have to go get another job in order to keep up with price increases or get a cheaper version of what you want to buy. In short, gas is high because the money supply is out of control and prices are going higher. As I am writing this article, oil is around $93 per barrel, but click the link below and look at this latest news headline:

CFR President: $200 Oil If War With Iran

Folks, what did we learn about higher prices? Now, fiat money is valued by the people’s confidence in it, but quite simply, wars don’t weaken your dollars purchasing power, but counterfeiting (adding more dollars to the economy without more assets) does. Again, supply and demand is also a factor in pricing, but this is not a full-fledged economics lesson. This is a short lesson to help you sift through this maze called our economic system. Please take advantage of the reading list below, it is very informative and worth your time.

BG’s Recommended Reading:

Billion for Bankers, Debt for the People
I Want The Earth Plus 5%
The Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

Modern-Day Eugenics: Are Medical Testing, Vaccines, Food, Air and Water Being Contaminated?

(Author’s disclaimer: This article is basically a compilation of quotes and hyperlinks to articles concerning a very sensitive topic: eugenics. This isn’t a topic that is widely discussed on the mainstream media news, but it is a very old practice. It goes by many names, but words like holocaust, genocide, abortion, euthanasia and others are all “buzz words” associated with the concept of eugenics, i.e., control over who lives and who dies. If you are open-minded, you have a great opportunity to get informed or become more informed. My goal is to help you grasp sound information and start piecing the puzzle of life together so that you can see that everyone in the world DOES NOT have your best interest at heart. There are some very demented individuals in the world who happen to be very powerful individuals, as well. They have money, prestige, power, and a plan for the world that is counterproductive to a healthy and vibrant lifestyle for you and your family. You might call this a conspiracy theory or say, “Oh, they’d never get away with that plan.” Well, allow me to let you in on a little trick that congenital liars use on the unsuspecting public. When people plan to do the wrong thing and don't want to get caught, they often discredit their own actions, making it seem as though they are incapable of committing the supposed act. For example, we all remember Richard Nixon saying, “I am not a crook!” Remember Bill Clinton, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” Remember Former US Congressman Gary Hart denied having an affair with Donna Rice. Remember George HW Bush said “Read my lips, no new taxes!” As history tells it, all of these guys and many more were lying. So they tried to discredit their own actions before they did the act, to sort of throw people off of the scent, so to speak, by making the claim of their actions sound absurd. It’s an old psychological warfare trick, but don’t you be fooled. Test the information being presented, study, ask questions and come to your own conclusions. There are a lot of quotes from some famous people in this article so be diligent to find out what is really going on here. Study hard!! )

What is Eugenics? Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of human hereditary traits through various forms of intervention.[1] Throughout history, eugenics has been regarded by its various advocates as a social responsibility, an altruistic stance of a society, meant to create healthier and more intelligent people, to save resources, and lessen human suffering. More controversially, some, such as the Nazi regime in Germany, used eugenics as a pretext for racial discrimination.

Earlier proposed means of achieving these goals focused on selective breeding, while modern ones focus on prenatal testing and screening, genetic counseling, birth control, in vitro fertilization, and genetic engineering. Opponents argue that eugenics is immoral and is based on, or is itself, pseudoscience. Historically, eugenics has been used as a justification for coercive state-sponsored discrimination and human rights violations, such as forced sterilization of persons who are claimed to have genetic defects, the killing of the institutionalized population and, in some cases, outright genocide of races perceived as inferior or undesirable.

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Pelkola Syphilis Study, Public Health Service Syphilis Study or the Tuskegee Experiments was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis.

This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had "bad blood" and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating.[2]

In 1932, standard treatments for syphilis were toxic, dangerous, and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if patients were better off not being treated with these toxic remedies.

Virginia government apologizes for eugenics law

Gov. Mark Warner, D-Va., issued a formal apology Thursday for the state's decision to forcible sterilize thousands of Virginians from 1924 to 1979 -- before he was governor.His apology coincides with the 75th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Buck v. Bell decision upholding Virginia's eugenics sterilization law.

"Today, I offer the Commonwealth's sincere apology for Virginia's participation in eugenics," the governor said."As I have previously noted, the eugenics movement was a shameful effort in which state government never should have been involved," said Warner. "We must remember the Commonwealth's past mistakes in order to prevent them from recurring."Virginia forcibly sterilized about 7,450 people under the banner of eugenics, or selective human breeding and social engineering. The practice continued in Virginian until 1979, and it ranked second only behind California, which had 20,108 sterilizations.

In Canada, the government of Alberta apologized in 1999 for the forced sterilization of more than 2,800 people. The government paid out more than $140 million to compensate victims.

Mercury in Flu Vaccinations five times the CDC's safe level recommendations

From an interview of Dr Eva Snead by Gary Null

What are the pros and cons of the flu vaccine?

Well we have talked about vaccines and that they are all totally unsafe. Now talking about the flu vaccine itself it’s prepared on chicken embryo, which mean unborn chicken which means that people who are allergic to these products like egg and chicken can become seriously ill and on the other hand the injection of these proteins into other humans will render them in a large percentage allergic to chicken and egg which means that people who were not allergic before will now become allergic.

The other problem is that all viral vaccines contain not only the particular virus but they also contain traces of leukemia virus, cancer producing viruses etc. These are not completely removable, they exist in the chicken from which these eggs are taken and although they claim that they are like 98% purified, 2% of several billion viruses is still an awful lot of cancer and leukemia dangers.

Another fact is that to separate cells we also may have to use a pork product which is made from raw pork stomach. This is an enzyme that separates the cells called pork trypsin and a lot of people who would not ingest or take pork products for religious reasons are seduced without knowing it into violating their convictions so there you have in a nutshell the beginning of why it is not very wise to take influenza vaccines.

OK. Why don’t you give us some of what you have found in the literature, some of the problems with the flu vaccine and also they’re claiming all this success. I question whether they can prove the success because you cannot disprove a negative.

