Informing Christians

04/08/2023

💦 True Christians Will Not Walk Away

They swear to have been one of us, a biblical Christian and that they then walked away. They say Christianity is not good enough, not nice, not loving, not inclusive. -Do not believe them. We can see in 1 John 2:18-19 that the reason they left was because they were never actually one of us: https://debrajmsmith.com/1John2.html

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11/07/2023

"I'll Pray For You!"

When people need to hurt us we could so easily sarcastically say, "I'll pray for you!" But what if a true heartfelt prayer for them is actually the answer? Scripture tells us to do just that. --Perhaps a simple prayer like this is the answer, "Lord, please help that person." Then we go on with our day.

20/06/2023

"We cannot be so caught up in what is no longer, that we miss a new beginning."

Debra J.M. Smith

17/06/2023

💧 Don't Be Scared

Joshua 1:9 (KJV) “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” --God

While God was speaking to Joshua, this is for all who belong to God (Father, Son, Holy Ghost.) Because the reason He gave to Joshua is also true for us, that God is with us wherever we go.

11/06/2023

My Thoughts on Mike Pence

Never Trust a Man Who Put a Knife in a Friend's Back

While Pence takes credit for Trump's presidential accomplishments, saying, we did this and we did that, he further twists the knife he strategically placed in his once friend's back, on January 6, 2021.

Just two days before, on Monday, January 4, 2021, Pence said the following at a Georgia rally:

“We’ve all got our doubts about the last election. I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. Come this Wednesday we’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the evidence.”

Pence's own words implied he believed the election results were greatly fraudulent and that something could be done on Wednesday, January 6, 2021.

In Pence's book, “So Help Me God,” Pence, speaking of the upcoming January 6, 2021 says, when Trump first suggested holding a rally on that day, "My first thought was that a rally that day might be useful as a way to call even more attention to the proceedings on the floor of the House and Senate." --So, we can safely assume he expressed such to Trump. And we can safely assume this is why Trump believed Pence would do what he could do come January 6, 2021, and that would be to not read the so-called "results" on that then upcoming day.

FLIP/FLOP

Then come that day, Pence did in fact chicken out and read the so-called "results." That is when Trump went on Twitter and said Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.” --THIS is what Pence is claiming endangered his life and his family's lives and tossed in the lives of the whole of Congress for effect. And THIS is a coward.

Not only was Pence too scared to take a stand for what he clearly believed had happened in the election, mass voter fraud, he then behaved just like liberals. He went after Trump's speech, speech that in no way called for harm to come to Pence or anyone for that matter. It is simply free speech. Yet Pence wants to turn it into threatening speech. That is straight out of the liberal playbook. And instead of admitting he could just not go through with it, he has chosen to lie and claim he did not have a constitutional right to NOT read those so-called "results."

Pence quotes the constitution, which speaking of the Vice President, who is the President of the Senate, states the following:

"the President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;"

Pence says the constitution says no more and no less on this topic, in his defense of his claim that Trump asked him to choose between Trump and the constitution. Pence's exact words, "Trump asked me to choose him or the constitution - I chose the constitution." --This is an out and out lie. Trump would have never said such words. But Pence, who is a lawyer, is also playing by a lawyer's playbook. Lawyers will get one key line and stick with it like a dog with a bone. Mark my words, this will be Pence's one key line throughout the election. And it is a lie.*

*An accusation like this should be backed up with proof or never put out there. And if Trump had really said such a thing, then why did Pence say what he said, just two days before January 6th?

What is also a lie is Pence's implication that there was nothing he could have done that day, when fact is there was something. He could have simply refused to read the so-called "results" that day.

Nothing in the constitution says that the President of the Senate shall read the results on any one particular day. Pence could have simply refused to read them that day. He could have said he refused to read the so-called "results" that day, because he did not believe them to be the true results. No matter what, the constitution does NOT state a particular day the results shall be read. Pence could have put it off indefinitely. In the meantime, if Congress did not like it, Congress could have gone to work on amending the constitution. But as it is currently written, the constitution states what it states on this topic, no more and no less.

