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Ever feel like everything around you is simply falling apart? The car, the family, the nation, the world? Well, it just may be. There are many things all around us that are continually being destroyed, torn down, blown up, or dying. It literally is all around us. Melody and I just returned from a trip to Tucson, AZ for her 99yr old grandmother s funeral. When she was lowered into the ground, the war in her life was over. Sure, she was a kind and gentle person. But her entire life was a battle. Not just about illness, but about what she thought. She constantly worried about her kids. She struggled with her religion. She was concerned about her imposing on others during her later years. She was at constant war in her mind. Aren t you? Don t you continually war with your thoughts, your feelings, your actions, and reactions to what others have said, done, or thought about you? The Apostle Paul stated he was at  war with his own body members! They don t do what he wants and then they go ahead and do what he doesn t want. What a dilemma for the Bible s greatest Apostle. His war was also in his mind. Jesus said the battleground was in the mind. We are constantly warring with all we are. Every day we are all at war. Even in our hearts, we war over right and wrong motives, agendas, and direction. How can we live an entire life at war with ourselves? How can someone like Melody s grandmother live 99 years at war with her own life? How many years have you warred? How many more do you have to go? What about our churches? Are they at war? Or, are they just infighting to find significance or more attendees? Why would the church be at war? Who is the enemy of the church? Who is the enemy of our own body? Do you really know? Is it Satan or is it us? Where is the bigger threat? Does Satan actually fight with us in our Body and in our churches? Or does he simply send out some little accusation to get us fighting against each other, or worse, against our self? Last month we mentioned the explosion in the 3rd world for church growth while the American church has been stagnant for fifty years. Who is holding up our progress? Who put the wrench in the cogs? Is it Satan again, or simply us? Are we so at war with ourselves and our brothers and sisters in our own families and in other churches simply because we haven t realized we don t need to be? Do you continually fight over your time? Do you argue about your priorities? Is it confusing and confounding how fast the week goes by and you seemed not to have accomplished a thing? Did you spend most of your time fighting a loosing battle? Did you loose what you thought you were fighting about; weight, bills, worry. People are so funny. They spend so much time worry and warring over things instead of doing something about them, then they worry and war again because they can t get anything done. What a vicious cycle! Is the world and our society any different? Aren t individual people reflected in their churches and their societies? After all, they re just made up of people. The world is at war. Constantly. It isn t the trees fighting the bushes. It s not the seas fighting the atmosphere. Nor is it the mountains straining to overtake the plains. The physical world is not at war, just the people in it. What is there to war about? History has shown us there is one basic reasons for war; power. It has also shown us there are four powers: Military, Religion, Politics, and Economics. In Biblical times until about 300 A.D. the rule and reign was due to military power. Such great war powers such as Egypt, China, Babylon, Mongolia, Persia, Greece, and Rome were con t. FEBRUARY 2006 Soteria Ministries 2003 EDITION 4 Vol. 2 Our SOTERIA At Work is a monthly publication to inform and enlist everyone to work out their Salvation by Loving others and living a disciplined life unto CHRIST! & .con t  among those great powers. The second power domination across the world was religion. The crusades were the peak of this period where most of the powerful rulers of the world, such as the Ottoman Empire, were religious ones. The wars were fought over religion. Around the 1500 s through the mid-twentieth century civilization became engrossed in politics. New governments and social upheavals based on thought, traditions, and national identity overruled any and all major military and religious regards. Now we have moved into the economic era of power. The world is rapidly changing into an information and economy based platform. Major power is designated to those countries with the most economic leverage. Even religious struggles can be  bought , to a certain extent, by economic appeases and power. Economic sanctions are the most powerful weapon to convince a rogue nation to adhere to world conformity while military power is the last method for economic security. But, it is all war. No matter what the method is, we are at constant war with each other on all fronts. Why is there war? What makes a person, country, or society war over all the powers? The bottom line is fear. One person or group will fear the outcome if they allow the other side to have their way. Whether the end result of the other side s outcome from a specific situation is known or unknown the fear of that side having their way and taking over the existing status quo is the origin of fear. Even in our own minds we are fearful of what the outcome will be if we don t do this or that, or if we do this or that.  