That’s correct. Imagine, Gary, the gullibility of a public that not only believes that these companies give them a safe and effective product but that they give them the credence of a god that two years in advance when they start making these serums they know which particular kind of influenza is going to be causing the epidemic two years later. I mean you know these people have the utter gall to tell people that they can do it because they can’t. This is based on computer predictions and so on which are totally inaccurate. Now, you may remember the horrible epidemic of neurological illnesss that we had in ’76 and although the present day vaccines don’t have that high an incidence even the package insert tells me that there’s a higher incidence of Guillaine Barre which is a sort of euphemism for a variety of polio in all people under fifty that take the influenza vaccine. So imagine the risk you are running aside from the viruses, the cancer, and the leukemia. Two or three years ago there was a rash of positive HIV and hepatitis patients in Baltimore among people who would otherwise not be expected to have a positive test. When studied all of these people had received the influenza vaccine four to six weeks prior and this was rapidly covered up by the press.

Do you have an example of some of the guaranteed safety vaccines that we have been given over the years only later to find out that the guarantees were unsupported by any credible science and actually were deleterious?

There is no science, credible or otherwise, this is all guess work. I mean you can’t test for something that hasn’t happened and you can’t test compared to what? I mean you don’t know that there would have been an epidemic and certainly if you put a certain variety of viruses in the public then you will find they will say "Oh we were right. Virus A or B, Australian or South American or whatever you may call it will be endemic this year". Well you know you become a self-fulfilling prophesy because you created the particular problem and not only that but the other thing that is very, very important that nobody has brought up to my knowledge is about forty years ago a study was done in England on problems with the nervous system in new born and unborn fetuses that were aborted and they discovered that the majority of children who had birth defects in the nervous system particularly and encephalus had been exposed to the flu virus. Flu virus, of course, being now in all the vaccines that people are vaccinated. In the south of Texas we are having a tremendous rash of these particular neurologic problems. Children born without a brain or part of a brain and everybody is telling the public "Oh we have not a clue of what could cause this". Well, we do have a clue, we’re just lying to the public.

Why do you think there’s such an interest in getting people to get the flu vaccine?

Well the manufacturer makes money. I mean that a very simple thing. They’re seen as a wonderful product because they get the endorsement of government and health affiliations. He produces serum that costs you basically not that much to produce. You seduce the public into needing it and you sell millions and millions of doses so there’s an awful lot of money to be made. Now from the point of view of public health, again there’s money and grants to be made. I mean there are many people employed in persuading the public this problem exists and persuading them that they need it. And then of course, as you well know, we may suspect that there are other reasons that could be political or genocidal because the product is administered to large amounts of older people and as you well know in nursing homes where they receive flu vaccines there are many, many cases of flu shortly after the vaccination effort which indicates a total association and from a very crude point of view the perpetuation of life in older people particularly in nursing homes is not desirable to those that handle the funds. So of course we cannot prove this but it certainly presents a seductive hypothesis.

Operation Paperclip (US Government Operation to recruit eugenicists into America)

Operation Paperclip (also credited as Project Paperclip) was the code name under which the U.S. intelligence and military services extracted German scientists from Nazi Germany, during and after the final stages of World War II. In 1945 the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency was established and given direct responsibility for Operation Paperclip.

The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz.

Flu Vaccines for Children Still Contain Mercury

For the past five years, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Public Health Service have joined forces in requesting the removal of all mercury-containing preservative thimerosal from vaccines. However, now for the first time, recommendations have been given to 6- to 23-month-old children to get annual flu vaccines and the recommendations didn’t include mercury-free forms of vaccines.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) reasoning behind this was that they felt the risk of contracting the flu and facing health complications greatly outweighed any of the potential risks from thimerosal in the vaccines. The CDC also stated that there hasn’t been any scientific evidence of harm from exposure to thimerosal-containing vaccines.

Since the 1930s, thimerosal, which is filled with 49.6 percent mercury, has been used in vaccines to control bacteria and fungi.

How the Mercury in Vaccines Can Kill Your Baby

Thimerosal, a preservative developed by Eli Lily, was once widely used in vaccines. That was until it was identified as the source of the largest exposure to mercury in the United States in children under 18 months of age and mandated to be removed from vaccines. However, amazingly, despite its well-documented potential toxic effects, this harmful preservative remains present in the flu vaccine, which is given to pregnant women, the elderly and children.

A team of researchers examined the toxicity of thimerosal within the body including neurons. They explored:

• Neurotoxic mechanisms
• How the body detoxifies mercury
• The use of N-Acetylcysteine (or NAC) in aiding the detoxification pathway within the body.

Ordinarily, the brain and liver can manufacture enough glutathione (an essential antioxidant and naturally occurring tripeptide made of cysteine, glutamate, and glycine) to protect your body from exposure to various heavy metals, including mercury. When this critical compound is depleted in your body, however, the mercury that is left can bind with cellular proteins, can lead to toxic damage.

Studies have indicated low incredibly tiny concentrations of thimerosal induced:

• DNA strand breaks
• Caspase-3 activation
• Membrane damage
• Cell death

Researchers also found that higher concentrations of thimerosal lead to a greater number of cells that were killed, and the nerve cell response occurred with only a three-hour exposure.

Click the following links and view the scientific evidence for yourself.

Origins of Autism

How Mercury Kills the Brain ~ Autism

Mercury, Autism and the Global Vaccine Agenda

Army Tests Bio-Weapons on U.S. Citizens

Bayer Exposed ( HIV contaminated vaccine )

The Truth About Vaccines

A Possible Fix for Autism

Dr Dan Speaks on Autism

Autism and Vaccines: Viral assault and Mercury Poisoning

Bush Vetoes Ban on Mercury in Vaccines

President Bush is to veto a bill that would ban mercury in flu vaccines for children despite its known links to autism and other neurological disorders and despite the fact that he pledged in 2004 to support such a move when campaigning for re-election.

The White House stated on Tuesday that President Bush would veto the FY 2008 HHS-Labor-Education Appropriations Bill because of the cost and "objectionable provisions" such as a measure to ban the use of childhood flu vaccines that contain thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative, a press release from Autism advocacy group Safe Minds on the PRNewswire-USNewswire states.

Bush is calling for an amendment that would remove the children's safety provision from the bill.