Another Thought

The day that Pence announced his run for office, his wife spoke of having been humbled by his first loss for a political office, way back when. She said they had thought they were "God's gift to D.C.," and spoke of how they needed to be humbled. In my opinion, they need some more of that good old fashion humbling. They remind me of that couple in church who aspire to bring light onto themselves and attempt to use the Lord in their endeavors to do such.

In Closing

It is written in Scripture that a friend loves at all times. I don't trust a man who sticks a knife in the back of a friend. And I certainly do not trust a man who attempts to use God in his plight to do such a thing.

Debra J.M. Smith

www.InformingChristians.com
AKA
www.DebraJMSmith.com

PBS article on Pence's Book: It quotes what Pence wrote in his book of his thoughts on having a January 6th rally. It also quotes what Pence said Trump posted on Twitter that day about Pence not having the courage...: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pence-details-jan-6-falling-out-with-trump-in-new-memoir

Yahoo article written by Senior writer, Jay Busbee. It quotes what Pence said two days before January 6, 2021: https://www.yahoo.com/video/at-georgia-rally-pence-says-america-will-hear-the-evidence-of-election-fraud-on-jan-6-193148658.html

U.S. Constitution: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

09/06/2023

⏰ Biden Knows Trump Can Beat Him Again

Biden's DOJ indicted Trump because Biden knows Trump beat him once and can beat him again. Without another China lab-created virus opening a path for mass voter fraud again, Biden knows he will be a one-term "president" if he has to run against Trump in the next election.

01/06/2023

Donald or Ronald?
Trump or DeSantis?

15/05/2023

🛎 Can We Say, "Trump Obsession" or What?

They just will not stop. Now they dug up some old picture that is supposed to be E. Jean Carroll in some reception line for Trump decades ago. It was an old black and white that she looks like Marla Maples (Trump's second wife). As if that means she is his type.

If the picture is unedited, it means nothing more than E. Jean Carroll took a good picture in her younger day. Most of us have those rare pics from our younger days. And in black and white, many women could have looked like Marla Maples back then. Was that not what models were all about, having a look that we normal women liked to imitate? I did hair for years. Women always wanted to look like someone famous.

Goodness, even Trump's first wife, who is also in the picture (furthest on the right), had pulled off some different look for her at the time, so much so that in the video going around about this, Trump did not recognize her in the picture. He is heard in the video asking who she is.

This is nothing. It does not mean E. Jean Carroll was his type. It simply means she picked up on a popular look and took a good picture one day. But, unlike Marla, E. Jean Carroll could not pull off that look every-time a camera was clicking in her direction. It was natural for Marla Maples. It was a fluke for E. Jean Carroll.

10/05/2023

⚖️ Trump Was NOT Found to Have R***d That Woman

She basically sued him for NOT wanting to have s*x with her and for denying her r**e accusation that even the jury rejected. THAT is what she saw as s*xual abuse, that he said she was not his type. The judge who allowed this case should be removed from the bench.

Online articles say, "Jurors rejected Carroll’s claim that she was r**ed, but found Trump liable for s*xual abuse and for defaming Carroll after she made her allegations public."

The jurors knew she lied and was not r**ed, but found Trump liable of s*xual abuse. Why? Because he said she is not his type.

She lied about him, falsely accused him of r**e. And he is found liable basically for hurting her feelings, for not being s*xually attracted to her, for not wanting to have s*x with her. He said she was not his type when he responded to her lie about him.

Trump denied the false claim against him and said she is not his type. THIS is why she sued him.

Since when can a person not defend himself against a lie? And since when can a person be found guilty of s*xual abuse for saying that a woman is not his type?

He needs to sue her for having publicly falsely accused him of r**e. --THAT'S defamation!

25/04/2023

🎯 I watched the video of Joe Biden announcing he's running and have some questions.

1 - How can he say he's for everybody being treated equally, while he has pushed for people with good credit obtaining a mortgage to pay a fee that will go towards helping people with bad credit obtaining a mortgage get a lower percentage rate?

2 - How can he say he's for everybody getting a "fair shot at making it," while he pushes for the lives of unborn babies being snuffed out in the womb?

3 - How can he say MAGA "extremists" are for cutting Social Security, while it is the Democrats who want to give it to those who did not earn it, including illegals?

4 - How can he accuse MAGA "extremists" of making it more difficult for us to vote, while his party allows people to vote for dead people, voiding legitimate votes?

