Civil Union decision

My fellow Christians and followers, Today I heard there was a decision regarding same sex marriages and this was referred to as a union and not a marriage. According to the Holy Bible the only marriage that is recognized by God and authorized by God is the marriage between a man and a woman! 4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,Ge 1:27; 5:2; Mal 2:15 5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?Ge 2:24; Mr 10:5-9; Eph 5:31; 1Co 6:16; 7:2 6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. (KJV) On another occasion, when Jesus was asked about marriage and divorce, He quoted two passages from Genesis. “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate” (Gen. 1:27; 2:24; Matt. 19:4–6). (NIV) During the VP Debate the question was asked to the candidates about same sex marriages and as I remember they both agreed that they would tolerate it but not support same sex marriages. Sarah Palin and her husband look to me as if they are a good christian couple. There are several states that have amendments to vote on at election time and here in Florida I believe it is amendment 2 and you should vote yes on amendment 2 to vote against same sex marriages! I personally don't support same sex marriages because it is a part of God's plan for a man & a woman to marry. I'm sure there have been alot of bad marriages but because you had a bad marriage to someone of the opposite sex does mean you should marry the same sex. This might also help the economy if amendment 2 passes because there could be more babies born and isn't there a song that our children are our future! This has probably already made a major impact on our society and why there is such a problem with social security. If you had a bad marriage in the past I feel for you but you should go forth and prospour not be equal(=). God Bless you and Love thy neighbor!

Legacy Christian Center, Lakeland, Florida

God commands us to love thy neighbor and I have posted a previous blog about

love thy neighbor, and this is about loving a fellow Christian. I have started to worship at a new location! Legacy Christian Center, Lakeland, Florida Last night at church a young woman by the name of Lisa came to me and told me she only has one kidney and only 2/3 of the other is working. She said she is on morphine for the pain. I offered her my card as we were walking towards the door and told her to email me at my prayer request email. She responded with "We don't have a computer because we are so behind in our bills and deeply in debt. I went home that night and talked with God about this and he has lead me to help her. I'm working on making arrangements right now to help her with the best I can do with God as my spiritual provider. My prayer email is jehova.jireh@ymail.com if you need prayer or would like to offer your support and it will be very well received. My plan is to hold a special service for her at church which will include alot of prayer for starters. I personally noticed she was very stressed at the situation she is facing so I hope to surprise her and her husband with a very touching gift. This is a very important and urgent situation she is faced with in her life and she also had her daugther with her and I got to meet her. The ultimate gift to her right now would be if someone would donate a kidney. As of right now I don't know if she is on a donor list or not and what her blood type or compatibilty is but as soon as I find out I will post it on the blog so if there is a potential donor out there that God might help us find them. The date of the service in her honor with the glory be to God will be posted in my blog as soon as I find out when that will be! I realize most of the people that read this blog might not be able to attend but you will be able to join in on the prayer! If you would like to attend the church the address is: If you would like to help by making a love gift please mail your gift to: I realize these are very tough times financially for everyone so every dollar will be a true blessing to help her in her battle. Jeff Cox Attn: lisa P.O.Box 284 Lakeland, Florida 33802-0284 Love thy neighbor! God bless you

JC the Prophet

God has talked to me alot in the past and has been talking to me more, and more in the last few months. I have been told I'm a Prophet according to a preacher. Another preacher that I like very much has tested me with a couple bible verses lately and I got them right! The first test was about putting your wife away in Matthew. It mentions fornication which is if you are not married and if you are an adulterous you wouldn't be a fornicator. There was a second test about rewards/crowns and I as I recall I was right about this one also! This same preacher was giving a sermon about when some of the men had caught a woman in the act of adultery and took her to the center of town to test Jesus. The said according to the law she should be stoned to death. Well a couple days after this sermon I saw the preacher again and said it was easy to see why what happened happened. And here is what I told him; I knew that there was one elder in the group of men that day that knew that Jesus was God, and that he knew that God would know that this was a test, and he was afraid of what would happen if he would cast the first stone so he walked away and all the others followed. These are some of the other topics I have chosen to speak on: Love, Marriage, Families, Ministries, Music, Prayer, Praise, Whorship, Computers/Internet, Economics, Society, Salvation, Resurrection, etc. I just went to see the movie Fireproof and I am going to be starting a class soon dealing with Love, Marriage and the "Love Dare" I also have a special Prayer email address which is jehova. jireh @ ymail .com