Safe Minds warns:

"Under the current administration, mercury has been and will continue to be knowingly injected into the youngest of American citizens. The controversial mercury-containing preservative thimerosal has been linked by thousands of parents as being the cause of their children's mercury poisoning and autism."

The flu vaccine, which continues to be manufactured with mercury, is recommended for all pregnant women, infants and children despite the fact that the Institute of Medicine in 2001 recommended against the policy of exposing these same sensitive groups to thimerosal containing vaccines.

Mercury is the second most toxic metal known to man behind Uranium. Thimerosal is used in vaccines not because it is good for you, but purely because it prevents vaccine contamination. Yet some have questioned why thimerosal is even considered for vaccines because there are obviously safer alternatives to preventing contamination. Questions also remain about how pharmaceutical companies conduct vaccine research and how the government regulates those companies.

Stop global mercury contamination

How Mercury Causes Brain Neuron Degeneration

Research supports mercury-autism link

Mercury in Childhood Vaccines: What Did the Government Know?

Critics ask why flu shot doesn't match strainMercury in vaccine found to be 250 times higher than recommended

New study links mercury to autismLevel of disorder dropped dramatically after element removed from vaccines

A new study shows a direct relationship between mercury in children's vaccines and autism, contradicting government claims there is no proven relationship between the two.

Published in the March 10 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, the data show since mercury was removed from childhood vaccines, the reported rates of autism and other neurological disorders in children not only stopped increasing but actually dropped sharply – by as much as 35 percent.

Vaccine officials knew about MMR risks

Government officials were made aware of some problems with a version of the MMR vaccine in other countries but still introduced it in Britain in the late 1980s, newly released documents show.

The MMR vaccine with the Urabe strain of mumps was first used in Britain in October 1988. It was blamed for the deaths of several children after being withdrawn by the Department of Health in September 1992.

US Military Finds That Anthrax Shots May Cause Birth Defects

Citing a "possible," and as yet unproven, link between the anthrax vaccine and birth defects, experts at the US Department of Defense are advising that servicewomen not receive the shots during pregnancy.

Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. William Winkenwerder on January 16 sent a memo to top officials of the US Army, Navy and Air Force, requesting that they "strengthen the screening of females of childbearing age with careful questioning or other positive efforts, potentially including pregnancy testing when appropriate, to prevent the administration of vaccine to pregnant women."

Preliminary data from a study by the Naval Health Research Center of women who have received the anthrax vaccine has "identified a possible relationship between maternal anthrax vaccination in the first trimester and higher odds of birth defects," according to a statement from the Defense Department.

This week's announcement adds to the controversy surrounding the military's use of the anthrax vaccine, which predates by several years this fall's recent spate of germ-tainted mail.
Infectious Diseases, officials should now be prepared "to just say 'we don't know the answer'" when it comes to the anthrax vaccine. At the same time, he said, "the American public must learn to accept and deal with risks that unfortunately are going to be with us for a long period of time."

Kenyan Nobel peace laureate claims AIDS virus deliberately created

The AIDS virus: Made in the USA?

On July 29, 1969, only days after the Department of Defense (DOD) asked for $10 million from Congress to fund the development of a “synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired . . ." on that day, the chairman of the Republican Task Force on Earth Resources and Population, the Honorable George H. W. Bush, U.S. Representative from Texas, 7th District (1967–71), stressed the pressing need for population control activities to fend off “a growing Third World crisis.” Imagine.

Vaccines May Fuel Autism Epidemic

In the United States, each state has reported increases in autism rates of at least 500 percent over the last 10 years. The epidemic is spreading so quickly that in California it is estimated that within the next four years the number autism cases will exceed the total number of cases of both cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

According to the article, vaccines given to newborns contain an array of chemicals including formaldehyde (used in embalming), thimerosal (nearly 50 percent mercury), aluminum phosphate (toxic and carcinogenic), antibiotics, phenols (corrosive to skin and toxic), aluminum salts (corrosive to tissue and neurotoxic), methanol (toxic), isopropyl (toxic), 2-pheoxyethanol (toxic), live viruses and various other components.

Among these components, previous studies suggest that there is a link between neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism, and mercury exposure from thimerosal-containing childhood vaccines. Although U.S. health officials called for thimerosal to be removed from vaccines in 1999, the article details how--because of mislabeled package inserts and other issues--it is extremely difficult for parents and physicians to know whether the preservative is actually in the vaccine.

The article also discusses how the potential ties between U.S. health agencies and the pharmaceutical companies could be the reason why much-needed public warnings about the potential dangers of mercury in vaccines have not been made.

QUOTES AND ARTICLES

“My investigation proves that biological agents were not only developed and used in the Persian Gulf war, but that they are in fact part of the Global 2000 population downsizing program..........the information that I want to get out to the American people is that the Gulf War illnesses are actually communicable diseases. The microbes will live almost indefinitely, but for a minimum of seven years. It's on the gas masks, the clothing, the weapons -- any of the materials brought back from the Gulf War. I have reports from several different states where civilians that bought some of the clothing went home and wore them, and now the entire family is in wheel chairs; there have been some deaths as a result of this.” The Resnick Interview with Peter Kawaja and Ex-NSA Agent Joe Jordan

"Human history does not just happen; it is made." U. S. Commission on National Security/21st Century

“Through World Health Organization inoculations that were contaminated with the virus. The first program was in black Africa in 1974 with the smallpox inoculations. They then went to Brazil and other Hispanic countries and did it there. In 1978, they laced the gamma globulin for the Hepatitis B vaccine because the homosexual population was the greatest consumer. That's why it showed up first in the United States in the homosexual population and why it was claimed to be a homosexual disease. Nothing could be further from the truth, but it was something the Evangelists took up quickly, saying that AIDS was "Gods curse on the homosexual". People didn't worry about it who weren't gay. The people who planned this didn't figure on the ability of the virus to mutate.” ORION TECHNOLOGY AND OTHER SECRET PROJECTS Al Bielek and Preston Nichols

In 2002 Secretary of State Colin Powell stated in a letter to Congress:

"Regrettably, the PRC has in place a regime of severe penalties on women who have unapproved births. This regime plainly operates to coerce pregnant women to have abortions in order to avoid the penalties and therefore amounts to a ‘program of coercive abortion.’ Regardless of the modest size of UNFPA’s budget in China or any benefits its programs provide, UNFPA's support of, and involvement in, China's population-planning activities allows the Chinese government to implement more effectively its program of coercive abortion.”