5 - How can he say he and his people are in the battle for the soul of America, while he and they go against that which God says in scripture about issues?

6 - How can he speak of protecting freedom, while seeking to put the majority of this country into the bo***ge of the worse economic crises most have known?

7 - How can he speak of treating each other with dignity, while he denigrates roughly half the voters (Trump voters), who he calls MAGA "extremists?"

8 - What does he mean when he speaks of "finishing the job"? What's the job? Destroying America? Just what has Joe Biden done?

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31/03/2023

❓ Trump -- Yes or No

Do you want Trump back in office?

Personally, I believe he won the last election, that major election fraud took place. They will do most anything to keep him out. How about you, do you want to see Trump back in office?

06/03/2023

Romans 12:17-21
King James Version

17 Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

18 If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

19 Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

09/02/2023

💗 Take Care of You -- Learn To Say "Enough"

If you don't take care of you, nobody else is going to do it for you. And sadly, most people will not even be willing to allow you the space, peace, and time you need to do just that.

Even the people who are closest to you can be so caught up in their own lives that they do not recognize that you are drowning in more ways than one. And if you wait for them to be on board with your need to take care of you, it will not happen.

Just as you cannot wait for your life to go perfect, you also cannot wait for the lives of others to go perfect. --Neither will ever happen.

It took extreme physical pain for me to finally say, "Enough." And it is a good thing, because after some tests showed me to be a heart attack waiting to happen and numerous other things in my not-so-far future, I do not care if anybody else can grasp my needs, I am now taking care of me.

I have finally said, "Enough."

And I hope that you will take care of you and learn to say, "Enough."

Isaiah 26:3 Thou (God) wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee (God): because he trusteth in thee (God).

12/01/2023

🧂 Shocked At Wickedness

We are shocked at how wicked the flesh can be, ours and others. We play things done over and over again in our heads, often wishing we could just shut it off or turn the channel, make it stop.

The answer is to face the truth and say, "Yep, I know the flesh is wicked, my flesh and the flesh of others. No shock here."

Satan wants to keep us in our flesh so that we behave badly and then do not deal well with what we do wrong. But he also wants to keep us in our flesh, when it comes to dealing with the wickedness of others, done in their flesh.

The truth is, the flesh is wicked. It cannot be fixed. Jesus came to save our souls, not our flesh. He had to make us an entirely new creation, by His Spirit, our spiritual birth. Born again from above.

We are told in scripture to walk after God's Spirit in our spirit, not in our flesh. Nowhere does the bible tell us to try real hard to make our flesh good. We are called to crucify our flesh.

Being shocked at the wickedness of the flesh is like being shocked that an old car breaks down. What we should be shocked by is why, when we have a new car that will never break down, we keep getting in that old jalopy car.

"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh." ...Galatians 5:16

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" ...Romans 8:16

03/12/2022

🧂 Forgiveness -- Doing It God's Way

Our health; emotional, physical, and spiritual health is harmed by unforgiveness. Not forgiving is no little thing. Who has not been there?

All sin begins with pride. It is pride that hinders us from forgiving. When wronged, pride can enter in and cause us to feel just a bit too highly of ourselves. The "Why me" pity-party can begin and it is downhill from there. It is time to start saying, "Why not me?"

Throughout scripture we can see that being wronged is part of life. We are walking through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, not Happy Land. The canvas of our life is not white with black spots, but rather black with white spots.

Imagine if while on the cross, Jesus had gone on a "Why me" pity-party instead of saying, "Forgive them Father, for they know not what they've done."

Just as we sin, so do others. And often it is those others, who are closest to us who hurt us most.

How do we forgive someone who hurt us so much? The hurt is there and eating us up. Scripture tells us that Satan is a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. --Sound familiar?

So, how do we forgive? God's way.

Scripture teaches us that when we walk in the Spirit of God, we do not sin. It is when we walk in the flesh that we sin. Scripture also teaches us that it is a sin to live with unforgiveness. Even if we cannot have the person actively in our life for whatever reason, we still need to forgive the person. And of course, when the person is actively in our life, it sure does make being with the person much nicer, not holding unforgiveness against him or her.