What if they have their way?  What if I don t get my way?  What if I can t or won t do something about this? These are all questions that create the atmosphere of war in our own minds and hearts. Our struggle is to not allow ourselves to get into a place where we are unsure of the outcome or simply loose control. What about war in the heavenlies? War in the spiritual realm? What is going on there? Is God fearful? Are the angels in fear of loosing a battle? Not exactly. It is the enemy who is full of fear. He is so afraid of his own destiny that he is constantly at war with himself over the choices he made that got him kicked out of heaven. Now he simply creates what he is, a constant battle of self hatred and self consuming rejection. So, he is always trying to make you and I, our church, and our societies and countries suffer the same agonizing self war he is always engulfed in. Our angels war on our behalf. God fights on our behalf to protect us and to help us overcome the onslaught of war being waged on all three levels of our existence; our mind, our physical world, and our spiritual one. If you know an answer to a problem then is it still a problem? Many years have gone by and many of us have not realized how much we are at war with ourselves. Many of us simply battle every day with things that are not necessary. Somehow we ve become convinced the struggle has to continue in order to even survive. Well, we do live behind enemy lines so to speak. But that doesn t mean we have to live under the enemy s rule or domination of war! There is a way to live in peace in the middle of war and God gave us the Prince of Peace to show us how. Revelation says there will be war in the end between heaven and hell again. The last draw between good and evil until all things are put under Jesus feet. He is not fearful. He is full of love. Perfect love. Perfect love casts out all fear. More next month! SOTERIA is a Love based Church with IRS tax exempt status. We very much appreciate your support and pledge to apply all gifts to where God leads us in our mission. Please send your Love Gift to: PO Box 7 Mars Hill, NC 28754 Receipts sent yearly. THANK YOU! NEWS The best news is we are looking more like Jesus every day. Last Sunday we had a  foot washing in our service while the entire meeting was more in tune with a home group, or practice  MASH unit. We continue to minister to those in our world outside the four walls of the church. Two weeks ago we sent out a team to the local mall to pray for people. Yes, that s right, a group of 7 people left our normal Sunday gathering a went to the Asheville Mall and asked people if they would like prayer. There were 13 people who accepted prayer for all kinds of reasons. It was obvious people wanted, needed, and liked prayer. The harvest is ripe. They just aren t attracted to church as usual. That s why the Lord told us to go  out into the world to preach the good news, heal the sick, and help the poor. We will continue to do more of these outreaches so that people can get the prayer they need. We are praying the funds come in to complete the facilitation of electronic media presentation in our fellowship. We still need an overhead digital projector, a screen, a computer, and a few other items amounting to about $5000. We plan on having Saturday afternoon matinee s and Saturday evening  family night Christian movies once the equipment is finally completed. We have been in touch with a local Christian Film company, The Christiano Brothers, to help with our efforts. Also, a dear brother, Eric Rutherford, donated a huge TV monitor that is now sitting in our front window facing the street. I ve mounted speakers outside so that we can play worship, preaching, and teaching videos to those people walking by on the sidewalk 24 hours a day. We will also be showing personal testimonies. So, if you can record your personal testimony, send it to us. Yours may be one to help someone to know Christ! WORD FOR THE MONTH War, good God ya ll. What is it good for? Exd 15:3 The LORD [is] a man of war: the LORD [is] his name. Luk 14:31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? 2Cr 10:3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 1Ti 1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; Jam 4:1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members? Jam 4:2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Rev 12:7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev 17:14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him [are] called, and chosen, and faithful. CONTACT INFORMATION: If you need information please call 828-350-7744 or email - Pastors Ernest H. Hays pastor@soteriaministries.org Melody D. 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