Yet The UNPFA seem to think this is a great thing

"China has had the most successful family planning policy in the history of mankind in terms of quantity and with that, China has done mankind a favour," United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) representative Sven Burmester said last week. —10/11/99 Agence France-Presse

"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation"--Prince Phillip

"Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World."-- Dr. Henry Kissinger

“Society is being weeded out right now, as minority species are being eliminated very specifically by biological germ warfare and other tactics meant to insure the elimination of those less genetically favourable...Our food is being tampered with, by the insertion of food additives and substances like aspartame. ....They view this as a massive genetic cleanup”.--Thanks for the Memories: The Memoirs of Bob Hope's and Henry Kissinger's mind control slave by Brice Taylor p281

Kissinger, Eugenics And Depopulation-Article

The Haig-Kissinger Depopulation Policy-Article

Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide-Article


FLUORIDE STUPIDITY & POPULATION CONTROL

Controversial fluoride is one of the basic ingredients in both PROZAC (FLUoxetene Hydrochloride) and Sarin nerve gas (Isopropyl-Methyl-Phosphoryl FLUoride).

Sodium fluoride, a hazardous-waste by-product from the manufacture of aluminum, is a common ingredient in rat and cockroach poisons, anesthetics, hypnotics, psychiatric drugs, and military nerve gas. It's historically been quite expensive to properly dispose of, until some aluminum industries with an overabundance of the stuff sold the public on the terrifically insane but highly profitable idea of buying it at a 20,000% markup, injecting it into our water supplies, and then DRINKING it.

Yes, a 20,000% markup: Fluoride-- intended only for human consumption by people under 14 years of age--is injected into our drinking water supply at approx. 1 part-per-million (ppm), but since we only drink 1/2 of one percent of the total water supply, the rest literally goes down the drain as a free hazardous-waste disposal for the chemical industry, where we PAY them so that we can flush their expensive hazardous waste down our toilets. How many salesmen dream of such a deal? (Follow the money.)Independent scientific evidence repeatedly showing up over the past 50 years reveals that fluoride allegedly shortens our life span, promotes cancer and various mental disturbances, accelerates osteoporosis and broken hips in old folks, and makes us stupid, docile, and subservient, all in one package. There are reports of aluminum in the brain possibly being a causative factor in Alzheimer's Disease, and evidence points towards fluoride's strong affinity for aluminum and also its ability to "trick" the blood-brain barrier by looking like the hydrogen ion, and thus allowing chemical access to brain tissue.Scientists who have attempted to blow the whistle on this mega-bucks PR ploy have consistently been given a very unscientific Black-PR treatment, and thus their valid points disputing the current vested interests never arrive in the press. Follow the money to find the control.

Let's begin at the beginning: The first occurrence of fluoridated drinking water on Earth was found in Germany's Nazi prison camps. The Gestapo had little concern about fluoride's supposed effect on children's teeth; their alleged reason for mass-medicating water with sodium fluoride was to sterilize humans and force the people in their concentration camps into calm submission. (Ref. book: "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin.)

The following letter was received by the Lee Foundation for Nutritional Research, Milwaukee Wisconsin, on 2 October 1954, from Mr. Charles Perkins, a chemist: "I have your letter of September 29 asking for further documentation regarding a statement made in my book, The Truth About Water Fluoridation, to the effect that the idea of water fluoridation was brought to England from Russia by the Russian Communist Kreminoff. "In the 1930's, Hitler and the German Nazi's envisioned a world to be dominated and controlled by a Nazi philosophy of pan-Germanism. The German chemists worked out a very ingenious and far-reaching plan of mass-control which was submitted to and adopted by the German General Staff. This plan was to control the population in any given area through mass medication of drinking water supplies. By this method they could control the population in whole areas, reduce population by water medication that would produce sterility in women, and so on. In this scheme of mass-control, sodium fluoride occupied a prominent place.

"Repeated doses of infinitesimal amounts of fluoride will in time reduce an individual's power to resist domination, by slowly poisoning and narcotizing a certain area of the brain, thus making him submissive to the will of those who wish to govern him.” [A convenient light lobotomy]“The real reason behind water fluoridation is not to benefit children's teeth. If this were the real reason there are many ways in which it could be done that are much easier, cheaper, and far more effective. The real purpose behind water fluoridation is to reduce the resistance of the masses to domination and control and loss of liberty.”“When the Nazis under Hitler decided to go into Poland, both the German General Staff and the Russian General Staff exchanged scientific and military ideas, plans, and personnel, and the scheme of mass control through water medication was seized upon by the Russian Communists because it fitted ideally into their plan to communize the world.” ... "I was told of this entire scheme by a German chemist who was an official of the great IG Farben chemical industries and was also prominent in the Nazi movement at the time. I say this with all the earnestness and sincerity of a scientist who has spent nearly 20 years' research into the chemistry, biochemistry, physiology and pathology of fluorine--any person who drinks artificially fluorinated water for a period of one year or more will never again be the same person mentally or physically." -CHARLES E. PERKINS, Chemist, 2 October 1954.