love thy neighbor

"Love thy neighbor" Hello my name is Jeff, I'm the Music Minister at Crestview Baptist Community Church in Lakeland, Florida. I wanted to tell you about God's work being done right here and now. About a year ago my girlfriend who is now my wife, started going to a church in down town Lakeland called the International Temple of Praise which is a Pentacostal Church. Well she invited me to go with one Thursday night and I said okay let's go! It was a very hot summer night and they didn't have A/C to speak of, they only had 1 little window unit to try to cool an average size store front retail space along Main street in the downtown area. They also had a couple pedistal fans to help circulate the air. Within 10 minutes I was sweating and very uncomfortable so I'll be honest I didn't want to go back. But after about 30 mins. I could see that these people Love the Lord and would put up with the heat to worship God. I really liked Apositle Goines and his preaching and all of the people in his congregation which is all African American. The Keyboard player Carlos is very talented in his musical abilities. Well we were about to get married and I was going to move in with My wife and we were looking for a new church that we both liked close to our house. We started going to Crestview Baptist Community Church and the people there are very nice but the church had gone through a big ordeal that almost killed the church and was on the doorstep of shutting down. After a couple months attending there the woman that was leading the choir announced she was needing to step down because of health issues so I decided to volunteer my services as Choir Director. Well shortly after that our Pastor(Eric) announced he was moving back to Georgia to be close to his father. We went for about 2 months with temporary Pastors and there was one that I really liked by the name of Edward Holton. One of my favorite memories of Pastor Holton is that he said he was blessed. Pastor Holton was an African American and he was a great preacher. Well our sister church on the north side of town was looking after the financial affairs of our church and they had said that it might come to closing our church because of the expenses over taking the offerings. So I prayed to God for a solution to keep our church open and revive it. I had a couple good ideas to do that but then God told me to contact Apositle Goines and see if he was interested in bringing his flock to worship in our building as their own church. Apositle Goines really liked our church's main sanctuary but our sister church only wanted to rent the upstairs which was in a state of repair. I told Apositle Goines the possibilites of the upstairs being he could make it how he wanted to but I could see he wanted to worship in our sanctuary so I told him to go for it. Weeks and maybe a month or two went by and then one friday night I was driving home and saw some cars out in front of the church. I stopped to see what was going on and to my surprise I found Apositle Goines and Pastor Steve (our new pastor from Kentucky) coming out the front door. They had several meetings in the past but this time it was about exchanging keys and showing them where everything was in the building. It had happened! God answered my prayer and Apositle Goines and his church were going to be helping us financially for using our house of the lord to hold their services. This was a big step for them because the store front they were renting had developed from a leak in the roof to actually raining in their church. The landlord was asked to fix it and nothing was getting done! Now my dear friend Apositle Goines and his flock would be able to worship in a place that had no roof leak, and had central air conditioning. They just had their first service Sunday morning and Sunday evening this past weekend 8/24/08.I praise the Lord for answering my prayers! I went to their evening service and Apositle Goines noticed I was sitting way in the back and he pointed me out to his flock and asked them to stand and thank me for bringing them into our house! I was very honored at this and I went up to the stage and gave him a hug and said "I Love You" and then I proceeded to give him back a huge solid silver or pewter necklace that he had given me almost a year ago when we first met. Then I started to tell his church abut how glad I was that they were there and how much I Love them and how I asked God to help get them out of the place they were worshiping. I told them that one of the ten commandments is to LOVE thy neighbor and that was what GOD had told me when I talked to him about this matter. Then I went down off the stage and gave each one of them a hug and said "I Love You". It was so nice to see them in our church because they had all dressed up in their good church clothes since they werent' going to getting all hot and sweaty. Their music sounded better also and they were so happy to be there it was an awesome site! God had also told me, and it is my mission to break the barriers, that other denominations whether it be Baptist, Luthern, Methodist, etc. should just be refered to as Christians. I think if Christians would unite as Christians then maybe this would be a better world. The more Christians the better! This could be the first time ever a Baptist Church has opened up to let another denomination worship in their building and this would be a very historic event. please feel free to contact me at: If you would like to make a love donation to help support this love effort, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you very much for reading this message and I hope it touches your heart as it has mine for now I too have been blessed! Love thy neighbor! God Bless You