From what I see, the way to forgive is to walk in the Spirit of God, to daily put on the whole armor of Christ and walk in the Spirit of God. So, let's get in prayer with God and in His Word every day and do this God's way. And let's praise Him. Let's walk in the Spirit of God and forgiveness will be part of who we are in Him.

Ephesians 6:11-18
King James Version

11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

15 And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

16 Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.

17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

07/10/2022

📌 Election Day 2022 - Economy and Crime

With the cost of living and crime, both going so out of control this last year, I cannot help but wonder how people would vote this coming election if the only issues they voted on were the economy and crime. Tranquility, Common Defense, General Welfare, Blessings of Liberty?

10/09/2022

🎯 How Can Anyone Vote Democrat

The democrats have control of Congress and the White House. Between the outrageous inflation and the rampant crime, how can anyone vote Democrat? --To vote Democrat is to vote for more inflation and more rampant crime. Who would do that? It is just so illogical. Is it not?

20/08/2022

Mar-a-Lago Raid - Was It About Retrieving Crossfire Hurricane Info
(The FBI Russia Investigation AKA The Russia Hoax)

It stands to reason that Trump would have declassified proof to one day expose those who were responsible for the Russia Hoax. No matter what, I believe Trump is smart enough to have kept "whatever" in another manner. --Let's hope.

18/07/2022

🎯Question Posed to Biden Voters Who Hate Trump

What did Trump do so terrible that actually harmed our country?

I have backed several Biden voters whose claim is hatred for Trump up against a wall with this question, just to finally get to the bottom of it with them, that they really don't know of anything.

10/07/2022

😎The Me-Too Movement -- My David Cassidy Encounter

We all knew him as Keith Partridge, the sweet (Come On Get Happy) guy, Lady Shirley's stepson. Turned out, as per her tell-all book, Shirley was no lady. And that stepson, he was no gentleman.

I was 29. David Cassidy was 40. I had never had any kind of crush on him. I was a Donny Osmond girl. When I was in love with Donny Osmond at 12 years old, David Cassidy was an adult.

So, here I was all grown up, with a three-year-old and a newborn baby, and David Cassidy was coming to do an autograph signing at a local bar/dance place. So, off my husband Tim and I went for me to meet David Cassidy.

Well, I was absolutely star-struck, not in love, just star-struck. That's me in the picture with him, asking him a few questions. I'm a talker and anything but a shy person.

I asked him about his stepmother. He did not seem so interested in that topic. I asked him if he was doing commercial songs, because some sounded like his voice. Well, he really did not like that. I suppose that was an insult to him. But in all fairness, he was a has-been at the time. Then I asked him if he ever helps people get into the singing business, because I sing and wanted to send him a demo tape. Has-beens help young people. Right? He had me write my name and phone number down. So, I was really excited now.

I made a friend with another star-struck gal at the place. Tim held both of our purses, while she and I danced the night away. David Cassidy was still there when Tim and I left. But as we were going around the back of the building, in our car, I saw David and this guy that was with him (his manager, I assumed), exiting the back door. So, I told Tim to stop the car and let me see him one last time. There were about five other gals out there, and we all shouted his name, and David saw me. He did this gun thing with his fingers to me, as he had done a few times inside, when I would call out his name after having met him. Oh, I had hugged him inside too. But I asked first.

So, here we were outside, these other gals and me, and David got into his limo with the other guy. Just then the door opens up a little bit and David yells out, "Debbie!" Well, I was not about to embarrass myself, thinking he was calling me, and I assumed he knew one of those other gals and that her name was also Debbie. After a little bit of silence, one of those gals waved her hand and said, "I'm Debbie," and she got into the limo. My hand to heaven, that happened over and over till the last of those gals entered his limo, and I was the only one out there with this man who appeared to be a bouncer from the place we were at.

Then the door to the limo opened wide enough for me to see David. And he looked right at me and pointed his finger and said, "Debbie!" So, what could I do? I got in the limo. My part in this is funny, kind of innocent, too innocent, a bit naive, to say the least. I thought he wanted to talk about my singing and maybe set something up for me to get a demo tape to him.

So, here I was sitting in that limo. Tim's out in our car next to the limo, and I'm looking at those other gals thinking, "I know what they are here for." Then a light went on over my head, ding! And I thought, "Oh, no, that's what he wants with me!!!"