Quoting Einstein's nephew, Dr. E.H. Bronner (a chemist who had also been a prisoner of war during WWII) in a letter printed in The Catholic Mirror, Springfield, MA, January 1952. Excerpts follow: "It appears that the citizens of Massachusetts are among the 'next' on the agenda of the water poisoners…"There is a sinister network of subversive agents, Godless 'intellectual' parasites, working in our country today whose ramifications grow more extensive, more successful and more alarming each new year and whose true objective is to demoralize, paralyze and destroy our great Republic--from within if they can, according to their plan--for their own possession…."The tragic success they have already attained in their long siege to destroy the moral fiber of American life is now one of their most potent footholds towards their own ultimate victory over us…"Fluoridation of our community water systems can well become their most subtle weapon for our sure physical and mental deterioration...."As a research chemist of established standing, I built within the past 22 years, 3 American chemical plants and licensed 6 of my 53 patents. Based on my years of practical experience in the health-food and chemical field, let me warn: fluoridation of drinking water is criminal insanity, sure national suicide. Don't do it.” “That any so-called "doctors" would persuade a civilized nation to add voluntarily a deadly poison to its drinking water systems is unbelievable. It is the height of criminal insanity.” "No wonder Hitler and Stalin fully believed and agreed from 1939 to 1941 that, quoting from both Lenin's Last Will and Hitler's Mein Kampf: "America we shall demoralize, divide, and destroy from within." ..."Fluoridation of water systems can be slow national suicide, or quick national liquidation. It is criminal insanity--treason!" Dr. E.H. Bronner, Mfg. Research Chemist, Los Angeles.

Earliest available Russian fluoride evidence: "I, Oliver Kenneth Goff, was a member of the Communist Party and the Young Communist League, from May 2, 1936, to October 9, 1939. During this period of time, I operated under the alias of John Keats with number 18-B-2. My testimony before the Government is in Volume 9 of the Un-American Activities Report for 1939. "While a member of the Communist Party, I attended Communist training schools in New York and Wisconsin ... and we were trained in the revolutionary overthrow of the U.S. Government. "... We discussed quite thoroughly the fluoridation of water supplies and how we were using it in Russia as a tranquilizer in the prison camps. The leaders of our school felt that if it could be induced into the American water supply, it would bring about a spirit of lethargy in the nation, where it could keep the general public docile during a steady encroachment of Communism. We also discussed the fact that keeping a store of deadly fluoride near the water reservoir would be advantageous during the time of the revolution, as it would give us opportunity to dump this poison into the water supply and either kill off the populace or threaten them with liquidation, so that they would surrender to obtain fresh water."

“The March 1999 "Vaccines" feature in Parenting magazine provided all propaganda one would expect from a subsidiary of Time, Inc. Time-Warner, Inc., the parent company, is a corporate member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Time's president, Richard D. Parsons, and the Editor-in-Chief of TIME, Norman Pearlstine, are longstanding CFR members. One CFR published policy objective is substantial worldwide depopulation including half of the current U.S. population being targeted. This population reduction program is largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Merck Fund, both financially and administratively linked to the Merck pharmaceutical company--the world's leading vaccine manufacturer.” Parenting with Deadly Timely Propaganda --Dr. Len Horowitz

Genetic Bullets - Ethnically Specific Bioweapons

One of the most interesting findings of the Human Genome Project was just how closely related all humans are and just what a myth the concept of race really is. The differences between individual humans are, in fact, much greater than the differences between groups of humans. Many of those early findings were contained in a 1000 page tome published by Princeton University Press entitled The History and Geography of Human Genes. Stanford researchers, for example, came to the conclusion that the DNA of Europeans was composed approximately of 65% Asian types and 35% African types, making the so-called white race a hybrid of two older types of human DNA.

British schoolgirls to get cancer jab

British schoolgirls are to be offered vaccinations against cervical cancer from next year, in a scheme which could save hundreds of lives a year, officials said Friday.

The introduction of the voluntary vaccinations for 12-13 year-olds from September 2008 is a recognition of the "need to do more to prevent disease and not just treat it," Health Secretary Alan Johnson said.

Girls will be vaccinated against the sexually-transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV causes around 70 percent of cases of cervical cancer which kills more than 1,000 women in Britain each year.

Spiritual Discernment, Common Sense, and Critical Thinking: An Anathema of the 21st Century

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead. –Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.

Whether it’s bicycling, tightrope walking or tires on a car, balance is paramount in functioning smoothly. The same goes for everyday life, because many times some of us are too strong in one area or too weak in others. Well this article is going to help to balance you out, in some respects. The title of the article only suggests three areas: spiritual discernment, common sense and critical thinking. There is certainly more to life than these three things, but when we have a culture of people who: don’t understand that this secular life is more than what the television tells us; can’t count back change at the grocery store without a cash register; can’t find the USA on a globe; don’t know who the Governor of their state is, then we have some serious questions to answer as a society. How can someone live in such a vast world, with all of its beauty and resources available to us, and can’t see the proverbial forest for the trees? Life is wonderful and one must be able to employ some simple principles in this life in order to reap a fruitful and meaningful experience called life. No one is going to give you anything! No one is going to give you all of the answers! You may get some help along the way and get pieces to the puzzle. But you have to be able to use the faculties that God has given you to make your own way. That’s what we do at BG Street: you are taught how to fish, how to think (not what to think), how to learn, how to grow, how to pray, how to seek God for yourself, how to stand firm in the truth, etc. This is your time! Are you ready to grow up? Are you? You might be 60 years old, but we all have room to grow mentally, spiritually, emotional, etc., so let’s get started. Let’s see what is going on in the minds of humanity and see if we can bring the proper equilibrium that will be conducive to a whole and independent life.

You can’t use spiritual discernment to figure out math problems. You must learn the proper principles of math and you can figure out any math equation. Similarly, you can’t always use critical thinking and use common sense when dealing with God, because God’s thoughts and ways are not like ours (Isaiah 55:8-9). For example, remember when Peter was commanded to walk on water (Matthew 14:25-30)? Well he was successfully standing and walking on water until he started looking at the natural circumstances. His defying of natural laws is a testament to learning how to strike the balance between spiritual insight and natural knowledge: two paradigms that are beneficial to a successful human life, but only if executed properly.

Spiritual Discernment

This very important element of our existence has to do with a consciousness of something that may not be necessarily obvious to your 5 natural senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, and audio. It has to do more with your spirit (the true essence of who you are) and how you respond to your environment. That is key! A Spirit being created this world (Genesis 1). Don’t you think that his signature is all over it? Well it is, but if you can’t see, hear or discern His handiwork, you will miss some great treats in the journey of life. This is nothing spooky, folks. It’s just an aspect of life that you might not have heard discussed before, but this is as real as the nose on your face. Let’s look at a few examples of spiritual discernment in the Word of God:

Mark 7:16; Matthew 11:15; Matthew 13:9; Luke 8:8; Revelation 2:7, 11, 17, 29; Revelation 3:6, 13, 22 He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

(Author’s thought: Jesus is referring to a spiritual keenness that tunes to a frequency that everyone else might not be able to sense [similar to a dog’s sense of hearing, but spiritually-speaking])

2 Kings 6:8-18 is another fine example of spiritual discernment.

(Author’s thought: In this account, God is asked to open the young man’s eyes. His physical eyes were opened and functioning just fine, but the spiritual element needed to be revealed to him. When God intervened, then he saw that the battle was God’s)

1 Samuel 3:1-21 gives us the account of the spiritual discernment of a mentor (Eli) and a child (later to become the Prophet Samuel).

(Author’s thought: Again this is an example of keenness in the Spirit. Eli discerned that God was speaking to the child, and taught the young guy how to listen to God speak and how to commune with Him. This is actually a great lesson to be learned by all of us, that children can know God and fellowship with Him. God created children and He knows how to reach them on their level. We should stop dumbbing down God to the children and walk in these Eli/Samuel-type examples, so that we can teach and raise our children in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4)

Matthew 16:16-17: Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

(Author’s thought: This is a fine example of having knowledge that has never been taught on the earth. Jesus confirmed that no human taught Peter this truth, but the information came straight from Heaven. This is important because it let’s us know that humans don’t know everything. There is information that exists that we don’t know (Deuteronomy 29:29), but God will reveal it.)

1 Corinthians 12:10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:

(Author's thought: Discerning of spirits is taught in the New Testament as a gift of the Holy Spirit.)

Practical application in developing your spiritual discernment:

• Be a student of the principles of the Word of God. Find out what God says about matters, see what God thinks about things and train yourself to think likewise. Don’t just try to memorize Scriptures. If you want to memorize Scriptures, that’s fine, but seek to extract the true spiritual essence (revelation of faith) from the Scriptures. What are the Scriptures really saying? How do I apply what the Scriptures are saying in the 21st century?
• Read my article called Listen to and Follow Your Heart and Being Filled With the Holy Spirit you will increase your spiritual keenness and start to gain more spiritual insights.
  

Common Sense

Common sense is actually quite simple to understand. If you have been exposed to life at all, then common sense is common natural understanding of things. For example, if you know that a fire is hot, (because you have felt the heat that it radiates or you’ve seen the effects of it burning something) then surely you would know not to put your hand in a burning fire. This is common sense that even a child knows; it isn’t rocket science. But we have some of our countrymen who don’t practice good common sense, maybe not with fires, per se, but with other things, such as relationships, business deals, desicion making etc. Of the three elements that we are going to discuss in this article, this is the easiest matter to address. Life is actually very simple; it just becomes difficult when we try to shove the proverbial square peg in the round whole. Observation, asking questions and calculating your moves are the key here. Let’s use more common sense, folks. This doesn’t mean that you won’t make mistakes or have trouble; it simply means that you shouldn’t repeat your own mistakes or the mistakes of others. Again, let me further clarify, I am not talking about repeating a habit or addiction either, that’s a flesh issue. Another topic for another time.

Practical application in using common sense:

• Before you act on anything, ask yourself if you truly understand what you’re doing, hearing, or saying, and then ask yourself if it makes sense. If it doesn’t make sense then don’t follow through with the action until it does make sense. If it never makes sense, don't follow through with the action. For example, why would you pay just the minimum payment on your credit card and let the finance company make all of that profit? Pay more on your princple every month if you can, and eliminate that bill quicker.
• Read my article called the Adverbial Perspective. It will give you perspective on questioning your environment so that you don’t act on a whim, emotion, or out of desperation.
• Learn from the experience and mistakes of yourself and/or others.
• Don’t reinvent things, use what exists to innovate and expand an insight, concept or idea.
  
  

Critical Thinking/Deductive Reasoning

Dr. Martin Luther King said:

The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically . . . The complete education gives one not only power of concentration but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

William Graham Sumner offers a useful summary of critical thinking:

The critical habit of thought, if usual in society, will pervade all its mores, because it is a way of taking up the problems of life. Men educated in it cannot be stampeded by stump orators ... They are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain. They can wait for evidence and weigh evidence, uninfluenced by the emphasis or confidence with which assertions are made on one side or the other.

If A=B and B=C. Does A=C? Well, answer it!!!!!!

Critical thinking seems to be a lost art today. We don’t live in a thinking society, we live in a television society that trains people to respond and react rather than to receive information, anaylze it and act upon it in a positive manner. Critical thinking consists of: mental processes of discernment, analyzing and evaluating. It includes all possible processes of reflecting upon a tangible or intangible item in order to form a solid judgment that unites scientific evidence with common sense. Whereas, deductive reasoning applies general principles to reach specific conclusions. For example:

All apples are fruit.
All fruit grows on trees.
Therefore all apples grow on trees.

Wow, that’s powerful! Nothing can stop you, and you have the capacity to figure out anything with all of the resources available to us. Don’t let unscrupulous people sell you a wooden igloo, ocean front property in Montana, or elevator tickets in a one-story building. You are thinker, and if you weren’t before you read this article, you are getting the tools necessary to go down the right path. Some people aren’t interested in you being able to figure out what this life has to offer you, as you can see from the quote below. But don’t worry, nothing can stop you and as Jesus said in Luke 12:2 For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

“I don’t want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers.” John D. Rockefeller, Founder of the National Education Association


“Very few really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds – justification, explanations, forms of consolation without which they can’t go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.” Spoken by the Vampire Marius in Ann Rice’s book The Vampire Lestat Ballantine Books. New York, NY. 1985.

Why would it be of value to you to have the cognitive skills of interpretation, analysis, evaluation, inference, explanation, and self-regulation? Because you can take this approach in every area in your life and come to the right conclusion every time. Everyone that is around you doesn’t have your best interests at heart. They may not want you to succeed, but you DO want to succeed. So put yourself in the best situation possible by scrutinizing the circumstances and situations you encounter. Never take anything for granted, and never believe anything superficially (on the surface). Question, investigate, analyze all of the information that you recieve and make an informed decision 100% of the time!