That’s when the star-struck crashed and reality set in, and I spoke up. I said, "um... My husband is right outside here in our car waiting for me. And we have to go pick up my babies." That's when David gave that gun finger thing again at me and said really nicely, "Then you'd better go." David held his hand out to me to help me across the limo floor to the door. As I made my way across from where I had sat, with David holding my hand, his manager looked so proud of me. I will never forget the look on that man's face. He probably never saw a gal get out.

There was one more thing that I said to David before getting out. While he was holding my hand, helping me to get to the door of the limo, I stopped and said to him, "I'll understand if you don't call." --Hello, save face. And honestly, I didn't want his help after what I realized he wanted.

The driver must have been able to hear, because he was right there opening the door from the outside. I got out of the limo and looked at the bouncer guy who was still standing there, and I said, "What's he going to do with those girls?" I guess I was holding out hope that he was not really going to do what I thought he was going to do. Well, that bouncer guy said to me, "What do you THINK he's going to do with those girls! --Sweet Keith Partridge, David Cassidy was very naughty. And get this, he had someone at home. His son was born about a year later.

So, should I be part of the me-too movement over this? Sorry, but nobody forced me into that limo. When I realized what was going on, I got out of the situation before anything could happen. Other women, like Ashley Judd, the one who started the me-too movement over her encounter with Harvey Weinstein, also decades ago, could have gotten out soon enough, as well. Women like her chose to stay too long, because they wanted a career boost. The men are pigs, no doubt. But women who willingly stayed past when the light went on, really messed up.

Debra J.M Smith

Come On Get Happy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZClBsDpp-4

David Cassidy (with me) 1990
Photo: © Debra J.M. Smith

05/07/2022

🌹 Don't Give People Power Over You

Don't give people power over you by explaining yourself further than what is called for, or at all, if it is not called for at all. Doing so says you are not sure of yourself, and it is all that is needed for a controlling person to mess with you. --If God is good with your ways, you are doing well.

Colossians 3:23: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

30/06/2022

📌Life Really Can Get Better -- In Christ

Don't let anyone tell you that life cannot get better. It's all about hope in the Lord, which is when we see the good come out of all else. And of course that good is all to the Lord's glory.

And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope. --Romans 5:3-4

25/06/2022

🎋The Heathen Rage For Roe vs. Wade - Their Weapon of Choice To Murder Babies

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. --It is written.

These democrats, with one foot in the grave, really should wake up, before they end up where the Queen of Abortion, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter ended up, Hell!

Psalm 2:1-4

1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,

3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.

4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. --Psalm 37:10

25/06/2022

🌾Roe v. Wade -- It's finally over!

*Fifty years of the U.S. Government being party to the countless brutal murders of unborn babies. Hopefully this is just the beginning of the ending of abortions on demand. Hopefully more states will follow suit, ending the shedding of innocent blood.

It is written that God hates the hands that shed innocent blood.

22/06/2022

📌 Senate Agrees On Gun Bill
Public Schools Cannot Be Churches. But Do They Have To Be Antichrist?

*On the surface, this bill looks logical. But as long as public schools teach antichrist material that tells children they are nothing, that they come from nothing and will one day go to nothing, that there's no hope, this trend of mass shootings will continue.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/21/1106466279/senators-reach-final-bipartisan-agreement-on-a-gun-safety-bill

20/06/2022

🌼 We Have a Right to Be Happy

When upset by someone, it's just natural to think we have a right to be (remain) upset. That's the devil trying to keep us from being happy. The Lord wants us to be happy, to have joy and peace.

It's written: Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. --Romans 15:13

01/06/2022

🥀Biblical Christians Cannot Walk Away

They swear to have been one of us, a biblical Christian and that they then walked away. They say Christianity is not good enough, not nice, not loving, not inclusive, etc. --Do not believe anything that they say. They are liars. Scripture that is posted below, shows us that had they truly been one of us, they would have remained one of us. Scripture shows they left so that we could know they were never one of us to begin with.

Scripture also shows while there will be the antichrist that will come, there are many antichrists in the world today. Many antichrists walk this earth. And they actually go out from among us.

1 John 2: 18-19 KJV "Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that the antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifested that they were not of us."

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