The approaches to life and living which characterize critical thinking include:

* inquisitiveness with regard to a wide range of issues,
* concern to become and remain well-informed,
* alertness to opportunities to use critical thinking,
* trust in the processes of reasoned inquiry,
* self-confidence in one’s own abilities to reason,
* open-mindedness regarding divergent (uncommon) world views,
* flexibility in considering alternatives and opinions
* understanding of the opinions of other people,
* fair-mindedness in appraising reasoning,
* honesty in facing one’s own biases, prejudices, stereotypes, or egocentric tendencies,
* prudence in suspending, making or altering judgments,
* willingness to reconsider and revise views where honest reflection suggests that change is warranted.

What would someone be like who lacked these dispositions? It might be someone who:

• does not care about much of anything
• is not interested in the facts
• prefers not to think
• mistrusts reasoning as a way of finding things out or solving problems
• holds his/her own reasoning abilities in low esteem
• is close-minded
• inflexible
• insensitive
• cannot understand what others think
• is unfair when it comes to judging the quality of arguments
• denies his or her own biases
• jumps to conclusions or delays too long in making judgments
• never is willing to reconsider an opinion

This is not someone prudent people would want to ask to manage their investments!

A well-cultivated critical thinker:

• raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely;
• gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively
  comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards;
• thinks open-mindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences;
• communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.
  

{Author’s rhetorical question to the reader: Doesn’t this have a striking resemblance to BG Street articles? This is thought-provoking stuff! I hope that you are paying attention. Folks, critical thinking is based on concepts and principles, not on hard and fast, or step-by-step, procedures. Remember that! You are getting more sound information, so soak it up. If you need to read this article a few more times, please do so.}

“Knowledge of a general problem-solving strategy also improves performance, even among children.” (Bruning, Schraw & Ronning, 1999, p.211)

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.” --Albert Einstein

“The future now belongs to societies that organize themselves for learning...nations that want high incomes and full employment must develop policies that emphasize the acquisition of knowledge and skills by everyone, not just a select few.” Ray Marshall & Marc Tucker, Thinking For A Living: Education And The Wealth of Nations, Basic Books. New York. 1992.

History shows that assaults on learning, whether by book burning, exile of intellectuals, or regulations aimed at suppressing research and frustrating the pursuit of knowledge, can happen wherever and whenever people are not vigilant defenders of open, objective, and independent questioning. This is based upon the old adage that “knowledge is power.” The powerful elite know this and that’s why they suppress information. They use buzz words to make it seem as though they are trying to protect the public. Don’t buy the lie! The powerful don’t want you to know what they know. They want you to know what they tell you, remember that! Find out what they know!

Practical application in developing your critical thinking and deductive reasoning:

• Do Sudoku puzzles
• Logic puzzles
• Solve Word Problems
• Play Solitaire or Freecell
• Read strong and informative books or listen to good audio with sound information that will challenge your thinking.
• Associate with people who challenge you and question your thoughts.
• Leave the television alone for a while. Although there are some informative documentaries on television, generally we are just tempted to be entertained.
• Try to go to the next level in your thinking, and never stay comfortable on your level. Look for something more challenging.
• Ask questions always. Truth can stand to be questioned, so dissect it and investigate. Be inquisitive!
  
  

There is much more to write about critical thinking, but I am certain that you get the idea of its importance in your life. I really enjoyed writing this article and I hope that you take action in improving your own capacity, as I will. Live well!

The Basics of Prayer

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.-- Philippians 4:6

Prayer is an act that has occurred since the creation of humanity. Whichever religious belief people had or have doesn’t negate the fact that some sort of prayer is still an integral part of their lives. We see examples of prayer throughout the Bible and in secular history, as well. Some of us were taught to pray for our food, to say our prayers at night, to pray for other people, etc. But prayer is described differently by different people. Is there a specific way that we need to pray, or is everyone’s style of praying correct? I don’t like wasting my time doing things the wrong way, and I am certain that most reasonable people would agree with that. So since prayer is not a new thing, and it is still a popular practice today, let’s make sure that we are praying, not according to the traditions of man, but according to God’s instructions. Does that sound reasonable? OK, let’s search the Scriptures. One last thing, I typically like to remind the readers to not hold too dearly to your current belief system. If your and my belief system is sound and founded upon the Rock (Jesus Christ), then we can build upon it. If not, then we can make some simple adjustments and move forward in love. OK? Don’t shoot the messenger, and please don’t have an attitude with me if this article isn’t how your favorite preacher teaches it.

People have been writing books on prayer for years, so I won’t follow along that vein. I will simply share my perspective on the matter, give you some examples of prayer, and then I’m kicking you out of the nest after you read this article. Go Fly! Prayer is a very comprehensive topic, like faith, so to cover every aspect would be very exhaustive and cumbersome. But you will leave with the mechanics and the understanding of New Testament Biblical prayer that will set you on the proper course. From there, God will shed light on you, give you insights and your own revelation of prayer and whatever else He wants to reveal to you. An article such as this will help you go from dependence (other people always praying for you) to independence (praying for yourself). Now please don’t misunderstand, corporate praying (group prayers) and the prayer of agreement are good and Scriptural. But what are you going to do if your favorite prayer partner can’t be reached immediately? Folks, you’re going to be just fine, just follow along and be open to the Word of God.

Let’s go over several Scriptures and see how we can extract the principles of prayer and transpose them to our daily life in the 21st century.

Ask (demand of something that is due), and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:7-11

Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:11-16

Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. John 9:31

Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. 1 John 5:14-15

For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. 2 Corinthians 1:20

If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John 15:7

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 14:21-23

And whatever you ask in My name (authority), that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything in My name (authority), I will do it. John 14:13-14

For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word (Jesus), and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. 1 John 5:7

In the beginning was the Word (Jesus), and the Word (Jesus) was with God, and the Word (Jesus) was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1-3

You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name (authority) He may give you. John 15:16

All of these Scriptures support that we must go through Jesus to God; we must petition Him according to His Will; He will manifest Himself to us if we keep His commandments (the Word); and we can come boldly to Him when we need help. It’s pretty straight forward. The problem that many people have with prayer is that they try to do it their own way, and not according to Scripture. They try to avoid Jesus (the Word) many times, and the Scriptures conclusively support that a positive relationship with God outside of Jesus Christ cannot exist. Jesus said I am the Way and the Truth and the Life; no one comes to the Father except by (through) Me (the Word). John 14:6

The other item that people fail to realize is that the vehicle of prayer and answers to those prayers are covenant rights. They are not rights for everyone, even though everyone is eligible to receive the covenant benefits; but only through Jesus Christ (John 3:16). In short, the covenant of the New Testament was established between God and Jesus Christ; remember, Jesus Christ is the mediator of the New Testament (Hebrews 7:22; 9:15; 12:24). With whom is He a mediator? Who else has the authority to create and to establish spiritual laws? Who else is of the same perfection as Christ from the beginning? God the Father. So the covenant is between God the Father and Jesus. Now the promises (covenants, agreements) were decreed and made to Abraham and his Seed (his Offspring, his Heir). He [God] does not say, And to seeds (descendants, heirs), as if referring to many persons, but, And to your Seed (your Descendant, your Heir), obviously referring to one individual, Who is [none other than] Christ (the Messiah). Galatians 3:16 (Amplified Bible) To further prove the point, remember in the Old Testament when God established covenants with men, like: Noah (Genesis 9) and Abraham (Genesis 15). God established covenants in the earth with human beings, and since Jesus came in the flesh and was anointed to be the Messiah, He was/is the only one eligible to be the testator. The final proof of His grandeur is that Jesus now sits at God’s right hand, which is symbolic of honor and sovereign power (Hebrews 1:3).

So when we accept Christ, God honors us because He sees Christ (the Anointed One) in us, the hope of Glory (Colossians 1:27). Hence, we are called Christians (Acts 11:26), i.e., little Christs or little anointed ones. This is where people miss it; NO ONE has the authority to approach God without His Word (Jesus). Now that we have established that Christ or the Word is a prerequisite for prayer, allow me to help you jump start your prayer life with God with strong, personalized Bible-based prayers. There’s no need in people saying long, drawn out and religious sounding prayers. In the New Testament, we live out of our hearts, so let’s not waste time being religious, and let’s fire for effect and get some results. Agreed?

Prayers to confess before God

For confidence:

Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world. 1 John 4:4

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

In all these things I am more than a conqueror through Him that loves me. Romans 8:37

For Healing:

By Christ’s stripes [wounds] I am healed. 1 Peter 2:24

Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law, being made a curse for me and sickness is under the curse of the law. Galatians 3:13-14

For Protection:

The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. I call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised: and I am saved from my enemies. Psalms 18:1-3

The angel of the LORD encamps round about me [because I fear Him], and He delivers me.
Psalms 34:7

Walking in Love:

I forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], and my Heavenly Father also forgives me. I seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these [natural, earthly] things taken together will be given me besides. Matthew 6:14, 33

I don't pick on people, jump on their failures, and criticize their faults because I do not want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide my behavior: I ask myself what I want people to do for me, then I grab the initiative and do it for them. If I add up God's Law and Prophets, this is what I get. Matthew 7:1, 2, 12

I am a follower of God, as a dear child; and I walk in love, as Christ also has loved me, and has given Himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor. I am not unwise, but I understand what the will of the Lord is. I give thanks always for all things to God and the Father in the name of my Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:1-2, 17, 20

I endure long, am patient and kind; I never am envious nor boil over with jealousy, am not boastful or vainglorious, I do not display myself haughtily. I am not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); I am not rude (unmannerly) and do not act unbecomingly. I (God's love in me) do not insist on my own rights or own way, for I am not self-seeking; I am not touchy or fretful or resentful; I take no account of the evil done to me [I pay no attention to a suffered wrong]. I do not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but I rejoice when right and truth prevail. I bear up under anything and everything that comes, I believe the best of every person, my hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and I endure everything [without weakening]. I never fail [never fade out or become obsolete or come to an end]. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

When you need peace:

My heart rejoices, and my joy no man takes from me. Whatsoever I ask my Father in the name of Jesus, He [God] gives it to me. I ask, and I receive, and my joy is full. I am not alone, because the Father is with me. Christ has spoken to me, that in Him, I have peace. In the world there is tribulation: but I rejoice; because Christ overcame the world. John 16:22-24, 32-33

And the peace of God, which passes all understanding, keeps my heart and mind through Christ Jesus. And whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, I think on these things. Philippians 4:7

For Financial Prosperity:

I am not weary in well doing: for in due season I reap, because I do not faint. As I have opportunity, I do well to all men, especially to them who are of the household of faith. Galatians 6:9-10

I prosper, and I am in health, even as my soul prospers. 3 John 2

I know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for my sake He became poor, that through His poverty I am made rich. 2 Corinthians 8:9

I sow bountifully and I reap also bountifully, as I purpose in my heart, I give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loves a cheerful giver. And God makes all grace abound towards me; that I, always having all sufficiency in all things, abound to every good work: God ministers seed to me [the sower] and bread for my food, and multiplies my seed sown, and increases the fruits of my righteousness; I am enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causes through me thanksgiving to God. 2 Corinthians 9:8-11

Christ’s grace is sufficient for me: for His strength is made perfect in my weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9

God gives me the treasures of darkness and hidden riches of secret places, so that all people know [and have as a sign] that He, the LORD, has called me by His name. Isaiah 45:3

The LORD my God teaches me to profit, and leads me by the way that I should go. Isaiah 48:17

In conclusion, I hope that you understand the principles of prayer. I could’ve added more information and said many more things, and perhaps written a book like so many have. But I just wanted to give you a quick insight and some perspective to how simple it is to communicate with God according to His Word. Anytime that you need God, He is right there. Just find out what God says about your situation, confess what God says, and stand upon that truth as if you have the manifestation of the thing desired in your possession. Follow the model of these Scriptural prayers for every area of your life and you will grow by leaps and bounds in your prayer life. A great complement to this article is another one of my articles called Listen to and Follow Your Heart. Live well!